Deep Tech & Science
Hard science startups — robotics, space, quantum and materials.
Hard-science startups play a different game — longer timelines, real technical risk, heavier capital — and the usual SaaS playbook doesn't transfer cleanly. The upside is that the moat is genuine when the science works.
Founders in robotics, space, quantum and materials, and the specialist investors who back them, talk through funding the long road, de-risking technology and commercialising the truly hard stuff.
“If you can control who gets the coffee from A to B, but you are not the person who gets it from A to B, you win in the industry.”
Answers are drawn live from the network's conversations by Ask the Network.
29 episodes on Deep Tech & Science
▶ Oversubscribed with Brendan Hill · 18 June 2026
Inside HEO: Australia’s Secret Space Camera Company | Hiranya Jayakody, Steve Baxter, Jessy Wu
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 30 January 2026
Why the Next AI Breakthrough Is Robotics
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 23 January 2026
Inside Neural Decoding: How AI Turns Brain Signals Into Meaning
▶ Pick My Brain with Alan Jones · 14 January 2026
How to Pitch Deep Tech to Investors With Competing Priorities
▶ Oversubscribed with Brendan Hill · 20 November 2025
Inside the Minds Behind Australia’s Robotics Revolution
▶ The New Script with Frances Goh & Makenzie Thomas · 6 November 2025
How Kali Healthcare is Reimagining Fetal Monitoring to Improve Pregnancy Outcomes
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 29 August 2025
How Digital Twins & AI Are Saving Billions in Infrastructure Costs | Jack Curtis from Neara
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 27 June 2025
The Billion-Dollar AI Opportunity No One’s Talking About - With Asseti’s Aonghus Stevens
▶ Diaspora NZ with David Booth · 2 May 2025
S3 | E8 – Adrian Macneil (Co-Founder & CEO at Foxglove) on Developer Tools for Robotics, and Why Ambitious Kiwis Need to Go — and Come Back Smarter
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 24 April 2025
Accelerating Discovery: Alain Richardt on AI, Quantum Chemistry, and the Future of Materials Science
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 16 April 2025
AI Agents, AlphaGo & the $18B Wrapper: Will Liang on What’s Next in AI
▶ Diaspora NZ with David Booth · 11 April 2025
S3 | E6 Anton Jackson Smith (Founder of b.next) on building synthetic cells, programmable biology, and the future of biotech
▶ Diaspora NZ with David Booth · 14 March 2025
S3 | E2 - Kathryn Zealand (Skip) on robotic exoskeletons, mobility for life, and spinning out of Google X
▶ The Mix with Mick Liubinskas · 4 March 2025
Brewing Palm Oil in a Lab: Tom Collier on the Future of Sustainable Ingredients with Levur
▶ The Mix with Mick Liubinskas · 10 February 2025
Scaling Sustainability: How Enaxiom is Driving Industrial Change with HydroCOOL
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 29 January 2025
Decoding DeepSeek's AI Breakthrough: The $5M Model That Shook Nvidia
▶ The Mix with Mick Liubinskas · 12 January 2025
Building Big Batteries and a Climate-Positive Future: Thomas Nann on Allegro’s Energy Solutions
▶ The Mix with Mick Liubinskas · 5 January 2025
Revolutionising Energy Transition: A Conversation with DNA Energy’s Co-Founder Dan Barber
▶ The Mix with Mick Liubinskas · 29 December 2024
Innovating Sustainable Textile Dyes: A Conversation with Newera Bio's Co-Founder Lucie Semenec
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 6 December 2024
Innovating for Better Brains: Christina Maher's Journey with BrainLand
▶ First Cheque with Cheryl Mack & Maxine Minter · 18 November 2024
Navigating the Hype Cycles and Early-Stage Deep Tech Investing with Emily
▶ In The Blink Of AI with Georgie Healy · 15 November 2024
Mapping Human Emotions: Nicole Gibson on inTruth's Biometric Breakthrough
▶ Unfunded with Joan Westenberg · 18 July 2024
Optimising Crop Quality: Steve Scheding on Green Atlas, Automation, and Bootstrapping Success
▶ The Mix with Mick Liubinskas · 29 November 2022
From Food Waste to Climate Solutions: Olympia Yarger and Goterra’s Innovative Approach
▶ The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem - Interview Series · 20 March 2022
Phil Morle explains the struggles that incubators often face
▶ The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem - Interview Series · 20 February 2022
Hamish Hawthorn discusses the evolution of the ecosystem
▶ The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem - Interview Series · 13 February 2022
Sarah Pearson on the importance of cooperation and competition
▶ The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem - Interview Series
Darryl Lyons believes Australia has an opportunity to lead the world in Agri-tech
▶ The History of the Australian Startup Ecosystem - Interview Series
Dharmica Mistry discusses the distinction between deep tech startups and other startups
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