Tech / IT Companies & Startups in Melbourne
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Melbourne, ranked 1 and 2 for the last five years in the world’s most livable cities is also home to some amazing Tech Startups and IT Companies.
From providing you with the list of the Famous Companies Headquartered in Melbourne, we now move to provide you with the list of Tech / IT Companies and Startups based out of Melbourne.
Our list comprises 50 famous IT-based Companies that have an Australian presence in Melbourne.
The list is created keeping in mind the diverse services offered by IT Companies, so don’t expect (only) your traditional IT companies to be a part of the list.
The list has names from:
- Edu Tech startups
- Cloud-based service providers (ex : CRM Software for Small Businesses, Invoicing Software for Businesses)
- IT training companies
- Pure app-based companies
- Online marketplaces
- Accounting Product based companies
And more…
It is an effort from my team to get the best of Tech companies and startups in Melbourne for you.
Let’s get started:
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Envato
Established: 2006
Founders: Collis Ta’eed, Cyan Claire, Jun Rung
CEO: Collis Ta’eed
Company’s website: https://www.envato.com/
Envato (formerly Eden) is a company that operates a bunch of marketplaces (digital) that sell creative assets for the web world.
The company has established a name for itself by building an ecosystem for web designers, where they can come and buy themes, UI/UX Designs, pics, videos, audio, and 3D models for this business.
The platform has approx 1.5 million active buyers and sellers and an active 8 million community.
The company has more than 5 million items for sale.
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Afterpay
Established: 2014
Founders: Nick Molnar, Anthony Eisen, Nicholas Molnar
CEO: Anthony Eisen
Company’s website: https://www.afterpay.com/
Afterpay Limited is an Australian financial technology company led by Nick Molner, a Famous Young Australian Entrepreneur.Â
The company operates in Australia, the United Kingdom, Canada, the United States, and New Zealand.
The company was in news recently when it was acquired by Square – a company owned by Twitter co-founder Jack Dorsey.
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Zendesk
Established: 2007
Founders: Mikkel Svane, Alexander Aghassipour, Morten Primdahl
CEO: Mikkel Svane
Company’s website: https://www.zendesk.com/
Zendesk is a software-as-a-service-based American company headquartered in San Francisco, California.
The company provides products related to customer support, sales, and other customer communications.
The company was established in Copenhagen, Denmark, in 2007 and has its Australian presence in Melbourne.
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Cogent
Established: 1999
Founders: Dave Schaeffer
CEO: Dave Schaeffer
Company’s website: http://www.cogentco.com/
Cogent Communications is a multinational internet service provider with its Australian office in Melbourne.
Cogent’s primary services are around Internet access and data transport that are offered on a fiber optic, IP data-only network, along with colocation in data centers.
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MyDeal.com.au
Established: 2011
Founders: Sean Senvirtne
CEO: Sean Senvirtne
Company’s website: https://www.mydeal.com.au/
MyDeal.com.au is an online retail store connecting consumers to a wide range of products at the best prices.
The company connects consumers with million of retails offering products around a wide array of categories.
The website has established a name for itself by providing the best discounts from retailers.
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A Cloud Guru
Established: 2015
Founders: Sam Kroonenburg, Ryan Kroonenburg, Ant Stanley
CEO: Sam Kroonenburg (CEO)
Company’s website: https://acloud.guru/
If you are looking to learn anything on Cloud (read: AWS, Azure, Google cloud), A Cloud Guru is the online training platform that provides you the relevant services.
The majority of the courses on the platform help students prepare for cloud certification exams from the three major cloud providers.
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LiveHire
Established: 2015
Founders: Christy Forest
CEO: Christy Forest
Company’s website: https://www.livehire.com/
LiveHire is a recruitment-based platform that helps organizations find their people, and people the jobs they love.
They help large and small organizations transform the way they recruit talent
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IRESS
Established: 1993
Founders: Peter Dunai, Neil Detering, and Hung Do
CEO: Andrew Walsh
Company’s website: https://www.iress.com/
Iress is a technology company providing software to the financial services industry in Asia-Pacific, North America, Africa, and UK & Europe.
The company works with financial institutions of all sizes – ranging from financial consulting firms to big iconic brands.
Iress software has more than 200 integrations and 300 data feeds and is used by more than 500,000 users globally.
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Adslot
Established: 1975
Founders: Mr. Andrew Barlow
CEO: Ben Dixon
Company’s website: https://www.adslot.com/
Adslot Media is an independent Programmatic Guaranteed technology that scales publisher-direct media buying through a direct connection with publisher ad servers.
With its proprietary Audience First feature, buyers can plan and buy premium products with their first-party data, across publishers.
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Versent
Established: 2014
Founders: Thor Essman
CEO: Paul Migliorini
Company’s website: https://versent.com.au/
Versent is an Australia-based technology company headquartered in Melbourne.
The IT Company focuses on architecting, building & operating cloud-native applications, data streams, platforms, and services.
Veresnt is also a premier AWS consulting partner.
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MYOB
Established: 1991
Founders: Christopher Lee
CEO: Greg Ellis
Company’s website: http://www.myob.com/
MYOB is an Australian multinational corporation that provides tax, accounting, and other business services software to small and medium businesses.
MYOB is owned by American private equity KKR.
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Urbanise
Established: 2001
Founders: Rob Cumming
CEO: Simon Less
Company’s website: https://www.urbanise.com/
Urbanise is the first cloud-based Building Service Delivery platform.
With remote asset monitoring, dynamic workforce management, property accounting, and an e-commerce portal for building occupants, the Urbanise platform completely transforms the traditional approach to building operations.
Urbanise’s disruptive technology seamlessly outperforms conventional building management solutions and offers service providers real-time visibility and control, reduced costs, and new revenue streams.
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Kloud Solutions (Now acquired by Telstra Purple)
Established: 2012
Founders: Christopher Smith
CEO: John Myers
Company’s website: https://purple.telstra.com/
Telstra Purple was Established in 2012 and Kloud Solutions 2019
Klout delivers digital transformation for Australian and global businesses, in a way that other managed services and tech consultancies can’t.
Klout’s multi-disciplinary team’s collaborative working style is about listening and inspiring as it solves. Unrivaled global partnerships so you can access the technology for the outcome you want, powered by Telstra’s advanced and adaptive capabilities.
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Rome2rio
Established: 2010
Founders: Bernhard Tschirren and Michael Cameron
CEO: Michael Cameron
Company’s website: https://www.rome2rio.com/
Rome2rio is an Australian online multimodal transport search engine helping travelers get to and from any location in the world. Based in Melbourne, Australia, and owned by Omio.
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PageUp
Established: 1997
Founders: Karen Cariss
CEO: Mark Rice
Company’s website: https://www.rome2rio.com/
PageUp is the talent management platform HR practitioners, people leaders, employees, and candidates love to use.
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Bill Identity
Established: 2008
Founders: Anthony Du Preez
CEO: Michele Garra
Company’s website: https://billidentity.com/
Bill Identity (Bid) has transformed the world of bill management by developing a suite of solutions that leverage Robotic Process Automation (RPA).
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Redbubble
Established: 2006
Founders: Martin Hosking
CEO: Michael J. Ilczynski
Company’s website: https://www.redbubble.com/
Redbubble is a global online marketplace for print-on-demand products based on user-submitted artwork.
The company was established in 2006 in Melbourne, Australia, and also maintains offices in San Francisco and Berlin.
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Locomote
Established: 2014
Founders: Ross and David Fastuca
CEO: Ross Fastuca
Company’s website: https://www.locomote.com/
Locomote empowers organizations to have complete control and visibility of their travel program.
A customer-focused and technology lead travel company, which reduces the reliance on traditional bookings enabling high-quality customer service.
Locomote creates a completely new automated and innovative solution for travel management.
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OurXplor
Established: 2015
Founders: Mark Woodland
CEO: Mark Woodland
Company’s website: https://www.ourxplor.com/
OurXplor is changing education by helping child care services easily manage and automate all aspects of their operations.
Xplor has a range of products for supporting administrators, educators, and parents.
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Dubber
Established: 2011
Founders: Peter Dunai, Neil Detering, and Hung Do
CEO: Steve McGovern
Company’s website: http://www.dubber.net/
Dubber is a cloud-based call recording software that operates as a software-as-service and voice data offering.
Dubber was Established in Melbourne, Australia in 2011 by James Slaney, Steve McGovern, and Adrian Di Pietrantonio, and predominantly sells to Telecommunications Service Providers and Enterprise customers.
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Yellowfin BI
Established: 2003
Founders: Glen Rabie
CEO: Glen Rabie
Company’s website: http://www.yellowfinbi.com/
All BI companies can tell customers what happened, Yellowfin tells them why it happened.
Yellowfin is a global Business Intelligence (BI) and analytics platform dedicated to enabling product managers to improve their application’s analytical experiences with embedded BI, solving real enterprise analytics challenges, and helping business people understand not only what happened, but why it happened.
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ROLLER
Established: 2014
Founders: Luke Finn
CEO: Luke Finn
Company’s website: https://roller.software/
ROLLER’s vision is to help create experiences that bring joy and happiness to the world. We aim to achieve this by building technology for leisure and attraction businesses, helping them to deliver amazing experiences for their guests.
ROLLER is a complete software platform for the modern attraction. Our platform is built to support the key areas of your business, and to help you improve operations, grow revenue, and delight your guests.
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Matchbyte
Established: 2011
Founders: Dzulkiflee
CEO: Dzulkiflee Taib
Company’s website:Â
Matchbyte is a leading solutions provider and consulting business based in Melbourne, Australia with offices in Auckland, Singapore, Manila, Dubai, London, and the US.
Matchbyte offers an exceptional understanding of the complexities, commercial drivers, and technical considerations of creating, implementing, and managing solutions for online travel businesses, mainly airlines that serve a vast array of customer types over disparate geographical regions.
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Airwallex
Established: 2015
Founders: Jack and Max
CEO: Jack Zhang
Company’s website: https://www.airwallex.com/
Airwallex helps us to save money on every bank transfer with their near-zero transaction fee and market-beating FX rates. We also use Airwallex’s multi-currency virtual Visa cards for all our SaaS subscriptions to avoid hidden bank fees that would otherwise have been difficult to spot.
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Aconex
Established: 2000
Founders: Leigh Jasper, Robert Phillpot
CEO: Leigh Jasper
Company’s website: https://help.aconex.com/Home
Aconex Limited was an ASX 200 listed public Australian company providing mobile and web-based collaboration technologies for project information and process management, on a software as a service basis, to clients in the construction, infrastructure, power, mining, and oil and gas sectors.
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Catapult Sports
Established: 2006
Founders: Shaun Holthouse, Igor van de Griendt
CEO: Will Lopes
Company’s website: https://www.catapultsports.com/
Catapult is a sports performance analytics company, listed on the Australian Stock Exchange, that provides performance technology to 2970 teams, across 39 sports, in 137 countries.
The company is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia.
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Carsales.com.au
Established: 1996
Founders: Gregory Paul Roebuck
CEO: Cameron McIntyre
Company’s website: https://www.carsales.com.au/
carsales.com is an online marketplace, which specializes in automotive, motorcycle, and marine classifieds business in Australia.
The head office is located in the City of Yarra. Within Australia, carsales.com manages a network of sites for online classifieds as well as other sites related to the automotive industry.
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Jora
Established: 2012
Founders: Adam Kushner
CEO: Adam Kushner
Company’s website: https://www.jora.com/
Jora.com is an Australian-based job search engine with a mission to make it as simple and intuitive as possible for job seekers to find a job.
The company’s ambition is to continue to expand internationally and become the preferred job search destination worldwide.
A true startup, Jora is a new member of the SEEK family, which means we’re backed by the strength of a global leader.
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BlackMagic Design
Established: 2001
Founders: Grant Petty
CEO: Grant Petty
Company’s website: https://www.blackmagicdesign.com/
Blackmagic Design Pty Ltd. is an Australian digital cinema company and manufacturer based in Port Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
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PaperCut
Established: 1998
Founders: Chris Dance
CEO: Chris Dance
Company’s website: https://www.papercut.com/
Print management software that’s helping hundreds of millions of people around the globe to minimize waste while having a secure and easy printing experience.
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Gleam.io
Established: 2013
Founders: Stuart McKeown
CEO: Stuart McKeown
Company’s website: https://gleam.io/
Gleam is a growth marketing platform that helps businesses focus on actions. An action can be whatever you want, an email subscriber, a Facebook like, a Twitter follower, or someone mentioning your company via a #hashtag.
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Culture Amp
Established: 2010
Founders: Didier Elzinga
CEO: Didier Elzinga
Company’s website: https://www.cultureamp.com/
Culture Amp is backed by 11 years of innovation, leading venture capital funds, and offices in the U.S, U.K, and Australia.
Culture Amp is recognized as one of the world’s top private cloud companies by Forbes and one of the most innovative workplace companies by Fast Company.
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Milanote
Established: 2016
Founders: Ollie Campbell
CEO: Ollie Campbell
Company’s website: https://milanote.com/
Milanote is an easy tool to organize your ideas and projects into visual boards. Milanote supports all common file types including JPGs, PDFs, Word, Excel, common design files, and many more. Add notes & photos from your phone, anything you save in the Milanote app will be ready to organize as soon as you’re back at your computer.
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TRIBE
Established: 2003
Founders: Mark Pincus, Paul Martino, Valerie Syme
CEO: Anthony Svirskis
Company’s website: https://www.tribegroup.co/
TRIBE’s award-winning platform helps marketers unlock instant branded content from influential creators.
It allows brands to increase their marketing efficiency via a powerful platform that can be accessed through an annual subscription or pay-per-use; while everyday creators can make money creating content for the brands they already use and love.Â
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CentricMinds
Established: 2002
Founders: Tod Pedler
CEO: Tod Pedler
Company’s website: https://www.centricminds.com/
CentricMinds is an Australian Digital Workplace vendor.
The company’s flagship Enterprise Content Management platform is in use by ASX and Fortune 500 companies for solving complex Intranet, Internet, Document Management, and Enterprise Social Networking requirements.
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Judo Bank
Established: 2016
Founders: Alex Twigg, Chris Bayliss, David Hornery, Jacqui Colwell, Joseph Healy, Kate Keenan, Mal Hiscock, Tim Alexander
CEO: Joseph Healy
Company’s website: https://www.judo.bank/
Judo Bank is an Australian bank focused on small and medium-sized enterprise lending but also offers a range of personal term deposit products to consumers.
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Xero
Established: 2006
Founders: Rod Drury
CEO: Steve Vamos
Company’s website: https://www.xero.com/
Xero is a New Zealand–domiciled public technology company, listed on the Australian Securities Exchange.
The company’s product (under the name Xero) is a cloud-based accounting software platform for small- and medium-sized businesses.
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REA Group
Established: 1995
Founders: Owen Wilson
CEO: Owen Wilson
Company’s website: https://www.rea-group.com/
REA Group Ltd and its subsidiary companies, known as the REA Group, make up a global online real estate advertising company.
REA Group is headquartered in Melbourne, Australia with subsidiary offices in Wanchai, Hong Kong, and Gurugram, India.
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99designs
Established: 2008
Founders: Mickiewicz and Mark Harbottle
CEO: Patrick Llewellyn
Company’s website: https://99designs.com/
99designs is a Melbourne, Australia, based company that operates a freelancer platform for connecting graphic designers and clients.
The company was established in 2008 and has a United States office in Oakland, California.
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XAM
Established: 2014
Founders: Michael Ridland
CEO: Michael Ridland
Company’s website: https://xam.com.au/
XAM is a development agency based in Australia. Established in 2014 with around 20 members on its team, the agency specializes in web, mobile app, and custom software development
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Professional Advantage
Established: 1989
Founders: Steve Howcroft and Derek Rippingale
CEO: Derek Rippingale
Company’s website: https://www.professionaladvantage.com/
The company partners with our clients to support their business objectives, using proven business technologies to drive efficiency, solve problems, and fuel growth.
Professional advantage’s difference is getting things done.
With fresh insights and the confidence to challenge the status quo, the IT company helps companies improve business processes and streamline operations.
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Royal Cyber
Established: 2002
Founders: Mustafa Qutbuddin
CEO: Mustafa Qutbuddin
Company’s website: https://www.royalcyber.com/
Royal Cyber is a UX design company. Established in 2002, the midsize agency is in Naperville, Illinois; Mississauga, Canada; London, United Kingdom, and Riyadh, Saudi Arabia. Their team provides UX/UI design, cloud consulting & SI, e-commerce development, Artificial Intelligence, and more.
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Web central
Established: 1996
Founders: University of Melbourne
CEO: Joe Demase
Company’s website: https://www.webcentral.au/
Web central, formerly known as Melbourne IT Group, is an Australian digital services provider.
It is a publicly-traded company that was listed on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX: WCG) in December 1999.
Web central provides internet domain registration, email and office applications, cloud hosting, cloud services, 5G networks, managed services, IT services, DevOps security, and digital marketing. Established in 1996, it was the first Australian domain name registrar.
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Genolis
Established: 2000
Founders: Oleg Genin
CEO: Oleg Genin
Company’s website: https://genolis.com.au/
Genolis is an Australian owned custom software development and consulting services organization
We have been operating in Australia since 2000 focusing on delivering high-quality enterprise-grade customized software solutions at competitive pricing for small businesses, and corporate and government organizations.
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Cuelogic technologies
Established: 2007
Founders: Vikrant Labde
CEO: Nikhil Ambekar
Company’s website: https://www.cuelogic.com/
Cuelogic delivers innovations with their lean cross-functional full-stack teams comprising of engineering, data science, cloud infrastructure, and designers to drive meaningful value by leveraging continuous delivery, data-driven analytics & predictive models to bring about intelligent product development.
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Girikon
Established: 2013
Founders: Alankar Anibha
CEO: Sachin Rathi
Company’s website: https://www.girikon.com/
Girikon is an IT consulting and development company, based out of Phoenix, Arizona with a development center in Noida, India, and offices in Melbourne, Australia.
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Centelon Solutions
Established: 2016
Founders: Ajit Stephen
CEO: Ajit Stephen
Company’s website: https://centelon.com/
Centelon is a business-technology solutions and services company.
Centelon is a trusted partner of large – mid-sized businesses in the Banking, Insurance, Non-profit, Government, Media, Energy & utility domain.
A multinational company with offices in Australia, Singapore, New Zealand, India, and United States.
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InfoCentric
Established: 2009
Founders: Muhammad Junaid
CEO: Muhammad Junaid
Company’s website: https://www.infocentric.com.au/
InfoCentric is a leading cloud, data, and analytics services company, providing a broad range of services and solutions in strategy, implementation, business insight, and business support.
Combining specialized experience and skills across various industries and business functions, InfoCentric helps clients convert digital data into business insights to gain a competitive advantage with faster and smarter business decisions.
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Unico
Established: 1984
Founders: Roger L. Stevens, Ben Tobin
CEO: Thomas Beck
Company’s website: https://www.unico.com.au/
Unico is an Australian privately owned and operated technology services company making
technology innovation – simple.
The company combines deep technical expertise with tailored integration skills to develop systems, products, and solutions that will seamlessly optimize organizational efficiencies and outputs.
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AUSSIE DIGITAL BUSINESS SYSTEMS
Established: 2010
Founders: Vijayaraghava Srinivasan Sundararajan, Venkataraman Suresh
CEO: Latha Vaidyanathan
Company’s website: https://adbsystems.com.au/
Aussie Digital Business System is a one-stop-shop for all business Digital needs. Since 2010, ADB Systems is providing world-class quality IT products and services to our clients in transforming businesses into the digital world.
The company is 100% focused on creating high-quality consulting services.