The Proptech Podcast with Kylie Davis

My guest in this episode is serial tech entrepreneur Mike Bird, CEO of Urban, Australia's largest online marketplace dedicated to brand new property. Since July 2018, Urban has grown from 360k annual users to 3M, with home buyers collectively viewing a new property development every 10 seconds in 2020. On the industry side, more than 2700 off the plan developments are being marketed and managed vi...

My guest this week is a proptech that recently received huge coverage in the Australian Financial Review for receiving $8m in its Series A funding from investors EVP & Regal which has allowed it to add another 40 people to its team in just a few weeks. CanIBuild is an exciting proptech that pulls in huge datasets including local and state government legislation, home ownership, mapping and top...

My guest this week is Joe Hanna, CEO of the Proptech Group. Joe started his career as a software developer before working at Fairfax in the days when classifieds and their rivers of gold were still a thing. He successfully made the transition across to the digital business and over the past decade or so has been working with Simon Baker on proptech startups and growing them into serious players, m...

My guests in this episode is Steve Carulli, founder and non executive director of Cirrus8, new locally grown property management software for commercial real estate that is cloud-based, AI rich and highly flexible. Steven has a 30 year plus history in commercial property ownership, management and real estate including four years as managing director and licensee at Jones Lang LeSalle for Western A...

My guest this week is an exciting new proptech that is taking a completely different approach to technology that has been around for quite a while. It’s Josh Callaghan is CEO of Little Hinges, which uses Virtual Tour technology as a gateway to a deeper and richer digital marketing experience. How intriguing is that idea? Josh has more than 20 years of experience across financial services, fintech...

Proptech Panel: Renting reimagined - How Technology is Transforming the Tenant Experience

My guest this week is Amber Keogh, the national manager and face of an exciting new proptech in the off-the-plan space called Release. Me that makes releasing new developments and land sales fair and equitable. Amber has an impressive career in business development and transformational projects in the proptech, building and asset space including consulting to major property businesses. In thi...

The Proptech Panel - Buying a Home - How is proptech making it easier to buy a home

My guest this week is one of my most favourite people on the planet and a woman I am proud to call a dear friend - the amazing Kylie Dillon from Real Time Conveyancer. Real Time Conveyancer is a new startup that delivers an end to end transaction and customer management system for Conveyancers. Kylie has extensive experience in this field, with more than 19 years running her own conveyancing group...

My guest this week is the founder of a powerful agency proptech - Shaun Moriarty, co-founder and CEO of Campaign Agent. Shaun had more than 15 years experience in financial services, strategic risk management for new markets and technology, before a conversation on a ski-lift with an old friend who worked in real estate led to the formulation of CampaignAgent - a proptech that provides payment sol...

My guests this week are Matt McGown and Natasha Anich from Console Cloud - a 30-year-old “startup” that after years of providing server-based software to property management and trust accounting, has reinvented itself to cloud-based software that is reimagining the role of property managers to include automation, asset management and profitability analysis of property portfolios. Matt is the chief...

My guest this week is one of the founding fathers of Australian proptech - Simon Baker, chairman of the Proptech Group. Simon was brought in by News Corp 20 years ago, back in the day when Realestate.com.au was just two weeks away from bankruptcy. His analysis of the opportunity for News, led them to inject $2m in cash into REA, plus provide an additional $8m in marketing support and he took up th...

Proptech Pathways: Straight from an Investor Investment Options for Proptechs

My guest this week got the idea for his proptech after losing entire Saturdays driving around new housing estates in Melbourne, visiting multiple developers and trying to find a block of land to purchase, only to discover that nearly everything he looked at had been sold.  Qi Chen is a software engineer and computer developer who has experience in both real estate and marketing platforms, hav...

My guest this week is David Holman, CEO of Direct Connect. David has had a long career in the energy industry. Before taking the role of CEO of Direct Connect in 2016, he was head of business development at Red Energy for 11 years, and has always specialised in keeping large scale businesses innovative and aligned with future trends, while never losing sight of the importance of great relationship...

Have you ever gotten lost inside a large building like a hospital or shopping complex? It can happen to any of us, and we know how frustrating and sometimes overwhelming the experience can be. But imagine if you experience a vision impairment and have to deal with those feelings everywhere every day. How do you even work out where you are if you can’t find the signage to read the Braille? The majo...

My guest this week is David Bowie. No, obviously not that David Bowie, although, of course, he gets that response all the time. But David Bowie, the senior vice president and managing director of MRI Software Asia Pacific. David has a 25 year history in the technology space, working for companies including PWC, IBM, Dimension Data and SaaS. And if you're not sure who MRI Software is, well, they ar...

My guest this week is the founder of an intriguing new property investor proptech - Godfrey Dinh from FutureRent. Godfrey has a 12 year history in banking, financial services and property investment having spent nearly four years as a vice president of commercial property at Deutsche Bank and a director of Sanctuary Partners. FutureRent is a proptech that forwards you a full year of rent from your...

AUDIO NOW FIXED***** My guest this week is a legend of Australian and New Zealand real estate - the wonderful Chris Hanley, the principal of First National Byron and a renowned leader whose views on leadership, and building businesses that are sustainable, ethical, equitable and community-focused are highly sought after across the industry. Chris holds a Medal of the Order of Australia for his ser...

My guest in this episode is Andrew Duncan, the founder and CEO of Sorted Services, an app that I personally love because it's an app that makes life simple by centralising all the annoying, difficult, and time-consuming things that you have to deal with as a homeowner, including the payment of utilities, insurance, and even maintenance all in one space. Now, Andrew Duncan has more than 21 years ex...

My guest in this episode is one of the winners of the Proptech of the Year Awards, Marco Salinas, CEO and Founder of Hubble, which won the most innovative startup for the design and development category. Now Hubble is a wonderful piece of technology that shows how individual materials affect home living experiences. In every build or renovation project there's a raft of decisions to be made about...

My guest in this episode is one of our winners of the Proptech of the year awards, Tom Young, CEO and founder of uDrew, which won the most innovative scale-up for the design and development category of the awards. uDrew is a world's fast-building technology platform that makes designing, planning and building your own projects faster and more affordable. And Tom has a 20-year-plus career as a stru...

My guest this week is Lisa Dowie, chief customer officer at PEXA, and one of the drivers behind PX Ventures. Lisa has been at PEXA since 2012, and it's fair to say that she's part of the team at PEXA that has been transforming the way property is transacted in Australia and around the globe. PEXA is an online exchange that keeps everyone in the picture as a property settlement progresses. And for...

My guest to kick off season two is Thomas Walkley, Co-founder and CEO of Erin Living. Thomas has an impressive background in the property industry having worked as an account manager at WIT Group for eight years, and as a property consultant for five specialising in large scale residential developments. He's taken his experiences from that time and has founded Erin Living to pioneer the future of...

This was the first Proptech Mastery session was held just last week to examine the issue of data security in real estate and how so much of what we share over email is extremely risky business. It was a cracking session hosted by yours truly with guests Sashini Walpola from Ashurst, Dr Jed Horner from AustCyber, Shane Goodwin from Inspect Real Estate and Owen Mooney from Box and Dice.