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Northland software maker Engin.Systems has had its best year yet, moving out of beta testing phase so it is now commercially available. “We’ve done the core development, then a year of beta use, and now we’re fully live and commercially available,” founder Adrian Tonks says. The Whangarei system-building software company rose out of the ashes […]

Some of NZ’s highest profile entertainment awards ceremonies will this month run smoothly thanks to a cloud-based submissions software service named Akudos. Founded by Wairere Iti and Richard Brookes in 2016, Akudos has been polished month by month as clients use the turnkey service to take care of form storage, calculations, scoring and other admin […]

If you cleaned out your inbox at the start of the year by hitting the ‘unsubscribe’ button on almost every email that came in, you aren’t alone. As a consumer of content you probably feel relieved, as a marketer, you should be worried. Nobody’s surprised that ad blockers are on the rise – some would say […]

The days of signing into a construction site with pen, paper and whiteboard could soon be over. This month, 100Rails founder Steve Shepherd will showcase his new software solution Constructlog at the Auckland Build Expo, where the future of construction sites seems to be hands-off. Constructlog began as an addition to Scaflog. Suppliers to the […]

As the inaugural Startup Dunedin Challenger Series looks to wrap up for 2018, three finalists celebrated their progress at a final pitch night in Dunedin last week. Startup Dunedin, Deloitte, Gallaway Cook Allan, Grow Dunedin Partnership and Enterprise Dunedin launched the Challenger Series earlier this year to unearth and support Dunedin’s best startups. After vetting […]

Founder/s: Libby Evans & Toby Evans HQ: Mangawhai What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? We’re a tech company that has designed a smart level monitor and cloud software solution for people on tank water, giving them the security of never running out of their most precious resource. With […]

New Zealand’s small businesses are sounding the alarm as confidence drops sharply in both the economy and their own enterprises, driven by falling revenue and a range of growing pressures. More than half (53 percent) of the SME business operators surveyed in the latest MYOB Business Monitor Snapshot believe New Zealand’s economy will decline over […]

Northland Inc today announced the eight Northland startup ventures, winners of “The Pick:18” that have been selected to pitch to prospective angel investors at an inaugural regional investor showcase, to be held in Whangarei on 12 November. Of the eight ventures, six are tech-based. One is in the education sector and an exciting prospect for […]