Shape the System

In episode 41 we talk to Rui Peng about plastic and its role in rethinking the materials used in all forms of commercial enterprise from retail fit-outs to moving to furniture. The potential to replace traditional building materials like laminate MDF, particle board with recycled plastics created through new plastic recycling and fabrication techniques that they have spent the last 2 years creating

We uncover a key part of the Critical business model, based on the features of plastic that are typically problematic like how long it takes to degrade, where they actually buy back the product decades later

Rui talks about how product development and manufacturing ventures operate on a different plane with regards to economics and timing of returns which changes the capital demands and go to market strategy and how automation works to increase the commercial feasibility in a virtuous feedback loop

Learn about their fascinating approach to build a better solution to both the underlying problem itself but also how they intentionally structure Critical to play a key role in improving the communities in which they plan to operate

Critical http://www.criticaldesign.nz/

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

Prateek Joshi of Plutoshift:  How AI can impact the water and energy use in global manufacturing.

In episode 40 we talk to Prateek Joshi about all things data, especially the relationship of data relating to energy, resources, water and chemicals for major manufacturing organisations and their ESG footprint.

We uncover the macro trends simultaneously occurring across the cost of inputs and resources and the explosion of low costs sensors enabling the data to power the types of real-time resource optimisation that Plutoshift is using to enable large manufacturers to save millions of litres of water, tonnes of CO2 and chemicals.

Prateek tells us how growing up in rural India led him to Silicon Valley and Plutoshift

He also provides the simplest and best definition for the terms data, machine learning and AI and their relationship to each other

Plutoshift - https://plutoshift.com/

About the show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 39 we talk to the CEO of Eden Green

Eden Green Technology is a vertical farming technology company. They build, manage, and license a greenhouse technology platform that increases local access to nutritious produce, and provides a non-interrupted food supply, all through its turnkey urban agricultural model.

Critically they are aligning to the existing supply chain dynamics which are key to actual adoption at scale and rather than tackling the high margin, small volume game they are focused on making the mass markets like lettuce and other greens available more cheaply, fresher and more reliably

Eddy takes us through the economics of growing 'leafy greens' and the direct connection between the logistics of enabling fresh produce to reach customers so this highly nutritious  food can be an actual option for people, especially mainstream and lower income socioeconomic groups

Eddy also takes us through the basis for how he moved into a redemptive entrepreneurship mode of thinking as the basis for how and why he joined Eden Green after achieving financial success in prior business endeavours

Eden Green  https://www.edengreen.com/

Praxis Labs https://www.praxislabs.org/

About the Show

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 38 we head to the suburbs of Newcastle, around 2 hours north of Sydney, Australia, to meet with David Sivyer and learn about how Feedback Organic is taking urban farming to a whole new level by integrating more fully into the restaurants and venues they supply by not only supplying their produce but also taking back the post consumption food waste.

It was a rainy old day under a tin roofed shed with a surprise cameo from one of the urban neighbours, a super fun listen. We hope you enjoy

Feedback Organic

feedbackorganic.com.au

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 37 we chat with Lottie the founder of Banish about how a simple purchase of a metal straw to try and reduce her plastic use lead to her realising that the entire way we look at sustainability and the part that we play needed to change.

With little to no regulation or rules around what labels companies can make-up and current regulations on how you can package certain products leading to even more waste, the complexity can make it impossible to really know if you are purchasing a truly sustainable product.  

Lottie's mission is to do the heavy lifting of researching so people can better understand their personal waste footprint.

We hope you enjoy this episode and check out all the amazing products, services and knowledge Lottie has to share in the links below in episode notes.

Banish website: https://banish.com.au/

More info on BRAD (Banish Recycling and Disposal Program) head to https://lnkd.in/dJcMBHK

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 36 we talk to Andrew Wolk of Finding Common Purpose about how after 20 years consulting to and building non-profits he is now focused on how to create alignment between various stakeholders (business, non-profits, politicians, policy makers, school districts and the community itself) to drive better outcomes for the community they all work in and serve.

We talk about how their dashboards can bring together data, insights and benchmarks but this is only half the battle, you've got to bring people to the table through facilitation to effect change.

Finding Common Purpose

http://findingcommonpurpose.org/

Finding Common Purpose Podcast

https://findingcommonpurpose.org/podcast/

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 35 we speak with Ronni Kahn AO, founder of OzHarvest. OzHarvest is one of the most well known brands in Australia. They have been tackling food wastage since 2004 in the context of feeding and nourishing people but soon discovered the environmental impact of food wastage also.

Hear how Ronni and the team over at OzHarvest are tackling the problem through four main pillars of Food Rescue, Education, Advocacy and Innovation which all play a critical role in realising their mission to 'Nourish our Country'

Understand the importance of building brand, engaging government to change policy and changing people's knowledge and behaviours to have meaningful impact at scale.

In this jam packed interview Ronni talks about how they have been building for profit ventures aligned to their mission under ForPurposeCo  to fund their non-profit aims in OzHarvest

Lastly hear the wonderful arc of a personal story that led Ronni to set up and OzHarvest and make it her life's work.

OzHarvest

https://www.ozharvest.org/what-we-do/

ForPurposeCo

https://www.forpurposeco.com/

A Repurposed Life

https://events.ozharvest.org/shop/viewitem/arepurposedlife 

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In Episode 34 we chat with Dan McKenna about the challenges of rethinking how & why we build, with sustainability, affordability and community in mind. Dan has been an employee of Nightingale Housing since the first day of operating, having seen the company through all stages of its evolution and myriad of challenging situations.

We learn about how their non-profit approach to housing development has actually improved the quality  of the product (a home & community), about their interesting approach to resales and with over a dozen developments under their belt how supply is the main constraint to amplifying their reach.

Nightingale Housing

https://nightingalehousing.org/

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

Join us for episode 33 with Odunayo the COO & Co-founder of PiggyVest, a company set up to help change the way millennials bank, save and think about money in Nigeria. How do you build a brilliant, forward thinking independent banking platform in a country where traditional banking & mobile  infrastructure is still being built out and isn't always accessible to all? Tune in to find out! 

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]

In episode 32, we interview Josh Howard The founder of Single Use Ain't Sexy about his journey from the  world of media to tackling one of the planets greatest challenges, what are we to do about all that plastic that we keep making and usually only using once!? Tune in today to hear about one mans mission to help.

https://www.singleuseaintsexy.com/

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

• Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)
• LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts:

[email protected]

Shape the System is  an independent podcast with support from KPMG High Growth Ventures

More about KPMG High Growth Ventures

Scale up for success. We’re here for that.
We navigate founders and their teams to the services they need to reach their next milestone. 

From startup to scale and beyond. No matter where you are right now, we’ll get you the help you need to drive your business forward. We help founders fully realise their potential, as well as the potential of their team and their business, by connecting them to the expertise, skills and resources they need at every stage of their growth journey.

Our extensive experience in partnering with evolving businesses means that we can provide you with tailored support as well as independent and practical insights. 

Whether you are looking to refine your strategy, establish your operations, prepare for a capital raise, expand abroad or simply comply with regulatory requirements, we are here to help.

Links:

Website: About (highgrowthventures.com.au)

LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/showcase/kpmg-enterprise-high-growth-ventures/

Contacts: [email protected]