Advice from world-class founders and operators

This week in Perth, Supra Elemental Recovery's Katie Durham has been spending five intensive days alongside operators, investors and fellow founders at the heart of the global mining industry.

This week in Perth, HydraLink’s Simon Taylor is spending five intensive days in the same room as operators, investors and fellow founders who are thinking at the same scale of ambition, across a range of different industries.

The scale of what we do not know about our oceans and the scale of what we are losing from them are directly related. You cannot protect what you cannot see. However the technology to change that at a meaningful scale, in real time, across the full expanse of the ocean environment is now becoming available.

Culture, in practice, is the bar you hold and what you tolerate when people miss it. You set the bar in the first conversation with hire number one and it’s reinforced (or quietly eroded) every week after that.

What has changed most visibly in the past two years is the appetite from investors, health systems, and policymakers to close the gap between European innovation and real-world deployment at scale.

There's a huge population of people with chronic, severe paralysis who are desperate for something that actually works for them, and nobody is really building for them. That's where we wanted to go.

What would it mean for ordinary people to have a meaningful stake in their own energy supply?

Heart disease remains the largest driver of healthcare expenditure worldwide, yet it is also one of the most manageable conditions when detected early.

Venga is building the platform layer for modern hosting, a vertically integrated toolset that allows anyone to create, manage and monetise gatherings with ease.

The fastest-growing companies in the current market are converging on a different approach. Hire for intrinsic drive, adaptability, and raw capability.

Learn more about our latest Venture Studio spinout, and how they’re transforming the insurance landscape

AI is increasingly the tool that exposes those inefficiencies and removes them at scale, a practical decision-making engine embedded directly into real-world systems. 

Nebuly is building the visibility layer for the AI era, a new class of analytics that helps enterprises truly understand how people use generative AI.

Looking back, the single most important decision we made was starting B2C first, even though it meant slower growth.