Startups

Each December, the SmartCompany editorial team puts together a list of startups we will be paying close attention to in the new year.

Australian recipe app startup ReciMe has hit some huge milestones in 2023, including growing the platform from 20,000 to 400,000 users in just 12 months.

Jessica Ruhfus founded Collabosaurus in 2015 as a matchmaking tool to facilitate collaborations between brands.

Funding has continued to flow to Australian startups in December, with more than $55 million raised this week alone. 

App startup Mist has raised $1.6 million in seed funding to develop solutions for students and skilled migrants moving to Australia.

The Andromeda Robotics team has built and assembled four Abi robots so far. Building an Abi costs the team nearly $10,000 in hardware and consumables. 

Australian Saas startup Relevance AI just secured $15 million for its sustainable AI workforce plans of the future.

Perth home fitness startup Vitruvian has quietly raised $21.8 million in what it's calling an internal extension to a previous raise.

Exclusive: Scale Investors' Samar Mcheileh talks to SmartCompany about Equity Clear and its aim to transform startup funding in Australia through VC reporting transparency.

STRAAND co-founder Sarah Hamilton said they were excited to secure the funding and to have such a strong, strategic group of investors.

It seems AI startups are the flavour of the month (or year), with half of the startups to have raised this week utilising artificial intelligence in some way or another. 

Melbourne startup Arkeus has secured $4.45 million in seed funding for its AI optical radar tech, designed for defence and emergency response situations.