Science meets VC

Interview with Dr Pete Ayre founder of CardioBionic manufacturer of the Bionic Heart LVAD. We cover Pete's first heart startup Ventracor, working with the Famous Heart Surgeon Dr Victor Chang, how they got their original heart into +400 patients and his new startup that is building a lower cost, simpler more mechanically reliable heart for the world.

Today's guest is Dr. David Snowden a University researcher turned successful entrepreneur.

David is the founder of Metamako a Sydney based high-speed switch networking company recently acquired by Arista Networks.

Today's guest is Stella Xu, our new Investment Associate at Main Sequence Ventures. Stella most recently worked for The Trade Desk, a hyper-growth Nasdaq listed company in the digital media space as a media trader. She is an expert in helping businesses scale their online acquisition. Stella has also been named as the 30 under 30 and a woman to watch by the online marketing authority site B and T.

In this episode, Stella shared her experience in helping businesses grow revenue by 20x through real-time trading campaigns. She discussed the cost-efficient strategies startups can use to target the most relevant users with personal messages.

Today's guest is David Jones, founder of Threatmetrix the Unicorn Australian company that many of you probably have never heard of, that very quietly sold last year to UK based Relx for $850 million USD (>$1b AUD).

David has a number of other ventures running now and is an angel investor in local tech companies and discusses the challenge of taking a tech startup global.

Todays guest is David Burt Executive Manager of the CSIRO ON Accelerator, Australia’s largest researcher accelerator

ON is Australia's national science and technology accelerator program serving Australia’s 43 Universities, the CSIRO, and other publicly funded research institutes.

David talks about the 2000 researchers the program has helped to either launch startups or connect with industry to commercialise their research.

David discusses the future of the ON program when the original Federal Government Budget allocation runs out next year.

Todays guest is Professor Michael Biercuk, Michael is a quantum physicist, innovator, and Director of the Quantum Control Laboratory at the University of Sydney and founder of Q-CTRL one of Australia's first Quantum Computing Startups.

We talk Yoctonewtons, Quantum Computing, transitioning from Professor/Researcher to entrepreneur and a big announcement.

Full Disclosure: Main Sequence Ventures was one of the original seed investors in Q-CTRL.

Todays guest is Professor Alistair McEwan who is a prolific prototyper of medical devices especially measuring the brain and sensing various different signals from the body.

Dr Samantha Khoury & Dr Nham Tran are researchers at the University of Technology Sydney, as well as holding research fellowships with Stanford and The Chris Obrien Lifehouse.

They have recently commenced the startup journey as co-founders launching miSerumDX - which is a liquid Liquid Biopsy Cancer Diagnostics tool that they have had very promising initial results and are in the process of commercialising the test.

Meat George Peppou founder of cultured meat startup VOW, George is creating a new type of lab-grown meat and has successfully cultured and grown pig cells in the lab.

As a guy who can make real bacon in a lab George is set to be one of the world most popular people.

This episode covers everything you might have wanted to know about alternative proteins, the market, regulatory hurdles and what unique types of meat we might be able to culture that we simply can't get today.

My apologies in advance for the sound quality, my mic failed so my voice is a bit quiet but George is loud and clear.