Best Crowdfunding Companies in Australia
The 94 best Crowdfunding companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: VentureCrowd.
Tracking the best Crowdfunding companies in Australia by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, our directory covers 94 active players sitting on a combined $44M in disclosed capital. VentureCrowd leads the pack at $15M raised, with DomaCom close behind at $8M and BrickX at $7M. The global market was valued at roughly $1.4B in 2022 and is forecast to reach $6.7B by 2031 at a 15.82% CAGR, and Australia's cohort is clearly positioning itself to ride that curve. Backers like BlueChilli, Artesian, and BridgeLane are the names you'll see recurring across cap tables here.
So what's shaping the sector right now? Charity transparency and online fundraising are the hot themes this quarter, and platforms are leaning into ethical philanthropy as a differentiator. Fraud and cybersecurity exposure remain real structural headwinds, as regulators have flagged crowdfunding schemes for tightening scrutiny globally. I'd watch how Australian platforms respond to that pressure, because the ones that build trust infrastructure now are the ones that scale. Smaller entrants like Lift Women ($858K raised) and Birchal ($2M) signal the market isn't winner-take-all yet.
Ranked: Best Crowdfunding companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | VentureCrowd Equity crowdfunding platform focused on startups 37Talent top 28%Moat top 39%Growth top 45%Funding bottom 48% All 7 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Moattop 39% Growthtop 45% Fundingbottom 48% Techbottom 42% Marketbottom 36% Globalbottom 36% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 4 C-suite/founder profiles curated Moat: Editorial + unicorn rating 7/10 · 9 curated direct competitors tracked rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 37/100 | $15M | 35 mo ago | Series A | John Mccartney Co-Founder | 2013 | Salesforce DeskSalesforceAura+20 | 1 partnership |
| 2 | DomaCom Crowdfunding platform focused on real estate projects 29Product top 14%Innovation top 34%Funding top 47%Growth bottom 42% All 8 signals ▾Producttop 14% Innovationtop 34% Fundingtop 47% Growthbottom 42% Globalbottom 38% Techbottom 33% Marketbottom 30% Newsbottom 24% Product: 5 distinct product lines · Company stage: Public Innovation: 5 product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 29/100 | $8M | 17 mo ago | Public | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+17 | — |
| 3 | BrickX Equity-based crowdfunding platform focused on real estate projects | $7M | 99 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2014 | Node.jsYouTubeAmazon ELB+17 | — |
| 4 | Dataro AI-based fundraising campaigning platform 62AI top 30%Innovation top 32%Tech top 32%Growth top 35% All 10 signals ▾AItop 30% Innovationtop 32% Techtop 32% Growthtop 35% Producttop 36% Talenttop 38% Moattop 48% Fundingtop 50% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 28% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based Innovation: 12 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $2M | 4 mo ago | Series A | David Lyndon Co-Founder | 2017 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowAmazon Web Services+18 | — |
| 5 | Birchal Equity crowdfunding platform | $2M | 30 mo ago | Seed | Alan Crabbe Co-Founder | 2017 | TypeScriptGraphQLClerk+25 | — |
| 6 | CrowdfundUP Australia-based real estate equity crowdfunding platform. | $2M | 116 mo ago | Deadpooled | Jack Quigley Founder & Managing Director | 2012 | — | — |
| 7 | Equitise Equity crowdfunding platform | $2M | 124 mo ago | Seed | — | 2014 | PrismicSentryTypeScript+28 | — |
| 8 | ReValu8 Online marketplace for selling and buying real estate | $2M | 119 mo ago | Deadpooled | Chris Bilborough Co-Founder & CEO | 2014 | — | — |
| 9 | Chuffed Crowdfunding platform for social enterprises, not-for-profits and community groups | $1M | 122 mo ago | Seed | Prashan Paramanathan Founder & CEO | 2013 | SentryPHPAmazon ALB+19 | — |
| 10 | Shout For Good Mobile fundraising and micro-donation management platform | $1M | 156 mo ago | Acquired | Jane Martino Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | Reactstyled-componentsPayPal+13 | — |
| 11 | Lift Women Marketplace for women-focused crowdfunding 14Talent bottom 49%Funding bottom 38%Global bottom 33% All 3 signals ▾Talentbottom 49% Fundingbottom 38% Globalbottom 33% Talent: 1 named leader on record · 1 C-suite/founder profile curated Funding: Raised $859k across 1 rounds · 1 rounds over 4 yrs (0.2/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 14/100 | $859K | 8 mo ago | Seed | Irene Tsang Founder and CEO | 2021 | — | — |
| 12 | GiggedIn Crowdfunding and ticketing platform for live music | $500K | 131 mo ago | Seed | Edwin Onggo CEO | 2013 | — | — |
| 13 | StartSomeGood Crowdfunding platform for Social Enterprises | $400K | 133 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+19 | — |
| 14 | Our Wishing Well Online gift registry for weddings | $220K | 203 mo ago | Seed | Joseph Renzi Founder & CEO | 2007 | — | — |
| 15 | Zimrii Digital music platform leveraging blockchain | $150K | 112 mo ago | Seed | Mo Jalloh Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — |
Top 12 Crowdfunding companies in Australia
#1
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 22 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Dataro is an AI-based fundraising campaigning platform. The product is a predictive analytics solution to create fundraising campaigns that integrate with the CRM for appeal donations, donor engagement, and retention.
- Feb 2026Series A$14.3M
- Dec 2021Seed$2.5M
#2
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2011$8Mraised▾
DomaCom is an online crowdfunding platform focused on real estate projects. It allows users to access a property exchange platform and a marketplace for property owners and investors to exchange ownership interests in property. It operates as a licensed investment technology platform for the purpose of listing available properties and making interests in these properties available to investors through licensed real estate agents and financial advisers.
- Jan 2025Post IPO$1.2M
- Sep 2020Post IPO—
- Oct 2019Post IPO$1.8M
- Feb 2019Post IPO$1.3M
#3
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2021$858.7Kraised▾
Marketplace for women-focused crowdfunding. It provides a crowdfunding platform for campaigns run by women entrepreneurs. Its features include connecting, inspiring, and empowering women to start and scale their businesses, and live life to its fullest potential.
- Oct 2025Seed$858.7K
- Oct 2022Seed—
#4
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013$14.9Mraised▾
Equity crowdfunding platform focused on startups. It allows investors to exchange cash for an equity interest in their chosen business. It has partnered with a broad range of angel groups, incubators, accelerators, venture capital firms, university commercialization programs, digital agencies, and corporate partners who pre-screen all businesses before they can list for investment so as to diversify the selection of investment opportunities to their registered investors.
- Jun 2023Series A$3.5M
- Feb 2022Series A$10M
- Dec 2015Seed$1.4M
#5
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 36 employees$2.4Mraised▾
Birchal is an equity crowdfunding platform that connects startups with investors. Companies post the projects after the approval of the platform. Investors invest in the project in exchange for a share in the company. Project owners can also offer rewards to the supporters. The platform follows "All or nothing" model of fundraising. The company charges administration and setup fee of $1,990 +taxes and this fee is reimbursed if the campaign is successful. For successful projects, it charges a fee of 6% of funds raised.
- Dec 2023Seed$1.6M
- Apr 2022Angel—
#6
Acquired · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 6 employees$7Mraised▾
Brickx is an equity-based crowdfunding platform focused on real estate projects. It allows users to buy residential properties wholly or in fractional amounts. Provides historical analysis, valuation reports, and tracking tools for users.
- Feb 2018Series A$7M
- Nov 2017Series A—
#7
Deadpooled · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2012$2.1Mraised▾
CrowdfundUP is a real estate equity crowdfunding platform in Australia. It gives both retail and sophisticated investors property investment opportunities across Australia. The minimum investment amount on the platform is $100. Investors can invest in multiple projects and build a portfolio on the platform. All the projects are pre-vetted by a diligence team before they are listed on the platform.
- Oct 2016Seed$2.1M
#8
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 14 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Equitise is a equity crowdfunding platform that helps early stage innovative companies access capital. Entrepreneurs profile their plans and set a funding target, investors commit money to their preferred opportunities, if funding targets are reached, shareholder agreements are signed (if not, money is refunded). Equitise has offices in both Sydney and Auckland.
- Feb 2016Seed$1M
- Mar 2015Seed—
- Nov 2014Seed$450K
- Jul 2014Seed$100K
#9
Deadpooled · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 14 employees$1.5Mraised▾
ReValu8 is a free online platform where buyers and sellers of real estate can trade directly or through an agent. It aims for buyers to have the ability to make a more informed decision and receive incentives from the seller, and for sellers to have the ability to list their property nationally, decide how much advertising and commission fees they are willing to pay and only pay these fees once their property is sold.
- Jul 2016Seed$1.5M
#10
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 4 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Chuffed is Australia's first non-profit crowdfunding platform. It supports great not-for-profits, social enterprises and community organisations to create engaging online fundraising campaigns that raise funds quickly. Chuffed is entirely fee-free, so organisations using the platform keep 100% of what they raise, but passes on transaction costs of 2% plus 30c per transaction to the donor. It allows both all or nothing and keep all campaigns.
- Mar 2016Seed$1.1M
#11
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2013 · 5 employees$1Mraised▾
Enables individuals to donate to other individuals or organisations for fundraising. Provides services to donate and transact by different mediums (app, personal blogs or other websites); Micro donation through Shout Now App(Free), Shout SMS to donate through SMS, Shout Widget for recording, receipting and administration of donations from different channels. Charities pay a $350 annual fee and Shout for Good takes a 6.5% administration fees.
- 2013Seed$1M
#12
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013 · 2 employees$500Kraised▾
Crowdfunding and ticketing platform for live music. It provides a crowdfunding and ticketing platform dedicated to live music. It helps event organizers and artists make successful shows, tours and festivals occur with a guaranteed amount of pre-sales by giving fans the power to pledge to buy tickets in order to activate events
- Jul 2015Seed$500K
- Apr 2014Seed—
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