SaaS & devtools startups in Melbourne

Mark Harbottle & Matt Mickiewicz

Founded 2008 in Melbourne as a spin-off of the SitePoint design community, pioneering crowdsourced graphic-design contests connecting businesses with freelance designers. Opened a San Francisco office early,...

Sam Kroonenburg & Ryan Kroonenburg

Founded 2015 in Melbourne by two brothers as a hands-on cloud-skills training platform (AWS, Azure, GCP) with labs and certification courses; grew to 2m+ learners and acquired Linux Academy in 2019. Acquired...

Leigh Jasper & Robert Phillpot

Founded 2000 in Melbourne (conceived over squash games) as a SaaS collaboration platform for construction and infrastructure project information management. ASX-200 listed and used on major global projects. ...

Alan Downie & Matt Milosavljevic

Founded 2010–11 in Melbourne, BugHerd is a visual point-and-click website feedback and bug-tracking tool that pins comments directly onto live pages and captures browser/screen context automatically. Widely ...

Keith Pitt, Tim Lucas & Jessica Stokes

Founded 2013 in Melbourne, Buildkite is a hybrid CI/CD platform that runs continuous-integration pipelines on customers' own infrastructure for scale and security — used by Shopify, Uber, PagerDuty and other...

Greg Roebuck & Wal Pisciotta

Founded 1997 to move automotive print classifieds online; IPO'd 2009. Renamed carsales.com Ltd to CAR Group in 2023 to reflect global scale. Operates carsales (AU) plus Encar (South Korea), Trader Interactiv...

Sportstech leader (ASX:CAT) in athlete wearables and performance analytics — GPS/load monitoring, video and athlete-management software used by 5,500+ teams across the NFL, EPL, MLB, NHL, AFL and NCAA. Found...

Melbourne-HQ'd HR-tech leader — the 'employee experience' platform (engagement, performance, development built on people-science). Serves 25M+ employees across 7,500+ companies, ~960 staff, US$228M+ raised. ...

Johannes Risseeuw

Founded 2002, Damstra is a subscription SaaS platform for integrated workplace and workforce management — worker safety, access control, asset tracking, e-learning and digital forms for high-risk industries ...

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...

Rob Mueller, Bruce Davey & Jeremy Howard

Founded 1999 in Melbourne, Fastmail is a privacy-focused, subscription email-hosting SaaS with a worldwide customer base. Briefly owned by Opera Software (2010) before a 2013 staff buyout returned it to inde...

Mark Harbottle & Matt Mickiewicz (CEO Blake Hutchison)

Founded 2009 in Melbourne (out of the SitePoint community) as the leading global marketplace to buy and sell online businesses, websites, apps and digital assets. Positions itself as the 'investment bank for...

Alison Hardacre & Lachlan Wheeler

Founded 2012 in Melbourne (originally HealthKit) as a cloud practice-management SaaS for healthcare practitioners — EMR, billing, scheduling and patient records — plus a searchable practitioner directory. No...

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...

Creator-economy 'link-in-bio' platform used by tens of millions of creators, brands and businesses worldwide; grew out of Melbourne's inner-north creative scene. Raised a US$110M Series C (2022) at a ~US$1.3...

Blockchain platform digitising bank guarantees, born from an ANZ/CBA/Westpac/IBM/Scentre consortium and spun out as an independent Melbourne fintech. Cuts weeks of paper-based guarantee processing to minutes...

Jason Wyatt & Sam Salter

Marketplace-as-a-service platform spun out of the founders' BikeExchange marketplace technology; launched as a standalone SaaS product in 2016–17. Lets retailers, brands and loyalty businesses build and scal...

Christopher Lee & the Data-Tech Software team

Long-standing Australian business-management software company (accounting, payroll, tax, POS) for SMEs and accountants across ANZ; now largely cloud/SaaS. Headquartered in Cremorne, Melbourne. Taken private ...

Brian Cook & Brett Campbell [FLAG: HQ moved to US]

FLAG — Melbourne-FOUNDED (2006) workflow-automation and process-management software company (SharePoint/Office 365 heritage), now used by 7,000+ organisations in 100+ countries. Relocated its HQ to the Seatt...

Sam Chandler, Karl De Abrew, Chris Marks & Richard Wenzel

Founded 2005 in Melbourne as a PDF productivity and document-workflow challenger to Adobe; the Melbourne office remains a key engineering hub though global HQ moved to San Francisco. Grew into an e-signature...

Karl Sabljak, Carmel Sabljak, Steve Sabljak & Martin Howell

Founded 1995 in a Melbourne garage as realestate.com.au; renamed REA Group in 2008. Operates Australia's leading property marketplace plus international portals (India, and stakes in the US/Asia). Majority-o...

Bernhard Tschirren & Michael Cameron

Founded 2010–11 in Melbourne by two former Microsoft engineers as a global multimodal transport search engine, aggregating flights, trains, buses, ferries and driving into single itineraries across 160+ coun...

Barb Hyman

Founded (as PredictiveHire) and led by former lawyer/HR exec Barb Hyman; a chat-based AI recruitment platform that interviews every candidate via text instead of screening resumes, targeting high-volume hiri...

Andrew Bassat, Paul Bassat & Matt Rockman

Founded 1997 by the Bassat brothers and Matt Rockman as an online version of print job classifieds; launched its site March 1998. Now Australia's dominant employment marketplace, capturing ~90% of time spent...

Julian Challingsworth & team

Melbourne-headquartered cybersecurity firm that grew (partly by acquisition) into Australia's largest ASX-listed cyber company, serving defence, government and critical-infrastructure clients across ~9 offic...

Jeromy Wells & Romilly Blackburn

Founded ~2001–02 in Melbourne, Whispir is a communications-platform-as-a-service (CPaaS) SaaS that lets enterprises orchestrate multichannel messaging (SMS, email, voice, rich media) via low-code workflows. ...

Vinay Samuel & Michael Cimino

Founded 2013 in a Melbourne garage by Indian-origin founder Vinay Samuel (ex-Teradata, Greenplum, HP), Zetaris is an analytical data-virtualization / 'networked data lakehouse' platform that queries distribu...