Best Mining Tech Companies in Australia
The 120 best Mining Tech companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Propeller Aerobotics.
Australia's Mining Tech sector is moving fast enough right now that ranking the best companies by disclosed equity funding actually tells you something. This directory tracks 120 companies across Australia, with $178M in total disclosed funding and Propeller Aerobotics ($58M) and Plot Logic ($54M) leading the field by a wide margin. No unicorns yet, but the funding concentration at the top is sharp: those two companies alone account for over 60% of the capital tracked here. The global mining technology market sat at around $163B in 2022, driven by copper, gold, lithium and nickel demand, and assessing long-term value in mining technology is increasingly the question investors and operators are asking at the same time.
So what's pulling coverage higher this quarter? EV battery technology and next-generation EV platforms are the hot themes, tying Australia's resource extraction story directly into global supply chain pressure. Emesent ($23M) and ElectraLith ($17M) sit in that current, alongside K2fly and Datarock at earlier stages. Investors like Main Sequence, In-Q-Tel and Salus VC are the names you'll see repeatedly across cap tables here. I'd watch this cohort closely over the next two quarters as EV powertrain demand keeps copper and lithium markets tight and capital keeps flowing toward the tools that make extraction faster and smarter.
- ResearchAndMarkets.com
Ranked: Best Mining Tech companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | AcQuire Geoscientific Management Solution Provider | — | — | 106 | — | WebflowWordPressApple iCloud Mail+37 | Top 10M | 1 job opening · 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 2 | AIM Inventory Industrial Vending Solutions Provider | — | — | — | Chris Jones Founder | — | — | — |
| 3 | Alastri Mine planning software solutions | — | — | 12 | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | AmpControl Provider of power infrastructure, switchrooms, transformers, and electrical protection solutions | — | — | 950 | — | October CMSPHPLaravel+16 | Top 5M | 1 internship · 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 5 | Aptella Provider of automation and positioning technology for mining, civil construction and more | — | — | — | Garry Macphail WA State Manager/Founder/Director | WordPressMySQLZoho+21 | Top 5M | 1 launch |
| 6 | AssetDNA Operator Independent Truck dispatch System (OITDS) Solution for the mining industry | — | — | — | Paul Bennett CEO | — | — | — |
| 7 | Atomorphis Operator of a resource sector data science company intended to serve the mining industry. | — | — | 3 | — | — | — | — |
| 8 | Australian Geo Tomography 3D Geological Software | — | — | — | Bryden Quirk Founder | — | — | — |
Top 12 Mining Tech companies in Australia
#1
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2021 · 3 employees$17Mraised▾
Developer of direct lithium extraction and refining technology using renewable energy. The company provides a technology that extracts and refines battery-grade lithium hydroxide. This single-step, scalable, and modular process requires no water or chemicals and is powered by renewable energy.
- Jan 2025Series A$17M
#2
Series B · Surry Hills, New South Wales · founded 2014$57.5Mraised▾
Develops a cloud-based platform for management of drone-gathered data. It enables post-processing of data, as well as sharing it. It also provides various collaboration features. The target market includes both commercial drone operators and enterprises that use drone-based data and services.
- Apr 2023Series B$15.3M
- Jul 2020Series B$18M
- Jun 2018Series A$10M
- Sep 2016Series A$3.1M
#3
Series B · Queensland · founded 2016 · 81 employees$54.1Mraised▾
Plotlogic offers AI-based solutions for mining operations. The company's product offerings include OreSense LV, OreBlock, and OreCheck. OreSense LV uses hyperspectral imaging technology, combined with lidar and GPS, for model development to identify key variations from the mine’s geological model. OreBlocks is an API that interfaces with the geological model and OreCheck are an API that interfaces with the existing short-term scheduling tool.
- Jul 2023Series B$30.7M
- Mar 2022Series A$18.3M
- 2021Seed$5M
#4
Public · Perth, Western Australia · founded 2004 · 82 employees$11.9Mraised▾
K2fly offers asset management software solutions and services. The company serves mining, utilities and infrastructure industry. Offers mobility solutions, data collaboration visualisation solution and IoT solutions.
- Apr 2022Post IPO$4.6M
- Apr 2021Post IPO$5.6M
- Mar 2020Post IPO$76K
- Sep 2019Post IPO$1M
#5
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2018 · 139 employees$23Mraised▾
Provider of aerial-based earth imaging and mapping solutions. Its product portfolio includes Lidar devices, autonomous mapping drones, action cameras, and accessories. It also offers GIS software for aerial data analytics. It caters to mining, construction, agriculture, and forestry industries.
- Feb 2022Series A$23M
- Sep 2020Seed—
#6
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 14 employees$5.5Mraised▾
Provider of computer vision-based mining and exploration solutions. The cloud-based image analysis platform allows users to segment and classify various types of geological images or videos for automating the interpretation and modeling processes.
- Nov 2021Series A$5.5M
#7
Series A · Redcliffe, Queensland · founded 2012 · 12 employees$5.5Mraised▾
JESI is a remote worker management software provider for business travel. The Company provides software solutions for business to manage their mobile workforce. The application allows users to create their own paths for travel and create checkpoints that enable the employer to keep track of the travel. Industries Served include mining, energy, oil and gas, construction, education, and others.
- Nov 2020Series A$4.5M
- Jun 2016Seed$1M
#8
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2018$1.5Mraised▾
Provider of muon technology for analysis of subterranian features and internal structure of infrastructure. It facilitates mining, construction, and defense. Features include building internal structure intelligence management, deployable detection technology, data collection, patented miniaturized electronics, deployment service, power construction management, and more.
- Oct 2021Grant (prize money)$1.5M
#9
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 40 employees$322Kraised▾
Tech first mineral exploration company. The company uses proprietary AI technology to identify mineral rich sites. The company also provides products and services for other mining companies to explore mineral sites
- Jan 2023Post IPO$322K
#10
Funding Raised · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 1981$975Kraised▾
Maptek offers software solutions to the mining industry with applications across the value chain. It provides multiple products with different functionalities. This includes "Vulcan", which offers geological modeling, mine design, and production planning solutions. "Eureka" provides visualization of exploration data including geophysical surveys, images etc. "MineSuite" which provides technology for tracking and monitoring equipment and the process. Claims to provide software solutions to over 1700 locations in 35 countries.
- Feb 2008Grant (prize money)$975K
#11
Seed · Maylands, Western Australia · founded 2013 · 11 employees$500Kraised▾
Social media platform and digital marketplace for the mining industry. It is a listing platform for the mining community. It helps users to discover connections, hiring, opportunities, idea, crowdsourcing, tools and resources for the mining industry. It helps mining operators to post work tenders, both manual tasks and supply contracts, which members can bid for.
- Nov 2014Seed$500K
#12
Deadpooled · Wollongong, New South Wales · founded 2013$60Kraised▾
GeoInteractive is a risk management tool provider that uses smart mapping in order to prevent catastrophic failures in underground activities.GeoInteractive is currently providing objective and accurate underground maps that will assist in operations and maintenance of the mines, water utilities and transport. Some of the key clients include Glencore, Yancoal, SCT, Golder Associates and others. In 2016, the company was recognised as one of the top emerging technology company in an event organised by tech23.
- Feb 2017Seed$60K
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