Top 35 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Australia (October 2026)

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• Akka — Akka is a platform to build and run apps that are elastic, agile, and resilient. Industry titans and disruptors rely on Akka when application responsiveness must be guaranteed. Engineering teams use a simple SDK and powerful libraries to build transactional, durable, and real-time services that distribute logic and data together. Operations arefully automated in serverless and BYOC environments, and a self-hosted option is available.
• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.

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• Cyphort — Cyphort has developed Next Generation Distributed Software Platform to provide the broadest enterprise visibility and accurate detection of advanced threats & evasion techniques, and zero-day attacks by utilizing behavioral analytics, machine learning, and Long-Data Security-Analytics.Cyphort's innovative approach detects the mostadvanced threats through a highly accurate platform combined with validation and prioritization of threats in context of the organizations eco-system. Through this process Cyphort produces highly customized Actionable Intelligence to users.The Cyphort Distributed Platform has been build with flexibility allowing for seamless integration and detection not only at the edge and network layers but also in virtual infrastructures, cloud environments, and mobile platforms.
• Digital Reef — Digital Reef, Inc. provides scalable and open platform for eDiscovery services and digital information governance applications. It helps meet the needs of corporate and law firm clients to significantly lower costs, mitigate risks, and reduce time associated with the handling and processing of high volumes of electronically stored information (ESI)in the wake of eDiscovery.
• Delos Data — Delos Data develops AI-focused interconnect hardware and network analytics software for large-scale artificial intelligence workloads.

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• Benford — Benford is a modern, licensed audit firm that provides technology-driven statutory audit services using its custom software, AuditOS.
• Primo — A birdseye view of your IT.
• sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.

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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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• EvenBetter — Even Is Better. We help companies address their gender pay gap.
• Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.
• Parallel — Parallel focus on video environments and platforms uses digital twins, proprietary AI, and massive data sets to bring the customer's perspective into the bidstream. Digital twins, artificial customer clones.

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• Modhaus — Modhaus is a K-pop startup which aims to create the world's first open architecture entertainment ecosystem.
• Liner — LINER is Asia’s first AI Agent that helps users accomplish more with less time and effort “AI Workspace”, known as the autonomous agent, performs various and complex tasks requested by users using LLM-based AI, differentiated by LINER’s highlighter database. More than 94% of LINER's users are from outside Korea & more than 100 countries.We are reducing our customer’s research time from hundreds of minutes to tens of seconds every day with our product.
• Subtle Medical — Subtle Medical is a healthcare technology company that provides AI-powered medical imaging. Its products, SubtlePET and SubtleMR, are FDA Cleared and CE Marked AI product that enhances images in PET and MR exams aimed for faster & safer workflow.The company's SubtleGAD technology is also awarded by RSNA and a $1.6M NIH SBIR Grant tofacilitate the adoption using AI to make imaging exams safer. They provide a vendor-agnostic AI infrastructure powering its products and providing service and analytics to clinical imaging providers.Subtle Medical's goal is to improve the quality, value, and accessibility of medical imaging by significantly reducing cost, imaging time, and radiation dose.

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• Corologic — Korologic develops cardiovascular imaging AI solutions for medical procedures.
• A33 Studio — A-33 Studio team is led by the chief executive officer ‘Kim Dong Sun’ who was in charge of the development, launch and operation of ‘Counter Strike Online’ which is one of the top 3 online FPS games in Korea. The team consists of developers who have worked together for ‘CS Online’ and ‘Combat Arms’ at Nexon, one of the top online game makers in theworld.
• Tect Group — We deliver real beauty based on distinctive brands and innovative marketing solutions, fostering confidence and positivity around the world.

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• 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.
• TerraBlaster — TerraBlaster is a cutting-edge agricultural technology firm focused on transforming sustainable agriculture through enhanced automation and precise technologies.
• 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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• Mad Paws — Mad Paws is a Sydney-based start up that was created to fill in the ever growing need in the pet boarding market for affordable, and local pet accommodation while still maintaining the care, love, and attention pets received at high-end, expensive, pet boarding services.
• InStitchu — Custom, tailored suits, tuxedos, shirts & chinos made to your exact measurements. Book a free fitting at an InStitchu showroom or design your own online.
• CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Heidi Health — Heidi Health is a healthtech company that develops an AI medical scribe platform that automates clinical documentation and related tasks.
• 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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• 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.
• Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
• Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.

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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.
• Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.
• Swan AI — Turn any GTM idea into an agentic workflow in seconds. Swan builds AI agents for outbound, intent signals, meeting prep & pipeline health. No code required

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• Komo — Engage your audience through fun and immersive engagement software with Komo Digital. Book a demo and join the world's best audience engagement platform.
• Snackr — Sick of waiting in queues for your food? Order through Snackr and sit back and enjoy the event while your food comes to your seat.
• Komo Technologies — Komo is a leading SaaS platform that allows marketers across all industries to effortlessly build fully customizable, gamified marketing activations that demand attention and fuel loyalty wherever their customers are. With Komo’s no-code platform and extensive library of games, content, and promotions, you can bring activations to life in minutes,not months.Unlike traditional cookie-cutter approaches to marketing activations, Komo gives marketers the power to effortlessly deliver captivating and personalized engagement experiences at scale. By leveraging the platform's powerful zero- and first-party data capture and personalization capabilities, users can gain rich insights into their customers, transforming these insights into tailored experiences that drive loyalty, boost engagement, and foster deeper, more meaningful customer connections.On average, customers using Komo experience:- 538% increase in customer engagement- 5x increase in engagement time- 99% zero-party data capture rateOutside of these core functions, Komo offers a vast set of tools to equip marketers at every stage of their activation journey including:- Prizing and Offers- Customizable Content- Live Data Feeds- Automated Campaigns- Analytics and Reporting- Omnichannel Distribution- Loyalty Programs- Partner Enablement- CRM and Martech IntegrationsKomo's platform is industry-agnostic and is currently being used by world-leading, enterprise brands across:- Retail and Shopping- Consumer Goods- Broadcast and Media- Tradeshows and Conferences- Concerts and Festivals- Sports Teams and Leagues- Sports Sponsorship- Fan Conventions and Experiences- Agencies- Hospitality/QSR- FMCG- Publishers- Brands and Sponsorships

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• Myagi — Myagi is a maker of an online workforce training platform that aims to build a retail training network that boosts sales.
• Pantreeco — pantree brings 24/7 self-service artisan food markets to residential buildings
• Oomph — Easily transform your content and advertising into multi-channel, digital creative media.

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• OutSee — We are well-versed in a variety of genomics, AI and cohort analysis techniques. We are also bioinformatics generalists and work with just about any ...
• MCatalysis — Manufacturing drop-in liquid commodities from distributed hydrocarbon feedstocks below commodity cost with small modular refining.
• Strolll — Strolll Neurotechnology

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• 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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• Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.

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• Good On You — Thousands of brand ratings, articles and expertise on ethical and sustainable fashion. Know the impact of brands on people and planet, and discover better fashion.
• Vizcab — Vizcab is the leading platform for Life Cycle Assessment (LCA) in construction, helping you decarbonize projects and make low-carbon decisions early. Achieve net-zero buildings, streamline your workflows, and meet sustainability standards with AI-powered tools and seamless integration.

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• Lucra Sports — Lucra Sports operates as a social-first sports gaming platform that sits uniquely at the intersection of sports gaming and fantasy sports.
• Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
• Basketball Forever — Get the latest basketball news straight to the palm of your hand. Covering the NBA, NBL, NCAA, Streetball and more every day. For the love of the game.

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• Danvas — Developer of an Internet of Things-powered digital art platform intended to help digital artists gain exposure to a larger audience through collaborations with some of the world's top galleries, auction houses, and digital artists. The company offers a digital art management system, a patent-pending micro-LED display with iconic design andfeatures, a custom algorithm that optimizes any type of art or video, including generative, for high-quality rendering, and a mobile app, enabling collectors and artists to seamlessly play their collections on a device.
• Lockchain.ai — AI-powered risk management for digital assets.
• nameless — Nameless is a non-fungible token (NFT) platform as a service software company that empowers businesses, individuals, and digital creators to create, mint, and capitalize on their own custom NFT projects through easy-to-use scalable API solutions.

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• Emanda — Thinking about selling your business in Australia? Emanda guides you through every step: business valuation, health check, corporate compliance, and sale process. Start with a business valuation.
• 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.
• 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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• Composeright — Composeright is developing a fully-featured, cloud-based, writing app for writers of structured documents, especially academics and students in Higher Education under the name ComWriter.ComWriter is a writing platform designed specifically for the cloud; enabling students and researchers to write to academic standards in a structured way.ComWriter is a modern tool that treats writing as a project: search our library, organize your writing, smart reminders, citation management built in, and formatting of output (references and body) made simple to academic standards using pre-defined styles. Collaborate with others, invite people to review your work, all available wherever you go.

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• HUNTY — HUNTY is a platform that help people find jobs by connecting them with world class mentors who prepare them for the job search process. And people only pay when they get hired.
• Mainstay — System of intelligence for residential real estate.
• Odyssey — Discover how Odyssey Energy Solutions unblocks bottlenecks in DRE project development. Access diverse financing, procure equipment efficiently, and remotely monitor system performance. Join over 2000 renewable energy companies that use Odyssey to scale. Get in touch today.

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• Pivot3 — Pivot3 was founded in pursuit of a vision – to radically simplify the data center by unifying storage, compute and network resources into a powerful, easy to deploy a solution that would reduce cost, risk, and complexity. Since then, Pivot3’s smart technologies have helped thousands of enterprises around the world achieve their IT operational andoverall business goals. Pivot3 has accomplished this with an ecosystem of, technology, channel, and system integration partners all focused on enabling a smarter IT infrastructure to lay the foundation for the software-defined data center of the future.Today, Pivot3 has broadened its offerings and now provides Dynamic Hyperconverged and PCIe Flash Arrays that provide maximum resource utilization, deliver high availability even during degraded conditions, and guarantee mission-critical applications perform as needed. Key customer business outcomes with Pivot3 solutions include the lower total cost of ownership of their IT infrastructure, ensuring uninterrupted revenue generation, improving customer satisfaction and retention, and maximizing employee productivity. With a best-in-class portfolio of products optimized for server virtualization, virtual desktop, data center consolidation, video surveillance, business continuity, and disaster recovery, remote and branch office, and more, Pivot3 is transforming IT one deployment at a time.Pivot3 has deployed over 16,000 hyperconverged infrastructures and flash storage arrays in 53 countries from mid-sized companies to some of the world’s biggest public companies, including leaders in energy, aerospace and defense, logistics, telecommunications, retail, consumer electronics, and more.
• Indi Molecular — Indi Molecular is an emerging life sciences company that is developing a synthetic class of diagnostic and therapeutic agents with antibody-like properties: protein-catalyzed capture agents. PCCs were created in collaboration with the California Institute of Technology using “click chemistry,” a synthetic process that allows scientists topermanently join (“click”) together molecular components with remarkable precision and stability. PCCs offer the promise of improved selectivity, superior binding affinity, fully synthetic composition and a vastly low molecular weight compared to monoclonal antibodies, the current standard for identifying biomarkers in most diagnostics platforms – and in many therapeutic uses.The company launched as a spinout from its parent company Integrated Diagnostics (Indi) in 2013 with a $1.5 million seed round led by InterWest Partners together with several angel investors.
• Elitra Pharmaceuticals — Pharmaceutical Company

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• The Energy Network — TEN is a tool manufacturing company producing hand tools, earthing equipment, and line materials for the electricity industry.
• Aged Care Decisions — Aged Care Decisions is a residential care center that provides aged care vacancies, home care, respite, and elder care support services.
• Digital Lifecycle Group — Digital Lifecycle Group is an Australian strategic consulting firm that focuses on digital lifecycle management across all industry sectors. It delivers buy-side expertise, maximizing returns across technology and shared services to transform and grow businesses, using proven tools and services. It has been created in direct response to enterpriseneeds for business-driven digital outcomes that have complex legacy technology assets. It was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in Sydney, Australia with offices in the UK and the US.

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• Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
• 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.
• Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.

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• Aya Data — Aya Data provides high-quality data annotation, AI training data, 3D annotations, machine learning solutions and also specialises in geospatial, NLP and computer vision projects.
• Kubik — Kubik makes low-carbon buildings from plastic waste. Bringing environmental dignity to how countries grow.
• Hohm Energy — We make the process of going solar simple. Generate your free, custom solar proposal and get matched with an accredited solar provider in under 5 mins.

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• Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.

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• Talon.One — The all-in-one promotion software designed for enterprises. Manage all your marketing promotions in one scalable system without stressing developer resources.
• OpenAgent.com.au — In Australia we are completely obsessed with property. Yet, even in Australia, real estate is an industry that still often fails to delight the consumer. A couple of years ago we set out to transform the way property is transacted.OpenAgent.com.au is a platform where sellers can compare and hire real estate agents to:- Find an agent who sellsat the price they promise- Engage an agent on terms that make sense- Monitor the transaction progress end-to-end
• Flamingo AI — Flamingo AI is an enterprise SaaS company in the field of Conversational Commerce providing Cognitive Virtual Assistants and Knowledge Engines that analyse unstructured data that automate online customer sales and service experiences.

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• Meld — Access stablecoins and digital assets anywhere
• Pave Bank — The world's first multi-asset and programmable bank
• Bitblox Games — Offer innovative and engaging blockchain-based games on your platform and attract a new wave of players with Bitblox.

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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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• Biossil — Biossil is an applied AI drug discovery platform to create specialized treatments for distinct patients.
• EnduroSat — Enabling profitable LEO satellite constellations with standardized satellites and fixed-cost space service. 100+ satellites deployed to orbit
• Quantcast — We are taking an entirely new approach to advertising on the open internet.

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• Magentic — AI digital workers for the physical world
• Sooth Labs —
• Solcoa Industries — Solcoa Industries develops carbon-zero rare earth metals for critical supply chain needs and promote sustainable industrial practices

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• Trioar — Trioar is a biotechnological research company that manufacture pharmaceutical products and drugs.
• Nventric — Nventric is a medical device company that develops core products for neurovascular, coronary heart, and peripheral vascular applications.
• KB-Element — KB-Element is a graphene development and production company that also turns graphene into intermediate items and novel materials.

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• Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
• X-energy — X-energy is an advanced nuclear reactor & fuel company. We develop Generation IV high-temperature gas cooled nuclear reactors (SMR) & TRISO fuel to power them.
• CoreWeave — CoreWeave offers GPU-based compute resources, storage, and networking capabilities optimized for training and deploying machine learning models. Its platform includes Kubernetes-based environments, managed software services, and tools for monitoring system performance and cluster health. It enables organizations to run large-scale AI workloadsthrough dedicated infrastructure and configurable deployment options. The company supports developers and enterprises by providing scalable resources aligned with the requirements of data-intensive and compute-intensive applications.