Corporate Partners

American Express is a globally integrated payments company that provides customers with products, insights and experiences that enrich lives and build business success. We do this through innovative payment, travel and expense management solutions for both individuals and businesses of all sizes. More than 170 years of history built on service, trust and security have helped us develop one of the world’s most recognised brands.

Australian Payments Plus (AP+) is Australia’s integrated domestic payments organisation and we are here to shape the future of payments for Australia. In 2022, AP+ brought together BPAY Group, eftpos and NPP Australia. We strive to deliver more innovation to Australia’s payments ecosystem and beyond - so that Australian businesses, government, and consumers experience more benefits, in more ways. While making sure they’re all considered and represented in the decisions that drive our industry forward.

Cuscal is the largest independent provider of payments solutions for the Australian financial services sector. We partner with our clients to enable their entire payments ecosystem, so they can deliver the best payments experiences for their customers.

IDVerse helps you quickly scale your business globally. Our fully-automated solution verifies new users in seconds with just their face and smartphone - in over 220 countries and territories with any ID document - without the burden of human intervention.

Mastercard is a global technology company in the payments industry. Our mission is to connect and power an inclusive, digital economy that benefits everyone, everywhere by making transactions safe, simple, smart and accessible. Our solutions help individuals, institutions and governments.

Privy, a fully verified digital identity provider, born from a robust authentication background, redefines digital trust for today and the future. Our user-centric solutions seamlessly verify authenticity across all touchpoints, offering electronic signatures and verification in one unified platform for enhanced security, convenience, and peace of mind. Prove it with Privy.

PSC Paragon is a joint initiative by PSC Insurance Brokers (“PSC”) and Paragon International Insurance Brokers (“Paragon”).

Together, we deliver tailored services and resources for Australian clients through offices in 16 locations and over 100 colleagues in London specialising in management, legal, cyber and M&A transactional risks.

We work with growth stage and ASX listed companies as well as their legal advisors and financial sponsors. Our experience solving complex risks enables us to bring innovation and insight to our clients’ insurance placement.

RSM Australia is a member RSM, the world’s 6th largest audit tax and consulting network, which encompasses more than 820 offices in over 120 countries around the world.In addition to local knowledge provided by our advisers in 30 offices across Australia, we draw on our international reach to ensure clients stay at the forefront of the world’s best practices and innovation.

Visa’s technology and innovation make digital payments a reality for consumers, businesses, banks and governments. By connecting billions of cardholders to millions of merchants, 15,500 financial institutions and governments in more than 200 countries and territories, their aim is to help level the playing field for those who have been traditionally underserved.

Our name is a nod to the almost 200-year history of ANZ Bank – which began in 1835 in London when The Bank of Australasia was established under Royal Charter with the ‘i’ representing investing in innovation. The journey from there was driven by a spirt of adventure and innovation – and 1835i will continue and accelerate that spirit into the future. Combining the backing of a Global 50 bank with a team driven by innovation and disruption, 1835i builds and invests in businesses that are transforming financial services and beyond.

BC Payments Australia, the local subsidiary of European payments bank, Banking Circle, provides low-cost global payments and FX solutions to Australian fintechs and payments businesses. Banking Circle is a fully licensed next-generation payments bank, supporting the global banking and payments needs of more than 350 banks, fintechs and regulated payments businesses.

Convera, a leading non-bank B2B cross-border payments firm globally, offers smarter money movement solutions. With extensive industry experience and advanced technology, we enable efficiency, accuracy, and compliance at its core, alleviating risk and accelerating smarter decision making transactions for over 30,000 customers, including businesses, educational institutions, financial organisations, law firms, and NGOs. Our robust global settlement network ensures accuracy and speed, empowering confident growth for companies worldwide. Our mission is to make moving money so easy that any company in the world can grow with confidence

BDO is one of the worlds leading accountancy and advisory organisations, with a team of more than 80,000 people worldwide. In Australia, BDO is one of the country’s largest associations of independently owned accounting practices.

NGM Group offers retail banking services to more than half a million Australians under the brands Greater Bank and Newcastle Permanent. Proudly customer-owned with no shareholders to consider, NGM Group is Australia’s largest customer-owned bank based on net assets and the 10th largest Australian-owned bank for household deposits. They offer their customers competitive rates, award-winning service, and a true commitment to supporting local communities.

RAB recognises the role of a responsible financial institution in achieving and maintaining the regional way of life. So, their banking comes packaged with a conscience. They reinvest our profits for our customers’ benefit and deliver social and environmental returns to the regional communities at every opportunity. RAB is a prime example of the ‘we’, not the ‘me’.

Rippling unifies HR, IT, and onboarding/offboarding in one platform, streamlining payroll, HR, expenses, and device management for ease of administering and managing global teams. Based in San Francisco with offices worldwide including Sydney Australia, Rippling has quickly gained popularity with SMBs and Mid-market companies aiming for international expansion.

Thales is a global technology leader with more than 81,000 employees on five continents. The Group is investing in digital and “deep tech” innovations – Big Data, artificial intelligence, connectivity, cybersecurity and quantum technology – to build a future we can all trust. Trust is essential for societies to flourish, with humans playing a central role in every critical decision.

UnionPay International (UPI) is focused on the growth and support of UnionPay's global business. In partnership with more than 2500 institutions worldwide, UnionPay International has enabled card acceptance in 181 countries and regions with issuance in 79 countries and regions. UnionPay International provides high quality, cost effective and secure cross-border payment services to the world's largest cardholder base and ensures convenient local services to a growing number of global UnionPay cardholders and merchants.

Founded in New Zealand in 2006. Xero is a leading global platform helping small businesses and their advisors grow and thrive.

Our purpose is to make life better for people in small business, their advisors and communities around the world. Our vision is to be the most insightful and trusted small business platform.

Globally, we have 3.95m subscribers, over 1,000 connected apps and connections to more than 300 connections to banks and other financial institutions.

Allens is a leading international law firm with a long and proud heritage of shaping the future for our clients, our people and the communities in which we work. From playing a pioneering role in the development of legislation and regulatory frameworks, to acting on numerous 'firsts' across a range of industry and community issues, it is in our DNA to make a difference and help shape what our world looks like.

Cornwalls is one of Australia’s oldest and most respected independent law firms. We offer a full range of commercial law services, with offices in Melbourne, Sydney and Brisbane. We offer a full range of commercial legal services to family offices and family-owned businesses, publicly listed companies, commercial institutions and government.

DLA Piper is a global law firm capable of taking care of the most important legal needs of clients wherever they do business. With offices throughout the Americas, Europe, the Middle East, Africa and Asia Pacific, they represent more clients in a broader range of geographies and practice disciplines than virtually any other law firm in the world.

Gadens is a leading independent Australian law firm with offices in Adelaide, Brisbane, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. The Financial Services & Tech Regulation team provides advice across the full range of transactional and regulatory, including on M&A, capital raising, joint ventures, digital & data procurement, regulation, cyber security, privacy compliance, emerging technologies, IP & data commercialisation, as well as offering general strategic policy advice and support to fintech clients.

Hamilton Locke is an international law firm evolving the traditional approach to corporate and commercial legal services, reacting quickly to change, providing exceptional service, and finding creative solutions to deliver smart advice. Advising clients across Australia and New Zealand, Hamilton Locke has been recognised as Australia’s fastest growing law firm.

K&L Gates is a fully integrated global law firm with lawyers located across five continents. They represent a broad array of leading global corporations in every major industry, capital markets participants, and ambitious middle-market and emerging companies.

Recognised as one of the world’s most innovative law firms, King & Wood Mallesons offers a different perspective to commercial thinking and the client experience with access to a global platfor and a team of over 2000 lawyers in 28 locations around the world.

Acclime provides businesses with corporate, governance, and advisory services across 17 countries in Asia, Australasia, the USA, and the UAE, employing over 1,400 dedicated professionals. We provide a comprehensive range of professional services and business advisory to help businesses navigate complex regulatory environments and achieve their goals at all stages of the business life-cycle. Our integrated services support companies with market entry across this region, largely under a fixed fee pricing structure.

Authsignal is a drop-in digital identity and authentication platform. Focused on enabling businesses to seamlessly authenticate customer identity, mitigate fraud, and uplift security. Enabling Mid-market and enterprise businesses to deliver optimised good customer flows, Authsignal is MFA as a service that delivers a flexible and risk-based approach to authentication.

Our team of 75 specialists collaborate with Dentsu Creative strategy, creative and production teams across Australia and New Zealand from our offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Brisbane, Canberra, regional centres across Australia and Auckland, New Zealand. We are part of a global connected community of Dentsu PR experts in more than 30 markets across the world, delivering international scale with local earned specialists who understand what is important at a local market level.

Escrow London is a global software escrow company with offices in London, Atlanta and Sydney. We solve the question often asked by large companies to scaleups and startups ….. “What happens if your company is no longer around?” Our software escrow solutions provide continuity if the software vendor is unable to continue to support their software usually due to bankruptcy. Our solutions are best suited to AWS, Azure and Google hosted software.

Since 2009, iTelaSoft has been solving complex business problems with cutting-edge technology solutions.

Australian based with global experience, we thrive on innovation and delivering real value to our clients. Our talented team of software engineers, designers and developers work with small, mid-size and large enterprise clients from strategy development through to delivery.

We specialise in strategy consultation, innovation incubation, solution design, development and management of products. We enable organisations to advance and maintain innovation and a competitive advantage.

Managed is a next-gen property management solution that disrupted the sector with integrated payment technology removing fraud from real estate transactions and introduced instant rental payments to landlords. Managed utilises digital wallet technology to remove trust bank accounts that traditionally enabled an agent to hold all rental funds in a bank account accessible by the agency. Servicing some of the largest real estate brands in the country, funds have never been safer and payments more transparent.

Managed processes almost $100million a month in transaction volume with a total of $3 billion processed through the platform since 2019.

NAB Ventures is the venture arm of the National Australia Bank, a global initiative supporting entrepreneurs in Australia and offshore in their quest to build leading technology companies. We invest in enterprises that can leverage the bank’s expertise, assets and market position to drive growth in portfolio companies.

Our partners have founded, led, and invested in technology companies for two decades in both Australia and the US.

Reinventure is an independent Venture Capital firm with a strong corporate partnership with Westpac.

We recently announced our second $50m fund for investment in early stage venture.

We invest for the long term, and we put our ventures first.

Once we invest, our job is to unlock maximum synergy value between our ventures and our largest investor, Westpac.

Techvisa is the go-to immigration consultancy for the tech industry across APAC. Our team of experts are dedicated to helping tech workers navigate the complex visa process and secure the best possible outcome. Whether you're a start-up, scale-up, a VC fund or an established tech business, we have the knowledge and experience to guide you through the ever-changing immigration legislation.

Our goal is simple: We help startups and emerging brands tell their story and in the process educate founders on how the Australian media works.
We have experience and a track record in growing brands through PR and let our results speak for themselves.
If you are interested in learning more or are after some candid communications advice drop us a note at harrison@themediaaccelerator.com.au

Moore Australia provides personalised and commercially astute audit, accounting, tax and business advisory services and more. Their focus is about understanding your business, your needs, your challenges and, most importantly, how you define success. They are mid-market specialists, so they truly understand your operating environment.

Founded in Fintech, Stone & Chalk is shaping the future of emerging tech sectors by catalysing commercial success across our impact network. Home to Fintech Australia, Insuretech Australia, the RegTech Association and the Blockchain Centre as well as all the core financial corporate partners. From Open Banking, Cryptocurrencies, Regtech and Insurtech to Blockchain, our community is the centre of gravity for Fintech.

At EY, we’re dedicated to helping Fintech’s grow, develop and realize their greatest ambitions. We draw on the shared creativity, experience and diverse perspectives of our global Fintech network, spread across 30+ countries, to provide innovative, personalised, hands-on and tech-enabled end-to-end support for Fintechs at every stage of growth.

Fintech Australia (FA) is a leading industry body representing the Australian Fintech sector. As part of its commitment to sustainability, FA has partnered with Clima, a brand that helps organisations tackle climate challenges. With Clima's support, FA has measured its total carbon footprint, excluding events, and has developed an internal climate policy aligned with a net-zero world.

The policy will guide FA's decision-making and ensure that it strives to work with carbon-neutral partners and brands that are on a bold transformation mission.

By partnering with Clima, FA provides transparency and delivers agency to its stakeholders, over its future support of climate projects, allowing it to make a positive impact on the environment and drive an educational flywheel for its member base.

Through this collaboration, FA is leading the way in the Australian Fintech industry, demonstrating its commitment to sustainability and responsible business practices. By working towards a net-zero future, FA is not only protecting the environment but also committing to a better future for all.