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In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. At a glance Founders: Charlie Meaden and Abinesh Krishan Business: eccuity Founded: 2022 HQ: Auckland Can you tell us a bit about your business? We are eccuity, an intelligent investment platform where you can invest […]

Who: LegalVision What: Legal Services and Advisory NZ HQ: Auckland Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? LegalVision is a commercial law firm with 250+ team members specialising in helping startups, SME businesses and large corporates. We focus on solving all commercial law challenges for our clients, including […]

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. At a glance Founder: Haylee Killip Business: NOD (Nannies on Demand) Founded: 2024 HQ: Auckland Can you tell us a bit about your business? Introducing NOD — a secret weapon for navigating parenthood’s unexpected twists […]

Domain Pain – Part 2 of a 4 Part series in which we asked #nzentrepreneur readers to share their challenges and lessons in the important process of choosing and securing their business domain names. When Paul McKernan wanted to expand his business to the UK and USA by adding .com as a domain name, he […]

What if you find an amazing developer in Singapore, the perfect sales rep in the US or great admin support in India? There are new ways to make hiring, managing and paying international employees a lot simpler. There’s been a shift in how New Zealand businesses think about our workforces. We’re thinking more globally than […]

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. At a glance Founders: Renbin Fang and Yongxin Shao Business: Timble Founded: 2023 HQ: Auckland Can you tell us a bit about your business? At Timble, we provide a team management tool designed for small […]

Domain Pain – Part 1 of a 4 Part series in which we asked #nzentrepreneur readers to share their challenges and lessons in the important process of choosing and securing their business domain names. As the founder of Buy Kiwi, an eCommerce platform built for New Zealand-owned businesses, Jamie Farmer has helped plenty of Kiwi […]

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. At a glance Founder: Sue Ryburn Business: After Story Founded: 2022 HQ: Auckland Can you tell us a bit about your business? I designed a vegan handbag collection made for working mothers on the go […]

Who: Business Action (EOS Licence holder) What: EOS Implementation; Fractional Executives; Advisory NZ HQ: Newmarket, Auckland  Who do you work with and what key challenges do you help them solve? Business Action helps business owners and leadership teams of family or privately owned businesses who are either growing rapidly or feeling stuck. The ultimate goal […]

Callaghan Innovation’s Deep Tech Incubator Programme has supported nearly half of the innovative deep tech startups founded in Aotearoa over the past 10 years. Key highlights: *Number of deals from Young Company Finance, NZGCP, Deep Tech Incubator Programme The term Deep Tech refers to advanced technologies that are based on significant scientific or engineering innovation. […]

While human beings have used wood to build houses for tens of thousands of years, a Kiwi company is finding new and innovative ways of engineering timber in 2024 for better, stronger construction. Prolam is a family-owned structural timber business that designs, manufactures and supplies glue laminated timber products – known as ‘glulam’ – for […]

In Founder Focus we introduce entrepreneurs and change-makers working on innovative startups, social enterprises and SME’s around Aotearoa New Zealand. At a glance Founders: Trevor Topfer, Paul Jason Young, Riley Malins, Marquis Shepherd and Ruslan Saitov Business: Avatars Global Founded: 2023 HQ: Auckland Can you tell us a bit about your business? We build exceptional […]