Startup Watch

Founder: Daz Burns HQ: Waikato What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Collective Upside is a web-based platform that allows women to work out on-demand with all of their friends, together, regardless of geography. So, you could be in Perth, and I could be in Hamilton, and we pop […]

Founder: Nicola Todd HQ: Waikato What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Zay sell practical, durable and beautiful bags that support our customers to be kinder to our planet by providing an alternative to single use plastic bags, while improving livelihoods for the weavers that create them by hand […]

Founders: Tully Alexandra and Cameron Scott HQ: Manawatu-Whanganui Solving personal needs is often the genesis of great ideas. Two entrepreneurs from Palmerston North did just that, as they explained to Erin Westover. What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? For farmers, capital items like machinery are generally expensive. At […]

Founder: Toby Skilton HQ: Christchurch Building marketplace apps is a tough business proposition. Hannah McCreery got the low down on the startup journey of Cantabrian Toby Skilton, founder of new rental marketplace app Mutu. WHAT PROBLEMS DO YOU SOLVE AND WHAT PRODUCTS OR SERVICES DO YOU SELL? Mutu is a rental marketplace app that allows […]

FOUNDERS: Justin Hall, Benoit Gueiysse, Olivier Ausseil and Rob Lawler HQ: Manawatu What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Tahi Spirulina is New Zealand’s only true spirulina producer because we are the only spirulina farm in the country. Out in the world, nutrition is consistently on people’s minds at […]

FOUNDER: Simon Jury HQ: Manawatu What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? EFF-GO seeks to solve the sewage sludge and other recalcitrant organic waste dilemmas facing a 21st century society. Currently Municipal Wastewater Treatment Plants (MWTPs) substantially utilise microbial communities, aerobic and anaerobic, to literally eat wastewater and thus […]

Founders: Kerry Grass and Dr. Nicholas Gilmour HQ: Auckland During 2019, AML360 completed its goal of developing an end-to-end digital solution for anti-money laundering compliance. Erin Westover talked to the founders to find out more. What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? [KG] We sell ‘plug-and-go’ regulatory technology (RegTech) […]

Founders: Renee Norman and Jenna Smith HQ: Waikato Created by two friends and delivering live online fitness classes to women throughout New Zealand, She Moves is going from strength to strength. Erin Westover caught up with Renee Norman to find out more. What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? […]

Founders: Greg Harrison and Richard Warburton HQ: Auckland, NZ Erin Westover caught up with Extraorder co-founder Greg Harrison to get the low down on the Kiwi hospo-tech startup with international ambitions. What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? I’ve been in the hospitality industry for many years, and one […]

Founder: Dean Anderson HQ: Auckland, NZ What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Index investing is huge overseas, accounting for more than half of new flows into funds in the USA, but the style is relatively unknown and misunderstood here and we are here to change that with a […]

Founder: Chris Walsh HQ: Auckland, NZ What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? We solve a lack of transparency in financial products. This includes explaining KiwiSaver schemes in plain English, finding the best travel money card, or learning the options when it comes to writing a will. Our MoneyHub […]

Founder/s: Lindsay Wells and Duane Wells HQ: Whangarei What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? We make a dairy-free “ice cream” alternative using the persimmons that we grow right here in our orchard and family home, in Whangarei. There are many non-dairy ice cream substitutes available today but most […]