Best High Tech Companies in Australian Capital Territory, Australia
The 36 best High Tech companies in Australian Capital Territory, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Seeingmachines.
Our analysis of 50 High Tech companies
$13.6b in tracked funding; 98% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best High Tech companies in Australian Capital Territory
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Seeingmachines Provider of AI-enabled driver monitoring solutions 74Funding top 16%Product top 29%Tech top 30%Partners top 32% All 12 signals ▾Fundingtop 16% Producttop 29% Techtop 30% Partnerstop 32% Markettop 38% Innovationtop 39% AItop 45% Globaltop 48% Moattop 48% Growthtop 50% Talentbottom 49% Newsbottom 46% Funding: Raised $269M across 14 rounds · 14 rounds over 13 yrs (1.1/yr) Product: 0 product launch events in 12 mo · 7 distinct product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $269M | 20 mo ago | Public | Timothy Edwards Co-Founder and Vice President of Strategy | 2001 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+32 | — | — |
| 2 | QuintessenceLabs Provider of quantum cybersecurity solutions, including key management and distribution 48Talent top 28%Funding top 30%Moat top 39%Growth top 45% All 8 signals ▾Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 30% Moattop 39% Growthtop 45% Marketbottom 43% Techbottom 41% Globalbottom 39% Newsbottom 21% Talent: Analyst team rating 5/5 · 2 named leaders on record Funding: Raised $40.6M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 14 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $41M | 17 mo ago | Series B | Vikram Sharma Co-Founder & CEO | 2008 | HubSpot CMS HubSplideLightbox+13 | — | — |
| 3 | Wildlife Drones Livestock radio-tracking drone system | $670K | 93 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+17 | — | — |
| 4 | Smartlox Provider of cloud-based access management platform | $600K | 33 mo ago | Seed | Brent Wijnberg Co-Founder | 2022 | — | — | 2 launchs |
| 5 | Locata Provides precise positioning solutions without GPS | $153K | 61 mo ago | Funding Raised | Nunzio Gambale Co-Founder & CEO | 1997 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+12 | 106 patents Robust terrestrial high‑precision positioning and synchronization networks with environmental sensing | — |
| 6 | Garden Space Integrated system for automating irrigation & spraying operations in gardens and for providing decision… | $100K | 108 mo ago | Deadpooled | Ken Loh Co-Founder | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 7 | AONIQ Industrial 3D Printer and 3D Printing PVC Filament Material developer | — | — | Unfunded | Michael Slavic Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Ardexa Provider of device management | — | — | Unfunded | George Cora Co-Founder & CEO | 2013 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | — |
Top 6 High Tech companies in Australian Capital Territory
#1
Public · Fyshwick, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2001 · 266 employees$268.8Mraised▾
Provider of AI-enabled driver monitoring solutions. It uses computer vision-enabled solutions to monitor, and detect real-time driver visual attention, distraction, and drowsiness monitoring solutions. It provides real-time alerts to mitigate risks. It offers solutions for various sectors like rail, fleet monitoring, aviation crew training, and mining industries.
- Dec 2024Post IPO$32.9M
- Dec 2023Post IPO$30M
- Nov 2021Post IPO$40.8M
- May 2021Post IPO$1.3M
#2
Series B · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2008 · 52 employees$40.6Mraised▾
Provider of quantum cybersecurity solutions, including key management and distribution. It delivers data protection through quantum key generation and crypto-agile key management. The company offers quantum key distribution, helping organizations build a quantum-safe future. Its capabilities extend to quantum true random number generators and entropy management software.
- Apr 2025Series B$12.1M
- Mar 2022Series B$21.9M
- Oct 2021Series B$18.7M
- Feb 2020Series B—
#3
Seed · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2022$600Kraised▾
Provider of cloud-based access management platform
#4
Seed · Belconnen, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2016 · 9 employees$670Kraised▾
Livestock radio-tracking drone system. It offers a radio animal-tracking system to track radio-tagged animals. It leverages radio-receiver technology in the form of a payload that attaches to drones and locates radio-tagged animals. Also, enables users to monitor livestock activity and receive real-time data on the specific location of individually identified animals on maps.
- Dec 2018Seed$670K
#5
Funding Raised · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 1997 · 33 employees$152.8Kraised▾
Locata provides precise positioning solutions without GPS. It has developed a radio-location technology (LocataTech) to provide precise positioning in many environments where GPS is not working properly or unavailable. Additionally, its network of terrestrially-based LocataLite transceivers transmits synchronized signals. The transmitted signals forms a positioning network called LocataNet that operates in combination with GPS (e.g. open-cut mining) or without GPS (e.g. indoors or in urban areas). It claims to have has more than 120 granted patents on devices and systems and has dozens of additional patents in the pipeline. Its clients are Hexagon, Newmont, U.S. Air Force, RMIT University, US Naval Observatory, and many others.
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$81.9K
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$70.9K
#6
Deadpooled · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2016$100Kraised▾
Garden Space provides an integrated hardware and software platform for automating irrigation & spraying operations in gardens & in urban farms and for providing decision support to gardeners and to urban farmers. The hardware device named "Myto" is a sensor suite for monitoring soil and microclimatic parameters. It analyzes the captured data to provide water as needed by plants. The company claims that the system also sprays the plants and can protect the plants from pests as well as from stray animals. The captured data is pushed to a cloud and provides insights and notifications to users in case of a requirement for intervention. The data can be viewed through a companion mobile application which also provides agronomic information to users regarding the best agricultural practices. The company's solution is targeted primarily towards the urban apartment residents with small outdoor land available for gardening.
- Sep 2017Seed$100K
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A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 340 Australia-affiliated papers.
- University College London44
- UNSW Sydney35
- Macquarie University23
- RMIT University22
- Swinburne University of Technology19
- Photonics6→17
- Photonic integrated circuit3→13
- Transistor4→12
- Integrated circuit6→13
- Electronic circuit11→13
- Photonics3→14
- Photonic integrated circuit2→7
- Integrated circuit10→13
- Silicon5→8
- Miniaturization2→5
- Electronics1→4
- Integrated circuit3→4
Where semiconductors is researched across Australia
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
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