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International students who have found themselves spending an unplanned summer in New Zealand now have a new tool to help them experience more of Aotearoa. Launched today (December 2), BeKiwi is a web platform that offers a curated selection of the best experiences from around Northland and Auckland, specifically designed to help international students better […]

All businesses now have one very good thing – six months of post-Covid sales data. Used right this can give you greater certainty to inform and plan your sales strategy for 2021. It’s now six months since Covid-19 burst in on the business scene. If you’re busier than ever – that’s great. But for most […]

Employee feedback visionary, Joyous, has big plans. Founded in 2017 by brothers Philip and Michael Carden, the Kiwi software startup Joyous has doubled both its team and its user base in 2020. Now, with over half of its users located in the USA, the company is setting its sights on the global stage. Joyous makes […]

Local fintech firm Invsta has secured a breakthrough deal and signed its first Australian customer as it expands through New Zealand and beyond. After seeing how their solutions are helping Kiwi financial service businesses navigate digital disruption in the post-pandemic landscape, founders Rachel Strevens and Abhy Singla are excited about the opportunity Australia presents given […]

Part Two: Mapping the customer journey As the country’s largest fixed line broadband company, Chorus is well placed to help identify what good broadband looks like. But we want to go beyond that, to help Kiwi SMEs with their own digital transformations so they can make the most of the world class broadband we now […]

Nearly $450,000 has been allocated to seven established and start up digital game developers from Dunedin as part of the Centre of Digital Excellence’s (CODE) first contestable funding round. This reflects CODE’s manifesto committment to establish a funding pool administered by private industry aimed at attracting young talent into game development. The funding is part […]

As part of an emerging network, Whanganui-based Thrive helps strengthen communities by supporting entrepreneurs in building, scaling, and sustaining profit-for-purpose businesses. Nicola Patrick believes that entrepreneurs in provincial New Zealand are different from their city counterparts, even varying from region to region. To her, this led to a significant gap in economic development. Without resources […]

Founder: Courtney Cawte HQ: Bay of Plenty What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? When a customer or client comes to me, they are unsure how to articulate, specifically with words, what they do, how they do it, and the problems they solve. I sit down alongside them and […]