Jobkeeper Update. Welcome to a special edition of Science meets VC podcast Todays episode is less about science and more about economics and stimulus packages for the startups and investors David Kenney, Partner at Hall Chadwick is going to give us an update about the Australian Government Stimulus package including the job keeper program David is an old friend of has been an active supporter of Australia’s startup ecosystem New legislation was passed last night, our discussions include updated eligibility criteria as of April 26th This is not financial advice David and I are not your accountants or lawyers Please seek your own financial advice PS Apologies for the sound quality, various WFH issues mean we cant get access to our normal studios

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Jobkeeper Update April 26th

Recorded Wednesday 25th of March 2020. Last month most people had never heard of an epidemiologist now everyone thinks they are one. We have a real Epidemiologist on the show, Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz, aka The Health Nerd talks COVID19. What the key measures are when discussing epidemiology, what we have to watch, which countries have performed well, what the current situation is in Australia.

The Health Nerd - Epidemiologist Gideon Meyerowitz-Katz on COVID19

The inside story of the creation of the Australian plant-based meat company V2 Food. From incorporation to millions of revenue shipping to 450 stores in less than 12 months. Phil Morle Partner at Main Sequence Ventures and Nick Hazell CEO of V2Food. We cover: New Product Announcements How the company was formed How they got to market so quickly Their rapid expansion plans this year (already doing multi-millions in revenue) Venture Science & what it means for Main Sequence Ventures CSIROs role in Venture Creation as a science powerhouse Full disclosure: Our fund Main Sequence Ventures helped create V2 Food and is a significant shareholder in the company.

The inside story of the creation of the V2 Food company

3 short interviews with a few of my favourite teams from the CSIRO ON Accelerator, Hydrogene, Quantum Brilliance and Redback Systems. CSIRO ON Accelerator is an accelerator program that takes University researchers and helps turn their technology into a product and launch a startup to get it out into the world.

Hydrogen, Quantum, Spectroscopy - Short Interviews with CSIRO ON Accelerator Teams

Super interesting discussion from an expert in the Nuclear field. Dr. Mark Ho is a Nuclear Engineer at ANSTO (Australia's Nuclear Science and Technology Organisation) and President of the Australian Nuclear Association. We talk - How to reduce our reliance on coal-fired power plants, powering the country in a decade when they start to shut down. - What steps we need to take to get Nuclear Power in Australia. - Nuclear reactors, how many are there globally, what % of the worlds power do they generate - Australia's Nuclear capability - ANSTOs Nuclear medical business - Safe storage of waste fuel - How long does it take it to build a Nuclear Reactor - Who is leading the world (Hint think red)

Nuclear Power, Replacing Coal & Keeping the Lights On - Dr. Mark Ho, President Australian Nuclear Association

Our good friend Dominic Dirupo from Alphastation explains the process of making an Initial Public Offering or listing your tech, biotech or medtech company on the ASX. We talk about all the steps that need to happen, the mistakes that entrepreneurs make, we discuss the costs, what companies are suited and not suited, traps for young players and steps you can take if you want to get ready.

Listing your tech company on the ASX - Dominic Dirupo Alphastation

What can we grow? - Synthetic Biology is one of the most fascinating and promising technologies of the future. It offers the ability to grow all sorts of new materials, foods, pharmaceuticals and various chemicals at scale cheaper and faster than traditional methods. I interview some of the worlds leading researchers in Synbio at the Australian and New Zealand Synthetic Biology Conference in Brisbane, including - Professor Kirill Alexandrov Professor of Synthetic Biology at Queensland University of Technology https://staff.qut.edu.au/staff/kirill.alexandrov - Associate Professor Dr Claudia Vickers, Synthetic Biology Future Science Platform Leader https://people.csiro.au/V/C/Claudia-Vickers - Matt Gardner CEO of the California Technology Council who is helping QLD build a new Synthetic Biology industry https://www.californiatechnology.org/mattgardnerbio - Dr Madeline Mitchell CSIRO Plant Molecular Physiologist who is building new versions common plants including ironing free and coloured Cotton https://people.csiro.au/M/M/Madeline-Mitchell

What can we grow in the Future? - ANZ SynBio Conference - Assoc Prof Claudia Vickers

Dr Heba Khamis from Contactile - Giving sense of touch to Robots, we discuss robotics, learn how the hand and fingers work and why its so hard to for a robot to have the same sense of touch and feeling as a human. We talk about how Heba and her team have engineered a solution to provide this sense of touch in a scalable flexible sensor.

Dr Heba Khamis from Contactile - Giving sense of touch to robots

Dr Juxi Leitner CEO Founder of LYRO Robotics. Juxi and his team won the Amazon Robotics Challenge. We talk Robotics, Computer Vision and how he managed to beat the world's best robotics teams to win the Amazon Challenge.

Juxi Leitner of LYRO Robotics

Dr Farzane (Fary) Ahmadi founder of Laronix is on a mission to help sufferers of laryngeal cancer who have had a full Laryngectomy. Fary is building an artificial electronic voice box that works by taking sound from the throat and amplifying it with the mouth. Laryngectomy is the removal of the larynx and separation of the airway from the mouth, nose, and esophagus. In a total laryngectomy, the entire larynx is removed. This is crippling for sufferers as it means you can't talk anymore and sufferers experience all sorts of social problems as a result.

Dr Farzane Ahmadi - Building the Bionic Voice

Interview with Dr Pete Ayre founder of CardioBionic manufacturer of the Bionic Heart LVAD. We cover Pete's first heart startup Ventracor, working with the Famous Heart Surgeon Dr Victor Chang, how they got their original heart into +400 patients and his new startup that is building a lower cost, simpler more mechanically reliable heart for the world.

Dr Peter Ayre - Building Australia's Bionic Heart

Today's guest is Dr. David Snowden a University researcher turned successful entrepreneur. David is the founder of Metamako a Sydney based high-speed switch networking company recently acquired by Arista Networks.

Dr David Snowden - Australian Networking startup powering Wall St

Today's guest is Stella Xu, our new Investment Associate at Main Sequence Ventures. Stella most recently worked for The Trade Desk, a hyper-growth Nasdaq listed company in the digital media space as a media trader. She is an expert in helping businesses scale their online acquisition. Stella has also been named as the 30 under 30 and a woman to watch by the online marketing authority site B and T. In this episode, Stella shared her experience in helping businesses grow revenue by 20x through real-time trading campaigns. She discussed the cost-efficient strategies startups can use to target the most relevant users with personal messages.

Stella Xu - What startups need to know about digital marketing

Today's guest is David Jones, founder of Threatmetrix the Unicorn Australian company that many of you probably have never heard of, that very quietly sold last year to UK based Relx for $850 million USD (>$1b AUD). David has a number of other ventures running now and is an angel investor in local tech companies and discusses the challenge of taking a tech startup global.

David Jones - Lessons from an Australian Unicorn Exit

Todays guest is David Burt Executive Manager of the CSIRO ON Accelerator, Australia’s largest researcher accelerator ON is Australia's national science and technology accelerator program serving Australia’s 43 Universities, the CSIRO, and other publicly funded research institutes. David talks about the 2000 researchers the program has helped to either launch startups or connect with industry to commercialise their research. David discusses the future of the ON program when the original Federal Government Budget allocation runs out next year.

David Burt - Helping 2000 researchers transform science into startups

Mike Nicholls, Partner at Main Sequence Ventures interviews Scientists, Engineers, Entrepreneurs & Investors to work out how they translate science & technology into products & companies.

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