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Tauranga-based Sweet Dough Co. is bringing American-style cookies and ice-cream sandwiches across New Zealand. It took four years for cookie connoisseur and Sweet Dough Co. founder Jess Lowcher to develop the perfect chocolate chip cookie. Originally from the United States, she found that ‘biscuits’ were often too dry, and flavours relied mostly on the chocolate. […]

Winners of the inaugural HealthTech Supernode Challenge – a national innovation challenge powered by ChristchurchNZ, Kiwinet, and Ryman Healthcare – were announced at the Awards Ceremony in Christchurch last night. After an electrifying and inspiring series of pitches, ​Richard McCulloch​ from NextStep was crowned as the Best Startup Team and the Overall Winner of the […]

Wanaka entrepreneur Chanelle O’Sullivan has taken a generations-old alcoholic beverage, given it a distinctly New Zealand flavour and has sent it sparkling into the 21st Century. Her startup company Borage & Bee Meadery has launched, with the honey-infused drink rolling out onto shelves around the country and online this month. Unfamiliar with mead? It’s traditionally […]

Born out of a private technology incubator (LayerX Group), Hamilton-based ModuSense is bringing cutting edge sensor technology to an ancient industry. Erin Westover explains. Bruce Trevarthen has a way of entering into up-and-coming industries at the right time. In the late ’90s, he started E-Solutions and brought major Kiwi businesses online. Rebranded in 2001 to […]

From virtual reality that could repair brain damage, to artificial intelligence that detects diseases, 22 of the country’s most innovative and life changing healthcare ideas and initiatives have been whittled down to just eight. An impressive 128 entries were received from across the country for the HealthTech Supernode Challenge launched on 29 June, which seeks […]

TreeTime, a new tree planting non-profit enterprise, is developing an innovative app which will utilise new drone software to enable donors to track their tree’s journey from seed to maturity. The app gives the assurance to users that each contribution is truly making a difference. Those who donate $9 NZD to sponsor a tree will […]

Partly has raised $1.7 million from an all star consortium of international and domestic investors led by Australasia’s venture capital investor, Blackbird Ventures, with Hillfarrance Ventures and Icehouse Ventures as co-investors. The company has included an additional 11 angel investors including Rocket Lab Founder Peter Beck and ex-Head of eBay Motors UK, Tony Austin. $1.7 […]

Since arriving on our shores nearly a decade ago, the global phenomenon known as Startup Weekend’s have become an important part of the New Zealand startup and entrepreneurial ecosystem. But organising them is no mean feat as Wellington-based organisers Ryan Walker and Travis Cornwall explained to Dan Moskovitz. Techstars Startup Weekend’s are weekend-long experiential learning […]

Christchurch – a city that has had a pounding over the last decade – seems to be rising like the proverbial phoenix. Not only has most of the earthquake rubble been replaced by a city centre full of laneways and whimsical charm, the city seems awash with a population hellbent on ambitious innovation resulting in […]

Palmerston North company, Hyperceptions, is gearing up to take its remote sensing technology to the market, in a bid to transform the way fertiliser is applied on NZ hill country farms. Covering 1000 ha per hour, the hyperspectral aerial technology identifies chemical makeup and health of vegetation, and nutrient fertility status of soil, thus providing […]

No one can predict the future and it’s especially true in the startup world. The statistics show that even though most founders bet their time and resources that their startups will be the best in the world, 90% of those new startups won’t be in operation in 10-15 years. This means that even though founders […]

As the country navigates COVID-19 restrictions, the nation’s SME community will again be thinking about how they can continue to adapt and survive in an unpredictable and economically challenging environment. In the findings from our MYOB General Election Snapshot, we saw that ongoing uncertainty around COVID-19 was the leading concern of SME owners and decision-makers, […]