Healthtech startups in Melbourne
Clinical software and care delivery, drawing on Melbourne's biomedical depth, led by fast-growing names like Heidi Health.
6 companies building in Healthtech here.
Clinical-stage biotech developing PVX108, a synthetic-peptide immunotherapy to retrain the immune system and treat peanut allergy. Raised ~A$66M in Jan 2024 (incl. A$12M from Breakthrough Victoria; investors...
(life-science VC)
Australasia's largest life-sciences venture-capital firm and the anchor investor of the Melbourne bio ecosystem. Brandon BioCatalyst is a collaboration of super funds, CSL, ANZ governments and 50+ medical re...
Zoë Milgrom & Kunal Kalro
Founded 2017; Australia's original at-home digital genomics service, delivering reproductive carrier screening and preventive genetic testing paired with genetic counselling across ANZ. Partners with Illumin...
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, ...
Care-tech marketplace connecting Australians to NDIS, aged-care and home-care providers — improving access and matching in the disability/care sector. Venture-backed Melbourne startup targeting one of Austra...
Dean Freestone & Mark Cook
Founded 2017 out of the University of Melbourne / St Vincent's; pioneered at-home epilepsy diagnostics with a portable EEG+ECG kit and cloud/ML analytics that cut monitoring wait times from 6–18 months to 6–...
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