Top 20 Oil and Gas Startup Investors in Australia (September 2026)

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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.
• Vaulta — Vaulta is a battery casing technology company based in Brisbane, Australia. Using advanced composite materials and smart, streamlined design, Vaulta has developed a lighter and smaller battery case with fewer parts, creating scalable efficiencies and opportunities for manufacturers. Vaulta founder and director Dominic Spooner has over 12 yearsexperience as a design engineer, and has worked in a range of industries, including renewables and batteries, defence and aerospace, consumer products, commercial products and startups. While working in battery design, Dominic saw firsthand that opportunities for growth were being overlooked in favour of continuing with the status quo – and that’s when the idea for Vaulta was born.Vaulta’s world-first no-weld design means modules can be easily assembled and disassembled, cells reused and recycled, and new cells added as battery technology continues to evolve.From stationary storage and electric vehicles to defence, aerospace and beyond, Vaulta’s battery case technology works wherever batteries do.
• Andromeda Robotics — At Andromeda, our personalised robot companions are helping Australian aged care teams bring joy and connection to residents to improve wellbeing.

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• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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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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• Minnovare — Minnovare is a provider of drilling technology that improves the speed, cost and accuracy of underground drilling.
• APE Mobile — APE Mobile develops a paperless site application for contractors in Australia. Its site application comprises features, such as operational forms, safety forms, project management, actions and defects, drawings and documents, and redline markup. David Hayward and Matthew Edwards founded APE Mobile in January 2, 2009. Its headquarters is inLeederville in Australia.
• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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• Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
• Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
• GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.

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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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• 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.

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• 7Analytics — 7Analytics delivers disruptive proptech solutions for sustainable cities. Our innovative FlomKuben software will utilize automatization and AI to allow rapid and safe analysis for stormwater management.
• Sonder — Sonder's employee care platform is the future of workforce health, medical, safety and wellbeing. One platform. All the support. Learn more.
• Adaptive insurance — Adaptive insurance, which begins with parametric insurance, seeks to transform how companies develop financial resilience in the face of weather-related and climate-related events. By combining our cutting-edge coverages, real-time climate data, and AI-driven technology, we think we can support them and show business consumers the benefits ofparametric insurance.

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• Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
• TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
• Visaible.ai — Visaible is a hotel-technology startup that operates an artificial intelligence visibility platform purpose-built for the hospitality industry.

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• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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• DryFlow Magnetics — DryFlow Magnetics is an industrial technology company that specialises in waterless mineral processing.
• Rebound Technologies — An agile cold chain solution that boosts revenues, preserves product quality and ensures food safety, all while offering proven energy cost reductions.
• Future Maintenance Technologies — Future Maintenance Technologies (FMT) develops autonomous robotics and AI-powered inspection solutions for rail and aviation. Trusted by global leaders including Hitachi and Rio Tinto.

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• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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• Sophiie — Sophiie is an AI receptionist and office management platform designed for trades and service businesses. It handles phone calls, customer inquiries, job bookings, scheduling, quotes, invoices, payment reminders, follow-ups, and customer records. The platform integrates with tools such as ServiceM8, Xero, QuickBooks, and Google Calendar and supportsbusinesses including electricians, plumbers, HVAC contractors, builders, painters, landscapers, and cleaners.
• Fluency — See how work actually happens across your enterprise. Fluency maps every process in real time and shows where AI and automation will land.
• 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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• TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
• Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work
• StorReduce — The Pure Storage Platform provides always-on data protection solutions for a scalable, resilient architecture for backup and recovery to ensure rapid disaster and ransomware recovery.

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• QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.

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• Bulkist — Bulkist was created to help people join forces and book together everyday services at cheaper rates. Giovanni and Serg started the company when they realised that there was no way for people with similar needs in the same area to connect to each other and book services together. They thought that if large groups of people could join forces andrequest specific services together, their bargaining power would be stronger and they would be able to get better rates from service providers.Based in Sydney, Bulkist provides its users with long-standing discounts on the services they use daily, weekly and monthly without compromising on quality.
• TokenOne — TokenOne is a Cyber Security software company that makes it easy to replace passwords, tokens and other forms of authentication with a more secure solution.
• Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work

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• Advent Energy — Advent has assembled an attractive portfolio of assets both on and offshore Australia that have had an estimated $88 million spent on historic exploration.