Sydney Startups

A guide of growing startups in Sydney

Sydney Startups

HEO

Developer of satellite imagery system designed to provide imagery of satellites, space debris and resource-rich asteroids. The company's satellites coupled with swarm technology create an opportunity to observe space debris and asteroids, enabling clients to gather on-demand optical observation of space objects. Founded: 2016 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $12M Employee count: 11-50

Immutable

Developer of a blockchain-based games platform designed to familiarize users with blockchain technology in a fun and user-friendly environment. The company's platform uses the Ethereum blockchain to transform digital asset ownership in the video-gaming world and provides scalable blockchain infrastructure for video games, enabling gamers to bring transparency to the opaque world of in-game economies. Founded: 2018 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Later Stage VC Employee count: 201-500

Earlywork

Provider of talent hiring services intended to give career resources in tech, startups & the social impact industry. The company's platform specializes in offering career advice, career pathway guidance, industry analysis, interview guides, and job hunt services, enabling businesses to hire skilled workers for their companies. Founded: 2020 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Seed Latest Deal Amount: $978K Employee count: 2-10

T-shirt Ventures

Operator of a health tech company intended to help people living with disabilities overcome their challenges. The company is engaged in creating digital technologies for disabled people and other long-term health needs such as National Disability Insurance Scheme plan management, enabling patients to improve the quality of their everyday lives. Founded: 2018 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $8.21M Employee count: 51-200

Safewill

Developer of a will writing platform designed to make it easy and affordable for all Australians to write a will online with just a few clicks. The company's product allows users to create a legally binding, bespoke will in a few minutes, helping users to put a plan in place to protect their loved ones and their lives work. Founded: 2019 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $3.85M Employee count: 51-200

BlendAI

Developer of a digital marketing platform designed to simplify and centralize online advertising. The company uses machine learning algorithms to distribute content and budgets across multiple channels, integrates the store's inventory analyzes products, and implements sales strategies, enabling businesses to measure the impact ads are having on revenue. Founded: 2020 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Early Stage VC Latest Deal Amount: $1.5M Employee count: 11-50

Harrison.ai

Developer of an AI-based healthcare platform intended to commercialize efficient and affordable healthcare products and services. The company's platform empowers physicians and healthcare providers with customized AI-enabled tools that integrate into existing clinical workflows, enabling medical institutions to improve patient outcomes. Founded: 2018 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series C Latest Deal Amount: $100M Employee count: 201-500

Driva

Operator of an online car finance platform intended to offer personalized car loan rates. The company's platform is an online marketplace for car loans where personalized, pre-qualified offers from a large panel of lenders are available and it also navigates existing lenders in the market and obtains finance for new or used vehicles and other large life expenses, enabling customers to compare fees and loan terms and apply for loans. Founded: 2019 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Early Stage VC Latest Deal Amount: $4.37M Employee count: 51-200

Cascade

Developer of a strategy execution platform designed to make business operations more efficient. The company's software helps to drive synergy across every team, seamless transition from strategy to execution, and provides insights and feedback to adapt, enabling organizations to plan, manage, and track the implementation and execution of their strategies. Founded: 2013 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Later Stage VC Employee count: 51-200

WithYouWithMe

Developer of a job portal designed to help veterans get tech jobs without having to invest years and money into training. The company's portal discovers the digital career through testing and kick-start training which is free for veterans or ex-military, enabling veterans to transit successfully into the industry through the pathway and mentoring model. Founded: 2015 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: 2ndary - Private Employee count: 201-500

Honey Insurance

Provider of home insurance services intended for households to be protected from avoidable accidents. The company offers flexible coverage for essentials and those extra things that households value, alerts for avoidable mishaps such as fire, water damage and theft as well as reduces risk with smart sensors, enabling homeowners and landlords to get covered conveniently and efficiently. Founded: 2020 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: PE Growth Employee count: 51-200

Dovetail

Developer of cloud-based user research and customer feedback platform designed to help teams with analysis, organization, collaboration, and storage of research data and insights. The company's platform stores user research notes, transcripts, images, videos, and audio recordings and discovers patterns across research data collected from interviews, usability testing, and customer interviews, enabling organizations and users to work together in real-time and share projects and notes with internal and external stakeholders. Founded: 2017 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $45.4M Employee count: 201-500

Carma

Developer of an online used car dealership platform designed to provide pre-owned vehicles at fixed prices. The company's platform offers a large range of quality vehicles assured via an in-house inspection and reconditioning process, warranties, and a 7-day with no-questions-asked returns policy, enabling customers to buy used cars hassle-free with integrated and instantly approved financing. Founded: 2021 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $53.9M Employee count: 51-200

Avarni

Developer of a carbon management software platform designed to help organizations measure, track and reduce their carbon emissions. The company's platform uses natural language processing and other AI techniques to analyze financial data and procurement records, enabling organizations to get a comprehensive view of their carbon footprint. Founded: 2021 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $3.52M Employee count: 11-50

Yellowbox

Yellowbox is a leader in smart locker technology for workplaces, creating a seamless locker access and management experience for hundreds of thousands of users across four continents. Yellowbox provides a leading system for their global footprint of Fortune 500 and Multinational customers, e.g. Nike, Hinge and Canon. Founded: 2018 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Accelerator Latest Deal Amount: $200K Employee count: 11-50

Illuvium

Developer of a decentralized gaming platform designed to harness the power of non-fungible tokens. The company's platform creates a world that can support a variety of titles in multiple genres with the option to open the world to other developers, and utilizes staking mechanics similar to the compound protocol, enabling users to take stake collateral and receive governance tokens and weekly distributions as a reward. Founded: 2020 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $12M Employee count: 51-200

Canva

Operator of an online graphic design platform intended to democratize design and visual communication access. The company's platform offers drag-and-drop features and professional layouts to consistently design graphics through a vast collection of professionally designed layouts to personalize the design with a stock library of photographs, illustrations and imagery, enabling companies and users to customize presentations and social media graphics with appropriate layouts. Founded: 2012 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Later Stage VC Latest Deal Amount: $60M Employee count: 1K-5K

Lyka

Operator of an online tailored pet food subscription platform intended to offer a homemade diet for pets. The company provides fresh, lightly cooked food that is grain-free and legume-free to reshape pet wellness, enabling dog parents to feed their dogs protein-rich meals with the ideal balance of nutrients like calcium and phosphorus for strong and healthy bones. Founded: 2018 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series B Latest Deal Amount: $36.4M Employee count: 201-500

Stake

Operator of an investment platform intended to create a simple and affordable place to buy and sell listed shares. The company's platform gives access to invest and trade shares and exchange-traded funds from outside America without any cumbersome paper forms and offers a self-managed super fund (SMSF) administration service via their investment platform offering full SMSF administration and compliance support, enabling investors to get access to the United States market. Founded: 2017 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Accelerator/​Inc Employee count: 51-200

Prophero

Developer of a property investment application designed to help people find, purchase, and manage their investment properties. The company's AI-enabled digital property investment platform handles the due diligence and acquisition process of transactions and makes property investing simple, transparent, and profitable, enabling clients to define their strategy by understanding their needs and applying proprietary AI algorithms to help them find suitable investments. Founded: 2020 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Seed Latest Deal Amount: $5.31M Employee count: 51-200

Athena

Developer of a digital home lending platform designed to connect wholesale funds to prime Australian mortgage borrowers. The company's platform provides borrowers with a simple online application experience and funders with transparent timely portfolio data, enabling clients to get affordable mortgage rates and investors to get better returns. Founded: 2017 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Later Stage VC Latest Deal Amount: $41.8M Employee count: 51-200

Relevance AI

Developer of a vector platform designed to transform unstructured data into insights and to build end-to-end large language model apps. The company's platform uses the power of artificial intelligence (AI) vectors, that can reveal the semantics of qualitative data with minimal labeling or training, making it easier and more affordable for companies of any size, leveraging AI chaining capability to automate intricate reasoning tasks, without needing a team of expert AI engineers, enabling businesses to have search functionality on their website, app, or enterprise software without the need to code or configure. Founded: 2020 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Accelerator/Inc Employee count: 11-50

Plerion

Developer of a cybersecurity data science platform intended to offer security oversight for cloud workloads and operating environments. The company's platform provides a cloud protection system and entity behavior analytics powered by a federated AI detection engine for threat detection and prevention, enabling clients to get the confidence to build quickly across their cloud environments while continually monitoring their security and compliance regardless of their workload. Founded: 2021 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Early Stage VC Latest Deal Amount: $12M Employee count: 11-50

Eucalyptus

Operator of a telehealth platform intended to build a safe, effective, and accessible future for medicine. The company's healthcare brands form the connective tissue between telehealth consults with doctors, pharmacy delivery, and ongoing patient care, enabling healthcare professionals to build and run digital healthcare companies. Founded: 2019 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Later Stage VC Employee count: 201-500

:Different

Developer of a property management platform designed to stay informed and control investment properties across the area. The company's platform helps to lodge problems in the property that need to be fixed, and other maintenance services as well as provides rent-related services, enabling owners and tenants to manage their properties at affordable prices and with expert support. Founded: 2017 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series B Latest Deal Amount: $18.8M Employee count: 51-200

Vow

Producer of cultivated exotic meat intended to be made from cells, instead of breeding and killing animals. The company's meat is grown using animal biopsy in a cultivator assisted by a nutrient-dense medium to create sustainable and ethical meat from a wide variety of animals, enabling consumers, restaurants and chefs to have nutritious and delicious food without consuming natural resources. Founded: 2019 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $46.7M Employee count: 51-200

Reejig

Developer of workforce intelligence platform designed to find, recruit, and manage the workforce. The company's platform uses big data, deep learning, and audited artificial intelligence techniques to provide predictive intelligence and personalized actionable insights, enabling companies to secure industry-leading candidates, reduce the time and cost of hires, and integrate disconnected human resources systems. Founded: 2018 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series B Latest Deal Amount: $20.8M Employee count: 51-200

Diraq

Manufacturer of quantum computing and semiconductor chips intended for scalable quantum computing and practical commercial applications. The company's chips use silicon-based qubits, CMOS-based architecture for billions of qubits, capable of full error correction, advanced methods for qubit control, quantum memory, as well as innovative CMOS device designs, enabling businesses with cost-effective, energy-efficient, and compact chipsets. Founded: 2021 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A2 Latest Deal Amount: $22M Employee count: 11-50

Constantinople

Operator of a digital banking service platform intended to provide proprietary payments and fund transfers. The company's platform offers a cloud-native, event-driven customer experience, transaction and lending products, and digital servicing, enabling clients with compliance solutions using blockchain technology. Founded: 2022 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series A Latest Deal Amount: $32.8M Employee count: 51-200

Ofload

Operator of an end-to-end road freight management platform intended to connect road freight to reliable carriers. The company's platform manages end-to-end logistics fulfillment through technology and connects small and medium-sized carriers with shippers assisting shipments to be delivered quickly and affordably, enabling businesses to have visibility of their shipments. Founded: 2019 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Later Stage VC Latest Deal Amount: $31M Employee count: 201-500

Sonder

Operator of a digital care platform intended to make personal safety accessible to everyone. The company's platform provides expert advice and assistance for both critical and non-critical incidents, along with monitoring safety and if needed can send someone to help in person, enabling employees, students, and other users to get help with any problem, day or night that is supported by safety, medical and mental health experts. Founded: 2016 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series B Latest Deal Amount: $51.7M Employee count: 201-500

Simply Wall St

Developer of an online stock analysis platform designed to give investors stock information and insights based on underlying metrics. The company's mobile and web-based platform offers graphical interpretation and infographics on livestock data which encompasses five key variables income, value, future, past, and health, enabling retail investors to get a full understanding of the stock and the company's performance and identify investment opportunities. Founded: 2014 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Later Stage VC Latest Deal Amount: $341K Employee count: 11-50

Zoomo

Developer of utility e-bikes designed for applications like parcel, mail, and grocery deliveries. The company's bikes offer features that include electronic locks, GPS tracking, inbuilt alarm systems, integrated lights, fast charging, rear racks, and suspensions, enabling riders to benefit from micro-mobility alternatives that are accessible, sustainable, and efficient for the on-demand delivery sector. Founded: 2017 Status: Private Latest Deal Type: Series B Latest Deal Amount: $71.2M Employee count: 201-500