Funding

Jobs for NSW offers financial support to match different stages of business growth

Jobs for NSW provides financial support to startups and emerging and fast-growth small to medium enterprises (SMEs) to build momentum and grow jobs. Explore our funding options below to see which product best suits the needs of your business.

Growing the industries of the future

We’re all about fostering and supporting the potential to grow and generate new jobs across the state. That’s why we focus on building up industries and sectors with a competitive edge that can really generate sustainable employment into the future.

Industries include;

  • advanced manufacturing
  • creative industries
  • digital innovation
  • environmental technologies
  • financial and professional services
  • food and quality goods to Asia
  • infrastructure and smart cities
  • international education
  • life sciences
  • regional HQs
  • tourism

We’re getting behind businesses in these sectors as a priority, but that’s not to say that your business isn’t important if it doesn’t sit exactly within these industries.

NSW is Australia’s startup capital, with nearly half of our nation’s startup businesses calling Sydney home. Jobs for NSW is focused on building a strong and supportive ecosystem for startups; we want them to thrive and prosper, and become the job-creating powerhouses of the future.

The Sydney Startup Hub

Located at 11-31 York Street in Sydney’s CBD, the Sydney Startup Hub will bring together leading incubators and accelerators in a high-density startup cluster. With more than 17,000sqm of space it will accommodate 2,500 people over 11 floors.

There are three main objectives for the Sydney Startup Hub:

  • create jobs
  • increase the diversity of the NSW startup community, with more startups from regional NSW and non-ICT industries
  • grow the size and strength of the Sydney ecosystem.