Seven new Qld tech start ups that are breaking new ground
These seven Queensland tech start ups are expanding their platforms in Australia and overseas as they break new ground. Here’s what they’re up to
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Meet the Queensland’s most interesting start-ups which are on the rise.
These entrepreneurs – some new and some renewed – are breaking new ground and making their presence felt overseas.
ProcurePro
Founded in Brisbane in 2020, ProcurePro is the number one procurement software for Head Contractors, and they are on a mission to save one billion admin hours in construction. Founded by Alastair Blenkin, Nathan Dench, Jesse Dymond, Tom Whelan and Tim Rogers ProcurePro consolidates more than 15 fragmented processes into an end-to-end procurement platform, improving visibility, efficiencies, quality and consistency.
Headquartered in Spring Hill ProcurePro has more than doubled year-on-year growth and is on track to achieve annual recurring revenue in eight figures.
It has a growing international footprint, and ProcurePro now operates across Australia, the UK and Ireland, the US and the Middle East, and it supports more than $70bn in construction projects globally, the business has grown to a team of 70.
The company is launching and scaling new AI-powered procurement and is aiming for a platform coverage to $100bn plus in construction value
ProcurePro founders have been named in the Australian Top 100 Young Entrepreneurs for 2025 and the company was listed in BuiltWorlds’ 2025 Preconstruction Tech Top 50.
OfficeMaps
Founded in Milton in 2016 by James Sowry and William Lee, OfficeMaps is a comprehensive workplace management platform designed to enhance the efficiency and flexibility of modern office environments.
It offers a suite of tools that facilitate hot desking, space utilisation, and staff co-ordination, making it particularly beneficial for organisations adopting hybrid or flexible work models.
The company was bootstrapped and was originally created to help organisations to better manage their office spaces-well before the global shift to hybrid work.
Covid hit, they quickly realised they were in the right space at the right time and expanded the platform to support hot desking and office safety functionality, which resonated with customers navigating the new reality.
OfficeMaps organically attracted a strong customer base in the US, particularly among small and medium-sized businesses that lacked access to affordable, flexible workplace management solutions. The team filled that gap-and demand has only grown since.
According to the latest stats daily active users has doubled in the past year and the team grew 20 per cent year-on-year. The platform is used in Europe, the US, Asia and Australia.
Some of its customers include the Queensland Government, Ballina Shire Council, global shipping manufacturers, and mining and construction companies.
Key company goals for the second half of 2025 include gaining renewed government R & D funding, planning for a local US office and getting more boots on the ground there, and
Further adoption by domestic government and state funded entities who are increasingly looking to buy local instead of using OS products.
Little Hinges
Founded in 2020 in Kippa Ring, Queensland, by Josh Kindred and Josh Callaghan, Little Hinges is transforming the way Australia experiences property.
The company has built the nation’s largest virtual tours platform, the team is unlocking a new era where every home and building can be explored, understood, and improved-entirely online. Little Hinges’ cutting-edge digital property data empowers everything from instant renovation quotes and precise building valuations to smarter energy ratings and streamlined depreciation schedules.
They say they’re not just digitising property; they’re re-imagining what’s possible for every owner, buyer, and industry professional in Australia.
The Little Hinges platform has facilitated over 12 million digital inspections of property and is used by property professionals across Australia including Ray White, LJ Hooker and Belle Property.
Since 2020 it has had 70 per cent compound annual growth rate in revenue and expanded from Queensland into NSW, Victoria and Western Australia.
Key company goals for the second half of 2025 include continuing its roll out to Australia’s largest agencies, creating Australia’s first fully automated depreciation schedule and complete its Build Value Model build which values each room of a property individually based on the fixtures, features, fittings and condition of the property.
AutoRFP.ai
Founded in Brisbane in 2022 by Jasper Cooper and Louis Lloyd Besson, AutoRFP.ai is an AI-powered request for proposal and tender automation software helping global teams win more deals faster.
Self funded, AutoRFP.ai is the World’s First RFP Software to automate RFP, tenders and security questions with Generative AI aiming for its partners to increase win rates, slash response times, and drive revenue growth for technology companies, from small teams to Fortune 500 enterprises.
The company has 11 team members, with 80 per cent of them hired in the last six months.
It has offices around the world and customers report more than 10 per cent increase in win rates using AutoRFP.ai.
The team is growing revenue at a staggering 10 per cent to 20 per cent month-on-month and its software now writes 10,000,000 words per day for its customers across 44 countries.
This year the company is aiming to open a European office and consolidate into new markets.
Last year AutoRFPai won on AI Startup of the Year 2024 at the Queensland AI awards.
Cake Equity
Founded on the Gold Coast in 2019 by Jason Atkins and Kim Hansen, Cake Equity is an equity management platform designed to simplify cap table management, streamline equity incentive plans, and enhance shareholder communication for start-ups and growing companies worldwide.
Cake was developed to address the complexities and misunderstandings associated with equity ownership, aiming to make equity more accessible and meaningful for teams.
The company has grown to 30 people globally.
It has successfully expanded in the US with 150 per cent on year growth in US revenue.
The team has secured additional funding from big name Jason Calacanis, QIC and European venture capital and its goals for 2025 including continued US expansion and the launch of AI solutions.
Sniip
Founded in 2014 in Brisbane by Damien Vasta, Sniip is a mobile-first bill payments platform that delivers bills directly into the app and enables users to pay seamlessly and securely, using their choice of card or bank account.
No longer does the biller determine how someone pays their bill – Sniip gives that control to the user, and offers them the opportunity to earn loyalty points with every payment.
After stalling for a few years Sniip has come back with a vengeance, in the last three years.
The company has grown its users by 211 per cent to 155,000 registered users and increased the number of bill payments by 308 per cent to 1.2 million payments.
At the same time it has grown the value of bill payments by 707 per cent.
Although Sniip was founded in 2014, it has processed more than 85 per cent of its total volume in the last three years, and is growing rapidly.
It is something of a “born-again start-up” and over the past 12 months has become the
first partner in Australia to offer Qantas loyalty points for every household bill payment.
The team also just took out the Fintech Australia award for Best Innovation in Payments.
Earthodic
Founded in 2022 Earthodic co-founders Anthony Musumeci, Luke Splatt, Ben Leita, Fiona Donaghey and Albert Tietz are developing a fully recyclable protective coating for paper and cardboard packaging.
Naming their company Earthodic their patented protective coating is used to strengthen boxes and other packaging materials to carry produce as well as make them waterproof – like the lining on the inside of a paper coffee cup.
Musumeci says the idea arrives as online shopping continues to boom with cardboard and paper-based products treated with non-recyclable coatings used for deliveries now accounting for about 30 per cent of landfill.
The Geebung based company wants to tackle this problem head on with a direct drop-in replacement to non-recyclable options which uses lignin – a form of organic polymers – that can be recycled time and time again.
In 2024 the start-up raised $14.6m in 2024 and took out a $125m debt raise to expand its bio-based coating production and build commercial partnerships, particularly in the US market.
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