Best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing Companies in Melbourne, Australia
The 36 best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in Melbourne, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Aware Environmental.
Our analysis of 431 Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies
$22.6b in tracked funding; 74% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in Melbourne
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Aware Environmental Contract manufacturer of home cleaning products | $39M | — | Funding Raised | Bill Daft Founder | 1994 | — | — | — |
| 2 | Packform Online marketplace for custom packaging products | $25M | 59 mo ago | Series B | Preston Geeting Co-Founder | 2017 | SentryNode.jsGoogle Maps+22 | — | — |
| 3 | XY Sense Provider of workplace management solutions | $21M | 49 mo ago | Seed | Luke Murray Co-Founder | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 4 | Great Wrap Manufacturer of home compostable cling wrap | $10M | 27 mo ago | Series A | Julia Kay Co-Founder | 2019 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+31 | 3 patents Extrusion-formed polymer films for packaging applications | — |
| 5 | Modbot Modular robot building blocks for robotic arm | — | 123 mo ago | Seed | Daniel Pizzata Founder & President | 2013 | — | 4 patents Mechanical power transmission components for industrial machinery | — |
| 6 | 3 Clicks Apparel Provider of app-based platform for production management | — | — | Deadpooled | Trent Hailes CEO | 2004 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Abbe Manufacturer & supplier of corrugated and carton board packaging machines | — | — | Unfunded | — | 1991 | WordPressMySQLPHP+33 | — | — |
| 8 | APS Industrial Offers industrial electrical and automation products | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2018 | WordPressPleskMySQL+27 | — | 3 launchs |
Top 5 Industrial Goods and Manufacturing companies in Melbourne
#1
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 22 employees$9.8Mraised▾
Manufacturer of home compostable cling wrap. It is a material science and innovation company that develops compostable packaging materials from food waste. It manufactures stretch wraps, compostable pallet wraps, nudie rolls, and more.
- May 2024Conventional Debt—
- May 2024Series A$3.3M
- Jul 2022Series A$7.6M
- Jul 2022Grant (prize money)$13M
#2
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 44 employees$20.8Mraised▾
Provider of workplace management solutions. It leverages technologies like AI, cloud computing, and Bluetooth, and motion sensors to capture data on office occupancy, space utilization, and movement paths, and performs real-time analytics to provide office space plans and workplace strategies. It enables space booking, live wayfinding, and organizations to maintain social distance.
- Jul 2022Seed$8M
- Jul 2022Venture Debt$2M
- Apr 2021Seed$7.8M
- 2017Seed$5M
#3
Series B · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2017 · 51 employees$25Mraised▾
Online marketplace for custom packaging products
- Oct 2021Series B$25M
#4
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 1994 · 25 employees$39Mraised▾
Aware Environmental Limited is one of Australia?s leading manufacturers and brand owners of natural, certified organic and eco-responsible products for the personal care and homecare markets.
- Conventional Debt$39M
#5
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2013 · 6 employees—raised▾
Modbot provides robot building blocks that can be assembled into different forms according to the desired functionality. These affordable and re-usable modules provides high precision at low costs. They offers a complete robot development platform that includes a sophisticated integrated servo, a plug and play joint, a link with network and power cabling integrated, a phone app interface for rapid prototyping and an in-browser virtual simulation & collaboration system. The mobile app is used to program the recorded key-frames and repeated sequences wirelessly, and upload the data to the cloud using Modbot Virtual Robot Builder. It can be transformed into a smooth camera holder, car simulator or a prosthetic leg. Part of Highway1.io, a hardware accelerator program.
- 2016Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Additive Manufacturing in Melbourne is moving
A read on the academic research around Additive Manufacturing in Melbourne — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 63 papers.
- The University of Melbourne38
- University of Melbourne17
- St Vincent\'s Hospital Melbourne6
- Melbourne Centre for Nanofabrication3
- Royal Dental Hospital of Melbourne3
- 3D printing2→4
- 3D printing1→8
- 3D printing4
- Intellectual property3
- Government (linguistics)2
- Scholarship2
- Function (biology)2
Common questions
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