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Tauranga-based Like Your Local founders, Mark Murphy and Joshua Terrington, would not be where they are today if it wasn’t for COVID-19. Before the world locked down, Murphy and Terrington were in Melbourne, a couple of weeks away from closing their second funding round for an online ticketing platform they had built. With the platform, […]

Founder: Daz Burns HQ: Waikato What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Collective Upside is a web-based platform that allows women to work out on-demand with all of their friends, together, regardless of geography. So, you could be in Perth, and I could be in Hamilton, and we pop […]

When COVID-19 hit and the future of in-person events for the next year or two was called into question, Fishhook, a startup focused on promoting science through in person events, had two options: ride it out and hope for the best, or focus all of their attention on another product they were developing—makeripples. makeripples, as […]

Auckland-based Good Line NZ is capitalising on the uptick in online and remote working by helping Kiwi SME’s ‘work smarter, not harder’ with their virtual assistant service. When Good Line NZ Founder Sabrina O’Flaherty started in 2016, her mission was simple: she wanted to give back to businesses. Helping businesses grow by providing virtual assistant […]

When lockdown threatened to make it impossible for NZ property owners to have their home professionally valued due to social distancing restrictions, Kiwi tech tool Valocity Connect stepped in. In March, as New Zealand’s COVID-19 Alert Level 4 played whack-a-mole with our economy, fintech company Valocity Global pivoted by introducing the Valocity Connect app. This […]

In a sector that has been calling out for the last decade for skilled, well-trained staff, Prodigi Technology Services founder Dan Faulknor has found a niche that enables more New Zealand businesses to access specialised IT skills without needing to employ full-time staff. “We frequently work as virtual team members for our clients to supplement […]

Tauranga-based Sweet Dough Co. is bringing American-style cookies and ice-cream sandwiches across New Zealand. It took four years for cookie connoisseur and Sweet Dough Co. founder Jess Lowcher to develop the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Originally from the United States, she found that ‘biscuits’ were often too dry, and flavours relied mostly on the chocolate. […]

Founder: Nicola Todd HQ: Waikato What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Zay sell practical, durable and beautiful bags that support our customers to be kinder to our planet by providing an alternative to single use plastic bags, while improving livelihoods for the weavers that create them by hand […]