Top 30 Publishing VC Funds & Investors in Australia (September 2026)

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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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.
• 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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• 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.
• Metriport — Metriport helps digital health companies access and manage patient health and medical data, through an open-source and universal API.
• 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.

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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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• 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.
• Sume — Sume provides agent-native video generation APIs and tools for creating avatar-based and UGC-style videos. The company offers Sume Avatar 1.0, a multi-model orchestration system that behaves like a single avatar endpoint for generating talking-head and product-focused clips. Developers use the Sume Developer API and CLI to create reusable avatars,submit structured video generation jobs, track status, and retrieve production-ready media. The platform supports workflows where agents or applications coordinate creative inputs such as avatars, scripts, and product images. Sume for Brands provides an AI creative application that turns product URLs, product assets, and creative direction into ad-ready UGC-style videos. Its services are used for advertising, branded content, and other video-based communication scenarios.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Vow — Vow is crafting a new category of food
• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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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• 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.
• Lastro — Lastro is building Lais, an autonomous AI worker for real estate agencies, starting in Brazil. Our AI agent initially automated lead engagement and qualification via WhatsApp, helping brokerages boost revenue and improve marketing ROI. In each brokerage, Lais acts as a personalized AI “team member” that engages with leads instantly, searches forproperties and answers common inquiries. Brokerages that have Lais in their teams are growing quickly and reporting up to 60% increases in lead conversion rates.
• Wash Wise — Meet Reset Spray: the dry shampoo for clothes. Refresh lightly worn garments in seconds by neutralizing odors, lifting away sweat and body oils, and releasing wrinkles between washes.

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• Entos Pharmaceuticals — Entos Pharmaceuticals: Innovating genetic medicines with Fusogenix technology to improve patient lives.
• University of Liverpool — The University of Liverpool is one of the great centres of research, knowledge and innovation. Our pioneering reputation attracts students, experts and partners from around the world. Through our research, teaching and collaborations we seek to be life changing and world shaping.Exceptional minds1,300 leading researchers36,000 students177,000 alumni in 192 countries4,700 staffCountless partners worldwideLiverpool has been home to explorers and revolutionaries for over 800 years. Their pioneering spirit is alive in the city and inspires our university.Our university is everywhere, from our Chinese joint venture University to our Arctic research stations, American exchanges to the Internet home of our online programmes.
• University of Manchester — The University of Manchester is known for research excellence and a diverse student community.

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• Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
• Petasense — Founded with a vision of making industrial machines smarter, Petasense is an Industrial IoT startup based in Silicon Valley. The company offers an end-to-end solution – comprised of a patent-pending wireless vibration sensor, cloud software and machine learning analytics – that helps with asset reliability and predictive maintenance. Customersare able to monitor, assess and predict the health of their critical machines in real-time. This helps them reduce unplanned downtime and lower repair costs. Petasense's clients include industry leaders like JLL, C&W Services, Silicon Valley Power and Stanford University. Petasense is backed by True Ventures, Felicis Ventures and top angel investors. The company is founded by serial entrepreneurs, Abhinav Khushraj and Arun Santhebennur, who have 25 years of combined experience in building enterprise companies, with degrees from MIT and IIT.To learn more about Petasense, visit www.petasense.com.
• ConductorOne — Govern workforce access, deploy AI agents, and get work done with C1.

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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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• sevDesk — Deutschlands beliebteste Buchhaltungssoftware: Rechnungen& Angebote erstellen, Buchhaltung erledigen, Kunden- &Lagerverwaltung u.v.m.
• Cambridge Aerospace — Our mission is to eliminate the risk of existential war in Europe.
• Arrakis Technologies — Arrakis partners with ambitious companies to deploy secure AI in production, taking them from experimentation to real-world impact at warp speed.

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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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• 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.

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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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• 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.
• Levercon AI — Levercon AI builds and deploys customized AI operating systems directly inside the existing data infrastructure of financial credit funds. The platform automates enterprise-level workflows, streamlines repetitive administrative processes, and enhances data-driven investment and risk-assessment decisions while ensuring strict enterprise ITcompliance.
• 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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• 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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• 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.