Talking Tech with Elise Kennedy - TTWEK

Edrolo is an education technology company founded in 2011, which builds learning resources for students and useful teaching tools for teachers. Edrolo provides more than 1,000 Australian secondary schools with core resources for everyday teaching and learning, along with a systematic, innovative and research-led approach to resource design, with actionable analytics.

In this podcast, we discuss the company, industry, competitive landscape and strategies for growth. 

Veridooh is an adtech startup that has created proprietary software that independently tracks, measures, and verifies the performance of digital out-of-home (OOH) advertising campaigns, intending to increase transparency and confidence in the industry. Marketers need reliable and accurate verification to buy OOH advertising with confidence. Veridooh’s software lets advertising firms’ clients have access to more than 300 metrics, such as location, number of plays, exposure time, ad length and share of time on a digital billboard.

In this podcast, we discuss the company, industry, competitive landscape and strategies for growth.

Blackbird is an Australasian venture capital firm whose mission is to invest in wild hearts, with the wildest ideas, right from the beginning. It seeks to back generational ambition with generational ownership by raising funds and investing in the best startup companies all the way through their journey from idea to beyond IPO. The company's portfolio is worth over $10bn and includes more than 100 Aussie and Kiwi startups, including Canva, Zoox, SafetyCulture, Culture Amp, Halter and Propeller Aero. Mason Yates is part of the investment team and hosts Wild Hearts, a Blackbird podcast dedicated to revealing the secrets of the founders seeking to change the world.

Peter Dunne is one of Australia's leading private equity and venture capital lawyers, specialising in M&A and private capital raisings. Mr Dunne has advised some of the leading Australian tech companies, including Atlassian in its first round of funding over 12 years ago, Canva, Deputy, Cloud9, Culture Amp, Expert360, Iron Mountain, OzForex, Tyro and many others. He has also assisted the Federal Government on its reforms to the federal tax system to facilitate start-up capital raising and employee share schemes.

Mr Dunne has seen several tech and market cycles and watched the evolution of the Australian tech ecosystem and we discuss the current tech landscape, how the venture capital space has evolved and any comments on what the future could look like in this space.

Nola provides in-store analytics for retail and hospitality venues, providing actionable insights on product engagement, staff productivity and queue speed. It leverages its AI-powered tool to help improve customer experience whilst reducing operating costs, with no installation costs.

In this podcast, we discuss the company, industry, competitive landscape and strategies for growth.

Oceanfarmr is one of the world's first operating systems and fintechs to support the growth of ocean farms. The software platform focuses on optimising labour and assets and delivering critical insights into farm performance for ocean farmers. It uses GPS maps and farm activity data to digitise farm practice. It also has future potential to derisk aquaculture financing and insurance and potentially to provide a provenance and assurance mechanism for aquaculture farmers to sell carbon credits.In this podcast, we discuss the company, industry, competitive landscape and strategies for growth.

In our weekly technology start-up podcast, analyst Elise Kennedy hosts Fred Schebesta, CEO and Co-founder of Finder.Finder is one of Australia's a global fintech, growing into crypto currency, the website sees more than 10 million visits each month globally. Fred Schebesta is the CEO and Co-founder of Finder. He is an international speaker, serial entrepreneur, award-winning digital marketer, author, media commentator, mentor and active member of the startup, crypto and small business communities.In this podcast, we discuss the company, industry, competitive landscape and strategies for growth.

In our weekly technology start-up podcast, analyst Elise Kennedy hosts Sally Krebs-Metelerkamp, CEO and founder of LivedLived is a unique platform within the global social impact start-up community, which helps people struggling with addiction.In an area less spoken about, this podcast displays the origins of the founder's vision, the business and how it is impacting lives across Australia.

In our weekly technology start-up podcast, analyst Elise Kennedy hosts Daniel Roberts, Co-CEO and co-founder of Iris Energy.Iris Energy is a Bitcoin mining company, which builds, owns and operates data centre and electrical infrastructure for the mining of Bitcoin, powered primarily by renewable energy.In this podcast, we discuss the company, industry, competitive landscape and strategies for growth.

In our weekly technology start-up podcast, analyst Elise Kennedy hosts Scott Taylor, CEO and Co-founder of Perx Health.Perx is a behaviour change platform that supports people with chronic health conditions such as diabetes by creating engagement to help them adhere to daily treatment plans. The company has proved its business model with many major health insurers in Australia (AIA, QBE and more) and Scott has relocated to the US to establish its presence there.In this podcast, we discuss the company, industry, competitive landscape and strategies for growth.