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Podcast
There is a lot of activity in the Australian startup ecosystem. Ideas, talent, and money are all flowing into this sector at an unprecedented rate. This weekly podcast brings in-depth interviews with the best people making the biggest difference. It’s brought to you by Ian Gardiner and Phaedon Stough, technology entrepreneurs helping to grow the startup sector in Australia and New Zealand. Ian and Phaedon co-founded Innovation Bay with a clear mission to help technology entrepreneurs succeed.
E146 – Hon Ed Husic MP
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Our guest for episode 146 is Australian politician Hon Ed Husic MP. Elected to the House of Representatives as the Federal Member for Chifley in 2010, Ed is currently serving as Minister for Industry and Science.
E145 – ARENA Renewable Energy Founder Forum Expert Panel
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Across this educational and eye-opening conversation, we chat to renewables experts Renate Egan, Kate Vidgen and Kristin Vaughan cover a range of topics. Recorded at ARENA Renewable Energy Founder Forum.
E144 – Louise Nobes, Founder of 42 in Australia
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Louise Nobes is the founder of the Australian arm of 42 – a globally innovative software engineering and coding trade school.
E143 – Wayne Gerard, Co-Founder & CEO of RedEye, Queensland Chief Entrepreneur
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Wayne Gerard wears a number of hats. By day, he is the Co-Founder & CEO of RedEye and the current Queensland Chief Entrepreneur.
E142 – Katie Heathcote (Investment NSW) & Ryan Edwards-Pritchard (Cape)
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Joining us for E142 are Katie Heathcote, Associate Director Technology – Export Services for Investment NSW and Ryan Edwards-Pritchard, CEO and Founder of Fintech company Cape.
E141 – VC Panel ft: Karen Chan (Perennial), John Henderson (Airtree), Stew Glynn (TEN13)
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Just last month (June) Innovation Bay spent 3 days and 3 nights in Noosa, Queensland with over 100 of the country’s leading VCs for our VC community Aurora’s annual cornerstone event, Venture Downunder (VDU). After a learning day full to the brim with panels, discussions, keynotes and serendipitous conversations, we took the opportunity to sit down with three of the most illustrious and active VCs in the ecosystem right now to take a snapshot in time of the current state of affairs of our industry and to catch their thoughts, concerns and what they’re most excited about right now.
E140 – Dr Julio Ribeiro, Inventia Life Science
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Dr Julio Ribeiro is the Co-Founder and CEO of Inventia Life Science, a deeptech, biotechnology company. Inventia build instruments for the 3D printing of biomaterials (literal living human cells) to print 3D structures or models of tumors with an ultimate aim to accelerate the drug discovery process and speed up medical research.
E139 – Daniel Petre, StartUpGiving Founder, ex-Airtree Founder
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IT’S OUR BIRTHDAY! Today, Innovation Bay’s Open The Pod Bay Doors turns 5! To celebrate, we’ve taken it way back to our very first guest. Daniel Petre is the Godfather of the ecosystem and has arguably been around longer and had more success than anyone else in the sector. In 2014, Daniel founded Airtree alongside Craig Blair but a year ago, made the move out of VC and into the philanthropy space.
E137 – Anthony Zaccaria, Linktree
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Anthony Zaccaria is the Co-Founder of Linktree which is essentially a category creator for link in bio tools and a one-stop place to house entire online link ecosystems. In just 6 years, Linktree has gathered a massive global following with a user base of 24 million people – or the population of Australia (!!) – generating 1.2 billion Linktree visits per month. Earlier this year, Linktree reached unicorn status, with a $1.3 billion USD valuation following a $110 million USD raise.
E138 – Darren Miller, ARENA
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Darren Miller is the CEO of Australian Renewable Energy Agency (ARENA) – whose purpose it is to support the transition to net zero emissions by accelerating the pace of pre-commercial innovation.
E136 – Dale Brett – FL0
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Dale Brett is the Co-Founder & CEO at Fl0 – a low code platform for software engineers. Founded just a year ago (in 2021), Fl0 raised $11.5 million in its seed round with funding from the likes of Blackbird, Skip Capital and Jelix. Fl0’s vision is to empower software developers and engineers to be 20 times faster and more efficient.
E135 – Laura Bell – SafeStack Academy
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Laura is the CEO and Founder of SafeStack Academy, a community-centric online education platform on a mission to give software developers, analysts and architects all of the skills they need to build secure internet software.