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As the saying goes, you need to spend money to make money. And if you’re a high-growth startup looking to get off the ground or expand, it’s likely you’ll need an injection of capital to do that. Byron van Vugt from NZ Growth Capital Partners explains. For investors, capital raises provide an opportunity to invest […]

Kiwi IT firm Mobile Mentor has won Microsoft’s 2021 Global Partner of the Year Award for Modern Endpoint Management. The company was selected among a global field of top Microsoft partners for demonstrating excellence in innovation and implementation of customer solutions based on Microsoft’s technology, in particular for its work with the Nashville-based caregiving organisation, […]

Fresh from their recent $1.4M equity crowd funding raise, Christchurch entrepreneurs James Mount and Grace Glass talked to Richard Liew about an entrepreneurial journey that started for them six years ago. James and Grace’s story is a classic case study in Kiwi entrepreneurship. While their capital raise with crowd funding platform Snowball Effect was oversubscribed […]

If you need support to grow your business or business idea, applications are open now for Soda’s next CO.STARTERS programme which starts on 2 August 2021. When Alice Barrett couldn’t find environmentally friendly activewear that was made in New Zealand, the answer seemed simple. She would create it herself. Armed with an idea and a […]

More than a third of New Zealand SME owners and decision-makers have experienced a mental health condition since starting or taking over their current business and a free online mindfulness programme is on offer to support their mental health. Research from the 2021 MYOB Business Monitor revealed that 36% of SME owners and managers have […]

Hastings HIVE is a new large-scale co-working space, attracting a diverse range of customers from startups and large corporate branches to not-for-profit organisations. The Hastings HIVE is situated in the heart of Hastings’ central business district. The city serves the wider agricultural, horticultural, viticulture and food processing industries and was 2020 winner of NZ’s “most […]

Soda is searching for ambitious female entrepreneurs from around New Zealand to apply for its new seed grant competition – Rise Up – and be in to win $10,000. Sponsored by Callaghan Innovation, Wintec and Chow: Hill Architects, Rise Up is targeted at Kiwi female entrepreneurs – regardless of their age, where they live or […]

Covid-19 has turned the world on its head, but it’s also sparked accelerated change in health-tech – and attracted a large amount of capital globally[1]. That mixed with an aging population, the need for personalised care, privacy, digitalisation and value-based care, its no wonder healthcare has become one of the world’s largest and fastest growing […]