Top 30 Digital Media Startup Investors in Australia in October 2023

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• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
• Ahura AI — Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
• Ensuredit — ENSUREDIT enables and empowers end customers and Insurance Intermediaries with AI-based product platforms for transformational customer experience.

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• Neara — Neara electric utility software is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets. Request a demo.
• Human — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
• Morse Micro — Smarter, farther, better. Meet the latest Wi-Fi, HaLow, 802.11ah. 10X FARTHER>1Km range, 100x area, 1000x volume 10X EFFICIENCYMulti-year on a single

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• Lanterne — Lanterne is an award-winning startup based in London. Our mission is to improve people’s quality of life by unlocking the value of data. Our product makes micromobility systems responsive and profitable by predicting user demand and optimising operations.
• Cleverbean — Find explicit and quality literacy units and lessons all aligned to the Australian Curriculum
• Lewi Software — Lewi Software - process engineering meets cloud computing. we implement software to accelerate process engineering workflows.

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• Freename — Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains
• LunarCrush — Smarter crypto, NFT, and stock investing with insights from millions of conversations happening across social.
• SuperSight — SuperSight (https://supersight.xyz/), a UK-based start-up, is building crypto-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionise the way we interact with crypto data. With 420 million crypto users but only 30,000 able to code for onchain insights, SuperSight bridges the gap, enabling easy access to information from a range ofboth on-chain and off-chain sources like Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Mirror, Podcast Transcripts, and news sites. Beyond just collecting data, SuperSight uses AI to improve the search experience, making it personalised, accurate, and ultimately, more insightful.

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• Swoop Aero — Transforming how the world moves by making access to the skies seamless.
• HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
• SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.

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• Lyka Pet Food — Lyka Pet Food: for puppers living their best life. We deliver fresh, homemade dog food straight from our Australian kitchen to your door.
• ClearCalcs — Online structural design software. Calculation tools for shear force, bending moment, cantilever deflection, steel beam calculations, wood, concrete and more.
• Kepler Analytics — Kepler uses retail in-store analytics to provide retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behaviour and create amazing customer experiences.

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• Radian Arc — Radian Arc is a content delivery network (CDN) that sets up broadband services around the world to make it easier to send video or gaming data to consumers.

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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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• Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
• The Mintable — Give your managers the practical insights, training, and support they need to succeed (so everyone else can too).
• Style Sourcebook — Style Sourcebook provides digital platform that allows users to create mood boards for interior design ideas using images of items that are available for purchase from independent retailers .Style Sourcebook brings together all the tools, people and ideas to help you create your perfect space.

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• Inkl — Discover the simplest way to read world-class journalism online.

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• Maalexi — We are a deal-driven and buyer-focussed digital ecosystem for 'Wholesale Import and Finance of Food and Agriculture products into US, Europe, Africa, India and the UAE'. We make it faster, cheaper and safer to trade internationally, by standardizing and digitalizing trade processes, and have built key partnerships with globally renownedcompanies, that assure performance, finance, and mitigate transactional risks.We help local SME manufacturers and distributors to import and get finance for food and agricultural products directly from the source. Agricultural products can be imported by local manufacturers directly from small and medium co-operatives and processors, while food products can be imported directly by local distributors from manufacturers. We help buyers connect and transact with sellers by mitigating transactional risks in cross-border trade like : Counter-party, Price, Product Quality and Quantity, Delivery and Payment. We have partnerships that allow us to provide - digital contracting, end-to-end fulfillment, physical inspections, and secured payments. We are partnered with globally renowned - Distributed Ledger Technology platform, Logistics Service companies, Insurance providers, an Inspection Agency, and Financial Service fin-tech firms. We work 24x7, 365 days to 'simplify cross-border trade', and we invite you to join us in this endeavor.
• Lite (LiteRide) — Our innovation will be targeted at intervening and massively improving the transportation system. LiteRide is aimed at solving some of these likely challenges/problem in the transportation sector. This new solution will create a profound impact in the transportation sector. It will create employment opportunities for vehicle drivers andowners, engage vehicle maintenance personnel, allow car auto-dealers lease out and assisting individuals or event planners (for occasions) to hire vehicles at their convenience and also create a better and safer transportation system for daily commuters in Abuja environs and Nigeria at large.Lite makes your travel (city-city travel) planning process better so that you can save time and money. Our platform allows commuters to book the most affordable daily rides (in-city) rides within and outside the city. It believes in a future with less car ownership and flexible urban mobility. By bringing reliable on-demand transport to the masses, it helps cities evolve towards decreased traffic congestion. This way, it tends to reduce crimes perpetrated by viable populations as this (LiteRide platform) requires little or no special technology-know-how. LiteRide was founded in June, 2021 and it's or we're opened for possible funding and partnership.
• Digital Boom — Digital Boom is a leading source of news for marketing and advertising professionals. It delivers insightful, forward-thinking content.

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• Fortanix — Fortanix is building a new security category with its Runtime Encryption(R) technology using Intel SGX. Just like encryption today protects data at rest and data during motion, Runtime Encryption(R) keeps keys, data, and applications completely protected even when infrastructure has been compromised and even root users are malicious.Fortanix's Self-Defending Key Management Service (SDKMS) is a next-generation cloud native solution for your enterprise encryption needs. It offers key generation, management, distribution, encryption-as-a-service, HSM, KMIP, and tokenization all rolled-in as a single product the highest possible level of security and cloud scale. Available as both FIPS certified appliance and a globally available SaaS (with Equinix's strong SLA), SDKMS offers incredible simple central management, server-side load balancing, central tamper-proof logging, RESTful APIs, and Runtime Encryption(R) plugin to run custom code.Fortanix's Runtime Encryption(R) Platform allows customers to bring any docker container and run them securely inside Intel SGX without any modification. It allows customers to share data with each other without losing control of the data, run analytics on sensitive data, run applications securely in remote cloud, move PII-heavy sensitive data to public cloud, etc. Fortanix's Enclave Development Platform (EDP) allows customers to write Rust code to run natively as SGX enclaves. Supported by mainline Rust compiler, developers find EDP as the easiest and the most secure way of developing new applications.In the short time, Fortanix has developed strategic partnership with Equinix and IBM cloud and counts multiple F50 companies as its customers. Fortanix is a Gartner Cool Vendor and also was runner up in RSA Innovation Sandbox among 500+ security companies where judges called it "holy grail of security". Fortanix has more than ten patents pending for its innovation.
• Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
• More Good Days — More Good Days offers evidence-based pain management programes, education, and health services.

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• Ethernovia — Embrace the future of vehicle networks with Ethernovia's new Ethernet approach. Explore our cutting-edge technology today.
• Matterport — Matterport is a developer of a 3D media platform used to establish 3D and virtual reality models.
• Radian Arc — Radian Arc is a content delivery network (CDN) that sets up broadband services around the world to make it easier to send video or gaming data to consumers.

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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.
• Enduring Planet — Fast and founder-friendly non-dilutive capital for climate entrepreneurs. Apply in 10 mins, get funded in 30 days. No collateral, no personal guarantees.
• Style Sourcebook — Style Sourcebook provides digital platform that allows users to create mood boards for interior design ideas using images of items that are available for purchase from independent retailers .Style Sourcebook brings together all the tools, people and ideas to help you create your perfect space.

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• Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.

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• Metigy — Build your brand, grow your sales, charge your conventional marketing strategies, and expedite your business with Metigy.com
• Oovvuu — Our mission is to put a relevant video in every article, tell trusted news to a billion people and repatriate $20B from the tech duopoly back to publishers and broadcasters.
• Bill Identity — BidEnergy simplifies how you manage your energy contracts and spend. Our platform has bottled 40 years of strategic sourcing and energy industry experience - making sure you get the very lowest cost and then pay only what you need to. Our platform works in contestable retail energy markets so if a company that's built on simplicity andintegrity sounds good to you then we should talk.

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• Nykaa — Nykaa is an e-Commerce platform for different beauty and wellness products for men and women. They also offer comprehensive content including product reviews, beauty how-to videos, articles by experts, and an e-beauty magazine. Their helpline helps to choose products and services best suited for customer's needs. Nykaa's products areauthentic sourced directly from brands and provide a delivery experience.Nykaa was founded in 2012 by Falguni Nayar and is headquartered in Mumbai, Maharashtra, India.
• SendFX — SendFX provides cross-border payment and remittance services to individuals and SMEs.
• Send Payments — Send is a fast-growing fintech delivering embedded finance solutions to well-known brands.

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• Talon.One — The all-in-one promotion software designed for enterprises. Manage all your marketing promotions in one scalable system without stressing developer resources.
• Forever Network — Forever Network is a social-first sports media company. Our keystone brand, Basketball Forever, is the worlds largest independent sports media channel.
• OpenAgent.com.au — In Australia we are completely obsessed with property. Yet, even in Australia, real estate is an industry that still often fails to delight the consumer. A couple of years ago we set out to transform the way property is transacted.OpenAgent.com.au is a platform where sellers can compare and hire real estate agents to:- Find an agent who sellsat the price they promise- Engage an agent on terms that make sense- Monitor the transaction progress end-to-end

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• Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
• Vaulta — Designed and assembled in Brisbane, Australia. Vaulta batteries are perfect for stationary storage and lifestyle projects, and are designed for disassembly.
• Bloom Impact Investing — Bloom Impact Investing provides an investment platform to investors wanting to make a difference to the environment. Join us to access clean energy and cleantech investment portfolios that your future self will thank you for.

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• REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
• Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
• Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

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• Kira Biotech — Kira Biotech is an emerging Australian biotechnology company developing novel immunomodulatory compounds for the treatment of immune system disorders. Its lead candidate, KB312, is a first-in-class, selective, immune-cell depleting monoclonal antibody which targets activated immune cells and aims to restore homeostasis through induction of immunetolerance. Kira Biotech has attracted venture capital funding and is progressing KB312 through preclinical development and phase 1 clinical trials with a team of drug development experts led by well-known US-based rheumatologist and immunologist, Dr Dan Baker.
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• SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.

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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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• Spectrm — Streamline your marketing funnel with Spectrm conversational marketing. The leading end-to-end chatbot platform for growth teams and enterprise.
• Vietcetera Media — Vietcetera Media - Understanding Vietnam
• Kaleidoscope — Kaleidoscope Content, bringing vivid stories from around the globe. Listen in color!

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• Avertro — Avertro is a venture-backed cybersecurity software company. We are your Cybersecurity Headquarters. Elevate your game with a Cyber Management Decision System (MDS). The platform that helps you manage the business of cyber using defensible insights to determine what is essential.
• Morse Micro — Smarter, farther, better. Meet the latest Wi-Fi, HaLow, 802.11ah. 10X FARTHER>1Km range, 100x area, 1000x volume 10X EFFICIENCYMulti-year on a single
• Rosemary Health — Doctors without the waiting rooms. Medications delivered to your door. Repeat scripts without the trips. Get hassle-free access to doctors & treatments online.

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• Style Sourcebook — Style Sourcebook provides digital platform that allows users to create mood boards for interior design ideas using images of items that are available for purchase from independent retailers .Style Sourcebook brings together all the tools, people and ideas to help you create your perfect space.

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• Adumo — We are your expert partner in payments, enabling you to seamlessly and securely accept payments in-store and online with our true omni-channel experience. Never miss a sale with South Africa's largest independent payments processor.
• Hecate Energy — Hecate Energy is a developer of solar, wind, and energy storage projects.
• Pulse Clean Energy — Pulse Clean Energy builds and operates power stations. We deliver power into the UK’s network when it is most needed.

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• InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
• Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
• Livewire — Livewire offers complete brand services including talent engagement, programmatic and digital advertising, gaming, and esports marketing.

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• Willed — Willed is an Australian online estate planning platform.
• Earnity — Your new favorite crypto community. Build a portfolio in minutes, copy and share collections, and discuss the latest tokens and research. Create your profile now.
• Buildxact — Buildxact is an easy to use construction management and estimating software designed for small builders and contractors. Sign up for your 14-day free trial.

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• Alta — Alta is a virtual reality company developing A Township Tale, a social VR multiplayer experience!
• WORK180 — The WORK180 endorsement is the globally recognized sign of a great workplace for women. Find out what, how, and why leading employers want to wear it.
• Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.