SUDS, with Climate Salad’s Mick Liubinskas on the challenge ahead, talking tech to everyone, crowdfunding booms & how the US loves Aussie cybersec

Every week on the Startup Daily TV show, we talk to more than two dozen founders, CEOs, investors and experts about what’s happening in tech.

Now you can catch the best of the show with the weekly podcast, SUDS.

Each week on SUDS, host Simon Thomsen has a special guest join him to discuss the big news of the week, tell their story and also tackle a big idea in their area of expertise, before we run through the TV show’s highlights.

Simon’s special guest this week is Climate Salad co-founder Mick Liubinskas, on the alarming Australian State of the Environment Report released this week. We talk about his conversion to climate tech after returning from the US, its potential to address some of our biggest challenges, the need for venture capital support, and how to use beer to sell the environment..

From the Startup Daily Show this week, Sally-Ann Williams, CEO of Cicada Innovations, talks about how to leverage renewed interest in science and tech, and how to address fear.

Birchal MD Matt Vitale takes us through a boom financial year for crowdfunding, with investment up 82%, and how retail investors love beer and sustainability.

MITRE corporation is ramping up cybersecurity collaboration between the US and Australia, via the MITRE Center for Information Integrity & Defense, based at Lot Fourteen in Adelaide and due to open next year. MITRE’s chief legal officer and snr VP of operations, Julie Bowen, outlined the issues, threats and how Australia is leading the way in tackling them.