Best Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care Companies in Australia
The 158 best Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Navigator Group.
Among the 158 companies we track in Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care across Australia, disclosed equity funding sits at a modest $5M total, and that number tells a story worth reading carefully. Navigator Group leads the field at $3M raised, followed by Kite Therapy at $750,000 and Catholic Healthcare at $471,240. No unicorns here. But the absence of outsized valuations doesn't mean the sector's standing still.
What it means, actually, is that capital is still finding its footing. App-side data gives you a sharper signal: median install growth across healthcare apps is running at roughly +22% year-on-year across 385 tracked apps, which suggests consumer demand is pulling ahead of institutional funding. Amelio Health and AVIVE Health are both in the mix, and backers like Genesis Capital, LaunchVic, and Archer Capital are circling the space. I'd watch how climate-linked health pressures, prolonged high temperatures driving heat-related rehabilitation needs, feed into long-term care demand over the next few quarters. That's a slow-moving force that tends to reshape funding priorities before most investors notice it.
Our analysis of 50 Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care companies
$2.4b in tracked funding; 83% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Navigator Group Provider of physical & mental recovery and injuries treatment services | $3M | 38 mo ago | Series A | — | 2018 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+21 | — |
| 2 | Kite Therapy Early childhood therapy company providing transdisciplinary therapy for children with autism and… | $750K | 25 mo ago | Seed | Matt Morrison Co-Founder | 2023 | — | — |
| 3 | Catholic Healthcare Provider of residential aged care, retirement living, and home care services | $471K | 201 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 1994 | Optimizely Content ManagementElement UITailwind CSS+21 | 9 job openings |
| 4 | Amelio Health Provider of rehabilitation services | $285K | 52 mo ago | Funding Raised | — | 2019 | — | — |
| 5 | AVIVE Health Provider of mental health care services | — | 41 mo ago | Seed | Mark Sweeney Co-Founder & Co-Chief Executive Officer | 2021 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | — |
| 6 | Age Up Health Provider of home health care services | — | 49 mo ago | Seed | Grace Petherick Founder & CEO | 2019 | HubSpot CMS HubVue.jsSplide+16 | — |
| 7 | Banyans Health and Wellness Provider of mental health care and rehabilitation services | — | 61 mo ago | Seed | Ruth Limkin Founder | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+37 | — |
| 8 | HFRC Provider of exercise physiology, physiotherapy, and massage therapy services | — | 88 mo ago | Funding Raised | Massimo Voynas CEO | 1998 | Cart FunctionalityWixSentry+14 | — |
Top 8 Rehabilitation and Long-Term Care companies in Australia
#1
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2023$750Kraised▾
Kite Therapy is an early childhood transdisciplinary therapy program that focuses on developing children's communication, social, motor, and emotional resilience skills at home. They offer services for families of children with autism and developmental delays aged 1-6, utilizing NDIS plans for support.
- May 2024Seed$750K
#2
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2018 · 32 employees$3.3Mraised▾
Provider of physical & mental recovery and injuries treatment services
- Apr 2023Series A$3.3M
#3
Funding Raised · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 3 employees$285.2Kraised▾
Operator of healthcare tech and clinical education start-up intended to provide practice, evidence-informed online behavioral health programs for patients. The company specializes in online behavioral medicine, clinical education, long-term conditions, and behavioral/lifestyle programs, thereby helping people with clinical education live well with persistent pain.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$285.2K
#4
Funding Raised · Macquarie Park, New South Wales · founded 1994 · 1189 employees$471.2Kraised▾
Provider of residential aged care, retirement living, and home care services. It delivers permanent and respite residential accommodation, dementia and palliative care, and mental health support. The organization offers independent living units and seniors’ rental communities. Home care encompasses nursing, personal grooming, transportation, meal preparation, and home maintenance.
- Aug 2009Grant (prize money)$471.2K
#5
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2021—raised▾
Provider of mental health care services
- Jan 2023Seed—
#6
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 12 employees—raised▾
Provider of new aged care services intended to offer a more flexible approach to in-home support. The company provides a care companion and a care coordinator responsible for designing a unique program for each client, allowing aged patients to reduce the length of stay in an acute setting and deliver a high-quality customized service in the home to support this process.
- May 2022Seed—
#7
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2016 · 18 employees—raised▾
Operator of a private residential rehabilitation center intended to serve southeast Queensland. The company offers scientific evidence-based programs and biopsychosocial care and treatment to individuals for depression and anxiety, chronic stress and burnout, drug and alcohol dependency and addiction, behavioral addictions, eating disorders and other co-occurring or additional conditions, enabling patients to get a homely environment for holistic recovery.
- May 2021Seed—
#8
Funding Raised · Nedlands, Western Australia · founded 1998—raised▾
Provider of exercise physiology, physiotherapy, and massage therapy services. It offers treatment programs for musculoskeletal and orthopedic conditions, including pre- and post-surgical rehabilitation. Services also encompass metabolic health management, heart health support, hydrotherapy, ergonomic assessments, and shockwave therapy. The company utilizes a multidisciplinary approach and provides home rehabilitation services. Educational resources are also available.
- Jan 2019Grant (prize money)—
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How research on Longevity & Aging is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Longevity & Aging — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,488 Australia-affiliated papers.
- University College London225
- Newcastle University156
- UNSW Sydney113
- Monash University108
- The University of Sydney76
- Senescence43→60
- Genetics6→14
- Transcriptome2→9
- Ageing5→11
- Gene6→12
- Senescence33→118
- Cell biology14→41
- Inflammation2→26
- Ageing5→25
- Telomere6→24
- Senescence14→46
- Ageing8→24
- Population2→16
- Cell biology5→12
- Inflammation1→7
Where longevity 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.
Common questions
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