Top Tech Startups in Australia in 2026

Canva is a global online visual communications platform on a mission to empower the world to design. It’s a simple way to create beautiful designs from presentations to infographics, videos, t-shirts, websites and social media graphics. Canva was founded by Melanie Perkins, Cliff Obrecht and Cameron Adams in 2012, before launching to the public in August 2013. From the very beginning we’ve had the crazy big goal of making design accessible to everyone. We’re leveling the playing field and democratizing access to design and visual communication by empowering 100% of the world to communicate in a way that was once limited to the 1%. Our community of users includes 230+ million monthly active users and 90% of the Fortune 500 embrace Canva to bolster productivity and achieve their goals. Our users are already creating over 280 designs per second, but we’re just 1% of the way to our mission of empowering the world to design. If you’re looking to design your dream career, have endless opportunities to grow, and work with a bunch of legends - come and join us.

Sigma is the only cloud analytics and business intelligence tool empowering business teams to break free from the confines of the dashboard, explore data for themselves, and make better, faster decisions. The award-winning software was built to capitalize on the performance power of cloud data warehouses to combine data sources and analyze billions of rows of data instantly via an intuitive, spreadsheet-like interface – no coding required. Since launching with its unique interface, Sigma Computing has added features such as collaboration tools and embedded analytics capabilities. The most recent product launch included a set of AI tools such as forecasting capabilities, an AI copilot and a notebook interface for users who prefer a code-first environment. Sigma announced its $200M in Series D financing in May 2024, to continue transforming BI through its innovations in AI infrastructure, data application development, enterprise-wide collaboration, and business user adoption. Spark Capital and Avenir Growth Capital co-led the Series D funding round, with additional participation from a group of past investors including Snowflake Ventures and Sutter Hill Ventures.The Series D funding, raised at a valuation 60% higher than the company’s Series C round three years ago, promises to further accelerate Sigma’s growth. Come join us!

Nash enables businesses to reliably deliver. The company exists to democratize local delivery for business across all industries and sizes. Nash uses the power of technology to build user-friendly infrastructure and smart interfaces that enable all merchants to exceed the rapidly evolving expectations of today and tomorrow's consumer.

We primarily run advertising campaigns for eCommerce brands via Facebook, Google, Snapchat, and TikTok. We make the creative, strategize the campaigns, and specialist in scaling the brands.

Farmers Business Network connects farmers and their data through our independent agronomic network. We seek to improve the livelihood of farmers by making their data useful and accessible. Farmers Business Network (FBN) provide farmers with product performance, yield analysis, yield benchmarking and predictive analytics based on real world performance data from thousands of fields. FBN utilizes data science and machine learning to provide members with insights about each of their fields, powered by billions of data points from our network.

We've built a crowdfunding platform that lets charities and social cause organisations fundraise for free.

NextRoll is a leading marketing technology company that empowers businesses to drive sustainable growth while building trusted connections with their audiences. Built on nearly two decades of AI and data expertise, NextRoll delivers its solutions through AdRoll, its flagship brand and connected advertising platform. The AdRoll platform brings together two powerful offerings: the AdRoll product, which helps brands generate awareness, deepen engagement, and drive measurable revenue through AI-powered multi-channel campaigns; and AdRoll ABM, a full-funnel account-based marketing product that unifies buyer insights, predictive AI, and multi-touch advertising to accelerate pipeline and revenue for B2B teams. Together, these solutions give marketers the clarity, efficiency, and performance they need to grow with confidence. NextRoll is a privately held company headquartered in San Francisco, CA.

We power activities and attractions in every corner of the globe. Founded in Hawaii in 2013, FareHarbor is the leading booking platform for tours, activities, and attractions. We believe in better software—a product that makes businesses more productive and profitable, and we're unapologetically excited about this industry; all 550+ of us. We're a modern team distributed across 8 offices in the US, Sydney, and Amsterdam. We're always in touch in all the ways you'd expect, like video calls and slack rooms. We founded FareHarbor on the firm belief of doing right by our clients. So, best-in-class customer support is at the heart of everything we do. We move fast, shipping new features weekly and evolving and growing to meet our customer's unique needs. We'd love to have you on the team. You'll interact with our new and existing clients and have a direct hand in how we grow.

NetBox Labs helps companies build and manage complex networks. We help customers accelerate network automation by delivering open, composable products and supporting the network automation community. The company’s NetBox Cloud product offers an enterprise-grade, SaaS version of open source NetBox — the world’s most popular network source of truth. NetBox Labs is the commercial steward of NetBox and Orb, the next-generation open source network observability platform. With dozens of customers like Dartmouth College and Constant Contact, and backed by investment from GGV Capital, Grafana Labs CEO Raj Dutt, Flybridge, IBM, Salesforce Ventures, and Mango Capital; NetBox Labs is building the open, composable network automation stack for networking teams.

Through CorePlan, companies are able to reduce time wasted, improve speed and significantly increase productivity by having one source of truth for the entire team to work on the daily basis.