Ybf Ventures

YBF Ventures is Australia’s original and largest tech and innovation hub, headquartered in Melbourne. Today it is proud to be home to over 500 members making up over 75 future-focused Australian and international technology startups and scaleups at its Melbourne and Sydney CBD locations. YBF Melbourne and YBF Sydney are top-choice landing pads for international technology firms setting up operations in Australia. Uber, 90 Seconds, Foodora and Kickstarter started their Australian journeys from YBF. Currently, Silicon Valley’s Wrike, London’s PayBreak (Etika) and Silicon Slope unicorn, Lucid Software house their own APAC headquarters at YBF Melbourne and the UK's Thought Machine is based out of both YBF Melbourne and YBF Sydney. YBF’s three-tiered mission is to help startups to scale, scaleups to success and corporates to innovate. As such, YBF is home to several large technology hubs that centre on key aspects of innovation for Victoria and New South Wales. Examples of these include the YBF Fintech Hub in partnership with the Victorian Government; the Australian LawTech Hub in collaboration with law firm, Lander & Rogers; the PropTech Hub in partnership with building automation giant, Honeywell; and SquareGrape, Australia’s first tech hub for the wine sector, in partnership with one of the world's largest wine companies, Treasury Wine Estates.

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