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Who: Icehouse Ventures What: Funding & Investment HQ: Auckland INTRODUCTION Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs brave kiwi founders with unique insights building global companies. We invest as early as the idea stage through to series A and beyond. We invest in a range of industries from space planes changing the way […]

Who: Startup Taranaki What: Learning & Mentoring; Groups & Events HQ: Taranaki INTRODUCTION Startup Taranaki provides community, resources and wayfinding to people in Taranaki who want to explore entrepreneurship and social enterprise so that when they are ready to take the next step, they can gather what they need to move forward with confidence and […]

In today’s digital world, a strong internet connection is the lifeblood for most businesses. And, with new technology and digital ways of working available, it brings into sharp focus: exactly how much speed do you need? First of all, what is bandwidth? Well, measured in millions or billions of bits per second (Mbps/Gbps), bandwidth can […]

Venture Taranaki, the Regional Development Agency for Taranaki, has announced the top five finalists for the second phase of its PowerUp Ideas Competition, with one finalist up to win the grand prize of $10,000.  “We were overwhelmed by Taranaki’s response when we first put out the call for submissions of enterprising ideas. All the video-pitches […]

Who: ThincLab What: Learning & Mentoring; Innovation Hub & Coworking HQ: Christchurch INTRODUCTION ThincLab is Christchurch’s founder led incubator providing practical support for growth stage ventures and commercialisation of research, science and technology. ThincLab engages with entrepreneurs both within the University of Canterbury and the wider community. WHO DO YOU WORK WITH AND WHAT KEY […]

When you think about some of the groups most affected and industries most disrupted by COVID, students and education come quickly to mind. It’s been an incredibly difficult time for young people to achieve a sense of community through multiple lockdowns and schools going remote. Komodo founders, Chris Bacon, Jack Wood, and Matt Goodson realised […]

Rabobank is kicking off the 2021 Pitch programme for FoodBytes!, the bank’s global food and agriculture innovation platform, which drives connections and collaboration between startups, corporate leaders, investors and farmers to implement solutions to food system challenges. From now until Sunday 16 May, Kiwi agtech, food tech and consumer food and beverage startups are invited […]

One year on from the first lockdown, local SMEs are more reliant on technology as they adapt to new ways of working, new patterns of demand, and the ongoing risk of disruption, according to new research by business management platform, MYOB.  The latest MYOB Technology Snapshot found that in the last six months, almost half […]