The Proptech Podcast with Kylie Davis

My guest in this episode is Derek Feebrey, the CEO and cofounder of Trendspek, an asset intelligence software for the commercial property sector. Derek and his co-founders Fiona Church and Mitchell Deam, are all former commercial airline pilots - previously with Qantas - who fell into proptech by establishing one of Australia’s first businesses to own and operate drones, back in the day when you a...

My guest in this episode is Chris Polin, founder of the very new Australian construction tech startup, DLP Manager. DLP stands for Defect Liability Period and it refers to the legal period that builders must repair any defects on a new build which can be anywhere up to around 10 years. Chris himself has 16 years experience in the building industry including time at Lendlease and the NSW Government...

We've got a really special episode for you today. Some of the most popular episodes of the Proptech Podcast this year have been interviews with Simon Baker, founder of The Proptech Group and one of the founding fathers of Australian proptech, and in a later episode Joe Hanna, CEO on running an ASX listed scaling Proptech. Completely separately, David Bowie, CEO of MRI Software also notched up a pl...

My guest in this episode is the irrepressible Brad Filliponi, co founder of Boxbrownie.com, one of Australia’s most globally successful proptechs with a website active in four languages, and operations in more than 112 countries around the world. Started by professional real estate photographer Brad and his friend, technical genius Mel Myers, BoxBrownie.com is a 24/7 photo editing company providin...

My guest in this episode is Bart Crowther, regional lead at PlanRadar an Austrian proptech that specialises in digitising workflow and communication sharing in the construction industry. Bart has an impressive 25 year history and track record in the tech and workflow industries holding roles at businesses including Intelledox, Transformed, Commnia and Aconex. He joined PlanRadar in March 2022 as p...

We have a VERY timely topic up for discussion this week. My guest in this episode is Martin Boyd, Director of Cyber Security at Vertex Cyber Security. Vertex Cyber Security specialises in end-to-end Cyber Security including cyber training, penetration testing, cyber audits, log monitoring and consultation. Prior to joining Vertex, Martin was a Cyber Security Lecturer at the Macquarie University Cy...

My guest in this episode is the charming and inspirational Pablo Gil Brusola, CEO and cofounder of Prophero. Pablo is an entrepreneur with a track record for making things happen. His last startup, GrowPro was an educational travel concept that grew from 0-12M$ and more than 200 Team Members across 15 countries as a fully bootstrapped entity across nine years and prior to that he was an operations...

My guest in this episode is Paul Stonham, the general manager of DLT Solutions at the ASX or Australian Stock Exchange. DLT stands for Distributed Ledger Technology which is effectively blockchain technology. The ASX have been working hard for years to develop the technology to replace the CHESS system that manages shareholder information. And as part of their work in this area, they have created...

My guest in this episode is Michael Bromley, the CEO of fintech and proptech accelerator Stone & Chalk. Michael took on the CEO role of Stone & Chalk back in October last year after nine months at AustCyber before the merger and he has an extensive and impressive background as a senior executive and board advisor in the digital transformation space having held roles at RightPoint, Bank of...

Housing affordability and home ownership is one of the hottest topics going right now and my guest in this episode is Tim Harley, co-founder and CEO of OwnHome.com which is helping renters get into the market eight times faster thanks to their innovative rent-to-buy model. Tim has a background in finance and fintech, having worked with overseas payment and currency exchange software, Wise, time in...

The Proptech Panel: DesignTech - future-proofing for surveyors and architects Architectural design technology is a fantastic use case for proptech because it allows the humans to spend more time on relationships as well as the creative and aesthetic aspects of place-making.  And they have some of the coolest tech!   In this month’s The Proptech Panel, we’re talking geo-mapping, LiDAR dat...

Have you ever renovated a property? How did that go for you? If it was anything like some of the experiences I’ve had in the past, it involved a LOT of stress, running around trying to coordinate tradies, interpreting all sorts of unexpected things in contracts, multiple incidents of frayed tempers with your partner, an occasional divorce threat and an end result that was, yeah, okay I guess. As w...

My guest in this episode is Simon Myers, the head of sales at global property visualisation proptech, Diakrit. Swedish-born, Diakrit globally has been a leader in property photography for 20 years, operating in 10 global markets, across more than 2000 real estate brands. Just last year, they marketed more than 200,000 homes with their solutions. Diakrit came to Australia in 2016, originally on the...

My guest in this episode is Greg Story, founder and CEO of sustainability proptech My Greener Planet. Greg has 35 years experience in the energy sector, most recently running solar and wind farms and prior to that specialised in energy infrastructure mergers, acquisitions and financing running infrastructure projects of $5b plus. My Greener Planet is a digital platform that allows businesses and c...

My guest in this episode is Prabhu Ramachandran, the CEO and founder of Facilio, a New York based proptech that started operating in Australia during the pandemic after repeated client requests. Facilio is an all-in-one app suite for commercial property that provides a whole of portfolio approach and allows facilities teams to achieve efficiency between teams, transparency in operations and predic...

My guest in this episode is Tom Wallace, the founder and CEO of Re-Leased Property Software. Founded in 2012 and based out of New Zealand, Re-Leased helps thousands of owners and property managers across the world run their commercial property business in the cloud. An aspiring entrepreneur, Tom set up ReLeased straight out of university after seeing first hand the challenges that his father’s rea...

My guests on this episode of the ProptechPodcast are Ben Swan, CEO and Gundeep Sidhu, founder of NowYouCan - which was the winner of the Most Innovative Property & Facilities Management Startup in the recent Proptech Awards held by the Proptech Association Australia. Before establishing NowYouCan, Gundeep was the founder and CEO of AdviserLogic, a fully-integrated, web-based application for fi...

My guest in this episode is John Foong, the new chief revenue officer at Domain, and an executive with a very impressive tech background of his own. John’s career began as a consultant at McKinsey where he undertook his MBA at Stanford and worked across the US, Europe, Australia and even Africa. He joined Google in its early days and across 12 years held multiple roles, being ultimately responsibl...

The Proptech Panel: Proptechs that de-stress selling, settling and moving Selling and moving home is a big project - in fact it can be one of life's most stressful events!   Thankfully proptech is the full package helping you to fund repairs and renovations so you can get the best price, digitally smooth the conveyancing process to settle smoothly and on time, and sort out the big move to you...

How data is changing residential property investment? When you are investing in property, it’s vitally important to make a smart decision, and in this day and age, that means making an informed decision with the benefit of data.    Did you know there are over 1 trillion data points covering more than 12 million residential properties in Australia?    These data points cover eve...

How Proptech Can Partner With Fintech? Property and finance are closely connected in more ways than one.    The Proptech Panel this month will focus on the intersections of property with open banking, financial data sharing and payments.    Join us to learn how proptech can partner with fintech to assist with multiple touchpoints involved in owning, renting and managing a prope...

Residential property is a $9 trillion asset class - it's Australia's favourite and most valuable way of building wealth. But owning a home is a lot of work - especially if you want to make improvements, renovate or sell. A new era of proptechs - technology businesses that specialise in property - are making life significantly easier for homeowners who want to build or upgrade.  If you are pas...

My guests in this episode are the CEO and founder of Inspect Real Estate, Andrew Reece and Kiera Cross the franchise group coordinator. Inspect Real Estate is an Australia-based global property management software company that specialises in tech solutions for the real estate industry. From booking inspections, managing applications, tracking keys and many other time-saving products designed to st...

My guest in this episode is an inspirational female proptech entrepreneur, Ludwina Dautovic, CEO and founder of RoomXchange. RoomXchange is Australia’s first verified house sharing platform - designed to match house mates according to not just location and rent but based on personality, values and lifestyle, so you feel like you’re coming home to a friend. The Rent Offset option provides the choic...

The recent weather events have highlighted the importance of building roofs.  Roofs are often forgotten because they are hard to maintain and potentially dangerous to access but water damage can cost a business operation time and money and impact on the health and safety of workers.  However proptech is solving some of these roofing issues such as safely and rapidly identifying problems...