The Morgo Podcast

VXT automates AI notes from calls and meetings for lawyers. When Luke & co-founder Lucy Turner learned how much time lawyers spent recording time and notes from calls, they set out to solve the problem by building a phone system that integrates with legal software. Luke talks about getting customers on board, expanding offshore, the skills he brings to the role and the need to choose a co-founder carefully. VXT now has ARR of $10M and is growing at 10% per month.
www.vxt.co.nz

Mars Bioimaging has developed a mobile colour CT for high quality scanning of hands and wrists. It has FDA approval in the US and is selling to the orthopaedic & emergency markets in the US & NZ. Ojas became CEO to focus on the commercialisation of the product and lead the push into the market. Key lessons: find your customer (a large market) and only then start throwing money at it. You'll fail a lot more than you win – you need to push through. 

www.marsbioimaging.com

Tait Communications is a provider of critical communications for public safety, emergency services utilities & enterprises. Yoram became CEO in 2021 and has grown the company from 450 people to over 1300. Plans include a new state of the art manufacturing facility & a Centre of Excellence with over 10 labs. Yoram says the key to the growth is having a strong business case for every R&D project or acquisition and making sure you have the right people. 

www.taitcommunications.com

OpenStar is nuclear fusion company. In this podcast Ratu talks about the pathway of building the business: the science, the people, the funding. The core technology is a levitated dipole containing a plasma at temperatures of millions of degrees, which OpenStar demonstrated recently. Now OpenStar plans larger machines and temperatures of millions of degrees to make medical isotopes and electricity. This requires a team of very smart and very driven people. 

www.openstar.tech

Silverstripe partners with governments and enterprises to create the digital infrastructure that underpins everyday life in Aotearoa and beyond. Sigurd shares its journey from small startup to a mature company of 70 people whose open-source CMS powers over 200 NZ government websites. Their work is aiding digital transformation internationally too, as in South Africa where they delivered a single digital front door to government services in just 10 weeks.
www.silverstripe.com