Conquer Health: Where Purpose Meets Personalised Wellbeing
New Zealand startup Conquer Health is redefining the way we approach wellbeing by offering personalised, science-backed strategies with ongoing expert support, a far cry from one-off reports or quick fixes. Conquer Health’s mission is to champion preventative health by combining epigenetics and advanced functional testing with personalised clinical support to help people extend their health […]
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Conquer Health: Where Purpose Meets Personalised Wellbeing
New Zealand startup Conquer Health is redefining the way we approach wellbeing by offering personalised, science-backed strategies with ongoing expert support, a far cry from one-off reports or quick fixes. Conquer Health’s mission is to champion preventative health by combining epigenetics and advanced functional testing with personalised clinical support to […]
RosterLab Brings Fairness and Sanity Back to Shift Work
At the heart of Auckland’s Newmarket Innovation Precinct, a small team of founders is tackling one of the most universally frustrating problems in modern workplaces — the staff roster. What began as an academic curiosity RosterLab is now reshaping how hospitals and complex teams around the world schedule their people. […]
Skytree Scientific harnessing AI to tackle global lightning risk
When entrepreneur Christopher Bean looked at how organisations were managing the risk of lightning strikes, he saw a gaping problem. Despite the massive financial and safety risks posed by lightning such as outages, infrastructure damage and costly delays the tools and processes most commonly used to assess and mitigate those […]
Supporter Profile: Bizzy Limited
Who: Bizzy Limited What: NZ Business Lending Marketplace NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Running a business is hard […]
Stripe SaaS Connect New Zealand: Sharing the SaaSmas Spirit
Join Stripe for a festive networking get-together during the inaugural KiwiSaaS event: 7 weeks of SaaSmas. Come share the SaaSmas spirit with the New Zealand SaaS community and hear growth […]
Redundancy Done Right: Protecting Your Business and Your People
In today’s ever-changing business landscape, companies sometimes need to restructure or streamline their operations. Whether it’s due to new technology that reduces the need for certain roles, a shift in […]
Supporter Profile: Australasia Moulding Ltd
Who: Australasia Moulding Ltd What: Plastic manhole chamber solutions NZ HQ: Kerikeri Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? For the past decade, […]
AANZ Runway Event Review by Kate Radcliffe-Reid, Backkr
Runway is one of the signature events on the Angel Association NZ calendar and provides founders with the opportunity to network and meet with other investors and founders from around […]
Socialdog is Building a More Connected, Social Future for Dogs and Their Owners
Helping dogs thrive socially by educating and connecting their owners is the mission behind Socialdog, a Tauranga-based startup founded by dog trainer Misha Gildenberger and veterinarian Brett Kirkland. The pair […]
Access Quest is Mapping Safer Journeys for All
For many disabled and older people, the uncertainty of a new journey—steep paths, missing crossings, or a lack of toilets and seats—can be enough to stay home. Hamilton startup Access […]
Interview: Marissa Brindley, Auckland Council
Watch/listen to the Interview: In the final of a four part series celebrating the inaugural Auckland Startup Week happening 20-24 October 2025, Richard Liew talks with Marissa Brindley, Head of […]
Interview: Sunny Feng, RosterLab
Watch/listen to the Interview: In the third of a four part series celebrating the inaugural Auckland Startup Week happening 20-24 October 2025, Richard Liew talks with health tech cofounder at […]
Supporter Profile: McCabe & Company Ltd
Who: Mccabe & Company Ltd What: Intellectual Property legal services NZ HQ: Wellington and Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? We […]
Interview: Manawa Udy, Ngahere Communities
Watch/listen to the Interview: In the second of a four-part series celebrating the inaugural Auckland Startup Week (20–24 October 2025), Richard Liew talks with social entrepreneur Manawa Udy, cofounder and […]
Event Profile: Blue & Green Technology Conference
Bringing the Cleantech innovation ecosystem together to build our new economy. Hosted by – Ngā Ara Whetū Centre for Climate, Biodiversity and Society at the University of Auckland, in partnership […]
SME’s can’t afford to ignore climate adaptation
Climate-related disasters are becoming more frequent and more severe – and small businesses are feeling the heat. The Auckland Anniversary floods and Cyclone Gabrielle caused up to $3 billion in […]
The Experiment Company’s Quest to Protect Global Health from Antimicrobial Resistance
When honey experts Sri Govindaraju and Sunil Pinnamaneni cofounded The Experiment Company in late 2019, their sights were set on elevating the profile of kānuka honey. Little did they know […]
Interview: Chris bean, skytree scientific
Watch/listen to the Interview: In the first of a four part series celebrating the inaugural Auckland Startup Week happening 20-24 October 2025, Richard Liew talks with entrepreneur Chris Bean, cofounder […]
Supporter Profile: Nomad8
Who: Nomad8 What: Business coaching and training NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Nomad8 works with business leaders, product […]
Are you asking the tough startup questions?
Building a startup means making dozens of critical decisions with incomplete information. Should you incorporate as a limited company or start as a sole trader? How do you structure equity […]
SPRING CLEAN YOUR SALES PIPELINE – focus on deals most likely to turn into sales
It’s spring in New Zealand and Australia – time to spring clean your sales pipeline (and home)! Clear out any deadwood to focus your energy on those deals most likely […]
Cyber Security for SMBs in New Zealand: Raising the Standard with SMB1001
For many small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) in New Zealand, cyber security has often been viewed as something only large corporates need to worry about. The perception is that banks, […]
Innovation from Limitation – How Geo AR Games’ obsession with impact drives their creativity
Video games are one of the biggest and most lucrative sectors of the worldwide software technology industry today, which is why big development studios pour so much money into creating […]
Supporter Profiles
Supporter Profile: Bizzy Limited
Who: Bizzy Limited What: NZ Business Lending Marketplace NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Running a business is hard enough, getting finance shouldn’t be. Instead of spending weeks on […]
Supporter Profile: Australasia Moulding Ltd
Who: Australasia Moulding Ltd What: Plastic manhole chamber solutions NZ HQ: Kerikeri Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? For the past decade, Australasia Moulding Ltd has been providing prefabricated plastic manhole chamber […]
Supporter Profile: McCabe & Company Ltd
Who: Mccabe & Company Ltd What: Intellectual Property legal services NZ HQ: Wellington and Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? We help startups, individuals, and small to large companies in New […]
Supporter Profile: Nomad8
Who: Nomad8 What: Business coaching and training NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Nomad8 works with business leaders, product teams, and organisations who want to improve how they build […]
Supporter Profile: CyberGrape
Who: CyberGrape What: Managed Cyber Security Services Provider NZ HQ: Taranaki Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? At CyberGrape, we empower business owners and boards to take control of their cybersecurity by […]
Supporter Profile: VistaPrint
Who: VistaPrint What: Small business marketing HQ: Victoria, Australia Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? VistaPrint is the print, design and marketing partner to millions of small businesses around the world. For […]
Supporter Profile: OneFile
Who: OneFile What: Roster and File Management NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? OneFile takes the hassle out of managing tasks like staff management, performance reviews, recording meeting notes, […]
Knowledge Base
Editorial
Editorial: The Saboteur
We are living in uncertain times. To me it almost feels like we are in a pressure cooker of social, economic, political and environmental stew. In such times it’s natural for the prehistoric “lizard” part […]
Why our small businesses are a BIG deal
In the entrepreneur world we hear a lot of talk about entrepreneurs and businesses needing to be “global from day one”. Investors and business commentators lament our lack of large global businesses and say the […]
Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution
I didn’t know Jake Millar, save for a few emails swapped with our editor when he was just getting started with Unfiltered. As for so many others though, the news of his death by suicide […]
Editor’s Picks – Innovation Nation 2021
2021 is drawing to a close and once again we saw a range of stories showing that despite a second year of challenging times for businesses nationwide, entrepreneurship and innovation is alive and well in […]
Your entrepreneur vision is your biggest asset
Dissatisfaction with the status quo, and a vision for some better object, outcome or circumstance that does not yet exist, is the starting point of all creation. And as an entrepreneur in a world where […]
How to start a business without quitting your day job
I was talking with a good friend of mine about how he would love to be able to go into business for himself. This is someone I have known for over 20 years. We went […]
Four steps for dealing with well meaning but negative family and friends
So you’ve decided to take the plunge and start a business. Well done you! Having mentally prepared yourself for what lies ahead by researching, reading about and talking with others about what it takes to […]
Three brutal truths about working from home
Working from home has become a reality that businesses and their staff have had to quickly adjust to, and many organisations are now questioning the need to ever return to the paradigm of mass centralised […]