Startup Watch

Founder: Ryan Peni HQ: Eyrewell Forest, North Canterbury Tell us about your business. Niche FM Consulting is a NZ-based Management Consultancy Business specialising specifically in Facilities, Asset and Project Management Services. As Facilities, Asset and Project professionals we are the ultimate building organisers, encompassing multiple disciplines to ensure things such as functionality, operational management and […]

Founders: Scott Stratford & Rachel King  HQ: Auckland Tell us about your business. EditMate is a creative tech platform and service. It’s a way for brands to create regular video content (designed for sharing on social media) easily, effectively and affordably. Our user generated video (UGV) app enables brands to crowdsource and upload video straight […]

Founder: Mel Buddhdev  HQ: Auckland Tell us about your business. Holiday Swap is a site where people swap their home or holiday home with other homeowners throughout New Zealand. It enables people to have very affordable holidays all over New Zealand and possibly in other countries. Who and where are your target customers? Home and/or […]

Founders: Maggie & Lee Gray HQ: Auckland Tell us about your business. I own and operate a mobile organic smoothie bar in Auckland City and the North Shore. Every element to my smoothies is organic and I sell at public and private events. There is a very limited supply of healthy food vendors in Auckland, […]

Founders: Kathy Li and Anna Minnery  HQ: Auckland Tell us about your business. Our service enables women to rent a designer dress for less. We provide the opportunity to rent an outfit for a night at a fraction of the retail cost, increasing the ability for people of all incomes to access high quality evening wear. […]

Founders: Bex De Prospo and Peter Randrup HQ: Christchurch Tell us about your business. Anteater is a sustainable food business which is working to mainstream high-quality edible insect products as a viable alternative to traditional factory-farmed protein. Due to the major environmental and health benefits of eating insects, we believe that they will play a […]

Founders: Bruce Rook and Liam Pool HQ: Auckland Tell us about your business. Holonize is an Augmented Reality app. It creates a platform which allows users to view 3D-created content in AR. We offer a service (3DMe) which captures people or objects via a 360 degree turntable, and maps a point cloud to recreate 3D […]

Founders: Ben Reynolds & Michael Prendergast (CTO) HQ: Auckland Tell us about your business. Spalk is software that injects and synchronises alternate audio commentary to live sports broadcasts. Our software solves the age old problem of the regular sports commentators not matching the tastes of the whole audience. With Spalk, sports broadcasters are able to […]

Founders: Callum Cook and Rick Thompson HQ: Auckland Tell us about your business? PTminder is a cloud-based personal training business tool, designed for personal trainers to manage their daily business operations. PTminder’s main features are an online scheduling system, credit/debit card payments, automated SMS reminders, invoicing, and reporting. PTminder also offers specific personal training features […]

Founders: Hannah Burnard and Robyn Pelvin HQ: Chicago and Methven Tell us about your business? We are a capsule clothing company. We sell a five-piece capsule wardrobe, designed to make shopping for work wear easier for women in New Zealand and Australia. Who is your target market? New Zealand and Australian working women who are […]

BUSINESS NAME: Celebrate Me FOUNDER: Annouschka Martinsen HQ: Wellington Please describe your business. What problems do you solve and/or what Products, Services or Solutions do you sell? Our website is effectively New Zealand’s only ‘one stop shop’ that provides all options to assist families seeking to celebrate their loved one’s life at a time when they need […]

BUSINESS NAME: Little Yellow Bird FOUNDERS: Samantha Jones and Hannah Duder HQ: Wellington New Zealand is a hotbed of entrepreneurial goodness. Each week we profile a startup we’re watching from a range of industries. NZE: Tell us a bit about Little Yellow Bird – what problems do you solve and what products, services or solutions do you provide? We […]