Founders in Motion with Thea Ngo FM
About Finnlay Morcombe
Finnlay Morcombe is co-founder of Fluency, a work intelligence platform that observes how work is done inside large organisations, documents those processes with AI and shows where automation would pay off. He started the company in Melbourne in 2023 with Oliver Farnill and has since moved to San Francisco.
A self-taught developer, Morcombe had the idea for Fluency while studying business and finance at RMIT and doing an internship at a superannuation fund. Fluency went through Startmate's Summer 2025 accelerator, raised a $1.5 million pre-seed round in April 2025, and in February 2026 raised a US$6 million (A$8.55 million) seed round led by Accel.
On Founders in Motion with Thea Ngo, he explained how Fluency raised its seed round weeks after he arrived in the US, with two pages rather than a pitch deck.
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Fluency is a Melbourne software company that maps how work gets done across an organisation, then uses AI to recommend which tasks to automate and to track the results.
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