Deeptech startups in Melbourne

Anthony Stevens & Andrew Robinson

Governance, risk and compliance (GRC) platform with an embedded AI engine ("Hailey") that automates control mapping, risk assessments and audits. Reported >100% growth; sells globally to advisories and enter...

Ben & Tim Toner

Founded by brothers Dr Ben and Tim Toner, Affinda uses AI to digitise and process documents — invoice handling, resume parsing and contract analysis. Named by Deloitte the fastest-growing AI company in Austr...

Jessica Glenn & Dr Jae Daniel

Melbourne directed-energy deeptech; its Fractl high-precision laser achieves hard-kill counter-drone strikes within ~1.5km line-of-sight in under 5 seconds. Won Australia's first ADF prototype directed-energ...

Preetham Akula

Founded 2022 by Preetham Akula, Akula Tech builds AI-powered 'smart' satellites; its Nexus-01 runs an onboard AI engine processing hyperspectral data in orbit into real-time insights for defence, emergency r...

Julian Broadbent & Shane Ambry

Founded 2015 in a Melbourne garage by ex-Holden/GM engineer Julian Broadbent, Applied EV builds 'Software Defined Machines' — a drive-by-wire compute-and-control platform for autonomous and industrial EVs (e...

Deeptech pioneer in 'biological computing', integrating lab-grown human neurons with silicon (the DishBrain that learned Pong). Launched the CL1 — billed as the world's first commercially available biologica...

Elena Tsalanidis & Justin Hansky

Legal-tech founded by two ex-big-law M&A lawyers; a collaboration platform that centralises due-diligence workflow and uses AI to do a 'first cut' of the legal review, generating client-ready reports in seco...

Melbourne-founded applied-AI/ML consultancy — machine learning, NLP, computer vision and generative-AI delivery for enterprise. Now the AI practice of Australian tech consultancy Mantel Group; a key node in ...

Melbourne-founded global creative-assets marketplace (ThemeForest, Elements) serving millions of designers and developers with templates, stock and tools. Bootstrapped to global scale and acquired by Shutter...

Marc Hermann, Anshul Jain, Sam Kothari & Dr Steven Lu

Founded 2023, Everlab is a preventative-health / longevity platform using AI to turn whole-body testing into personalised health assessments and care plans. Raised A$65M Series A led by Airtree (participants...

Finnlay Morcombe & Oliver Farnill

Founded 2023 by Swinburne engineering grads, Fluency uses AI to document and automate operational workflows — pitched as an AI substitute for management consultants. Raised ~US$6-9M seed led by US VC Accel, ...

AI clinical 'care partner' / ambient scribe founded by ex-vascular surgeon Dr Thomas Kelly. Closed a US$65M Series B in Oct 2025 (led by Point72, with Blackbird, Headline, Latitude) at a ~US$465M valuation, ...

Umar Butler

Launched 2025 by former Attorney-General's Dept data-science lead Umar Butler, Isaacus builds foundational legal AI models — positioned as the "AWS for legal AI" that other companies build specialised legal ...

Melbourne (founded ~2018)

Builds intelligent maintenance tools for technicians servicing equipment, machinery and infrastructure. Flagship xAssist is a generative-AI copilot with NLP/ML that surfaces diagnostics and maintenance guida...

Kai Van Lieshout & Linus Talacko

AI-powered medical documentation / ambient scribe that transcribes clinician consultations into structured notes. Melbourne-based; raised ~A$12M for its AI scribe and is scaling across ANZ clinics.

Tom Hamer & Jesse Clark [FLAG: HQ moved to San Francisco]

Founded 2022 in Melbourne by two ex-Amazon/AWS engineers, Marqo is an open-source end-to-end vector search engine / AI-infra platform for text and image data. Raised a US$12.5M Series A led by Lightspeed (Bl...

University of Melbourne researchers [FLAG: acquired by Santec, 2025]

Founded 2007 by University of Melbourne physicists, MOGlabs makes precision tunable lasers, laser electronics, RF synthesisers and instrumentation used worldwide in quantum computing, sensing and precision m...

Iain Wilson

Founded 2019, Operata is a 'CX observability' platform that monitors what actually happens inside contact centres where human agents, AI agents and third-party voice tools operate side-by-side. Raised ~A$11M...

Climatetech pioneer of combined solar PV + long-duration 'thermal hydro' energy storage. Completed a Series D in April (2025) taking its total to ~A$127M, backed by investors including Photon Energy and gove...

Assaf Stizki & Ken Brand

Founded 2020, Restoke uses ML/NLP and live POS + inventory data to act as an AI 'restaurant manager' — predicting demand, automating back-of-house workflows and flagging profit leakage. Used by 2,000+ venues...

Milad Mohammadzadeh & Dr Sadaf Monajemi

Founded 2017 by a husband-and-wife team, See-Mode builds AI-augmented ultrasound reporting software for vascular imaging and stroke detection/management from ultrasound scans. Acquired by US imaging group Ra...

Jonathan Chang

Long-running Melbourne AI/deep-learning consultancy and product builder; creators of Highlighter, an enterprise computer-vision 'perception system' for visual inspection and object detection. Serves defence,...

Omer Molad & David Weinberg

AI-driven skills-assessment platform that evaluates job candidates through realistic, automatically-graded task simulations rather than resumes. Melbourne-founded, expanding across recruitment/HR-tech market...