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The Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastBenjamin Feagin Jr., CEO of Hydroponics Social Enterprise, AgriTech NorthS2 E8 AGRITECH NORTH
The final episode of Season 2 of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast brings us to Dryden in Northwestern Ontario where we meet Benjamin Feagin Jr., Co-Founder & CEO of a social enterprise that is tackling the challenge of food security through advancements in hydroponics. Ben introduces us to AgriTech North and challenges our assumptions about organic food systems, sustainability and workforce development, and how indoor agriculture should be tackled in rural and remote communities. In conversation with Frontier co-hosts Braden Kemp (Fundspoke) and Tracy Morningstar (CCIB), Ben explains why we should decentralize R&D infrastructure, while carefully timing...
2025-05-296h 56The Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastCollin Juurakko, Founder & CEO of Advanced AgriscienceS2 E7 ADVANCED AGRISCIENCE
How do you stop frost formation with bacteria? In this latest episode of Nventure's Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast, we dive into more mind-bending breakthroughs in Canadian agricultural biotech. Join us for a fascinating conversation with Dr. Collin Juurakko, PhD, Founder and CEO of Advanced Agriscience, as co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar explore the origins and applications of biological frost disruption and how it could potentially stabilize vast swathes of global agriculture.
Resources and links
Background study on Bacterial Ice Nucleation: A Factor in Frost Injury to Plants (1982)
Science: Fighting the Biotech Wars...
2025-05-0834 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastShari van de Pol, Founder of Dairy Platform Start-up, CATTLEyticsS2 E6 CATTLEYTICS
Data, predictive analytics, dynamic communications and digital twins make up the virtual landscape of modern dairy farms. Bringing it all together into a comprehensive platform for some of the largest cattle operations in the world is veterinarian, computer engineer and entrepreneur, Shari van de Pol, polymath and Founder of CATTLEytics. “Dairy farmers we work with are some of the most incredible, innovative, understanding, hard-working people out there, and that’s one of the reasons I love doing what I do,” Shari says. In this episode of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast, co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar explor...
2025-03-2732 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastMorgan Wyatt, Co-Founder of Natural Materials Start-up, Advanced Biofibre TechnologiesS2 E5 ADVANCED BIOFIBRE
The approach to an environmentally sustainable future runs through dangerous territory. Trying to get better, we make things worse. Solving one problem, we create another... and another… how then should green products be designed and introduced?
Today’s episode of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast brings you an in-depth conversation with Morgan Wyatt, PhD in chemical biology and serial innovator. As Tracy characterizes Morgan's entrepreneurial philosophy, he exemplifies trust, a promise and an outlook built on a firm resolve to “stop disrupting nature.” From Greenlid to Botanical Symbiotics to Advanced Biofibre Technologies and more, Morgan’s...
2025-02-2539 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastMingyang Sun, President & COO of Biotech Venture, Nature RecombinedS2 E4 NATURE RECOMBINED
Co-Hosts Braden Kemp (Bioenterprise Canada) and Tracy Morningstar (Canadian Council for Indigenous Business) are joined today by Ming Sun, President & COO of Nature Recombined Sciences, makers of ApiSave™—a natural botanical extract for improving bee health. They delve into the world of biotech entrepreneurship and explore the importance of protecting the world’s most important pollinator.
“Is it dangerous for honeybees right now?” Sun asks. “Yes, it is. It’s not just one disease or pathogen but all of the antibiotics, pesticides and chemicals. Coupled with indirect factors such as climate change, this is putting bees...
2025-02-0435 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastBrad McKay, Founder & CEO of Food Microfactory Start-up, Meals on the MoveS2 E3 MEALS ON THE MOVE
Co-Hosts Braden Kemp (Bioenterprise Canada) and Tracy Morningstar (Canadian Council for Indigenous Business) are joined by Brad McKay, Founder & CEO of Meals On the Move (MOM). Brad’s company is a Toronto-based Canadian start-up preparing to deploy an array of robotic micro-factories designed to optimize food catering services for institutions like hospitals and care facilities, each within a defined geographic area and population base.
Brad is passionate about the potential of automation, and in this episode shares his ideas on entrepreneurship, sources of inspiration, and explains why the changes he is pu...
2025-01-1534 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastAnthony Wingham, Co-Founder of Indigenous Cosmetics Venture, Nuez AcresS2 E2 NUEZ ACRES
Today, our exploration continues with Co-Hosts Braden Kemp (Bioenterprise Canada) and Tracy Morningstar (Canadian Council for Indigenous Business) in conversation with Anthony Wingham, Co-Founder of Nuez Acres: a British Columbia-based Indigenous company formulating cosmetics products from pecan oil. In this episode we touch on the history of the pecan tree, adapting pecan oil for beauty products, the “seed to skin” sustainability approach at Nuez Acres, and how their work is part of a broader “waterless revolution” happening now in the cosmetics industry.
Quick Links and References
Nuez Acres official website
Kimmerer, Robin Wall. Braiding Sweetgra...
2024-12-1640 min
The Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastRashmi Prakash, CEO of Bio-manufacturing Start-up, Aruna RevolutionS2 E1 ARUNA REVOLUTION
Season 2 of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast is finally here, as we begin an exploration of Canadian ag/biotech and agri-food innovation with Co-Hosts Braden Kemp (Bioenterprise Canada) and Tracy Morningstar (Canadian Council for Indigenous Business).
Did you know that period pads can contain heavy metals and carcinogens, and that they sit in landfills for hundreds of years? Meanwhile, in favour of plastic, gigatons of agricultural residuals are wasted. Useful natural fibres are being left behind in fields, season after season. But our first guest, Rashmi Prakash (CEO of Aruna Revolution) is working with...
2024-11-2935 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastVictoria Xu, Co-Founder of Green Hydrogen Start-Up, CleanInnoGenEpisode #11 CleanInnoGen
If green hydrogen will be the fuel of the future, many technological breakthroughs will be needed. Deeptech ventures are charting a course through the outer reaches of thermo-chemical engineering to a new era of net zero energy abundance. Today, Co-Hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar take you to the industrial frontier with Victoria Xu, impact entrepreneur, angel investor and Founder of CleanInnoGen.
As noted by Foresight Canada (CleanInnoGen was a Foresight 50 2023 Honouree): "CleanInnoGen helps to decarbonize heavy industries like steel and cement by using their waste heat to drive a chemical process, the copper-chlorine cycle...
2024-03-2629 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastThomas Storwick, Co-Founder of Cleantech Start-up, Coastal CarbonEpisode #10 Coastal Carbon
Thomas Storwick from Coastal Carbon uses satellite data and AI technology to speak for the trees... or in this case, the kelp! His platform is enabling blue carbon credits, data-driven marine ecosystem restoration, protection of biodiversity, sustainable aquaculture and economic development–even in remote locations around the world, where Indigenous communities are so often at the global forefront of climate action. As Thomas remarks, "None of this remote monitoring would be possible without AI. We're doing measurements that were impossible before and at a scale that wasn't feasible."
Today, we take you to the in...
2024-02-2137 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastWilliam Jones, Founder & CEO of Digital Health Start-up, Leynek MedicalEpisode #9 Leynek Medical
William Jones from Leynek Medical is engineering new hardware and software solutions for digital healthcare transformation. Join Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast Co-Hosts Braden Kemp (Bioenterprise) and Tracy Morningstar (Canadian Council for Aboriginal Business) as they learn more about William’s mission and vision.
Themes we encounter in this conversation:
Avoiding unnecessary hospital trips ER, cancer oncology
Supporting healthcare system users and practitioners, information sharing
Medtech/digital health entrepreneurship, patient first design
Leynek Medical origin, founder story, personal experience
Understanding and interpreting device health data, virtual care
Business models and partnerships
Clinical validation
Mentorship, entrepreneurship, st...
2024-02-0735 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastSydney Robinson, Co-Founder & CEO of Prosthetics Start-up, VesslEpisode #8 Vessl
In this latest podcast episode from the entrepreneurship frontier, Co-Hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar join Sydney Robinson, Co-Founder & CEO of southern Ontario-based start-up, Vessl Prosthetics, for a conversation about business, innovation and defining company culture from the beginning. Sydney is a mechanical and biomedical engineer working on an isoform socket to improve prosthetic solutions: “we are dedicated to amputees and being the best company we can be.”
Themes we encounter during this episode include:
Biomedical engineering innovation and iterative, user-driven design
Business model, innovation commercialization and regulatory strategies for prosthetics start-ups
Social media
Food...
2024-01-2233 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastSarah Paterson, Founder & CEO of Travel Start-up, JetsplitzEpisode #7 Jetsplitz
One day, ‘fly-sharing’ or ‘jet-splitting’ might be everyday vocabulary, as common as Uber’s ‘ride-sharing’ or AirBnB. In this episode of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast, Co-Hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar sit down with the Founder of Jetsplitz, Sarah Paterson, to talk about her business, her entrepreneurial journey and her sources of inspiration. Jetsplitz, a certified Aboriginal Business, is on a mission to make transportation systems more accessible, efficient and sustainable. "Hopefully with Jetsplitz we're changing the narrative on what Indigenous people can do and where you're going in life,” Sarah says. “And for females, you can be a techy as well...
2024-01-0337 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastJames Aein, Co-Founder & CEO of Grid Analytics Start-up, ENERZAEpisode #6 ENERZA
Will robots help modernize the world’s power grid? In this episode of the Podcast, co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar sit down with James Aein, Co-Founder & CEO of ENERZA.
Themes we encounter in conversation with James Aein:
An introduction to the power grid
Robotics-as-a-Service business model
Sales cycles for utilities companies as customers
Benefits of startup accelerator programs
AI and predictive analytics
‘Grid edge’ technologies
Knowledge transfer from post-secondary research to commercialization
Startup life, mindset, personal motivations of founders
Quick Links and References:
Background on 2023 Maui wildfires (via Britannica.com), Bare electr...
2023-12-2131 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastOsaffat Khan, Co-Founder & CTO of Rapid Prototyping Start-up, ZapMetalsEpisode #5 ZapMetals
In the latest episode of our frontier project, Tracy and Braden interview Osaffat Khan, Co-Founder and CTO of ZapMetals, and delve into the challenges and opportunities of industrial automation.
Themes tackled during this session include:
Running a machine shop
Learning about industrial trends and best practices, introducing automation
Manufacturing and prototyping 101
MVP (Minimum Viable Product)
Underserved markets for CNC parts
Metal sourcing
AI integrations, monitoring tolerances
Computer vision, surface detection
Control systems textbooks (!)
Autonomous snow blowing
Learning through serial entrepreneurship
Green manufacturing, reshoring production
Enhancing skilled trades through advanced manufacturing and net new job c...
2023-11-2734 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastChristopher Klich, Co-Founder & CEO of Agtech Start-up, Mycro HarvestEpisode #4 - Mycro Harvest
In this episode of the podcast, we’re unlocking the power of mushrooms, powered by advancements in production automation, computer vision and artificial intelligence. Co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar take you on a mycologically odyssey with Christopher Klich, Co-Founder & CEO of Mycro Harvest, a southern Ontario agtech startup building the AI-driven mushroom smart farms of the future.
Themes tackled during this episode of the Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast include:
Road trips, discovery tours, talking to mushroom farmers
Finding scalable models for production optimization
Mycro Harvest’s mission and...
2023-10-3037 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastBen Su, Co-Founder & COO of Investment Start-up, CapitaEpisode #3 - Capita
Co-Hosts Tracy Morningstar and Braden Kemp start up a conversation with Ben Su, Co-Founder of Canadian fintech start-up, Capita, in this third episode of NCFDC’s Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast. Capita is working to simplify investing and raising funds, helping founders to automate how they raise and helping investors to launch syndicates and Special Purpose Vehicles (SPVs).
In an engaging discussion with Ben, we tackle:
Moving from the legal profession to the start-up world
Equity-building and exponential tech
Side hustles and social impact
Living with your co-founders
Developing a pitch
Revolutionizing investment syndicates, smart co...
2023-10-1646 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastSloane Paul, Founder & CEO of Automotive Re-Engineering Start-up Arc Motor Company
Episode #2 - Arc Motor Company
At a shop in Peterborough, Ontario, classic cars are being converted into electric vehicles. The global mega-trend of electrification is beginning to touch all aspects of the economy. In this second episode of the Podcast, we bring you to the frontier of automotive re-engineering with Sloane Paul, Founder & CEO of Arc Motor Company, just as the bay doors are opening on Arc’s first conversion project: a 1974 Ford Bronco.
We discuss:
The meaning behind the Arc brand
Sloane’s journey from the corporate world to the world of start-ups
EV market tren...
2023-10-0233 minThe Frontier Entrepreneurship PodcastJacqueline Good, Founder & CEO of Spacetech Start-up, MagnestarEpisode #1 - Magnestar
As above, so below! The Frontier Entrepreneurship Podcast officially launches with Canadian spacetech start-up, Magnestar. Co-hosts Braden Kemp and Tracy Morningstar are joined by Magnestar's Founder & CEO Jacqueline Good, as she works to secure the future of earth-to-space communication.
The conversation encompasses:
An epic year for Magnestar, winning accolades, pitch competitions and earning media exposure.
Space communication 101 (the spectrum, radio interference, satellite connectivity and system resilience).
Participating in Entrepreneur First.
On the meaning of the name ‘Magnestar’.
Peer mentorship and the path of entrepreneurship, the Creative Destruction Lab (CDL).
The origin story, how Magn...
2023-09-1344 min