Top 35 Automotive Startup Investors in Australia (May 2026)

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• Josef — Automate lawyer-client conversations, document drafting and providing legal services. Josef is a software platform with a chatbot interface.
• Pathzero — Pathzero's carbon management platform enables any business to start disclosing corporate carbon emissions and the actions being taken to address them.
• SafeStack — SafeStack Academy is the New Zealand online cyber security, privacy and secure development training company.

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• Sherlok — Automated client retention for mortgage brokers, helping them grow their loan book by proactively keeping their existing clients happy and with them forever.
• BintanGO — Creator Marketing Platform terbaik di Indonesia, lebih dari 40.000 Kreator dan 100 Brand sudah bergabung. Buat campaignmu jadi fleksibel, terlacak dan terukur.
• Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.

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• Yesterday — Transform your recruitment strategy with Hire Yesterday's AI-powered candidate evaluation. Make informed hiring decisions faster, streamline the screening process, and deliver a personalised experience to candidates.
• Stori Gaming — The future of storytelling
• Dream Machine — Dream Machine uses generative AI on brain waves to visualise your thoughts and dreams.

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• Biotalys — Biotalys is an Agricultural Technology (AgTech) company that employs its proprietary Agrobody technology platform to develop crop and food protection products. The company develops a new generation of protein-based biocontrol solutions, shaping the future of sustainable and safe food supply. Biotalys' unique protein-based biocontrols combinethe high-performance characteristics of chemicals with the clean safety profile of biologicals, making them ideal crop protection agents for both pre- and post-harvest applications.It was incorporated in 2013 and is based in the Biotech hub in Ghent, Belgium.
• BEELINE Technologies — BEELINE Technologies is the global software partner for clients requiring integrated autonomous control and navigation technologies for land-based vehicles. Quality assured and agile, we develop integrated solutions across all industries.For more than 10 years, the company’s diverse and experienced teams have worked with original equipmentmanufacturers and technology organisations, to deliver flexible, leading-edge technology solutions for self-propelled, ground-based vehicles. BEELINE is proud of its pioneering spirit, and its innovative, autonomous solutions are used extensively around the world.BEELINE’s commitment to product innovation continues through its investment in sophisticated technology research and development programs that deliver outstanding solutions to our clients.BEELINE is in an exciting growth phase that continues to build value for its existing clients, whilst applying that experience, knowledge, and capability to new industries and technologies.

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• AIStorm — AIStorm is an AI startup that develops chipsets that can process data directly from devices. AIS technology is analog and mixed-signal technology. The sensor itself can deal with events, make decisions, and can perform complex analysis. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Jose, California.
• Calumino — Developed the "ultimate sensor". Mass-deployable thermal sensor + AI. Capturing unprecedented, privacy-protecting, human activity and safety data. Platform technology with vast benefits for IOT, smart buildings, smart devices, security, fire safety, energy, industrial, automotive, health care and other markets.

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• Go1 — GO1 provides a platform that allows companies to upscale their workforce with on-demand training and a dynamic content-driven platform for companies that are Open to Learn. The funding follows an integration with Microsoft Teams, which enables organizations using Teams to learn directly within their workplace ecosystem. Individuals can now find,consume, share, and discuss learning resources from its library of online learning resources.
• Travelshoot — Your holidays are really important to us to create good memories and we are offering Worldwide Photographer Services. Get the best vacation photographer NYC & across the globe. Visit us now!
• Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.

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• Good Car Company — We provide high-quality and affordable electric cars and vans across Australia to assist in an equitable transition to low emissions transport.
• Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

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• Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
• Varicon — Construction Management Software: Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site

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• EVOS Energy — EVOS Energy is a startup specialising in fleet energy management and charging for electric vehicles.

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• Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
• BioticsAI — Advancing Fetal Ultrasound Screenings Using AI
• Kiki — Kiki is a subletting startup that matches listers with people looking to rent for up to six months.

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• Carbar — Carbar is Australia's first and leading vehicle subscription service. Carbar started off as a virtual car dealership that streamlines the process of selling and buying cars. It also offers a car subscription service, an alternative to car ownership where a customer can get to use a car for a recurring fee. Their car subscription serviceincludes no fixed term-contracts, fully inclusive of insurance, registration, maintenance, roadside assistance and the ability to switch cars depending on your needs.Carbar was founded in 2016.
• InStitchu — InStitchu is an online custom clothier specializing in tailor made menswear. Customers are able to design custom made garments online which are then made to their exact measurements.InStitchu provides tailor made, high quality menswear through a simple online ordering process. Once a customer has added measurements to their profile, a suit orshirt can be ordered in a few minutes and on its way in two weeks. There are multiple ways for a customer to get their measurements perfected and enjoy that “perfect fit” InStitchu customers keep coming back for - our measurement guide will take you on a journey from your living room to the hustle and bustle of our tailor’s studio. Customers can choose from a wide range of globally sourced high quality wool and cotton fabrics, and when you’ve chosen, we’ll deliver your design right to your door. This new approach to shopping is stress free and cuts out the middleman, allowing us to deliver customers luxury tailor made suits and shirts without the high price tag.
• CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

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• BVNK — BVNK is a next-generation payments platform. We're making payments as accessible and resilient as the internet.
• Xepelin — Xepelin is a fintech company that offers a SaaS platform for small and medium-sized businesses in Latin America that can organize their financial information in real-time. It seeks to simplify access to capital for its clients by creating a Simple, Fast, and Safe experience. The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Las Condes, Chile.
• Carma — Carma is a fully digital used car dealership, offering a large range of quality pre-owned vehicles at fixed prices, delivered to the home.

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• Cydarm — A case management platform that enables cybersecurity operations teams to collaborate, integrate, and respond with ease.
• Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
• Nomad Atomics — At Nomad Atomics, we develop innovative quantum sensors to solve outstanding problems in mining, underground resources and navigation

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• Endua — Endua is building the next generation of clean energy deep storage to power communities, remote industries and off-grid infrastructure at the flick of a switch - all day and night
• Jdoodle — JDoodle is an Online Compiler, Editor, IDE for Java, C, C++, PHP, Perl, Python, Ruby and many more. You can run your programs on the fly online, and you can save and share them with others. Quick and Easy way to compile and run programs online.
• Number 8 bio — Number 8 bio objective is to decarbonize agriculture while feeding the world's rising population. This can be accomplished by harnessing the power of trillions of carbon-hungry bacteria that feed on harmful greenhouse gases and turn them into profitable animal feeds.

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• JOKR — Grocery shopping is easier now with JOKR, your instant delivery app. Order your groceries and favorite products in our online supermarket and get them instantly at your door. Download the app now and make your first grocery order on us. Available in IOs and Android. Access www.jokr.com for more info
• Databricks — Databricks combines data warehouses & data lakes into a lakehouse architecture. Collaborate on all of your data, analytics & AI workloads using one platform.
• Harbinger — Founded by veterans of Canoo and Faraday Future, Harbinger is an automotive company that develops EV platforms optimized for medium-duty trucks and delivery vans.

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• Evvy — Evvy is for people with vaginas who want to be empowered with information about their microbiome. Their mission is to close the gender health gap by discovering and leveraging overlooked biomarkers in the female body — starting with the vaginal microbiome.
• QuriousBit — QuriousBit is a gaming studio that develops casual puzzle games for mobile platforms.
• Cartwheel — Cartwheel provides multi-tiered, evidenced-based mental health support from licensed clinicians, designed around your entire school community.

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• Sonder — Our digital care platform improves organisational culture by delivering immediate safety, medical & mental health services to your people. Improve your wellbeing strategy and create a culture of Active care today.
• Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
• Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.

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• BioPak — Award-winning plant-based compostable packaging that puts the planet first. Our focus is on innovation and customer service excellence. We design for the circular economy. Our products are carbon neutral and made from sustainably sourced, rapidly renewabl
• CIM — CIM's award-winning analytics platform helps run your buildings at peak operational efficiency and achieve critical sustainability goals.
• Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

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• Cypago — End-to-end intelligent compliance solution for any security standard including SOC 2, ISO 27001, SOX-ITGC, and HIPAA
• Swapp — Real estate developers, architects and engineers use Swapp to design buildings in a smart, flexible and efficient process.
• NVision Imaging Technologies — NVision Imaging Technologies is leveraging advances in quantum physics to enable the first routine, convenient and affordable use of Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) for assessing early patient response to cancer treatment at the metabolic level.

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• AMSL Aero — AMSL Aero is an electric Vertical Take Off & Landing aircraft.
• Revel — Electrifying cities through charging hubs, all electric rideshare, mopeds and eBikes.
• Fast Cities Australia — St Baker Energy Innovation Fund is an active investor in a portfolio of early stage companies that are developing disruptive products in the clean energy sector.The Fund invests in transformative companies across the energy sector from generation to consumption, including innovations that enable entirely new products, performance improvements ofexisting products, increased efficiency and more sustainable processes.

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• Exasun — Exasun is an innovative Dutch SolarPV manufacturer. It produce Glass-Glass solar panels with high efficiency and long life, on our own production line in The Hague. Production line Exasun has developed its advanced production line in recent years in close cooperation with suppliers, knowledge institutions and renowned Dutch machine builders. Inaddition to the Black Glass panel (60 cells, 1X1.6m) we also produce modules with special dimensions for building-integrated applications.
• In Ovo — We are on a mission to improve animal welfare in the poultry sector, and we have the technology to make it happen.
• Envision — Envision is a smartphone and smartglasses app that empowers blind and low vision users to be independent by speaking out the visual world around them.

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• Univa — Univa is the innovator of workload management solutions that optimize throughput and performance of applications, containers and services. Univa manages workloads automatically by maximizing shared resources and enabling enterprises to scale compute resources across on-premise, hybrid and cloud infrastructures. Univa's solutions help hundredsof companies to manage thousands of applications and run billions of tasks every day to obtain actionable insights and achieve faster time-to-results. Univa is headquartered in Chicago, USA, with offices in Canada and Germany.
• Mzinga — Mzinga is the leading provider of social software, services, and analytics that improve business performance. Through a combination of enterprise-class technology, strategy and online moderation services, Mzinga social solutions enable businesses to increase revenue and lower costs by improving brand visibility, workplace satisfaction, and customerloyalty. Headquartered in Burlington, Massachusetts, Mzinga supports more than 14,000 communities and 2.5 billion monthly social interactions from 40 million unique visitors in 160 countries worldwide.To learn more about Mzinga, visit www.mzinga.com.
• Redfern Integrated Optics — Leading global supplier of single frequency narrow linewidth lasers, modules, and subsystems to clean energy, security, oil & gas, test/measurement markets.

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• Floatic — Floatic is developing a robot solution that automates the process of warehousing and retrieving logistics centers.
• Livfarm — Livfarm is an online platform that delivers fresh vegetables and salad samplers.
• BOS Semiconductors — BOS Semiconductors develops semiconductor technology for the automotive industry.

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• Finicast — Finicast software helps FP&A teams, financial analysts, and businesses to achieve their vision through operational understanding, planning, and execution.
• Stathera — Stathera transforms the global timing market from Quartz-based to MEMS-based devices.
• Very Good Ventures — Very Good Ventures offers top Flutter app development services. Work with our Flutter experts to build apps and scale successfully with our support.

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• Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
• Minke — Send, save and invest crypto with zero fees and an experience as intutive as your bank.

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• FUE Bioscience — FUE Bioscience is a medical robot R&D business that specializes in microsurgery above the head and neck. It continues to develop a product matrix of fully intelligent, high-precision, and anthropomorphic surgical robots based on the platform of macro-micro-controlled humanoid dual-arm robots.
• Life Wilderness — Life Wilderness reimagines human-computer interaction and is linked to the transportation and travel industries.
• Xintu Heterogeneous — Xintu Heterogeneous offers data storage solutions for heterogeneous computing.

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• WINT — WINT - Water Intelligence developing advanced solutions for smart water management and control. The company detects and stops leaks at the source using Artificial Intelligence. It is used in commercial and industrial facilities, offices, homes, and apartments. It also prevents water damage caused by leaks, broken pipes or malfunctioning watersystems.WINT customers gain deep insights about their water use to identify water waste and reduce consumption by 25%. They manage water and detect leaks using artificial intelligence and pattern matching technologies, combining high accuracy metering with advanced data analytics. WINT solutions protect global real estate portfolios and homes by revealing leaks and identifying water savings opportunities.WINT was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in New York, USA.
• Darabase — Darabase is a unique platform enabling the creation, management and monetisation of location-based digital content in the real world and virtual metaverses.
• Enteligent — Enteligent is a solar product company focused on higher efficiency and harnessing more solar electricity. Enteligent's products reduce conversion losses and other inefficiencies that result in up to a 25% loss of solar rooftop electrical generation. Enteligent is on a mission to increase the effectiveness of solar electricity and providehomeowners with energy independence.

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• Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.

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• CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

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• Carma — Carma is a fully digital used car dealership, offering a large range of quality pre-owned vehicles at fixed prices, delivered to the home.

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• DingGo — DingGo | Free quotes from local car body shops using just a few photos of your damage. Car ding? DingGo!
• Zoomo — Check our reliable electric bikes and enjoy flexible lease plans in Australia, US, UK, France and more soon!

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• Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.

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• Agronomeye — Agronomeye uses the power of 3D farm modelling to transform your decision-making process.
• Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
• Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

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• CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

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• Willed — Willed is an Australian online estate planning platform.
• BiomeBank — BiomeBank is a clinical stage biotechnology company with a mission to treat our microbiome and prevent disease by restoring gut microbial ecology.
• Internet 2.0 — Military Grade cyber security with core products Cloaking Firewall, Malcore and 5th Column