The Unicorns Podcast

In this episode, Justin speaks with Liz Boylan, CEO of Hadean Energy, and Henry Hamilton from RFC Ambrian, which co-founded the Melbourne-based clean technology company with CSIRO. Australia's hydrogen industry has had a reality check. Once touted as the next big export opportunity, many ambitious projects have struggled to get off the ground as high electricity costs and challenging economics dam...

Every year, more than a billion tonnes of food is thrown away around the world. Fresh fruit and vegetables spoil before they reach supermarket shelves, food goes off in our fridges and enormous amounts of perfectly good produce are lost during storage and transport. Singapore-based deep-tech company N&E Innovations believes it has developed a solution, using discarded cashew nut husks to create a...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Andrew Wilson, CEO of Senetas (ASX), an Australian cybersecurity company protecting some of the world’s most sensitive information with high-speed network encryption. Senetas has been turning its international sales pipeline into results, reporting FY26 revenue of $20.2 million and securing its first South American sales. A deal worth approximately $2.5 million...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Mandy Andress, Chief Information Security Officer at global technology company Elastic, about how artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, both for cybercriminals and the businesses trying to stop them. AI is giving attackers powerful new tools to launch faster, more sophisticated cyberattacks, while security teams are struggling to keep pace with...

In this episode, Justin speaks with former NSW Premier Nick Greiner AC and veteran global investment executive Kirk West about Australia's attitude towards risk, the challenges facing businesses seeking capital and whether the country has become too conservative for its own good. Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with trillions of dollars in superannuation, a strong bankin...

In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, we sit down with Andy Ting from BDX Markets to explore one of the biggest challenges facing the rapidly growing online trading industry: trust. As millions of traders across Asia and beyond use platforms such as MT4 and MT5 to access global markets, BDX is betting that blockchain technology can bring a new level of transparency and visibility...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Anna Falkiner and Andrew Hannon, the husband-and-wife founders of Adelaide agtech company Cropify, which is using artificial intelligence to transform the way grain is graded. For generations, trained grain graders have visually inspected samples for defects, contamination and quality. Those assessments help determine what grain is worth, but differences in huma...

In this episode, host Justin Kelly welcomes back Jonathon Miller, Kraken’s Managing Director for Australia and Rest of World, to explore how digital assets are moving beyond a standalone investment category and into the infrastructure underpinning modern finance. Jonathon discusses the growing convergence between crypto and traditional finance, including how tokenisation could make markets faster,...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Nick Northcott, co-founder and CEO of Eudaemon Technologies, the Australian medtech company that has spent more than a decade trying to reinvent one of the world's most familiar products: the condom. The problem Eudaemon is trying to solve is remarkably simple. Condoms work, but a lot of people don't like using them. Eudaemon believes that if it can make a condo...

In this episode, Justin speaks with David Keane, founder and CEO of SCX.ai, as the Australian AI infrastructure company makes its debut on the ASX. Trading under the ticker SCX, the company is Australia’s first ASX-listed pure-play sovereign AI inference infrastructure company, providing the computing power that allows businesses and governments to run AI applications while keeping their data in A...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Jane Grant, Chief of B2Bpay, the Australian payments platform helping businesses get more value from the bills they already have to pay. The idea is simple. B2Bpay allows businesses to pay suppliers by credit card, even when those suppliers don't accept cards, while earning reward points through programs including Qantas Frequent Flyer, Velocity Frequent Flyer a...

In this episode, Justin speaks with John Crutchley, founder of MIST, the Australian fintech helping strengthen financial confidence across Australia's $50 billion international education sector. Before an international student receives a visa, they must demonstrate they have sufficient funds to study and live in Australia. But what happens after they arrive? Learn more about your ad choices. Visit...

In this episode, Justin talks with Managing Director of Geopacific Resources Hamish Bohannan. Geopacific Resources (ASX:GPR) has released an updated definitive feasibility study (DFS) for its wholly owned Woodlark gold project that’s attracted analyst attention for all the right reasons. Woodlark is one of Papua New Guinea's largest undeveloped gold deposits and the DFS outlines adefined developme...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Adam Theobald, founder and CEO of Ordermentum, the technology platform helping transform Australia's $70 billion hospitality wholesale sector by connecting suppliers and venues through a single digital network. What began as a solution to simplify ordering has evolved into something much larger. Today, Ordermentum sits at the centre of billions of dollars in tra...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Resouro Strategic Metals (ASX:RAU) CEO Christopher Eager to unpack the company’s recently released Preliminary Economic Assessment, or PEA, on its flagship Tiros project in Brazil. Eager explains how the study demonstrates compelling economics that confirms Tiros as a globally significant rare earths and titanium project at a time of escalating demand for those...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Dr Bronwyn Darlington, founder and CEO of Agscent, an Australian deep-tech company using AI, nano-sensors and NASA-derived technology to analyse breath, smell and biological signals in real time. What began as an effort to solve a practical livestock productivity challenge has evolved into a much bigger ambition: teaching machines how to smell. The conversation...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Jonathan Levin, Portfolio Director at Global AgInvesting (GAI), the world’s largest agriculture investment conference, which is coming to Brisbane for the first time in June. The conversation explores a major shift underway in global investing, with institutional investors increasingly turning toward agriculture, water and natural assets as they search for long-...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Mark Peart, founder and CEO of DIT AgTech, a Queensland-based company that uses automation, data, and water infrastructure to rethink how livestock are fed across large grazing operations. DIT AgTech has developed a system that delivers supplements through existing water infrastructure, allowing cattle to receive nutrients every time they drink rather than relyi...

In this episode, Justin speaks with Kym Cooper and Tania Stacey, founders of East Forged, a Brisbane-based beverage company that has just beaten Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to win Best Drink Innovation at a major global awards program in London. East Forged is building something that doesn’t fit neatly into an existing category, a cold-brew, nitrogen-infused tea designed to deliver a more textured, full...

In this episode, Justin speaks with De’Angelo Harris, partner at Think and Grow, and Arjun Paliwal, founder of InvestorKit, bringing together two high-performance and experienced operators focused on business growth and wealth creation. De’Angelo works closely with founders and executive teams at some of the fastest-growing companies in the market, helping them scale, hire, and build high-performi...

In this episode, Justin interviews Aaron Milne, a winemaker who is General Manager of Low & No Beverages. Aaron has carved out a global reputation in one of the fastest-growing and most misunderstood categories in the beverage industry: no- and low-alcohol wine. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

In this episode, Justin interviews Andrew Sjoquist, founder and CEO of WinDC, a company rethinking how and where AI infrastructure is built. Andrew is building a model that flips the traditional data centre approach on its head, deploying modular, high-performance computing infrastructure directly at renewable energy sites. The idea is simple but powerful: move computing to where energy is generat...

In this episode, Justin interviews Jonathon Miller, Kraken’s Managing Director for Australia and Rest of World. Jonathon has more than two decades of experience across financial markets, technology, and digital assets. Before joining Kraken, he held senior leadership roles at crypto platforms and has worked extensively at the intersection of market infrastructure, regulatory reform, and institutio...

In this episode, Justin talks with Mark Wang and Sean Garman from Colter Bay Capital about the rapid rise of private credit and why Australia is now approaching a major turning point. While private credit already represents around 7% of total lending in the United States, the sector remains significantly underdeveloped across Australia and the broader Asia Pacific region at just 0.2%, pointing to...

In this episode, Justin talks with Latrobe Magnesium’s CEO David Paterson about the company’s progress since it made international headlines last year. Latrobe Magnesium’s (ASX:LMG) was one of only seven ASX listed stocks named in the $8.5 billion US-Australia critical minerals deal announced last October between US President Donald Trump and Australian PM Anthony Albanese. Learn more about your a...