Both the Australian government and tech industry proponents are pushing the nation toward topping 1 million tech jobs. Sydney, the capital of the Australian state of New South Wales and one of the nation’s most populous cities, is playing a role in helping Australia approach that goal through it’s thriving, diverse tech culture. Here are some of the top tech companies in Sydney operating in sectors such as fintech, IT, software development, HR tech, big data and gaming.
Top Sydney Tech Companies
- Zoom Video Communications
- Aristocrat
- Datadog
- InterSystems
- HiBob
- Braze
- GitLab
- Rokt
- Qualtrics
- NinjaOne
Top Tech Companies in Sydney
FloQast makes AI-powered accounting software. Its platform comes with features to ensure accuracy and efficiency for month-end close tasks, for example, and automations to streamline reconciliation workflows. FloQast has a growing international footprint that includes operations in Sydney.
Cash App is changing the way people move cash around. By facilitating money transfers between users within the Cash App platform and via linked bank accounts, users can send and receive money, with options that avoid service fees. The company also offers many banking services, like debit cards and direct deposits.
Notion is a digital workspace solution for businesses. For example, its Wikis feature allows organizations to store and organize key documents and knowledge in a format that’s easy for employees to search. Notion offers tools that have applications for a variety of teams, including marketing, engineering, HR and product.
Datadog’s software uses a client company’s digital footprint across servers, databases and other online interactions to monitor for potential cyber threats and optimize operations. It can monitor everything from infrastructure and network performance to cloud costs, and the platform works across a range of digital ecosystems like Amazon Web Services and Google Cloud.
GumGum is an adtech company using artificial intelligence to power a platform that enables precision targeting and more effective connections between brands and consumers. The company offers solutions for both advertisers and publishers. GumGum is a global team that bases its presence in Australia out of Sydney.
Acquia’s products provide businesses with features for creating and managing digital experiences optimized to be engaging and easy to use. Its solutions include composable commerce capabilities for building B2B and B2C storefronts and tools for centralized brand management.
Braze’s customer engagement platform helps better connect brands with their consumers. Using cross-channel communications, it works to increase engagement and transactions by initiating interactions with customers at specific, intentional moments. Strategies like dynamic segmentation, journey orchestration and a high level of personalization allow clients to customize everything their customers receive.
Enfusion has its Sydney office near Millers Point and Barangaroo. The company offers its completely integrated investment management platform to hedge funds, institutional asset managers and family offices. The company aims to give its clients a comprehensive view of their businesses.
Deputy’s workforce management solutions have applications for industries ranging from retail and hospitality to healthcare. Its platform features cover scheduling, labor demand forecasting, leave management, labor law compliance, new hire onboarding and other important responsibilities. Deputy maintains its headquarters in Sydney where employees from teams such as sales and engineering work.
Qualtrics creates software for engaging customers and employees, as well as strategizing and designing new products. Its Experience Management Platform is able to measure employee and customer experiences, using metrics that help assess the lived experience of what it is like to be on a team or to be a customer. Qualtrics’ surveys are disseminated to gather data that helps client companies consider how to adjust their operational protocols.
Atlassian operates a suite of products including Jira, Bitbucket, Confluence and Trello, which facilitate collaboration, communication and efficiency for small startups, government offices and globally distributed teams alike. With Atlassian’s solutions, teams gain insights into project tracking, agile planning and code management to enhance collaboration processes. The company’s global headquarters is in Sydney.
IMC is a trading platform with access to several global exchanges. The company was one of the first to understand the importance of tech in investing and continues to set trends in the financial services industry. IMC’s services vary regionally but in the Asia-Pacific region, it provides liquidity services on the APAC exchange.
Companies turn to monday.com for productivity solutions that enable employees throughout their organizations to become more efficient collaborators as they progress through projects and strategic goals. Its cloud-based platform gives businesses the ability to established tailored work experiences designed to meet the needs of teams ranging from sales and marketing to product development.
InterSystems makes database management software that serves industries with complex needs, including healthcare, financial services and clinical laboratory science. Its cloud-first platforms are designed for agility and use smart data fabric, which is an approach to data architecture that “weaves” various sources of data together into a single cohesive system.
Own Company makes a data platform and products to help companies manage SaaS programs. Its products, which include software for backup and recovery, data security, data seeding, data archiving and data analytics, are built to allow specific stakeholders maximal use of the data generated by their engagement with various SaaS products. Own products serve technology leaders, CRM platform owners, compliance leaders and chief information security officers.
Aristocrat makes gaming and gambling tech for mobile phone and casino games, including the Pixel United and interactive Anaxi online gaming franchises, as well as premium slot machine games like Dollar Storm. It operates ten creative studios and employs over 6,500 team members.
GitLab is a software development platform that provides an open-source code repository and facilitates collaborative software building. It stores code online for users and tracks issues with code — all for free. GitLab generates revenue through membership and subscription plans that include advanced features and support services.
PagerDuty offers a versatile digital operations management platform used across a wide range of industries, providing enhanced visibility, incident management and system monitoring solutions. With over 700 integrations available, PagerDuty supports efficient digital operations for its diverse clientele, including well-known brands like Peloton and DoorDash. It operates offices across five continents, including a location in Sydney.
HiBob makes cloud-based HR software that manages all core HR processes and functions, from performance analysis and compensation to payroll and time off. It supports 360-degree performance reviews, runs salary and bonus reviews, and initiates surveys to collect employee feedback on management and engagement.
NinjaOne offers a platform to manage IT operations like ticketing, help desk support and security. It handles monitoring, backup and patching, and the platform can be used for remote management. Everything in the NinjaOne software package can be accessed from a single dashboard with significant automation.
Rokt makes e-commerce software for major enterprise clients like Live Nation, PayPal and Uber. The company couples ads with transactions so that customers encounter them once they’ve already paid — a time when Rokt says they’re more likely to respond to an ad. Using tailored upsells, a payments marketplace and post-purchase offers, Rokt leverages existing customers to increase monetization during checkout.
Canva operates an online platform for producing visual materials like presentations, logos, videos, calendars, t-shirts and social media posts. It offers both free and paid pricing plans, as well as personalized enterprise packages to meet businesses’ specific visual content needs. Canva has multiple campuses around the globe, including a location in Sydney.
Mondelez International is a food and beverage tech company that centers its business around snack foods. Its manufacturing technology keeps brands like Oreo, Ritz, Cadbury and Toblerone relevant on a global scale. The company’s presence in Australia covers multiple manufacturing plants, making it one of the country’s largest food manufacturers.
CSC offers fintech solutions that include cloud computing and data analytics services. It also provides its clients with business administration, administrative alternative asset management, domain name system management and capital markets transactions. The company has offices in North Sydney.
Zoom offers a range of products that include a fully cloud-based video customer support contact center, virtual and hybrid event hosting, connected conference rooms to set up a space for constant videoconferencing capabilities and, of course, the classic 1:1 (or 1:many) Zoom video conference meeting. The company has pricing packages for individual users along with business customers of all sizes.
Chainlink Labs is a Web3 services company that develops technology and conducts research with the goal of “pioneering how the world connects to blockchains.” From software engineers to product and data science experts, Chainlink Labs brings together knowledgeable, experienced professionals from a range of disciplines to form a global team that supports Web3 solutions for gaming, trade and other applications.
Klaviyo’s AI-powered software platform equips brands to implement efficient marketing workflows and personalized, data-driven digital customer experiences. Klaviyo offers a library of more than 300 pre-built integrations so its technology can connect to and capture data from the other tools customers use. The company has an international footprint that includes a presence in Sydney, where team members serve Klaviyo customers throughout the Asia-Pacific region.
Snap, the company behind the Snapchat mobile app, combines photography with communication services and social media. It offers users a platform to share videos, images and messages. The app also features the My AI chatbot, which uses OpenAI’s ChatGPT technology. The company provides a dynamic and interactive experience through its innovative integration of visual content and conversational AI.
Xero is a software company that serves small business clients. Its platform, which can be used directly by B2B clients or by accountants and bookkeepers, is built to provide a simple, streamlined and fully customizable accounting interface that syncs with bank accounts, integrates with third party apps and manages expenses, bills, payroll and inventory.
FareHarbor offers a software platform businesses use to manage their bookings. Its solutions cover both online and in-person bookings, with features for handling everything from coordinating staff to accepting payments. FareHarbor’s technology serves a variety of business types, including farms, zipline parks, tour operators and rental companies.
Snyk is a cybersecurity tool that helps developers scan and fix security threats in their code, open-source dependencies, container images and infrastructure-as-code configurations before they can cause harm. Headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts, the company has offices around the world, including in Sydney.
IDeaS is a software tech company that offers revenue management products to the hospitality sector. Massively scaled hotel groups as well as smaller hospitality organizations rely on the financial analytics gleaned from IDeaS’ revenue science-based approach to growth and optimization. Revenue science is a niche field that takes the fundamentals of statistics and math and pairs it with data science and economics to provide a fact-based approach to understanding financial fluctuation within an organization.
