Top 50 Consumer Startup Investors in Australia (August 2026)

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• Varden — FILM-FREE BARRIER COATING
• 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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• LivedCX® — LIVEDCX: Advanced AI technology for contact centre leaders who must simplify complexity to create growth.
• Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.
• Infiction labs — SPARC 1.2 is a solar panel robotic cleaning system designed and developed by Infiction Labs Pvt Ltd for commercial solar plants.

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• Pagaleve — pagaleve offers payment in installments at PIX, with no interest and no credit card required. They provide merchants with a new payment method in order to increase their sales in a simple, uncomplicated, and agile manner, but they also want to provide people with the opportunity to buy what they want without committing to the card'shigh-interest rates and credit.
• Rosterfy — Connect to your volunteers with a comprehensive & user-friendly platform where you can recruit, retain, reward and train your volunteers.
• Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.

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• Praktiki — Praktiki is building the "Decision Layer" for medicine.While medical knowledge doubles every 73 days, frontline clinicians struggle to translate guidelines into practice. Current AI search tools excel at surfacing public data from clinical trials, but fail to capture "how" experts apply that evidence in real-world scenarios.Praktiki fills this gap. We utilise an AI Agentic Creator Engine to capture tacit specialist reasoning and fuse it with public evidence. This feeds a proprietary Expert Knowledge Graph that powers: 1) Microlearning: Case-based modules created 10x faster and which are 170% more effective than traditional education 2) AI Expert Guidance: Real-time decision support synthesising evidence with expert implementation strategies.2025 Traction - our MVP proved that solving the expertise gap drives high engagement: - Registered >10% of UK GPs - 60,000+ modules completed with an 85% completion rate - 51% month-over-month growth - Market-leading NPS of 83We are building a compounding data moat to expand beyond education into clinical intelligence and healthcare data solutions.
• Mast — Mast is the cloud-native, fully configurable loan origination platform empowering lenders to process applications faster and smarter. We make lending better, smoother and faster.
• Forti Foods — The mission of Forti Foods is to enhance communities and change lives beyond the plate by fostering resilience and dignity via sustainable food innovation.

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• Vow — Vow is crafting a new category of food
• Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
• 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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• VoiceByte — VoiceByte is an application platform that allows its users to record and share their voice either privately or on social networks.
• GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
• Shore Trade — Buy Wholesale Seafood Directly from the Best Fisheries

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• Everlab — The preventative health service of the future. Detect disease early, improve wellbeing, and optimise performance.
• Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
• Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.

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• DeteQt — Semiconductor chip-based quantum magnetic field sensors using diamond - navigation, mining, medical imaging
• Ferronova — Ferronova is a medical device company that offers imaging and surgery products.
• Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.

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• MAPTO — Bringing industries together since 2008, Mapto.com stands as the premier platform for a global business directory. Serving millions of companies and suppliers worldwide.Mapto, the “Business Development Guide,” has been specially designed to offer an e-commerce solution that brings together all companies in the world and provides an excellent B2Cuser experience without sacrificing B2B functionality. The most significant difference from other marketplaces is that it is customer-supported!In today’s world, product, manufacturer, and communication demands are the basis of e-commerce searches on the internet. It restructures the “roadmap of e-commerce” by bringing all these demands together and making them accessible to users.
• Solbari — Solbari is an online fashion store that provides swimwear, clothing, accessories, skincare, and beauty products for kids, men, and women.
• Consolidated Linen Service — Our family owned and operated company supplies and launders linen and garments to the Hospitality, Aged and Heath Care Sectors across regional Queensland.

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• FlexiGroup — At FlexiGroup, we love to connect customers with things that will help them work and play. FlexiGroup is a diversified financial services group. Through a network of over 16,000 retail and business partners we provide a wide range of innovative finance products and payment solutions to consumers and businesses. From supporting education, toequipping a home, to building a business – we have a wide range of solutions to help. This includes interest free cards and no interest ever payment plans; consumer and business leasing solutions; and mobile and broadband plans. FlexiGroup operates in Australia, New Zealand and Ireland, and is offered at more than 16,000 locations including Harvey Norman, Escape Travel, IKEA, Domayne, Joyce Mayne, King Living, Nick Scali, Australian Outdoor Living, JB Hi-Fi, AGL Solar, The Good Guys Kitchens, Noel Leeming, Husqvarna, and the Fantastic Group.
• Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
• Quintessential Equity — Owner-operator discipline across acquisition, improvement and operations. Tenant-first execution, governed decision-making and clear reporting for wholesale and professional investors. Explore the portfolio, capabilities and how we invest across cycles.

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• Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
• iiShield — iiShield aims to improve patient outcomes and surgeon training in transplant surgery by providing effective organ heat protection.
• Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.

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• Earthodic — Earthodic is an Australian materials science company creating functional biobased coatings. Paperbarc by Earthodic is a biobased water-resistant coating for pulped or paper products. It has better water-resistance than wax coatings, more sustainable and circular than plastic coatings. Repulpable. Re
• Hearables 3D — Scale your custom-fit volumes and solve dental lab technician shortage with AI and automation solutions.
• Visionary Machines — Superior perception for next-generation autonomy

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• Kasada — Kasada stops automated threats and bot attacks from the very first request across web, mobile apps, and APIs. Real-time bot mitigation with no rules to manage.
• Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
• Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!

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• Bilby — Artificial Intelligence RegTech Platform
• PayOK — PayOK's API driven solution delivers real-time dual account validation between Australian banks which can reduce mistaken or fraudulent payments, protecting and giving confidence to your customers.
• Aerologix — Book CASA-certified drone pilots for inspections, aerial mapping, LiDAR and 3D models. Draw your area, see your price instantly. 44,000+ pilots, Australia-wide.

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• Modii — Leading the shift toward smart parking and mobility solutions to help create smarter, greener, and safer cities, universities and communities around the world.
• Lumary — Built on and invested in by Salesforce. Lumary software optimizes operations to increase revenue with advanced scheduling and billing functionality.
• Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.

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• Relectrify — Unlocking extra lifetime and performance of batteries via advanced battery management (BMS) technology.
• Gridcog — Gridcog provides holistic software to plan, track, and optimize your transition to a decentralized and decarbonized energy future.

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• Giftbee — Giftbee reshapes gifting for businesses and consumers. Send gifts with flexibility to accept, swap, or give forward. Manage gifting programs, reduce waste, and create meaningful impact.
• Indi — Indi supports parents’ mental well-being and helps them advocate for their children’s health.
• Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.

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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 is a fast-growing wireless integrated circuit solutions company that is reinventing Wi-Fi for the Internet of Things (IoT). The company was founded by Wi-Fi pioneers and innovators, Michael De Nil and Andrew Terry, joined by the original Wi-Fi inventor Prof. Neil Weste and wireless industry veterans, whose teams designed Wi-Fi chipsinto billions of smartphones. Headquartered in Australia with offices in China and the U.S., Morse Micro’s strong and diverse system team, portfolio of IP and patents, enables Wi-Fi HaLow connectivity across the complete IoT ecosystem, from surveillance systems and access control to industrial automation and mobile devices, allowing connected devices to reach farther. www.morsemicro.com

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• Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
• Fluency — Experience real-time visibility into how work happens. Measure ROI on GenAI initiatives, tie execution directly to KPIs, and automatically discover and optimize workflows. All without heavy integrations.
• Hachiko — Hachiko is a software building platform that aims to help the battery portfolio owners, also the firm is for energy trading.

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• Cortical Labs — Cortical Labs are creators of the dishbrain that fuses living brain cells onto computing devices to create machines with biological intelligence
• Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
• High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets

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• Go1 — Simplify employee training with one subscription that delivers essential learning from 250+ providers, integrated seamlessly into your HR tech stack.
• Employment Hero — Recruitment, HR, Payroll & Benefits in one place - designed for small & medium businesses to be efficient, compliant & cost-Effective. Book a demo today!
• Talespin — Talespin is building the XR platform to power knowledge transfer and skill alignment for the future of employment

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• SynaXG — Empower your network with SynaXG's hyperconverged AI-RAN platform. We deliver AI-first, open, and energy-efficient 5G infrastructure solutions tailored for mobile operators and enterprises.
• Supermom — Supermom is the digital platform designed by and for moms, providing recommendations on products and services through a community of moms. lt...
• Furhat Robotics — Furhat Robotics is a humanoid robotics and conversational AI company, building the next generation of humanoid robots with with human-level conversational and social skills. We believe that face-to-face interaction is a basic human need. Even a driver for quality of life and mental health. We believe that technologies like robots need to interact with people on human terms.

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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.
• Suma Wealth — Meet Charlie, your AI financial coach inside the SUMA app. Get personalized budgeting, savings, and investing advice in English or Spanish.
• Journey Live — Journey is shifting the way modern companies prioritize mental health. Our proactive, inclusive tools engage every employee, every day.

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• Inauro — Inauro is an Australian real-time data fusion company that specialises in leveraging data from IoT devices, digital forms, ERP, CRM and other enterprise systems to create efficiencies in operational workflows. Inauro’s know-how comes from having undertaken this transformation within a large industrial organisation and having connected thousands ofmobile plant assets into operational processes and seen the ROI realised. Leveraging a cutting-edge data fusion platform, Perspio, Inauro specialises in providing real-time contextual recommendations for operational teams to make better decisions and increase automation.
• Sauce — AI customer insights for product teams
• Unleash live — Unleash Live unifies fragmented visual data into one system, deploying computer vision at enterprise scale across critical infrastructure.

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• CUZIN — CUZIN is your global shopping family. A community marketplace enabling members to purchase any product worldwide by leveraging other members’ buying access or advantages.Members post requests for any product they want from anywhere in the world. Online or offline, specialist boutiques/clearance outlets and sales. This request is pushed to'cuzins' best placed (geographically or commercially) to purchase the item on their behalf. Cuzins earn a tip for helping out!In addition to accepting a shopping request, any cuzin can instantly monetise being in the right place at the right time posting a purchase opportunity, which is pushed to interested members worldwide. Shopping, shipping, social. Sorted. CUZIN provides the social and logistics platform to facilitate the matching, communication, payment and shipping of the items we love worldwide.
• Vinex — Global B2B Wine Marketplace
• Scala Med — ScalaMed has created the most transformative piece of real-estate in healthcare that embeds into any health App (B2B/SaaS), utilizing prescription fulfillment as the gateway of patient access & engagement.

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• Levur — Levur produces oils inspired by nature, without the environmental impact. Our vision is a future where reliance on unsustainable plant and animal oils like Palm Oil is drastically reduced, mitigating environmental impacts. We are collaborating with large consumer goods manufacturers to make this a
• BioScout — Welcome to BioScout, your partner in revolutionizing the agriculture industry with cutting-edge automated disease detection technology for crop growers and viticulture.
• Plasmaleap — Plasmaleap is a plasma technology company that manufactures and sells zero-emissions chemical reactors designed for industrial and energy applications. The company develops reactor systems that use plasma processes to enable chemical production and transformation without relying on conventional combustion methods. Its technology supports sectorssuch as clean fuels, chemical manufacturing, and materials processing by offering electrified reactor solutions that can be integrated into existing industrial workflows. Plasmaleap designs modular systems that allow operators to deploy plasma reactors for on-site production and conversion of feedstocks using electricity as the primary energy input. The company also provides engineering support and technical integration services to help customers incorporate its reactor technology into commercial operations. Through its plasma-based approach, Plasmaleap focuses on enabling chemical processes that align with decarbonization and emissions reduction objectives across multiple industries.

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• Veem — Veem is a payment service provider that helps simplify the way businesses send and receive funds.It offers a platform that enables small businesses to send and receive payments in local currency. Using blockchain as a payment rail, the company eliminates the need for intermediary banks, reducing costs for small- and medium-sized businesses. Itconverts the sender’s funds into bitcoin, selling the digital currency at an exchange for the desired currency of the recipient.Aldo Carrascoso and Marwan Forzley co-founded the company in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
• Zodia Custody — Crypto Custody, Without Compromise. Empowering global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape simply, safely, and without compromise.
• Greatland Gold — Greatland Gold plc engages in the exploration and development of natural resources. It explores for gold, nickel, and cobalt deposits.

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• Visionary Machines — Superior perception for next-generation autonomy

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• black.ai — Build smarter spaces with Black.ai
• Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
• Nomad Atomics — At Nomad Atomics, we develop innovative quantum sensors to solve outstanding problems in mining, underground resources and navigation

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• Mkind — Mkind builds intelligent robots for high-mix manufacturing, developing advanced automation solutions that can adapt to diverse production requirements, improve operational efficiency, and support manufacturers in handling complex, low-volume, and frequently changing product lines.
• Orbem — Transform biological imaging with AI-powered MRI technology. Non-invasive solutions for poultry, fruits, nuts, and health. Building a sustainable future.
• Transition Metal Solutions — Transition harnesses wild microbial communities to recover copper and other critical metals from low-grade mining resources.

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• Indi — Indi supports parents’ mental well-being and helps them advocate for their children’s health.
• Ovum — Meet Ovum, the intelligent health journal mobile app designed for womankind.
• Clean Slate Clinic — We are a for-purpose healthcare company focused on helping Australians keen to detox from alcohol, safely from home.

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• TradeGecko — Powerful Automated Inventory Management Software for Wholesale and Multichannel eCommerce with a B2B Ordering Platform, and Mobile plus Shopify, WooCommerce and Amazon Integrations.
• Catapult — Discover Catapult. The cutting-edge sports technology, data analytics, and insights that will unleash your team's and athletes' potential.
• Integrated Portfolio Solutions — Integrated Portfolio Solutions is an independently owned and operated administration platform, built by advisors for advisors.Through incorporating the technology and market reach of our key business partners, IPS provides an end-to-end solution that removes the complexities of dealing with numerous organisations to make the integration betweeninvestment execution and portfolio administration a seamless experience.What you will notice with IPS compared to institutionally owned platforms is a personalised service, a desire to embrace change and take advantage of new technology and a team focused on the efficient administration of advisor portfolios.We understand different advice businesses have different needs and we retain the flexibility to tailor our platform to suit the specific needs of different organisations. The result is an extremely cost effective platform that is unique to the Australian market at this time.IPS was designed with two key drivers in mind. To develop a leading edge platform to help financial advisors run their business more efficiently by removing all client portfolio administration from their workload. Secondly, being mindful of the margin pressures faced by financial advisors, and therefore keeping fees to a minimum and market leading level.IPS offers a truly integrated portfolio administration solution through the incorporation of administration, reporting, SMSF, research, CRM functionality, and instruction management to give advisors, staff and clients a cohesive, branded, genuine fee-for-service solution.

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• SecurePII — SecurePII provides a cloud-based platform that enables organisations to reduce exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) across voice, chat, and AI training channels. The service includes call-by-call redaction of credit-card and other sensitive data via its SecureCall component, enabling businesses to offload PCI-DSS complianceobligations while still retaining customer-facing interactions. SecurePII also empowers companies to process conversation data more safely, by filtering or anonymising PII in real time, to enable AI, analytics, and automation initiatives without compromising customer privacy. The platform integrates with existing payment gateway and communications infrastructure to support both contact centres and unified communications environments.
• Orkestra — Orkestra is a renewable energy software platform that provides tools to assist energy companies in the planning, selling, and optimization of new energy deployments.
• Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.

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• OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
• IPEX — Protect your construction projects with IPEX's secure payment solutions, offering builder insolvency protection and efficient project bank account management in Australia.
• Seedflex Technologies — Pay-As-You-Sell Advance for Merchants; A frictionless way for merchants to stay in control of their business, capital, and growth

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• Percent — Unlock private credit investments with Percent. Access alternative investments on the platform powering the future of private markets.
• Micro Connect — Micro Connect provides market infrastructure, fintech, and platform development.
• MasterExchange — Trading platform for music rights leveraging emerging technology to create friction free and compliant investment opportunities to everyone.

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• Instaclustr — Instaclustr Managed and supported platform for open source technologies. Apache Cassandra, Apache Kafka, OpenSearch, PostgreSQL and Redis.
• Nexus eWater — Nexus eWater unlocks the greywater to provide unprecedented benefits to developers, public utilities, and homeowners. The platform has developed groundbreaking technology and is commercializing the world's first integrated water and heat reCycler. Using patent-pending processes, reCycler offers, for the first time, an affordable, reliablesolution to onsite domestic water recycling and wastewater heat recovery.It was founded in 2009 and is headquartered in San Diego, California.
• Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms

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• Fondo — Fondo is an all-in-one accounting platform for startups. We'll handle your bookkeeping, tax, and tax credits so you can focus on building your startup.
• Odys Aviation — We’re Craft Aero, a sustainable aviation startup. We are building vertical take-off and landing aircraft for the world’s busiest routes.
• Armstrong Robotics — Armstrong is building general-purpose robots for kitchens, starting with dishwashing. Our robots already wash over a million dishes a year, and can install in a new restaurant in hours.

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• Zero Co — We deliver incredible personal-care and home-cleaning products direct to your door, minus all the single-use plastic. Order your box of planet-friendly, plastic-busting products and win the war on waste at your place. For good!
• SECOND FIT — Join Second Fit, the preloved fashion app for Australian women. Buy, Sell, and Ask about clothing in a safe, all-female community. Discover our vision, mission, values, and the user-friendly app design that makes fashion sustainable and accessible.

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• Arkeus — Arkeus is a leader in the fusion of optics and autonomy. Our wide area autonomous optical systems are deployed to conduct Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in a range of operating environments.
• Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
• Octopusbot — Empowering agribusinesses with 97% accurate AI forecasts, 7 months ahead of the market to mitigate weather risk and price volatility.

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• Rezdy — Rezdy is the best online booking software for tour & activity operators. Discover more about the largest distribution network for tours & activities.
• Shippit — Shippit is the multi-carrier shipping software helping you become the store every customer loves. Powering delivery for thousands of Australian sellers, stop dreading fulfilment and knock it out in minutes. Try it free today.
• SiteMinder — SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic.

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• Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
• LimitlessCNC — Limitless CNC is an AI-powered technology intended to improve CNC machining operations. It offers an AI CAM agent that works with NX-CAM to give industry-specific strategies and operations.
• Excelero Storage — Founded in 2014 by a team of storage veterans and inspired by the Tech Giants’ shared-nothing architectures for web-scale applications, the company has created a Software-Defined Block Storage solution that meets performance and scalability requirements of the largest web-scale and enterprise applications.With Excelero’s NVMesh, customers canbuild distributed, high-performance Server SAN for mixed application workloads. Customers benefit from the performance of local flash, with the convenience of centralized storage while avoiding proprietary hardware lock-in and reducing the overall storage TCO. The solution has been deployed for hyper-scale Industrial IoT services, machine learning applications and massive-scale simulation visualization.

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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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• Vexev — Vexev is on a mission to introduce innovative imaging diagnostic tools.
• Flyweel — Ad spend chaos... ending 2025. Apply for early access.
• Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.

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• Lyka Pet Food — Lyka Pet Food: for puppers living their best life. We deliver fresh, homemade dog food straight from our Australian kitchen to your door.
• Flamingo Estate — Pleasure from the garden. We fight for elegance and imagination, with green thumbs and middle fingers.
• Murphy's Naturals — Effective mosquito repellent products made with natural ingredients. Powerful plant-based blends proven to work as well as DEET. None of the chemicals.

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• Boost Lab — Boost Lab provides solutions for skincare products that are cost-effective, effective, and safe.
• Koala — We're simplifying the mattress and furniture game. With free & fast delivery and a 120 night risk-free trial Australia-wide, try it out online today.
• York Street Brands — York Street Brands, formed by the merger of Boost Lab and tbh Skincare specializes in serums that target a range of skin concerns.

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• Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
• SPEC Toolbox — Structural timber design software for Australian engineers. Design CLT, GLT, and connections to AS1720 standards. Start your free trial and automate today.
• Teacher’s Buddy — Create lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and more in minutes. AI-powered tools designed for educators.

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• Somatix — A fully comprehensive monitoring solution with unique smartband technology. Solutions for SNFs, senior living, healthcare systems, and smoking cessation.
• Girihlet — Girihlet is a provider of rapid and accurate deep sequencing services with a unique focus on developing novel technologies. Girihlet currently specializes in inexpensively sequencing and analyzing mtDNA and T cell receptors using novel, bias-free methods in order to harness their power as biomarkers for diagnostics in a variety of disorders.
• Omni — Omni provides Healthy Vegan Dog Food in the UK, made by vets to be a nutritionally complete meal for your dog. Feed your dog all the goodness of plants backed by science.

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• DeepDerm — DeepDerm is developing AI-enabled cameras that detect skin cancer without the need for painful biopsies.
• AlleSense — AlleSense develops a label-free optical imaging technology designed to enhance disease diagnosis by manipulating light-tissue interactions at the nanoscale. It's Mission is to Reimagining the standard microscope slide to make digital pathology faster, more accurate, and accessible without complex chemical staining.
• Deftbiotech — Deftbiotech is a biotech startup developing peptide-based antifungal treatments for nail and skin infections.

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• Arkeus — Arkeus is a leader in the fusion of optics and autonomy. Our wide area autonomous optical systems are deployed to conduct Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in a range of operating environments.
• Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
• Visionary Machines — Superior perception for next-generation autonomy

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• BuildPass — Unlock the full potential of your site with easy-to-use AI software to streamline operations, reduce admin tasks, and ensure every project is on track and compliant.
• Arca Climate Technologies, Inc. — Carbin Minerals unlock the enormous carbon dioxide removal potential of mine waste.
• Teacher’s Buddy —