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Insights, ideas, updates and inspiration from the team at Venture Taranaki.
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…
Taranaki-based Kaitahi is an iwi-owned enterprise making frozen superfood smoothy drops out of traditional Maori ingredients.ย Being predominantly rural, the iwi (tribe) wanted to look for opportunities outside of the dairy and mining industries that would provide employment, and businesses…
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. Itโs been a good year for the quinoa couple, who…
Taranaki startup Jobhop is on a mission to make the gig economy fair. The job-sharing platform went live in Juneย after getting through two years of work and overcoming plenty of pain points, and its latest achievement is winning the…
New Plymouthโs Juno Gin is zero-waste from start to finish using Kiwi engineering and locally sourced ingredients.ย To Juno Gin founders Jo and Dave James, the best way to conduct market research is by getting their gin into customersโ hands…
When lockdown hit economies worldwide early in 2020, New Plymouth medical bed and stretcher manufacturer Howard Wright Limited found a way to thrive.ย Having become a significant but still relatively small manufacturer in the global market of medical beds and…
Founder/s: Matthew Parkinson & Josh Taฬ kao HQ: Taranaki Wai Comply founders Matthew Parkinson and Josh Taฬ kao aim to deliver a high-quality service to the Drinking-Water sector, to help create safer drinking-water. Michael Botur finds out more. What problems do you…
Digital skin check platform Firstcheck has finished 2020 on a high, signing a deal to become the exclusive skin check partner with a major Australian insurance provider. The app provides digital telehealth skin checks by taking photos of a mole…
The innovative Taranaki brewpub which began fundraising years ago with a single keg of beer has passed a major goalpost: $50,000 raised for charity.ย With a motto of โDrink beer, do good,โ Shining Peak Brewery has made the most of…
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