January, February & March 2021
New Zealand tech news
The New Zealand Q1 2021 tech news round-up gathers the country’s technology and startup-related news headlines across 3 months – January, February and March of 2021.
The quarter’s technology news headlines captured below outlines developments New Zealand’s tech scene, in fields including cybersecurity, artificial intelligence in insurance, innovation in the NZ dairy industry, cashierless retail systems and more.
Items listed are headlines only, hyperlinked, without accompanying text, providing a one-glance overview of New Zealand’s tech news across Q1 2021 along with one-click access to each online article, in full, behind the headlines.
January 2021 | February 2021 | March 2021
NZ tech news: March 2021
- New Zealand: “…[in Q3 2020] 281 Kiwis business reported cyber security breaches and many others are likely to have suffered the same fate, without reporting it”
- New Zealand: Winely startup joins South Australia Landing Pad program, bringing sensors to wine tanks, providing real-time analysis to winemakers via cloud software
- New Zealand: Quashed raises $600K pre-seed funding with AI-driven insurance recommendations
- New Zealand: Mutu peer-to-peer rental marketplace app raises $200K seed round to connect owners of under-utilised assets and spaces with people that need them
- New Zealand: Imagr, fast-growing cashierless checkout system startup, opens Amsterdam office with sights set on UK and European opportunities
- New Zealand: Trustworthy AI in Aotearoa – The AI Principles, available to download now
- New Zealand: Techweek 2021 set for May 22-30; programme launching in April
- Webinar: Artificial Intelligence in banking 2021 – how banks use AI, set for April 21st, delivered by the Artificial Intelligence Forum of New Zealand
- New Zealand: NZ Funds Management’s KiwiSaver growth fund has placed 5% of retirement plan’s assets into Bitcoin
- 2021 AWS Summit Online Australia & New Zealand set for May 18-19, providing the cloud community with educational sessions, hands-on labs and more
NZ tech news: February 2021
- New Zealand’s ImmerseMe selected for University of Hawai’i language technology competition with learning method offering over 3K interactive scenarios across 9 languages
- PlantTech Research Institute and New Zealand eScience Infrastructure partner for AI-focused research support for agriculture
- New Zealand: A look at Kwotimation, providing tradesmen with a website and automated online pricing system for producing work quotes
- New Zealand government pledges $55M across 3 years for a new fund for public interest news and journalism, with applications opening in April
- Australia’s Swysh expands to New Zealand, allowing fans to purchase personalised video messages from favourite athletes whilst supporting local children’s charities
NZ tech news: January 2021
- Download: How New Zealand’s Dairy Industry Innovates – a report touching on AI, algorithms, big data analysis and more (pdf)
- New Zealand: Gov’t launches Digital Boost skills training under Digital Boost programme focused on raising SME access to and use of business-focused digital tools
- New Zealand: Third-party data systems used by Reserve Bank of New Zealand breached, potentially exposing commercially and personally sensitive information
- New Zealand: Relab property data startup secures $1M with one-stop data shop for builders, developers and agents as well as home buyers and sellers
- New Zealand: A brief look at Imagr, cashierless ‘smart cart’ and checkout system startup operating in NZ and Japan
- New Zealand: An intro to Dunedin’s Warehouse Precinct and the startup culture thriving there
- New Zealand: A very brief look at 3 NZ tech startups, working in agri-tech, analytics and computer hardware
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