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Funding for Queensland businesses and start-ups to commercialise their ideas
Ignite Ideas Fund QLD
Closing date: Tuesday 3 June 2025 Tue 3 Jun 2025
What do you get?
Funding amounts vary.
Who is this for?
Small to medium size businesses and start-ups headquartered in QLD.
Overview
Ignite Ideas Fund provides funding to small to medium businesses or start-ups to help them commercialise market ready, innovative ideas that:
- create new jobs
- strengthen key industries in Queensland
- diversify the Queensland economy
- facilitate competing in a global market
- engage and/or benefit regional Queensland.
Funding is available under 2 tiers:
- Tier 1 – funding of up to $100,000 (excluding GST) for projects of up to 12 months duration
- Tier 2 – funding of between $100,000 and $200,000 (excluding GST) for projects of up to 24 months duration.
The funding may be used for eligible costs related to taking an innovative product, process or service from minimum viable product to market, including:
- salaries of project staff (including salary-related-on-costs)
- services provided by (unrelated) external parties
- consumables and equipment
- travel, accommodation and subsistence costs.
Check if you can apply
To be eligible, you must:
- be a business headquartered in Queensland
- have an Australian business number (ABN)
- be registered for goods and services tax (GST)
- have no more than 50 full-time equivalent employees
- not be a subsidiary of a group of companies that has more than 50 full-time equivalent employees in total
- not have received, or currently be receiving, Queensland Government funding for the proposed project activity.
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