Top 40 Hospitality Startup Investors in Australia in May 2026

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• Predelo — Streamline workflows and optimize operations with Predelo's AI-driven automation. Discover the benefits of our solutions and stay ahead!
• Factor House — We make Kpow for Apache Kafka, Flex for Apache Flink, and the Factor Platform for Streaming Data.
• Mass Dynamics — Mass Dynamics exists to enable more life scientists to accelerate their studies using Mass Spectrometry (MS). It's our contribution towards enriching lives and freeing humanity and society from the burden of disease. Mass Dynamics includes Enrichment Analysis based on GSEA algorithms and utilises Gene Ontology (GO) and Reactome knowledge bases.

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• Drawboard — Remarkable markup tools for WIndows 10, iOS and your web browser. Download for free today.
• Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
• Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.

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• Tendl — Write tenders faster with Tendl's AI tool. Keep your data private and secure. Easy installation, no sharing. Boost productivity and streamline your contract opportunities.
• 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.
• Refold AI — Cobalt is an embedded iPaaS for SaaS apps. Ship 10x faster with native API connectors. No infrastructure worries, just seamless embedded integrations for devs.

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• Alloy — Alloy enables robotics teams to organise, explore, and evaluate various sorts of multimodal robot data in one platform using natural language, without the need for labels.
• Sauce — AI customer insights for product teams
• Pocket Universe — Pocket Universe is a browser extension that keeps your assets safe when you sign web3 transactions

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• Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
• Vaulta — Discover Vaulta's high-performance batteries for sustainable energy solutions. Revolutionising power with easy installation, maintenance, and recycling. Join the Australian-made energy revolution today!
• Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.

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• Bygen — Bygen delivers high-quality activated carbon products while also facilitating large-scale, long-term carbon dioxide sequestration.
• 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.
• Conserving Beauty — Acne Care Reimagined. Skincare formulated for for acne-prone and sensitive skin. Clinically tested and shown to cause no dermal irritation or sensitization. Australian and STEM Female Founded.

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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.
• Betterx — Betterx is a technology company focused on infrastructure to support Web3.0 and Digital Assets.
• Programa — Stop juggling spreadsheets, email chains, and multiple tools. Programa is project management software built specifically for interior design studios. Track FF&E specs, client approvals, and vendor orders in one system. Trusted by 5000+ designers. Try free for 7 days - no credit card required.

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• Arinex — Arinex is deeply committed to sustainability, embedding responsible practices into every aspect of our work. We believe in growing with purpose, alongside our
• Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
• 1Password — Protect passwords and secrets, manage app access, and secure AI tools with 1Password. Easy to adopt from growing teams to enterprise.

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• Unyoked — Book off-grid wilderness cabins in Australia, the United Kingdom and New Zealand.

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• Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.

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• Neupulse — We are developing a wearable wrist device that delivers median nerve stimulation at the press of a button with the aim to give people control of their tics.
• Utility Stream — As business energy brokers, USL was founded with one key mission, simplify business energy for all of our clients & help create a more sustainable world
• Linear Diagnostics — Sexually transmitted infection management. Our innovative technology using EXPAR and Linear Dichroism provides the results in under 15 minutes

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• HIVERY — HIVERY is an innovative AI Category Management Optimization company delivering AI solutions to CPGs and Retailers.
• Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.

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• Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
• SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
• Metatable.ai — Metatable.ai simplifies software development with AI. It removes unnecessary complexity from coding to create high-quality software faster and more efficiently than traditional methods. Metatable.ai lets you direct AI to write functions for your project. After stating your request LLM writes code for your function and checks it with the compilerfor errors. You can adjust code by asking AI or editing it by yourself. Once error-free, the funciton is built, deployed, and ready for production performance, all without worrying about DevOps. Metatable.ai allows you to develop your SQL database by stating the required tables and columns in plain English. AI will then create SQL requests and deploy them to the platform. You can work with your database using the Text-to-SQL feature, creating requests, new tables, or even plotting charts with simple commands. Your project is presented on a Figma-like canvas, where you can manage your functions, database tables, and make data entries to the database. Metatable.ai streamlines development processes, reducing the time and resources required to bring ideas to life.

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• Blend AI — Making online advertising easy for everyone. Blend connects to your store helping you measure the impact your ads are having on revenue.
• Mutiny — Mutiny is an analytics platform for marketing investments with a sizable customer base.
• 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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• TALY — TALY is a platform that is designed to find, manage and retain employees from both perfromance and personality for business development.
• Viewa — Viewa is an augmented reality(AR) content publishing platform that brings print media such as magazines to life in 3D.
• Termina — Termina operates as an energy tech startup.

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• Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.

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• MoonPay — MoonPay offers a fast and simple way to buy and sell cryptocurrencies. Buy crypto with credit card, bank transfers or Apple Pay today.
• Progcap — Progcap is revolutionising the way financial access is delivered to underserved segments of the Indian retail economy, through specialized financing and technology products that empower small and medium businesses (SMBs) to progress without obstacles.
• G.O.A.T Brand Labs — Purpose G.O.A.T is mono-maniacally focussed on the audacious goal of Making Indian D2C brands world...

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• Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
• BulldogIT Corporation — BulldogIT Corporation provides health information services. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Nashville, Tennessee.

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• Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
• Integriculture — Integriculture makes cellular agriculture products to improve sustainability, food security, and reduce public health problems. The company offers a developed patented general-purpose large-scale cell culture system that can culture wide range of cells without external addition of expensive growth factors and provide consumers with affordable cleanmeat.Founded in 2015, Integriculture is headquartered in Tokyo, Japan.
• JumpStart Fertility — Jumpstart Fertility is investigating novel techniques to aid patients in starting or continuing to increase their families, including approaches that address the effects of biological aging on assisted reproduction. We want to increase IVF success rates so that patients need fewer cycles to get a healthy pregnancy. Our research focuses onenhancing egg quality and embryo development in IVF cycles in later age groups, where IVF success rates tend to drop, necessitating repeated rounds under existing standards of care.

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• Drive Yello — Looking for fast & express courier & logistics delivery services? Drive Yello is your last mile delivery partner serving Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.

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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.
• Amitree — Meet Folio. Your magical email assistant. Stay organized, stay on track right in your inbox.
• Zodia Custody — Crypto Custody, Without Compromise. Empowering global institutions to navigate the digital asset landscape simply, safely, and without compromise.

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• Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
• Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
• FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.

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• Triggr — Own Triggr.ai today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
• Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
• GGWP Academy — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.

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• Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
• CREATESAFE — CREATESAFE, automating the management, distribution, and marketing of music.

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• MITO AI — Create professional AI videos on an infinite collaborative canvas. Scene breakdown, visual design, real-time collaboration, and the best AI models. Start free.
• Donna — Meet Donna, the AI assistant built for field sales teams. Save time, cut admin, and close more deals with less effort.
• Complyance — Complyance is a software company that offers risk management, compliance automation, and control monitoring solutions.

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• Myagi — Myagi is a B2B network + suite of apps that connects people and companies to the knowledge sources in their supply chain they need to deliver exceptional customer experiences and drive performance at every node
• Omny Studio — Omny Studio offers powerful podcasting tools for hosting, monetization, and audience analytics. Start your podcast journey smartly.
• Pantreeco — pantree brings 24/7 self-service artisan food markets to residential buildings

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• Drive Yello — Looking for fast & express courier & logistics delivery services? Drive Yello is your last mile delivery partner serving Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.

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• DR2 — DR2 provide technology to their healthcare partners including 13SICK, and DoctorDoctor.
• Apera Hotels — Apera Hotels is a platform designed to provide accommodations in hotels that cater to the mid-range market.
• Avena Communities — Avena Communities provides a platform for communities, offering diverse property options for both permanent and holiday living.

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• Segwise — Automatically tag and analyze creatives across 15+ networks, catch early signs of creative fatigue, and auto generate winning creatives that boost ROAS. Free 14-day free trial with no code setup!
• Induced AI — Induced is an AI-native browser RPA platform that lets users combine browsing and web tools, along with smart reasoning and memory, to automate enterprise workflows of all kinds.
• The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

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• Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
• Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
• Visionary Machines — Superior perception for next-generation autonomy

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• Neara — Beyond visualization. A geometrically precise, 3D model that reveals how assets behave and react in the real world
• Adora — Every user-journey, every screen, every interaction. Your entire product mapped for you in real-time, overlaid with analytics and replays.
• Alloy — Alloy enables robotics teams to organise, explore, and evaluate various sorts of multimodal robot data in one platform using natural language, without the need for labels.

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• Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
• Kabata — Full workout comprehension. Data-driven coaching. Gamified progression. Welcome to the next generation in connected fitness.
• Vibranium Labs — Vibranium Labs is an AI on-call engineer platform designed to resolve incidents with less stress.

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• Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
• JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
• Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.

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• Logic PD — Beacon EmbeddedWorks is a System-On-Module Manufacturer that delivers unwavering performance. Our custom System-On-Modules (SoMs) are compact, secure, and built to last.
• Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
• Surreal — Increase collaboration and ROI by booking, promoting and paying for all your live entertainment in one place. Trusted by over 900 venues across AUS, UK & NZ.

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• Relcu — Relcu combines agentic AI with an all-in-one mortgage and deposit platform. From lead intelligence to funding, it drives smarter decisions and faster closings.
• Reachify — Reachify empowers restaurants to connect with their customers easily with Call Deflection to capture otherwise lost revenue.
• Rulebase — Rulebase create AI agents to safeguard fintechs and banks from fraud, automating investigations and preventing voice fraud.

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• Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.
• StrongDM — Manage access to any server, database, or Kubernetes instance in minutes. Fully auditable, replayable, secure, and drag-and-drop easy.
• Employment Hero — Recruitment, HR, Payroll & Benefits in one place - designed for small & medium businesses to be efficient, compliant & cost-Effective. Book a demo today!

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• 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.
• Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
• 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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• Hometime — At Hometime, we provide Airbnb property management solutions for homeowners and rental management business owners that help them scale and earn more.

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• Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
• 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.
• Cuttable — The AI ad creative production system for high-growth DTC brands. Scale Meta ad volume and variation without scaling headcount. Built for performance teams.

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• Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
• WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.
• Aussie Angels — A platform for investors to launch & lead syndicated investments into startups. Apply to join syndicates and invest on a deal-by-deal basis.