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PROXGRID's Rasmus and Aiden: Live from Perth Residency Week
Founder Stories·19 hours ago

PROXGRID's Rasmus and Aiden: Live from Perth Residency Week

PROXGRID's Rasmus Gupta and Aiden Cairns are in the midst of Founders Factory’s Perth Residency Week working alongside utilities, investors, mentors and fellow founders.

blueprint's Sharna Glover: Live from Perth Residency Week
Founder Stories·2 days ago

blueprint's Sharna Glover: Live from Perth Residency Week

For Sharna, the week is about turning early traction into momentum. "It will be great to connect with Rio Tinto to further progress our proof of concept trials that we have underway," she says. We talked to her about the problem blueprint was built to solve, why now is the moment for it, and what the Rio Tinto cohort unlocks next.

How insurance will change after a decade of AI
Insights & Trends·9 days ago

How insurance will change after a decade of AI

As AI changes the world we live in it is reshaping what risks people and corporations want to protect against and what data is available to price these risks, assuming there is any relevant data at all. So how do you “win” in insurance now we operate in a reality that keeps rewriting itself?

Critical nature for critical infrastructure - Leaning in to interdependence
Insights & Trends·22 days ago

Critical nature for critical infrastructure - Leaning in to interdependence

Within industrial sectors opportunity lies for tech that leans into interdependence rather than builds around it. If a port uses concrete infrastructure, why shouldn’t that concrete provide a home for marine life which in turn benefits fishing and farming communities?

How we turned a wastestream into a second business
Founder Stories·a month ago

How we turned a wastestream into a second business

Everyone in the industry already knows this product has potential. But it was never designed to be sold. It was a waste stream that people had a vague, non-monetised sense was probably useful.

Winning customers and capital as a startup in heavy industry
Insights & Trends·a month ago

Winning customers and capital as a startup in heavy industry

Through our Future Industry Partnership work commercialising climate solutions in heavy industry, we look at how founders in this space can prepare effectively for winning customers and investors alike.

Why medium-temperature geothermal is an overlooked clean-energy opportunity
Founder Stories·2 months ago

Why medium-temperature geothermal is an overlooked clean-energy opportunity

The geothermal industry has always focused on high-temperature hydrothermal resources in volcanic regions. In reality, there is a mid-temperature heat that provides perfect clean energy to power your local grid or data centre.

What it takes to build frontier technology in healthcare
Insights & Trends·2 months ago

What it takes to build frontier technology in healthcare

Healthcare technologies are subject to longer timelines and more unforgiving de-risking requirements than most venture-backed categories tolerate. But the on-ramp of capital, infrastructure, regulatory precedent has never been wider for founders who understand exactly what's being asked of them.

The $3 trillion dollar problem with red mud
Insights & Trends·2 months ago

The $3 trillion dollar problem with red mud

There is an estimated $3 trillion worth of metal value sitting inside more than 4 billion tonnes of this waste, and over 150 million tonnes are added to the pile every year. Dealing with red mud, the byproduct left over from alumina production, has never been straightforward.

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