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GEN NZ entrepreneurship

Top Honours for Aotearoa New Zealand’s Global Entrepreneurship Network (GEN NZ)

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GEN NZ has been honoured with the GEN Country of the Year Compass Award from the Global Entrepreneurship Network, an organization working in 180+ countries to make it easier for anyone, anywhere to start and scale a company. The award for GEN Country of the Year is given to the highest performing Global Entrepreneurship Network […]

Meport

Startup aims to get tradies into jobs faster and smarter

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Hamilton local and aspiring entrepreneur Kerwan Rose has created technology that automates the background checking process for recruitment agencies and employers hiring tradespeople, eliminating the need for multiple background checks. Rose launched Meport in March 2022, just one year after he started working on the concept – an impressive feat for the 24-year-old business founder. […]

Humanforce

The Founders Dilemma: Knowing When to Accept Outside Help

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Sydney based global provider of workforce management solutions, Humanforce were bootstrapped for 17 years before raising $22.5M from US tech investment fund Accel-KKR in 2019 to accelerate global growth. We talk with founder Bruce Mackenzie about his company’s unique path to securing outside funding and his lessons for entrepreneurs about knowing when the right time […]

Angel Association

“It takes a whole country to raise a startup,” angel investors

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“Following last month’s annual Angel Association Summit, we asked Angel Association Chair Suse Reynolds to give us a run down of the event and what the key takeaways were for NZ founders who may be contemplating angel investment this year.” NZ Entrepreneur: For founders who haven’t heard of AANZ, who are you and what are […]

Focus App

New app helps entrepreneurs achieve more by staying focused

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Southern Software, a venture agency based in Queenstown-Lakes, wants to help entrepreneurs achieve more with the newest addition to their portfolio – an attention management SaaS (software as a service) platform named Focus. As the founder of Southern Software, Duncan Faulkner knows intimately the unique challenges presented to entrepreneurs every day. Not only are they […]

Hakune competition

Win 8 of the best books on business and life + a new Kindle

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Two 7-figure business founders from Otago, Kale Panoho and Rhys Jeffrey have started a newsletter called Hakune (Māori for Method). To celebrate the launch they’re giving away a free Kindle and a selection of the best books (worth $500+) they’ve read that have helped them get to where they are today. Sign up and be […]

Soda Seed Grants

$10,000 of startup funding available in Soda Seed Grants

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Over the last two years, Soda has distributed $43,000 cash to 17 startups across Aotearoa through its popular seed grants. Applications are now open for Soda’s first seed grant of 2022 which has a combined prize pool of $10,000. β€œWe created Soda Seed Grants during the 2020 lockdown as a way to offer financial assistance […]

Founder mental health

Editorial: We owe a duty of care to founder mental health and it requires a collaborative solution

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I didn’t know Jake Millar, save for a few emails swapped with our editor when he was just getting started with Unfiltered. As for so many others though, the news of his death by suicide last year still came as a shock and with a deep sense of sadness. Sadness for the loss of a […]

HortTech Challenge

Mapping platform LandKind wins HortTech Challenge

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Sprout announced that Landkind, an agriculture mapping software company out of Tauranga, has won the first HortTech Challenge. On 2 December, three finalists with businesses aimed at solving some of the biggest challenges facing horticulture in New Zealand, pitched in person and virtually, to a room of industry leaders and world-class judges for the opportunity […]

Editors-Picks

Editor’s Picks – Innovation Nation 2021

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2021 is drawing to a close and once again we saw a range of stories showing that despite a second year of challenging times for businesses nationwide, entrepreneurship and innovation is alive and well in Aotearoa. Below we present our Editor’s Picks for 2021 – a selection of ten stories from our annual innovation series […]

Medsalv

Medsalv projected to save hospitals $100m each year

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A medical technology company says it could save New Zealand’s health system $100 million each year by stopping 1700 tonnes of medical waste going to landfills. Christchurch-based startup Medsalv has come up with processes for remanufacturing single-use medical devices so they can be safely reused. Single-use device remanufacturing is the practice of taking medical devices […]

Start Now

Queenstown’s Start Now creating meaningful careers for people around the world

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A Queenstown businesswoman has designed and launched an online programme, available globally, to help people self-design their career pathway. Start Now started small in 2015, but has now drawn interest from people in several countries. Its purpose is to help people and businesses create more meaningful and sustainable work. Founder Melissa Jenner says Start Now’s […]