Oversubscribed with Brendan Hill Building with Atoms and Bits: 5 Founders Making Hard Tech in Australia | HEO, Alloy, Vexev, Zabidou, Antares
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About Joe Harris
Joe Harris is founder and CEO of Alloy Robotics, a Sydney company building AI agents that help robotics engineers investigate failures across robot fleets. The agents analyse logs, telemetry, video and sensor records. Harris is an electrical engineer. He was previously Chief Commercial Officer at Eucalyptus, where Forbes Australia reports he helped grow revenue from $3 million to $170 million. Alloy came out of stealth in September 2025 with a $4.5 million pre-seed round led by Blackbird. In August 2026 it raised a US$8 million seed round led by Square Peg at a US$80 million valuation, and it is expanding into the United States.
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- Deep Tech & Science, Founder Journey, Fundraising, Hiring & Team
In conversation.
2 episodes
Start hereInside the Minds Behind Australia’s Robotics RevolutionA three-guest conversation centred on robotics and why Australia needs to make things again, closest to Alloy's work.
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Key moments from Building with Atoms and Bits: 5 Founders Making Hard Tech in Australia | HEO, Alloy, Vexev, Zabidou, Antares.
- 2:21Founder intros: HEO, Alloy, Vexev, Zabidou & Antares
- 5:53Why humanoid robots are still 5+ years away
- 7:50HEO's natural language satellite tasking & "vibe tasking" robots
- 12:35Hiring in deep tech: why PhDs aren't a requirement anymore
- 14:27Finding & training young talent in robotics
- 20:52US vs Australia: aerospace talent, poaching & the Golden Dome effect
- 27:50Why US investors now believe in Australian hard tech
- 30:54"Competition is for losers": building what no one else has
- 32:43How fundraising for hard tech has changed in 5 years
- 41:05Zabidou's brutal pre-seed deadline & capital efficiency
The path so far.
- Now
Founder & CEO · Alloy Robotics
- Until 2024 · Scale-up
Chief Commercial Officer · Eucalyptus
- Earlier · Scale-up
Software Engineer · Atlassian
Sources: forbes.com.au, grokipedia.com
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