Best Semiconductors Companies in New South Wales, Australia
The 32 best Semiconductors companies in New South Wales, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Morse Micro.
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 New South Wales
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | 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 | 13 mo ago | Series C | Andrew Terry Co-founder & CTO | 2016 | WordPressApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+32 | 99 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 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 | 7 mo ago | Series C | Chris Shaw Co-Founder & CEO | 2012 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+30 | 2 patents LiDAR sensor hardware and signal processing for autonomous navigation systems | — |
| 3 | Audio Pixels MEMS based speakers | $11M | 127 mo ago | Public | — | 2000 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+15 | 7 patents Patents concentrated in electrical & electronics | — |
| 4 | Calumino Developer of thermal imaging sensors | $10M | 49 mo ago | Series A | Marek Steffanson Co-Founder & CTO | 2014 | — | — | — |
| 5 | 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 | 28 mo ago | Series A | Andrew Coppin Co -Founder and Managing Director | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+44 | — | — |
| 6 | Bluglass Manufacturer of custom GaN laser diodes and LEDs | $4M | 32 mo ago | Public | Jim Haden CEO | 2005 | WordPressMySQLPHP+8 | — | — |
| 7 | Contactile Manufacturer of force-based touch sensors for robotic skins | $2M | 54 mo ago | Seed | Heba Khamis Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Ocular Robotics Develops vision sensors for use in robots | $1M | — | Public | Mark Bishop CEO | 2009 | — | 2 patents Power measurement and monitoring via advanced energy signal processing | — |
Top 12 Semiconductors companies in New South Wales
#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 · 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
#4
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
#5
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
#6
Public · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2000 · 13 employees$11.1Mraised▾
Audio Pixels is developing an innovative MEMS based speaker. It is currently the only company claiming such a technology which could dramatically reduce the size of various consumer electronic devices. It holds over 64 patents in this domain and was started in Tel Aviv, Israel. It was later bought by a group of investors in Australia and incorporated in New South Wales. It is currently listed on the Australian Stock Exchange and has investments from Lau brothers who founded and ran ATI technologies.
- Mar 2016Post IPO$5.2M
- Dec 2012Post IPO$5.9M
#7
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2019 · 7 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Manufacturer of force-based touch sensors for robotic skins. It offers tactile sensors that provide robots with the human sense of touch for grippings. It can sense localized 3D deflection, 3D force, vibration, and emergent properties including torque, incipient slip, and friction. Its optical sensing method includes cavity, illumination, reflection, imaging, and resolving.
- May 2022Seed$2.5M
#8
Public · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2009$1.2Mraised▾
Ocular Robotics has developed a sensor platform which delivers machine vision with high precision and accuracy. Their RobotEye platform is capable of handling very high levels of acceleration and aperture speeds and with a pointing precision of upto 0.02 degrees. They have used the platform to release products using different sensing techniques such as LIDAR, Vision, Hyper Spectral imaging and Naked Imaging. The sensor can be deployed in devices used on land, air or water. Some of the applications could be in the area of 3D mapping, navigation, surveillance, mine detection etc.
- Seed$1.2M
#9
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 13 employees$3.8Kraised▾
Manufacturer of a fabless chip and integrated circuits intended to develop electronics and photonics integrated circuits for future optical technology. The company's equipment simplifies multiple voltage and current sources and drives direct current supply to output channels with a compact, programmable, multichannel source measurement unit for low-power applications from simple electronic circuits to complex photonic integrated circuits, enabling clients to get high-speed silicon photonics networking, smart and environmentally friendly device that controls the light to process information.
- Feb 2024Seed—
- Jun 2021Seed—
- Apr 2021Seed—
- Feb 2017Grant (prize money)$3.8K
#10
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2012 · 6 employees$35.1Kraised▾
Instrument Works, uses BLE to introduce battery-powered wireless sensor controllers. Currently, the company sells controllers for pH and temperature measurement and will soon add others to this list. Users can now use their smartphones to take measurements. Benefits include portability, cost and even performance (the system allows for auto-calibration and sensor health checks). The other benefit comes from their DataWorks app, which automatically detects the sensor controller and allows the user to control the sensor remotely. Data can be stored in the cloud together with time and location tagging. The company aims to be a hub whereby laboratory users focus their measurement taking and data management. Won an NSW state grant and has received some angel investment.
- Feb 2014Seed$35.1K
#11
Deadpooled · New South Wales · founded 2015 · 2 employees$3.8Kraised▾
Developer of infrared spectrometer designed to track spectral changes by millisecond. The company's spectrometer is compact, displays real-time data, and ensures laser stability, enabling clients to seamlessly map out the power distribution of mid-IR sources.
- Mar 2016Grant (prize money)$3.8K
#12
Funding Raised · Kirrawee, New South Wales · founded 1959—raised▾
VEGA develops and manufactures sensors for measurement of attributes such as level and pressure used across a wide range of industries. They employ various technologies for level sensing which include vibration, capacitive, conductive, radar or radiation-based sensing. They are used in various applications such as waste water, building materials, chemical, energy, food industry and metal production.
Funding & investor landscape
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Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
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Funding & growth over time
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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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