New Zealand Entrepreneur Events

Who: Venture Centre What: Innovation Hub & Coworking HQ: Tauranga and Western Bay of Plenty INTRODUCTION Venture Centre is the Bay of Plenty’s lead agency building community, capability, capacity for entrepreneurs to make an impact. Established in 2014 as a social enterprise, Venture Centre provides a safe environment and the fundamental conditions for founders of […]

The latest Global Startup Ecosystem Report says that the positive run startups have enjoyed over the last few years, has changed dramatically thanks to the COVID-19 pandemic, risking a “mass extinction” event for startups globally. Compiled annually by global research and policy advisory organisation Startup Genome, the report says that in 2013, just four of […]

The Dunedin City Council’s Economic Development Committee (EDC) has approved $150,000 to support the Startup Dunedin Trust’s development of the local startup ecosystem over 2020/21. The funding will support the momentum in startup growth and reflects continued assurance in the activities of the Startup Dunedin Trust, after growing its programmes in 2019 and 2020. Chris […]

A research team at Te Herenga Waka-Victoria University of Wellington has been investigating the rise of accelerator programmes and the value they provide to entrepreneurs and the societies in which they operate. The past decade has seen a rise in entrepreneurial accelerator programmes in New Zealand. While it’s tough to pinpoint the cause, the success […]

Community members from all over Aotearoa are coming together to tackle the new challenges created by Covid-19 in the first-of-its-kind Techstars Global Online Startup Weekend series. Next weekend, participants from all over Aotearoa will come together online to form teams, solve problems, and build startups, all with the goal of tackling the challenges created by […]

New Zealand startup ecosystem members have teamed up with Good Startups to help Kiwi tech entrepreneurs move from fear to creativity in a 4-week online programme. The programme, Breaking Through the Pandemic, is being coordinated by Athena X Ventures, an online platform helping women and over-looked founders connect and build on key entrepreneurial skills. Founder […]

Generation Z are often told how others see them, but how do they see themselves? To find out, I developed a survey, while working at Young Enterprise, that over 600 young Gen Z (1995-2010) entrepreneurs responded to. The results reveal a tension within the cohort, both in terms of identity and sense of control. It […]

Online investment marketplace Snowball Effect, has launched Snowball Debt, a range of bespoke debt solutions to support SMEs and high growth businesses impacted by COVID-19. Having raised over $70m in capital for more than 45 Kiwi businesses, Snowball Effect has developed this new suite of services in response to the challenging and uncertain economic environment. […]

Idea submissions have opened for this weekends Hack the Crisis New Zealand –  a 48 hour innovation challenge organised by startup hubs around the country in response to the COVID-19 pandemic. #nzentrepreneur editor Richard Liew asks Luke Ball, Hack the Crisis NZ co-organiser, and GM at Creative HQ’s Lightning Lab, about how people can get […]

In the face of COVID-19, hundreds of startups, innovative businesses and individuals ready to roll up their sleeves have been recruited into New Zealand’s largest taskforce to Hack the Crisis. Designed to solve real problems in a post-COVID New Zealand, Hack the Crisis is a 48 hour challenge open to all, kicking off April 13 […]