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Wanaka entrepreneur Chanelle O’Sullivan has taken a generations-old alcoholic beverage, given it a distinctly New Zealand flavour and has sent it sparkling into the 21st Century. Her startup company Borage & Bee Meadery has launched, with the honey-infused drink rolling out onto shelves around the country and online this month. Unfamiliar with mead? It’s traditionally […]

One of the most difficult challenges small business owners face, as they attempt to ride out this recession, is uncertainty about the future. And of course, uncertainty makes it tricky to plan, let alone to feel confident about staying afloat. But according to business advisor Luke Kemeys from nextAdvisory, if business owners can remain agile […]

Born out of a private technology incubator (LayerX Group), Hamilton-based ModuSense is bringing cutting edge sensor technology to an ancient industry. Erin Westover explains. Bruce Trevarthen has a way of entering into up-and-coming industries at the right time. In the late ’90s, he started E-Solutions and brought major Kiwi businesses online. Rebranded in 2001 to […]

From virtual reality that could repair brain damage, to artificial intelligence that detects diseases, 22 of the country’s most innovative and life changing healthcare ideas and initiatives have been whittled down to just eight. An impressive 128 entries were received from across the country for the HealthTech Supernode Challenge launched on 29 June, which seeks […]

TreeTime, a new tree planting non-profit enterprise, is developing an innovative app which will utilise new drone software to enable donors to track their tree’s journey from seed to maturity. The app gives the assurance to users that each contribution is truly making a difference. Those who donate $9 NZD to sponsor a tree will […]

Founder: Sharon Chapman HQ: Hawke’s Bay What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? ABC Software takes the paper and pen out of the packhouse and orchards. We make smart, easy-to-use software solutions. Our on-orchard software, ABCgrower, allows information to be collected out in the orchard. It is in the […]

Whether you’re a budding entrepreneur, an established entrepreneur, or somewhere in between, when you’re developing new products and solutions it can be helpful to have a PhD researcher on your innovation team, write Associate Professor Mary Tate and Dr Ivano Bongiovanni. Innovation sprints, hackathons, and other rapid, agile problem-solving and prototyping approaches may seem like […]

Partly has raised $1.7 million from an all star consortium of international and domestic investors led by Australasia’s venture capital investor, Blackbird Ventures, with Hillfarrance Ventures and Icehouse Ventures as co-investors. The company has included an additional 11 angel investors including Rocket Lab Founder Peter Beck and ex-Head of eBay Motors UK, Tony Austin. $1.7 […]