Melbourne Startups List
Map of the local innovation industry.
Meet some of the best and newest startups based in Melbourne.
Riley James
Rails & BizNiz. Currently API guy @xero
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
Andrew McIntosh
UI Developer @promisepay. Builds exciting products with strong outcomes. Start-up skill-set covering design, development & business. Bachelor of IT.
Glen Maddern
Founder of @goodfilms. Data-crunching, high-scaling background. Film-lover.
Vincent Brendel
Developer at @bugherd
Tom Howard
Co-founder, @adioso. Product-designer, recruiter, hacker, writer, traveller.
http://tomhoward.co
Fenn Bailey
Co-founder & architect of @adioso. Hacker. Traveler.
http://fennb.com/
Peter Murray
CTO and co-founder of Tweaky.com; former Consultant Developer at ThoughtWorks
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
John Barton
Co-founded @goodfilms, former Dev Manager responsible for all @envato marketplaces.
Ivan Vanderbyl
CTO @app-io. Founded @crashlog & @testpilot • Worked at @orionvm
http://ivanvanderbyl.github.com
Brian Tubergen
Investor
Venture Hacker @angellist. @princeton-university CS. Interned @facebook, @microsoft, Google Summer of Code.
Ashley Davies
Founder/CEO of Tablo, writer, designer, front end developer.
http://ashdavies.net
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
David Ng
Co-Founder of @openlabel • iOS/Android Dev at @tomtom-international • ASIC Design Engineer at @canon.
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
Edward Dowling
Founder & CEO @app-io. Always creating awesome products and teams that are never boring and always exciting.
Ryan Zhou
Investor
Co-founder of CoinJar. Founder of NameTerrific. Casual investor.
http://www.zhoutong.com
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
Kath S
Developer at @lexim.
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
Mark Angrish
Founder of @innerloop • Ex low latency algorithmic trading engineer (@deutsche-bank, @morgan-stanley, etc.) • Software Engineer (@university-of-melbourne-1)
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
Fred Wu
Development team lead at @locomote - Ruby, Rails, PHP, strong focus on UI and UX. A developer & designer hybrid.
http://fredwu.me/
Matt Devlin
Founder noWorriesHire; Started first Civil Construction Company 3 years ago. B.E. Civil Engineer. Strong industry background, 15 years plus.
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
Josh
Co-founder Hello Code, freelance developer, built blaster.fm. • Studied at @rmit-university
http://joshsharp.com.au/blog/
Jesse Collis
Tech Lead at realestate.com.au, iOS Developer @beanhunter and Sessional Lecturer at RMIT University
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
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.
Ben Chan
CTO and co-founder Bigcolors • Worked at @eds, @capgemini-consulting
Doron Katz
Lead iOS | Web Developer @TheMediaArchitects, @UOW bInternet Science & Technology 2004, @CSU Master of Management, 2013, Gadget lover
http://doronkatz.com
Peter Hare
Director at @beanhunter; 1st employee at TinyMe.com; Developer.
Bao-Minh Tran-Vo
Passionate about sports and technology. Founder of @c8apps-1.
Keith Pitt
Founder, Buildbox • Worked at @pin-payments, @the-frontier-group @desks-near-me-1
Caine Wanjau
Co-founder of FlashCast. Founder member of the *iHub_ Robotics Initiative, worked in Banking, studied at Strathmore University and Monash University
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.
Dan Harper
Digital product leader and strategist. Currently helping @promisepay build their first product.
Nick Jones
I edit text files to make computers do what I want
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/
Vaughn Hew
Co-Founder @whogotstuff. Developer (Elec Engineering, Comp Sci, Systems Engineering, Cyber Security). Street photography, Taichi, cooking.
http://blog.whogotstuff.com
Robin Vessey
Founder @redgum-technologies
Founder @advanced-publishing-systems
Venture Developer, BAppSci(CSSE)
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
Jerrold Poh
Cofounder and CTO of @coinjar
http://twicetwice.net
Anirudh Joshi
Studies at @university-of-melbourne
https://www.quora.com/Anirudh-Joshi
sachit malhotra
Patrick Smith
Founder InfinityList – primary web designer and developer.
Ilavenil A
Founder @zaq, @Mobileroo, @Delux, @gtext
Thomas Shaw
recruitment technology & online classifieds
John Ngo
Founder @small-epic. Believes in idealism, entrepreneurship, user experience, Ruby, and the ‘Greater Fool’.
http://nonprofiteer.com.au/
Jose Mendez
tech junkie. @melbourne
Richard Wilson
Founder of MathsPathway. Background in software entrepreneurship, IT and management consulting (LiTMUS Group), joined teaching via Teach for Australia.
Rahul Jhaveri
Founder DiscoverMe - your episodes of talent
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.
Francis Go
Partner of Appdorable; Product at Pop Mimic; Business Graduate Student at AGSM.
John Uiterwyk
10+ years software dev experience. Successfully delivered more than 20 software products. Deep understanding of wide range of languages and technologies.
Pawel Siedlak
Wroclaw University of Technology CS. Moved to Melbourne 2 years ago. Working as a software engineer at @papercloud.
Michael Pearson
CTO@CloudSpark, founder of BipIO, distributed system specialist with an e-commerce background. I love complex systems and building product.
Craig Miller
Founder On The Door • Studied at @university-of-melbourne
Yannis Kolovos
Ruby On Rails Developer
http://johnkolovos.blogspot.com
Pan Demosthenous
Technologist, product creator, ex-BSkyB mobile and interactive
Adrian Grayson-Widarsito
CTO and Founder at Yellloh. Science and Aerospace Engineering, programmer, nerd.
http://adoado.dx.am/
Oliver Owens
I build things. Sometimes they don't break.
Andrew Nolan
Computer Vision Software Engineer, worked on Medical Device and UAVs development
Charles Korn
Monash BEng / BSci with a interest in business, robotics and software.
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.
Christian Fagan
Web Design expert with a history of producing high quality digital products for large organisations in Australia.
Thomas Brophy
Co-founder @tiip. Software developer with diverse background - games, optimisation, mobile, BCS (Hons), M. Comp. Sci. (Melb).
Brian (Yeong Hoon) Kim
Andrew King
Back-end builder
Jasvir Singh Cheema
Full stack developer and aspiring designer
http://jaischeema.com
Lyn Nagara
Web developer. http://lynnagara.com, http://fanfuel.co, http://fatrobotstudio.com
Harsain Singh
#webdeveloper
Wil Pringle
Studied at RMIT, Full-stack jack of all trades, JS, Python, PHP, Java.
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
Jia Rong
Founder TULIP Research Lab • Worked at @mibt & @deakin-university • PhD candidate @ @deakin-university
Grant Simonds
Founder MComms TV • Worked at @ericsson, @telstra
Minh Nam Ngo
Studied at @monash-university
http://blog.namis.me
Adam Chrimes
Postdoc at RMIT, focus on nanotech-biosensors; Strong research and development background.
Jonte de Zwart
16 year old internet entrepreneur.
Mark Smithers
Highly experienced strategist, thinker, innovator and developer specializing in higher education technology.
http://www.masmithers.com
Yaser Jarrar
Passionate developer add designer; Building mobile and web apps for 2 years now, co-founder of Grout.
Kjdz Le
Phantom Web Developers for Businesses.
Peter Williams
Founder @localz • Worked at @kpmg, @national-australia-bank
Omar Gameel
enthusiastic developer with many contributions to to OSS
http://www.codeproject.com/script/Articles/MemberArticles.aspx?amid=3411232
Anmoldeep Gill
Developed php css html and mysql website for my final project using Object Oriented Technique
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
Stephen McDonald
Founder @kouio
Sam Cambridge
Ruby on Rails developer, love startups. Currently travelling Australia. Worked at @loggable, @green-gorilla-apps
Harshada
Master in Computer sciences, worked at IBM, developed code in TSQL, VB.NET, ASP.NET, HTML, Javascript etc
Brad Moore
Worked at @moodswing • Studied at @la-trobe-university
Alfie John
Perl Developer at FastMail.FM
Reza Yousefzadeh
Senior Java Developer in Australia
Simon Wang
Worked at a Google Company - Motorola Mobility. Expert in IT system support for business separation and acquisition.
Bradley Curran
Mixes computers with science. A focus on mobile platforms.
Shanila Ashraff
MSc Software Engineering @university of york, founder of tech startup, front-end developer, won 2nd place in HCI competition
Sebastian Vetter
Worked at @tangentlabs, @university-of-koblenz-1 • Studied at @university-of-koblenz
Adrian Kennedy
Full Stack Engineer. Former Artificial Intelligence Patent Examiner. Currency Trader. Computer Science and Mathematics BS.
Bob Danani
High Performance Computing specialist (Software Engineer), top scholar, M.Sc in Computer Science, work at IBM Research Australia
rifki fauzi
Freelance Ruby on rails developer.
worked at Domikado, Kiranatama
http://rifkifauzi.wordpress.com
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.
Tom
Testing
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.
Egor Pavlikhin
CEO at @bestla
Tyce Clee
Frontend Dev, currently freelance + contract. Worked with AusPost, IBM, Tweaky, Adioso
Suiping Lu
Co-founder of Box Royale Melbourne; IT Master Degree; Ruby on Rails Developer.
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.
Jordan Walsh
General IT Specialst, BA & Product Manager. Competent in everything from coding complex regex to writing new customer engagement methodologies.
Kim Holland
Rami Jarrar
Founder @grout-2. Experience building web & mobile applications.
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/
Harley Alexander
I'm a front-end/product Designer & Developer that works closely with WordPress. I also do Branding, graphic & identity design.
Zuhair Naqvi
Matt Delves
Developer, Operations guy, grumpy when code doesn't pass automated tests.
Ash Nilkanth
Founder of @hatchvid. Entrepreneur, programmer, realist, industry veteran, MIS.
http://www.nilkanth.com
Harpreet Atwal
IIT Guwahati - ECE, expert embedded software engineer
Christopher Hawkins
Analyst at @accenture and Co-founder of TGT Studios
Steve Papas
Senior Developer at Yellloh
http://stevepapa.com