sydney-fintech
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Avenue Bank
Avenue Bank is Australia's first and only bank built exclusively around bank guarantees. Founded by the team behind credit bureau CreditorWatch and licensed by APRA as an authorised deposit-taking institution, the Sydney-based digital bank turns a paper-heavy process that once took four to six weeks into an online application of a few minutes with issuance inside 24 hours. It serves businesses that need to secure commercial leases, construction contracts and performance obligations, backing every guarantee 100% with cash while paying interest on the deposit.
RDC.AI
RDC.AI (formerly Rich Data Co) is a Sydney-founded software company that builds an explainable AI decisioning platform for business and commercial lenders. Its cloud-native platform ingests transactional and alternative data to help banks originate, assess, monitor and manage loans faster and more transparently, producing a reason code for every decision so lenders can satisfy fair-lending and regulatory obligations. Backed by Westpac, nCino and Acorn Capital through a A$37m Series B, RDC.AI counts institutions such as M&T Bank, Westpac and BNZ among its customers and is expanding into North America.
Wayex
Wayex is a Sydney-based fintech that lets people hold a single US dollar balance, fund it with bank transfers or stablecoins, and spend it worldwide on a Visa card. Founded in 2018 as CryptoSpend by two University of Technology Sydney students, it issued Australia's first crypto-linked Visa card in 2021, rebranded to Wayex in 2024, and in 2025 launched Wayex Global across 160+ countries. The platform supports USDC, USDT, DAI and PYUSD across 10+ blockchains, pays yield on stablecoin balances, and processes conversions in real time at checkout.
Weel
Weel (formerly DiviPay) is a Sydney-based fintech that gives Australian and New Zealand finance teams an all-in-one corporate card and spend management platform. It combines virtual and physical Visa cards, budget controls, approval workflows, accounts payable automation and AI-powered receipt and invoice capture so businesses can track every expense - from a coffee to a large invoice - in real time and sync it straight to their accounting system.
Mark Hurley
Mark Hurley is the co-founder and CEO of Caruso, an AI-native fund administration and registry platform for private markets that spun out of a property fund business in 2023 and now administers roughly $80 billion in assets across 900-plus funds. A serial New Zealand entrepreneur, he earlier built the digital agency Little Giant (sold to Dentsu Aegis Network in 2017) and co-founded the fractional commercial real estate firm Jasper in 2019. He splits his time between Auckland and Dallas and is an active early-stage investor in companies including Tracksuit, Sharesies and First AML.