Best Smart Cities Companies in Australia
The 40 best Smart Cities companies in Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Unleash live.
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Ranked: Best Smart Cities companies in Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Unleash live AI based platform offering image and video analytics solutions | $13M | 60 mo ago | Series A | Hanno Blankenstein CEO and Co-founder | 2016 | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+27 | 4 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | 4 job openings |
| 2 | VAPAR Developer of ML based platform for assessing the condition of sewer pipes | $7M | 30 mo ago | Series A | — | 2017 | WordPressMySQLPHP+27 | — | 1 partnership |
| 3 | Gridsight Developer of an AI-driven electrical digital twin for distribution networks 40AI top 30%Talent top 38%Growth top 45%Funding top 49% All 7 signals ▾AItop 30% Talenttop 38% Growthtop 45% Fundingtop 49% Techbottom 42% Globalbottom 37% Marketbottom 26% AI: Classified as an AI company · Product described with: ai-driven Talent: 2 named leaders on record · 2 C-suite/founder profiles curated rank vs industry peers · Fliar Intelligence Index 40/100 | $5M | 16 mo ago | Series A | Kurt Walkom Co-Founder & Chief Commercial Officer | 2020 | WebflowApple iCloud MailGoogle Workspace+13 | — | — |
| 4 | Cohda Wireless Hardware & software solution provider for V2X communications | $2M | 247 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2004 | WordPressMicrosoft WordMySQL+24 | 137 patents V2X wireless positioning and ranging for vehicular communication and environment estimation | — |
| 5 | Advanced Mobility Analytics Provider of AI and computer vision-based solutions for road transport | $750K | 64 mo ago | Acquired | Tarek Sayed Co-Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 6 | Slasherteck Developer of roadside maintenance and traffic management solutions | $690K | — | Seed | Nathan Boyle Founder & CEO | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 7 | Envision Systems AI and IoT based transport management solutions | $20K | 75 mo ago | Deadpooled | Kanav Batra Founder | 2019 | — | — | — |
| 8 | A Beautiful City Provider of pedestrian traffic analytics solutions | — | — | Unfunded | Nicholas Takacs Owner | 2010 | — | — | — |
Top 7 Smart Cities companies in Australia
#1
Series A · Wollongong, New South Wales · founded 2020 · 17 employees$4.5Mraised▾
Developer of an AI-driven electrical digital twin for distribution networks. It provides a foundational grid model and decision layer for modern networks. The company offers solutions for flexible interconnection and energization. It also provides automated screening of interconnection queues and dynamic day-ahead curtailment quantification.
- Apr 2025Series A$4.5M
- 2021Seed—
#2
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2017 · 20 employees$7.3Mraised▾
Developer of ML-based platform for assessing the condition of sewer pipes. The company claims that the platform leverages machine learning and data science to unearth bottlenecks in piped infrastructure thereby reducing the associated cost/time, double-handling of data, and variability of assessments.
- Feb 2024Grant (prize money)$195.1K
- Jan 2024Series A$5M
- Jun 2022Seed$1.8M
- Aug 2020Grant (prize money)$490K
#3
Series A · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2016 · 28 employees$12.8Mraised▾
AI based platform offering image and video analytics solutions. It offers video analytics software for analyzing video from sources like CCTV, drones, and smartphones. The software use cases include solar PV and power line fault detection, and traffic and public transport analytics.
- Sep 2021Series A$8M
- 2021Grant (prize money)$475K
- Dec 2018Seed$4.8M
#4
Acquired · Brisbane, Queensland · founded 2019 · 26 employees$750Kraised▾
Provider of AI and computer vision-based solutions for road transport. It offers AI-based video analytics solutions that can analyse and identify traffic safety issues. Its features include safety monitoring dashboards, notification alerts, diagnostic risk mitigation insights, adaptive traffic signal plugin, and real-time risk optimization. It also measures crowd and vehicle flows, speeds, trajectories, violations, and crash risk with other road users.
- Apr 2021Grant (prize money)$750K
#5
Acquired · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2004 · 1 employees$1.8Mraised▾
Cohda Wireless is a provider of V2X communication solutions and services for public safety, outdoor, and automotive wireless-based systems. Cohda has applied its significant patent portfolio and in-house skills to develop high-performance wireless designs on highly integrated, low cost, semiconductor chipsets. Customers include automotive OEMs and tier-1s for use in V2X communication. In Oct 2016, Telsa teamed up with Cohda Wireless to try the V2X technology over Cohda's LTE network in South Australia.
- Jan 2006Series A$1.8M
#6
Seed · Sydney, New South Wales · founded 2013$690.5Kraised▾
Slasherteck is an Australian company that designs and develops technological solutions for roadside maintenance and traffic management. Its road-side maintenance solution comprises of software that comes with features like stores specifications for repair, automatic timekeeping and reporting of operations, map-based location and status of each asset (updated on each maintenance run), report and flag location of roadkill, among others. In addition, the company offers a series of automated ground vehicles that can operate in three different modes and come with features like built-in RGB color correct LED panels, solar charging, follow vehicles on predetermined routes, and others.
- Seed$690.5K
#7
Deadpooled · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2019$20Kraised▾
Envision systems provide AI and IoT based transport management solutions. It claims to provide AI-enabled sensors for monitoring traffic and solve traffic congestion. The AI sensors, provide both the count and flow of vehicles on all types of roads. This data can be fed to network operators or directly to traffic lights in real-time, to optimize the flow of vehicles and reduce traffic. The sensors can detect multiple objects at a time by using vision as the primary sensing mechanism. This system provides real-time data insights and solutions for monitoring transportation. It also provides solutions for smart buildings and industries for real-time monitoring.
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$20K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Smart Cities coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
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How research on Smart Cities is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Smart Cities — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 1,054 Australia-affiliated papers.
- Queensland University of Technology88
- UNSW Sydney86
- University of Technology Sydney72
- University College London71
- RMIT University66
- Intelligent transportation system7→65
- Smart city5→41
- Key (lock)1→18
- Cloud computing3→16
- Software deployment2→13
- Smart city9→67
- Intelligent transportation system9→43
- Computer security2→14
- Sustainability1→13
- Key (lock)3→14
- Smart city16→101
- Sustainability1→26
- Corporate governance3→26
- Internet of Things3→24
- Big data1→21
Where smart cities 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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