Discover Australia's most ambitious startups.

CLUTCH Glue makes a patented, liquid clothing adhesive (fashion tape) designed to hold garments in place and rinse out in the wash. The product is marketed as skin-safe, hypoallergenic, vegan, cruelty-free and packaged in recyclable/recycled materials. CLUTCH is sold direct-to-consumer and via retail stockists and has been featured on Shark Tank Australia. The company operates under AHAY Society Pty Ltd with headquarters in Sydney, Australia.

Everlab is an Australian preventative health company that offers tiered membership programs combining advanced diagnostics (blood testing, imaging, genetics), continuous biomarker monitoring, virtual consultations and clinician‑led care plans. The platform integrates pathology and radiology partners and uses AI-driven clinical workflows to surface actionable insights and personalised prevention plans. Everlab serves consumers and enterprise clients seeking longitudinal, data-driven preventive and longevity care.

Athena Home Loans is an Australian digital non-bank mortgage lender that designs online home loan products and features to help borrowers shorten mortgage terms and save on interest. The company operates an exclusively digital lending platform and partners with brokers and white-label partners to distribute products. Athena launched publicly in early 2019 after being founded in 2017 and offers features such as multi-offset accounts, split loans, and dynamic pricing that reward customers who pay down their loans.

Driva is an Australian fintech that provides vehicle and personal loan products and a partner/white-label platform that lets dealers, marketplaces and businesses offer consumer-focused finance and application processing. The company matches customers to offers from a panel of lenders, supports secured and unsecured lending products, and offers integrations for distribution partners. Driva operates across Australia (and references operations in New Zealand and the UK) and provides APIs and partner products for dealer and marketplace integrations.

Bare is an Australian death-tech company building a unified platform for end-of-life planning and management, including pre-planning, funerals and grief support.

BuildPass is a construction software company that provides an AI-powered platform to automate site checklists, inspections, defect documentation and site diary summaries for small-to-mid-sized builders and subcontractors. The product is mobile-first and targets SMB and mid-market construction firms across Australia, with US expansion activity noted. The company launched in 2021 and reports supporting hundreds of construction businesses in Australia.

Askable is an on-demand research and insight delivery platform that combines human researchers and AI tools to provide product leaders with evidence-based insights.

5B designs, manufactures and deploys the 5B Maverick: a prefabricated, pre‑wired modular solar array for rapid, relocatable utility‑scale and behind‑the‑meter installations. The company supplies developers, miners, utilities and microgrid projects and also develops automated assembly and deployment systems to speed site works. 5B operates a primary production facility in Adelaide and a headquarters in Mascot, NSW, and has projects across Australia, the Americas and other regions.

Affinda is a Melbourne-based AI software company that builds intelligent document processing and extraction products (resume parser, invoice extractor, document comparison and related IDP tools) for enterprises and software partners. Its platform converts unstructured documents into structured, decision-ready data and integrates with downstream systems. Customers include recruiters, law firms and large enterprises across regulated industries.

Cuttable is an Australian AI SaaS platform that automatically produces personalized video advertisements from a brand's existing assets and brand profile. The company serves brands and agencies across Australia, New Zealand and the United States, offering on‑brand video and image creation at scale. Cuttable operates product and headquarter presence in South Yarra (Melbourne) with a North America head office in New York.

Advanced Navigation designs and manufactures AI-enhanced inertial navigation, GNSS, acoustic, RF, robotics and quantum-enabled sensors and systems. Their products serve autonomous platforms across land, sea, air and space for customers in aerospace, defense, maritime, mining and industrial markets. The company operates vertically integrated R&D and manufacturing with offices and facilities in Australia and overseas. Advanced Navigation is headquartered in Sydney, Australia.

Butter Insurance is a Sydney-based insurtech building digital-first insurance products for modern life and travel. The company offers travel insurance and single-item (tech) insurance that can be purchased and managed online, with single-item cover for devices and valuables available shortly after purchase. Butter’s platform provides subscription-style, single-item policies, a central web app for policy and claim management, and checkout-embedded purchase flows designed for retailers and direct consumers. Since its founding during 2021–2022, Butter has participated in Startmate’s Winter cohort and raised pre-seed funding to scale its product and partnerships. The business has announced integrations and partnerships across Australian payments and retail channels, including collaborations with payment and embedded-insurance partners, and has positioned its product to serve Australian consumers and travellers with digital, low-friction cover and online claims management.

Acorn is an AI-powered performance and learning management platform that unifies capability mapping, personalized development plans, and performance management.

Arkeus designs and builds AI-powered hyperspectral optical radar (HSOR) systems that fuse hyperspectral imaging, radar and onboard AI for real-time wide-area surveillance and search. Its sensors are deployed on drones, aircraft, surface vessels and other autonomous platforms for missions including ISR, search-and-rescue, firefighting and border protection. The company focuses on edge AI processing to operate in degraded, denied or contested environments. Customers and partners include defence agencies and integrators in Australia, the United States and allied markets.

6clicks is a cloud and AI-powered GRC platform that automates risk assessment, compliance, cybersecurity controls, regulatory monitoring, templates and reporting.

Dovetail provides a cloud-based user research platform that collects, tags, analyzes, and centralizes qualitative feedback.

Cake Equity provides an equity management platform that streamlines cap table management, capital raises, investor lists, employee equity and option issuance.

Eucalyptus is an Australian digital health company that builds and operates a portfolio of direct-to-consumer telehealth clinics and brands (including Pilot, Juniper, Kin, Software/Software Clinic and Compound). It provides online and text consultations, prescriptions, pharmacy delivery, remote monitoring and chronic-care programs across Australia and internationally. The company emphasizes clinical governance and is the only Australian telehealth provider cited as ACHS EQuIP6–accredited. Eucalyptus served hundreds of thousands of patients since its 2019 founding and was the subject of a 2026 acquisition by Hims & Hers.

Contactile develops patented tactile sensor arrays and tactile-enabled robotic grippers that provide real-time 3D force, deflection, vibration and slip feedback. Their products target customers in e-commerce/warehouse fulfillment, manufacturing, agriculture, healthcare and space, and the company is a UNSW Sydney spin-out. Contactile publishes technical SDKs and participates in industry exhibitions and grant programs to commercialise its PapillArray sensor technology.

Applied EV is a Melbourne-based manufacturer of cab-less autonomous electric vehicles designed for industrial, logistics, mining and other commercial applications.