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- New Zealand: Tips for NZ’s startup founders and investors from The Icehouse
- New Zealand: Miuwi aims to be ‘Tinder of property investing’ with ‘speed dating’ approach to help first-time homebuyers find others to split their mortgages with
- New Zealand: Zero Carbon Challenge launches to boost low-carbon economy businesses
- New Zealand: ‘Beer tourism’ becomes serious business with international visitors estimated to have spent $242M in 2018
- New Zealand: McDonald’s acquires 9.9% stake in NZ’s Plexure for mobile engagement software
- New Zealand: Scale-Up NZ platform connecting NZ businesses with funders, incubators, multinationals and others launches
- New Zealand: Technology Incubator and Founder Incubator programs set for improvement, with RFPs to launch end-April
- New Zealand: Investment in NZ startups rose to over $110M in 2018
- New Zealand: New Culture developing lab-grown mozzarella with international backing
- New Zealand: Icehouse Ventures launches for early-stage high growth companies
- New Zealand: Guardian Angel Security wins share of $500K from SheEO Activators
- Tourism New Zealand inks MOU with Tencent to boost Chinese tourism growth in 2019 China-New Zealand Year of Tourism
- New Zealand: Aider AI startup working with Westpac NZ to provide conversational digital assistance to SMEs to help businesses make fast, data-led decisions
- New Zealand: A brief look at the winners of NZ Startup Bootcamp 2019
- New Zealand: BioLumic agtech startup secures $1.5M with sustainable ultraviolet crop yield enhancement system
- New Zealand’s Pushpay takes win at NZ Hi-Tech Awards with donations platform used by more than 7500 churches around the world
- New Zealand: An intro to 5 app startups aiming to make life easier
- New Zealand: The 9 startups selected for Lightning Lab Tourism, aiming for a sustainable innovation ecosystem for the future of tourism
- New Zealand: A brief intro to the 7 startups selected for Startup Dunedin’s Challenger Series 2019
- Athena Security gains mosque as first New Zealand, client with systems that use AI to detect weapons
- Japan’s SK-II beauty brand unveils new spokesperson, Yumi – an AI-powered digital human, created by New Zealand’s Soul Machines
- New Zealand: University of Waikato CROW Lab launches 2019 Cyber Challenge
- New Zealand: An intro to Next Farm, creating autonomous irrigation to enhance water management and maximise farm yields
- New Zealand: 2019 Startup Dunedin Challenger Series unveils 3 startup finalists
- New Zealand: AllGoods free online marketplace for NZ buyers and sellers hits one-millionth listing
- New Zealand: An intro to R3pack, a startup providing compostable and recycled options for online shopping packaging
- New Zealand: A brief look at YourDrive, startup allowing users to rent out their personal vehicles by the hour
- New Zealand: BoringPhone minimalist anti-smartphone launches on Kickstarter
- New Zealand: A look at 3 NZ startups taking part in Australia’s LAUNCH Festival Sydney
- New Zealand: Termius secures $4.1M to expand network engineer-focused tech following graduation from Y Combinator
- New Zealand: Rural Innovation Lab on the lookout for 3 innovative startup projects to solve the farmer and grower challenges across Manawatu/Whanganui
- New Zealand: An intro to CodeLingo, aiming to automate code reviews, refactoring and documentation
- Entries now open for 2019 Australia and New Zealand Sports Technology Awards
