Best Sports Tech Companies in Melbourne, Australia
The 47 best Sports Tech companies in Melbourne, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Sports Performance Tracking.
Our analysis of 50 Sports Tech companies
$7.8b in tracked funding; 96% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sports Tech companies in Melbourne
| # | Company | App-install YoY | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Kick Developer of a registration platform for sports leagues | +90% | — | 317 | Edward Craven Co-Founder | TurbopackNode.jsRadix UI+17 | Top 1k | 1 partnership |
| 2 | Cricket Australia Offers online media platform for cricket news & information | +46% | — | — | — | Apple iCloud MailAmazon Web ServicesTikTok Pixel+31 | Top 100k | — |
| 3 | Racing.com Online platform providing horse racing news | +9% | — | 79 | Andrew Catterall CEO | TypeScriptGraphQLJava+36 | Top 100k | — |
| 4 | Essendon Football Club Online platform providing news on football | +6% | — | 273 | — | Apple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365Java+30 | Top 500k | 3 job openings |
| 5 | Sportsmatemobile App-based platform publishing content focusing on various sports | +5% | — | 6 | Steve Murray CEO | Webflowanime.jscore-js+10 | Top 10M | — |
| 6 | Plunge Developer of an app-based platform for equestrian sports | +3% | — | — | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+20 | Top 50M | — |
| 7 | Cipher Sports Diverse software for sports businesses | — | $5M | 26 | Adam Fiske Chief Executive Officer | Co-Founder | Node.jsHeadless UITailwind CSS+15 | Top 50M | 1 partnership |
| 8 | Sports Performance Tracking Wearable and app based sports performance tracking and analysis | — | $7M | 6 | William Strange Founder / Director | Cart FunctionalityShopifyVimeo+32 | Top 5M | — |
| 9 | SportChamps Sports and racing tournament betting platform | — | $4M | 12 | Alan Eskander Founder & CEO | FirebaseGoogle MapsChart.js+28 | Top 50M | — |
| 10 | ECAL Calendar marketing platform for brands | — | $2M | 13 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+31 | Top 500k | — |
Top 6 Sports Tech companies in Melbourne
#1
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2021 · 26 employees$5Mraised▾
Diverse software for sports businesses. Its products include data management software, betting analytic tools, news and updates, AI tools, and online gambling content. It also caters to fantasy league providers.
- Jul 2022Series A$5M
#2
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2013 · 6 employees$6.9Mraised▾
Wearable and app based sports performance tracking and analysis
- Dec 2017Series A$5M
- Sep 2016Angel$1.1M
- Sep 2015Angel$713K
#3
Seed · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 12 employees$3.5Mraised▾
SportChamps is a sports and racing tournament betting platform. It allows users to participate in multiple betting tournaments of games. Users can improve their leadership position to win rewards and real money through the app. The app is available for Android and iOS platforms.
- Oct 2017Angel$3.5M
#4
Series A · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2010 · 13 employees$2Mraised▾
Calendar marketing platform for brands. It engages fans by engaging with through personal calendars. It enables businesses to run push notifications and text marketing-based campaigns to update customers about upcoming events. Features include geo-location-based campaigns, multilingual campaigns, gated logins, and dynamic updates. It offers an admin dashboard to track parameters like number of subscribers, visitors, visitor interest, and click-throughs.
- Aug 2014Series A$2M
#5
Funding Raised · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016$25Kraised▾
Recova Wear (Previously The Great Conceal) is a sustainable clothing line designed for patients in the rehabilitation process. The clothing range covers products like tees, shorts, which can be used for outdoor, gym and sleepwear puposes. The company was funded by RMIT's New Enterprise Investment Fund with a zero interest loan of $25K.
- 2019Grant (prize money)$20K
- Nov 2015Conventional Debt$25K
#6
Deadpooled · Melbourne, Victoria · founded 2016 · 3 employees$20Kraised▾
RefLIVE is a smartwatch and smartphone app for soccer referees to manage their required administration tasks. Currently, all records for team sheets are received on paper and in-game details are recorded with a pen and notepad in a time consuming and inaccurate process.RefLIVE's app allow for referees to upload teams and match information via their smartphone, record the in-game details with their smartwatch and then review, edit and submit the information again from the smartphone with simplicity. The wearable and app allows for referees to be able to enter the information quicker on a smartwatch resulting in more playing time in games where many details are entered.
- 2017Grant (prize money)$20K
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Sports Tech coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Sports Technology is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Sports Technology — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 61 Australia-affiliated papers.
- Griffith University7
- Edith Cowan University6
- Queensland University of Technology6
- Australian Sports Commission5
- University of Canberra5
- Hamstring2
- Analytics2
- Plyometrics1
- Sprint1
- Stretch shortening cycle1
- Physical medicine and rehabilitation1→5
- Athletes2→6
- Athletes4→6
- Physical therapy2→4
Where sports tech 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
Sweetie watches where the money and the users are piling in. She covers sector wealth and momentum — the install curves and revenue pools that show which corners of the market are quietly on fire.