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The fund's authors recap two climate-investment events, weighing the massive global capital needs, mixed public-private funding models, and its clean-economy portfolio activity in Victoria.
Lighter Capital, a revenue-based lender, has added another $30 million to lend to Australian startups, extending the facility the Victorian government and iPartners first backed.
Dovetail Electric Aviation will use Siemens' NX X design software to develop electric propulsion retrofits for small aircraft. The Melbourne-based company counts Rex, Invest Victoria, Aciturri and Air Nostrum among its backers.
Invest Victoria is giving non-dilutive backing to electric aviation developer Dovetail, which has shifted its base from NSW, adding to a seed round in which Aciturri recently led the second tranche.
The Victorian state budget directs $186.2 million towards the startup ecosystem, covering a women founders angel fund, a fund of funds, venture debt, LaunchVic funding, loans, and digital skills and infrastructure programs.