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Olivia Tan is a house byline for InfoHandle’s Startups desk.
Lyka Pet Food opened Western Australia cold-chain hubs in Perth and Geraldton to cut overnight freight to subscription customers, as fresh pet-meal demand grows faster than east-coast kitchen capacity.
Harrison.ai signed a Queensland Health imaging validation pilot spanning regional hospitals, deploying Annalise.ai chest X-ray triage tools under clinical governance before wider state rollout.
Airwallex opened a Brisbane treasury desk aimed at Queensland exporters, pairing multi-currency accounts with on-the-ground specialists as Mandala Partners data show SME export revenue on the platform surging to A$14 billion.
Employment Hero channelled fresh compliance investment into payroll audit tooling as Fair Work Ombudsman inspectors surprise-checked payslips nationwide, pitching automated award interpretation to SMEs facing record-keeping fines.
A University of Wollongong cyber lab spinout began scoring SaaS vendor risk for councils migrating ERP suites, starting with Wollongong’s extended TechnologyOne contract.
SunCable named two survey vessels mobilising from Darwin for the Indonesia leg of its Australia–Asia Power Link, reviving marine route work Guardian Geomatics began in 2020.
Homeward Read Pty Ltd won a Victorian Government tender to supply read-only audit APIs over public housing maintenance records, letting tenant advocates verify work orders without downloading full tenant databases.
NorthReach Neuro Imaging closed a $3.2 million seed round in Brisbane to ship portable CT-perfusion kits for rural telestroke hubs, with Queensland angel groups taking board observer seats ahead of TGA documentation work.
Storm Bay salmon leaseholders ordered acoustic lice-monitoring sensors ahead of compliance audits, combining hydrophone arrays with weekly pen-side counts regulators now expect before thermal delousing windows.
Canberra regtech firm LedgerClarity won an ASIC enhanced regulatory sandbox slot to test open-banking dispute bots that draft AFCA-ready complaint packs from CDR transaction feeds, with human review before anything leaves the tenant.