Best Sustainability Tech Companies in South Australia, Australia
The 32 best Sustainability Tech companies in South Australia, Australia in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: BiomeBank.
Our analysis of 293 Sustainability Tech companies
$38.4b in tracked funding; 83% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Sustainability Tech companies in South Australia
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | BiomeBank Developer of microbial therapies to treat diseases | $11M | 47 mo ago | Series B | Sam Costello Co-Founder & CEO | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityWordPressApple iCloud Mail+29 | — | — |
| 2 | GTL Energy Provider of solution to remove moisture from coal | $8M | 160 mo ago | Deadpooled | Fred Schulte CEO | 2000 | — | 41 patents Improving solid fuel processing: water removal, briquetting, and water-resistant fuel production. | — |
| 3 | Fertil Provider of micro-3D printed pod for the treatment of infertility | $2M | 57 mo ago | Seed | Marty Gauvin Co-Founder | 2020 | — | — | — |
| 4 | DR2 Solutions Customer engagement and marketing software for utilities | $1M | 161 mo ago | Deadpooled | Malcolm Smith CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 5 | Energy Exemplar Energy modeling and simulation tools | $187K | 50 mo ago | Acquired | Glenn Drayton Founder | 1999 | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailSalesforce+19 | — | — |
| 6 | 1414 Degrees Developer of thermal energy storage solutions for high-temperature industry applications | — | — | Public | — | 2009 | WordPressMySQLPHP+26 | 15 patents Composite heat exchangers and thermal energy storage/recovery systems using advanced composites | — |
| 7 | Allow Access Provider of IoT-based visitor management software for commercial spaces | — | — | Unfunded | — | 2016 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Alyra Biotech Developer of treatment therapy for chronic pain | — | — | Funding Raised | Susan Evans Founder & CEO | 2017 | — | 18 patents Therapeutic compositions and devices for neuroinflammation and dysmenorrhea pain relief | — |
Top 5 Sustainability Tech companies in South Australia
#1
Series B · Thebarton, South Australia · founded 2018 · 22 employees$10.7Mraised▾
Developer of microbial therapies to treat diseases. It offerz BiomeBoost, a drug that contains microbes for the treatment of recurrent or refractory Clostridioides difficile infection. The company has a platform that combines microbiology, machine learning, and bioinformatics for the discovery of microbial biomarkers, leads, and targets. It also collects stools for the research and development of microbial therapies.
- Dec 2022Series B$10.7M
#2
Acquired · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 1999 · 80 employees$186.8Kraised▾
Energy modeling and simulation tools. It provides energy market simulation software, offering a comprehensive platform for modeling and forecasting electric, gas, and water energy markets to support informed decision-making in the energy industry.
- Sep 2022Conventional Debt—
- Sep 2017Grant (prize money)$76.8K
- Sep 2016Grant (prize money)$59.6K
- Sep 2015Grant (prize money)$50.4K
#3
Seed · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2020$2Mraised▾
Provider of micro-3D printed pod for the treatment of infertility. The company develops pod that allows fertilization, embryo culture, and embryo cryopreservation to occur in one structure.
- Jan 2022Seed$2M
#4
Deadpooled · Adelaide, South Australia · founded 2000$7.9Mraised▾
GTL Energy provides solutions to remove moisture from low-rank coal. Its results in raising the thermal value, reducing emissions, improving the transportation and handling characteristics and increasing the market value of the fuel.
- Jul 2013Series A$307.4K
- Jul 2011Series A$4M
- Aug 2010Series A$3.6M
#5
Deadpooled · Williamstown, South Australia · founded 2012 · 11 employees$1.4Mraised▾
DR2 Solutions is a Software as a Service (Saas) provider of demand response systems and market-driven applications to de-regulated electricity providers. Their cloud-based platform process meter data and consumer analytics to increase the margin for their customers.
- May 2013Seed$1.4M
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How research on Climate Adaptation is moving in Australia
A read on the academic research around Climate Adaptation — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 597 Australia-affiliated papers.
- University College London46
- Newcastle University39
- Australian National University31
- Griffith University31
- The University of Melbourne30
- Climate change2→17
- Resilience (materials science)2→7
- Climate change11→63
- Flood myth12→48
- Resilience (materials science)3→25
- Psychological resilience6→18
- Climate risk3→13
- Climate change32→152
- Resilience (materials science)4→43
- Flood myth11→34
- Climate risk7→28
- Psychological resilience6→26
Where climate adaptation 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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