Industry landscapes
The companies, capital and talent shaping investment industry in Australia. Find the leaders. Understand the segments. See where the activity is.
An industry ecosystem,
measured in context.
24 featured companies from the funding, hiring, revenue and team-size leaderboards.
Locked revenue figures are available in Radar; the eight company financial previews stay the same throughout this page. A dash means the figure is outside these featured lists. Revenue years vary by company; the figures are not a like-for-like revenue comparison. Compare annual accounts ↗
Recently founded means a recorded 2023–2026 founding year and no recorded parent, acquirer or public-company status. These companies are not labelled startups without that separate classification.
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26 of 1,469 tracked companies have open roles.
8 of 1,469 tracked companies have a recorded round.
Share of disclosed capital received by the three largest recorded recipients.
Midpoint of 5 rounds with a disclosed amount.
Scale is concentrated. Opportunity is broader. The three largest funding recipients hold 97.9% of disclosed capital, while 99.5% of tracked companies have no recorded funding round.
Explore the segments →Recorded company formation and disclosed funding across the complete annual series shown.
Sum of recorded funding rounds · USD
| Year | Funding (USD) | Founded | Raising |
|---|---|---|---|
| 2016 | $0 | 83 | 0 |
| 2017 | $15.37M | 83 | 1 |
| 2018 | $93M | 78 | 2 |
| 2019 | $1.97M | 78 | 1 |
| 2020 | $406K | 66 | 1 |
| 2021 | $0 | 51 | 0 |
| 2022 | $0 | 37 | 0 |
| 2023 | $0 | 18 | 0 |
| 2024 | $0 | 15 | 0 |
| 2025 | $0 | 3 | 0 |
Share of all disclosed company funding.
8 recorded rounds since 2016
Recorded participation in investment industry company rounds since 2016.
Backed by CountPlus.
Participating investors were not recorded in this snapshot.
The measured Australia identity-to-filing probe did not produce a qualifying designated legal or national-ID join: bare ticker overlaps lack a recorded ASX exchange designation and are not designated legal or national identifiers.
How the Australia companies on this page show up online: the sites people visit, the apps they install, and how often those apps ship.
5 of the 1,469 companies on this page carry a measured traffic record (0.3%); these are the largest of those, by monthly visits. The median among them is 135,881 visits.
| Company | Monthly visits | Authority | Mobile |
|---|---|---|---|
| Hostplushostplus.com.au | 689,548 | 46 | 55.2% |
| QSuper Groupqsuper.qld.gov.au | 248,358 | 44 | 51.9% |
| Mercer Supermercersuper.com.au | 135,881 | 39 | 27.1% |
| Future Superfuturesuper.com.au | 12,853 | 34 | 0% |
| Australian Foundation Investment Companyafi.com.au | 9,589 | 31 | 57.1% |
Visits and authority are third-party web estimates, not company-reported figures.
14 of these companies (1%) publish at least one Android app — 18 apps in all, carrying 1.9M installs between them.
| App | Installs | Rating | Store category |
|---|---|---|---|
| Origin Energy Gas Internet LPGOrigin Energy | 1.1M | 4.3 | House & Home |
| HostplusHostplus | 382.8K | 5 | Finance |
| CBUS SuperCbus | 216.1K | — | Finance |
| My Money TrackerGood Return | 113K | — | Finance |
| NorthNorthonline | 30.3K | — | Finance |
| Future SuperFuture Super | 25.2K | — | Finance |
| Active SuperActive Super | 13.4K | — | Finance |
| 360 EV Charge: Power Your EVOrigin Energy | 2.6K | — | Travel & Local |
| Super payment checkerCbus | 2.5K | — | Finance |
| Renew EclipseOrigin Energy | 1.8K | — | Productivity |
Installs are lifetime totals to date at the June 2026 store reading — a measure of reach, not of people using an app today.
The busiest app inside each of this page’s own segments, with the quarterly release trend behind it (2024Q2–2024Q2).
| Segment | Apps | Installs | Leading app | Release trend |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Accelerators & Incubators | 3 | 1.1M | Origin Energy Gas Internet LPG 1.1M | |
| Limited Partners | 9 | 753.7K | Hostplus 382.8K | |
| Investment Consultants | 3 | 30.5K | North 30.3K |
A company can carry several segment tags, so these rows overlap and should not be added together. Trend lines are zero-based and share one quarter grid, so a flat line is a quiet segment, not a missing one.
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Rank segments by scale, hiring or disclosed funding.
Companies can sit in several segments. Counts and funding overlap.
The largest measured segment in this report snapshot.
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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Recorded corporate activity linked to companies in this landscape.
Private equity group CVC is considering a bid to take Milan-listed payments company Nexi private in a deal that would value the group at approximately EUR 9 billion, including around EUR 6 billion in debt.
Recipients include Spacecubed Ventures, which will run its Plus Eight Accelerator program for 2026, and AgriStart, which is delivering the HARVEST + AgriSpace WA Agtech Investment Readiness Accelerator. Atomic Sky received funding for its HORIZON Impact Bridge WA program, while the Centre for Entrepreneurial Research and Innovation (CERI) will run its FIRST program targeting female innovators in research, science and technology. Other recipients include Impact Seed for its Impact Investment WA Alliance, Health Translation Group for biotechnology and health investor engagement, the Ocean Impact Organisation for a Blue Economy Innovation Platform, and First Nations X for its FNX Scale program. South West Angels received funding for a Regional Innovation and Investment Program, and Pollinators will operate a Mid West WA program — continuing the government’s push to direct innovation support beyond the Perth metro area.
The transaction values Oracle at an enterprise value of approximately $72 million with completion subject to customary conditions, Count said.
With a signed successor fund transfer deed, Aware Super and TelstraSuper are now just a couple of months out from merging.
Swiss Re Corporate Solutions agreed to acquire QBE Insurance Group’s Global Trade Credit and Surety business, subject to regulatory approvals expected to take several months.
ahead of Teneo’s acquisition of Quay Advisers.
Lions Bay Capital Inc. (TSXV: LBI) ("Lions Bay" or the "Company") is pleased to announce it has signed a binding term sheet for a promissory note ("Loan") from Metals One Plc ("Metals One") for CAD $4.0 million.
GD Culture Group Limited (“GDC” or the “Company”) entered into a definitive share exchange agreement to acquire 100% of Pallas Capital Holding Ltd.’s issued and outstanding ordinary shares in exchange for 39,189,344 newly issued shares of GDC common stock.
E&P’s acquisition of full equity in Azumah Resources Ghana Ltd and Upwest Resources Ghana Ltd, a transaction registered with the Registrar of Companies and the Minerals Commission.
Iberdrola has reached an agreement for the acquisition of the shareholding that its partner Caixa de Previdência dos Funcionários do Banco do Brasil (Previ) had in its Brazilian subsidiary Neoenergia. The transaction envisages the purchase of 30.29% of Previ, so that Iberdrola would control approximately 84% of the
Top 10 categories among 243 recorded events in the 24-month window.
2 companies with recorded IPO activity
IPO · Euronext Amsterdam1 reports
Direct Listing · Abu Dhabi Securities Exchange3 reports
34 tracked people moves
Departure Previously Chief Executive of ESSSuper
Departure Previously Chief Information and Technology Officer
Appointment Chief Technology Officer
Appointment Chief Executive
Departure Previously Chief Executive
Resignation Previously Chief Executive
Appointment Chief Executive
Appointment Senior Executive with Capital Division
Products, platforms and features in the recorded window
Enterprise Cloud Platform
6 recorded customer wins
Customer: pe.traLogistics
Customer: shojin property partnersProperty investment
Customer: logistics
Customer: colesRenewable Energy
Customer: tabreedDistrict cooling
Customer: Equip SuperSuperannuation
2 companies with reported reductions
170 rolesbusiness division restructure
Scale not stated rolescost reduction
3 recorded events
secured full transmission access rightsAustralian EnergyCo
Suspended until June 2026Australian Securities and Investments Commission
liquidation orderHong Kong court
5 tracked suits
confidential information release in sales processCivil ·
contract termination disputeCivil · Verdict
Reported company results in the recorded window.
Median across 11 reported growth observations; companies may contribute multiple periods.
Company-linked deal reports; status is preserved as recorded.
| Acquirer → target | Status | Date | Value / context |
|---|---|---|---|
| CVC→nexi | Pending | 2026-04-30 | Not stated in snapshot |
| iberdrola→Previ ↗ | 2026-04-10 | Not stated in snapshot | |
| count financial→oracle advisory group | Announced | 2026-04-01 | $72.0M |
| CVC→recordati | Announced | 2026-03-27 | Not stated in snapshot |
| aware super→TelstraSuper ↗ | Announced | 2026-03-26 | Not stated in snapshot |
| swiss re corporate solutions→QBE Partners with Insurtech program ↗ | Pending | 2026-02-23 | Not stated in snapshot |
A discussion or rumour is not a completed transaction. An unstated value is not zero.
1 postings in the preceding 12 months. The full 3-posting snapshot covers 3 employers.
1 tracked postings mention remote work.
1 postings specify a level.
Top skills across 3 tracked postings in the available jobs snapshot.
| Company | Employees |
|---|---|
| Premier Investments ↗ | 9,000 |
| Palladium ↗ | 3,080 |
| Colonial First State ↗ | 1,992 |
| Nexia ↗ | 605 |
| Future Fund ↗ | 349 |
| ESSSuper ↗ | 184 |
| Social Ventures Australia ↗ | 156 |
| Victorian Funds Management ↗ | 136 |
705 founders and chief executives across 717 companies.
Ex- CVC, industrial property sector. University of Melbourne
Ex- UnitingCare. Monash University
Botanic Bioplastics, ex-Engagebdr, ex-Oakdale Resources, University of Melbourne, 1988
Causeway AM, , Causeway Financial, ex-MD Nikko Asset Management, Causeway Asset Management, Maple Securities, Merrill Lynch. University of Sydney BEc
CEO Australian Retirement Trust, ex-BetaSmartz, TCorp, DBR Wealth, NAB Asset Management, State Street Global Advisors. Macquarie University BE 1990.
Ex- Adept Solutions, Bain & Company, GEM Consulting, McKinsey & Company, Perpetual. University of New South Wales B.Com, University of Oxford M.Phil
Co-Founder NewLaw Academy, NoFilter Media, Collective Venture Capital, Future Squared Podcast, Parpera, Konkrete.io, ex-Lemonade Stand, HOTDESK, EY…
Founder & CEO XCM Group, Pacific Atlantic Trade, MraldRock Partners, Xecutive Corporate Management, ex-Amicorp. The University of Salford MSc 2017…
Co-Founder One Future Football, Founder The Startup Playbook Podcast, ex-Amazon Web Services, Founder. The Australian National University BEng 2011
Office Of The Deputy Vice Chancellor, ex-Nhmrc Health Innovation Advisory Committee, ex-Knowledge Commercialisation, The University of Queensland…
Founder & CEO SERENITAS, Tasman Holiday Parks, ex-Founder & CEO Tasman Lifestyle Continuum Group, Right2Drive. Saint Ignatius' College Riverview.
Ex-QIC, China Investment, State Street, JP Morgan Asset Management, Credit Suisse Asset Management. RMIT University BE, Macquarie University MFin
71 profiles with education records.
19 profiles with prior-work records.
Profiles cover recorded founders and leaders; contact details remain in Radar.
664,224 articles in the measured 12-month window.
Investment Industry coverage across Australia · articles per complete quarter
| Quarter | Articles |
|---|---|
| 2021Q2 | 110,867 |
| 2021Q3 | 126,815 |
| 2021Q4 | 112,424 |
| 2022Q1 | 125,860 |
| 2022Q2 | 121,667 |
| 2022Q3 | 129,331 |
| 2022Q4 | 186,133 |
| 2023Q1 | 208,989 |
| 2023Q2 | 136,559 |
| 2023Q3 | 158,237 |
| 2023Q4 | 146,424 |
| 2024Q1 | 140,819 |
| 2024Q2 | 153,723 |
| 2024Q3 | 152,933 |
| 2024Q4 | 165,940 |
| 2025Q1 | 194,631 |
| 2025Q2 | 127,169 |
| 2025Q3 | 234,102 |
| 2025Q4 | 116,284 |
| 2026Q1 | 128,078 |
Article volume measures coverage, not market sales.
224 recorded company events across 33 companies; percentages use that event total.
Investment Industry coverage across Australia · ranked by full-period article count.
Recent and prior counts use the source comparison windows.
Investment Industry coverage across Australia
| Keyword | Recent | Prior | Change |
|---|---|---|---|
| countries | 4,005 | 1,939 | 107% |
| domestic robots | 2,440 | 42 | 5710% |
| toy robots | 2,420 | 31 | 7706% |
| startup news | 1,989 | 558 | 256% |
| ashes moments | 1,189 | 770 | 54% |
| angel investors | 1,018 | 373 | 173% |
| overseas study | 972 | 685 | 42% |
| ashes urn | 895 | 393 | 128% |
| ashes records | 856 | 404 | 112% |
| semester abroad | 817 | 523 | 56% |
| test cricket | 5,975 | 11,555 | -48% |
| test innings | 4,544 | 8,871 | -49% |
| 5-day cricket | 3,722 | 7,774 | -52% |
| odi cricket | 2,924 | 6,170 | -53% |
| limited overs cricket | 2,793 | 6,145 | -55% |
Investment Industry coverage across Australia
territories, disputed islands, test cricket
27.6% critical · 19.8% positivetest cricket, test innings, odi world cup
31.2% critical · 43.3% positiveleague expansion news, core inflation rate, inflation outlook
31.4% critical · 47.0% positiveInvestment Industry coverage across Australia. Topic labels describe recorded classifications and can include broad context.
Company counts, hiring and disclosed funding across the recorded hubs.
48.3% across the displayed hubs
9 companies hiring · $60.0M disclosed funding
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23.8% across the displayed hubs
6 companies hiring · $15.8M disclosed funding
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12.4% across the displayed hubs
3 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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8.7% across the displayed hubs
4 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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2.5% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
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1.8% across the displayed hubs
1 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Subiaco ↗1.4% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in South Yarra ↗
1.1% across the displayed hubs
0 companies hiring · $0 disclosed funding
Explore companies in Richmond ↗Clear definitions for making better comparisons.
It measures the tracked company ecosystem, recorded funding, hiring and other available evidence. It is not a market-size estimate.
No. A company can belong to several segments, so segment counts and funding can overlap.
A dash or unavailable panel means the current reviewed source snapshot does not support that figure.
Company ecosystem snapshot: 7 August 2026. Funding is recorded in USD; filed accounts retain their stated currency and reporting basis. Each section identifies its own coverage. The news and research behind these sections is explorable in Prism.
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