Melbourne Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Melbourne.
Michael Shimmins
Founder and CEO of @lexim.
Andrew Armstrong
Founder @121cast | Experienced Software and Web Developer (mobile, front/back-end, servers), different, passionate, driven | Studied at @university-of-melbourne
Ivan Vanderbyl
CTO @app-io. Founded @crashlog & @testpilot • Worked at @orionvm
http://ivanvanderbyl.github.com
Riley James
Rails & BizNiz. Currently API guy @xero
Fenn Bailey
Co-founder & architect of @adioso. Hacker. Traveler.
http://fennb.com/
Edward Dowling
Founder & CEO @app-io. Always creating awesome products and teams that are never boring and always exciting.
Peter Murray
CTO and co-founder of Tweaky.com; former Consultant Developer at ThoughtWorks
David Ng
Co-Founder of @openlabel • iOS/Android Dev at @tomtom-international • ASIC Design Engineer at @canon.
Jie Zhou
Front-end engineer @kinnek • Former tech attorney @fenwick-and-west with a penchant for coding • Studied at @yale-university, @university-of-california-berkeley
Ashley Davies
Founder/CEO of Tablo, writer, designer, front end developer.
http://ashdavies.net
Ryan Zhou
Investor
Co-founder of CoinJar. Founder of NameTerrific. Casual investor.
http://www.zhoutong.com
Kath S
Developer at @lexim.
John Barton
Co-founded @goodfilms, former Dev Manager responsible for all @envato marketplaces.
Wenpo Sun
Professional software engineer, artist and musician. Strong experience in game design, development and enterprise software. B.IT(Games & Graphics Programming)
http://www.comicorpworlds.com
Glen Maddern
Founder of @goodfilms. Data-crunching, high-scaling background. Film-lover.
Vincent Brendel
Developer at @bugherd
Chris Rickard
Co-founder, thinker, & hacker at Setkick. Previously tech lead at @portable, speaker & judge at Hong Kong mobile film festival 2011.
http://debugging.me
Tom Howard
Co-founder, @adioso. Product-designer, recruiter, hacker, writer, traveller.
http://tomhoward.co
Andrew McIntosh
UI Developer @promisepay. Builds exciting products with strong outcomes. Start-up skill-set covering design, development & business. Bachelor of IT.
Brian Tubergen
Investor
Venture Hacker @angellist. @princeton-university CS. Interned @facebook, @microsoft, Google Summer of Code.
Daniel Treacy
Co-founder of Good Call • Engineering at @wpp-group, @buzznumbers, and MLC (NAB) • Studied CompSci at @university-of-technology-sydney
http://danieltreacy.com
Jesse Collis
Tech Lead at realestate.com.au, iOS Developer @beanhunter and Sessional Lecturer at RMIT University
Caine Wanjau
Co-founder of FlashCast. Founder member of the *iHub_ Robotics Initiative, worked in Banking, studied at Strathmore University and Monash University
Josh
Co-founder Hello Code, freelance developer, built blaster.fm. • Studied at @rmit-university
http://joshsharp.com.au/blog/
Keith Pitt
Founder, Buildbox • Worked at @pin-payments, @the-frontier-group @desks-near-me-1
Ray Hilton
Founder @wirestorm, @hood, @emit • Worked at @sensis, @australia-post, @smesh, @heyday • Studied at @university-college-london, @open-university-london
http://rayh.com.au
João Valente
Founder & CTO @outtrippin. Previously Tech-Lead at schooools.com and Project Manager / Information Architect at doist.io. Bridging the gap between computers and people.
http://joaovalente.com/blog
Mark Angrish
Founder of @innerloop • Ex low latency algorithmic trading engineer (@deutsche-bank, @morgan-stanley, etc.) • Software Engineer (@university-of-melbourne-1)
Doron Katz
Lead iOS | Web Developer @TheMediaArchitects, @UOW bInternet Science & Technology 2004, @CSU Master of Management, 2013, Gadget lover
http://doronkatz.com
Ben Chan
CTO and co-founder Bigcolors • Worked at @eds, @capgemini-consulting
Fred Wu
Development team lead at @locomote - Ruby, Rails, PHP, strong focus on UI and UX. A developer & designer hybrid.
http://fredwu.me/
Bao-Minh Tran-Vo
Passionate about sports and technology. Founder of @c8apps-1.
Nick Jones
I edit text files to make computers do what I want
Mat Holroyd
Lead engineer at @the-fetch and web developer experienced in search, virtual currencies, gaming, languages, travel and disruptive technologies. BEng (Software).
Lachlan Donald
Web technologist, CTO of @99designs, San Francisco.
James Giang
Co-founder at @venuemob and Lead Organiser at the @android-australia-user-group
http://www.jamesgiang.com
Luke Murray
Strong technical background, having built and supported many large projects. Great product mind and business background working with small, growing companies.
Kevin Tatur
Research Physicist / Applied Physicist
Excellent mathematical modeling skills and physics knowledge, working on advanced research projects in research centers and institutions. Major projects include the design and modeling of novel nanoscale devices and
Adam Neumann
Founder of @giftless, Co-founder of @indexmedia. Worked at @iris-data-services. 1st Class Honours in Comp Sci from UWA.
http://noizwaves.tumblr.com
Dan Harper
Digital product leader and strategist. Currently helping @promisepay build their first product.
Matt Devlin
Founder noWorriesHire; Started first Civil Construction Company 3 years ago. B.E. Civil Engineer. Strong industry background, 15 years plus.
Peter Hare
Director at @beanhunter; 1st employee at TinyMe.com; Developer.
sachit malhotra
Jerrold Poh
Cofounder and CTO of @coinjar
http://twicetwice.net
James Cole
PHP + CodeIgniter Developer. Lead Dev and part owner of Geotoko which was acquired by Hootsuite in 2011. Currently at InOutPut in Melbourne Australia.
http://setupguides.blogspot.com
Rahul Jhaveri
Founder DiscoverMe - your episodes of talent
Thomas Shaw
recruitment technology & online classifieds
Vaughn Hew
Co-Founder @whogotstuff. Developer (Elec Engineering, Comp Sci, Systems Engineering, Cyber Security). Street photography, Taichi, cooking.
http://blog.whogotstuff.com
Pawel Siedlak
Wroclaw University of Technology CS. Moved to Melbourne 2 years ago. Working as a software engineer at @papercloud.
Patrick Smith
Founder InfinityList – primary web designer and developer.
Richard Wilson
Founder of MathsPathway. Background in software entrepreneurship, IT and management consulting (LiTMUS Group), joined teaching via Teach for Australia.
Michael Pearson
CTO@CloudSpark, founder of BipIO, distributed system specialist with an e-commerce background. I love complex systems and building product.
John Uiterwyk
10+ years software dev experience. Successfully delivered more than 20 software products. Deep understanding of wide range of languages and technologies.
Josh Stuart
Zoop Founder; former Web Team Lead and Web Strategist at Nitro PDF (Melb and San Francisco); Founded and built killyourstereo.com whilst in University
http://crimsonronin.tumblr.com/
Ilavenil A
Founder @zaq, @Mobileroo, @Delux, @gtext
Anirudh Joshi
Studies at @university-of-melbourne
https://www.quora.com/Anirudh-Joshi
Craig Miller
Founder On The Door • Studied at @university-of-melbourne
Jose Mendez
tech junkie. @melbourne
Nick Byrne
Founder of ImpactbyDesign.co, heading to http://www.appacademy.io/ in May and looking for some awesome Ruby workplaces to join
David Micallef
Cofounder and Developer of StomachSmart; Studied at @swinburne-university Uni though still learning everyday.
John Ngo
Founder @small-epic. Believes in idealism, entrepreneurship, user experience, Ruby, and the ‘Greater Fool’.
http://nonprofiteer.com.au/
Francis Go
Partner of Appdorable; Product at Pop Mimic; Business Graduate Student at AGSM.
Robin Vessey
Founder @redgum-technologies
Founder @advanced-publishing-systems
Venture Developer, BAppSci(CSSE)
Andrew Nolan
Computer Vision Software Engineer, worked on Medical Device and UAVs development
Jia Rong
Founder TULIP Research Lab • Worked at @mibt & @deakin-university • PhD candidate @ @deakin-university
Fraser Perkins
Software engineer currently working with the .NET (C#) and monotouch on a variety of applications large and small. Loves Web/Mobile.
See LinkedIn below.
Thomas Brophy
Co-founder @tiip. Software developer with diverse background - games, optimisation, mobile, BCS (Hons), M. Comp. Sci. (Melb).
Adam Chrimes
Postdoc at RMIT, focus on nanotech-biosensors; Strong research and development background.
Pan Demosthenous
Technologist, product creator, ex-BSkyB mobile and interactive
Harsain Singh
#webdeveloper
Wil Pringle
Studied at RMIT, Full-stack jack of all trades, JS, Python, PHP, Java.
Oliver Owens
I build things. Sometimes they don't break.
Lyn Nagara
Web developer. http://lynnagara.com, http://fanfuel.co, http://fatrobotstudio.com
Alistair
Developer with previous experience in java, ruby and now focussing primarily on iOS. 4 years corporate Agile experience, never worked at a startup.
Shane O'Grady
UI Developer, AngularJS, RoR. Into startups & innovation. Worked for Accenture.
http://seogrady.com
Grant Simonds
Founder MComms TV • Worked at @ericsson, @telstra
Yannis Kolovos
Ruby On Rails Developer
http://johnkolovos.blogspot.com
Charles Korn
Monash BEng / BSci with a interest in business, robotics and software.
Christian Fagan
Web Design expert with a history of producing high quality digital products for large organisations in Australia.
Andrew King
Back-end builder
Minh Nam Ngo
Studied at @monash-university
http://blog.namis.me
Brian (Yeong Hoon) Kim
Jasvir Singh Cheema
Full stack developer and aspiring designer
http://jaischeema.com
Adrian Grayson-Widarsito
CTO and Founder at Yellloh. Science and Aerospace Engineering, programmer, nerd.
http://adoado.dx.am/
Shanila Ashraff
MSc Software Engineering @university of york, founder of tech startup, front-end developer, won 2nd place in HCI competition
Anmoldeep Gill
Developed php css html and mysql website for my final project using Object Oriented Technique
Simon Wang
Worked at a Google Company - Motorola Mobility. Expert in IT system support for business separation and acquisition.
Stephen McDonald
Founder @kouio
Alfie John
Perl Developer at FastMail.FM
Mark Smithers
Highly experienced strategist, thinker, innovator and developer specializing in higher education technology.
http://www.masmithers.com
Harshada
Master in Computer sciences, worked at IBM, developed code in TSQL, VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML, Javascript etc
Bob Danani
High Performance Computing specialist (Software Engineer), top scholar, M.Sc in Computer Science, work at IBM Research Australia
Peter Williams
Founder @localz • Worked at @kpmg, @national-australia-bank
Jonte de Zwart
16 year old internet entrepreneur.
Yaser Jarrar
Passionate developer add designer; Building mobile and web apps for 2 years now, co-founder of Grout.
Brad Moore
Worked at @moodswing • Studied at @la-trobe-university
Gursharan Singh
launched 2 android play store apps, made successful java applets for companies, some experience with matlab, quick learner, master of IT student at uni of melb
Kjdz Le
Phantom Web Developers for Businesses.
Adrian Kennedy
Full Stack Engineer. Former Artificial Intelligence Patent Examiner. Currency Trader. Computer Science and Mathematics BS.
Bradley Curran
Mixes computers with science. A focus on mobile platforms.
Sam Cambridge
Ruby on Rails developer, love startups. Currently travelling Australia. Worked at @loggable, @green-gorilla-apps
Omar Gameel
enthusiastic developer with many contributions to to OSS
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=3411232
Sebastian Vetter
Worked at @tangentlabs, @university-of-koblenz-1 • Studied at @university-of-koblenz
Reza Yousefzadeh
Senior Java Developer in Australia
Harley Alexander
I'm a front-end/product Designer & Developer that works closely with WordPress. I also do Branding, graphic & identity design.
Tom
Testing
Edouard Mainier
I am an experienced web developer. Thanks to a web application developer degree and some great experiences, I developed a wide range of technical skills.
Tyce Clee
Frontend Dev, currently freelance + contract. Worked with AusPost, IBM, Tweaky, Adioso
Ash Nilkanth
Founder of @hatchvid. Entrepreneur, programmer, realist, industry veteran, MIS.
http://www.nilkanth.com
rifki fauzi
Freelance Ruby on rails developer.
worked at Domikado, Kiranatama
http://rifkifauzi.wordpress.com
Rami Jarrar
Founder @grout-2. Experience building web & mobile applications.
Kim Holland
James Stackhouse
I'm a designer, coder and maker.
I combine a deep knowledge of the digital platforms I work on with multiple visual design disciplines.
Adam J Shaw
Experienced Project and Construction consultant specialist in supporting Financiers. Aid for any cost, risk and business case advisory work.
Julien Viard
Technology focused recruitment consultant - working with innovation teams in large corporates, startups and product oriented agencies.
Zuhair Naqvi
Steve Papas
Senior Developer at Yellloh
http://stevepapa.com
Harpreet Atwal
IIT Guwahati - ECE, expert embedded software engineer
Matt Delves
Developer, Operations guy, grumpy when code doesn't pass automated tests.
Jordan Walsh
General IT Specialst, BA & Product Manager. Competent in everything from coding complex regex to writing new customer engagement methodologies.
Max Gershkovich
Developer specializing in C#, VB.NET, WCF, Android, Azure and just about everything else Microsoft related. Currently working in my secret bunker on my own startup.
http://maxgershkovich.wordpress.com/
Egor Pavlikhin
CEO at @bestla
Suiping Lu
Co-founder of Box Royale Melbourne; IT Master Degree; Ruby on Rails Developer.
Christopher Hawkins
Analyst at @accenture and Co-founder of TGT Studios