PixelForce in the news.

Coverage of PixelForce and founder Hinney Lo in Australian business media - from building Sweat and Flinders University's SuspectED app to Tobi Pearce's 2025 investment - with a link to every original article.

  • Featured in Forbes Australia and the AFR
  • 2025 SA Premier's Small Business Export Award
  • Backed by Tobi Pearce, Sweat co-founder
  • Hinney Lo - InDaily 40 Under 40, 2019
20Articles, interviews and listings
17Awards and honours
100+Products shipped since 2013
$1.5B+Combined client revenue

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Articles, interviews and listings about PixelForce and its founder, newest first. Headlines are the publishers' own; some sit behind the publisher's paywall.

Press coverage of PixelForce, newest first
Headline
MobiDev · Jul 2026
Fitness App Development Companies (2026): Ranked by Use Case (opens in a new tab)
Forbes Australia · Jan 2026
Upwardly mobile: How Adelaide-based app developer PixelForce became a world player (opens in a new tab)
Netguru · Nov 2025
18 Top Mobile Application Development Companies in 2025 (opens in a new tab)
StudyAdelaide · Nov 2025
Meet Hinney, from Hong Kong (opens in a new tab)
ChannelLife Australia · Nov 2025
PixelForce launches AUD $1.5m launchpad to boost tech scaling (opens in a new tab)
IT Brief Australia · Nov 2025
Closing Australia's scaling gap: What 40% more rescue projects are telling us about early stage tech (opens in a new tab)
By Hinney Lo, Co-Founder and CEO
Business News Australia · Nov 2025
PixelForce teams up with tech entrepreneur Tobi Pearce for $1.5m initiative to help startups scale (opens in a new tab)
Mi3 · Jul 2025
Tobi Pearce joins PixelForce as investor and strategic advisor to support mobile solutions growth (opens in a new tab)
Business News Australia · Jul 2025
Adelaide software development agency PixelForce secures investment from Sweat co-founder Tobi Pearce (opens in a new tab)
The Advertiser · Jul 2025
Sweat co-founder buys stake in app developer (opens in a new tab) (subscription)
eCommerceNews Australia · Jul 2025
PixelForce to drive global tech growth with strategic investment (opens in a new tab)
Content+Technology · Nov 2022
PixelForce Expands into Branding with Svelte Studios Acquisition (opens in a new tab)
CMOtech Asia · Nov 2022
PixelForce acquires Svelte Studios for branding offerings (opens in a new tab)
The Australian · Nov 2022
Pixelforce acquires Svelte Studios, looks to further investment (opens in a new tab) (subscription)
Startup Daily · Oct 2020
The tech startup behind the wildly successful SWEAT app by Kayla Itsines has now redeveloped a smartphone app to trace biological threats (opens in a new tab)
SmartCompany · Oct 2020
The startup that built Kayla Itsines’ SWEAT app just developed a smartphone app to combat global biological threats (opens in a new tab)
Flinders University · Oct 2020
Empowering our neighbours to tackle biological threats (opens in a new tab)
The Australian Financial Review · Apr 2020
Young Rich Listers’ app developer powers into top space in Adelaide (opens in a new tab) (subscription)
CityMag (InDaily) · Nov 2019
My Adelaide with PixelForce founder Hinney Lo (opens in a new tab)
InDaily · Jul 2019
40 Under 40 winner of the day: Hinney Lo (opens in a new tab)

Awards and recognition, stated exactly.

Each entry says exactly what was achieved - winner, finalist or named. Where the issuer has published the result online, the entry links to it.

PixelForce

PixelForce - awards and recognition, newest first
Recognition Result
2026
Web Excellence Awards, Season 19 - pixelforce.com (Website, Professional Services) (opens in a new tab)
Winner
2025
South Australian Premier's Business and Export Awards - Small Business Export Award (opens in a new tab)
Winner
2025
Web Excellence Awards, Season 14 - Website and Mobile App (fitness category) (opens in a new tab)
Winner
2025
63rd Australian Export Awards - Small Business category (opens in a new tab)
National finalist
2022
Australian Achiever Awards - Information and Communications Technology Services, South Australia (opens in a new tab)
State winner
2021
Australian Achiever Awards - Computer Systems, Software and Internet Services, South Australia (opens in a new tab)
State winner
2020
Australian Small Business Champion Awards
Recognised
2019
Immigration South Australia - recognised for employing skilled migrants (opens in a new tab)
Recognised
2018
Fast Movers South Australia (BDO and Brand South Australia) (opens in a new tab)
Finalist

Founder Hinney Lo

Founder Hinney Lo - awards and recognition, newest first
Recognition Result
2025
The CEO Magazine Executive of the Year Awards - Information Technology and Telecommunications (opens in a new tab)
Finalist
2021
Australian Young Entrepreneur Awards (opens in a new tab)
Finalist
2019
InDaily 40 Under 40 - South Australia (opens in a new tab)
Named
2019
ACS Digital Disruptors Awards - Young Professional of the Year (opens in a new tab)
Finalist

Apps PixelForce built

Apps PixelForce built - awards and recognition, newest first
Recognition Result
2024
App Store - App of the Day
Featured
2018
App Store Best of 2018 - Apple TV App of the Year: Sweat (opens in a new tab)
Winner
2017
Apple Best of Developers: Sweat
Winner
2016
Apple Watch App of the Year: Sweat
Winner

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PixelForce in the press - common questions.

Short answers about our coverage, awards and media enquiries.

Yes. PixelForce won the Small Business Export Award at the 2025 South Australian Premier's Business and Export Awards, and was a national finalist in the Small Business category of the 2025 Australian Export Awards. It was named South Australian state winner at the Australian Achiever Awards in 2021 and 2022, and its pixelforce.com website won at the Web Excellence Awards in 2026. Founder Hinney Lo was named in InDaily's 40 Under 40 in 2019. Sweat, the fitness app PixelForce built, won Apple's Apple TV App of the Year in 2018, along with Apple Watch App of the Year and Apple Best of Developers. Each award is listed with a link to the source that confirms it wherever one is published online.
Tobi Pearce, co-founder of the Sweat fitness app, made a strategic investment in PixelForce in July 2025 and became a strategic advisor, as reported by Business News Australia, Mi3, eCommerceNews and The Advertiser. The investment formalised a partnership that began when PixelForce built Sweat, which went on to a $400 million acquisition by iFIT.
The PixelForce Launchpad is a $1.5 million programme PixelForce launched with Tobi Pearce in November 2025 to help ten Australian businesses build the platform foundations to scale, reported by Business News Australia and ChannelLife. It followed a 40 percent rise in the rescue projects PixelForce took on over the previous 18 months - rebuilds of platforms that could not support their own growth.
Email contact@pixelforce.com or call +61 8 7006 3226. Interviews with Hinney Lo, Co-Founder and CEO, can be arranged through the same contacts. PixelForce is headquartered in Kent Town, Adelaide, South Australia.

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