AI and healthtech drive LinkedIn's 2025 Top Startups Australia list
LinkedIn's 2025 Top Startups Australia list is clear on one thing: AI and healthcare are where the momentum is. Relevance AI ranks first for its platform that lets businesses build and deploy AI agents to automate repetitive tasks and extract insights from unstructured data.
Heidi Health lands at number two with AI-powered medical scribe software that lightens documentation and supports better patient care. Independent creative agency Howatson+Company takes third, showing brand and media talent still matters alongside technical capability.
Why this matters for healthcare professionals
AI is moving from hype to daily workflow-especially in clinical documentation, care coordination, and preventative health. Startups in this list point to faster admin, cleaner data, and more time for patients.
- AI scribes reduce time spent on notes while improving structure and consistency.
- Preventative health platforms make ongoing care and monitoring easier to manage.
- Operational AI can streamline triage, scheduling, and follow-ups without adding headcount.
Top 10 startups in 2025
- 1. Relevance AI - Sydney | AI agent platform
- 2. Heidi Health - Melbourne | AI-powered healthcare software
- 3. Howatson+Company - Sydney | Independent creative and media agency
- 4. Instant - Sydney | Online checkout and payments fintech
- 5. Everlab - Melbourne | Preventative health membership platform
- 6. V2 AI - Surry Hills | AI consultancy for enterprise transformation
- 7. Lyrebird Health - Melbourne | AI clinical documentation tools
- 8. ProcurePro - Brisbane | Construction procurement software
- 9. Arkeus - Port Melbourne | Autonomous optical systems for defence
- 10. Zeller - Melbourne | Integrated business payments and financial services
What's driving the list
More than 60% of the startups are new to the ranking, led by AI-specific plays and healthtech that bakes AI into clinical and operational workflows. While tech dominates, there's healthy variety: food chains like Pappa Flock and construction platforms like Visibuild prove growth is not confined to software.
Insights from LinkedIn
According to Brendan Wong, LinkedIn Australia Career Expert, this year's list shows strong momentum in AI and healthtech, and a surge in career opportunities tied to these fields. For jobseekers, it's a signal of where hiring demand and meaningful work are heading.
How LinkedIn built the list
- Signals measured: employee growth, jobseeker interest, member engagement, and ability to attract talent from LinkedIn's Top Companies list.
- Eligibility: independent, privately held, HQ in Australia, at least 30 full-time employees, and five years old or younger.
- Methodology window: 1 July 2024 to 30 June 2025, based on insights from over 1.2 billion global members.
Where healthcare teams can win now
- Trial AI scribe tools in a controlled pilot. Track time saved per consult, note quality, and clinician satisfaction.
- Use preventative health platforms to structure recall, remote monitoring, and adherence workflows.
- Set a simple governance guardrail: data security, PHI handling, human-in-the-loop review, and audit trails.
- Upskill your team on prompts, workflow design, and basic data literacy to avoid tool sprawl and shadow IT.
Upskill fast (without the noise)
- Explore role-based AI learning paths for clinical and operations teams: Courses by job
- Stay current with hands-on programs that map to real workflows: Latest AI courses
Practical next steps
- Choose one workflow to automate-clinical notes, intake forms, or follow-up summaries-and run a 30-day test.
- Appoint a clinician + ops lead to evaluate tools from Heidi Health and Lyrebird Health for front-line fit.
- Build a simple ROI view: minutes saved per clinician per day, reduction in rework, patient feedback.
- Document an adoption checklist: consent language, fail-safes, escalation rules, and data retention.
Healthcare is moving toward lean, AI-augmented workflows. The startups on this list show where hiring, investment, and practical results are headed-and where your next capability gains can come from.
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