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Dovetail
Dovetail is a Sydney-founded customer intelligence platform that pulls scattered customer signals - sales calls, support tickets, surveys, app reviews, usability tests - into one searchable place and uses AI to turn them into themes, dashboards and decisions. Started in 2017 by two ex-Atlassian employees, Benjamin Humphrey and Bradley Ayers, it began life as a repository for user researchers and grew into an organisation-wide intelligence layer used by roughly 40% of the Fortune 500, including AWS, Visa, Atlassian, Canva and Johns Hopkins. Accel led a US$63M Series A in January 2022 at a valuation north of US$700 million.
Sitemate
Sitemate is a Sydney-based software company building no-code tools for the 'built world' - construction, infrastructure, energy, mining, oil and gas, and manufacturing. Its flagship platform Dashpivot lets field and office teams replace paper forms, spreadsheets and PDFs with customisable digital workflows for safety, quality, compliance and project records, while Flowsite connects that data to other business systems. Used by thousands of companies across 150+ countries and backed by Blackbird, Sitemate is now positioning itself as a front-line AI company for industrial teams.
Askable
Askable is an Australian, AI-powered user research platform that combines a global panel of verified participants, certified human researchers, and research-specific AI into a single system meant to replace a team's whole research stack. Founded in 2017 in Brisbane, it started as recruitment software - the self-described 'Uber for user testing' - and has grown into an end-to-end product research suite used by teams at brands like Atlassian, Canva, Wise and Toyota. After roughly six years bootstrapped and profitable, the company raised a A$22M Series A led by AirTree Ventures in 2024 to expand in the US and UK and deepen its AI tooling.