Startups' Roundtable

Cynch Security is an innovative startup that specialises in cybersecurity, and especially helping small business owners and their teams to become and remain cyber safe through a tailored cyber fitness experience. Delivering everything a small business needs to securely operate from home, at the office and in the cloud.

Deleep Murali is the Founder and CEO of Zscore and was a guest on this podcast in April 2020. Given all that has happened over the last year, I asked Deleep to give us a window into a startup that has navigated and re-prioritised to attack in 2021.

Co-lab Pantry is Victoria’s first and largest digital restaurant retail partner and they have created an experiential platform that brings people from all areas of hospitality together in one space. In this episode, I am joined by Co-lab Pantry co-founder, Danni Lebon who is an entrepreneur with a passion for community, food and innovation. With a background in design and business, she has worked with over 300 brands across a vast range of industries both local and globally.

The world's population is growing fast, and with that growth, the time we spend at work is growing as well. This leads to a lot of stress and sleepless nights. But what if you could train yourself to be more mindful and be calmer while working? This is what 7Mind tries to achieve with their app, which contains guided meditations and mindfulness exercises. In this episode, Marta Fogel, 7Mind's Head of Performance Marketing, takes us inside the thinking, adjustments, execution and growth plans in this exciting startup.

In this episode, I speak with Camilla Clarke, the Australian Country Manager of Give A Grad A Go, where their recruitment and early-career experts help graduates find exciting employment opportunities. Camilla has worked as graduate recruitment and early career specialist since 2013 and is passionate about helping startups, and SMEs scale their teams. She moved to Melbourne from London to expand the business globally and support recent graduates' career prospects by connecting them with exciting high growth businesses.

Today we are talking to Nicole Tj about Travis and their plan to modernise the travel planning experience. It's making travel planning visual, social, and collaborative - it's the future of travel planning.

Jeroen Corthout is CEO and Founder of Salesflare, where they provide a sales productivity platform for salespeople that helps small and medium businesses close more deals with less effort. Besides being a CEO, Jeroen is also a former account manager and joined me at the Startups' Roundtable podcast to share his views about sales, the importance of sales tools, and the future of sales technology.

Today I'm joined by Jimmy Zhong, the CEO and Founder at Syncio whose mission is to take commerce to its next stage - to Collaborative Commerce. This is Jimmy's third start-up, and he shares experiences and reflections from his Founder's journey. Also, he takes us inside Syncio to share on-the-ground realities, especially as we live through our life and work adjustments of this Covid era.

Today’s guest is Dr Irène Kilubi, founder and managing director of "brandPreneurs &brandFluencers" where she supports pioneers, visionaries and change-makers in the three subject areas of Community Building, Corporate Influencer Strategy and Connecting GenXYZ. Irene’s experiences and passion for growth is a perfect formula to get us started into 2021.

Valeria Ignatieva is Co-CEO and Co-Founder of WORK180 which was created with a mission “To empower every woman to choose a workplace where they can thrive.” WORK180 connects women with progressive employers by pre-screening companies on the amount of paid parental leave, pay equity, flexible working and much more. Transparency around these policies is driving incredible change; on average, once every three weeks a WORK180 Endorsed Employer improves a policy or benefit. Valeria’s relentless focus on diversity, inclusion, and social impact made this an interesting conversation.