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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 […]

Founder/s: Melissa and Chester Young HQ: Taranaki What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Little Liberty is a plant-based creamery crafting premium frozen desserts free from dairy, gluten, soy, and egg. Our goal has always been to offer individuals with dietary restrictions or particular allergies/intolerances a product that isn’t […]

Technologically enabled virtual pharmacy start-up, ZOOM Health has launched a public capital offer of up to NZ$3m through private equity marketplace Snowball Effect to help rapidly grow the business. Founded in 2017 by Managing Director David Taylor (ex-Radiant Health MD), ZOOM Health is dubbed the ‘Uber Eats’ of prescriptions, delivering medicines direct to your door. […]

Taranaki-based Kaitahi is an iwi-owned enterprise making frozen superfood smoothy drops out of traditional Maori ingredients.  Being predominantly rural, the iwi (tribe) wanted to look for opportunities outside of the dairy and mining industries that would provide employment, and businesses that were less invasive on the environment.  They weren’t only searching for opportunities that would […]

Founder: Brent Paterson HQ: Hawke’s Bay What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? MyEnviro connects people to their environment through data, and is about measuring the impact of our actions on our environment and making real, verifiable progress together. It’s an environmental management tool, designed to be a secure, […]

Founder/s: Theresa O’Brien and Sally Crown HQ: Hawke’s Bay What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell?  The key issue that we have both found in business is not a lack of support available, but a disconnect in the approach and values recognition, especially for Māori who are looking to […]

New Zealand Quinoa Company founders Kate and Hamish Dunlop have just planted their fifth crop of the nutritious grain, having made it through cyclones, raising children and occasional supermarket scepticism. It’s been a good year for the quinoa couple, who now supply the shelves of 150 supermarkets.  Natural Quinoa Puffs and packets of Natural Quinoa […]