Investment funding for Victorian SMEs wanting to grow their business

Overview

The Fund will invest in businesses on commercial terms and take either an equity or debt stake in businesses, rather than providing a grant. The fund manager will be targeting a commercial return on its investment and will also provide strategic insights, expertise and commercial experience to accelerate growth outcomes for Fund investments.

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To be considered for funding, businesses must:

• present a compelling growth opportunity to Victoria, meaning that it is expected to lead to growth in a Victorian business, fund growth of a business expanding into Victoria, lead to meaningful job creation in Victoria or add meaningful capital investment in Victoria
• have annual revenue of between $5 million and $100 million
• have no more than $250 million in assets
• have positive cash flow, or cash flow is expected to be positive during the investment.