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Avarni
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Advanced Navigation
Advanced Navigation is a Sydney-based deep-technology company building navigation and autonomy systems that let robots, ships, aircraft, submarines and spacecraft know where they are when GPS is jammed, denied or simply unavailable. Founded in 2012 by Xavier Orr and Chris Shaw to commercialise AI-based inertial navigation research, it now designs and manufactures fibre optic gyroscopes, MEMS inertial sensors, underwater acoustic positioning and a miniature autonomous underwater vehicle across defense, space, marine, mining and commercial markets. In March 2026 it raised US$110M in Series C funding to accelerate its expansion into photonics, AI and quantum sensing.
Top Road
Top Road is a Sydney-based, Y Combinator-backed startup that gives creators no-code payment and analytics tools to turn custom GPTs into revenue-generating apps inside the OpenAI GPT Store. Its GPT Tools action lets builders add subscription paywalls, collect emails, whitelist users, and track usage - without writing code. The company says it has enabled more than USD 300K in subscription revenue for GPT builders.
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.
Fair Supply
Fair Supply is a Sydney-based ESG risk-intelligence SaaS company that maps global supply chains up to 10 tiers deep. Founded in 2019 by human rights lawyer Kimberly Randle and industrial mathematician Dr Arne Geschke, it uses a Multi-Regional Input-Output (MRIO) methodology across more than 60 billion mapped supply-chain connections to help companies and investors measure and manage modern slavery, Scope 1-3 carbon emissions, biodiversity and water-use risk. Dubbed the 'Google for ESG', it turns a supplier list and annual spend into auditable, regulation-aligned risk reports.
Get Listings
Get Listings is a Sydney-based proptech company that helps real estate agents win more seller listings. It combines AI that scores roughly 14 million Australian properties daily for their likelihood to sell with a done-for-you advertising service that generates exclusive seller leads through Facebook campaigns. Agents can buy leads on a pay-per-lead basis or run a managed program, and track everything through a portal and mobile app. The company says it has served thousands of agents and generated hundreds of thousands of leads tied to more than a billion dollars in listed property.
Harrison.ai
Harrison.ai is a Sydney-based clinical AI company founded in 2018 by brothers Dr Aengus Tran and Dimitry Tran. It builds artificial-intelligence software that helps clinicians read medical images faster and more accurately - flagging urgent findings on chest X-rays and brain and chest CT scans, and streamlining pathology review. Its diagnostic products, radiology brand annalise.ai and pathology joint venture franklin.ai, are used at more than 1,000 healthcare sites across four continents, with regulatory clearance in 40-plus countries. The company positions itself as a builder of foundation models for medicine, releasing harrison.rad.1, a radiology-specific multimodal large language model. Harrison.ai raised a US$112 million Series C in February 2025 to fund a US expansion, taking total capital raised past US$240 million.
Morsl
Morsl is a Sydney-based food-tech company that installs automated, self-service micro markets - unattended 24/7 cafes - inside Australian workplaces. Founded in 2018 by former Credit Suisse director Karla Borland, Morsl gives employees affordable access to fresh meals, salads, better-for-you snacks and drinks via scan-and-pay kiosks, positioning itself as a healthier, tech-enabled alternative to traditional vending machines and canteens.
PlasmaLeap Technologies
PlasmaLeap Technologies is a Sydney-based cleantech company building modular, non-thermal plasma reactors that make ammonia, nitric acid, fertiliser and hydrocarbon eFuels from just air, water and renewable electricity. Spun out of the University of Sydney in 2019, its 'lightning-mimicking' process replaces the century-old, fossil-fuelled Haber-Bosch route with room-temperature, on-site chemical production. Its eNFix containerised units let farmers make green nitrogen fertiliser at the farm gate, cutting emissions and supply-chain dependence. The company raised roughly A$30 million in a Series A led by the Gates Foundation, Investible and Yara Growth Ventures to build first-of-a-kind fertiliser hubs in New South Wales and Tasmania.
RentBetter
RentBetter is an Australian proptech company that gives everyday landlords the same tools and services real estate agents use to lease and manage residential property - advertising, tenant screening, digital leases, rent collection, inspections and maintenance - in one online platform, at a fraction of a traditional property manager's cost. Founded in Sydney in 2016 by Jeremy Goldschmidt, it targets the roughly 2.2 million Australians who own investment property and want to self-manage without paying ongoing management fees.
Simply Wall St
Simply Wall St is a Sydney-based fintech that turns complex financial data into simple, colorful visuals so everyday people can research and analyze stocks with confidence. Best known for its 'Snowflake' infographic that grades companies across valuation, growth, financial health, past performance and dividends, the platform covers 120,000+ stocks across 90 global markets and is used by more than 7 million investors worldwide. Founded in 2014 by Al Bentley, it operates a freemium subscription model and has grown from a visual research tool into an integrated portfolio and community investing platform.
Trendspek
Trendspek is a Sydney-based software company that turns drone and reality-capture imagery into exact 3D digital models of buildings and infrastructure. Its Structural Lifecycle Management System (SLMS), built on the Precision Asset Intelligence (PAI) platform, lets asset owners, engineers and contractors inspect, measure, report on, remediate and monitor structures from a single living record - replacing scattered PDFs and site visits with traceable, measurable digital evidence used across 45+ countries.
Unleash live
Unleash live is a Sydney-based enterprise computer vision company that turns live video and imagery from drones, CCTV, IP cameras and mobile devices into real-time, actionable insights. Its cloud and edge platform runs a library of AI models to inspect critical infrastructure - power lines, wind turbines, solar farms, rail, roads and industrial sites - detecting faults, corrosion and equipment wear so utilities, transport authorities and resource companies can inspect assets faster and safer. Alongside the core platform it offers Autofly for automated drone and robot inspections and an AI App marketplace for building and deploying custom vision models.
Vero
Vero is a Sydney-based customer engagement platform that helps product-led teams send personalized email, mobile push and SMS messages triggered by what users actually do inside a product. Founded in 2012 by Chris Hexton and James Lamont, Vero pairs a real-time behavioural workflow engine with Vero Connect, an approach that reads directly from a company's data warehouse so teams can message customers without duplicating their data into yet another marketing tool.
Instant
Instant is a Sydney-founded, AI-powered retention marketing platform for ecommerce brands. It identifies anonymous shoppers, recovers abandoned carts and sends AI-generated email and SMS at the moment of highest purchase intent. After starting life as a one-click checkout tool in 2021, Instant pivoted to retention marketing and grew fast - more than 1,500 direct-to-consumer brands now use it, and the company says its AI-driven flows have generated over $1 billion in incremental revenue.
Nexl
Nexl is an AI-powered growth platform built specifically for law firms. Founded in Sydney in 2018 by former Gilbert + Tobin innovation lead Philipp Thurner, it unites CRM, relationship intelligence, marketing, and collaborative workspaces into a single front-office system. Its core differentiator is a zero-entry approach that automatically captures emails, meetings, and relationships without lawyers having to log data, solving the low-adoption problem that plagues legacy legal CRMs. More than 150 firms worldwide, including AmLaw 100 leaders, use Nexl to turn business development strategy into daily action.
Veridooh
Veridooh is an Australian adtech company and the global leader in independent out-of-home (OOH) advertising verification. Its patented SmartCreative technology collects ad-play-level data without relying on media owner systems, letting brands and agencies independently track, measure and verify static, digital and programmatic OOH campaigns across 400+ metrics in a single platform. Founded in Sydney in 2019 by Mo Moubayed and Jeremy Yang, Veridooh works with global brands including Google, Amazon, Unilever and McDonald's, and is the preferred verification partner for major agency groups including IPG Mediabrands, Omnicom and WPP Media in Australia.
Evan Wong
Evan Wong is the co-founder and CEO of Checkbox, a legal AI company he started in Sydney in 2016 and now runs from New York. Checkbox builds an AI 'legal front door' that lets in-house legal teams intake, triage and automate routine work through a no-code, drag-and-drop platform. A serial entrepreneur who launched his first company at 17, Wong studied Commerce and Law at UNSW, was named to Forbes 30 Under 30 Asia in 2019, and in early 2026 raised a US$23M Series A that valued Checkbox at roughly US$100M. His customers include large enterprises such as PepsiCo, SAP, Telstra and Woolworths.
Enboarder
Enboarder is an HR technology company that builds an experience-driven employee onboarding and 'people activation' platform. Founded in Sydney in 2015 by Brent Pearson, it helps employers design and automate engaging, human-centered journeys for new hires, managers and existing employees across onboarding, transitions and offboarding. In 2025 the company re-architected its product to be AI-native, positioning itself as an 'AI orchestration layer for the employee lifecycle.' More than 400 global companies - including McDonald's, Deloitte, Shopify, Hugo Boss, ING and Eventbrite - use Enboarder, which has raised roughly $50 million in venture funding.
Timothy Cocaro
Timothy Cocaro is the founder and CEO of Canibuild, an AI-powered instant site feasibility platform that lets builders and homeowners check in seconds whether a house, granny flat, pool or shed can go on a block of land - collapsing weeks of surveying, drafting and estimating into a single click. A builder by trade with a computer science degree from the University of Sydney, Cocaro spent two decades running RESCON Builders, Australia's largest dedicated granny-flat company, before turning his own construction frustrations into software in 2019. Canibuild raised an AUD 8 million Series A led by EVP in 2022, grew to thousands of daily users across Australia, New Zealand and the United States, and was named #1 in Real Estate at the Google Maps Platform Awards 2025.