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Top 25 Research and advisory firms based in Melbourne, Australia

Name: Research and advisory firms based in Melbourne, Australia
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Compiled by the RevenueBase Data Team Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026 176 companies tracked

RevenueBase identified 176 research and advisory firms headquartered in Melbourne, Australia as of September 2026 and tracks 2,351 professional contacts across them, including 1,236 with verified work emails. Sydney is the largest hub.

This list covers research and advisory firms headquartered in Melbourne, Australia, matched on what each company actually does as described in its own words. Ranked by team size, largest first. Every row shows the company's own description, its RevenueBase Smart Search rating, and when it was last checked. Data refreshed September 21, 2026.

Published by RevenueBase, a B2B data infrastructure company. This list was built with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search RevenueBase customers use to build their own targeted lists and unlock verified emails and direct dials at the companies on them. How these lists are built and judged.

How to read this list HQ checked on every row RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row Refreshed Sep 21, 2026 86% judged on-target in blind review

176Companies

2,351Contacts tracked

1,236Verified emails

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The 25 largest research and advisory firms based in Melbourne, Australia

Ranked by team size

Top 25 of 176 research and advisory firms based in Melbourne, Australia, ranked by team size, largest first. Data refreshed Sep 21, 2026. RevenueBase Smart Search rates how each company's information relates to research and advisory firms: strong evidence (its own description names it), partial (names part of it), indirect (matched on the rest of its profile rather than the description shown). Click a contact count to view that company's people.
#	Company	RevenueBase Smart Search	Headquarters	Employees	Contacts
1	The KPI Institute	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	354 contacts →
	Partial evidence “The KPI Institute is a research institute specialized in business performance.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
2	Bluerock	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	201-500	316 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “BlueRock is for entrepreneurs, by entrepreneurs.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
3	Frontier Advisors	Strong evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	83 contacts →
	Strong evidence “Frontier Advisors has been offering institutional investors independent and unbiased advice, research and service for over thirty years.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
4	Rennie	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	80 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Rennie provides strategy, ESG & sustainability, capital advisory, policy and reform, and business advisory services.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
5	Acil Allen	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	71 contacts →
	Partial evidence “ACIL Allen is a leading independent economics, policy and strategy advisory firm, dedicated to helping clients solve complex issues.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
6	Mandala	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	66 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We use economics, data and strategy to provide analysis, insights and advice to governments, businesses and organisations.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
7	Zenith Investment Partners	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	55 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Zenith Investment Partners is a leading provider of investment research, managed accounts, and portfolio consulting solutions for the Australian financial services industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
8	SPP	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	50 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Strategic Project Partners (SPP) is a high impact management consulting firm.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
9	Frontier Economics Asia-Pacific	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	46 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Frontier Economics are the independent economic consultants for complex commercial, litigation, regulatory and public policy decision-making.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
10	Flagstaff Partners	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	40 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Flagstaff Partners is an Australian independent corporate advisory firm established in 2009 by Tony Burgess (Chairman) and Charles Goode AC (Chairman Emeritus).” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
11	Focus Dynamics Group	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Our team brings a wealth of real-world experience to the table.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
12	Henslow	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	36 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Henslow is an independent advisory firm that supports growing companies and their stakeholders through every phase of a business’s evolution.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
13	Dandolopartners	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “dandolopartners specialises in providing governments and private sector companies working with government with the information, insight and innovative advice required to make…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
14	Networks X	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	30 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Networks X is a modern day investment and market research services provider.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
15	Edified	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	29 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Edified is a specialised consulting firm focused exclusively on the education industry.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
16	The Civic Partnership	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	28 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We are your partner in the boardroom, staffroom, newsroom and courtroom.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
17	Nash Advisory	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	27 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Nash Advisory specialises in the sale and acquisition of businesses with enterprise values between $10M -$500M.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
18	FAT Tail Investment Research	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	25 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “We provide independent financial commentary, economic analysis and market forecasts through print and email publications, books and conferences.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
19	9yards	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	21 contacts →
	Partial evidence “9Yards is an Australian professional advisory company built on the belief that our clients deserve well-designed, comprehensive strategies that empower effective business…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
20	Bourne & Weir PTY LTD	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “With Bourne & Weir, you'll work directly with senior advisers who bring decades of experience and a genuine commitment to personal service.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
21	Towers Group PTY LTD	Indirect evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	51-200	20 contacts →
	Indirect evidence “Towers Group Pty Ltd is an Australian-owned, Melbourne-based professional services company established in 2013.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
22	Beaton	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	12 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Beaton is the leading researcher and adviser to accountancy, law, specialist intellectual property, management consulting and built and natural environment consulting firms in…” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
23	Canterbury Partners	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Canterbury Partners is an independent corporate advisory firm, specialising in the provision of financial and strategic advice to its clients.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
24	Roycecomm	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “RoyceComm is a corporate advisory firm specialising in business and communications.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026
25	Hindal Corporate	Partial evidence	Melbourne, AustraliaHQ checked Sep 21, 2026	11-50	10 contacts →
	Partial evidence “Hindal is an independent and privately owned corporate advisory firm established in 1996.” Source: RevenueBase Database · checked Sep 21, 2026

RevenueBase Smart Search

RevenueBase Smart Search assesses information from a company’s LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website, and other publicly available sources. It uses that information to rate how closely the company relates to this list’s category: research and advisory firms. Every row carries its rating and the description the rating was read from, so each one can be checked rather than taken on trust.

Strong evidence: The company's own public description of its business names research and advisory firms.
Partial evidence: Its own public description names part of research and advisory firms, so it works in or next to the category without describing itself that way.
Indirect evidence: The description shown does not name research and advisory firms. The match rests on the rest of the company's public profile rather than the one sentence quoted here, so this is the rating to check first.

RevenueBase Smart Search is how these lists are built: RevenueBase's data engine and AI assemble the companies that match a category defined in a user's own words, so a list can be about what companies actually do rather than about whichever industry code they were filed under.

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Research and advisory firms based in Melbourne, Australia at a glance

As of Sep 21, 2026

52.6%Verified-email coverage

13.4Average contacts per company

1-10Median size (employees)

159.1%Largest-city concentration · Sydney

Sep 21, 2026Page data refreshed

Companies by employee count

1-10

125

11-50

51-200

201-500

501-1,000

Email recency for this list is measured across the whole Australia list rather than for Melbourne, so it is reported there. Company counts and contact totals on this page are exact for Melbourne, over 176 companies.

How this list was built

Company categories are rarely black and white. RevenueBase reads each company's own description of its business to decide whether it belongs among research and advisory firms, so some rows will be adjacent to the category rather than pure plays. The description and RevenueBase Smart Search rating on every row are there so you can check each match yourself.

Source: The RevenueBase company graph: 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts resolved from primary sources, queried with RevenueBase Smart Search, the natural-language company search available to every RevenueBase user.
What qualifies: Companies headquartered in Melbourne, Australia whose own description of what they do matches “research and advisory firms”. Matching reads each company's description, not its industry code or its name.
RevenueBase Smart Search: RevenueBase Smart Search is how this list is assembled and how each row is rated. RevenueBase's data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to a category defined in a user's own words. Each row is rated strong evidence (its own description names research and advisory firms), partial evidence (it names part of the category) or indirect evidence (the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile). The description supporting each rating is quoted on the row.
What we exclude: Companies whose own description does not clearly place them among research and advisory firms, and records with no verified work email. Companies headquartered outside Melbourne are excluded even when they keep an office there.
Match quality: In blind human judging of this matching method, 86% of matched companies were on target. Expect roughly 1 in 7 rows to be adjacent to the category rather than a pure play. Every row shows the company's own description and its RevenueBase Smart Search rating so you can judge each match yourself. Read the full methodology: how the lists are built, how the judging worked, and what the figure means.
Ranking: Team size, largest first: companies are ordered by the number of professionals RevenueBase tracks at each one. Employee ranges shown are reported bands, for context.
Verification: Every listed company carries at least one verified work email, 1,236 across the full list. Contacts re-verify on a rolling cadence, and each contact's own verification date is shown inside RevenueBase.
Refresh: This page's figures were pulled from the company graph on September 21, 2026. Lists refresh periodically as the graph is re-checked.
Corrections: Wrong category, wrong headquarters, or a company that has closed? Use “Report an issue” on any row. Reports go to the RevenueBase Data Team and feed back into the company graph.

Research and advisory firms by metro in Australia

Research and advisory firms in Sydney280
Research and advisory firms in Melbourne176
Research and advisory firms in Brisbane69
Research and advisory firms in Perth38
Research and advisory firms in Canberra32
Research and advisory firms in Adelaide29

Frequently asked

What is RevenueBase Smart Search?

RevenueBase Smart Search is how RevenueBase decides which companies belong on this list and how strongly each one fits. Its data engine and AI assess a company's LinkedIn profile, information supplied directly by the company, its website and other publicly available information, then relate it to the category the list is about. Each row is rated strong evidence when the company's own description names research and advisory firms, partial evidence when it names part of the category, and indirect evidence when the description shown names none of it and the match rests on the rest of the company's profile.

How many research and advisory firms are there based in Melbourne, Australia?

RevenueBase identified 176 research and advisory firms headquartered in Melbourne, Australia as of September 2026, matched on each company's own description of what it does rather than its industry code.

What is the largest company on this list?

The KPI Institute, headquartered in Melbourne, tops this list with the largest team on record.

Which city has the most research and advisory firms?

Sydney leads with 280 headquartered companies, followed by Melbourne (176) and Brisbane (69).

How do I get contact information for these companies?

A free RevenueBase account lets you run this exact search and work the top results, verified emails and direct dials included. Upgrading unlocks all 1,236 verified decision-maker contacts tracked across these 176 companies.

How current is this list?

The list refreshes periodically as the company graph is re-checked. This page's figures were pulled on September 21, 2026.

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About this data

RevenueBase is a B2B data infrastructure company. Its company graph covers 60 million companies and 398.9 million professional contacts, with emails verified on a rolling cadence rather than scraped once and left to decay. These company lists are generated directly from that graph with RevenueBase Smart Search, the same natural-language company search every RevenueBase user has: describe a market in plain words, get the companies that match, and add verified emails and direct dials for the people at them. It is the same data that powers RevenueBase's B2B data products, and a free account includes 500 credits to start. How these lists are built and judged.