Best Semiconductors Companies in Australia
The 122 best Semiconductors companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Morse Micro.
Ranked by disclosed equity funding and recent momentum, the 122 Semiconductors companies we track across Australia have pulled in $382M in total disclosed funding, with zero unicorns yet but a funding curve that's clearly steepening. Morse Micro leads the pack at $149M, Advanced Navigation sits at $101M, and the gap between those two and the rest of the field tells you something real about where conviction is concentrating. The global opportunity is large: the sector is forecast to reach $580.2B by 2026, growing at a 3.0% CAGR, and demand signals around chip design and semiconductor devices are getting louder this quarter.
So what does that mean for Australia specifically? I'd argue the local scene is earlier-stage than the funding totals suggest, with Blackbird Ventures and Main Sequence anchoring the investor side while smaller players like Cortical Labs ($12M) and XY Sense ($21M) fill out the mid-tier. Globally, activity is accelerating fast: India's OSAT plant inauguration and BigEndian's fresh $6M raise signal that Asia-Pacific capital is moving decisively into chip manufacturing infrastructure, and Australia's founders are watching that window open in real time.
Our analysis of 219 Semiconductors companies
$47.9b in tracked funding; 70% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Semiconductors companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Employees | Founded | Founder | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Morse Micro Provider of WiFi chips to enable IoT applications 78Innovation top 17%Patents top 19%Funding top 22%News top 23% All 11 signals ▾Innovationtop 17% Patentstop 19% Fundingtop 22% Newstop 23% Producttop 25% Growthtop 32% Moattop 32% Techtop 39% Talenttop 44% Markettop 45% Globalbottom 42% Innovation: 99 patents (top 19% of patent-holders) · 87 filings since 2022 vs 12 in 2017-21 Patents: 99 patents matched (strict assignee match) · 87 filings since 2022 vs 12 in 2017-21 rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 78/100 | $149M | 8 mo ago | Series C | 170 | 2016 | Andrew Terry Co-founder & CTO | 99 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | 2 launchs · 2 partnerships · 3 awards |
| 2 | Advanced Navigation Developer of AI and cloud-based inertial sensor systems for navigation 62News top 21%Funding top 25%Growth top 25%Tech top 31% All 12 signals ▾Newstop 21% Fundingtop 25% Growthtop 25% Techtop 31% Moattop 35% Markettop 38% Producttop 40% Fin. healthtop 49% Talentbottom 48% Globalbottom 39% Innovationbottom 35% Patentsbottom 34% News: 7 BI events in 12 mo (of 17 tracked, 3 types) · +250% YoY Funding: Raised $101M across 5 rounds · 5 rounds over 7 yrs (0.7/yr) rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 62/100 | $101M | 3 mo ago | Series C | 192 | 2012 | Chris Shaw Co-Founder & CEO | 2 patents LiDAR sensor hardware and signal‑processing for autonomous navigation systems | — |
| 3 | Fultech Manufacturer of protection components and modules for communications applications | $30M | 222 mo ago | Acqui-Hired | — | — | — | — | — |
| 4 | XY Sense Provider of workplace management solutions | $21M | 46 mo ago | Seed | 44 | 2016 | Luke Murray Co-Founder | — | — |
| 5 | Cortical Labs Manufacturer of AI-powered biochips 48Growth top 35%AI top 35%Funding top 37%News top 39% All 9 signals ▾Growthtop 35% AItop 35% Fundingtop 37% Newstop 39% Moattop 39% Talentbottom 49% Techbottom 47% Globalbottom 38% Marketbottom 29% Growth: Fresh capital in last 24 mo AI: Product described with: ai-powered, neural network rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 48/100 | $12M | 3 mo ago | Series A | 12 | 2019 | Weng Chong Founder/CEO | — | — |
| 6 | Audio Pixels MEMS based speakers | $11M | 122 mo ago | Public | 13 | 2000 | — | 7 patents Dust‑proof flat panel speakers with digital directivity and pressure‑wave generation | — |
| 7 | Calumino Developer of thermal imaging sensors | $10M | 45 mo ago | Series A | 44 | 2014 | Marek Steffanson Co-Founder & CTO | — | 2 launchs |
| 8 | Nomad Atomics Quantum sensor manufacturers | $10M | 35 mo ago | Series A | 5 | 2018 | Kyle Hardman Co-Founder & CEO | 16 patents Quantum atom interferometry and precision optical systems for inertial navigation sensors | — |
| 9 | DorsaVi Provider wearable sensor for motion analysis technologies | $9M | 104 mo ago | Public | 34 | 2008 | Daniel Ronchi Co-Founder & CTO | 7 patents Wearable sensor systems for biomechanical motion tracking and reaction force measurement | — |
| 10 | FarmBot Provider of cloud-based farm water monitoring system 55Tech top 33%Innovation top 34%Product top 36%Talent top 38% All 9 signals ▾Techtop 33% Innovationtop 34% Producttop 36% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Fundingtop 48% Marketbottom 39% Globalbottom 37% Newsbottom 22% Tech: 57 technologies across 5/8 capability areas · Cloud: Amazon Cloudfront, Amazon Ses Innovation: 12 product lines rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 55/100 | $8M | 24 mo ago | Series A | 32 | 2014 | Andrew Coppin Co -Founder and Managing Director | — | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 11 | Senseand Software platform for aggregating data from farm fields and data analytics | $6M | 35 mo ago | Seed | 18 | 2016 | Peter Moulton Co-founder & CEO | — | — |
| 12 | Bluglass Manufacturer of custom GaN laser diodes and LEDs | $4M | 28 mo ago | Public | 8 | 2005 | Jim Haden CEO | — | — |
| 13 | Semitech Semiconductor Provider of System-on-Chip for smart grid applications | $3M | 185 mo ago | Series A | 15 | 2010 | Zeev Collin ex-CEO | 12 patents Integrated ASICs for powerline communication and grid‑connected solar inverter control | — |
| 14 | MilliBeam Developer of radio frequency and millimeter-wave chipsets for networking | $3M | 23 mo ago | Seed | 11 | 2020 | — | — | 3 launchs |
| 15 | Contactile Manufacturer of force-based touch sensors for robotic skins | $2M | 49 mo ago | Seed | 7 | 2019 | Heba Khamis Co-Founder & CEO | — | 2 launchs |
| 16 | Ocular Robotics Develops vision sensors for use in robots | $1M | — | Public | — | 2009 | Mark Bishop CEO | 2 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 17 | QuantX Labs Provider of high precision timing and quantum sensor products for navigation, surveillance, and defense… | $750K | 30 mo ago | Seed | 19 | 2016 | Andre Luiten Co-Founder & Managing Director | — | 2 job openings · 2 partnerships |
| 18 | IR Sensors Develops a patented IR image sensor | $200K | 108 mo ago | Seed | — | 2005 | Kevin Liddiard CEO & Director | — | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in Australia
#1
Series C · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2012 · 192 employees$101Mraised▾
Developer of AI and cloud-based inertial sensor systems for navigation. Its product line includes navigation systems, inertial sensors, acoustics, global navigation satellite systems, and robotics. Its products cater to applications like underwater acoustics, GNSS antennas and receivers, radio frequency systems, inertial sensors, robotics, and quantum-enhanced inertial navigation.
- Mar 2026Series C$110M
- Jun 2023Grant (prize money)$3.5M
- Nov 2022Series B$68M
- Oct 2021Series A$20M
#2
Series C · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 170 employees$148.8Mraised▾
Provider of WiFi chips to enable IoT applications. Its connectivity platform is a single-chip solution, each of which incorporates the Radio, PHY, and MAC sections.
- Sep 2025Series C$59M
- Nov 2022Series B$20.2M
- Sep 2022Series B$95.1M
- Nov 2020Series A$13M
#3
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019 · 12 employees$11.6Mraised▾
Manufacturer of AI-powered biochips. It designs and develops biological computer chips that integrate biological neurons with traditional silicon computing. Its features include neural networks, scalability, energy efficiency, and robustness.
- Mar 2026Series A—
- Apr 2023Series A$10M
- Jun 2019Seed$1.6M
#4
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 32 employees$7.8Mraised▾
Provider of cloud-based farm water monitoring system. It monitors and reports farm water ecosystems delivering real-time reporting on water trends, consumption, and alerts. It also provides a rain gauge for automating rainfall entry to make stocking decisions.
- Jun 2024Series A$3M
- Dec 2022Series A$2M
- Oct 2021Series A$2.7M
- Aug 2014Seed$46.5K
#5
Seed · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory · founded 2020 · 11 employees$3Mraised▾
Developer of radio frequency and millimeter-wave chipsets for networking. The company develops chip solutions, wide-band beamformers, MIMO transceivers, antenna-in-package solutions, and power amplifiers. Its products support terrestrial and non-terrestrial networks, including dual-use autonomous sensing. The company's IP spans radio systems, transceivers, integrated circuits, antennas, embedded systems, and FPGAs.
- Jul 2024Seed$3M
#6
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 44 employees$20.8Mraised▾
Provider of workplace management solutions. It leverages technologies like AI, cloud computing, and Bluetooth, and motion sensors to capture data on office occupancy, space utilization, and movement paths, and performs real-time analytics to provide office space plans and workplace strategies. It enables space booking, live wayfinding, and organizations to maintain social distance.
- Jul 2022Seed$8M
- Jul 2022Venture Debt$2M
- Apr 2021Seed$7.8M
- 2017Seed$5M
#7
Series A · Richmond, Victoria · founded 2018 · 5 employees$10Mraised▾
Quantum sensor manufacturers. It helps in data acquisition and performance of hardened field-ready systems for deployment in resource monitoring, resource exploration, climate science, underground infrastructure exploration, and inertial navigation.
- Jul 2023Series A$10M
#8
Public · Silverwater, New South Wales · founded 2005 · 8 employees$4.3Mraised▾
Manufacturer of custom GaN laser diodes and LEDs. It provides end-to-end design, fabrication, and packaging services. The company utilizes a proprietary low-temperature growth process for higher efficiency and performance. Its products serve the industrial, defense, display, and scientific markets. It offers both small-batch custom solutions and high-volume production capabilities.
- Feb 2024Post IPO$4.3M
#9
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 18 employees$6Mraised▾
Senseand is developing a software platform for aggregation of data from sensors deployed in the farm fields and analytics along with data from various white label sources. As per the website description, the platform would be able to aggregate data from narrow band IoT(NB-IoT) sensors which can measure water and nutrient levels in the soil. The company claims that the platform would use satellite images and historical climatic data for up to 50 years for providing insights and predictions to farmers.
- Jul 2023Angel$6M
#10
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2014 · 44 employees$10.3Mraised▾
Developer of thermal imaging sensors. The company's proprietary computer vision algorithm provides thermal sensing solutions such as occupancy counting, gesture detection, fall detection, hotspot, and fire detection. The sensors primarily find usage in fire detection, security and monitoring, and for making buildings more energy-efficient by detecting occupants.
- Sep 2022Series A$10.3M
#11
Acqui-Hired · Australia$30Mraised▾
Manufacturer of protection components and modules for communications applications
#12
Seed · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2016 · 19 employees$750Kraised▾
It is a South Australian-based company specializing in the development of quantum sensor and precision timing products. Their flagship product, Cryoclock, is designed to enhance navigation, surveillance, and defense systems. They provide sovereign capabilities in high precision timing and quantum sensor technologies for defense and space programs.
- Nov 2023Seed$750K
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Semiconductors is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Semiconductors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 340 Australia-affiliated papers.
- University College London44
- UNSW Sydney35
- Macquarie University23
- RMIT University22
- Swinburne University of Technology19
- Photonics6→17
- Photonic integrated circuit3→13
- Transistor4→12
- Integrated circuit6→13
- Electronic circuit11→13
- Photonics3→14
- Photonic integrated circuit2→7
- Integrated circuit10→13
- Silicon5→8
- Miniaturization2→5
- Electronics1→4
- Integrated circuit3→4
Where semiconductors 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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