The University of Sydney Genesis Program

Genesis EiR and Co-Head Matthew Bright interviews Greg Macpherson, Co-Founder of Wellness Access Institute, a leading global platform dedicated to advancing wellness through open innovation. 

Greg is a founder, futurist, author, biotechnologist and pharmacologist. To set the scene, Greg co-founded WAI about 18 months ago. He is a serial entrepreneur, as the founder of SRW Laboratories and Pharmacy Direct Limited - and an Executive Council Member of Biotech NZ. 

Wellness Access Institute (WA) brings together forces across science, academia, and technology to collaboratively tackle enduring consumer wellness challenges. WAI empowers innovators and researchers, providing them with a platform to promote their ideas and work. By nurturing a dynamic ecosystem of industry leaders, WAI is ensuring the continuous evolution and expansion of the wellness sector. 

Genesis program EiR and co-head Matthew Bright talks to ESG entrepreneurs Jack and Raveen from Everyday Zero, winner of Genesis cohort 32 about their mission, founding story, AI, commercial property and the right dose of hustle and chutzpah to make it all happen in 'bintech' with a hardware product that has a software output.

Dermscreen was the winner of Sydney Genesis Cohort 32. Outgoing Genesis Entrepreneur-in-Residence James Crowther speaks with Founder/CEO Dr Philip Tong on dermatology, his philosophy on entrepreneurship and his experience in the Genesis program.

The Genesis podcast was incredibly fortunate to have Thomas Vitsounis, an Associate Partner at Black Nova, sit down for a chat about what traits he finds desirable in founders! 

You'll find this 1 hour podcast informative and hopefully entertaining as Thomas shares his experience about what traits he values personally, and how to go about developing them if you're not convinced you possess them in full strength just yet!

If you're a founder and are considering investment, Thomas has kindly provided a way for you to contact him on his email address, see below!

thomas@blacknova.vc

We were extremely fortunate to have not one, not two, but three VC's join us for an hour of questions!

If you're working on an idea that you think has potential to have significant, global change, or if you're curious about how VC investment works, this episode if for you! 

Get skilled up by hearing from Kate, Ben and Isabella what the job of an investor is actually like (its nothing like shark tank, dragons den!), how to engage them the right way and what the process is like raising funds from Venture Capital firms.

If you would like to reach out to any of the interviewees about your startup, check out their linkedin profiles below;-

Kate Madden - https://www.linkedin.com/in/kate-madden-9ab95a36/

Isabella Rich - https://www.linkedin.com/in/isabella-rich-a5652060/

Ben Lindsay - https://www.linkedin.com/in/benjaminjamesrichard/

Nicolas Ivanov is one of the friendliest founders you can meet, he also has one of the most interesting back stories, he's studied three degrees, not counting a brief spell at Harvard studying disruptive Strategy.

In this interview with Nic, James Crowther, who runs the Genesis startup Program at the University of Sydney, talks at length about Nic's study, career and what he's learned as he's struck out on his own as a founder. There are some incredibly valuable lessons Nic shares in this episode, so get comfy, and settle in with maybe a pen and notepad!

In Ocotber 2021, Adee walked away with twenty five thousand dollars in cash for winning the University of Sydney's Genesis program. 

Since then they've been winning the hearts and minds of companies like Adobe and Canva who are wanting Adee's software tools for their platforms.

In this interview, we talk with Samine and Javed, partners in both life and business, about their startup journey and a little about what it was like to tackle getting noticed by Adobe and then landing a deal to bring their software to Adobe's creative cloud suite.