Winemaker Rob Wilce had always dreamed of opening his own winery. Without the capital to buy his own vineyard, he thought outside the box and set up his own inner city cellar door.

She’s bold, she’s a big deal, and she’s a blast to be around and, today, Mel Sargeant is known as the Hunter’s podcast queen.

Tinder for food, that’s the premise behind Eatsee, an app for food-lovers thought up by Newcastle entrepreneur Jessica Koncz. The clever idea has now seen the Novocastrian entrepreneur win $100,000 US dollars to help grow her business.

At the heart of Diffuse Energy’s success is their world-class technology: the world’s most efficient small-scale wind turbine. The renewable energy device was developed by CEO Joss Kesby as part of his PhD at the University of Newcastle, which is where he met his co-founders, Sam Evans and James Bradley.

David Sivyer started Feedback Organic Recovery in 2013 to help reduce the amount of food waste ending up in landfill. Eight years on, he and his team have converted a whopping one million litres of organic waste into compost.

Simon Ashley established ATUNE Health Centres in October 2006, working as an osteopath out of the front room of his family house in Eleebana.

Imagine accidentally developing a technology that transforms an entire industry. That’s exactly what happened to Ryan Bennett, who inadvertently engineered a swimming camera system that’s now used by Olympic swimming clubs all over the world.

Social Pinpoint founder Colin Goudie wouldn’t necessarily call himself entrepreneurial, but he does remember starting his first business as a teenager doing computer repairs

When Newcastle couple Anna Scobie and Kelly Lees noticed a lack of bees in their veggie garden, they learned how to keep their own backyard bees. As their passion for bees grew, their artisan beekeeping enterprise, Urban Hum, was born.

After five years as a business owner and entrepreneur, Newie Venture’s Founder and Principal Engineer Heath Raftery looks back on the company’s journey from startup to fully fledged consultancy.

While working in mental health consulting in the disability employment sector, counsellor Damien Southam saw gaping holes in the network.

Newcastle might have been a different city when Liftango COO Trystan Eeles first landed here in 2007, but that didn’t stop him falling in love with it.