Best Mobile Companies in Melbourne, Australia
The 41 best Mobile companies in Melbourne, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Kinder World.
Our analysis of 127 Mobile companies
$17.0b in tracked funding; 88% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2024.
Ranked: Best Mobile companies in Melbourne
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kinder World Mobile game development company | $9M | 50 mo ago | Seed | Christina Chen Co-Founder | 2022 | PHPLiteSpeedCloudflare+8 | — |
| 2 | Tiger Pistol Local advertising platform for SMBs | $5M | 141 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2011 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+24 | — |
| 3 | iCandy Independent game publisher headquartered in Australia | $1M | 71 mo ago | Public | — | 2011 | WordPressMySQLPHP+13 | — |
| 4 | Weyo Developer of interactive early learning apps for preschoolers | $741K | 53 mo ago | Seed | Stuart Berwick Co-Founder | 2014 | — | — |
| 5 | 3-Bz Studio Developer of apps and casual mobile games | — | — | Deadpooled | Muhammad Bilal CEO & MD | 2017 | — | — |
| 6 | Brane Provider of social discovery network | — | — | Unfunded | Michael Chmielewski Founder & CEO | 2020 | — | — |
| 7 | Crossy Raod Mobile game development studio | — | — | Unfunded | Matthew Hall Co-Founder | 2014 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | — |
| 8 | DimeStudios Indie mobile game development company | — | — | Unfunded | Jonathan Herrera Owner | 2010 | — | — |
Top 4 Mobile companies in Melbourne
#1
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2022 · 22 employees$9Mraised▾
Mobile game development company. The company has developed a game called "Kinder world"- a game of houseplants, healing, and practicing kindness. The game is available for iOS and Android platforms.
- Jun 2022Seed$6.8M
#2
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2014 · 7 employees$741.2Kraised▾
Developer of interactive early learning apps for preschoolers. These apps utilize stories, songs, games, and yoga to foster holistic development, focusing on phonics, reading, and emotional wellbeing. The content is designed by play and education experts to ensure optimal learning and engagement. Interactive elements, such as augmented reality filters, bring classic stories to life, encouraging active participation and a love of learning. A growth mindset is central to the app's design philosophy.
- Mar 2022Seed$741.2K
#3
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2011$1.2Mraised▾
iCandy Interactive is an independent game publisher headquartered in Australia. It specializes in releasing games based on adventure, puzzle and action genres. Some of the games released by the company are "Crab War", "Alien Path", "Mobfish Hunter" and "Alien Hive". It publishes games for Android and iOS platforms. It has also won "Excellence in Gameplay Award 2017" award for its game development studio known as "Appxplore" at the 2nd International Mobile Gaming Awards (IMGA) Southeast Asia. It generates revenue through advertisements and in-app purchases.
- Sep 2020Post IPO$1.2M
#4
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2011 · 58 employees$5.1Mraised▾
Local advertising platform for SMBs. It focuses on simplifying and automating the process of creating and managing advertising campaigns for franchises, multi-location brands, and marketing resellers. It provides access to an interactive dashboard that consolidates campaign data from various locations.
- Nov 2014Series A$3.1M
- Oct 2013Seed$1M
- May 2012Angel$1M
Funding & investor landscape
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Mobile coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on 5G 6G in Melbourne is moving
A read on the academic research around 5G 6G in Melbourne — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 47 papers.
- University of Melbourne32
- The University of Melbourne15
- Beamforming6→7
- Beamforming12
- Telecommunications link6
- Base station4
- Signal-to-interference-plus-noise ratio3
- MIMO3
- MIMO1
- Ergodic theory1
- Interference (communication)1
- Noise (video)1
- Signal-to-noise ratio (imaging)1
Common questions
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