Best Retail Companies in Queensland, Australia
The 279 best Retail companies in Queensland, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: IronPlanet.
Ranked: Best Retail companies in Queensland
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | IronPlanet App-based platform that provides auctions for used heavy equipment | $85M | 117 mo ago | Acquired | — | 1998 | ContentfulBootstrapAmazon ALB+12 | — | — |
| 2 | Tradelink Retailer of plumbing supplies in online | $13M | 47 mo ago | Series A | — | 1989 | Cart FunctionalityBigCommerceKlevu+38 | — | — |
| 3 | Tiltsta Interactive mobile advertising solution | $2M | 99 mo ago | Deadpooled | Bonny Morlak Co-Founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 4 | Dog and Bone Private label brand for protective cases for mobile and tablets | $2M | 137 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2012 | — | 11 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 5 | Outland Denim Internet first brand of casual apparel for men and women | $1M | 72 mo ago | Seed | James Bartle Founder & CEO | 2011 | — | — | — |
| 6 | TAGR Provider of contactless shopping solution for businesses | $1M | 47 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 7 | iSeekplant Plant hire search website | $1M | 122 mo ago | Series B | Matthew Peters Co-Founder/General Manager – Commercial/Director | 2011 | Apple iCloud MailGoogle WorkspacePHP+26 | — | 1 job opening · 1 partnership |
| 8 | Klean Provider of sustainable retail options offering eco-friendly products that support the environment with every… | $725K | 23 mo ago | Seed | Shan Vahora Founder & CEO | 2022 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Augmented Bionics Developer of a non-invasive device to treat hearing loss | $650K | 68 mo ago | Deadpooled | Viraj Agnihotri Founder & CEO | 2018 | — | 6 patents Non‑invasive neural sensory stimulation devices for prosthetic feedback and rehabilitation | — |
| 10 | ParentTV Video-based content platform for parenting | $500K | 69 mo ago | Seed | Sam Jockel Founder & CEO | 2017 | Node.jsVimeoVue.js+19 | — | — |
| 11 | Norbit App based customer loyalty platform for retailers | $400K | 106 mo ago | Seed | — | 2015 | — | — | — |
| 12 | Cardly Online marketplace for greeting cards | $230K | 101 mo ago | Seed | Patrick Gaskin Co Founder | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+21 | — | — |
| 13 | Luxe.It.Fwd Online consignment for pre-owned luxury handbags | $140K | 52 mo ago | Funding Raised | Miranda Gillespie Founder | 2015 | Cart FunctionalityMagentoMySQL+34 | — | 1 expansion |
| 14 | Conpago Provider of a cloud-based digital care management platform for aged, disability, retirement, and home care… | $100K | 87 mo ago | Seed | — | 2016 | — | — | 1 launch |
Top 12 Retail companies in Queensland
#1
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2022$725Kraised▾
Cleantech Group provides research and consulting services to identify opportunities in sustainable innovation for growth. They focus on enabling businesses to support the environment through eco-friendly products and solutions.
- Jun 2024Seed$725K
- Jun 2024Grant (prize money)$200K
#2
Series A · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 1989 · 960 employees$12.6Mraised▾
Retailer of plumbing supplies in online
#3
Acquired · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 1998 · 525 employees$84.6Mraised▾
App-based platform that provides auctions for used heavy equipment. Users can buy & sell anything from backhoes & dozers to farm tractors & trucks. Has a consignment model. Seller consigns equipment to an auction, which preps the equipment & makes it available for inspection at his own place. Their app is available for iOS devices.
- Aug 2016Series B$18M
- Sep 2015Conventional Debt$55M
- Jan 2015Series B$20.7M
- Aug 2000Series B$36M
#4
Deadpooled · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2019 · 9 employees$1.1Mraised▾
Provider of contactless shopping solutions for businesses. The customers can scan the product barcode or store QR code, paying for the products from the mobile device, and receive digital receipts. It helps businesses to improve in-store hygenic practices, customer shopping experience, customer lifetime value(CLV), reduce customer acquisition costs(CAC), and more. It also helps customers with contactless checkout, personalized shopping, customer engagement, and more.
- Jun 2022Seed$1.1M
#5
Seed · Tamborine, Queensland · founded 2011 · 22 employees$1.3Mraised▾
Operator of a sustainable denim brand intended to offer apparel for him and her. The company is an online clothing shop for men and women that offers denim jeans, jackets, shirts, and shorts products while offering sustainable employment and training opportunities to women who have experienced exploitation, enabling customers to have good fabric jeans.
#6
Deadpooled · Sunshine Coast, Queensland · founded 2016 · 21 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Tiltsta is an interactive mobile advertising solution that creates interactive mobile shopping videos. Tiltsta enables brands to introduce shoppable videos via their social apps. Customers can watch a video and tilt their phone back when they see something the like to add it to their shopping list. They can check out on the merchant’s site. Their solution can be integrated into Facebook advertising. The company is a winner of Gold award Publicis90.
- Mar 2018Seed$1.7M
- Apr 2016Seed$150K
#7
Deadpooled · St Lucia, Queensland · founded 2018 · 5 employees$650Kraised▾
Augmented Bionics is developing a non-invasive device for neurological impairments. Its flagship product, headphone liked neurostimulation prosthetics is to stimulate the hearing nerve of patients with hearing loss. The company claims that the technology can be used for other neural disorders such as visual impairment, stroke, Alzheimer's, Parkinson's and paraplegic patients.
- Sep 2020Seed$650K
- Jul 2018Seed—
#8
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2017$500Kraised▾
Parent TV is a video-based content platform for parenting. It offers courses on different topics like general parenting, mental health, behavioural, social wellbeing, and more. It offers services based on subscription.
- Sep 2020Seed$500K
#9
Funding Raised · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2015$139.7Kraised▾
Luxe.It.Fwd is an online consignment platform for pre-owned luxury and designer handbags. Users can either put their products for consignment or can sell it directly to Luxe.It.Fwd for 50% to 60% of the value of the product. Charges consignment fee. Mainly operational in Australia, but also offers International shipping. Offers Lay-Buy option for products purchased on their platform. All the products sold on the platform are authenticated by their team and also offers customers a 14 day return period.
- Feb 2022Grant (prize money)$139.7K
#10
Deadpooled · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2012 · 8 employees$1.6Mraised▾
Dog & Bone (D&B) is an provider of protective cases for smartphone and tablet devices infusing cutting-edge technology. Its core products are: - Wetsuit: with patent pending waterproofing technology that is best in class and allows direct screen touch - Backbone: with patent pending shock proof and wireless charging technology that charges faster than a cable charge. D&B now has over 15 distribution partners in place and have reach of 30 countries post capital raise. They have also developed other innovative accessories like smart sports case with wearable monitoring technology and a keyless smartphone operated padlock.
- Jan 2015Angel$1.6M
#11
Series B · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2011 · 56 employees$1Mraised▾
iSeekplant is Australia’s Plant Hire Search Site. It connects plant users (project managers, civil contractors, builders and developers) with plant owners and operators Australia-wide, based on their capability and availability. It is a centralized database of equipment and services for plant users to easily search, explore and identify businesses that have the plant and capabilities they are seeking.
- Apr 2016Series B—
- Aug 2015Series A$1M
- Jan 2014Seed—
#12
Seed · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2015 · 10 employees$400Kraised▾
Norbit offers an app based customer loyalty platform to retailers. Allows businesses to roll out a loyalty program, reward customers for walking in stores and providing feedback, send push notifications to nearby customers, distribute deals and coupons, and track customer behavior and store performance. Clients include Redbank Plaza, Brookside, and Capalaba Park, among others.
- Aug 2017Angel$400K
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