Anni named a finalist in WA Innovators of the Year 2025 – Rio Tinto Emerging Innovation Award
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Media Release:
PERTH, WA – Anni, a digital health and wellbeing community and platform, has been named a finalist in the prestigious WA Innovators of the Year 2025 – Rio Tinto Emerging Innovation Award, proudly supported by the New Industries Fund and the Department of Energy and Economic Diversification.
Now in its 18th year, the WA Innovators of the Year program recognises groundbreaking local innovations with commercial potential across technology, health, environment, and social impact. Finalists in the Emerging Innovation category, sponsored by Rio Tinto, represent Western Australia’s brightest early-stage ventures.
Anni’s selection as a finalist underscores its unique position as:
A proudly WA-based, co-female-founded innovation
Tackling women’s health and wellbeing with a human-first digital solution
Addressing healthcare access in regional and remote areas
Backed by a community of trusted, verified professionals
Focused on solving the root cause, not just symptoms
Delivering care anytime, anywhere through its signature micro-consults®
Anni’s pioneering model, Advice as a Service®, is changing how people access personalised care, making it faster, more affordable, and more empowering. As its mantra goes, “Anni makes it better”.
Whilst this year’s other inspiring finalists showcase a powerful mix of innovations, from precision drilling and electric mining vehicles to insulin resistance therapeutics and Indigenous-led land management, Anni stands out as the only finalist co-led by a female founder and focused on digital equity, trust, and women’s health outcomes.
“We’re honoured to be recognised among such a strong cohort and am so proud of our small team,” said Anni Co-Founder Anna Lee-Renwick. “This nomination validates our belief that personalised and trusted humancentric care should be affordable and accessible to everyone."
Winners will be announced at the WA Innovators of the Year Awards Ceremony later this year.
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Anni is a digital health and wellbeing community that treats everything from broken sleep and fractured relationships as seriously as you treat broken bones. We blend the speed and convenience of AI with the warmth and trust of person-to-person support to offer you your own bespoke team of qualified experts, on hand with personalised and affordable advice, when and where you need it most.
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