Best Sensors Companies in Australia
The 55 best Sensors companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Advanced Navigation.
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Our analysis of 50 Sensors companies
$7.1b in tracked funding; 75% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sensors companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 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 | 4 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 | — |
| 2 | XY Sense Provider of workplace management solutions | $21M | 47 mo ago | Seed | Luke Murray Co-Founder | 2016 | WordPressMySQLPHP+22 | — | — |
| 3 | Audio Pixels MEMS based speakers | $11M | 123 mo ago | Public | — | 2000 | WordPress Block EditorWordPressMySQL+15 | 7 patents Dust‑proof flat panel speakers with digital directivity and pressure‑wave generation | — |
| 4 | Calumino Developer of thermal imaging sensors | $10M | 45 mo ago | Series A | Marek Steffanson Co-Founder & CTO | 2014 | — | — | 2 launchs |
| 5 | Nomad Atomics Quantum sensor manufacturers | $10M | 36 mo ago | Series A | Kyle Hardman Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | WebflowZohoLenis+12 | 16 patents Quantum atom interferometry and precision optical systems for inertial navigation sensors | — |
| 6 | DorsaVi Provider wearable sensor for motion analysis technologies | $9M | 105 mo ago | Public | Daniel Ronchi Co-Founder & CTO | 2008 | WordPressMySQLPHP+25 | 7 patents Wearable biomechanical sensors for precise human motion and force measurement | — |
| 7 | 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 | 25 mo ago | Series A | Andrew Coppin Co -Founder and Managing Director | 2014 | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+44 | — | 1 partnership · 1 award |
| 8 | Senseand Software platform for aggregating data from farm fields and data analytics | $6M | 36 mo ago | Seed | Peter Moulton Co-founder & CEO | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 9 | Contactile Manufacturer of force-based touch sensors for robotic skins | $2M | 50 mo ago | Seed | Heba Khamis Co-Founder & CEO | 2019 | — | — | 2 launchs |
| 10 | Ocular Robotics Develops vision sensors for use in robots | $1M | — | Public | Mark Bishop CEO | 2009 | — | 2 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 11 | IR Sensors Develops a patented IR image sensor | $200K | 109 mo ago | Seed | Kevin Liddiard CEO & Director | 2005 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Sensors 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 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
#3
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
#4
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
#5
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
#6
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
#7
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
#8
Public · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2008 · 34 employees$8.9Mraised▾
DorsaVi makes wearable sensor solutions for motion analysis which have applications for clinics, companies and athletes. It has three products in its range: ViSafe for workplace solutions which measures how people move in real-time work situations, so companies can assess risky movements to create a safer work environment; ViMove for clinical solutions, it measures range of movement, postural angles, and muscle activity; ViPerform, it measures leg symmetry, average ground reaction force, average initial peak acceleration, average ground contact time, average steps per minute and many other parameters.
- Oct 2017Grant (prize money)$868.6K
- Jan 2017Post IPO$1M
- Dec 2016Post IPO$7M
- Apr 2008Seed—
#9
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
#10
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
#11
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2005$200Kraised▾
IR Sensors Pty has developed a patented IR image sensor with multiple imaging applications. Their core invention is the development of the uncooled microbolometer. They are trying to commercialise the mosaic pixel patented technology and their expertise in IR/Thermal imaging sector. They claim their sensors can provide a high temperature resolution with fast response. The sensors can be used for applications such as intruder detection, energy usage tracking, asset safety, etc.
- 2017Seed$200K
#12
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
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How research on MEMS & Sensors is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around MEMS & Sensors — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 436 Australia-affiliated papers.
- UNSW Sydney45
- Monash University36
- University of Southern Queensland34
- University of Wollongong30
- University College London27
- Pressure sensor18→48
- Capacitive sensing1→15
- Wearable computer1→13
- Piezoresistive effect2→8
- Optoelectronics2→7
- Piezoresistive effect2→9
- Plantar pressure12
- Pressure sensor9
- Foot (prosody)9
- Forefoot5
- Heel5
Where mems sensors 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.
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