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Good news for coral reefs is good news for Mangawhai sunscreen entrepreneur Jules Bright. The Earth’s Kitchen founder is poised to enter the sunscreen market in Hawaii now that a ban on most sunscreens has been scheduled. Earth’s Kitchen offers natural sunscreen options for adults, children and babies with the highest sun protection factor (50+). […]

The Developers Institute, a tech school to satisfy industry demand for software developers is the latest startup to emerge from Northland. Founded by Ruth Green-Cole and George Norris, the Developers Institute aims to deliver NZQA-approved qualifications and provide an apprenticeship model for software developers, enabling graduates to progress into employment with industry partners to build […]

Northland software maker Engin.Systems has had its best year yet, moving out of beta testing phase so it is now commercially available. “We’ve done the core development, then a year of beta use, and now we’re fully live and commercially available,” founder Adrian Tonks says. The Whangarei system-building software company rose out of the ashes […]

Some of NZ’s highest profile entertainment awards ceremonies will this month run smoothly thanks to a cloud-based submissions software service named Akudos. Founded by Wairere Iti and Richard Brookes in 2016, Akudos has been polished month by month as clients use the turnkey service to take care of form storage, calculations, scoring and other admin […]

The days of signing into a construction site with pen, paper and whiteboard could soon be over. This month, 100Rails founder Steve Shepherd will showcase his new software solution Constructlog at the Auckland Build Expo, where the future of construction sites seems to be hands-off. Constructlog began as an addition to Scaflog. Suppliers to the […]

New Zealand’s small businesses are sounding the alarm as confidence drops sharply in both the economy and their own enterprises, driven by falling revenue and a range of growing pressures. More than half (53 percent) of the SME business operators surveyed in the latest MYOB Business Monitor Snapshot believe New Zealand’s economy will decline over […]

If you’ve ever thought that “startup” was simply another name for a new small business, you’d be right. But, you’d also be wrong. Richard Liew explains. The Spring blossoms are out in force here in Wanaka and if ever there was a season that represented the promise, the energy, and oh-so tantalising potential of the startup […]

The finalists for the 2018 Westpac Waikato Business Excellence Awards have been announced and Soda Inc., a Wintec company, has been named in the Not for Profit category. Soda Inc. is a startup business incubator that helps founders and entrepreneurs establish and grow their startup business, making them a strong contender for the Not-for-Profit Award. […]

The Dunedin City Council’s Economic Development Committee has committed $150,000 to support the development of the Dunedin startup ecosystem during 2018/19. The decision reflects confidence in the work of the Startup Dunedin Trust, local co-working spaces such as Innov8HQ and Petridish, businesses and stakeholders over the last eighteen months. Chris Staynes, Chair of the Dunedin […]

Accounting software company MYOB has kicked off a competition with a $100,000 winning package focused on giving one lucky start-up a head start for their business. “Owning and running a business can often be a lot more difficult than people may initially expect,” says MYOB New Zealand General Manager Carolyn Luey. “Our research shows that […]

Business Hawke’s Bay and Soda Inc. have formed a partnership to offer start-up support programmes in the Hawkes Bay region. Waikato-based Soda Inc. has worked with a number of growing start-ups in New Zealand including award-winning beekeeping hive management software, MyApiary and Hop Revolution which recently secured a $3 million investment through the MyFarm Hop […]

Got a business idea but don’t know who can help you with the next steps? Want to meet like-minded entrepreneurs and change makers in your area? Looking for investment, or want to improve your entrepreneurial skills? These are just some of the questions you’ll be able to answer with the StartUp NZ Ecosystem Guide, our […]