Best Native AI Companies in New South Wales, Australia
The 191 best Native AI companies in New South Wales, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Q-Ctrl.
Our analysis of 150 Native AI companies
$80.7b in tracked funding; 94% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Native AI companies in New South Wales
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Q-Ctrl Developer of cloud-based firmware to stabilise qubits from quantum decoherence 74Tech top 15%AI top 20%Funding top 22%Moat top 29% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 15% AItop 20% Fundingtop 22% Moattop 29% Markettop 43% Talenttop 44% Growthbottom 40% Globalbottom 38% Newsbottom 30% Tech: 49 technologies across 6/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel AI: Classified as an AI company rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 74/100 | $166M | 20 mo ago | Series B | 101 | Michael Biercuk Founder & CEO | SentryMarkerAtlassian Statuspage+29 | 1 job opening |
| 2 | Harrison Provider of artificial intelligence system for multiple diagnostic analysis 69AI top 26%Funding top 29%Moat top 31%Growth top 35% All 10 signals ▾AItop 26% Fundingtop 29% Moattop 31% Growthtop 35% Techtop 35% Markettop 45% Talentbottom 49% Fin. healthbottom 44% Newsbottom 43% Globalbottom 39% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence, deep learning Funding: Raised $117M across 3 rounds · 3 rounds over 7 yrs (0.4/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 69/100 | $117M | 16 mo ago | Series C | 182 | Dimitry Tran Co-Founder & Chief Business Development Officer | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 3 partnerships |
| 3 | Dovetailed Technologies Provider of a platform centralizing and analyzing customer feedback using AI | $71M | 53 mo ago | Series A | 137 | Bradley Ayers Co-Founder | ContentfulSentryApple iCloud Mail+35 | — |
| 4 | Omniscient Provider of AI-powered brain mapping and analysis platform 48AI top 30%News top 32%Talent top 33%Funding top 46% All 8 signals ▾AItop 30% Newstop 32% Talenttop 33% Fundingtop 46% Techtop 46% Marketbottom 47% Globalbottom 37% Growthbottom 35% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered News: 3 BI events in 12 mo (of 4 tracked, 1 types) · +200% YoY rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $60M | 24 mo ago | Series C | 78 | Michael Sughrue Founder and CMO | HubSpot CMS HubSentryApple iCloud Mail+21 | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 5 | Hivery Provider of analytics solutions for vending fleet management | $38M | 47 mo ago | Acquired | 77 | Jason Hosking Co-Founder & CEO | PrismicApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+35 | — |
| 6 | Leonardo Ai AI-powered platform to generate assets with models | $31M | 30 mo ago | Acquired | 25 | Chris Gillis Co-Founder & CFO | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+40 | 7 launchs · 1 award |
| 7 | Lumachain Provider of computer vision artificial intelligence for food and beverage production 45AI top 26%Funding top 38%Product top 41%Talent bottom 49% All 8 signals ▾AItop 26% Fundingtop 38% Producttop 41% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 46% Globalbottom 43% Techbottom 27% Newsbottom 18% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: artificial intelligence, computer vision Funding: Raised $23.0M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 7 yrs (0.3/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 45/100 | $23M | 20 mo ago | Series A | 100 | Jamila Gordon Founder & CEO | WordPressMySQLPHP+23 | 7 launchs |
| 8 | Archi Star Provider of AI-powered platform streamlining building permit assessment and compliance 67Tech top 29%Product top 30%Funding top 35%Growth top 35% All 11 signals ▾Techtop 29% Producttop 30% Fundingtop 35% Growthtop 35% Innovationtop 39% Moattop 39% AItop 45% Talentbottom 49% Marketbottom 46% Globalbottom 36% Newsbottom 22% Tech: 46 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Web Services Product: 7 distinct product lines · Company stage: Series B rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 67/100 | $22M | 23 mo ago | Series B | 55 | Benjamin Coorey Co-Founder & CEO | WordPressSentryMySQL+26 | 1 partnership |
| 9 | Abyss Solutions Provider of autonomous inspection solutions for critical infrastructure and assets | $19M | 42 mo ago | Series B | 176 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+30 | — |
| 10 | myInterview Cloud-based video interviewing platform | $17M | 41 mo ago | Acquired | 35 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+29 | — |
| 11 | Kula Provider of an AI-native applicant tracking system for talent acquisition | $15M | 45 mo ago | Seed | 49 | Suman Dey Co-Founder | WebflowSentryVimeo+30 | — |
| 12 | Decidr Provider of AI-powered growth engine for SMEs 64AI top 23%Tech top 31%Growth top 35%Funding top 36% All 7 signals ▾AItop 23% Techtop 31% Growthtop 35% Fundingtop 36% Talenttop 38% Marketbottom 37% Globalbottom 25% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai-powered Tech: 35 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 64/100 | $13M | 8 mo ago | Acquired | — | Paul Chan Founder & CEO | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+28 | 1 job opening |
| 13 | Canopus Developer of AI-driven network observability platform using eBPF and AI agents | $13M | 14 mo ago | Series A | — | Vijay Sivaraman Co-Founder & CEO | WagtailNode.jsPython+18 | — |
| 14 | Relevance AI AI-powered image data analytics platform 57Tech top 24%Talent top 28%AI top 30%Funding top 37% All 10 signals ▾Techtop 24% Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Fundingtop 37% Moattop 48% Producttop 49% Growthbottom 40% Globalbottom 39% Marketbottom 36% Newsbottom 21% Tech: 55 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Cloudflare, Vercel Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 57/100 | $13M | 13 mo ago | Series B | 16 | Daniel Palmer Co-Founder | WebflowGSAPPostHog+22 | — |
| 15 | Unleash live AI based platform offering image and video analytics solutions | $13M | 57 mo ago | Series A | 28 | Hanno Blankenstein CEO and Co-founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+27 | 5 job openings |
| 16 | Particular Audience Platform offering consumer intelligence solution | $11M | 32 mo ago | Series A | 35 | — | — | — |
| 17 | Calumino Developer of thermal imaging sensors | $10M | 44 mo ago | Series A | 44 | Marek Steffanson Co-Founder & CTO | — | 2 launchs |
| 18 | CIM SaaS & AI-driven building analytics platform for commercial properties | $10M | 45 mo ago | Series A | 82 | David Walsh Founder & CEO | WebflowGSAPMicrosoft Clarity+21 | 3 launchs · 2 partnerships |
| 19 | Brainfish AI powered customer support agents 62AI top 19%Funding top 37%Talent top 38%Tech top 41% All 7 signals ▾AItop 19% Fundingtop 37% Talenttop 38% Techtop 41% Growthtop 45% Globaltop 45% Marketbottom 40% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai powered, computer vision Funding: Raised $8.9M across 2 rounds · 2 rounds over 2 yrs (1.0/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $9M | 11 mo ago | Seed | — | Daniel Kimber Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesMicrosoft Clarity+25 | — |
| 20 | Breaker Developer of AI agents for autonomous systems control 53AI top 20%Talent top 28%Funding top 35%Global bottom 48% All 6 signals ▾AItop 20% Talenttop 28% Fundingtop 35% Globalbottom 48% Techbottom 38% Marketbottom 35% AI: Classified as an AI company Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 53/100 | $8M | 4 mo ago | Seed | — | Vanja Videnovic Co-Founder | WebflowApple iCloud MailGSAP+9 | 1 award |
| 21 | Curious Thing AI-based conversational candidate assessment solution for volume hiring | $8M | 49 mo ago | Seed | 24 | — | Google Sign-inReactReact Router+18 | — |
| 22 | Martec Discreet job board for job seekers | $8M | 32 mo ago | Series A | 29 | Raaj Govintharajah Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+26 | — |
| 23 | Local Measure Location based social media monitoring platform | $8M | 112 mo ago | Acquired | 50 | Jonathan Barouch ex-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 24 | Strong Compute Provider of AI-based training | $8M | 48 mo ago | Seed | 13 | Calvin Ung Co-Founder | — | 2 partnerships · 3 expansions |
| 25 | Unseen Developer of AI agents for commercial real estate sector augmentation | $8M | 19 mo ago | Series A | — | William Cosby Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowjQueryHSTS+4 | — |
| 26 | Flamingo AI-based customer support chatbots and virtual assistance solutions for the insurance industry | $8M | 102 mo ago | Deadpooled | 17 | — | — | — |
| 27 | Tiliter Provider of AI and computer vision-based solutions for the retail sector | $8M | 67 mo ago | Series A | 54 | Marcel Herz Co-Founder & Co-CEO | WebflowPlausibleLinkedin Insight Tag+15 | — |
| 28 | Tactiq Cloud-based live captions recording solution provider for meetings | $7M | 23 mo ago | Series A | 9 | Ksenia Svechnikova Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+22 | 1 launch |
| 29 | VAPAR Developer of ML based platform for assessing the condition of sewer pipes | $7M | 28 mo ago | Series A | 20 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | 1 job opening · 3 partnerships |
| 30 | reask Risk management solutions for insurers 60Talent top 28%AI top 30%Innovation top 32%Growth top 35% All 11 signals ▾Talenttop 28% AItop 30% Innovationtop 32% Growthtop 35% Techtop 43% Producttop 43% Fundingtop 46% Moattop 48% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 23% Newsbottom 18% Talent: 4 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 60/100 | $7M | 15 mo ago | Seed | 17 | Eugene Dubossarsky Co-Founder | WordPress Block EditorElementorWordPress+24 | — |
| 31 | Truescope Cloud based media intelligence and monitoring solutions | $6M | 51 mo ago | Series A | 79 | Michael Bade Co-Founder & CTO | WebflowAmazon Web ServicesTypekit+16 | 1 launch · 2 awards |
| 32 | Visionary Machines Provider of AI and camera-based automatic perception system for navigation | $6M | 58 mo ago | Seed | 26 | Paul Schlusser Co-Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+18 | — |
| 33 | Marlee Platform providing performance management solutions | $5M | 40 mo ago | Series A | — | Michelle Duval Founder & CEO | Node.jsSalesforceRadix UI+19 | — |
| 34 | Nullify AI powered code review platform 48AI top 23%Talent top 28%Growth top 35%News top 36% All 9 signals ▾AItop 23% Talenttop 28% Growthtop 35% Newstop 36% Moattop 39% Fundingtop 44% Techbottom 43% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 22% AI: Classified as an agentic-AI company · Product described with: ai powered Talent: 3 named leaders on record · 3 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $5M | 4 mo ago | Seed | 10 | Shantanu Kulkarni Co-Founder & CEO | WebflowSwiperLenis+11 | — |
| 35 | Gridsight Developer of an AI-driven electrical digital twin for distribution networks 40AI top 30%Talent top 38%Growth top 45%Funding top 49% All 7 signals ▾AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Fundingtop 49% Techbottom 42% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 26% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-driven Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $5M | 14 mo ago | Series A | 17 | Kurt Walkom Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+13 | 1 partnership |
| 36 | Psyke Provider of AI-driven platform for search engine optimization and content generation | $4M | 42 mo ago | Seed | — | Alexandre Girard Co-Founder | — | 1 launch |
| 37 | Servicely Developer of an AI-powered platform for enterprise service management solutions | $4M | 36 mo ago | Seed | 20 | — | TypeScriptTinyMCEAce+21 | — |
| 38 | SourseAI Decision augmentation platform | $3M | 30 mo ago | Series A | 21 | Tanya Young Co-Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 39 | Dataro AI-based fundraising campaigning platform 62AI top 30%Innovation top 32%Tech top 32%Growth top 35% All 10 signals ▾AItop 30% Innovationtop 32% Techtop 32% Growthtop 35% Producttop 36% Talenttop 38% Moattop 48% Fundingtop 50% Globalbottom 36% Marketbottom 28% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-based Innovation: 12 product lines · Deep-tech classification: Artificial Intelligence rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $2M | 4 mo ago | Series A | 22 | David Lyndon Co-Founder | Webflow EcommerceWebflowAmazon Web Services+18 | — |
| 40 | Sauce Provider of AI platform analyzing customer feedback to identify product gaps | $2M | 43 mo ago | Seed | 4 | James Szklarz Co-founder | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+15 | — |
| 41 | Inauro Provider of cloud-based sensor fusion platform for IoT applications | $2M | 48 mo ago | Seed | 10 | Craig Kesby Co-Founder & Co-CEO | — | 1 partnership |
| 42 | Hall Customer community platform software solutions for businesses | $2M | 10 mo ago | Seed | — | Kai Forsyth Founder | InstatusNode.jsRadix UI+17 | — |
| 43 | Traffyk.ai Provider of HR recruitment services | $2M | 32 mo ago | Seed | — | Alex Manchester Co-Founder and Chief Product Officer | — | — |
| 44 | Apate.ai Developer of AI-powered platform for scam prevention and intelligence gathering 42AI top 30%Growth top 35%Talent top 38%Funding top 49% All 7 signals ▾AItop 30% Growthtop 35% Talenttop 38% Fundingtop 49% Techbottom 39% Globalbottom 33% Marketbottom 25% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-powered Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 42/100 | $2M | 9 mo ago | Seed | — | Peter Eckermann Co-Founder & Chief Product and Operations Officer | WebflowAzurecore-js+11 | 1 job opening · 2 awards |
| 45 | Katonic Provider of AI and cloud-based data science process automation solutions | $2M | 41 mo ago | Seed | 24 | — | BootstrapAmazon Web ServicesEmotion+24 | 1 launch |
| 46 | TrueState Platform for building AI systems | $2M | 24 mo ago | Seed | — | William Ashford Founder & CEO | — | — |
| 47 | Sim Converse Provider of an AI-based simulation platform for communication practice | $2M | 39 mo ago | Seed | 7 | William Pamment COO | SentryRadix UITailwind CSS+11 | — |
| 48 | Mary Technology AI powered legal document automation and management software | $1M | 3 mo ago | Series A | — | Daniel Lord-Doyle Co-Founder & CEO | SanityApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+21 | 1 partnership |
| 49 | MagicBrief AI based platform offering storytelling software | $1M | 35 mo ago | Acquired | 6 | — | SentryFirebaseFacebook Login+24 | — |
| 50 | Narrato Provider of AI-powered platform for content creation, workflow, and management | $1M | 38 mo ago | Acquired | 76 | Sophia Solanki ex-Founder | PythonUbuntuYouTube+34 | — |
Top 12 Native AI companies in New South Wales
#1
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2023$8.4Mraised▾
Developer of AI agents for autonomous systems control. The agents enable two-way voice communication with robots via push-to-talk radio networks, facilitating real-time command issuance, question-asking, and mission context updates. They empower robots to make real-time, auditable decisions at the edge, leveraging context to filter critical information and reduce cognitive load. These agents support multi-asset cross-domain teaming, allowing autonomous systems to collaborate across air, land, and maritime domains.
- Feb 2026Seed$6.4M
- Mar 2025Seed$2M
#2
Series C · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 182 employees$117Mraised▾
Provider of artificial intelligence system for multiple diagnostic analysis. The company offers a platform that is based on deep learning artificial intelligence. The platform helps with services like predictive pregnancy from time-lapse video and fundoscopic images, along with tuberculosis case analysis and canine parvovirus infection.
- Jan 2025Series C$112M
- Nov 2021Series B$97M
- Dec 2019Series A$20M
#3
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2022 · 10 employees$4.5Mraised▾
AI powered code review platform. It provides a security tool that enables users to scan the codebase to identify code quality issues and security weaknesses. The platform identifies, scans, and comments on code to provide developers with findings and fixes for security issues. Features include static application testing, automatic secret detection, software composition analysis, and more.
- Feb 2026Seed$12.5M
- Mar 2024Seed$3.4M
- Jun 2023Seed$1.1M
#4
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 101 employees$166Mraised▾
Developer of cloud-based firmware to stabilise qubits from quantum decoherence. The technology uses engineering-inspired transfer functions to provide realistic error budgeting and closed-loop control stabilisation techniques for mitigating hardware errors. It also provides advanced control protocols to reconstruct sensor features and provide quantum clock stabilisation.
- Oct 2024Series B$59M
- Feb 2024Grant (prize money)$2M
- Jan 2023Series B$27.4M
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$230K
#5
Acquired · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018$13.2Mraised▾
Provider of AI-powered growth engine for SMEs. This engine automates tasks, eliminates data silos, and facilitates scaling without increased overhead. It targets time-consuming, repetitive work such as data entry and email communication, improving business efficiency and allowing businesses to focus on strategic growth initiatives. The solution is designed to help small and medium-sized enterprises compete more effectively with larger organizations by streamlining operations and enhancing productivity.
- Oct 2025Post IPO$13.2M
#6
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 22 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Dataro is an AI-based fundraising campaigning platform. The product is a predictive analytics solution to create fundraising campaigns that integrate with the CRM for appeal donations, donor engagement, and retention.
- Feb 2026Series A$14.3M
- Dec 2021Seed$2.5M
#7
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2023$1.4Mraised▾
AI powered legal document automation and management software. It leverages AI to automate the process of creating detailed chronologies from multiple documents. It allows users to process the legal documents in real time. It includes a document review feature to process and review the legal documents. The platform supports PDF, DOCX, emails, audio, and more.
- Mar 2026Series A$4.9M
- Jun 2025Seed$1.7M
- Sep 2024Seed$1.4M
#8
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2022$8.9Mraised▾
AI powered customer support agents. The agents use computer vision to observe user product navigation, offering assistance as needed. It provides real-time guidance and support, automating level one and two support tasks. The agents also automatically create and update help documentation based on actual user interactions, streamlining self-service rates. Its multimodal answer engine understands user intent, and generates answers without keyword searches. The agents integrate with existing tools and workflows to manage support scenarios. Its behavioral reporting feature provides insights into user experience, identifies areas for improvement in documentation, processes, and the product.
- Jul 2025Seed$6.4M
- Oct 2024Seed—
- May 2024Seed$2.5M
#9
Series B · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2020 · 16 employees$12.8Mraised▾
AI-powered image data analytics platform. It leverages ML and enables users to extract business insights from unstructured data such as text and image files. The AI understands the meaning of text, audio, and images and analyses the sentiments and emotions from the file. Features include semantic search, AI tagging, image search, reports, and more.
- May 2025Series B$24M
- Dec 2023Series A$9.8M
- Dec 2021Seed$3M
#10
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018$13Mraised▾
Developer of AI-driven network observability platform using eBPF and AI agents. The platform provides real-time, high-fidelity traffic intelligence and autonomous workflows for network operations teams. It offers customer experience management, proactive troubleshooting, and network optimization. The platform also provides application assurance, asset health monitoring, and enhanced security posture.
- Mar 2025Grant (prize money)—
- May 2023Series A$3M
- Dec 2021Series A$10M
#11
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 100 employees$23Mraised▾
Provider of computer vision artificial intelligence for food and beverage production. It offers monitoring to ensure worker safety, animal welfare, yield, and product quality. The technology provides real-time alerts and actionable data, integrating with equipment and manufacturing robots. It improves safety, efficiency, quality, traceability, and trust in food and beverage production.
- Oct 2024Series A—
- Aug 2022Series A$19.5M
- Jul 2019Seed$3.5M
#12
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 17 employees$6.5Mraised▾
Risk management solutions for insurers. It offers an AI-based solution that enables institutions to mitigate climate risks. Its features include real-time event response, monitoring of global climate, and more. Its products include ForeCyc for short-term probabilistic tracking of the forecast, HindCyc for post-landfall event response, and more. It enables insurers to understand its exposure to catastrophic events.
- Mar 2025Seed$4M
- Jun 2023Seed$4.6M
- Jan 2022Seed—
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How research on Artificial Intelligence is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 555 Australia-affiliated papers.
- University College London95
- Monash University41
- UNSW Sydney39
- University of Technology Sydney31
- The University of Sydney30
- Artificial neural network2→16
- Graph1→14
- Robustness (evolution)3→16
- Feature (linguistics)1→14
- Set (abstract data type)2→11
- Support vector machine1→4
- Benchmark (surveying)2→4
- Pattern recognition (psychology)5→6
- Interpretability1→4
- Perspective (graphical)4→6
Where artificial intelligence 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.