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E2509 Startup Muster – FINAL SHOW

Since 2013, Australia’s Startup Muster report has been an eagerly-awaited snapshot of the state of the national startup ecosystem. Murray Hurps – who oversees Startup Muster under one of the many hats he wears – joins TWISTA to talk through the insights in the report – which can be downloaded at startupmuster.com. As you can imagine, there’s a lot of AI – but which states are doing the best? And how can the ecosystem do better?

And finally – after more then a decade and two hundred plus episodes, I’ve decided to call time on THIS WEEK IN STARTUPS AUSTRALIA. This will be our last show. Big thanks to all the folks who helped me through the years to keep it going – you all know who you are. 

And now, it’s on to other challenges!

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E25E08 Investor Special

In the three years since TWISTA’s last investor special we’ve seen the end of the zero-interest rate environment, a severe inflationary shock – and much more besides. For at least two years raising investment as a startup was harder than it had been in nearly a generation. Is that tumult over? And what have we learned from it? We talk to Aussie Angels founder Cheryl Mack and Jelix Ventures co-founder and CEO Andrea Gardner – and get some great answers.

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E25S05 Rivir

TWISTA tiptoes back across the Tasman to talk to another startup at the 2025 Canterbury Tech Summit. Rivir manufactures a box that provides satellite data access to field-connected sensors of the sort often found in agriculture and mining. So far so good – but what happens when your satellite provider gets bought by StarLink which ‘deorbits’ their constellation? We talk to Rivir co-founder Donna Henderson about negotiating satellites, telcos and investors – on this episode of THIS WEEK IN STARTUPS AUSTRALIA.