Melbourne has a thriving startup ecosystem, and is a great place to start an entrepreneurial business The City of Melbourne is committed to supporting more entrepreneurs and innovative businesses to start, grow and go global from Melbourne through a range of activities and initiatives detailed in the Startup Action Plan for Melbourne (2017-2021).

This Participate Melbourne project page has been created to centralise resources and opportunities available to Melbourne startups, and to help Council better understand, connect and communicate with the local startup community.

To do this, we ask you to share some information about your business, the purpose of gathering this information is to:

• Showcase startup success stories and build the profile of Melbourne’s startup community.
• Identify leading startup industries in Melbourne.
• Create a two-way communication tool for the City of Melbourne to engage startups for business, support and marketing opportunities.
• Consolidate startup resources and map the location of startup businesses.

There are many ways to define a startup – City of Melbourne goes by the definition of Launch Vic that a startup is a ‘business with high impact potential that uses disruptive innovation and/or addresses scalable markets’. They are businesses in the early stages of formation, developing an idea into a functioning business that meets market needs and is able to grow.

For more information about the support for Startups in Victoria visit Launch Vic.

Yes. Your privacy is absolutely protected. The City of Melbourne will only use your email to invite you to participate in startup related projects and update you on existing projects. Your email address will not be used for any other purpose. More information is available in our Privacy Policy.

We also ask you to share some information about your business to make available on a publically accessible map – this is so we can map the Melbourne startup ecosystem across the city and understand the sectors Melbourne startups operate in better.