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WHO: ANEW Founder: Jayden Klinac HQ: Auckland website: www.chooseanew.com What products, services, solutions or technology have you developed?  I started my career by launching the first compostable coffee capsules in the world, into the NZ and Australian market. Since then I have worked on trying to shift the entire packaging industry to move away from […]

While cryptocurrency markets are weathering one of their deepest and longest lulls to date, the world’s largest crypto asset exchange, Binance, has set up shop in New Zealand. New Zealand is the most recent of Binance’s global registrations, which include France, Italy, and Spain, among others. The company announced its successful registration as a financial […]

WHO: Thred Founder/s: Keiran Stokes, Hamish Scott, Bob van de Kuilen HQ: Auckland website: thred.co.nz What products, services, solutions or technology have you developed?  We’ve developed technology that makes it really easy for businesses to turn hard-to-get data into information and insights. We start by connecting to and extracting data from all the weird and […]

From email support to tickets and online chat, James McCarthy’s first tech business Spidertracks had a number of tools in places for people to self-serve queries on their website. But with many of them based in different time zones around the world (and customers who were primarily an older generation), they actually preferred to talk […]

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founders: Tim Pointer, Matt Rowe & SEBASTIAN EDWARDS Business: RescueMetrics Founded: August 2020 (but it wasn’t live until early 2021) HQ: Wellington Can you tell us a bit about your […]

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Deb Gilbertson – Founder Te Kaihau “Entrepreneurship is like parenting.” “Making your business happen is more like […]

WHO: Hybrid Bikes Founder: Frank Witowski HQ: Nelson website: www.hybridbikes.co.nz What products, services, solutions or technology have you developed?  Hybrid Bikes Ltd is a carbon fibre e-bike innovation company based in Nelson. We design our own frame moulds to manufacture the carbon fibre frames and have designed the overall look of the bikes to stand […]

Tom Hilton has probably achieved almost everything one could hope to in the culinary world. In fact, he had done most of it by the age of 23. But after a journey that took him to the highest of highs, and lowest of lows, Hilton has gone back to his roots – literally and figuratively […]

WHO: HazEL Founder/s: Kate Bromfield & Richard Coomber HQ: Rothesay Bay, Auckland website: www.chemhazel.com What products, services, solutions or technology have you developed?  HazEL is a SaaS (Software as a Service) based hazard evaluation tool that enables direct chemical comparisons using select human health (toxicity) and environmental (ecotoxicity) parameters. It allows users to narrow down […]

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and innovators working on our next generation of new business startups, social enterprises and small businesses. At a glance Founders: Dean Brown, Dr Suzi Hamilton & Ian Burgess Business: Triage-Plus Founded: 2020 HQ: Canterbury Can you tell us a bit about your business? Triage-Plus is a simple and cost-effective […]

The last two and half years have been extraordinarily tough for the business sector, and none more so than small businesses. With lockdowns, supply chain woes, the increasing cost of freight, wage increases and now rising inflation, it can feel like the hits just keep coming. These challenges have impacted us all at once, particularly […]

Want to tap in to the best startup advice from entrepreneurs who are out there doing it? Welcome to ‘500 Founders’ where we ask innovators from around New Zealand for their top insights for first time startup founders. Kaila Colbin – Founder Boma “Invest explicitly in your team culture long before you think it’s necessary, […]