Top 50 Finance Startup Investors in Australia in October 2023

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• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
• Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, 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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• 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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• Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
• SafeStack — SafeStack Academy is the New Zealand online cyber security, privacy and secure development training company.
• DataMesh Group — DataMesh Group offers data processing solutions, financial payment systems software, infrastructure and data analytics products.

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• Tabby — With Tabby, you can split your purchases into 4 interest-free payments at your favourite stores. Download the Tabby app to get started.
• TP24 — Tradeplus24 is a provider of SME Lending using receivables as security. Operational in Europe and APAC.
• Flower Chimp — Best Price online for fresh Flowers by #1 florist in Malaysia with same day FREE Delivery on all orders. Shop for Roses, Sunflowers, Baby Breath flower bouquets & gifts from a wide selection for any occasion at FlowerChimp. Over 200 bouquets, stands and hampers to choose from - all prepared by experienced professionals

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• ZoomAgri — ZOOMAGRI provides an assessment of agricultural commodities to all participants of Agri supply chain via AI, computer vision and IoT.
• Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online
• Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development 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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• Vega — The comprehensive wealth creation platform for high-net-worth individuals and their advisors. Vega bridges the gap between the institutional and private wealth management worlds.
• Komet Games — A casual gaming platform powered by intelligent AI agents. Explore puzzle, battle, and hyper casual games with friends, all under one roof.
• Spot My Energy — Spot My Energy increases the value of smart power by increasing transparency in energy flows and handling metering, asset optimization, and trading.

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• Fabrick — Fabrick offers Open Banking solutions: a new way of thinking about the bank, open, modular and data driven, closer to your needs
• MTN Group Fintech — MTN MoMo is a fintech platform providing consumers and businesses with a host of innovative digital financial services...
• Clearbox AI — Benefit from Synthetic Data to unlock your AI projects, overcome privacy issues and improve the utility of your data.

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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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• Vaxxas — Vaxxas develops and commercializes needle-free vaccine delivery system. Vaxxas was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Brisbane, Australia.
• BiVACOR — BiVACOR is a privately held company founded in 2008. Their staff includes world-class engineers, medical specialists, and business executives, who are diligently working to advance this ground-breaking technology. Together, they have established a strong collaborative network that extends both nationally and internationally. Their worldheadquarters is located in Houston, Texas, USA, and their international office is in Brisbane, Australia.
• ImmVirX — ImmVirX is an Australian company founded in 2019 with a mission to improve outcomes for patients with cancer types in which immunotherapy treatments have limited effect.

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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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• Kapiche — Instant insights. No set up or coding. The Kapiche feedback analytics platform helps you ingest and analyze mountains of customer feedback in minutes.
• Remi AI — A.I-Powered Demand Forecasting, Supply Chain AI, & Price Optimisation | Remi AI
• Trendspek — Trendspek is the drone data solution asset managers use to make empowered decisions and ensure absolute asset knowledge. Conduct complete visual inspections from any web browser. Extract detailed insights without a site visit. Use powerful tools to analyse the structure and build a complete picture of asset condition. Enhance predictive maintenanceby closely monitoring trends. View different models side by side to observe important differences. Refine your understanding of an ever-changing asset.

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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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• Mastt — Better Capital Works Portfolio Management - Make better, quicker business decisions with real time transparency over your capital works program.
• FLAIM Systems — FLAIM Systems is a virtual reality platform that develops, produces and supports the next step in skills training for emergency services.
• Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms

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• Assembler — The best way to build and launch valuable apps
• FLK It Over — FLK it over is an Australian-owned and based e-signature solution that offers secure and efficient electronic signature software.
• Spectrum Support Group — Disability Tech

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• Zitcha — Zitcha builds own-branded, high-performance, Retail Media Businesses by connecting Retailers and Brands to all marketing channels in one omnichannel platform, onsite, offsite and in-store.
• DataMasque — Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise.
• Dataweavers — Dataweavers WebOps | Automation of Customer Experience Ecosystems | Move from people-based Infrastructure Hosting to an end-to-end automated ecosystem.

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• Nimble — Nimble provides a fast solution to short-term financial hurdles. A Nimble loan is paid back over weeks, not months or years. Their world-leading profiling technology allows customers to receive an instant decision upon completing an application.You'll know if you've been approved straight away - not hours or days later. Their freshapproach to lending means there's no waiting around for someone to assess your application. No sitting around anxiously wondering whether you're approved or not.You'll have an answer within a minute and cash can be in your bank account within 60 minutes. Nimble re-branded from Cash Doctors in October 2012.

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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

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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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• Islamic Bank Australia — Islamic Bank Australia was originally founded by thirteen passionate Muslims who wanted to bring Islamic banking to Australia for the first time

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• Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
• Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
• YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

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• Meeno — Meeno is a relationship mentoring app powered by generative AI
• PartyKit — PartyKit is an open source deployment platform for AI agents.
• Iambic Therapeutics — Iambic has created a cutting-edge AI-driven platform to tackle the most challenging design problems in drug discovery and address unmet patient need.

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• CMR Surgical — Welcome to CMR Surgical. Transforming surgery. For good. Our aim is to make the benefits of minimal access surgery available to everyone who needs it.
• Enflame — Suiyuan Technology is a provider of neural network solutions for artificial intelligence. Its products are deep learning high-end chips developed for cloud data centers, and are positioned on artificial intelligence training platforms. The chip will adopt a unique and innovative architecture independently developed, featuring high computing power,high energy efficiency ratio, programmable, low cost, and support for mainstream machine learning frameworks. It is designed and optimized for cloud AI training.
• Broken String Biosciences — Our platform accelerates the characterisation of novel gene editing technologies to unlock the next wave of cell & gene therapies.

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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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• Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
• Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
• Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.

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• Butn — Butn offers a Funding Solution Suite that changes the way funding works in businesses. It is an agnostic technology that overlays any third-party platform to provide a suite of financing products for its customers, instantly.

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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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• Archa — Archa, a smart business credit card and spend management solution. Zero interest, higher limits with no personal guarantee.

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• AuditCover — AuditCover provides accountants a simpler, smarter and faster way to insure their clients. With our digital onboarding, secure data sharing and direct-to-taxpayer programs.
• KOBA Insurance — KOBA Insurance is on a mission to help over 10M Aussie drivers lower their annual premiums by only charging them for what they use.Powered by our technology platform, we're unlocking your car's onboard computer and enabling your car to join the IOT revolution. KOBA uses connected car data to measure actual kilometres travelled, offeringa true pay-per-km insurance policy and a fairer solution to low-usage drivers. KOBA is launching in October 2021. Visit www.kobainsurance.com to pre-register and join the pay-per-km movement today.

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• Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
• AuditCover — AuditCover provides accountants a simpler, smarter and faster way to insure their clients. With our digital onboarding, secure data sharing and direct-to-taxpayer programs.
• Cake — Here at Cake Equity we make equity easier to use. Grow your company, reward your team, eliminate the hassle. Sign up for FREE today!

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• Mercu — Connect with your deskless and frontline workforce via the chat apps they use. Get Mercu, the smarter, automated communication and enablement platform.
• SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.
• MagicBrief — Save Facebook, Instagram, and TikTok ads in a creative library that enables you to rework them in your own storyboards, which you can share with your team.

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• Mooncard — Mooncard was created with an ambition: to put the new payment technologies at the service of the day-to-day management of all companies to enable them to gain in simplicity, efficiency and therefore profitability. Currently, many purchasing and spending processes remain manual and complex, ranging from routine purchases and expenses to expenseclaims. Businesses of any size, and often the small ones, lose valuable time to make and manage these payments. Mooncard completely transforms this situation by proposing an innovative payment solution, piloted in real time, secure and deployable very easily. Thanks to the most modern technologies (web, big data, IA ...) the payment and management circuit is completely automated.Mooncard supports all companies to enable them to take full advantage of the revolution of means of payment.
• Croissant — Croissant gives guaranteed buybacks on new purchases, so you can buy more and better.
• Franklin — Hybrid cash & crypto payroll

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• Sikoia — Streamline your decision-making with centralized customer data, comprehensive case management, and automated risk evaluation without complicated integrations.
• Aspire — Multi currency business account, for start-ups & SMEs, to manage your company spends & expenses, accounts receivables & payables, invoices, bills, corporate cards & cross-border payments.
• Scrut Automation — Scrut Automation makes ISO 27001, SOC 2, GDPR and PCI DSS compliance easy, with 70% less Manual effort

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• Carsome — Carsome is an online used car platform that provides efficient car selling services to individuals and entities. Through its online bidding portal, customers are able to sell their vehicles directly to dealers. Carsome facilitates the entire car selling process from inspection to valuation, bidding, and payment as well as logistics needs, allowingthe customers to sell their cars.It was founded in 2015 and headquartered in Malaysia, the company has expanded to Indonesia, Thailand, and Singapore.
• CompAsia — Device lifecycle solutions for a greener world.
• iMotorbike — iMotorbike is the #1 motorbike online E-commerce website in South East Asia, providing a fast, secure, simple and trouble free online experience with a wide variety of product range, setting itself apart from what exists in the market. iMotorbike offers three main categories: motorbikes, parts and accessories. For a complete 360° experience,iMotorbike also enables users the access to services such as insurance and financing. At iMotorbike we always strive to offer our customers the best experience through a complete and efficient online ecosystem for motorbike users, lovers and professionals.

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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.
• Edstart — Edstart | A better Way to Pay School Fees
• Vitruvian Form — Vitruvian manufactures a connected fitness hardware, develops software and fitness class content.

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• Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.

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• Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.

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• SATIM — SATIM provides insights based on satellite radar data acquired regardless of weather and day/night time. Using developed software and algorithms SATIM can solve the problem of optimal information extraction from complex SAR imagery.
• AirDeck — Make documents and presentations more engaging by adding audio or video narration. Add clarity and personalize any content you share.
• Clever Real Estate — We match you with top agents nationwide and help you save. Sellers get full service for just a 1.5% listing fee. Buyers can get cash back after closing.

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• Glider — Receive more payments, more often by transforming how your business requests & collects customer bill payments. Automated collections, agent assited & more.
• TANGGapp — Send money to the Philippines with the best exchange rates! Money transfers are received in minutes. Get full transparency on your transaction - no FX markups or secret costs. Download TANGapp today and get started!
• Smileyscope — Smileyscope solves paediatric problems using VR keeping kids calm and still during needles, allowing clinicians to do their job safely

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• mx51 — Obsessed with the merchant experience.

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• Garentii — Garentii is an insurtech & proptech rethinking the traditional cash deposit system, a practice that is expensive and inefficient for both renters and landlords with a digital rent deposit management platform.
• Safely — Let us help you protect your home with Short Term Rental Insurance & Comprehensive Guest Screening for your Airbnb. Contact us today!
• Vertical Insure — Vertical Insure is an insurance company built for vertical SaaS platforms.

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• Raylo — Raylo is on a mission to shake up the UK mobile sector.
• Simon Data — Simon Data is the Customer Data Platform that enables you to drive marketing results faster with a solution purpose built for growth.
• Hyro — A stellar customer journey starts with conversational AI. Take complex data and turn it into simple dialogue across any digital channel, for all enterprises and their customers.

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• Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
• PixFusion — PixFusion offers personalized entertainment solutions for adults, teens, and the youth. It offers mobile apps, DVDs, and streaming and downloading videos.
• Three Rings — Three Rings was an internet games development company based in San Francisco. Puzzle Pirates (casual action puzzle MMOARRPG) was their first and most successful title, followed by Bang! Howdy (Steampunk tactical turn-based MMO), Whirled (user-created Flash / web virtual world) and Spiral Knights (action adventure MMO). Three Rings also made aDoctor Who game with the BBC, a How to Train your Dragon game with Dreamworks and various Facebook games and other experiments. Three Rings was acquired by SEGA of Japan in 2011 and operated as a studio within SEGA until early 2016.

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• Smartr365 — A complete end-to-end mortgage and protection platform to connect advisors, introducers and home buyers.
• When You Move — When You Move founders, Peter and Simon experienced first hand the frustrations with the conveyancing process. For all parties: the estate agent, the mortgage broker, the conveyancer and the end-customer, obstacles stood in the way of a smooth, successful journey. Current panels aren’t the answer. Estate agents and brokers still spend valuable timechasing for updates, conveyancers are overwhelmed by another system that sits outside their daily workflow, and often referral fees don’t even materialise.Peter and Simon believed that with the right technology, everyone can profit from working better, together. When You Move has been developed in consultation with the industry and with leading SaaS engineers, to create a connected client journey. It improves communication, facilitates introductions and increases profits.
• Live Better With — Get products, support, and practical information to help you navigate everyday life with your health condition.

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• Thriday — Thriday saves small businesses a huge amount of time and money by automating financial admin. It's like having a bookkeeper, accountant and transaction account all in one.

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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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• Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
• AsiaVerify — AsiaVerify is plugged into Asia's most authoritative and compliant government and regulatory sources. Our unprecedented coverage and intelligent platform opens the way for businesses to engage in Asian markets with greater confidence and ease.
• FreeGuides — FreeGuides is a peer to peer platform, enabling locals to create, run and manage their own free walking tours.

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

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• Breez — Lightning Fast Bitcoin Payments
• Relai — Relai is a Bitcoin investment app that allows anyone to buy bitcoin within one minutes or set up an automated savings plan.
• AMBOSS — Lightning Network Explorer and Analytics Tools. Search for nodes and channels on the Lightning Network and get detailed information on them.