Startup West

Kali and Charlie talk with Dr Vanessa Rauland, founder and CEO of ClimateClever, and cofounder and CTO Alexander Karan. Their tech allows schools, homes and soon businesses to calculate and manage their carbon footprint. Things are taking off, especially since featuring on ABC TV's 'Fight for Planet A' recently. Listen through to the end, as there's a bonus chat after the closing credits about a f...

Kali and Charlie talk with Lucy Cooke, founder and CEO of visual logistics software platform SpaceDraft, recent Startup of the Year winner at the 2020 WA Incite Awards. Hear Lucy's incredible story: from child actor to Hollywood studio film sets and back to Perth, to launch a new way of assisting creatives explain their projects, collaborate with others showing them in space and time. “ 'You’re a...

Danelle and Charlie talk with Olivia Humphrey, founder of on-demand streaming video platform for public libraries and universities Kanopy. One of the most successful tech startups to come out of Perth, Olivia set up the business in 2006, moving to the States in 2013. The business was recently acquired by a US-based private equity firm. She is now back in Perth with her family, having exited her CE...

Danelle and Charlie talk with Jeremy Hurst and Daniel McCullen, co-Founders of the space sharing site SpacetoCo. From an idea in a pub to Shark Tank TV show to councils and communities Australia wide, we hear about the challenges and successes of commercialising a sharing economy business, and how they've dealt with the COVID pandemic. “You can find spaces that are around you that might actually h...

Recorded remotely, Kali and Charlie talk with Ben Cole, co-Founder and managing director of ASX-listed agtech business Wide Open Agriculture. Based in Williams, about 160 kms south west of Perth, Wide Open Agriculture (ASX:WOA) has developed a regenerative food and ag platform for farmers to reach consumers directly via their 'Dirty Clean Food' brand. “We are hosting a dance between conscious cons...

Recorded down at Riff studios, Danelle and Charlie talk with Dr Josephine Muir, co-Founder and CEO of medtech business Noisy Guts. Noisy Guts are developing an acoustic belt that non-invasively and accurately diagnoses and monitors common gut disorders. From an idea Nobel Laureate Prof Barry Marshall jotted down on a serviette at an Innovator of the Year function, the team is about to enter clinic...

Back in Riff studios, we talk with the co-Founder and Director of blockchain agtech business Latitude28 James Williamson. Established in 2017, James, his brother Rhys and team are working to advance the uptake, trust in and high regard for authentic, quality Australian produce to consumers in China. They even have their own TV Studio set up in their offices to make promotional videos on Aussie bee...

A cross over episode from TechSociety.fm, with the people behind Startup News: Patrick Green, Marcus Holmes and Charlie Gunningham. Started at the end of 2013, just as the first co-working spaces, tech accelerators and funding groups were appearing, Startup News showcases the exciting early stage tech sector in Perth and around Western Australia. Founder Patrick Green, Marcus Holmes (who’s now bas...

We talk with the inspirational Claire Orange from DiGii Social. Finalist in Incite Awards 2020 Startup of the Year, and double winner of its virtual Pitchfest, the former speech pathologist and counsellor is passionate about helping children navigate their digital lives, reducing incidents of body shaming, cyber bullying and youth suicides. For more: https://digiisocial.com/ Twitter: @DiGiiSocial...

We talk with Razali Mohamad and Ryan Mickler, co-founders of Alerte Digital Health. Winner of Incite Awards 2019 Startup of the Year, Alerte uses artificial intelligence to solve healthcare problems for medical professionals. For more: https://www.alertedh.com/ Twitter: @AlerteDH Startup West is produced by Startup News and is made possible thanks to generous support from the New Industries Fund,...

Kali Norman talks with Jesse Emia, founder and CEO of KeepSpace. The former sports manager tells us about the idea for his 3PL (third party logistics) business, a few earlier failed businesses and pivots, and the huge ecommerce race going on right now in Australia and around the world. For more: www.keepspace.com.au/ Startup West is produced by Startup News and is made possible thanks to generous...

Danelle Cross and Natalie Milne talk with Brian Innes, founder and CEO of Plico Energy. The avowed purpose of the business is to 'make energy green again', or MEGA (!), by allowing households to take control of own solar power use, protect themselves from blackouts as well as having access to a 'virtual power plant' (VPP). For more: https://www.plicoenergy.com.au/ Startup West is produced by Start...

Welcome to 2020 and the Series Two of Startup West! Hear from two of our new co-hosts, Danelle Cross and Natalie Milne, as they talk with Lacey Filipich, founder of Maker Kids Club and author of the soon to be published 'Money School'. How did a former engineer come to build a business teaching school kids about money, and then write a book? Loads of lessons here, notably in IP and finding good me...

In this 30th and final episode for Series One and 2019, we talk with recent winner of WA Innovator of the Year Andrew Guzzomi from UWA, and Chair of the Evaluation Panel Mark Pullen. Andrew and his research team have developed the Weed Chipper, his second win since winning for the Seed Flamer in 2016. Video of the Weed Chipper: https://youtu.be/-1nI6Gh9khI Videos of all winners of WA IOTY: https:/...

We talk with Nate Sturcke, founder of Skills of the Modern Age (SOMA). Nate's been extremely active in the West Australian startup scene for many years, working in Innovation for RAC WA, running Startup Weekends and F***Up Nights, being a Director of Founder Institute, mentoring on Plus Eight accelerator, writing for Business News... for this he was duly awarded Startup News' Startup Community Per...

We talk with Ruth Hatherley, founder and CEO of Moneycatcha, the fintech that has launched solutions to improve the home loan approvals (homechain) and regulations processes (regchain). After 22 years in banking, Ruth set up the company using blockchain as part of the tech solution. For more: https://mcatcha.com/ Interviewers: Charlie Gunningham & Beth Caniglia. ‘Startup West’ podcast is produced...

We speak with one of Perth’s most high profile startup investors, Derek Gerrard. He currently has nine or ten roles including Entrepreneur in Residence at both the RAC WA and Spacecubed's Plus Eight accelerator, as well as Manager of BetterLabs Ventures. He’s also been a successful startup entrepreneur himself with Greensense and was recently awarded 'Achiever of the Year' at WAITTA Incite Awards....

We talk with Rob Nathan, founder and MD of Australian Tenders, Upstart Tech Accelerator, Upstart Investments and serial angel investor (22 startups and counting). Recently recognised as WAITTA Entrepreneur of the Year, Rob talks about his engineering background, why he has been involved in startups over the past decade and what the sector needs now. For more: https://www.australiantenders.com.au I...

How former tennis pro Andrew Walker went from banking and engineering to setting up his own logistics tech Spatula, turning this into marketing tech before being bought out by Irish company WeBringg, now called VROMO. For more: https://www.vromo.io/ Interviewers: Charlie Gunningham & Beth Caniglia Startup West is recorded in beautiful downtown Perth, Western Australia at the Riff studios, and brou...

How Tyler Spooner and Brenda Lai went from 'Tinder for Restaurants' (Feedmee) to recipes to home delivery (Unocart) to customer insights (Uno Insights). For more: https://unocart.com and https://www.unocart.tech Interviewers: Charlie Gunningham & Beth Caniglia Startup West is recorded in beautiful downtown Perth, Western Australia at the Riff studios, and brought to you by Startup News, Wrays, BDO...

Live on stage at the launch of the WiTWA (Women in Technology WA) [+] 2019 Awards, we talk about the startup journey and the value of awards with Louise Daw, cofounder of mining tech company MiPlan - which is now part of Hexagon Mining - Dr Sofie De Meyer CEO of agtech startup MALDIID and Beth Caniglia, Global Marketing Manager at VROC AI.

We talk with Dr Genevieve Hohnen, co-founder of The Volte. The "AirBnb for Dresses" is a peer to peer service allowing people to borrow and lend high end fashion items, and has added a marketplace for fashion stories to rent and sell items as well. Gen talks about how the idea grew into a business, the juggling of family life (the 4 co-founders have 11 children between them and a 12th on the way)...

Live on stage from the recent Science on the Swan Conference, we talk with four WA-based scientists who have experience in commercialising their research: Brendan Kennedy of OncoRes Medical, Joost Lesterhuis of the Sarcoma Group, Donna Geddes of UWA and Steve Wilton of Murdoch University and the Perron Institute. What are the benefits of commercialising in Western Australia? What are some of the c...

We talk with Tom Young, CEO and founder of Udrew, who last year won the WA Innovator of the Year Award. Udrew looks to help anyone who has a building project – be it an extension, a fence or putting in a pool. Users can price the project, secure planning permission and make the whole thing faster, cheaper and far less stressful. What normally takes months happens in minutes. For more: https://www....

Based on an idea Chris and his wife My saw in their home country of Sweden, they set up Dinner Twist in Perth in 2012. Since then, they've built up this 'meal kit' delivery business from their kitchen table to 45 staff and $7M in revenue. How did they do it, and how do they differentiate themselves in an increasingly competitive market? Interviewers: Charlie Gunningham & Beth Caniglia. ‘Startup We...