Face of Tech

Today on the show we're joined by Michelle Aguilar.

Michelle is the CTO and Co-Founder of VAPAR, deploying simple and fast water asset management solutions. They are ones to watch! Smart Company included them in their coveted '10 startups to watch in 2021' list and Michelle was a finalist in the Women in AI Awards.

Michelle graduated from the University of Technology, Sydney with first class honours in Mechanical and Mechatronic Engineering; working as an engineer before co-founding VAPAR.

We talk about why sewers and AI are a match made in heaven, taking a highly technical product from 0 to 1, going global, spotting opportunities and everything in between.

About Michelle and VAPAR
Get in touch with Michelle on LinkedIn.

Check out VAPAR here.

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Today on the show we're joined by Dr Angela Lim, founder of Clearhead, the startup creating your very own digital therapist.

Intrigued? Clearhead is an online mental well-being platform, making personalised mental health and wellbeing support accessible for everyone. Why start here? For anyone who’s sought support before, you know it can be hard to find where to start; face expensive bills or not gel with your psychologist. Clearhead is changing that.

Trained as a Doctor, Angela started her career in paediatrics, before she co-founded Clearhead in 2018. As if running a startup isn’t enough, Angela also finds time to give back by sitting on a number of boards and panels for digital health and outcomes for young people.

We're tackling how she went from doctor to tech co-founder, how her experience in medicine inspired her to launch Clearhead and so much more.

About Angela and Clearhead
Want to learn more? Check out Clearhead.

Say hi to Angela on LinkedIn.

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Today on the show we're excited to have Julia Arnott-Neenee.

Julia is a dynamo of the Aotearoa tech scene serving on a number of boards, as an Advisor to two startups, and as the Director of Strategy & Insights at The Spinoff and Daylight Creative, an online magazine and full-service content agency and studio, respectively.

She is also the Co-Founder and Director of PeopleforPeople_NZ, a youth-led Pacific Social Enterprise on a mission to ensure that everyone confidently participates in the Digital World of today and tomorrow. Before returning to Aotearoa in 2020, she was the Global Social Strategy Lead at HP.

We're tackling how she went from strategic planning in Aotearoa to strategy at HP in the US, frameworks for distilling insights, why it's important that everyone has a place in the digital world and everything in between.

You are going to love this episode! Julia is magnetic, warm, open, funny, articulate and authentic. We could go on and on and on about how awesome she is, but enough from us - get stuck into this ep already!

About Julia

Check out PeopleForPeople and join their mission to leave no one behind.

Check out The Spinoff (their podcasts are a vibe!) and Daylight Creative

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Today on the show we're lucky to have Kate Cornick.

Kate is the CEO of LaunchVic, Victoria's Startup Agency responsible for developing Victoria's startup ecosystem.

LaunchVic is doing great things for the ecosystem and particularly for women through the Alice Anderson Fund, the support of Scale Investors, the funding for SBE, Atto and other women-focused accelerators and being a voice for women in tech and startups at a government level.

We cover her passion for tech and innovation, the secret to LaunchVic's success, the 475% growth in Melbourne's ecosystem in the four years since LaunchVic's establishment and getting funding to female founders.

About Kate and LaunchVic

LaunchVic is Victoria's startup agency. LaunchVic is on a mission to lead the development of a globally-connected startup ecosystem by supporting startups and investors to sustainably grow and deliver economic and cultural benefits for both Victoria and Australia.

Find them here and while you're there check out the raft of programs and resources targeted at startups in Victoria.

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Today on the show we're joined by serial entrepreneur and writer, Rebekah Campbell.

Rebekah launched the careers of Australia's biggest stars including Evermore, Matt Corby and Van She through Scorpio Music. She co-founded 'Hey You', a mobile app used by more than one million Australians to order and pay at cafes. Rebekah is also an accomplished writer having written for the NY Times and the AFR, and just published her first book '138 Dates' on her quest to find love and build her company.

We're covering how she disrupted the music and hospitality industries, her relationship to the love vs career narrative, male mentor breakups, that MaiTai trip and everything in between.

About Rebekah

You can buy '138 Dates' from Booktopia and all good bookstores. 11/10 recommend! We devoured it over a weekend.

Head on over to her website to sign up to her newsletter keep up to date.

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Veronica Munro joins us to share how she left Florida as a Microbiology major for Australia where 10 years on she is the General Manager of Common Code, who build products, communities and enterprises for a better world. We talk about her Diversity, Equity and Social Inclusion efforts at Common Code and how they went from 30% women to 45% in 9 months in an industry where women only make up 15% of developers; and how the Harvard Business Review’s iconic article ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders’ inspired her to take the reins at Common Code.

LINKS

You can find Harvard Business Review’s iconic article ‘Why Do So Many Incompetent Men Become Leaders’ here at https://hbr.org/2013/08/why-do-so-many-incompetent-men 

Learn more about Common Code on their website https://commoncode.io/ 

You can find Veronica Munro on LinkedIn here https://www.linkedin.com/in/vmunro/ 

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