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Queenstown outdoor adventure business Ziptrek is finishing the year with a range of new business products and approaches, having learned lessons about resilience, innovation and ‘super-niches’ during lockdown. Lesson 1: look at using the infrastructure you already have to bring in new business, even if that means trying to put on a concert up in […]

While many Kiwi businesses are scrambling to stay afloat, Papamoa-based company, Real Rad Food, is doing better than ever, thanks to its swift and smart response to COVID-19 restrictions. 25-year-old founder, Hannah Mellsop, initially created the company in 2017 to help cafés provide healthy, allergen-friendly and beautiful sweet cabinet treats. But when lockdown hit, the […]

Whanganui’s Surge Coach has deployed its own consulting-as-a-service (‘CaaS’) model in order to  help more Kiwi organisations adopt agile management practises.  As business agility coaches, Surge Coach helps businesses maximise organisational value by building internal capabilities. It differs from the traditional ‘lean’ consultants who often focus on ‘cutting the fat’ to increase efficiencies and become […]

Wellington’s Hot Lime Labs has developed a new technology to increase greenhouse crop yields and reduce carbon footprints by turning waste wood into clean, sustainable CO2. Dr. Vlatko Materic might have given up on his business idea, now known as Hot Lime Labs, if not for a chance visit to a commercial tomato and capsicum greenhouse […]

The innovative Taranaki brewpub which began fundraising years ago with a single keg of beer has passed a major goalpost: $50,000 raised for charity.  With a motto of ‘Drink beer, do good,’ Shining Peak Brewery has made the most of its central New Plymouth identity since it brewed its first batch in February 2019 in […]

Inspired by the COVID tracing app, Otago-based startup Equall.app is aiming to help communities and businesses identify and stamp out discrimination. For Duncan Faulkner, a tech entrepreneur from Otago, 2020 was always going to be the year of change. After spending the last five years building and growing Auditz, an app helping small to medium-sized […]

Somehow, in the annals of time gone by, when the notion of business building was in its infancy, a rule was decreed that for every ‘yes’ a business leader got in their quest to build their dream, they would be discouraged by a simply crushing number of ‘no’s’. And it was so that negativity became the foundation […]

Tauranga-based Like Your Local founders, Mark Murphy and Joshua Terrington, would not be where they are today if it wasn’t for COVID-19. Before the world locked down, Murphy and Terrington were in Melbourne, a couple of weeks away from closing their second funding round for an online ticketing platform they had built. With the platform, […]

When COVID-19 hit and the future of in-person events for the next year or two was called into question, Fishhook, a startup focused on promoting science through in person events, had two options: ride it out and hope for the best, or focus all of their attention on another product they were developing—makeripples. makeripples, as […]

Auckland-based Good Line NZ is capitalising on the uptick in online and remote working by helping Kiwi SME’s ‘work smarter, not harder’ with their virtual assistant service. When Good Line NZ Founder Sabrina O’Flaherty started in 2016, her mission was simple: she wanted to give back to businesses. Helping businesses grow by providing virtual assistant […]

When lockdown threatened to make it impossible for NZ property owners to have their home professionally valued due to social distancing restrictions, Kiwi tech tool Valocity Connect stepped in. In March, as New Zealand’s COVID-19 Alert Level 4 played whack-a-mole with our economy, fintech company Valocity Global pivoted by introducing the Valocity Connect app. This […]

In a sector that has been calling out for the last decade for skilled, well-trained staff, Prodigi Technology Services founder Dan Faulknor has found a niche that enables more New Zealand businesses to access specialised IT skills without needing to employ full-time staff. “We frequently work as virtual team members for our clients to supplement […]