Top 35 CleanTech Startup Investors in Australia (October 2026)

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• iiba — Iiba is a geospatial platform that specializes in providing location information related to child-rearing.
• Obud — Obud is a wellness reservation systems that is designed for holistic health and lifestyle management purposes. The company's systems offer a comprehensive suite of tools for booking wellness activities, managing schedules, and accessing curated wellness programs, enabling wellness centers to streamline their operations, enhance userengagement, and promote a balanced and healthy lifestyle.
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• Diraq — Diraq is building quantum computers using modified silicon transistors, the technology best suited to reaching utility scale, where value outweighs cost.
• Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
• Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

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• Citics — Citics is to build a comprehensive real estate data platform in Vietnam by digitizing and centralizing data sources to help in real estate transactions, including real estate valuation, sales-purchase, lease, mortgage, among others.
• NoneAway — Find your happy place
• ZUZU Hospitality — Maximize revenue for your independent hotel with our expert Revenue Management service, Channel Manager, and PMS. No fixed costs. Start risk-free today.

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• VAPAR — VAPAR offers CCTV pipe inspection software. The software is AI integrated for better results and accuracy. Prevent pipe failures and make informed pipe network decisions.
• Umps Health — Umps offers a 24/7 personal alarm that helps you live independently with peace of mind. Easy to use, always connected.
• Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.

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• Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
• Noise — Noise makes finding UGC creators easy. Work smarter with personalized AI guidance to make your next UGC creator campaign go viral.
• Netsec — Professional cybersecurity and managed IT services to protect your business 24/7.

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• PREVE — Supporting back-to-back physios with their daily caseload, simplifying admin whilst making the patient experience more enjoyable. Preve does the admin work for practitioners. One click clinical notes, treatment plans, home rehab and documents.
• LendUs — LendUs caters for all different types of home loan requirements for consumers. The platform is designed to provide a simple home loan experience, completing much of the application preparation.
• Hubble Network — Connect a Bluetooth device to a global satellite network, delivering affordable, low-power tracking and monitoring for diverse industrial and commercial applications.

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• Tutero — Tutero offers a suite of education products for students, teachers, and tutors. Click to learn more about online tutoring and software for schools.
• Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.
• Loopit — Loopit is the complete end-to-end software & professional services platform solution for car subscription to boost dealership & profitability.

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• DeteQt — Semiconductor chip-based quantum magnetic field sensors using diamond - navigation, mining, medical imaging
• R2Crete — R2Crete is an engineering startup developing a process to recycle waste concrete into supplementary cementitious material (SCM) and high-quality aggregates for new concrete production. As cement is the most emissions-intensive component of concrete production, every tonne replaced by SCM directly reduces carbon impact. R2Crete's eco-friendly supplementary cementitious material (SCM) and aggregates are high performance, cost-competitive and can provide significant environmental benefits.
• Facet Amtech — Facet Amtech develops and produces ammonia from water and air.

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• OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
• Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
• BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.

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• Regen — We send daily recommendations to our farmers' phones based on their own farm data, so NZ can farm smarter.
• Androgenix —
• Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.

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• BioScout — Welcome to BioScout, your partner in revolutionizing the agriculture industry with cutting-edge automated disease detection technology for crop growers and viticulture.
• Ferronova — Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products.
• Morse Micro — Morse Micro's Wi-Fi HaLow combines long-range, strong signal penetration, low power, and high throughput in one wireless protocol, delivering connectivity to more devices, at distance, with greater reliability.

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• RPO — RPO, Inc. develops, designs, and manufactures waveguides for the consumer electronics market. The company’s products include digital waveguide touch systems, which is a touch screen solution applied in various products, including gameplayers, cellphones, PDAs, GPS systems, automotive control displays, multimedia players, and tablet personalcomputers, as well as in ATM’s and gambling machines. It also manufactures polymer optical waveguides on wafer and panel substrates. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is headquartered in San Jose, California. It has a research and development facility in Canberra, Australia; and pilot assembly operations in Sydney, Australia.
• BT Imaging — Home page for BT Imaging. BT Imaging sells inspection manufacturing equipment into the photovoltaics manufacturing sector. We specialise in photoluminescence imaging or PL Imaging
• Fultec Semiconductor — Fultec Semiconductor operates as a circuit protection semiconductor company. It offers transient blocking device for the over-voltage and over-current protection of telecommunication and data communication systems. The company's products offer wide bandwidth circuit protection against lightning, power induction, power cross, and short circuitevents. Its products have applications, such as telecom, datacom, sensors, automotive, and power distribution. The company was founded in 2001 and is headquartered in Mountain View, California. As of October 13, 2008, Fultec Semiconductor, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of Bourns, Inc.

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• WtEnergy — Technology company focus on provide advanced solutions for the transformation of biomass and non-recyclable waste into clean energy.
• OPTIMITIVE — Optimitive offers an Artificial Intelligence technology solution that optimizes the efficiency and sustainability the industrial processes.
• Terra CO2 Technologies — Terra CO2 Technologies is an industrial technology company that reduces material and logistics costs while reducing the environmental footprint in the cement and mining sectors. It develops innovative environmental technologies to tackle challenging environmental problems. It was founded in 2012 and employs a diverse group of engineers,scientists, and specialists to bring projects from the ideation stage to market.

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• Indi — indi keeps every observation, document and reminder about your child organised in one place, ready to share with the clinicians and family supporting them.
• Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.
• Clean Slate Clinic — Safely detox from alcohol from the comfort of your home. Proven results with Clean Slate Clinic.

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• Greenitio — High-performance functional biopolymers powered by green chemistry.
• Qarbotech — QarboGrow Photosynthesis Enhancer Sustainable and Efficient Farming Uncover the significance of photosynthesis and learn how our product can enhance it to new heights! Learn More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCp_pY8CzLg Curious about how our patented nanotechnology-based solution revolutionizes photosynthesis? What is photosynthesis and why is it inefficient? Photosynthesis is nature's remarkable process, where plants harness the power of sunlight
• Terra Oleo — Terra Oleo pioneers microbial technology to create sustainable fats & oils, offering cost-effective alternatives to palm oil & cocoa butter.

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• Hullbot — Hullbot offers an autonomous, frequent cleaning service for vessel hulls and propellers using specialized underwater robotics technology. This proactive cleaning prevents biofouling buildup, which reduces drag and results in fuel savings and increased fleet performance for operators. The robotics system is designed to work with all hull coatingsand provides routine inspections, asset intelligence, and real-time analytics on vessel performance without requiring divers.
• Conry Tech — Conry Tech is a climate tech company, reinventing air-conditioning to decarbonise and improve comfort, founded by renowned HVAC industry revolutionising experts.
• Rainstick — Rainstick a revolutionary indigenous Australian firm integrating traditional knowledge with current plant and fungal technology.

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• Scancell — Scancell is a clinical stage immunotherapy biotech developing treatments for significant unmet needs in cancer.
• Proteome Sciences — Proteome Sciences is a London (UK) and Frankfurt (Germany) based SME with expertise in proteomics and biomarker research. We have discovered and patented a large number of novel protein biomarkers for diagnosis, prognosis and treatment of key human diseases including neurodegenerative disorders, cancer, stroke etc. and provide protein biomarkerservices to pharmaceutical and diagnostics companies.
• Oxford Biodynamics — Oxford BioDynamics Plc (AIM: OBD) ("Oxford BioDynamics") is a biotechnology company focused on the discovery and development of epigenetic biomarkers for use within the pharmaceutical and biotechnology industry. The Company’s award-winning, proprietary technology platform, EpiSwitch™, aims to accelerate the drug discovery and developmentprocess, improve the success rate of therap.

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• Motor — Motor provides all inclusive electric car subscription service. Motor is dedicated to helping drivers discover, switch to, and stick with electric cars.
• Uplight — Uplight supports energy providers around the world with clean energy solutions for customer engagement and grid flexibility management.
• Haven Safety AI — Haven helps enterprise safety, environmental, and operations teams investigate incidents, assure investigation quality, uncover recurring control failures, and turn historical safety data into continuous learning and prevention.

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• Accord — Accord turns millions of conversations into structured, actionable insights for game teams.
• ReFresh — ReFresh is the psychosocial operating system that gives safety and people leaders their time back. Risk intelligence, safety orchestration, and governance evidence in one OS.
• Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.

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• me&u — me&u is an online ordering and payment application designed to order meals. They provide communication technology to order and pay through mobile phones at restaurants. Their process of ordering with waiters and splitting bills that enable users to order their food and pay bills through a digital payment platform.
• Truescope — Make better informed communications decisions with Truescope. Harnessing millions of media posts every day to deliver you real-time information that influences your business strategy.
• Vertero — Axial Therapeutics is a biotechnology company fundamentally changing the treatment of neurological diseases and disorders by harnessing groundbreaking science in the microbiome-gut-brain axis.

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• Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.

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• Terragrow — The operator of an agri-cultivation production and consulting company intended to focus on home-based hydroponic cultivation accessible to individuals and farmers. The company specializes in redefining farming with automation, precision, and data-driven insights, enabling clients to enhance productivity and ecological responsibility.
• Dataglade — Feather allows you to discover, analyze, and identify investment opportunities.
• Granular.ai — Granular.ai is a data analytics company that developed an artificial intelligence platform for satellite imagery. Satellite imagery offers an untapped source of real-time, ground truth data. Today, satellites capture 100TB of data daily. Put another way, it now has a birds-eye view of every inch on earth, every single day. This makes satelliteimagery the only store of fast, objective, global-scale data. Using satellite imagery, businesses can fundamentally transform the way they operate and address critical knowledge gaps in their global operations. But today, unearthing intelligence from satellite imagery today in incredibly complicated. As a result, less than 2% of businesses have access to the technical expertise needed to unearth insight locked within behind the pixels.

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• Carbon280 — Carbon280 is putting the Hydrilyte Hydrogen Storage System on the market. Hydrilyte is non-toxic and safe for both humans and the environment, in contrast to ammonia, compressed hydrogen, and liquified hydrogen.
• NovoNutrients — NovoNutrients is working to turn waste CO2 into high-value, low-cost proteins and additives for food and feed by developing proprietary microbes and advanced gas fermentation systems.
• KC8 Capture Technologies — KC8 Capture Technologies is an Australian based carbon capture utilisation and storage start up. We are working towards a greener global future

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• Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
• Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.

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• Auros — We develop world class technology to implement arbitrage and other trading strategies within the crypto space.
• Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.
• Footprint Analytics — Footprint Analytics is a comprehensive blockchain data analytics platform that simplifies analysis and community management for sustainable growth in Web3 projects.

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• PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
• ARQ Energy — ARQ Energy battery system allows multiple users in the same location to access renewable energy and off-peak electricity for reduced utility bills and carbon emissions.
• Verta Bioenergy — Bespoke drop in replacement pellets to decarbonise industrial coal use. Minimal investment required. Decarbonising one plant at a time.

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• Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.

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• Qolab — Qolab mission is to build high quality qubits by leveraging the most advanced semiconductor manufacturing processes.
• Augmentus — We pioneer easy and intelligent 3D scanning and robot motion planning technologies that autonomously scan, localize and plan robot paths without the need for skilled operators or programmers.
• Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com

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• Enaxiom — Discover our cutting-edge technology that saves water and energy for data centers.
• Nullify — Nullify performs product security tasks alongside your developers.
• Kismet — Find the best disability or healthcare service to support your journey

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• PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.

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• Algodex — Algodex is a decentralized exchange on the Algorand blockchain network
• Tonstarter — Tonstarter provides community members with early access to Token sales, IDO, and Airdrops
• Fanton — The first P2E Fantasy Football game with Telegram integration

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• Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.

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• XFuel — XFuel is a fuel company that provides green and clean fuels to distributors and consumers. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Palma de Mallorca, Baleares.
• Conry Tech — Conry Tech is a climate tech company, reinventing air-conditioning to decarbonise and improve comfort, founded by renowned HVAC industry revolutionising experts.
• Cool Planet Technologies — Cool Planet Technologies develops a cutting-edge membrane-based technology to absorb carbon dioxide on a large scale from industrial flue gas emissions. Helmholtz-Zentrum Hereon, a division of Germany's largest research organization, created the advanced PolyActive membrane used in Cool Planet Technologies' method.

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• Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
• Mys Tyler — Finally, an app that brings you body-relevant fashion inspiration. Discover like-minded, like-bodied creators sharing the outfits they love on Mys Tyler.

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• Trace — trace helps individuals and businesses go carbon neutral - measure (for free), reduce & offset your carbon footprint. Track your impact across our handpicked project portfolio including biodiversity in Australia.