2024年维多利亚州初创企业增长报告

Why this report?LaunchVic works with Dealroom.co to track the growth of Victoriaʼsstartup sector, analysing its size, funding, and employment. Theseinsights help measure the ecosystemʼs expansion, from investmentand job creation to its broader economic impact.This analysis spans a range of metrics, helping readers navigateVictoriaʼs startup landscape from VC investment trends and valuegeneration over time to job distribution across the startup lifecycleand the ecosystemʼs biggest and fastest-growing sectors.While overall progress is strong, this yearʼs report spotlights frontiertechnology startups and university spinouts, revealing that whileuniversities are producing startups, the numbers remain low.Source: Dealroom.co "Since 2016, Victoria's startup ecosystemhas outpaced global hubs likeSingapore, Sydney, Tel Aviv, Stockholm,Amsterdam, and Berlin. With 3,500+startups valued at AU$132 billion,nearly 60% of new jobs are in Australia.Despite this, challenges remain insecuring early-stage investment,particularly in pre-seed funding. Withthe right focus, Victoria is well on itsway to becoming a global leader instartups within five years."Leigh JasperLaunchVic Chair »dealroom.launchvic.orgExplore 3.5K startups and scaleupson the Victoria ecosystemPowered by Page/ 4Scope of the reportWhat is a startup?Throughout the report, “startup” is used tocommonly refer to all subtypes of eligiblecompanies, including startups, scaleups andunicorns. The majority of the datapresented in this report is made availableon the Victoria startup ecosystem database,which is powered by Dealroom inpartnership with LaunchVic.The report draws on jobs data collectedas of January 2025 and VC data as ofMarch 2025, both covering the yearending 31 December 2024.When notspecified otherwise, data is provided in AUD(referred to as AU$).Source: Dealroom.co The average number of startups founded ineach of these ecosystems is around 5K ormore, compared to Victoriaʼs current 3.5K.For Victoria to be more competitive, thenumber of startups needs to increase.Jobs and EmploymentThe employment section of this report covers1.8K+ Victorian-based startups founded since2004 that have at least two employees inAustralia and contribute to local (Australian)startup job creation, and all 19 unicornsfounded in Victoria since 1990. Foreignstartups with a presence in Victoria andstartups that relocated out of Victoria areexcluded.Please refer the methodology section at the end ofthis report for more details on our approach. Demographic FocusThis report focuses on more than3.5Kstartups, of which 1.4K are VC-backed. Italso includes startups that were founded inVictoria but later relocated overseas, as longas they were established after 2004 andmaintain a significant presence in the state.All 19 unicorns founded or headquartered inVictoria, between 1990 and 2003, are alsoincluded.Benchmarking ecosystemsThe ecosystems of Tel Aviv, Singapore,Stockholm, Sydney, Amsterdam and Berlinprovide useful global benchmarks as towhat can be achieved in Victoria, as they arecities/states with similarly sized populationsthat are also recognised as globally leadingecosystems. Page/ 53.5K+ Victorianstartups are nowworth combinedAU$132BStartups founded since2004, along with 19unicorns, are now wortha combined $AU132B, upfrom $5B in 2016.The Victorian startupecosystem has grown26.4x since 2016, fasterthan Sydney andSingapore, and morethan twice as fast asBerlin, Tel Aviv,Amsterdam andStockholm.What you need to know.Source: Dealroom.coVictorian startupsraised AU$842M in2024Victorian venture capitalinvestment has grown7.5x in the last 10 years,faster the Global VCaverage of 3.3x.Early-stage venturecapital has remainedrelatively stable andgrowing long term.Late-stage investmenthas slowed significantly,with no mega+ rounds of$250M+ in Victoria in thelast two years. Frontier tech is thefastest-growinginnovation spaceFrontier tech, includingdeep tech, biotech, andadvanced manufacturingis a fast-growingemerging segment inVictorian tech.Frontier tech nowaccounts for 19% ofVictorian startup value. Ithas grown 33x in the lastdecade.Over 400 startups areactive in the segment.Many are universityspinouts. Victoria-basedstartups havecreated 63.9k jobs37.9k jobs created byVictorian startups arebased in Australia - 59%of the total.The majority of jobscreated by Victorianstartups are at smallcompanies of under 50people. These companiescollectively account for13.6k Australian jobs.The top five employersaccount for over 7.6k jobs- 20% of the workforce inAustralia. Health & enterprisesoftware - Victoriaʼsleading sectorsMore than half of allAustralian Health andEnterprise Softwarestartups are in Victoria608 of 1,181 enterprisesoftware startups, and595 of 1,195 Healthstartups are in Victoria.Health and EnterpriseSoftware are two mostventure-funded sectorsglobally in the last threeyears, and perenniallyamong the top threealong with Fintech. 1Victorian startups in numbers2VC landscape update3Frontier t