Morgans Conversations

In the latest Morgans Conversations Series Podcast, Morgans Adviser Chris Titley catches up with Lance Giles , CEO and Founder of Youfoodz. The company is a leader in high quality, affordable, ready-made meals. Lance tells the story of how the company has evolved over the years, the challenges they faced, the market segments they play in as well as describing how the company managed the unpredictable and unprecedented year that was 2020.

Morgans is Joint Lead Manager and Underwriter to the IPO of Youfoodz and received fees in this regard.

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We catch up with Tim Fung from Airtasker who we last caught up within 2016. Tim talks about the progress of the company into new international markets, the murky waters that was 2020, and how they’ve responded internally, as well as some of the new verticals and uses for Airtasker including home office installation and IT setup, etc (including some very random ones!). Tim also delves into their future plans with launches in different geographies.

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In this episode of Morgans Conversations, we catch up with Aaron Cooper from Livepreso. Livepreso assists businesses with creating a better presentation by having the ability to overlay datasets, be dynamic and interactive, and increased data analytics. They recently raised $5m to scale with investors such as Chris Ridd who was formerly the CEO of Xero locally.

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Today’s Morgans Conversation was with Anthony Millet, Partner of Antler Australia. Antler Australia is a global early-stage VC enabling and investing in exceptional entrepreneurs. They bring together entrepreneurs from all backgrounds to build the defining companies of tomorrow, based in Sydney. Anthony talks about the Antler process, the cohorts thus far, how they are building community, and how they’ve managed through COVID-19.

Gopi Karunakaran, Ardea’s Co-Chief Investment Officer in conversation with Morgans Equity Strategist, Andrew Tang. Gopi walks through the strategies and uses of the Ardea Real Outcome Fund and how it can play a role in providing attractive and consistent returns in portfolios.

Today, we chat with Alex Waislitz, Chairman of Thorney Investments, particularly around their listed entity Thorney Technologies (ASX:TEK). Alex deep dives into their portfolio positioning which has seen their performance rise c30% in the last quarter with strong outperformance in sectors such as Fintech, Health Tech, life sciences, and diagnostics.

Alex also talks about their opportunities in the unlisted space and the mandate to invest through the life cycle of a company as well as the pipeline of investments that are potentially coming to the ASX soon. He also gives a macro update on what he is seeing with the easing of government stimulus.

Today’s episode of Morgans Conversations is with Graham Russell , MD of ASX Listed HSC Technology Group (ASX Code: HSC). Graham goes into the history of HSC, the current product suite they have on offer focusing on the Aged Care sector as well as some of the opportunities at large. Graham also talks about how they’ve attempted to make their tech as simplistic as possible.

Today’s conversation was with Nicholas Therkelsen, Co-founder and CEO of Max Kelsen (unlisted). Max Kelsen is an Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning consultancy that delivers a competitive advantage for government and enterprise. Nicholas goes into detail about how they are assisting organisations such as Dominos and working with large global tech like Amazon and Google. He also goes into detail around privacy, their use cases as well as how COVID-19 and the restrictions around the ability to work at a workplace have seen a rapid digital transformation.

In this episode we chat with Mark Englund , Founder and CEO of FiberSense. FiberSense helps with real time detection and ranging of objects and events.
Mark talks about the history of FiberSense , the projects they’ve been working on, and the use cases and verticals for their application. He also talks about the involvement and investment from Bevan Slattery - one of Australia’s most prominent technology entrepreneurs.

Today’s guest is Nicholas Simms, Non Executive Director of Fiji Kava Limited. Nicholas tells the story of Fiji Kava, and how they have turned what is a popular Fijian product to various medicinal uses at a commercial level. Nicholas also talks about the partnerships they have secured thus far, the global market for their style of product as well some of the feedback they’ve received.