Yarris Technologies

Yarris Technologies is an Australian software company founded in Melbourne in 1995 and still privately held, with founder Ian Goddard as chairman and Katherine King as chief executive. It builds cloud platforms that coordinate work between large organizations and their external service providers, and sells Dazychain, a matter management system for corporate legal departments.

Yarris began in 1995 as one of the first Australian companies to deliver software as a service, building systems that handle procurement, work allocation, invoicing and provider performance for enterprises and government agencies including Telstra and the New South Wales government. It applied that same workflow and spend engine to in-house legal work with Dazychain, and states that its platforms now handle more than 1.1 billion dollars of services each year, hosted on AWS with all customer data held in Australia.

Yarris Technologies at a glance:

• Founded: 1995 in Melbourne by Ian Goddard, who continues as chairman; Katherine King, a long-serving executive, became chief executive.
• Headquarters: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia, with all customer data hosted in Australian AWS regions and support delivered in local business hours.
• Ownership: Privately held and Australian-owned, with no outside private equity or venture ownership disclosed and the founder still on the board.
• Legal Technology Portfolio: Dazychain, a matter management, intake, contract and reporting platform for in-house legal teams, alongside the wider Yarris services platform.
• Market Focus: Australian and New Zealand corporate and government legal departments, with insurance, telecommunications and public sector teams prominent.

What legal teams should know: Yarris suits Australian and New Zealand legal departments with data residency requirements and a preference for a local vendor working in the same time zone. It is a small, self-funded company rather than a venture-backed platform, so buyers gain stability and direct access to the product team but should check international support coverage and integration depth.