Flavia Tata Nardini, co-founder of Australia’s fastest growing company, says its goals are a “moonshot”. She is not being metaphorical.

Fleet Space Technologies has topped The Australian Financial Review’s Fast 100 list for 2023, after its satellite-enabled technology for hunting critical minerals was used by the likes of Rio Tinto, Barrick Gold and Core Lithium to complete 150 geological surveys. Its revenue grew at a compound annual rate of 582 per cent over the last three years, to reach $8.9 million.