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Startup 360

Every Friday, Startup 360 hosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell, dissect the news of the week in ANZ startups, before they’re joined by two guests to explore what makes them tick. Think of it as your startup guide to staying human. It’s all about lifting the bonnet on people to understand how they see the world and what inspires and drives them, and what they’ve learnt from both success and failure. And don’t miss 10x, 10 rapid-fire questions that will surprise and make you laugh.

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52:19

From corporate law to being a better bloke - Luna's...

Startup 360 ·

2025/10/30

A decade ago, Ronen Heine tossed in his career as a corporate lawyer at a top tier law firm for life as a startup founder and adviser."I was doing lots of fancy work on the outside, but dead on the inside," the founder of Luna tells Startup 360. "It was funny because no one took me seriously. Founders didn't take legal and accounting seriously. It was a startup helping startups start up."But it worked and Luna, his professional services advisory firm, which has worked with the likes of LaunchVic,

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47:59

Why air conditioning is more power hungry than...

Startup 360 ·

2025/10/17

Air conditioning is doesn't sound like a sexy startup problem, but Conry Tech cofounder Sam Ringwaldt knows more than most how profound its impact on us and the planet will be as climate change takes hold."It's a really vicious irony that the main solution that we're relying on to mitigate the change is also accelerating the change faster than nearly anything else," he explained on the Startup 360 podcast. "I mean, there's 864,000 new air conditioners being installed every day from now until

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47:10

How 5 time founder Preethi Mohan learnt how to get...

Startup 360 ·

2025/10/09

Preethi Mohan was in the middle of a corporate life at Google when she had a revelation about life as a startup founder.Her latest and 5th startup, Press Play Ventures, a 12-week accelerator program coaches women on the move from corporate life to startup founder, and in just 18 months, has helped 120 women to launch 104 startups. Press Play Ventures won the GSD (Get Sh*t Done) Award, at the recent Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards 2025. A prolific ideas person who writes down her thoughts in

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54:30

How a female founder solved the problem of men's...

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2025/10/03

Brace for puns with week as Startup 360 talks to Saara Jamieson, founder of Cool Beans Underwear, about how her revolutionary way of taking care of man bits came about.Saara was a finalist in the Best New Founder category of Startup Daily Best in Tech awards (the winner was Rebecca Keeley from Yarn Speech), and in a special extended episode, they spoke to the Brisbane mother of two about how her own journey to becoming a mother led to Cool Beans. It's an important dive into male reproductive

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37:21

The extraordinary adventures of Best in Tech Industry...

Startup 360 ·

2025/09/26

This week's Startup 360 is a little different as cohosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell frock up for the Startup Daily Best in Tech Awards.That's the key theme of this week's episode and we celebrate one of the winners by replaying our conversation with Climate Salad cofounder Mick Liubinskas. On Thursday night, Mick was named Industry Champion among 14 winners, with Sydney-based workplace AI agent builder Relevance AI winning both the AI Game-changer category and Startup of the Year awards,

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56:10

Making music with AI, getting savvy about cars

Startup 360 ·

2025/09/19

Charlie Chan's musical career began at age 3 with a ukulele. It broke.But growing up in the '70s, Charlie was part of the dawn of consumer electronics and computers, experimenting with home electronics kits, and by the '90s as the internet age began, they went online to share their music with the world. Now Charlie's embraced artificial intelligence as a new way to create. Charlie joined Startup 360 cohosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell as a serial founder and entrepreneur to talk about the

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59:21

Cicada x Tech23 special: lessons from a 2nd-time...

Startup 360 ·

2025/09/12

This week on Startup 360, we talk to two founders who presented at Cicada x Tech23.Engineer Nick Hazell is back with his second climate tech startup, Algenie, having previously raised $120 million as cofounder of plant-based meat venture v2food. Also on the couch is Ana Belgun from CSIRO-developed digital twin pioneer Terria. They were among 23 founders who shared their startup stories at the annual deep tech expo, in Sydney. Cohost Simon Thomsen was there and keen to share their ideas with the

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57:39

Pete Horsley's Remarkable journey, funding women, and...

Startup 360 ·

2025/09/05

When you talk to Pete Horsley about his career in tech, it doesn’t take long to see that his work is deeply personal.His eldest sister, Jo, was born blind, autistic, and with an intellectual disability. That experience shaped the way he views the world, as he explains to Majella Campbell. As a child, Pete loved showing off Jo’s talents, like her uncanny ability to tell you the day you were born from the date. It taught him an important lesson: value doesn’t always look the way society

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34:09

The $2m teenage founder, what makes a great mentor -...

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2025/09/05

Episode 28 of Startup 360 is a little different, with cohost Simon away at a company offsite and Majella moving Fishburners out of the Sydney Startup Hub. So we've picked out two of our favourite interviews of the last six months to shine a light on them once again. Irish-Australian teenager Liam Fuller starred on Startup 360 in April, as one of our most watched and listened to episodes. He was 17 at the time, and came to Australia, birthplace of his equally entrepreneurial dad, Shane, for a

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59:36

Emotional intelligence in the AI era, a new view for...

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2025/08/22

Nicole Gibson is a remarkable founder who thinks deeply about what it means to be human in the world of tech.The CEO of inTruth Technologies, the world’s first emotion bio-tech, is a very special guest on Startup 360 this week, sharing her journey from teenage student struggling with serious health issues and the profound impact one educator had on her life, to how she hopes we can all be better people by coming to understand who we are using tech. She's on a mission to reshape the future of

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57:49

New Fishburners plan, pets & leadership, staying...

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2025/08/15

Startup 360 cohost Majella Campbell is making her own news, with the Fishburners CEO releasing a manifesto on new ways of nurturing early-stage startups.It comes as Fishburners prepares to move out of the Sydney Startup Hub after seven years, as the NSW government shuts it down. This week's guests are Paloma Newton, cofounder of Elita, a pet genetics and stem cell therapy startup; and Aakash Gupta, cofounder of boostrapped remote work team building and wellness startup Hooray Teams. Motivated to

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50:36

The caravan origin story, tech transforming founder...

Startup 360 ·

2025/08/08

Everyone knows the startup-founded-in-a-garage origin story, but Kinde cofounder David Berner can top that.He was in a caravan travelling in outback NSW with his family, with his two cofounders in Sydney, when they built their developer platform, which takes care of "the boring but essential stuff" to help founders move faster. Kinde in a rare-breed, with two technical cofounders, and Dave adventures led him to settle in the hinterland behind Byron Bay to raise his family of three kids, which the

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64:49

Know thy podcast, where there's a Will there's a...

Startup 360 ·

2025/08/01

Happy horse's birthday!The way the cofounders of podcasting community engagement startup Dome met is positively old-school in an era of swiping left and right. Sophie Greiner and Bella Filacuridi met at an International Women's Day event in Sydney, and the mutual love for the pop culture podcast Shameless launched their friendship. Six months later, their idea for Dome became the Australian entry in the global final of the Red Bull Basement startup competition and they were headed to

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55:11

Pedestrian founder’s big raise, Startup Daily and...

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2025/07/25

Usually the one doing the reporting, Startup Daily and its parent company Pinstripe Media is in the spotlight this week, having been acquired by SmartCompany’s Private Media. AJ Koch fills in for Simon to share how it came together. We also keep the celebratory theme going with two phenomenal guests behind some significant raises from the past week. Chris Wirasinha is the founder of Linkby, the mediatech that just closed a $23M Series B raise. After a successful exit from his first venture,

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60:54

Startup v cancer, the power of mum, AI for due...

Startup 360 ·

2025/07/18

Kish Modi had a rule with friends and family once he was out of intensive care and began his treatment for leukaemia: no crying when they came to visit.His mum , a 157cm (5' 2") powerhouse, laid down the law to everyone who came to visit Kish in hospital. "She's like, no tears, zero emotion, rational conversation only positive thoughts only. No one's allowed to cry in front of Kish," he recalls of his life and death battle with blood cancer on Startup 360 this week. Kish, now in remission after

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56:59

Why inclusion still matters, asking hard questions &...

Startup 360 ·

2025/07/11

Aubrey Blanche has been part of building culture at two great Australian tech companies, Atlassian and Culture Amp.The self-confessed "proudly woke" data nerd, who believes that bringing empathy to the numbers is vital, sat down with Startup 360 cohosts Simon Thomsen and Majella Campbell to talk about workplace inclusion, how business is dealing with the impact of Trump's war on woke, and her own experiences as a former US citizen who now calls Australia home. It's a fascinating conversation

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57:44

How to get from idea to $1m revenue in 4 months with...

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2025/07/04

Black Pearl Group founder Nick Lissette had an idea for a AI-driven sales agent for small business about five months ago.It took 90 days to develop and launch Bebop, the latest product from his New Zealand listed tech company, and within 45 days, it hit $1.2 million in Annual Recurring Revenue (ARR). Black Pearl's previous innovation, Pearl Diver, took 45 days and within two years hit NZ$10 million. Nick, the company's CEO (and briefly CTO), is Startup 360's first international guest, joining

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60:19

Shutting down, then starting again, why science...

Startup 360 ·

2025/06/27

Ammonia is the second most-produced chemical on the planet and without it, we wouldn't be able to feed the world.But making it has been energy intense - until an accidental scientific discovery at the University of Newcastle created the potential for a more environmentally friendly way to produce it. That discovery is a new startup, Facet Amtech, and cofounder James Bradley joined Startup 360 this week to explain how it works and talk about life as a second-time deep tech founder Ammonia is

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54:44

Office romances, funding female founders, trusting...

Startup 360 ·

2025/06/20

Listen to your gut and trust it, says Bree Kirkham from F5 Collective, a venture firm backing women-led startups.Kirkham, who worked for pioneering tech brands including ClassPass, Uber and Airbnb, had plenty to say about women in tech on episode 18 of Startup 360 this week. Cohost Simon Thomsen asked the mother of two what advice she'd give to classroom of young girls. "I think a lot of girls and a lot of women question themselves all day, every day and question their path and question their

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53:33

AI levels the playing field, making the law easier &...

Startup 360 ·

2025/06/13

ETF - exchange traded funds - have become a popular investment since OG fintech entrepreneur Graham Tuckwell pioneered the sector in Australia more than 20 years ago.The local market grew by nearly 40% last year to around $250 billion, but a decade has passed since a new player appeared on the seen bearing a familiar name. David Tuckwell is following in his father's footsteps with ETF Shares, which launched this month after taking part in the Macquarie University Incubator program. The fintech

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