Writing for The Australian Financial Review's BOSS Most Innovative Companies special report, Nina Hendy profiles the two Melburnians who left flourishing corporate tech careers to take on the administrative burden in disability and aged care. Minikai won the Health Industries category of the 2025 awards.
The piece follows Keoki Alexander-Chang from Deloitte's forensic AI work, applied to royal commissions and cyber incidents, to helping his mother navigate the disability and aged care systems, and Ky Shera-Jones from a senior engineering career at Concentrix Catalyst. It describes the months the team spent sitting with nurses in residential aged care, in day programs and in supported independent living homes before building anything.
It also covers the numbers: a $2.5 million seed round led by Tidal Ventures, more than 300 per cent year-on-year growth, and 10,000 conversations between users and their Minis in a single quarter. Keoki predicts that within five years most Australians will have a digital advocate working to reduce the administrative burden of dealing with the health system.
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