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The Unicorns Podcast
by Media + Capital Partners
The Unicorns Podcast connects you to some of the best and brightest founders, CEOs, executives, business owners, VCs and inspiring leaders who make things happen and inspire others. Hosted by media and PR veteran Justin Kelly, we chat to leaders on the front line on how to get started, what it takes to build a successful business, how to overcome challenges, and advice for those on a similar journey.
Episodes
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Elastic asks, can AI protect us from AI?
In this episode, Justin speaks with Mandy Andress, Chief Information Security Officer at global technology company Elastic, about how artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, both for cybercriminals and the businesses trying to stop them. AI is giving attackers powerful new tools to...
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Has Australia lost its appetite for risk?
In this episode, Justin speaks with former NSW Premier Nick Greiner AC and veteran global investment executive Kirk West about Australia's attitude towards risk, the challenges facing businesses seeking capital and whether the country has become too conservative for its own good. Australia is one...
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Inside BDX Markets: Reinventing Online Trading with Blockchain
In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, we sit down with Andy Ting from BDX Markets to explore one of the biggest challenges facing the rapidly growing online trading industry: trust. As millions of traders across Asia and beyond use platforms such as MT4 and MT5 to access global markets, BDX is...
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Grain Expectations: Cropify’s AI grading ambitions go global
In this episode, Justin speaks with Anna Falkiner and Andrew Hannon, the husband-and-wife founders of Adelaide agtech company Cropify, which is using artificial intelligence to transform the way grain is graded. For generations, trained grain graders have visually inspected samples for defects,...
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Kraken - How crypto is becoming the plumbing of modern finance
In this episode, host Justin Kelly welcomes back Jonathon Miller, Kraken’s Managing Director for Australia and Rest of World, to explore how digital assets are moving beyond a standalone investment category and into the infrastructure underpinning modern finance. Jonathon discusses the growing...
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Eudaemon Technologies is reinventing the condom
In this episode, Justin speaks with Nick Northcott, co-founder and CEO of Eudaemon Technologies, the Australian medtech company that has spent more than a decade trying to reinvent one of the world's most familiar products: the condom. The problem Eudaemon is trying to solve is remarkably simple....
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AI infrastructure pure-play SCX makes its ASX debut
In this episode, Justin speaks with David Keane, founder and CEO of SCX.ai, as the Australian AI infrastructure company makes its debut on the ASX. Trading under the ticker SCX, the company is Australia’s first ASX-listed pure-play sovereign AI inference infrastructure company, providing the...
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How B2Bpay turns business bills into rewards
In this episode, Justin speaks with Jane Grant, Chief of B2Bpay, the Australian payments platform helping businesses get more value from the bills they already have to pay. The idea is simple. B2Bpay allows businesses to pay suppliers by credit card, even when those suppliers don't accept cards,...
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MIST tackles a hidden challenge in Australia's $50bn education sector
In this episode, Justin speaks with John Crutchley, founder of MIST, the Australian fintech helping strengthen financial confidence across Australia's $50 billion international education sector. Before an international student receives a visa, they must demonstrate they have sufficient funds to...
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Geopacific's Golden Opportunity in PNG
In this episode, Justin talks with Managing Director of Geopacific Resources Hamish Bohannan. Geopacific Resources (ASX:GPR) has released an updated definitive feasibility study (DFS) for its wholly owned Woodlark gold project that’s attracted analyst attention for all the right reasons. Woodlark...
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How Ordermentum is building the future of hospitality
In this episode, Justin speaks with Adam Theobald, founder and CEO of Ordermentum, the technology platform helping transform Australia's $70 billion hospitality wholesale sector by connecting suppliers and venues through a single digital network. What began as a solution to simplify ordering has...
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Resouro outlines development pathway for globally significant Tiros project
In this episode, Justin speaks with Resouro Strategic Metals (ASX:RAU) CEO Christopher Eager to unpack the company’s recently released Preliminary Economic Assessment, or PEA, on its flagship Tiros project in Brazil. Eager explains how the study demonstrates compelling economics that confirms…
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From a Cattle Property to NASA: The Agscent Story and the Race to Teach AI How to Smell
In this episode, Justin speaks with Dr Bronwyn Darlington, founder and CEO of Agscent, an Australian deep-tech company using AI, nano-sensors and NASA-derived technology to analyse breath, smell and biological signals in real time. What began as an effort to solve a practical livestock…
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Why GAI is bringing the world’s biggest ag investing conference to Brisbane
In this episode, Justin speaks with Jonathan Levin, Portfolio Director at Global AgInvesting (GAI), the world’s largest agriculture investment conference, which is coming to Brisbane for the first time in June. The conversation explores a major shift underway in global investing, with…
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Future-Proofing the Farm with DIT AgTech
In this episode, Justin speaks with Mark Peart, founder and CEO of DIT AgTech, a Queensland-based company that uses automation, data, and water infrastructure to rethink how livestock are fed across large grazing operations. DIT AgTech has developed a system that delivers supplements through...
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East Forged: How an Aussie Tea Took Down Coke and Pepsi
In this episode, Justin speaks with Kym Cooper and Tania Stacey, founders of East Forged, a Brisbane-based beverage company that has just beaten Coca-Cola and PepsiCo to win Best Drink Innovation at a major global awards program in London. East Forged is building something that doesn’t fit neatly...
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De’Angello Harris and Arjun Paliwal on high performance, mindset and the environments that shape success
In this episode, Justin speaks with De’Angelo Harris, partner at Think and Grow, and Arjun Paliwal, founder of InvestorKit, bringing together two high-performance and experienced operators focused on business growth and wealth creation. De’Angelo works closely with founders and executive teams at...
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Meet the Aussie winemaker rebuilding wine without alcohol
In this episode, Justin interviews Aaron Milne, a winemaker who is General Manager of Low & No Beverages. Aaron has carved out a global reputation in one of the fastest-growing and most misunderstood categories in the beverage industry: no- and low-alcohol wine. Learn more about your ad choices....
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WinDC’s plan to power AI from renewable energy
In this episode, Justin interviews Andrew Sjoquist, founder and CEO of WinDC, a company rethinking how and where AI infrastructure is built. Andrew is building a model that flips the traditional data centre approach on its head, deploying modular, high-performance computing infrastructure…
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How crypto can disrupt the big banks in Australia
In this episode, Justin interviews Jonathon Miller, Kraken’s Managing Director for Australia and Rest of World. Jonathon has more than two decades of experience across financial markets, technology, and digital assets. Before joining Kraken, he held senior leadership roles at crypto platforms and...
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Colter Bay Capital targets $25bn lending gap as private credit boom gathers pace
In this episode, Justin talks with Mark Wang and Sean Garman from Colter Bay Capital about the rapid rise of private credit and why Australia is now approaching a major turning point. While private credit already represents around 7% of total lending in the United States, the sector remains...
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Latrobe on runway to commercial critical mineral production
In this episode, Justin talks with Latrobe Magnesium’s CEO David Paterson about the company’s progress since it made international headlines last year. Latrobe Magnesium’s (ASX:LMG) was one of only seven ASX listed stocks named in the $8.5 billion US-Australia critical minerals deal announced…
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Unity steps up pace for gold discovery on fenceline of Okvau
In this episode, Justin talks with Unity Metals’ MD Craig Mackay who’s leading the company’s drilling program at its flagship Ngot gold project that closely follows its IPO in January. What makes Unity’s (ASX:UM1) 100% owned Ngot stand out is that it’s right on the fenceline of Emerald Resources’...
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Low Deposit Homes: Helping keep the Great Australian Dream alive
In this episode, Justin sits down with Chaice Paterson, founder and CEO of Low Deposit Homes, a specialist brokerage helping Australians break into the housing market with far smaller deposits than many believe are required. The company has already helped 1000 first home buyers purchase property,...
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Inside QHeart, the Australian medtech targeting heart failure’s missing middle
In this episode, Justin speaks with Dr Peter Walsh, founder, CEO and CTO of Brisbane-based medtech company QHeart Medical, alongside Mr Aubrey Almeida, a Melbourne cardiothoracic surgeon specialising in minimally invasive and robotic cardiac surgery. The conversation comes at a pivotal moment....
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Inside Elastic, the search engine powering the AI economy
In this episode, Justin sits down with Jeremy Pell, Country Manager ANZ at Elastic, the global Search AI company whose technology underpins many of the digital platforms Australians rely on every day. Elastic is best known as the company behind Elasticsearch, but its role extends far beyond a...
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Unicorns Podcast: Inside Straker, the ASX translation company that saw AI coming first
In this episode, Justin sits down with Grant Straker, founder and Managing Director of Straker Ltd, the ASX-listed translation and content verification company that has quietly been on the frontline of the AI revolution for more than a decade. Straker, listed under the ticker STG, is the only...
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Inside The Pillars, Much More Than a Private Members Club
In this episode, Justin sits down with Steve Grace, co-founder of The Pillars, a private members club housed inside a meticulously restored 170-year-old heritage building in the heart of Sydney. The Pillars is not a co-working space, and it is not a traditional members club in the old sense....
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Inside the commercial engine of Waverley Social Enterprises
In this episode, Justin interviews Nick Williamson, CEO of Waverley Social Enterprises. Waverley is a commercial services business that has been quietly competing with mainstream providers across Australia since 1984, while redefining what supported employment can achieve at scale. Learn more…
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DataMesh, AI, legacy systems and the future of global payments
In this episode, Justin interviews Mark Nagy, founder and CEO of DataMesh, a payments technology company quietly rebuilding the invisible plumbing behind global commerce. Every time a consumer taps a card, swipes a phone or checks out online, a vast and fragile network of legacy systems springs...
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How Restoke AI is helping restaurants survive margin chaos
In this episode, Justin interviews Assaf Stizki, co-founder and CEO of Restoke.ai, a hospitality technology intelligence platform. Running a restaurant in the United States has become increasingly precarious, with tariffs, supply chain disruption and volatile ingredient prices putting extreme...
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Compare Club's mission to help Australians switch and save
In this episode, Justin speaks with Emma Fawcett, CEO of Compare Club, one of Australia's most trusted financial comparison services. Compare Club helps Australians save on major household bills, including life insurance, health insurance, energy and home loans. At a time when cost-of-living...
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Small business groups voice concerns over RBA card surcharge ban
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UNICORNS PODCAST: Crypto exchange KuCoin makes a splash Down Under
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Tinybeans (ASX:TNY) - The 'one stop shop' for private family photo sharing
In this episode, Justin speaks with Zsofi Paterson, CEO of Tinybeans (ASX:TNY), one of Australia’s most-loved tech success stories, Tinybeans is a private photo-sharing and digital journaling platform that helps parents capture and share family moments safely, away from the noise, pressure, and...
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From MasterChef to Med-Tech — How Nicky Agahari Is Transforming Global Healthcare
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How 333D (ASX:T3D) Is Reinventing Itself Through AI, Healthcare and Digital Assets
In this episode, Justin speaks with John Conidi, CEO and Managing Director of 333D (ASX: T3D). Once known for its pioneering work in 3D printing, 333D has evolved into a high-growth digital technology business now making bold moves in healthcare, AI, and digital assets. Listed on the ASX, it’s…
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The Viral YouTubers brewing up Tea Industries
In this episode, Justin speaks with Alexa Stathakis, CEO and founder of Tea Industries, and Brett Stanford, co-founder of the YouTube phenomenon How Ridiculous. Together, they’ve created a beverage brand that’s making waves across Australia and the United States. Learn more about your ad choices....
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How Freespace Operations cracked the drone code
In this episode, Justin speaks with Ken King and Leonard Hall, co-founders of Freespace Operations, a Melbourne-based drone company that’s pushing the boundaries of what autonomous aircraft can do. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Inspiring Growth Story of Cooee Native Superfoods
Host Justin Kelly, former broadcast journalist and PR veteran, chats with leaders from across Australia and internationally about business strategy, what it takes to build a successful company, how to overcome challenges and advice for those on a similar journey. In this episode, Justin speaks…
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How Senetas plans to spend its bumper $11M warchest
In this episode, Justin speaks with Andrew Wilson, CEO of Senetas — an ASX-listed Australian cybersecurity company that’s been protecting some of the world’s most sensitive information for more than 20 years. It’s been a transformative year for Senetas. The company sold its Votiro subsidiary and,...
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How Xynon Is Redefining Financial Advice
In this episode, Justin speaks with Shantanu Jha and Wes Hall, co-founders of Xynon, a new wealth-tech platform that is reimagining how financial advisers manage client outcomes. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Tough Tech Titans: Inside RFC Ambrian’s Global Venture Engine
In this episode, Justin speaks with Rob Adamson, Executive Chairman of RFC Ambrian, and Stefan Skorut, Chief Investment Officer of RFC Ambrian Funds Management. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Dementia Training Australia and the Future of Care
In this episode, Justin speaks with Dr Isabelle Meyer, Executive Director of Dementia Training Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Australia’s AI Power Play: Sovereign AI Launches
In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, Justin talks with the founders of Sovereign Australia AI - a brand-new venture that’s setting out to do something bold - build a homegrown alternative to global AI platforms like ChatGPT Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Redefining Success and High Performance with Andy Reid
In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, Justin speaks with Andy Reid. Andy is one of Australia’s leading real estate auctioneers, a high-performance coach, and the host of the High Performance Humans podcast. He’s worked across industries from hospitality to real estate, led teams of hundreds…
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Why Small Business is the Backbone of Australia: A Conversation with Matthew Manahan and Steve Loe
In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, Justin speaks with Matthew Manahan, author of Champions: The Legacy That Shaped Small Business for a Nation, and Steve Loe, founder of the Australian Small Business Champion Awards. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Unicorns Podcast: Inside the Ranger Jamie Revolution – Bringing Science and Fun to Preschoolers
In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, Justin speaks with Jamie Simpson, founder and CEO of Ranger Jamie Tours, and Anthony Ritter, the company’s chairman. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Unicorns Podcast: Building Tomorrow - How PT Blink is reinventing construction through smart technology
In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, Justin interviews Murray Ellen (founder) and Wayne Larsen (CEO) from property technology platform PT Blink. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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Unicorns Podcast: New Low-Dose Supplement Tackles Knee Pain as Joint Health Market Booms
In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, Justin interviews renowned expert in the field of preventative and personalised health, Dr Brad McEwen PhD. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices
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The Unicorns Podcast connects you to some of the best and brightest founders, CEOs, executives, business owners, VCs and inspiring leaders who make things happen and inspire others. Hosted by media and PR veteran Justin Kelly, we chat to leaders on the front line on how to get started, what it takes to build a successful business, how to overcome challenges, and advice for those on a similar journey.
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