Australia has one of the world’s most active AI ecosystems — home to global unicorns like Canva and Atlassian, ASX-listed innovators like WiseTech and REA Group, and a fast-growing cohort of AI-native startups solving real problems across every sector.

This guide profiles 268 Australian AI companies — updated 12 October 2026.

Two types of Australian AI companies

Not all ‘AI companies’ are the same. We tag each profile with one of two badges:

⚡ AI-native AI-native — founded 2016 or later, when modern AI became commercially viable. These companies built AI into their product from day one.

🏛 Established Established — founded before 2016. These are proven businesses that have added AI to existing products or workflows.

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Actionstep🏛 Established — Running a law firm: even a small one: involves a significant administrative burden: matter management, document generation, time recording, billing, trust accounting, and compliance.
Aigentsphere⚡ AI-native — Sydney startup building the management layer for enterprise AI agents — monitoring performance, costs, and compliance across multiple AI systems at once. ‑ Sydney
Ailo⚡ AI-native — Property management in Australia has long been a paper-heavy, time-intensive industry.
Airtasker🏛 Established — Founded: 2012 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: Marketplace / AI Matching / Gig Economy | ASX: ART What Is Airtasker?
AirTree Ventures🏛 Established — AirTree Ventures is one of Australia’s most respected venture capital firms, and increasingly one of its most AI-aware.
Ampcontrol🏛 Established — Ampcontrol is a Newcastle, NSW-based technology and engineering company founded in 1968.
Ansarada🏛 Established — Mergers and acquisitions are among the most document-intensive processes in business.
Apate.ai⚡ AI-native — Australian AI startup deploying 200,000 AI bots to engage scammers in live conversation — wasting their time and harvesting intelligence. Winner of Startup Battlefield AU 2026.
Appen🏛 Established — Before most people had heard the phrase “large language model”, Appen was quietly providing the data that makes AI work.
Archistar⚡ AI-native — 🏗️ Archistar is a Sydney-based property technology company whose AI platform helps developers, architects, town planners, and real estate professionals instantly assess whether a site is suitable for .
ARQ Group🏛 Established — ARQ Group (formerly Melbourne IT) is one of Australia’s longest-standing technology companies: and it’s made a significant pivot toward AI-driven digital transformation.
Athena Home Loans⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2017 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: Fintech / Mortgage What Is Athena? Athena Home Loans is a Sydney-based digital lender that set out to fix one of the most frustrating aspects of Australian ba.
Atlassian🏛 Established — Founded: 2002, Sydney, NSW Founders: Mike Cannon-Brookes, Scott Farquhar Headquarters: Sydney (listed on NASDAQ: TEAM) Valuation: ~US$60 billion (2024) What Is Atlassian?
Autopilot (Ortto)🏛 Established — Marketing automation has been transformative for small businesses: but most platforms are complex and expensive.
Banjo Loans🏛 Established — Access to capital has always been a sticking point for Australian small businesses.
Baraja⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2016, Sydney, NSW Founders: Federico Collarte, Cibby Pulikkaseril Headquarters: Sydney, NSW Status: Private (backed by Sequoia, Blackbird, and automotive OEMs) What Is Baraja?
Blackbird Ventures🏛 Established — If you want to understand who’s funding the future of Australian AI, start with Blackbird.
Brighte🏛 Established — Founded: 2015 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: Fintech / Green Finance / CleanTech What Is Brighte?
Bugcrowd🏛 Established — Cybersecurity has traditionally been the domain of large enterprises with deep security budgets.
Canva Acquires Leonardo.AI🏛 Established — Canva — Australia’s most valuable private technology company — made a significant move in 2024 when it brought AI image generation platform Leonardo.ai into its fold.
Canva🏛 Established — In March 2026, SmartCompany reported something remarkable: Canva beat Claude, Grok, and Deepseek in global AI usage rankings.
Carbar⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2016, Sydney, NSW Headquarters: Sydney, NSW Status: Private (backed by IAG, NRMA) What Is Carbar?
Checkbox⚡ AI-native — Legal work is drowning in repetitive, process-heavy tasks: contract review, matter intake, legal request triage, policy document generation, compliance checklists.
Chime Labs⚡ AI-native — For Australian tradies, one of the biggest business killers isn’t bad workmanship: it’s missing the phone call.
Cin7🏛 Established — Running out of stock costs Australian retailers an estimated $1.75 billion a year in lost sales.
Cluey Learning⚡ AI-native — What Is Cluey Learning? Cluey Learning (ASX: CLU) is a Sydney-based online tutoring platform founded in 2018 by serial entrepreneur and investor Mark Rohald.
Cover Genius🏛 Established — What Is Cover Genius? Cover Genius is a Sydney-based insurance technology company founded in 2014 by Angus McDonald and Chris Bayley.
Cover-More Group⚡ AI-native — Cover-More Group is one of Australia’s largest travel insurance and assistance companies, headquartered in Sydney and operating in over 20 countries.
Coviu🏛 Established — Coviu was one of Australia’s healthcare success stories of the COVID era: a CSIRO-developed telehealth video platform that went from a specialist tool to a mainstream healthcare infrastructure a.
CreditorWatch🏛 Established — CreditorWatch is a Sydney-based credit intelligence platform used by more than 65,000 Australian businesses to assess the payment risk of their customers, suppliers, and partners.
Curious Thing⚡ AI-native — Most Australian small business owners have heard plenty about AI chatbots. Fewer have heard about what’s coming next: AI that picks up the phone.
Daisee⚡ AI-native — Most Australian businesses that run customer service teams monitor a fraction of calls: maybe 2–5%, selected at random or by supervisors.
Dam Secure⚡ AI-native — Scam calls cost Australians hundreds of millions of dollars every year.
Deputy⚡ AI-native — If you run a café, a retail shop, a cleaning business, or any business where you’re juggling casual staff and award rates, there’s a good chance someone has recommended Deputy to you.
Domain Holdings🏛 Established — Founded: 2006 (ASX listed 2017) | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: PropTech / AI | ASX: DHG What Is Domain?
ELMO Software🏛 Established — 👥 ELMO Software is a Sydney-based, ASX-listed HR technology company providing an integrated suite of AI-powered tools for human resources, payroll, rostering, and learning management: purpose-built fo.
Employment Hero🏛 Established — Employment Hero in 2026 Employment Hero was founded in Sydney in 2014 by Ben Thompson and Dave Tong.
Employment Hero⚡ AI-native — Employment Hero is one of Australia’s most important small business software companies: and most small business owners have either used it or considered it.
Enboarder⚡ AI-native — Enboarder is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Enboarder🏛 Established — First impressions matter: including the first impression an employer makes on a new hire.
equ (Equalution)⚡ AI-native — Australian nutrition AI app with 10 years and 100K+ users, now pivoting to B2B — enabling gyms, PTs, telehealth and allied health businesses to embed personalised nutrition plans. Founded by Jade Wakim and George Spooner (ex-Google). Series A in progress.
Eucalyptus and Pilot⚡ AI-native — In February 2026, The Australian reported that Eucalyptus: the Sydney-based digital health startup behind Pilot (men’s health) and Juniper (women’s health): was sold to a US healthcare com.
Faethm⚡ AI-native — Before the AI job displacement conversation became mainstream, Faethm was already building the models to quantify it.
Firmus⚡ AI-native — In February 2026, a relatively low-profile Australian company made headlines around the world when it secured one of the largest AI infrastructure financing deals ever seen in the Asia-Pacific region.
Flamingo AI⚡ AI-native — Not every Australian AI company story ends with a billion-dollar acquisition or a global expansion.
Flare HR⚡ AI-native — Flare HR is a Sydney-based HR technology company that helps Australian small and medium businesses offer enterprise-grade employee benefits: including salary packaging, novated leasing, onboarding aut.
Frollo⚡ AI-native — What Frollo Does Frollo is a Sydney-based fintech that builds open banking infrastructure and financial wellness tools for Australia.
Geora⚡ AI-native — Geora is a Sydney-based agricultural technology company that has built a platform combining AI and blockchain to create verifiable traceability across agricultural supply chains.
Gradient Institute⚡ AI-native — What Is Gradient Institute? Gradient Institute is an independent, not-for-profit AI research organisation based in Sydney, founded in 2019.
Harrison.ai⚡ AI-native — Harrison.
Honey Insurance⚡ AI-native — What Is Honey Insurance? Honey Insurance is a Sydney-based insurance technology company founded in 2021 by Richard Joffe and Jason Wilby (co-founder of Huddle Insurance).
How NAB Is Using AI to Fight Financial Crime🏛 Established — Company: National Australia Bank (NAB) Founded: 1858, Melbourne, Victoria Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria Status: ASX-listed (NAB) NAB’s AI Strategy National Australia Bank (NAB) has been one .
Humanforce🏛 Established — Founded: 2002 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: HR Tech / Workforce Management AI What Is Humanforce?
Humanitix⚡ AI-native — Humanitix is a Sydney-based ticketing platform with a remarkable twist: it’s a not-for-profit that donates 100% of its booking fee profits to children’s charities.
Hylo Athletics⚡ AI-native — What Is Hylo Athletics? Hylo Athletics is a Sydney-based sustainable performance footwear brand founded with a mission to prove that high-performance athletic shoes and environmental responsibility ca.
Hyper Anna⚡ AI-native — Hyper Anna is one of Australia’s most instructive AI exits — a Sydney-founded analytics company that built genuinely novel technology years ahead of its time, and was acquired by US analytics gi.
Immutable⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2018, Sydney, NSW Founders: James Ferguson, Robbie Ferguson, Alex Connolly Headquarters: Sydney, NSW Status: Private (valued at ~US$2.5 billion) What Is Immutable?
InDebted⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2016 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: Fintech / AI / Debt Resolution What Is InDebted?
Ipscape🏛 Established — The contact centre software market is dominated by American giants. Salesforce Service Cloud, Zendesk, Genesys, NICE.
Jayex Healthcare🏛 Established — 🏥 Jayex Healthcare is a Sydney-based health technology company providing AI-powered patient flow management, self-check-in kiosks, and digital signage systems to hospitals, GP clinics, and specialist .
Joyn Insurance⚡ AI-native — Getting business insurance in Australia has always been a pain: lengthy forms, opaque pricing, and slow approvals.
Kablamo🏛 Established — Most Australian businesses use AI tools built by global companies.
Kasada⚡ AI-native — Every day, bots attack Australian websites: scraping prices, stuffing stolen credentials into login forms, bulk-purchasing limited inventory, and fraudulently claiming discounts.
Kounta (Now Lightspeed)🏛 Established — Kounta was a Sydney-born point-of-sale (POS) platform founded in 2012 that became one of Australia’s most widely adopted hospitality and retail technology platforms before being acquired by Ligh.
Learnosity🏛 Established — Most people haven’t heard of Learnosity.
Lendi🏛 Established — Founded: 2013, Sydney, NSW Headquarters: Sydney, NSW Status: Private (merged with Aussie Home Loans in 2021) What Is Lendi?
Lexplore⚡ AI-native — Reading difficulties affect around 10-15% of Australian students.
Loam Bio⚡ AI-native — Loam Bio is an Orange, New South Wales AgTech startup working at the intersection of microbiology, AI, and agriculture to sequester carbon in farming soils at scale.
Lumos Diagnostics⚡ AI-native — Getting a test result in minutes rather than days changes what a doctor can do.
Main Sequence Ventures⚡ AI-native — Most venture capital firms invest in software. Main Sequence invests in science.
Mary Technology🏛 Established — Mary Technology is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
MedicalDirector🏛 Established — Walk into almost any GP clinic in Australia and the software the doctor is using to pull up your records, write a referral, or prescribe medication is likely to be one of two products: Best Practice o.
Monoova🏛 Established — Moving money in Australia has historically been slow, manual, and riddled with friction: particularly for businesses handling high volumes of transactions.
Morse Micro⚡ AI-native — Most AI company profiles focus on software. Morse Micro is different: it makes chips.
Mosh⚡ AI-native — 💊 Mosh is a Sydney-based digital health platform focused on men’s health, using AI-driven clinical pathways to connect Australian men with personalised treatment plans for hair loss, sexual heal.
Mudbath🏛 Established — Most digital product studios are in Sydney or Melbourne. Mudbath is in Newcastle — and that geographic quirk says something about how they work.
Neara⚡ AI-native — In February 2026, Sydney-based Neara joined Australia’s small club of AI unicorns: private companies valued at over $1 billion: after closing a $90 million Series D funding round.
Nearmap Australia🏛 Established — Every few months, a plane flies over your suburb at low altitude, equipped with high-resolution cameras.
OneVentures🏛 Established
Pendula⚡ AI-native — Every business has moments when it needs to reach a lot of customers with a message that feels personal.
Plerion⚡ AI-native — Sydney-based AI cloud security platform. Uses AI to detect and fix cloud misconfigurations. $14.7M raised from Atlassian Ventures and Prosus Ventures.
Practice Ignition🏛 Established — Practice Ignition: now rebranded as Ignition: is a Sydney-founded platform that automates the most annoying parts of running an accounting firm: sending proposals, getting client sign-off, and collect.
Practifi🏛 Established — Managing client relationships in financial planning involves vast amounts of data: account details, compliance records, communication histories, investment preferences.
Premonition🏛 Established — Before you hire a lawyer for a major dispute, wouldn’t you want to know their actual win rate?
Prezzee🏛 Established — Prezzee is a Sydney-based digital gift card platform that has become the default way millions of Australians send and receive gift cards.
Propeller Aero🏛 Established — Founded: 2014 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: AI / Drone Analytics / Construction Tech What Is Propeller Aero?
PropTech Group🏛 Established — PropTech Group is an ASX-listed Australian company that builds AI-powered software for the real estate industry.
Prospa🏛 Established — Founded: 2011, Sydney, NSW Founders: Greg Moshal, Beau Bertoli Headquarters: Sydney, NSW Status: ASX-listed (PGL) What Is Prospa?
Q-CTRL⚡ AI-native — When most Australians think about the companies shaping the future of computing, they might picture Silicon Valley giants or East Asian electronics manufacturers.
Reckon🏛 Established — Reckon is an Australian-owned, ASX-listed accounting software company. See the full profile for details.
Reejig⚡ AI-native — Reejig is a Sydney-based HR technology company founded in 2019 by Siobhan Savage and Saif Akhtar.
Remi AI🏛 Established — Remi AI is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Rezdy🏛 Established — If you run a tour, activity, or experience business in Australia: or book experiences as a customer: there’s a good chance Rezdy is running in the background.
Rokt🏛 Established — Most Australians have never heard of Rokt.
SafetyCulture🏛 Established — If you’ve worked in construction, mining, hospitality, or logistics in Australia, you’ve probably used iAuditor.
Samsara in Australia🏛 Established — Running a fleet of trucks, vans, or heavy equipment in Australia involves a lot of moving parts — literally and operationally.
Scalapay⚡ AI-native — Buy now, pay later exploded in Australia: pioneered by Afterpay and rapidly adopted by millions of consumers.
Scope3⚡ AI-native — Digital advertising has a carbon footprint most advertisers have never measured.
Secure Code Warrior🏛 Established — Founded: 2015 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: Cybersecurity / Developer Training / AI What Is Secure Code Warrior?
Shippit Review🏛 Established — For Australian e-commerce businesses, shipping is one of the highest-cost, most operationally complex parts of the operation.
Shippit🏛 Established — For Australian ecommerce businesses, shipping is one of the most operationally complex: and costly: parts of running an online store.
Siteminder🏛 Established — For hotels, guesthouses, and accommodation providers, filling rooms at the right price is a constant challenge.
Skyjed⚡ AI-native — Every financial product sold to Australians has a lifecycle — it gets designed, approved, launched, monitored, and eventually retired or replaced.
Slyp⚡ AI-native — Slyp is a Sydney fintech that has done something simple on the surface: replaced paper receipts with rich digital ones that appear directly in your banking app.
Sonder⚡ AI-native — Sonder (ASX: SND) is a Sydney-based employee wellbeing and safety company founded in 2016 by Craig Cowdrey and Shannon Hennessy.
Spaceship⚡ AI-native — Spaceship is a Sydney-based financial technology company founded in 2017 by Paul Engeli and others.
Spriggy⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2016 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: Fintech / Family Finance What Is Spriggy?
Square Peg Capital🏛 Established — Square Peg Capital has quietly become Australia’s most active venture capital investor in AI companies.
The Yield🏛 Established — The Yield is a Sydney-based AgTech company that uses AI-powered microclimate sensing technology to help Australian farmers make smarter, more timely decisions about planting, harvesting, and pest mana.
Tiled⚡ AI-native — PDF proposals that disappear into inboxes. Sales decks that can’t be tracked after sending.
Tiliter⚡ AI-native — Anyone who’s used a supermarket self-checkout knows the frustration of placing fresh produce on the scale and hunting through a long menu to find “loose broccoli” or “red delic.
Tribal Group🏛 Established — Behind every Australian university student’s enrolment, grades, timetable, and graduation sits a student management system.
Trovio⚡ AI-native — Institutional interest in digital assets has grown faster than the infrastructure to support it.
Unloan⚡ AI-native — When Australia’s largest bank decided to build a fully digital mortgage product from scratch, the result was Unloan: a home loan that is applied for, assessed, and managed entirely online, with .
Verrency⚡ AI-native — Every time you tap your card, a transaction happens in milliseconds. Verrency sits inside that millisecond, adding a layer of intelligence that card networks don’t provide.
Versent🏛 Established — Most Australian enterprises do not build AI from scratch.
Vow Food⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2019 | HQ: Sydney, NSW | Sector: Deep Tech / Food Tech / AI What Is Vow Food?
Waddle (Now Part of NAB)⚡ AI-native — Invoice finance — borrowing against unpaid invoices to manage cash flow — has existed for decades.
WiseTech Global🏛 Established — Not every great Australian tech company announces itself with fanfare.
Zepto⚡ AI-native — Zepto is a Sydney-based payments infrastructure company founded in 2016 (originally as Split Payments) by Chris Jewell and Brad Minnis.
Zetifi⚡ AI-native — Australia has some of the world’s best agricultural land and some of the world’s worst rural internet.
Zip Co🏛 Established — Zip Co is one of Australia’s original BNPL companies and one of the few to come through the sector’s consolidation with its Australian operations intact.

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🏙️ VIC / Melbourne

Aconex🏛 Established — Founded: 2000, Melbourne, Victoria Founders: Leigh Jasper, Rob Phillpot Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria (now part of Oracle) Acquired: Oracle, 2018, for US$1.6 billion What Is Aconex?
Agtuary⚡ AI-native — Agtuary is a Melbourne-based AgTech company that uses AI and climate science to help banks, insurers, and agribusinesses quantify and manage climate risk in Australian agricultural lending and investm.
AIBUILD🏛 Established — Founded: ~2017, Carlton, Melbourne. CEO: Yifei Wang. AI venture studio building AI companies across aged care, supply chain, construction, education, and robotics. $50M+ investment. Ventures: Argyx, Bot Epoch, Vivenex AI, StarPlan AI. ‑ Carlton, Melbourne
Airwallex⚡ AI-native — Airwallex is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details. ‑ Melbourne
Airwallex⚡ AI-native — Airwallex is arguably Australia’s most globally successful technology company that most Australians haven’t heard of.
Aivy🏛 Established — Aivy is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Annalise.ai⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2019 | HQ: Melbourne, VIC | Sector: Medical AI / Radiology What Is Annalise.ai?
Australian Genomics🏛 Established — Australia has one of the world’s most comprehensive universal healthcare systems: and with it, a rare asset: large-scale, longitudinal clinical datasets tied to a diverse population.
Beehive AI⚡ AI-native — Every business collects feedback: survey responses, review comments, support tickets, post-purchase questions.
Brauz⚡ AI-native — The tension between online shopping and physical retail has defined the last decade of Australian retail.
Buildkite🏛 Established — Founded: 2013, Melbourne, Victoria Founder: Keith Pitt, Tim Lucas, Jessica Stokes Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria Status: Private What Is Buildkite?
Buildxact🏛 Established — 🔨 Buildxact is a Melbourne-based construction technology company providing AI-powered estimating, quoting, and job management software specifically designed for small and medium Australian builders, r.
Bunnings and Wesfarmers AI🏛 Established — When the company behind Bunnings. Australia’s most visited retail destination: makes significant AI investments, it’s worth paying attention.
Coax⚡ AI-native — Coax is a Melbourne-built all-in-one customer communications platform for Australian SMBs. Unifies 14 channels (WhatsApp, SMS, Gmail, Instagram, Google Reviews, phone and more) into a single waterfall thread per customer. AI drafts replies and handles WISMO automation. AU$349/month. ‑ Melbourne
Cortical Labs⚡ AI-native — In 2022, a paper published in the journal Neuron described something that sounded impossible: a small dish of human brain cells, grown on a silicon chip in a Melbourne laboratory, had learned to play .
Covhd⚡ AI-native — Healthcare compliance in Australia is genuinely complex.
Culture Amp🏛 Established — There’s a Melbourne company that has quietly changed the way hundreds of thousands of organisations think about their people: and most Australian small business owners have never heard of it.
Daily Needs Association🏛 Established — Daily Needs Association is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
DataMesh🏛 Established — DataMesh is a Melbourne-based payments technology company that specialises in unified commerce and point-of-sale solutions for the gaming, hospitality, and entertainment sectors.
Dubber🏛 Established — Every phone call your business makes or receives contains valuable information: customer sentiment, compliance records, sales coaching opportunities, and operational insights.
Elenium Automation🏛 Established — The self-service kiosks you use at Australian airports: for check-in, bag drop, and passport control: are increasingly powered by AI.
Envato🏛 Established — Founded: 2006, Melbourne, Victoria Founders: Collis Ta’eed, Cyan Ta’eed, Jun Rung Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria Status: Private (bootstrapped to profitability) What Is Envato?
Firmable⚡ AI-native — In March 2026, Melbourne-based Firmable raised $14 million in a Series A round to fund expansion into the US market.
Fluent Retail🏛 Established — Founded: 2013 | HQ: Melbourne, VIC | Sector: Retail Tech / AI / Omnichannel Commerce What Is Fluent Commerce?
Heidi Health⚡ AI-native — AI clinical scribe supporting 200+ specialties, 110+ languages. 1M+ consultations/week. $65M Series B. Telstra Health partnership. Free tier available. ‑ Melbourne
Helfie AI🏛 Established — Helfie AI is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Lexer🏛 Established — Retail and hospitality businesses sit on mountains of customer data: transaction histories, loyalty program records, email interactions, in-store behaviour.
Linktree⚡ AI-native — If you’ve seen “link in bio” on Instagram, you’ve encountered Linktree’s work.
Localz🏛 Established — Localz is a Melbourne-based technology company that uses AI and real-time location data to improve the last-mile delivery and field service experience for Australian retailers, utilities, and logistic.
Lyrebird Health⚡ AI-native — AI clinical scribe built natively inside Bp Premier (Best Practice). Notes write back directly into patient records. $12M raise. Free for Bp Premier clinics. ‑ Melbourne
Maincode and Matilda AI⚡ AI-native — In a world where AI is dominated by American companies.
MYOB🏛 Established — MYOB is the most-used accounting software in Australia, founded in Melbourne in 1991. See the full profile for details.
MYOB🏛 Established — Founded: 1991, Melbourne, Victoria Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria Status: Private (owned by KKR since 2019) Users: 1.2+ million businesses across Australia and New Zealand What Is MYOB?
Nintex🏛 Established — Nintex started in Melbourne in 2006 and grew into one of the world’s leading platforms for workflow automation and process management.
Nutromics⚡ AI-native — Nutrition advice has always been generalised. Eat more vegetables. Cut back on processed food.
Opturion🏛 Established — Scheduling is one of the most underrated operational challenges in Australian business: particularly in healthcare, transport, and services where staffing constraints, award conditions, and compliance.
Ordermentum🏛 Established — What Ordermentum Does Ordermentum is a Melbourne-based B2B ordering platform built for the food and beverage industry.
Otivo Review Australia 2026⚡ AI-native — Otivo Review Australia 2026 is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
PageUp🏛 Established — Founded: 1997 | HQ: Melbourne, VIC | Sector: HR Tech / Talent Management What Is PageUp?
Phocas Software🏛 Established — Phocas Software is a Melbourne-born business intelligence platform built specifically for mid-market businesses in manufacturing, distribution, and retail.
REA Group🏛 Established — REA Group is one of Australia’s most valuable tech companies. The Melbourne-based business operates realestate.com.
Redbubble🏛 Established — Founded: 2006, Melbourne, Victoria Founders: Martin Hosking, Peter Styles, Paul Vanzella Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria Status: ASX-listed (RBL) What Is Redbubble?
Rezwit⚡ AI-native — The next wave of financial services in Australia won’t come from banks.
SEEK🏛 Established — SEEK is Australia’s dominant job platform: and one of the country’s more sophisticated AI businesses.
Seer Medical⚡ AI-native — Epilepsy affects around 250,000 Australians.
Shortlyster⚡ AI-native — Hiring is one of the most time-consuming tasks for any small business owner. Sifting through dozens of applications to find the two or three worth interviewing can take hours.
Swiftly⚡ AI-native — E-commerce personalisation has moved from a luxury to a necessity: customers expect recommendations and experiences tailored to their behaviour.
Tixel⚡ AI-native — Tixel is a Melbourne-based ticket resale marketplace founded in 2017 by Zac Leigh and Jared Kristensen.
Trellis⚡ AI-native — Traceability has gone from a nice-to-have to a commercial requirement. Retailers want traceability data.
Up Bank⚡ AI-native — Up Bank is an Australian neobank built on AI-powered money management, launched in 2018 as a joint venture between Ferocia and Bendigo and Adelaide Bank .
V2 AI⚡ AI-native — Melbourne-based enterprise AI and data consultancy. $30M Series A. Delivers AI transformations for large enterprises across retail, energy, healthcare, and construction.
Vix Technology🏛 Established — Every time a Victorian commuter taps their myki card on a tram or train, they’re interacting with technology from Melbourne-based Vix Technology.
Whispir🏛 Established — Founded: 2001 | HQ: Melbourne, VIC | Sector: Communications Tech / AI | ASX: WSP What Is Whispir?
Xplor Technologies🏛 Established — What Xplor Technologies Does Xplor Technologies is a Melbourne-based software and payments company that helps small and medium businesses run their day-to-day operations.
Yellowfin BI🏛 Established — 📊 Yellowfin is a Melbourne-based business intelligence and analytics company whose AI-powered platform helps thousands of Australian businesses: and global enterprises: turn raw data into actionable i.
Zeaware⚡ AI-native — Low-code enterprise AI agent platform (Avalon) with governance, monitoring, and compliance built in. Agents for HR, customer service, RFP responses, and onboarding.
Zeller⚡ AI-native — Zeller is a Melbourne-based financial technology company founded in 2020 by Ben Pfisterer (former Square ANZ country head) and Dominic Yap.

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☀️ QLD / Brisbane

Aginic🏛 Established — Most Australian businesses have more data than they can use. Aginic is one of the consultancies helping them figure it out.
AgriWebb🏛 Established — AgriWebb is a Brisbane-based AgTech company that provides AI-powered livestock and farm management software to sheep, cattle, and mixed farming operations across Australia and globally.
Arria NLG🏛 Established — If you’ve ever wished your business data could just explain itself , Arria NLG has been working on exactly that problem.
Ceres Tag⚡ AI-native — Australia runs one of the world’s largest livestock industries: over 25 million cattle and 70 million sheep across properties that can span hundreds of thousands of hectares.
Ecofibre🏛 Established — Ecofibre (ASX: EOF) is a Brisbane-based company building a vertically integrated industrial hemp business: from cultivation through to consumer nutraceutical and textile products.
Ellume🏛 Established — 🧬 Ellume is a Brisbane-based medical diagnostics company that made global headlines in 2020 when it became the first company to receive FDA Emergency Use Authorisation for an over-the-counter, at-home.
Emesent⚡ AI-native — What Emesent Does Emesent is a Brisbane-based company that builds AI-powered autonomous drones and LiDAR scanning technology for environments where GPS doesn’t work.
FutureFeed⚡ AI-native — Livestock are responsible for around 10% of Australia’s greenhouse gas emissions.
Gilmour Space🏛 Established — Australia has never launched an orbital rocket from its own soil. Gilmour Space wants to change that — and they’re closer than most people think.
Go1🏛 Established — Founded: 2015, Brisbane, Queensland Founders: Andrew Barnes, Chris Hood, Vu Tran, Simon Gibson, Mikhail Feinstein Headquarters: Brisbane, QLD (with offices in the US and UK) Status: Private (unicorn: .
Max Solutions🏛 Established — What Is Max Solutions? Max Solutions is a Brisbane-based employment services provider that operates under the Australian Government’s Workforce Australia program: the national framework for help.
NEXTDC🏛 Established — What NEXTDC Does NEXTDC is Australia’s largest independent data centre operator.
Octopus Deploy🏛 Established — Brisbane doesn’t often feature in Australian tech startup stories.
Paypa Plane⚡ AI-native — Most payment infrastructure is built for one-off transactions.
Pentag⚡ AI-native — Australia’s agricultural sector runs on scale: millions of livestock across vast properties where manual monitoring is impractical and expensive.
Scout Talent🏛 Established — Hiring is one of the most time-intensive and high-stakes activities any small business undertakes.
Simpro🏛 Established — Simpro is a Brisbane-based field service management software company serving trade businesses across Australia, New Zealand, the United Kingdom, the United States, and Canada.
SwarmFarm Robotics🏛 Established — SwarmFarm Robotics is an Emerald, Queensland AgTech company building autonomous robotic platforms for Australian broadacre farming.
Swyftx⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2018 | HQ: Brisbane, QLD | Sector: Fintech / Crypto What Is Swyftx? Swyftx is one of Australia’s largest and most popular cryptocurrency trading platforms, headquartered in Brisbane.
Tanda🏛 Established — Founded: 2012 | HQ: Brisbane, QLD | Sector: HR Tech / Workforce Management What Is Tanda?
Vapar Solutions⚡ AI-native — Vapar Solutions is a Brisbane-based AI company solving a problem most people never think about: inspecting thousands of kilometres of underground water and sewer pipes.
Zeligate⚡ AI-native — Not every significant Australian AI company is headquartered in Sydney or Melbourne.

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💎 WA / Perth

8 Australian AI Startups to Watch⚡ AI-native — 8 Australian AI Startups to Watch is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Artrya⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2019, Perth, Western Australia Headquarters: Perth, WA Status: ASX-listed (AYA) What Is Artrya?
Cognian Technologies⚡ AI-native — What Is Cognian Technologies? Cognian Technologies is a Perth-based building technology company that uses AI and wireless sensor networks to make commercial buildings smarter.
IMDEX🏛 Established — If Australia’s AI edge lies in applying machine intelligence to industries where it has deep expertise and unique data, IMDEX is one of the clearest examples of that thesis in action.
Micromine🏛 Established — Micromine is one of Australia’s most quietly successful software exports.
Vertical AI⚡ AI-native — AI voice agents for Australian businesses. 24/7 inbound call answering using a knowledge base built from your own documents (PDF, URL, text). Sydney data hosting. Enterprise tier with dedicated infrastructure and SLA-backed uptime. On-site AI workshops. Built in Perth. Launched mid-2026. ‑ Perth
WhiteHawk⚡ AI-native — Australian businesses face a growing tangle of digital threats: ransomware, supply chain attacks, data breaches, and now the murky compliance landscape around artificial intelligence.
WowApps🏛 Established — WowApps is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.

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🌹 SA / Adelaide

Complexica🏛 Established — Not every Australian AI success story involves a billion-dollar valuation, a flashy consumer product, or venture capital headlines.
Fivecast⚡ AI-native — In a world where vast amounts of information are publicly available online, the challenge isn’t finding data: it’s making sense of it at scale.
Myriota🏛 Established — Myriota is an Adelaide-based satellite communications company founded in 2015 as a spin-out from the University of South Australia.
Presagen and Life Whisperer⚡ AI-native — Among all the applications of AI to human problems, few are as intimate or as consequential as this: using deep learning to help families who are struggling to have children.
Stax⚡ AI-native — Cloud computing has transformed how Australian businesses run their technology: but it’s also introduced a new problem: cloud bills that are difficult to understand, hard to predict, and easy to.

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🏛️ ACT / Canberra

archTIS🏛 Established — While most AI companies are focused on making information more accessible, archTIS is focused on making sensitive information more secure.
CSIRO and Data61🏛 Established — Behind many of Australia’s most successful AI applications: from crop yield prediction to medical imaging to wildfire detection: sits a single institution: CSIRO , the Commonwealth Scientific an.
Liquid Instruments⚡ AI-native — Liquid Instruments is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Prism Defence⚡ AI-native — Australia’s defence and national security sector is investing significantly in AI capability: and a cluster of Australian companies are building the technology to support it.
Seeing Machines🏛 Established — Every year, driver fatigue kills hundreds of Australians and injures thousands more.

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🌏 Other / National

Admiin🏛 Established — Admiin is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
AI for Australian Allied Health Practitioners in 2026⚡ AI-native — AI for Australian Allied Health Practitioners in 2026 is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Arevo🏛 Established — Sector: Advanced Manufacturing / Deep Tech Technology: AI-driven continuous fibre 3D printing Relevance: Australian advanced manufacturing and AI-driven production AI-Driven Advanced Manufacturing Adv.
Arinco🏛 Established — Arinco is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Arlo⚡ AI-native — Arlo Technologies is a smart home security company that was spun out of Netgear in 2018 and listed on the NYSE.
Best AI Receptionists for Australian Small Businesses (2026)⚡ AI-native — Best AI Receptionists for Australian Small Businesses (2026) is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Boab AI🏛 Established — Boab AI is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Budgetly🏛 Established — Budgetly is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Callease AI🏛 Established — Callease AI is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Choosey App Review⚡ AI-native — Choosey App Review is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Doomers AI🏛 Established — Doomers AI is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Figured🏛 Established — Running a farm is running a business. Most farm management software focuses on the agronomic side — crop monitoring, livestock tracking, equipment management.
Firmable vs ZoomInfo⚡ AI-native — Firmable vs ZoomInfo is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
GoDaddy Airo Australia Review 2026⚡ AI-native — GoDaddy Airo Australia Review 2026 is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Hey Jodie Review🏛 Established — Hey Jodie Review is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Hooroo.ai Review⚡ AI-native — Hooroo.ai Review is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Hourglass AI🏛 Established — Hourglass AI is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Hummingbird Technologies🏛 Established — Australian farmers manage some of the world’s largest broadacre operations: wheat, canola, and barley paddocks that stretch for thousands of hectares across the Wheatbelt and Mallee.
Klaviyo Review Australia🏛 Established — Klaviyo Review Australia is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
LeadStory🏛 Established — LeadStory is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Marloo⚡ AI-native — Marloo is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Meet Matilda🏛 Established — Meet Matilda is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Megaport’s A$827M Bet🏛 Established — Megaport’s A$827M Bet is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Nosto in Australia🏛 Established — 🛒 Nosto is a global AI-powered ecommerce personalisation platform with a significant Australian customer base: helping online retailers deliver individualised shopping experiences that increase conver.
Partly⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2016 | HQ: Auckland, NZ (significant AU presence) | Sector: Automotive / AI Marketplace What Is Partly?
Preve Review⚡ AI-native — Preve Review is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Rippling Australia Review 2026⚡ AI-native — Rippling Australia Review 2026 is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Rippling in Australia🏛 Established — ⚡ Rippling is a US-founded but rapidly expanding AI-powered workforce management platform that has made significant inroads into the Australian market: offering businesses a unified system to manage H.
SCX.ai Review🏛 Established — SCX.ai Review is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Searchspring in Australia🏛 Established — 🔍 Searchspring is a leading AI-powered site search and merchandising platform with a strong presence in the Australian ecommerce market: helping online retailers turn their search bar into one of thei.
ServiceM8🏛 Established — ServiceM8 is a Darwin-built job management app used by over 50,000 Australian and New Zealand trade and service businesses.
Valory AI Review🏛 Established — Valory AI Review is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Xero🏛 Established — Xero is the accounting software platform used by more than 4.2 million small business subscribers worldwide, with Australia and New Zealand representing its largest market.
“Buy Australian AI” Is a Nice Idea. But an 8-Week Accelerator Won’t Fix a Procurement Culture Problem🏛 Established — “Buy Australian AI” Is a Nice Idea. But an 8-Week Accelerator Won’t Fix a Procurement Culture Problem is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.

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AI for Australian Allied Health Practitioners in 2026⚡ AI-native — AI for Australian Allied Health Practitioners in 2026 is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Annalise.ai⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2019 | HQ: Melbourne, VIC | Sector: Medical AI / Radiology What Is Annalise.ai?
Artrya⚡ AI-native — Founded: 2019, Perth, Western Australia Headquarters: Perth, WA Status: ASX-listed (AYA) What Is Artrya?
Australian Genomics🏛 Established — Australia has one of the world’s most comprehensive universal healthcare systems: and with it, a rare asset: large-scale, longitudinal clinical datasets tied to a diverse population.
Cortical Labs⚡ AI-native — In 2022, a paper published in the journal Neuron described something that sounded impossible: a small dish of human brain cells, grown on a silicon chip in a Melbourne laboratory, had learned to play .
Covhd⚡ AI-native — Healthcare compliance in Australia is genuinely complex.
Coviu🏛 Established — Coviu was one of Australia’s healthcare success stories of the COVID era: a CSIRO-developed telehealth video platform that went from a specialist tool to a mainstream healthcare infrastructure a.
CSIRO and Data61🏛 Established — Behind many of Australia’s most successful AI applications: from crop yield prediction to medical imaging to wildfire detection: sits a single institution: CSIRO , the Commonwealth Scientific an.
Ellume🏛 Established — 🧬 Ellume is a Brisbane-based medical diagnostics company that made global headlines in 2020 when it became the first company to receive FDA Emergency Use Authorisation for an over-the-counter, at-home.
equ (Equalution)⚡ AI-native — Australian nutrition AI app with 10 years and 100K+ users, now pivoting to B2B — enabling gyms, PTs, telehealth and allied health businesses to embed personalised nutrition plans. Founded by Jade Wakim and George Spooner (ex-Google). Series A in progress.
Eucalyptus and Pilot⚡ AI-native — In February 2026, The Australian reported that Eucalyptus: the Sydney-based digital health startup behind Pilot (men’s health) and Juniper (women’s health): was sold to a US healthcare com.
Harrison.ai⚡ AI-native — Harrison.
Helfie AI🏛 Established — Helfie AI is an Australian AI company. See the full profile for details.
Jayex Healthcare🏛 Established — 🏥 Jayex Healthcare is a Sydney-based health technology company providing AI-powered patient flow management, self-check-in kiosks, and digital signage systems to hospitals, GP clinics, and specialist .
Lumos Diagnostics⚡ AI-native — Getting a test result in minutes rather than days changes what a doctor can do.
MedicalDirector🏛 Established — Walk into almost any GP clinic in Australia and the software the doctor is using to pull up your records, write a referral, or prescribe medication is likely to be one of two products: Best Practice o.
Mosh⚡ AI-native — 💊 Mosh is a Sydney-based digital health platform focused on men’s health, using AI-driven clinical pathways to connect Australian men with personalised treatment plans for hair loss, sexual heal.
Nutromics⚡ AI-native — Nutrition advice has always been generalised. Eat more vegetables. Cut back on processed food.
Presagen and Life Whisperer⚡ AI-native — Among all the applications of AI to human problems, few are as intimate or as consequential as this: using deep learning to help families who are struggling to have children.
Seer Medical⚡ AI-native — Epilepsy affects around 250,000 Australians.

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