Amanda Johnstone

Founding CEO @ Transhuman (EmotionAI) | Keynote Speaker | Investor | Ethical Technologist

📍 Sydney, New South Wales, Australia🔄 Updated September 2026💼 3 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2019𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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2019
Conceived and built in Australia, Shebah is Australias leading all-women rideshare app designed to help women flourish as earners, carers and social butterflies. At every stage, every age, and every hour, Shebah is here to help. We want to guarantee safety for all passengers, equal opportunity for our drivers, and comfortable rides that raise the industry standard. shebah.com.au
Investor and Mentor
2017
Tech Ready Women Academy’s global mission is to provide women with tech and business education, access to world-class mentors, connections to startup communities and enabling them to create the businesses of tomorrow. We have created a centralized destination to help female entrepreneurs build successful startups by providing tech & business training, access to empowering and inspiring events & connection to startup communities. We are a global movement making it easier for women to create and grow businesses in the digital economy. We help you get there through: Upskilling, Mentorship, Community, and Pitch Events The academy's mission is to inspire, empower and prepare non-tech females for their tech journey so they have the skills and know-how to create tech businesses and innovative products. Currently, only 22% of tech startups have a female founder or co-founder while only 25% of IT positions are taken up by women. Deloitte believes there may be fewer women in IT today than there were in 2015. Tech Ready believes it’s not for lack of ideas but lack of support and access to knowledge in a safe, open and supportive environment. Tech Ready is built on four key pillars; community, mentoring, skills/education, and investment. In essence it’s creating a group of like-minded females with an interest in technology and business, providing the right experts to help foster their ideas, bringing in professionals who will teach them technology and business skills and then empowering them with the ability to build a MVP (minimum viable product), pitch it and find investment. Tech Ready was created by leading female entrepreneur, Christie Whitehill, as a result of her own experience as a female founder building multiple technology platforms. For more information on the Tech Ready Academy, or to organize an interview with Christie Whitehill Please inbox us via our Linkedin page or Email us at info@techreadywomen.com and we will get back to you.
Founding CEO and Investor
2014
Transhuman. Transcend the human condition. Transhuman Inc exists to envision a future of intelligence, compassion and understanding of each other and our planet. We believe in a future where our technology connects the dots of the mind, the body and the human spirit, augmenting our cognitive and emotional intelligence. Utilising extended reality technologies we will virtualise the body and capture the mind in a dimension of visualised imagination and telepathy of communication. We aim to set the theatre for the imaginative conception of new worlds within the human mind, so that we can further connect creatively and empathetically to each other – showing each other ourselves and our dreams. Transhuman creates proprietary technologies in the space of Artificial Intelligence to enhance human emotion and its relationship with the Internet of Things. We are partnering with global leaders in tactile and sensory experience, bring a new dimension to how we experience and participate in the world, to ensure everyone can transcend the human condition. Our global technology research and development team is at the forefront of existing and emerging technologies, with a focus on cognitive and emotional communication for evolution of human language. We have company track record  with the deployment of iOS and Android app 'Be a Looper™'​ which focuses on peer-support for mental health and suicide prevention and operates in 73 countries. Our team have professional backgrounds including NASA, Apple, GE, Wamar Technologies, Ramsay Health, Google, NATO and IBM. Transhuman @ Social Health Innovations, Inc.8 The Green, Suite 5175, Dover, Kent, Delaware 19901, USACopyright 2019. Transhuman is a Social Health Innovations, Inc. company.
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Founder & Host
Nov 2020
Discussions curated Maude Garrett, Craig Clemens, Amanda Johnstone, WolfXLion, Dr Catherine Ball, Swan Sit, Louisa Nicola, Mazzi, BT and Dr Angela Alexander. Join the revolution of open source learning about Technology, Robotics, The Future, Social Media, Space, Cybersecurity, Data, AI, Quantum, Sustainability, Medicine, XR, VR, AR, Sci-Fi, Research, Software Development, Genomics, Psychology, Physics, Music, Geek Culture, Marketing, Wearables, Coding, Health, Drones, eSports, Film, Business, Sustainability, Neuroscience, Ed Tech, Current Affairs, Hacking, SaaS, Product Marketing, Asteroid Mining, Fin Tech, Ad Tech, Mar Tech, CGI, Transhumanism, Science, Blockchain, Autonomous Vehicles, Gaming, IOT, Ecommerce, ESG + more. On clubhouse we have: 190K+ Members/Folllowers
2019
Investor
2019
Conceived and built in Australia, Shebah is Australias leading all-women rideshare app designed to help women flourish as earners, carers and social butterflies. At every stage, every age, and every hour, Shebah is here to help. We want to guarantee safety for all passengers, equal opportunity for our drivers, and comfortable rides that raise the industry standard. shebah.com.au
2017
Investor and Mentor
2017
Tech Ready Women Academy’s global mission is to provide women with tech and business education, access to world-class mentors, connections to startup communities and enabling them to create the businesses of tomorrow. We have created a centralized destination to help female entrepreneurs build successful startups by providing tech & business training, access to empowering and inspiring events & connection to startup communities. We are a global movement making it easier for women to create and grow businesses in the digital economy. We help you get there through: Upskilling, Mentorship, Community, and Pitch Events The academy's mission is to inspire, empower and prepare non-tech females for their tech journey so they have the skills and know-how to create tech businesses and innovative products. Currently, only 22% of tech startups have a female founder or co-founder while only 25% of IT positions are taken up by women. Deloitte believes there may be fewer women in IT today than there were in 2015. Tech Ready believes it’s not for lack of ideas but lack of support and access to knowledge in a safe, open and supportive environment. Tech Ready is built on four key pillars; community, mentoring, skills/education, and investment. In essence it’s creating a group of like-minded females with an interest in technology and business, providing the right experts to help foster their ideas, bringing in professionals who will teach them technology and business skills and then empowering them with the ability to build a MVP (minimum viable product), pitch it and find investment. Tech Ready was created by leading female entrepreneur, Christie Whitehill, as a result of her own experience as a female founder building multiple technology platforms. For more information on the Tech Ready Academy, or to organize an interview with Christie Whitehill Please inbox us via our Linkedin page or Email us at info@techreadywomen.com and we will get back to you.
2014
Founding CEO and Investor
2014
Transhuman. Transcend the human condition. Transhuman Inc exists to envision a future of intelligence, compassion and understanding of each other and our planet. We believe in a future where our technology connects the dots of the mind, the body and the human spirit, augmenting our cognitive and emotional intelligence. Utilising extended reality technologies we will virtualise the body and capture the mind in a dimension of visualised imagination and telepathy of communication. We aim to set the theatre for the imaginative conception of new worlds within the human mind, so that we can further connect creatively and empathetically to each other – showing each other ourselves and our dreams. Transhuman creates proprietary technologies in the space of Artificial Intelligence to enhance human emotion and its relationship with the Internet of Things. We are partnering with global leaders in tactile and sensory experience, bring a new dimension to how we experience and participate in the world, to ensure everyone can transcend the human condition. Our global technology research and development team is at the forefront of existing and emerging technologies, with a focus on cognitive and emotional communication for evolution of human language. We have company track record  with the deployment of iOS and Android app 'Be a Looper™'​ which focuses on peer-support for mental health and suicide prevention and operates in 73 countries. Our team have professional backgrounds including NASA, Apple, GE, Wamar Technologies, Ramsay Health, Google, NATO and IBM. Transhuman @ Social Health Innovations, Inc.8 The Green, Suite 5175, Dover, Kent, Delaware 19901, USACopyright 2019. Transhuman is a Social Health Innovations, Inc. company.
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