Grounds Up by Caffeine Daily
by Caffeine Daily
Grounds Up is Caffeine's podcast for the people behind New Zealand's most ambitious companies. Every episode is a real conversation with a founder, operator, investor or enabler about what building actually looks like. Because building is personal, and the story's always better than the press release.
Episodes
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Growing up off-grid, six-cent power and building the whole stack, with Aotea Energy's Tama Toki
This bite-sized episode of Grounds Up was filmed at the inaugural NZ Tech Expo on 18 September. It's the perfect length for a coffee break ☕ Court sits down with Tama Toki, founder and CEO of Aotea Energy, the Auckland company behind the AE-1 Smart Battery. The AE-1 is a 16 kWh home battery with…
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Cracking US enterprise, hiring for potential and a decade of work to be proud of, with Fuel50's Jo Mills
This bite-sized episode of Grounds Up was filmed at the inaugural NZ Tech Expo on 18 September. It's the perfect length for a coffee break ☕ Court sits down with Jo Mills, co-founder of Fuel50, the New Zealand-founded workforce transformation platform that helps large organisations understand…
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A billion-dollar fund, the slope of learning and why VC isn't for everyone, with Phoebe Harrop Meadows
This bite-sized episode of Grounds Up was filmed at the inaugural NZ Tech Expo on 18 September. It's the perfect length for a coffee break ☕ Court sits down with Phoebe Harrop Meadows, partner at Blackbird, the trans-Tasman venture firm that closed its sixth fund at more than NZ$1.25 billion in...
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Rocket scientists on Discord and NZ’s billion-dollar games industry, with Stephen Knightly
This bite-sized episode of Grounds Up was filmed at the inaugural NZ Tech Expo on 18 September. It's the perfect length for a coffee break ☕Court sits down with Stephen Knightly, COO of RocketWerkz, the Auckland video game studio founded in Dunedin by DayZ creator Dean Hall."When you are an...
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Launch day scrambles, superfans and going global from day one, with Lume's Sacha Judd
This bite-sized episode of Grounds Up was filmed at the inaugural NZ Tech Expo on 18 September. It's the perfect length for a coffee break ☕ In the first of our NZ Tech Expo specials, Court sits down with Sacha Judd, co-founder of Lume. Lume is a new digital format for music that combines the…
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Good humans, global ambition and reinventing before you have to, with Darrin Grafton
Darrin Grafton and Bob Shaw founded Serko in Auckland in 2007, after selling an earlier travel-tech business together in the 1990s. Nearly two decades on, Serko is a New Zealand-listed company (NZX and ASX) that powers corporate travel technology for some of the world's biggest brands, including...
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Consistent storytelling without the PR price tag, with Barney Chunn
Barney Chunn graduated with a degree in philosophy and English, sent out CVs, and heard nothing back. "It was the market sort of telling me I was unemployable," he says. "So I had to go and create a job." That job was CONQA, a construction quality assurance platform he ran for close to a decade —...
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Cheaper iron that happens to be very green, with Martin Hacon
When Martin Hacon first heard what Cullbeck's technology could do, his reaction was disbelief: "This is bullshit. No one can do what these guys are claiming." He's now the CEO, and Cullbeck has just closed NZ$20 million in funding, including a NZ$15 million capital raise believed to be the…
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Making it cheaper to save the world than to destroy it with Holly Beals and Ralph Chang
Climatetech is about more than sustainability. It's energy, industrial decarbonisation, sustainable food systems, and a dozen sub-sectors in between, held together by one idea: these are businesses that make money by cutting carbon. In the first episode of Grounds Up, Court sits down with Ralph...
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Grounds Up is Caffeine's podcast for the people behind New Zealand's most ambitious companies. Every episode is a real conversation with a founder, operator, investor or enabler about what building actually looks like. Because building is personal, and the story's always better than the press release.
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