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New pre-accelerator programs for early-stage founders

As Breakthrough Victoria and LaunchVic combine into Innovation Victoria, nine partner organisations will share government funding to run pre-accelerator programs for founders at the idea stage.

Women founders community One Roof names Frances Goh as CEO

One Roof, a Melbourne community for women founders, has promoted Frances Goh to its top job, succeeding cofounder Sheree Rubinstein, who joins a telehealth firm as general manager and stays on as advisor.

HEX names Frances Goh as Entrepreneur in Residence as it expands programs for women founders

Edtech firm HEX has hired Frances Goh, One Roof's co-founder, as Entrepreneur in Residence to back women-led ventures and co-lead a 13-week program connecting women founders across ASEAN, Australia and Timor-Leste.

Work skills edtech HEX acquires Sydney tech training startup EntryLevel

Education startup HEX has bought Sydney-based learning platform EntryLevel for an undisclosed amount, while securing another year of Atlassian Foundation backing and partnering with Toyota's trust on a STEM program for regional students.

Employee retention startup SeenCulture raises $1 million pre-Seed round

SeenCulture, a workplace platform, has secured $1 million in a pre-seed round from Alice Anderson Fund, M8 Ventures, InterValley Ventures and Torus, having earlier joined Techstars' first Sydney cohort with Cut Through Angels backing.

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Agtech DAS and Hex founder Jeanette Cheah honoured in the Victorian governor's startup awards

Victorian Governor's awards name DAS top startup and Acusensus top scaleup; HEX's Jeanette Cheah is Ecosystem Hero, with Tractor's Jodie Imam and Giant Leap's Rachel Yang sharing Investor of the Year.

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Flying Fox, Jump Start receive $600,000 in VIC government funding to boost women-led startups

HEX started here

Profile of HEX, a Victorian startup offering innovation education programs, recalling its founding and noting a seed round backed by LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund, plus alumnus T Guthrie's data platform Why Hive.

Here are the 10 female-led startups in SBE’s new global tech accelerator program

SBE Australia unveils the ten women-led startups joining its new Global Tech program for international scaling, while noting Evolve alumni have drawn over $1 billion in capital since 2012 without the accelerator taking equity.

A new platform & fund for gutsy, innovative female entrepreneurs

Scale Investors co-founder Susan Oliver reflects on backing women founders and details LaunchVic's Alice Anderson Fund, which she chairs, listing six women-led startups it has backed alongside other Victorian capital initiatives.

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Jeanette Cheah: Changing the face of leadership is everyone’s job

Op-ed by HEX chief Jeanette Cheah for International Women's Day, recounting her recently closed debut raise and praising peer-investing group Afterwork Ventures, women-led funder shebacks.me and migrant talent agency DivTal.

What does ‘success’ mean for women in business, and who gets to decide?

An International Women's Day feature argues media coverage overweights fundraising as a success measure for women founders, featuring perspectives from several women business owners and noting HEX's recent seed round.

Solid and dependable: Tractor Ventures' alternative funding breaks new ground

LaunchVic profile of Tractor Ventures, a Victorian revenue-based lending fund co-founded in 2020, covering LaunchVic's initial backing, a $10 million second capital raise, and its support for profitable mid-stage startups.