Best Native AI Companies in Queensland, Australia
The 35 best Native AI companies in Queensland, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Zeligate.
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 Queensland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Zeligate AI powered recruitment platform streamlining talent acquisition processes | $6M | 10 mo ago | Seed | Denver Naidoo Founder and CTO at Zeligate | Pioneering the Future of Work with AI Solutions | 2023 | Webflow EcommerceWebflowAmazon Web Services+20 | — |
| 2 | Lyro Robotics Developer of AI-powered robotic solutions for object handling and packing | $2M | 50 mo ago | Seed | Norton Kelly-Boxall Co-Founder | 2019 | Hostinger Website BuilderAstroVue.js+8 | 2 partnerships |
| 3 | Codebots Provider of code-writing bots | $1M | 87 mo ago | Series A | Eban Escott Co-Founder | 2017 | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Azure+13 | — |
| 4 | Leximancer Statistical tool for test analysis | $1M | 216 mo ago | Seed | Andrew Smith Founder | 2001 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+19 | — |
| 5 | Advanced Mobility Analytics Provider of AI and computer vision-based solutions for road transport | $750K | 65 mo ago | Acquired | Tarek Sayed Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — |
| 6 | Cherry Provider of an AI-based customer engagement and retention platform for SaaS businesses | $625K | 55 mo ago | Deadpooled | Marko Simic Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — |
| 7 | Edexia AI-powered grading solutions for teachers | $500K | 21 mo ago | Seed | Nathan Wang Co-Founder and CTO | 2023 | SentryNode.jsFirebase+13 | — |
| 8 | AGRISTRY Provider of farm analysis and mapping solutions using drone imagery and spatial technology | — | — | Unfunded | Darren Andrews Founder | 2021 | — | — |
Top 7 Native AI companies in Queensland
#1
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2023$5.5Mraised▾
AI powered recruitment platform streamlining talent acquisition processes. The platform streamlines recruitment and talent acquisition through an adaptive smart AI assistant that generates content and fulfills tasks efficiently. It helps to advertise jobs, analyze resumes, match candidates and video interview candidates through AI.
- Nov 2025Seed$324.8K
- Oct 2024Seed$5.5M
#2
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2023$500Kraised▾
AI-powered grading solutions for teachers. It provides solutions for managing assignment marking and feedback assistant.
- Dec 2024Seed$500K
#3
Seed · Mansfield, Queensland · founded 2019$1.6Mraised▾
Developer of AI-powered robotic solutions for object handling and packing. The software enhances robotic capabilities, enabling precise object handling using intelligent vision. It streamlines robotics, facilitating the rapid implementation of advanced vision and control algorithms. This allows for superior precision and adaptability across diverse operational settings. The software detects, identifies, grasps, and repositions objects with precision.
- Jul 2022Seed$1.5M
- Apr 2022Grant (prize money)$100K
- Mar 2020Seed—
#4
Deadpooled · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2020 · 7 employees$625Kraised▾
Provider of an AI-based customer engagement and retention platform for SaaS businesses. The AI analyses customer data, create a rich view of a customer, then delivers personalized promotions that help to increase satisfaction and revenue. It offers a subscription-based pricing model.
- Feb 2022Seed$500K
- 2021Seed$500K
#5
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2017 · 14 employees$1.4Mraised▾
Provider of code-writing bots. It has developed a platform which can write code for developing an application for web, Android, iPhone & iPad. It comes with advanced behaviours and integrations and can write a number of technology stacks.
- Jun 2019Series A$1.4M
#6
Acquired · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2019 · 26 employees$750Kraised▾
Provider of AI and computer vision-based solutions for road transport. It offers AI-based video analytics solutions that can analyse and identify traffic safety issues. Its features include safety monitoring dashboards, notification alerts, diagnostic risk mitigation insights, adaptive traffic signal plugin, and real-time risk optimization. It also measures crowd and vehicle flows, speeds, trajectories, violations, and crash risk with other road users.
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$750K
#7
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2001 · 3 employees$1Mraised▾
Leximancer is a software tool designed for analyzing natural language text data. It uses statistics based algorithms which gives initial analysis in much faster time. It extracts semantic and relational information from text documents to identify high-level concepts. The output is in the form of a concept map, network cloud, quantitative data, concept thesaurus. It does not need any training sets and has a minimal setup time. It could be used for survey analysis, market research, social media monitoring, transcript analysis, etc.
- Sep 2008Seed$1M
- Grant (prize money)$64K
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A read on the academic research around Artificial Intelligence in Queensland — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 47 papers.
- Queensland University of Technology17
- The University of Queensland16
- University of Southern Queensland8
- University of Queensland6
- Central Queensland University3
- Pattern recognition (psychology)3
- Scalability2
- Robotics2
- Robot2
- Artificial neural network2
- Big data2
- Vocational education2
- Foundation (evidence)2
- Training (meteorology)2
- Empirical research2
- Generative grammar2
- Generative model2
- Task (project management)1
- Decision theory1
- Decision process1
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