This year’s Australian Technologies Competition (ATC) attracted over 130 applicants, who were narrowed down to 62 impressive semi-finalists. Throughout the program, these emerging tech innovators navigated two rounds of rigorous independent judging, participated in intensive growth masterclasses, received personalised mentoring, and crafted strategic growth business plans – all as part of the ATC’s commitment to accelerating Australia’s tech scale-ups.
Building on the legacy of nearly 400 past semi-finalists, this event is more than a competition; it celebrates excellence in the tech sector and is a catalyst for community collaboration and connection.
We extend our gratitude to this year's participants, judges, mentors, sponsors, and partners who have contributed to the program's success and invite you to join us in celebrating the most promising technology companies at the 2024 Live Pitches & National Awards held in Sydney on Thursday, September 19.
With that, we are thrilled to congratulate the ATC category finalists for 2024:
ENGINEERING & MANUFACTURING TECHNOLOGY
Green Shield Solutions specialises in developing advanced thermal signature management solutions to provide cutting-edge camouflage technology for military applications. They aim to enhance military assets' operational effectiveness and survivability across Maritime, Aerospace, and Land Forces domains. Beyond military applications, their dynamic thermal emissivity coatings can be used for thermal management in satellites and improving energy efficiency in buildings.
Loop Hydrometallurgy is poised to revolutionise global copper production through its breakthrough technology, a significantly cleaner, cheaper, and more versatile alternative to smelting and refining. Their technology aims to address a looming international crisis in copper supply and reduce the power consumption of copper recovery by up to 70%.
CRITICAL TECH & CYBERSECURITY
Jeddle specialises in high school curriculum-aligned English resources and marking tools, boosting student results while lightening the load for teachers. In addition to its specialised English content and exercises, Jeddle’s AI-assisted marking, JeddAI, and community of real-life experts allow students to get instant feedback on their work without the burden on teachers.
Red Piranha offers best-in-class threat detection, investigation, and response via state-of-the-art technology Crystal Eye with integrated Cyber Threat Intelligence. This offers organisations of all sizes cohesive protection against adversaries without engineering overheads and reduced Total Cost of Ownership. From a single integrated Consolidated Security Platform, they provide simple, enterprise-grade security and capabilities for all.
DISASTER & EMERGENCY MANAGEMENT
Fire Front Solutions offers a real-time digital mapping and situational awareness app purpose-built for emergency services, improving personnel safety and outcomes in the protection of lives and property. Their core product, FireMapper, equips fellow firefighters on the frontline with the tools they need to maintain situational awareness, understand their surroundings and stay safe using a live and editable digital map.
Orisent provides emergency alert systems that quickly notify and coordinate workers, management, and first responders during evacuations or medical emergencies. The solution is easily deployed, only requiring the placement of the wireless units connected via a self-coordinating secure network. Their plug-and-play systems are affordable and customisable, offering a reliable means to enhance safety measures without excessive costs or technical challenges.
Good To Go helps emergency services keep their equipment ready by providing real-time asset tracking, inspections, status updates, and readiness dashboards. The Good To Go suite saves time for front-line workers by reducing routine tasks and streamlining the operational aspects of managing and maintaining vital equipment.
FINTECH & REGTECH
Oho is an 'always on' automation technology for initial, ongoing and visitor screening for the care and community sectors. The smartest, fastest, secure way to recruit, stop compliance breaches and strengthen safeguarding, Oho integrates with systems to provide a single source of truth with Accreditation Checks, Live & Ongoing Verification and National Coverage including: Working with Children Checks, Teacher Licences, NDIS Worker Cards, AHPRA Registrations, Vevo Right-To-Work; and more.
Co-Operty makes co-ownership of residential property easy and enables flexible home ownership for all. They are the first to digitise the end-to-end co-ownership experience (including conveyancing); and surface a tailored, robust co-ownership agreement at a democratised cost. They have built a unique party model database (fully owned IP) to ultimately empower a funding solution for a fractional market.
Clipboard is an AI-driven professional networking platform that is a global hub for the hospitality, tourism, and accommodation industries. Its Casual Marketplace Solution promises to reshape the future of hospitality by matching job seekers with suitable employment opportunities in real-time, streamlining compliance and documentation processes, and enhancing workforce management.
Thriday uses AI to automate banking, accounting and tax for small businesses, eliminating 90% of the time businesses would traditionally waste on financial admin. Its innovative tool, ‘Luca,’ uses real-time bank data to automatically categorise transactions according to ATO rules. Thriday simplifies financial tasks for SMEs, from tracking income and sending invoice reminders to managing bill payments and tax lodgements.
Clear Dynamics breathes new life into old legacy systems, migrating them to a modern, cloud-ready technology stack using the power of its underlying AI-enabled operating system. Reimagining the way complex software is made, Clear Dynamics creates better software applications that are fully flexible, far less expensive to run, and easier to secure by leveraging the power of AI-driven automation. New integrations are done in minutes, and the time to value is immediate.
DIGITAL HEALTH
Peak Medical provides clinical software interventions that mimic in-clinic physiotherapy care, managing both the long-term and short-term implications of osteoarthritis. The digital physical therapy app has live AI clinical guidance pathways for patients. Their evidence-based technology helps primary care teams bridge rural care gaps, reduce costs, and overcome the limitations of traditional osteoarthritis treatment models.
Etiscope revolutionises workplace safety by offering precise insights into the root causes of manual handling injuries. It empowers companies to mitigate risks by swiftly identifying hazards and their impact on workers for accurate injury prevention measures. Using five wearable sensors and an App, companies can assess the risk to workers on site in real-time within minutes.
BIOTECH
Pending AI has developed a comprehensive pharmaceutical discovery platform enabled by artificial intelligence and quantum mechanics. The end-to-end platform can resolve long-standing problem statements within the traditional pharmaceutical value chain, ushering in a new paradigm of medicinal innovation where higher-quality small molecule drugs can be developed in a fraction of the time and cost.
SmartHeal is an AI-powered point-of-care wound management platform that empowers healthcare workers with advanced wound healing expertise at the bedside. It enables clinicians to monitor wounds remotely, reducing patient anxiety and enhancing decision-making. The tool digitises traditional wound care with image and data capture, wound review at a glance at the bedside, and speech-to-text assessments. It also reduces wait times for experts, allowing them to serve more patients efficiently.
DermR Health aims to prevent 1 billion skin biopsies by merging a world-first, non-invasive microneedle patch technology with genomics. The DermR® Patch painlessly collects skin cells for genomic analysis, utilising an RNA Skin Cancer Gene Panel to detect genetic changes from minimal cells. This pre-screening tool helps identify potentially cancerous lesions, reducing unnecessary biopsies and addressing inefficiencies in skin cancer diagnosis.
SOCIAL IMPACT
OurFutures Institute provides clinically proven preventative health programs for high school students. The prevention programs focus on alcohol, drugs, vaping, tobacco and mental health and target a mandatory component of the high school curriculum. The online and universally relevant programs have been shown to have lasting preventative effects up to seven years post-intervention and are currently being localised for countries around the world, including the US, UK, and Germany.
Verbalate specialises in video translation for eLearning, making education accessible globally. With services like transcription, voice cloning, and lip-syncing, Verbalate helps content creators reach new audiences worldwide and unlocks growth opportunities for educators. Their network includes 30,000 translators, offering human verification in over 300 languages across 30+ industries.
Violet is a comprehensive virtual care platform for the last stage of life. They have built an AI Companion and a comprehensive navigation and personalised planning service covering all aspects of managing the later life stages: Future Care Planning, Emotional support, Financial & Legal, Funeral Planning, Memory & Legacy and a Violet Vault to store all your information and documents. The software then connects you to a marketplace of relevant service providers, to deliver on your plan.
SUSTAINABLE COMMUNITIES (merged with Clean Energy & Circular Economy)
A cutting-edge plastics/recycling company focused on competing in the prime resin market and a commitment to circularity whenever possible. With a strong focus on plastics exiting industrial, retail, and agricultural settings, Sustainable Plastic Solutions has the technology to process these materials back into high-grade resins that can either return to their original uses or be used in moulding, thermoforming, or extrusion applications.
Volt developed a solar tile that seamlessly integrates into the roof profile or existing roof tile products that are distributed and installed worldwide. Volt's solar tiles effortlessly blend with existing roof designs, providing an easy-to-install, affordable solution that makes solar generation virtually invisible and aesthetically pleasing.
Wildfire Energy has developed a new gasification technology that allows non-recyclable landfill waste to produce clean, sustainable power and a range of biofuels, such as hydrogen, bio-methanol, bio-diesel, green ammonia, and Sustainable Aviation fuel. This innovative solution makes small-scale waste-to-energy conversion both cost-effective and reliable.
WATER, FOOD & AGRIBUSINESS
PostHarvest Technologies is addressing the challenge of post-harvest food loss and ensures higher quality produce reaches consumers through its innovative product, Atmos. It is a cloud-based monitoring and control system that uses sensors to track ethylene levels, temperature, and humidity in ripening rooms, degreening rooms, and cool rooms. Their technology also transforms data into actionable insights, guiding optimisation and predictive actions to aid in optimising post-harvest storage, monitoring, and supply chain management for agricultural products.
UAMTEC provides advanced subsea and underground survey technology solutions through a suite of advanced MSI (multi-sensor inspection) robots. They design and manufacture underwater vehicles (AUVs) and rovers with 4k UHD cameras, LiDar, and Sonar systems for asset inspections and surveys with accurate location data in GPS-denied environments. They are providing a step change to the Water Industry by providing unparalleled asset inspection technology in an industry that still relies on grainy CCTV footage, making it difficult for asset managers to make informed decisions on maintenance and preventative maintenance of critical water and wastewater assets for cities globally.
ALUMNI ACHIEVEMENT AWARD
BEST ECOSYSTEM PARTNER
Desmond John
Hockey Stick Advisory
Tank Stream Labs
BEST TECHNOLOGY JOURNALIST
Amanda Yeo
David Braue
David Swan
Trevor Long
What's next for the ATC Finalists?
In the competition’s final phase, finalists will take the stage to pitch their business in person, engaging in a live Q&A with the judges on Thursday, September 19. The awards ceremony will follow later that same day for the winner announcements.
See the Finalists' Live Pitches
For the first time, the live pitches will be open to the public, offering a unique opportunity to witness the action firsthand and learn about each of the remarkable finalists' tech innovations. Tickets to attend are available here.
Attendees are welcome to join us for the whole day (9am to 4.30pm) or for those categories they are most keen to see. See the schedule here.
Join the celebrations at the National Awards Night on September 19
Be a part of celebrating the most promising technology companies in Australia at the ATC National Finals.
The evening is the perfect opportunity to connect with industry leaders, investors, and innovators, all while enjoying delicious canapés, refreshing beverages, and vibrant live music from an 8-piece band.
With plenty of time for networking following the formal proceedings, be part of Australia’s thriving tech ecosystem and celebrate the success of our top 36 finalists.
Location: Collider – 477 Pitt St, Haymarket, Sydney 2000
About the Australian Technologies Competition
Celebrating 14 years of championing Australia’s top tech talent, the Australian Technologies Competition (ATC) continues to be the nation’s premier growth and awards program for technology SMEs and scale-ups. With a spotlight on innovation with global impact, the ATC offers successful entrants a gateway to invaluable connections with investors, mentors, and industry leaders.
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