Startup Watch

WHO: huntinghq Founder: Marc Featherstone HQ: Christchurch website: huntinghq.com What products, services, solutions, or technology have you developed? HuntingHQ is a unique SaaS marketplace that solves a variety of pain points for landowners, hunters, and other recreational users. HuntingHQ puts landowners in control with access to our powerful hunter management and booking system, insured and […]

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 always been to offer individuals with dietary restrictions or particular allergies/intolerances a product that isn’t […]

Founder: Rob Elstone HQ: Hawke’s Bay What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Hortworx grows production through smart automation, increasing packhouse efficiencies and reducing labour reliance through the use of simple ‘back to basics’ engineering complimented with the latest technology. We produce a range of bin filler products, pack […]

Founder/s: Paul Simpson & Dominic Sutton HQ: Manawatu-Whanganui What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? StockTrim has a SaaS product, an online app that helps larger SMB’s save money with their inventory costs.  It’s really difficult for businesses that buy and sell products to know how much to order […]

Founder/s: Matthew Parkinson & Josh Ta̅kao HQ: Taranaki Wai Comply founders Matthew Parkinson and Josh Ta̅kao 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 solve and what products or services do you sell? M – In 2016, Havelock North […]

Founder/s: Sam and Sophie Hurley HQ: Manawatu-Whanganui What problems do you solve, and what products or services do you sell? In the rural industry, the return on wool is a big topic of conversation as years ago, wool was a sought-after commodity and a big profit earner for farmers, but the return has been declining […]

Founder/s: Anna Samoylova & Polina Samoylova HQ: Tauranga What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Inspocreate is a one-stop platform where women and girls can find, add and share inspiring and educational content to help with their business, career or personal development. Specifically, we help women and girls who […]

Co-Founders: Eric Chuah & Graeme Haddon HQ: Auckland What problems do you solve and what products or services do you sell? Not many people realise that in New Zealand, one in four Kiwis have a disability and their employment rate is only 22%. Their median income is half of those who are non-disabled. The Cookie […]

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 […]