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New Zealand’s first service-centric affordability platform, Genoapay, aims to launch in Australia in early 2018, in the wake of its record-breaking NZD$1million accelerator funding success in August. Having just rounded out its first year of operations, Genoapay, one of six startups in the inaugural cohort of Icehouse’s Flux Accelerator programme, is now available in over […]

Shoppers around the world are one step closer to experiencing artificial intelligence in action when they fill up their supermarket carts following a private investor’s buy-in to an innovative New Zealand AI start-up. IMAGR, an AI company from New Zealand, has today announced it has secured Sage Technologies Ltd as a cornerstone investor. While the […]

Today we’re super excited to kick off the first of our new video series called “How did they start?” Teaming up with the guys at Upstream Daily, we’ll be bringing you regular insights from entrepreneurs that we think are doing interesting things. Our first video features Sharesies, a startup aiming to make investing in the […]

Time is running out for New Zealand businesses using Facebook, according to a new survey of nearly 24,000 pages which reveals the effects of the platform tightening its grip on free marketing. Mosh Social Media’s 2017 Facebook Report examines the Facebook pages of 23,971 New Zealand businesses. The in-depth look reveals how engagement rates have […]

Not all entrepreneurs are created from the same blueprint although you get the impression they have enterprise in their DNA. But entrepreneurs can emerge at any stage of life and from any realm. At the Young Enterprise Trust annual “It’s Business Time” conference, the business success stories are as varied as the individuals – each […]

MyBitcoinSaver, the New Zealand micro-savings platform for Bitcoin, has today announced the closing of $400,000 in seed round funding. The platform, launched by Aucklander Sam Blackmore in November last year, makes it easy for New Zealanders to invest small ongoing amounts in the world’s most popular cryptocurrency, which has grown in value by almost ten […]

Sales can be difficult. Miss a few quotas and even the most hardened salesperson can find themselves prepared to throw in the towel. To create rock-solid salespeople that consistently perform, it all comes down to the habits those individuals keep. As a sales manager, you have the responsibility of instilling the ways good habits can […]

One of New Zealand’s most ardent angel investors, Debra Hall, has been awarded the Angel Association of New Zealand’s (AANZ) prestigious Arch Angel Award at the 10th Anniversary NZ Angel Summit on Waiheke Island. The Arch Angel Award is the highest honour in New Zealand’s angel investment community, and recognises individuals who reflect the qualities […]