The Unicorns Podcast

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Nov 2026

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The Unicorns Podcast connects you to some of the best and brightest founders, CEOs, executives, business owners, VCs and inspiring leaders who make things happen and inspire others. Hosted by media and PR veteran Justin Kelly, we chat to leaders on the front line on how to get started, what it takes to build a successful business, how to overcome challenges, and advice for those on a similar journey.

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November 10, 202628 min

Full Steam Ahead with Hadean Energy

In this episode, Justin speaks with Liz Boylan, CEO of Hadean Energy, and Henry Hamilton from RFC Ambrian, which co-founded the Melbourne-based clean technology company with CSIRO. Australia's hydrogen industry has had a reality check. Once touted as the next big export opportunity, many ambitious projects have struggled to get off the ground as high electricity costs and challenging economics dampened investor enthusiasm. But Hadean is targeting a hydrogen market that already exists. Industries including steelmaking, fertiliser production, refining and chemicals use enormous amounts of hydrogen, most of it produced using fossil fuels. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

November 5, 202618 min

How N&E Innovations is tackling global food waste

Every year, more than a billion tonnes of food is thrown away around the world. Fresh fruit and vegetables spoil before they reach supermarket shelves, food goes off in our fridges and enormous amounts of perfectly good produce are lost during storage and transport. Singapore-based deep-tech company N&E Innovations believes it has developed a solution, using discarded cashew nut husks to create a natural antimicrobial ingredient that can extend the shelf life of fresh food by up to four times. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

October 29, 202629 min

How Senetas is turning sovereign security demand into global growth

In this episode, Justin speaks with Andrew Wilson, CEO of Senetas (ASX), an Australian cybersecurity company protecting some of the world’s most sensitive information with high-speed network encryption. Senetas has been turning its international sales pipeline into results, reporting FY26 revenue of $20.2 million and securing its first South American sales. A deal worth approximately $2.5 million to Senetas demonstrates how its Australian-built technology can help governments protect sensitive data while retaining control of their own encryption algorithms. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

October 16, 202628 min

Elastic asks, can AI protect us from AI?

In this episode, Justin speaks with Mandy Andress, Chief Information Security Officer at global technology company Elastic, about how artificial intelligence is transforming cybersecurity, both for cybercriminals and the businesses trying to stop them. AI is giving attackers powerful new tools to launch faster, more sophisticated cyberattacks, while security teams are struggling to keep pace with an overwhelming volume of potential threats. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

October 9, 202652 min

Has Australia lost its appetite for risk?

In this episode, Justin speaks with former NSW Premier Nick Greiner AC and veteran global investment executive Kirk West about Australia's attitude towards risk, the challenges facing businesses seeking capital and whether the country has become too conservative for its own good. Australia is one of the wealthiest countries in the world, with trillions of dollars in superannuation, a strong banking system and no shortage of entrepreneurs looking to build and grow businesses. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September 21, 202627 min

Inside BDX Markets: Reinventing Online Trading with Blockchain

In this episode of The Unicorns Podcast, we sit down with Andy Ting from BDX Markets to explore one of the biggest challenges facing the rapidly growing online trading industry: trust. As millions of traders across Asia and beyond use platforms such as MT4 and MT5 to access global markets, BDX is betting that blockchain technology can bring a new level of transparency and visibility to the way trading infrastructure operates. Andy takes us inside the launch of BDX Markets, explains how its blockchain-powered model works, and discusses the convergence of traditional trading and Web3. We also explore the growth of retail trading across Asia, what traders increasingly expect from brokers and platforms, and whether blockchain could help reshape the future of the global CFD industry. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September 10, 202630 min

Grain Expectations: Cropify’s AI grading ambitions go global

In this episode, Justin speaks with Anna Falkiner and Andrew Hannon, the husband-and-wife founders of Adelaide agtech company Cropify, which is using artificial intelligence to transform the way grain is graded. For generations, trained grain graders have visually inspected samples for defects, contamination and quality. Those assessments help determine what grain is worth, but differences in human judgement can lead to costly disputes between buyers and sellers. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

September 8, 202623 min

Kraken - How crypto is becoming the plumbing of modern finance

In this episode, host Justin Kelly welcomes back Jonathon Miller, Kraken’s Managing Director for Australia and Rest of World, to explore how digital assets are moving beyond a standalone investment category and into the infrastructure underpinning modern finance. Jonathon discusses the growing convergence between crypto and traditional finance, including how tokenisation could make markets faster, more accessible and less constrained by conventional trading hours and settlement cycles. He also explains what investors should understand about the differences between tokenised assets and direct ownership. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

August 28, 202636 min

Eudaemon Technologies is reinventing the condom

In this episode, Justin speaks with Nick Northcott, co-founder and CEO of Eudaemon Technologies, the Australian medtech company that has spent more than a decade trying to reinvent one of the world's most familiar products: the condom. The problem Eudaemon is trying to solve is remarkably simple. Condoms work, but a lot of people don't like using them. Eudaemon believes that if it can make a condom that feels materially better, more people will actually want to use one. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices

August 21, 202635 min

AI infrastructure pure-play SCX makes its ASX debut

In this episode, Justin speaks with David Keane, founder and CEO of SCX.ai, as the Australian AI infrastructure company makes its debut on the ASX. Trading under the ticker SCX, the company is Australia’s first ASX-listed pure-play sovereign AI inference infrastructure company, providing the computing power that allows businesses and governments to run AI applications while keeping their data in Australia. Learn more about your ad choices. Visit megaphone.fm/adchoices