WA VC Purpose Ventures led the round, supported by Melt Ventures and Curtin University.
Cofounders Ryan Liebregts and Dre Siwela met in a robotics class while studying mechatronics engineering at Curtin. They founded Indrus in April 2025 to give operators a clearer picture of how their assets and teams are being used, and where delays are costing money.
The round will go towards team expansion and deploying the technology in more logistics yards.
Indrus uses computer vision and AI to monitor activity in real time, addressing a bottleneck that Liebregts, the CEO, said has been overlooked in warehouse automation.
“For decades the warehouse got all the attention and the yard was an afterthought, but as warehouses have got faster and automated, the yard is becoming a constraint,” he said.
“The warehouse really starts at the gate, yet most yards have very little visibility of what happens out there.”
Liebregts said those blind spots can have consequences across a warehouse’s shipping supply chain.
“A delay in the yard never stays in the yard, and ends up as an idle dock, a missed appointment and an overtime shift,” he said.
Indrus has deployed its technology with large logistics businesses in the US and secured a pilot with a major Australian port, logging more than 200,000 camera hours and tracking over 50,000 vehicles.
Projects with Australian supply chain organisations spanning retail, third-party logistics and fast-moving consumer goods are scheduled to begin in 2027.
Indrus graduated from Curtin Accelerate in 2025, was selected for the Stanford-NATO accelerator in Switzerland and won the Curtinnovation Business Award.
Purpose Ventures managing director Derek Gerrard said the fund had known the founders before Indrus was formally established.
“We’ve been impressed by how quickly they have gone from an idea to something operators around the world are paying attention to,” he said.
“Indrus’ vision to bring logistics operations into the new era is one we are excited to back from WA.”
