Best High Tech Companies in South Australia, Australia
The 48 best High Tech companies in South Australia, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Myriota.
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 South Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Myriota Provider of satellite network for Internet of Things connectivity and solutions 67Funding top 30%Growth top 30%News top 30%Talent top 30% All 10 signals ▾Fundingtop 30% Growthtop 30% Newstop 30% Talenttop 30% Techtop 35% Producttop 35% Moattop 39% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 39% Partnersbottom 34% Funding: Raised $30.3M across 6 rounds · 6 rounds over 12 yrs (0.5/yr) Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $30M | 19 mo ago | Series C | David Haley Co-Founder & CTO | 2014 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+30 | 3 launchs · 1 partnership |
| 2 | Archer Minerals exploration and development company | $11M | 58 mo ago | Public | Mohammad Choucair CEO | 2007 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+15 | — |
| 3 | Spacetalk Provider of application, wearable devices, and mobile plans for families 57Tech top 13%Product top 22%Talent top 38%Customers top 42% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 13% Producttop 22% Talenttop 38% Customerstop 42% Fundingtop 44% Growthtop 46% Moattop 48% Marketbottom 44% Globalbottom 30% Tech: 86 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon S3 Product: 2 published apps (240k installs) · Company stage: Public rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $9M | 35 mo ago | Public | Mark Fortunatow Founder | 2003 | Cart FunctionalityShopifyApple iCloud Mail+39 | 1 launch |
| 4 | Sparc Technologies Developer of graphene additives and green hydrogen technology for sustainability | $3M | 27 mo ago | Public | — | 1984 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 5 | K-TIG Developer of a welding technology system | $2M | — | Public | — | 2010 | HubSpot CMS HubGoogle Mapscore-js+17 | — |
| 6 | National Cardiac Monitoring Develops a wearable device for cardiac monitoring | $580K | 86 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | Paul Diperna CEO | 2011 | — | — |
| 7 | Elanation Technology brand focussed in kids | $110K | 76 mo ago | Seed | Katherine Maree Pace Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — |
| 8 | My Sky Technologies Machine learning algorithms for tracking aerial and terrestrial vehicles | $20K | 108 mo ago | Seed | Steve Auch Schwelk Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | — |
Top 9 High Tech companies in South Australia
#1
Series C · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2014 · 50 employees$30.3Mraised▾
Provider of satellite network for Internet of Things connectivity and solutions. The company delivers services for applications requiring data transmission and low-power connectivity for remote deployments. It offers a developer platform compatible with sensor types for deployment testing. The network provides connectivity for industries including agriculture, water, mining, and government.
- Dec 2024Series C$50M
- Jun 2024Grant (prize money)$1.5M
- Apr 2020Series B$16.8M
- Mar 2018Series A$11.5M
#2
Public · Kent Town, South Australia · founded 1984 · 6 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Developer of graphene additives and green hydrogen technology for sustainability. The company focuses on renewable energy projects, including green hydrogen and graphene applications. It develops graphene-based additives to enhance marine and protective coatings. Additionally, the company develops graphene-enhanced polymer technology to improve aquaculture netting.
- Apr 2024Post IPO$1.4M
- Oct 2023Grant (prize money)$470.5K
- Sep 2022Grant (prize money)$607K
#3
Public · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2003 · 55 employees$8.8Mraised▾
Provider of application, wearable devices, and mobile plans for families. The company offers a platform designed to connect family members and trusted contacts. It provides options for communication, location sharing, and safety features. The platform includes dedicated spaces for group chats and updates.
- Aug 2023Post IPO$760K
- Nov 2021Post IPO$8M
#4
Public · Wayville, South Australia · founded 2007 · 15 employees$11.2Mraised▾
Minerals exploration and development company
- Oct 2021Post IPO$10.9M
- May 2019Post IPO$300K
#5
Public · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2010 · 135 employees$1.5Mraised▾
Developer of a welding technology system
- Seed$1.5M
#6
Acqui-Hired · Glenelg, South Australia · founded 2011 · 29 employees$580.1Kraised▾
Develops a wearable device for cardiac monitoring. Liba3 is a multi-function 4-1 monitoring device that includes mobile cardiac telemetry, wireless cardiac event, holter, and extended Holter monitoring in a wearable patch. The device comes with hardware, software (cloud-based physician diagnostics and reporting), and a monitoring system. As of Jan'18, Liba is undergoing pre-market review by FDA.
- Jun 2019Seed$580.1K
#7
Seed · Kensington, South Australia · founded 2015 · 3 employees$110Kraised▾
Elanation is a technology brand focussed in kids. They have developed a wristband, Eturbo, that ensures high activity levels of kids via a virtual online app. The app enables kids to count their footsteps at school, in the playground or on the sports field. They can set the stopwatch, race their friends, accept missions and monitor their heart rate in real-time. They can also connect with their friends via the app. Price for the wristband starts at $129. Winner of the Best Lifestyle and Consumer Technology Prize, Beijing 2016; International Overseas Talent and Entrepreneurship Competition, Australia 2016; and International Overseas Talent and Entrepreneurship Competition, Beijing 2016.
- Apr 2020Seed—
- Dec 2016Seed$110K
#8
Seed · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2017 · 3 employees$20Kraised▾
My Sky Technologies develops machine learning algorithms to track aerial and terrestrial vehicles. It has developed a neural network visual training technology that autonomously creates multiple images and tags the objects of interest. It uses NVIDIA Jetson TX2 embedded GPU processor to enable object recognition and classification in real-time. Its fusion framework can also be integrated with the data collected using sensors. The company also provides annotated data sets with a proprietary Visual Content Creation Toolchain (VCCT) for synthetic training data generation. It has application in UAV systems and ground-based surveillance industry.
- Jul 2017Seed$20K
#9
Seed · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2014 · 3 employees—raised▾
Integrated platform for continuous monitoring of farm fields and data collection. It provides an integrated hardware and software platform for continuous monitoring and data collection on farm fields. The hardware consists of various sensors to monitor soil, climate, and other relevant parameters. The data is pushed to the cloud and can be accessed through the mobile platform. The data can be shared with agronomists and other relevant stakeholders for decision-making purposes.
- Feb 2020Seed—
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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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