New Zealand Entrepreneur Events

Who: Icehouse Ventures What: Funding & Investment HQ: Auckland INTRODUCTION Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm that backs brave kiwi founders with unique insights building global companies. We invest as early as the idea stage through to series A and beyond. We invest in a range of industries from space planes changing the way […]

Who: Startup Taranaki What: Learning & Mentoring; Groups & Events HQ: Taranaki INTRODUCTION Startup Taranaki provides community, resources and wayfinding to people in Taranaki who want to explore entrepreneurship and social enterprise so that when they are ready to take the next step, they can gather what they need to move forward with confidence and […]

Venture Taranaki, the Regional Development Agency for Taranaki, has announced the top five finalists for the second phase of its PowerUp Ideas Competition, with one finalist up to win the grand prize of $10,000.  “We were overwhelmed by Taranaki’s response when we first put out the call for submissions of enterprising ideas. All the video-pitches […]

Who: ThincLab What: Learning & Mentoring; Innovation Hub & Coworking HQ: Christchurch INTRODUCTION ThincLab is Christchurch’s founder led incubator providing practical support for growth stage ventures and commercialisation of research, science and technology. ThincLab engages with entrepreneurs both within the University of Canterbury and the wider community. WHO DO YOU WORK WITH AND WHAT KEY […]

Rabobank is kicking off the 2021 Pitch programme for FoodBytes!, the bank’s global food and agriculture innovation platform, which drives connections and collaboration between startups, corporate leaders, investors and farmers to implement solutions to food system challenges. From now until Sunday 16 May, Kiwi agtech, food tech and consumer food and beverage startups are invited […]

With workshops and an ideas competition already in action, Taranaki’s entrepreneurship initiative PowerUp is well underway. The next instalment of the programme is the release of the first two “PowerUp Podcasts”, from a planned series of eight. Regional Development Agency Venture Taranaki put together the podcast series to celebrate the region’s entrepreneurs and innovators who […]

If you’re a budding entrepreneur and based in Taranaki, Venture Taranaki’s PowerUp programme wants to hear about your big idea. Launched in November last year, PowerUp is the Regional Development Agency’s new entrepreneurship initiative. Driven by three key initiatives – grow, tell, and connect – PowerUp aims to support Taranaki entrepreneurship and enterprise innovation, and […]

The accreditation of private equity investment platform, Snowball Effect, as an NZX Sponsor Participant aims to further support the Exchange’s focus on nurturing a strong pipeline of companies for potential future listings. NZX Chief Executive, Mark Peterson, says Snowball Effect has an excellent track record in working with both startups, and fast growing and established […]

Dunedin’s game development industry has had a strong start to 2021, with seven new and emerging local studios revealing an exciting mix of entertaining and serious game projects funded by the first New Zealand Centre of Digital Excellence (CODE) grants. Details were released at a CODE update and grants launch event in Dunedin on Friday. […]

Better collaboration was the goal for more than one hundred representatives of Aotearoa’s burgeoning startup ecosystem, who gathered this week in Wellington to share ideas to help more Kiwis start and grow their own businesses. Attendees at the two day event, held at Te Herenga Waka – Victoria University of Wellington, included entrepreneurs and startup […]