Les meilleurs podcasts Startup West (2024)

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112. Matt Vitale from Birchal on Crowd-Sourced Funding 43:54

5M ago43:54

43:54

We chat with Matt Vitale, Founder and CEO of ⁠Birchal⁠ — Australia's largest Crowd-Sourced Funding (CSF) platform. We talk about WA being one of their leading markets and what makes a strong CSF campaign. This episode is an insightful listen for anybody who's considering raising capital through a CSF campaign or just interested in the story of Birc…

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111. Sean Williams — AutogenAI 57:06

6M ago57:06

57:06

On this episode, we're joined by Sean Williams, founder of AutogenAI. We talk about the world of generative AI and how he's using it to help companies write better proposals, faster. Sean is a serial entrepreneur and exited his previous company, Corndel Ltd, in November 2020 in a reported £40m+ sale. After a two week holiday, Sean founded AutogenAI…

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110. Founders' Panel (Live) - the Climate for Tech 27:08

11M ago27:08

27:08

For the final episode of 2023, Startup West recorded a founders' panel in front of a live audience of more than 400 at Freo Startup Fest, which is part of the annual West Tech Fest, Australia's longest-running tech festival.Host Charlie Gunningham chats with Dr Julia Reisser (Uluu), Amy Carter-James (Raaise) and Jonathan Lilley (Electro Ventures). …

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109. Dan Dawson - Paperly 37:07

12M ago37:07

37:07

Danelle Cross (Curtin Uni) and Chris Tan (Spacecubed) talk with Dan Dawson, founder and director of edtech startup Paperly. Originally from New Zealand, Dan saw the need to reduce paper-based bureaucratic systems in schools. Coding 7 hours a night while holding down a full-time job, he was selected to join the Plus Eight Tech Accelerator in Perth i…

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108. Jemma Iles - Lightbox Group & AIMI 32:13

1y ago32:13

32:13

We talk with Jemma Iles, who has been working in, and promoting, innovation across various industries including local and state government for the past 20 years. Jemma is also one of the people bringing the new ‘Australian Innovation Management Institute’ (AIMI) to Australia.How can governments and corporates best innovate? What can they learn from…

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107. Intan Oldakowska - Earflo 30:39

1y ago30:39

30:39

Australia’s number 1 startup podcast (1) talks with Intan Oldakowska, co-founder and CEO of medtech startup Earflo. She and her team are developing a non-invasive device that drains middle ear fluid in children with chronic ear infections, avoiding developmental delay and the need for surgery.From an idea first borne over at Stanford University, Ca…

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106. Stuart Kidd - Foody Bag, Familia, Blezz, Everythere et al 28:00

1y ago28:00

28:00

Australia’s number 1 startup podcast (1) talks with serial app entrepreneur, award-winning founder and all-round nice guy Stuart Kidd.When one startup is not enough, how about four or five? Originally from the UK, Stuart arrived in Australia aged 10, then went back to work there after school, developing his eye for design, tech and online businesse…

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105. Simon Anderson - Notis & Swayz 22:14

1y ago22:14

22:14

Australia’s number 1 startup podcast (1) talks with Simon Anderson, CEO and founder of Notis (student engagement platform for schools) and Swayz (prompts friends and family to share video content for you).With Notis, established in 2013 in Perth, Simon has raised US$1M over 10 years and is aiming to have a thousand US schools on board in 2023. Simo…

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104. Tina Ambrose - Valrose & WiTWA 31:21

1y ago31:21

31:21

Australia’s number 1 startup podcast (1) talks with the CEO of tech recruiting firm Valrose and co-Chair of Women in Tech WA (WiTWA), Tina Ambrose. Growing up in west London, she took on various jobs, found herself homeless at one stage, then later made “the best decision in [her] life” to move to Perth, Western Australia. Working in recruitment, s…

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103. Ingrid Rodriguez - Eikonic 22:22

1+ y ago22:22

22:22

Australia’s number 1 startup podcast (1) talks with Ingrid Rodriguez, founder of Eikonic, a dental hygiene product looking to help a billion mouths over the next ten years.Born in Chile, and growing up in Perth, Ingrid studied oral hygiene and after years of practice, saw a need to develop a revolutionary product that would assist the 3 billion peo…

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102. Nik Bappoo & Nick Buckley - Veintech 48:00

1+ y ago48:00

48:00

Australia’s number 1 startup podcast (1) talks with two of Veintech's co-founders, Nick Buckley and Nik Bappoo, who with a team of 10 are developing a handheld unit that visualises veins to make cannulation (drawing blood) easier. It’s a disturbing fact that the standard ‘miss rate’ for cannulations is around 40%, incredibly high. Once you miss twi…

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101. Rob Kelly - Agora Livestock 30:41

1+ y ago30:41

30:41

Australia's number 1 startup podcast (1) breezes into episode 101, with Rob Kelly, managing director of Agora Livestock, a price discovery marketplace for sheep, cattle and goats.Growing up on the family farm in Kojonup, in the Great Southern, 250 kilometres south from Perth, Rob was into maths and science at school, and studied ag science at unive…

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100th episode: Professor Fiona Wood AM 47:32

1+ y ago47:32

47:32

For our 100th episode, a real treat: we speak with the inspirational Professor Fiona Wood AM, who with research partner Marie Stoner invented spray-on skin, ‘ReCell’, made famous after the Bali Bombings, for which she was made Australian of the Year in 2005.Growing up in the north of England, the daughter of a fifth-generation coalminer, the self-c…

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99. Pete Curulli - Three Little Pixels 38:44

1+ y ago38:44

38:44

Australia's number 1 startup podcast (1) welcomes well-known co-host of the Mix 94.5 Brekky Radio Show ('Pete, Matt and Kymba'), and, now startup founder and Plus Eight graduate Pete Curulli.A mad-keen gamer, and co-host of popular podcast for gamers, Game on Aus, he is developing a platform for independent gaming developers, Three Little Pixels, w…

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98. Bourby Webster - Perth Symphony Orchestra 37:35

1+ y ago37:35

37:35

Australia's number 1 startup podcast talks with former Western Australian of the Year, Bourby Webster, founder of the Perth Symphony Orchestra, who recently stepped away from the CEO role, after 13 years.Growing up in the English countryside, she was exposed to orchestral music from a young age, played viola, and went to Oxford University, where sh…

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97. Joanna Morris - Matilda 22:59

1+ y ago22:59

22:59

We talk with Joanna Morris, co-founder and CEO of Matilda, a digital platform that informs, connects and assists patients of endometriosis, a painful chronic condition that afflicts 1 in 9 Australian women.A pelvic physio by background, she and her business partner Kevin started the business to improve the lives of the 190 million people around the…

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96. Mehdi Ravanbakhsh - Mapizy + Cryptocrispy 35:28

1+ y ago35:28

35:28

Chris and Steve talk with Dr Mehdi Ravanbakhsh, co-founder of two AI startups – the 7-year-old data analytics and AI company MapIzy and the brand-new cryptocurrency platform, CryptoCrispy.Originally from Iran, with a PhD from the Leibniz University of Hanover, Germany, and 20 years’ experience as an academic, Mehdi moved to Melbourne for his postdo…

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95. Sharka Hornakova - Donut Waste 20:39

1+ y ago20:39

20:39

Danelle and Chris talk with the founder of social impact startup Donut Waste, Sharka Hornakova.Born in Prague, Czech Republic, she arrived in Perth 13 years ago, and discovered “all the beautiful, happy, no worries people.” Having worked in magazines and digital media, she saw an opportunity to recycle coffee ground waste into new products, such as…

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94. Nic Terpkos - Waytree 25:10

1+ y ago25:10

25:10

Danelle and Chris talk with Nic Terpkos, co-founder and CEO of seasonal jobs site, Waytree.Set up five years ago, the fledgling business had to weave around the COVID pandemic to provide a service to seasonal farmers where back packing part time workers were very thin on the ground.Starting out as an engineer, Nic worked part-time on the startup un…

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93. Esther Oh - Agili8 24:49

1+ y ago24:49

24:49

Chris and Steve talk with Esther Oh, founder and CEO of health tech and AI-vision startup Agili8.Born in Singapore, and a top student at school, Esther was the only female software engineer at her consulting company. She moved to Perth in 2009 on a skilled migrant visa, as she wanted to raise her kids in WA. Agili8 was then set up after her son los…

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92. Tim Jones - Hyprfire 30:20

1+ y ago30:20

30:20

Steve and Chris talk with Tim Jones, Managing Director of cyber security startup Hyprfire.Starting out as a lawyer, he moved into technology law, worked in Sydney, and then moved back to WA to work on various startups in the ASX and private space. He did some advisory work, helped fund tech startups and worked for a time at HealthEngine.Spun out of…

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91. Kate Lewkowski - Neurolotogix 33:36

1+ y ago33:36

33:36

Danelle and Brodie talk with the recently crowned WA Innovator of the Year, Kate Lewkowski, co-founder and CEO of medtech startup Neurotologix. Her company is developing a remote patient monitoring device for dizziness and vertigo, which afflicts 2.9 million Australians, prompting over 350,000 medical appointments.An audiologist with over 20 years …

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90. Hon Stephen Dawson MLC, Minister for Innovation 24:19

2y ago24:19

24:19

A fantastic start for 2023 and our 5th season: Danelle and Brodie interview the Minister for Innovation and the Digital Economy, Hon Stephen Dawson MLC.Growing up in Ireland, the eldest of four children, he moved to Australia in his teens with his family, and became involved in student politics. His father had been active in the union movement. Sta…

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89. Founders' Panel (Live) - Pets, Property and AI 29:52

2y ago29:52

29:52

For the final episode of the 4th season of Startup West and 2022: a founders' panel recorded in front of a live audience in Fremantle as part of this year's Freo Startup Fest.Charlie Gunningham chats with Dan Nembhard (Wolfit Box founder), Holly Bridgwater, (Humyn.ai founder) and Kevin Mitchem (Co-Architecture co-founder).The session was titled ‘Pe…

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88. Stephen Cornish - Pentanet 43:17

2y ago43:17

43:17

Danelle and Chris talk with Stephen Cornish, founder and managing director of Pentanet, a Perth-based internet provider providing super-fast speeds for homes and businesses.A keen gamer, Stephen set up his first tower for himself so he could enjoy faster internet to play League of Legends. Years later, the company now owns the largest private fixed…

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87. John Barrington - Artrya 33:45

2y ago33:45

33:45

Chris Tan makes his debut on Startup West as co-host, with Danelle, and they talk with John Barrington AM, co-founder and managing director of Artrya, an ASX-listed (‘AYA’) AI-driven healthcare tech company that is looking to tackle the global problem of heart disease.Every 13 minutes, an Australian dies of a heart attack. 9 million die every year …

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86. Tim Hyde - SWAN Systems 18:51

2y ago18:51

18:51

Danelle and Steve talk with Tim Hyde, co-founder and CEO of SWAN (‘scheduling water and nutrients’) Systems, a cloud-based platform that allows irrigators to make the most out of every drop of water and fertiliser.Former Carnarvon table grape and banana farmer Tim got together with co-founders Ivor Gaylard and Rod Campbell seven years ago to create…

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85. Erin Clark - Dark Stry 26:22

2y ago26:22

26:22

Brodie and Steve talk with Erin Clark, co-founder of Dark Stry (which is short for ‘Dark Story’), an app that features various immersive walking tours of Perth, including one recognising early female entrepreneurs.Originally from country Victoria, the former journalist moved to Western Australia 10 years ago with her husband, on what was supposed t…

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84. Kylie Dillon - Realtime Conveyancer 28:02

2y ago28:02

28:02

Brodie and Steve talk with Kylie Dillon, co-founder and CEO of Realtime Conveyancer, a three-year-old proptech startup that is streamlining the real estate legal purchase process “from contract to keys”.With 19 years’ experience in conveyancing, she felt that the whole industry needed saving with technology, and sought out to develop it herself. As…

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83. Eliza Carbines – Tender Relief 23:40

2y ago23:40

23:40

Danelle and Steve talk with Eliza Carbines, Founding Director of Tender Relief, who has built a tech platform to help businesses apply for tenders. Eliza has tackled a problem she saw across her client base, the tricky world of project tendering. Hear how she built Tender Relief from Karratha (in far north Western Australia), the challenges overcom…

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82. Zach Nielsen – Ascend Health 26:25

2y ago26:25

26:25

Danelle and Steve talk with Zach Nielsen, co-founder and CEO of Ascend Health Group, which includes Ascend Health services, software company Bruno Health, and hardware operation Obdo.Established in 2017, the group provides care services in the national disability and health sectors. A physiotherapist by training, Zach and his team operate in Wester…

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81. Matt Hart - Soter Analytics 35:33

2y ago35:33

35:33

Steve and Brodie talk with Matt Hart, co-founder of Perth-founded smart wearables tech company Soter Analytics, who is passionate about reducing injuries at work.Scaling the business to more than 50 staff over the past five years, the company is now headquartered in London, with a development team in Estonia and an office in Perth. Their most recen…

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80. Julie Adams - Chemo at Home 24:26

2+ y ago24:26

24:26

Steve and Brodie talk with Julie Adams, co-founder of Chemo@Home, who with her business partner Lorna Cook has scaled up the home-based infusion service to more than 100 staff over the past 9 years.Both Julie and Lorna mortgaged their houses to fund the business, which quadrupled in size during Covid. 1,400 doctors across the country use the servic…

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79. Dr Paola Magni - CSI VR 29:52

2+ y ago29:52

29:52

Danelle and Brodie talk with Dr Paola Magni, forensic scientist and senior lecturer at Murdoch University. Originally from Turin, Italy, a centre of criminology, award-winning researcher Dr Magni has pioneered crime scene investigations (CSI) using virtual reality (VR), with her CSI VR project in Western Australia.“So we decided to sit down and sto…

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78. Jon Gregory - Vitruvian 31:37

2+ y ago31:37

31:37

Danelle and Brodie talk with Jon Gregory, founder and CEO of Vitruvian, a global personal fitness device and platform operating from its head offices in West Perth.A decade ago, the former investment trader realised that while the algorithms he was using were very fast and efficient, weight-training seemed to be about “pushing weights”. In 2019, he…

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77. Nicole Gazey & Rebecca Loftus - IDEA 30:47

2+ y ago30:47

30:47

Brodie and Steve talk with Nicole Gazey and Rebecca Loftus, co-founders of IDEA (Innovation Design Entrepreneurship Academy), a brand new ‘alternative school’ for young innovators, entrepreneurs and creatives.Having graduated from last year’s Plus Eight tech accelerator program, IDEA raised some funds from BetterLabs Ventures and launched the acade…

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76. Peter Klinken – Chief Scientist 41:23

2+ y ago41:23

41:23

Brodie and Steve talk with Professor Peter Klinken AC, the Chief Scientist of Western Australia, about his role as a government advisor and cheerleader for researchers, innovators and startups. He’s been in the role for 8 years, and has just signed up for another three years. He talks about the startup sector, which had been almost ignored when he …

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75. David Pettit - PictureWealth 32:38

2+ y ago32:38

32:38

Brodie and Steve talk with David Pettit, cofounder and Group CEO of PictureWealth, a fast-growing fintech company that has successfully digitised financial services, which it sells to its tens of thousands of clients.Originally from Queenstown in New Zealand, David landed in Perth, worked in financial services and saw a gap in the market to set up …

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74. Angie Keeler - Zella DC 26:38

2+ y ago26:38

26:38

Steve and Brodie talk with Angie Keeler, cofounder and CEO of Zella DC, a next-generation data centre provider disrupting traditional server rooms.Originally from South Africa, together with husband Clint, Angie and her team have developed a mobile data centre - about the size of a fridge - that can be placed in harsh environments such as remote mi…

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73. Mihailo Bozic - Envited 24:19

2+ y ago24:19

24:19

Danelle and Steve talk with Mihailo Bozic, founder of Envited, an events platform that does not need Facebook, and works across all social media platforms. Only 2% of teens use Facebook, so this cohort needs another means to set up and share events.He started working on the concept last year while still at university, recently raised a $350,000 pre…

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72. James Flanagan - HoverIT 26:32

2+ y ago26:32

26:32

Danelle and Steve talk with James Flanagan, co-founder of newly launched HoverIT (‘Hover It’) which is looking to provide a single platform for small businesses to reach and sell to their customers directly. Originally from the west of Ireland, the former oil and gas worker and commercial diver launched the service in Fremantle earlier this year wi…

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71. Annie Brox - Origo Farm 31:11

2+ y ago31:11

31:11

Danelle and Brodie talk with Annie Brox, the founder of Origo Farm, an agtech business that recently won both a Boosting Female Founding grant (one of only 3 in WA) as well as an Accelerating Commercialisation grant in 2019, for her farm-based IoT platform and devices business.From growing up in a farming family in Norway, to working in telecoms, s…

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70. Louise Matson - Louise M Shoes 24:51

2+ y ago24:51

24:51

Startup West is back for series 4 and 2022, with two of our new co-hosts Danelle Cross and Brodie McCulloch. In this episode, they talk with Louise Matson, founder of Louise M - a corporate shoe brand for women. Working in the aviation industry for more than twenty years, Louise always felt there should be a better, more comfortable yet stylish sho…

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Founders' Panel (Live) - the launch, the raise and the exit 27:07

3y ago27:07

27:07

For the final episode of the 3rd season of Startup West and 2021: a founders' panel recorded in front of a live audience at Little Creatures in Fremantle as part of this year's Freo Startup Fest.Charlie Gunningham (Startup News) chats with Julian Ilich (founder and CEO of Tiller Rides), Mel Bainbridge, (co-founder of The Pack Australia) and Glen Mc…

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68. Katie Liew - The Underground Collaborative 32:45

3y ago32:45

32:45

Danelle is back, and together with Charlie, we hear from Katie Liew, founder of The Underground Collaborative, a not-for-profit organisation providing employment and housing solutions to break the cycles of homelessness.Loving English at school, but choosing Science and Maths subjects, Katie started out as an accountant for ten years working for va…

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67. Doug Fitch - Agworld 37:01

3y ago37:01

37:01

Charlie talks with the co-founder and CEO of Agworld, Doug Fitch. The 11-year old agtech business was sold to Vancouver-headquartered Semios earlier this year for more than A$100 million.With his two co-founders, Doug pioneered data-driven farm management, working with agronomists and growing the business to more than 16,000 farms in Australia, New…

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66. Louise & Rob Daw - MiPlan 33:54

3y ago33:54

33:54

Charlie talks with the co-founders of mining tech startup MiPlan, Louise and Rob Daw. The couple met in a former software business, and decided to set out on their own to solve a problem they saw in the resources industry.Seven years in, they had built it up to a scale that they were acquired by major mining software conglomerate Hexagon Mining, wh…

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65. Michael Malone - iiNet + Company Director 40:04

3y ago40:04

40:04

Charlie talks with the co-founder and former CEO of iiNet, Michael Malone. A maths graduate with an early interest in the emerging internet, Michael calculated he needed to sign up 200 clients at $25 a month to allow himself access to the Net in 1993. Working out of his parent's garage in Padbury, he built up one of the largest ISPs in the country …

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64. Cullum Ashton - BuilderzWA + Proptech Hub 35:21

3y ago35:21

35:21

Danelle and Charlie talk with Cullum (Ash) Ashton, founder of BuilderzWA, and also Proptech Hub, the first and only home for WA proptechs in Perth.Ash has had a variety of jobs, from running pizza shops to organising town competitions, a stint in the army and then into selling new homes. He's the embodiment of the entrepreneur, always hustling, alw…

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63. Elizabeth Knight - Purposeful 33:22

3y ago33:22

33:22

Charlie and Danelle talk with Elizabeth Knight, founder of edtech startup Purposeful.A top student at school, Elizabeth had no idea what she wanted to do as a career, or how to start thinking about it. She realised many people of school age had similar problems, so started Purposeful - straight out of uni - to encourage young people to 'find their …

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