Australia’s next tech success stories? Meet the innovators taking stage at the ATC Finals
- ATC Team
- 4 hours ago
- 5 min read
Updated: 45 minutes ago
The names are out. Now let’s meet the companies behind them.
Our 33 ATC Finalists are tackling some of the biggest opportunities across AI, Clean Energy, DeepTech, FinTech, MedTech, Sustainability and more.
From improved emergency response technology to next-generation health, energy, and software solutions, this year’s program showcases a breadth of promising companies building for real-world impact and global growth.
Be in the room for the pitches, the connections and the big reveal on 15 September. Secure your seat for the Live Pitches and Awards Night.
ORACLE AI TECH AWARD
ProxyTwin
ProxyTwin is an agentic AI solution that looks and sounds like you. It's used to amplify experts so they can help more people. It helps organisations improve decision-making and operational efficiency while maintaining authentic, personalised engagement.
techbean
techBean builds AI-native software for the nonprofit sector, with its flagship platform fundraiz.ai using 13 proprietary machine learning models to help charities raise more money and retain more donors.
Eyes of AI
Eyes of AI is Australia's only dental diagnostic AI company, developing proprietary AI across both 2D and 3D dental imaging. It is a clinical support tool that helps dentists and specialists diagnose faster, more accurately, and with greater clinical confidence.
HivePix
HivePix is a many-to-many data exchange and translation platform between systems and partners. They are the Bloomberg for supply chain data, delivering real-time access to required data for a commercial edge, improving procurement and supplying chain operations, resilience and provenance.
CLEAN ENERGY AWARD
Thermal Dawn
Thermal Dawn builds thermal energy storage systems that store daytime solar as heat and cold for evening use, delivering home heating, cooling, and hot water at up to 10x lower cost per kWh than lithium batteries.
EPCA (Electric Power Conversions Australia)
EPCA is an Aboriginal-owned company specialising in retrofitting diesel-powered mining haulage trucks into full battery electric trucks (BEVs) powered by rechargeable batteries.
Alpine Energy
Alpine Energy designs and manufactures the MGEN® M40 in Australia, a mobile, grid-forming microgrid. It delivers 40kW DC fast charging plus single- and three-phase AC power, and can be driven into disaster zones and remote communities when the grid is down.
DISASTER, EMERGENCY AND RISK MANAGEMENT AWARD
Cogito Group
Cogito is an award-winning innovator in sovereign cybersecurity. Its AI-enabled automation, Zero Trust, cybernetic orchestration and post-quantum readiness deliver advanced digital trust technologies that protect critical government, defence and enterprise services across the globe.
Alpine Energy
Alpine Energy designs and manufactures the MGEN® M40 in Australia, a mobile, grid-forming microgrid. It delivers 40kW DC fast charging plus single- and three-phase AC power, and can be driven into disaster zones and remote communities when the grid is down.
Co Connect ERT
Co-Connect helps remote and high-risk worksites respond faster in emergencies by connecting workers, Emergency Response Teams and critical site information through one offline-capable platform. Built around GIS mapping, multi-channel alerts, duress-response, live tracking and ERT tools, it turns fragmented emergency processes into a coordinated, scalable system.
steddi
steddi is a product series developed by Bartoleni Engineering & Consulting to serve the rail industry with the latest measuring technology to achieve the best possible welding results.
DEEPTECH AWARD
Space CoLAB
SpaceCoLAB's unhackable, unharvestable secure communications solution, HaloCore, is a 15kg, briefcase-sized room-temperature system that transmits information encoded directly into the quantum states of individual photons over a free-space optical link, leaving no classical data channel.
Ecopha
Ecopha is replacing harmful fossil fuels with cost-competitive biomaterials through its biomanufacturing breakthrough.
Theia Metals
A sustainable modular process to separate rare earth metals essential for the renewable energy conversion. Our proprietary column chromatography platform, adapted from industrial biotechnology, separates rare earths into higher value products in Australia rather than shipment overseas.
FINTECH & REGTECH AWARD
MyGigsters
MyGigsters is the financial operating system for marketplaces. It is a single API that embeds worker onboarding, KYC, payment orchestration, embedded finance and benefits into gig platforms across Australia, Singapore and India.
LoanOptions.ai
LoanOptions.ai is an award-winning and pioneering finance technology provider and finance brokerage. Over the past six years, LoanOptions.ai has been building AI systems that provide a fast, accurate, painless, and transparent end-to-end lending experience for borrowers, brokers, and lenders alike.
GLOBAL SOCIAL IMPACT AWARD
Focus Bear
Focus Bear is an evidence-based productivity app for adults with ADHD and autism, combining habit coaching and distraction blocking, with efficacy validated through a randomised controlled trial.
MemoryAid
MemoryAid transforms a familiar telephone handset into an intuitive smart device, empowering people living with dementia to maintain independence and stay connected while reducing the daily mental load for family caregivers.
GROWTH EQUITY AWARD
Duress
Duress is an Australian safety technology company protecting frontline and lone workers through wearable devices, live video streaming, and secure emergency communication systems that connect directly to 24/7 monitoring centres and emergency services in real time.
3D Safety Systems
3D Safety makes capital-intensive and complex operations safer, easier to manage, and more productive. It does this by streamlining complex paper-based processes and delivering a compliance solution for contractor populations that delivers evidence of good governance for project managers.
equ
equ is an AI-powered pocket nutrition coach that delivers fully personalised meal plans, guidance and ongoing support. Built on a decade of proprietary data, equ's engine adapts to each member's behaviour, preferences and progress to drive lasting health outcomes.
DappleCRM
DappleOS is the all-in-one platform leading a global shift in how cosmetic, telehealth, medical, and hybrid clinics deliver exceptional care. With over $2.46M ARR, 700+ active clinics, and international expansion underway, it's shaping a new era of clinical practice globally.
Neo Intelligence
Neo is the construction operations platform built for Australian subcontractors, connecting crew scheduling, compliance and payroll in one place.
MAR TECH AWARD
Neosframe
Neosframe is compliance infrastructure for automated creative production, letting enterprises and franchise networks scale content safely.
yourfilm
yourfilm is the platform that runs video production for enterprise brands, globally. We make professional video production simple and scalable for marketers.
CLOUDFLARE MEDTECH & PHARMA AWARD
Roam Technologies
Roam Technologies is revolutionising respiratory care with a lightweight, tankless oxygen device that delivers continuous therapy while enabling true mobility and independence for patients.
DappleCRM
DappleOS is the all-in-one platform leading a global shift in how cosmetic, telehealth, medical, and hybrid clinics deliver exceptional care. Built to advance clinical, consultative, and operational excellence, it's the platform shaping a new era of clinical practice.
Lindo Technology Group
Lindo Technology Group is an Australian innovation leader in antimicrobial blue light (aBL) and UVC disinfection.
SUSTAINABILITY AWARD
H2X Global
H2X Global develops and owns Australian hydrogen vehicle technology, certified hydrogen storage and modular removable powertrains. It enables cities worldwide to run essential services such as waste collection with zero-emission vehicles that match diesel productivity.
Renewable Metals
Renewable Metals recovers 95%+ of critical minerals from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries using a proprietary alkali-based hydromet process, at roughly 50% lower capital and operating cost than acid-based recycling, with no sodium-sulphate waste and onshore refining for sovereign supply.
Nezo
Nezo is a design intelligence platform for the built environment. It gives designers and estimators live cost, carbon and performance data inside the software they already use, so they can collaborate before decisions are locked in.
WATER, FOOD & AGRIBUSINESS AWARD
Aurova Robotics
Aurova Robotics develops universal, zero-emission autonomous platforms for complex environments. Through its inaugural vegetation management application, they've built proprietary GPS-free navigation with a world-first obstacle-conforming mechanism, delivering full-field mowing to address acute labour shortages and reduce herbicide reliance.
Woven Optics
Woven Optics develops handheld, real-time wool testing technology that uses advanced optics and AI to accurately measure fleece micron on-farm, helping Australian wool growers improve breeding, clip quality, and profitability.
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