Montu is on a mission to improve the lives of millions of Australians through medical cannabis therapies. As an early investor, I have seen firsthand how the company has helped thousands of patients.

Montu has built an integrated cannabis ecosystem, which streamlines the journey for patients end-to-end, and sets new standards in cannabis care. Montu has grown by 20,728% over the three years to 2022. This month, Montu was named by Deloitte as the country’s fastest-growing technology company and by the Australian Financial Review (AFR) as the fifth fastest-growing start-up.

The Deloitte Technology Fast 50 ranks the 50 fastest-growing public and private technology companies in the country based on minimum cumulative revenues of A$8 million over three years. Montu took out first place, growing by a massive 20,728% over the three years to 2022 – the fastest growth of any tech company that has made the list since 2004.

Patients have more control over their medication ordering and cannabis care consultations with their own personalised portal.

Cannabis is the fastest growing industry in the world, resulting in a US$150bn global market over the forthcoming years.  Changing cannabis legislation in Australia and New Zealand opens a new chapter in healthcare with access to safer and healthier medication, and ultimately the road to a wellness and recreational market.

Montu connects Australians to highly qualified doctors via our Alternaleaf telehealth platform. And support them throughout their journey, with our dedicated patient care team. From online booking, to tele-consultations, product selection and dispensing of medication. Montu provide patients with a supportive and judgement-free environment.

Growing portfolio of high-quality brands.

Montu has built an integrated cannabis ecosystem, which streamlines the journey for patients end-to-end, and sets new standards in cannabis care. After decades of scientific negligence of the cannabis plant, research is proving what people already knew thousands of years ago: That cannabis can have a positive impact on peoples’ lives. Australia and New Zealand are predicted to be the next major cannabis markets, estimated to grow to AU$1.7 billion by 2023.

Internationally, superfoods have grown into multi-billion dollar industries, while Australian superfoods have remained largely untapped.

That is, until Roogenic launched and started making effective wellness products that addressed the top health concerns of consumers globally. And it’s worked.

At Roogenic, they passionately support wild-harvest farming practices to help encourage Indigenous employment, Indigenous land care initiatives and the sharing of traditional culture between generations.

Roogenic believe in celebrating Indigenous culture every day and proudly donate part profits from every sale to community.

The company has been profitable for the last 4 years while supporting our Indigenous First Nation partners. This success has come from you, the 800 retailers & 150,000 customers who have benefited from Roogenic’s products.

Roogenic partners with naturopaths to create delicious teas and tonics that offer effective natural remedies for sleep, gut health, inflammation and more.

The medicinal bushfoods included in each blend are wildly harvested or organically grown and all-natural, sustainably sourced from Indigenous communities and small farmers across Australia. After experiencing the potent health benefits of Australian bushfoods, our customers have become passionate brand advocates, culminating in over 8,000+ five-star reviews.

Roogenic operates a successful multi-channel business model with an established presence in e-commerce, retail and national and international wholesale distribution.

Roogenic purposefully have multiple customer touch points, making our products accessible in-store and online.

Today, customers can find their favourite Roogenic products and discover new Roogenic offerings online and in over 800 retailers, including Myer and supermarkets in Singapore and Japan.

From the beginning this investment has been set out to build a community, not a customer base. By providing a personable brand experience with interactive content, our social media following has grown to over 90,000 people and an email database is now at over 50,000 subscribers.

In 2021, the wellness industry was valued at US$4.75 trillion with an annual growth rate of 6.4% but had little representation from Australian bushfood companies despite there being strong demand.

At Roogenic, we plan to work with more International distributors to improve the health of millions of people worldwide with Australian bushfoods. With your support, we can continue to work with Indigenous growers and manufacture new product ranges with unique health benefits that we can take to the rest of the world.

Visit Roogenic here

In 2012 Renae Bunster squeezed in 13 different fruit and veggies in to one bottle of hot sauce and irrevocably changed the condiment landscape.

Since launching off of the back of a good old fashioned crowd funding campaign in 2015, raising $250,000 Bunsters just keeps kicking goals.

Bunsters’ Shit the Bed sauce has been a number-one seller on Amazon in the States, and it’s on the shelves in some 600 independent supermarkets in Australia.

They’ve doubled their hot sauce offering, done a sell out Peanut Butter Collaboration and come up with an entirely new direction for the company in a booming segment: A subscription based Ready to Drink Cocktail Club launching this month.

Bunsters core product range is constantly expanding with fresh creations and collaborations with other brands. The same relentless pursuit of quality is being applied to their ready-to-drink cocktail range.

Fans were blown away as no one had ever put this much care and attention into the flavour, packaging and branding of a hot sauce before. Fast forward 10 years later and Bunsters is doing it again, but in two separate booming industries that have seen massive growth off the back of COVID:

There’s nothing in the world like Bunsters Cocktail Club. Fresh, delicious, fully Australian made classic cocktails in a can, delivered to your door every month.

Today I am excited to announce I have taken an investment and advisory board position at Mozaik Play, the first and only specialised student agency for the creative industries worldwide.

Economic statistics reveal a booming trend the creative industries with the sector providing more than 30 million jobs globally and contributes revenue of US$2.2 trillion.

Mozaik Play was the brainchild of Gabriel Providel, founder and CEO. Gabriel has a strong track record in leading education, digital creative, and technology businesses having previously held roles with Redhill Education and Navitas. I met Gabriel through Simon Ward at Apollo League and organisation that connects leaders with start up companies that fills a real gap on both sides of the investment community for talent.

Gabriel created Mozaik Play two years ago to create a platform to connect the next generation of creative professionals with the most reputable creative media colleges worldwide to fuel growth across the creative economy.

Mozaik Play has over one hundred contractual agreements with the world’s top creative schools across the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia, NZ, Singapore, and Malaysia. Creative powerhouses such as Gnomon, Vancouver Film School, and Istituto Marangoni.

Before Mozaik Play, students would struggle to find a way to connect with the right creative college worldwide. Colleges had problems, too, as they did not have the resource or market expertise to recruit the right student worldwide. Even study agents who represent over 10,000 globally would struggle to service creative students because they don’t have the skills or placement contracts with creative schools.

Mozaik Play’s solution was to create a student marketplace connecting students, creative colleges, and recruiters in the creative industries space. Teachers and graduates from these premium colleges have worked on such innovative franchises as Lord of the Rings, Avengers, Frozen, and games like Call of Duty, Counter-Strike, Minecraft.

Mozaik Play partners with study agents to help them service and place creative students and earn commissions. There are over 8,000 significant schools and universities globally and 10,000+ study agents who help students in every country worldwide choose a course, choose a school, get through the admissions process, apply for a visa and attend in person or study online.

This entire industry is focused on standard courses where admissions are based on grades instead of creative portfolios. Study agents globally struggle to advise students on their creative portfolio and do not have, and cannot quickly get, contracts with creative schools.

What I was excited about was Mozaik Play passion to solve this problem. 

Since launching, Mozaik Play has built an MVO with the core operational infrastructure that supports a growing pipeline. They have established twenty-five global offices and partnerships with study agents and launched an exclusive affiliate deal with the most prominent creative student portal, The Rookies.

Mozaik Play is now in Series A funding round to complete and build the B2B SaaS solution enabling sub-agents and members to across course inventory and tools.

I am very much looking forward to working closely with Gabriel and his team at Mozaik Play in achieving our growth plans across the business and empowering people to pursue a career in the creative industries.

More to come.

The world has fallen into the trap of constant ‘doing.’ We’re forever busy with work, family life, and digital distractions. We’ve forgotten the importance of being still, mindful, and present.

21st & Dolores, my personal business venture, has spent the last twelve months with an experiment called Connection Oils exploring how natural organic essential oils combined with technology can help create well-being, alertness, relationship connection, and stillness.

The result of this work has created auric, the world’s first beautiful, connected, and personalized essential oils experience.

auric is a platform, a digital defusing device for your home that combines essential oils and experiences, a daily sequenced playlist for your senses to cleanse the mind, purify the body and give you the high awareness required to create intimacy with others.

auric’s beautiful range of essential oil blends are designed to give you what you need at the right moment, and are activated and sequenced via our mobile app.

To be part of the auric community or be part of the second-round investment of the platform click here.