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Aaron McDonald with Futureverse
Futureverse is a media tech unicorn at the intersection of AI, Gaming and Web3. Its platform simplifies Web3 for developers and users and it works with brands to power their experiences, such as a recently released AI powered game built with FIFA. Aaron talks about how he & his co-founders started by building a portfolio of companies for Web3 and last year rolled up and acquired 11 companies to create Futureverse, which now has 250 people across 16 countries.
www.futureverse.com
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Sep 18, 2023
Asantha Wijeratne with PaySauce
Asantha founded PaySauce to bring new technology and deep domain knowledge to small businesses wasting time and energy on paying their people. Asantha talks about the journey –learning the real pain points to solve for small businesses, and commitments to excellent customer service and to providing a great place to work. Its automating top-up pay for dairy farm workers and its pre-pay day lending are revolutionary.
www.paysauce.com
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Sep 4, 2023
Dame Bronwen & Jasper Holdsworth with Pultron Composites
Pultron Composites makes glass fibre composite materials. Peter Holdsworth invented the technology for fibreglass fence posts. His wife Bronwen built the business & ran it for 20 years. Her son, Jasper, now runs it. This is a great story of innovation and building a global business. The core of the company remains in Gisborne where they experiment, make 20 product lines & build the machines for the offshore JVs in Saudi Arabia and the US.
www.pultron.com
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Aug 21, 2023
Sam Kidd with LawVu
Sam is the co-founder & the CEO of LawVu, a software platform for in-house legal teams. Lawyers using LawVu gain visibility over all their legal work, improve productivity & show legal’s value to the wider business. Sam talks about the journey: spending 3 years building the product with trial customers before going to market, winning an RFP for a legal team of 200 – which accelerated their product development, scaling rapidly to 125 people, and learning about fundraising along the way.
www.lawvu.com
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Aug 7, 2023
John Mitchell with Arlo
John saw the need for a seamless SaaS platform for commercial training providers: automating all the processes for promoting, selling and delivering courses. John talks about starting out with sweat equity, spending a lot of time with customers to design the product, always appearing as a global operation even when they were working from his house, and how rewarding it has been to build a company of 60 people processing $500m p a which has trained over 7m people around the world.
www.arlo.co
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Jul 25, 2023
Mark Rocket with Kea Aerospace
Kea Aerospace’s mission is to improve life on Earth using insights from the stratosphere. Solar-powered, remotely piloted stratospheric aircraft will fly continuously in the stratosphere for months to collect frequent high-resolution aerial images. Mark became fascinated with space a long time ago, and was the co-Director and seed investor of Rocket Lab. In addition to building Kea Aerospace, Mark has been instrumental in establishing an aerospace tech hub in Christchurch.
www.keaaerospace.com
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Jul 10, 2023
Scott Willson with Forbury
Forbury provides commercial real estate investment modelling software to customers in the UK, Australia, Singapore, Japan & New Zealand. Scott joined the founder, Steve Surridge, to build the business, with Steve focussing on new products and Scott building the team. He talks about how important it is to focus on the people who will deliver your business outcomes, and how Covid was an advantage for them and has accelerated expansion into offshore markets.
www.forbury.com
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Jun 26, 2023
John Penno with Leaft Foods
John Penno and Maury Leyland started Leaft Foods to create a new food system by capturing the most abundant protein on the planet - Rubisco from green leaves. Leaft integrates with existing farming systems, extracting the Rubisco from common forage crops & producing a high-quality silage feed as a co-product. This reduces the total nitrogen loading in the farming system & lessens the carbon footprint of farming while producing products that taste good with high nutritional value.
www.leaftfoods.com
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Jun 12, 2023
Brent Spicer with Marsello
Spice is a founder & CEO of Marsello, a smart marketing platform for smaller retailers. Marketing is really hard for these businesses. The Marsello platform has strong reporting & analytics. Retailers can run targeted marketing with data-driven automation, email, SMS, loyalty programs & social media and measure the impact of them. Thousands of small and medium-sized retailers and hospitality operators around the world are now using the Marsello platform.
www.marsello.com
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May 29, 2023
Tim Copland with Runn
Tim is the founder & CEO of Runn.io, a resourcing and capacity planning platform. Tim previously co-founded SilverStripe, whose open-source content management system is used by thousands of organisations worldwide. He started Runn because of the frustration of being able to get company-wide visibility across sales, projects and the people needed to deliver them. Runn has employees and customers around the world, including very large companies.
www.runn.io
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May 15, 2023
Melanie Spencer with Socialites
Socialites is a full-service social media agency that helps organisations thrive in the dynamic digital world by using social media to bring a brand’s DNA to life, creating communities of loyal customers. The Socialites Group has grown by acquisition. It runs multi-language, multi-platform campaigns across Asia, Europe, Australasia, the Middle East, the United States and Canada.
www.socialites.co.nz
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May 1, 2023
Max Ferguson with Lumin
Max founded Lumin to create a better way for people to annotate and collaborate on PDF files. He bootstrapped it to 30M users based on ad revenue, then made a very rapid switch to being subscription funded – in just 2 months! Lumin now has 80M users and 80 staff around the world and many documents are being signed every second. Max’s vision is to solve the pain of digitally managing, signing and sharing documents.
www.luminpdf.com
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Apr 17, 2023
Hans van der Voorn with Izon Science
Izon Science isolates & analyses nano-biological particles. Its products are sold for medical R&D in 50 countries. A step change in the size of Izon’s business will be driven by one of its customers taking a product currently in testing to market – such as a cancer test. Izon has 50 staff in NZ, the USA & France. Hans talks about funding a company when it’s cash negative, getting focused on marketing and continuing to innovate to find the product-market fit.
www.izon.com
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Apr 3, 2023
Tim Bourne with CerebralFix
CerebralFix is an international game development studio which games for large international companies. Its talented team of more than 70 developers, artists, and designers work tirelessly to bring their games to life: from brainstorming new ideas to coding, testing, and polishing the final product. Tim talks about the challenges of staying current while technology is changing so rapidly.
www.cerebralfix.com
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Mar 20, 2023
Stefan Powell with Dawn Aerospace
Rockets that operate like aircraft and satellite propulsion of the future – that is what Stefan Powell and the team are building at Dawn Aerospace. Their spaceplane, the Mk-II Aurora will be the first vehicle to fly to sub-orbital space twice in a day, and their satellite propulsion systems are already powering 11 spacecraft in orbit. Dawn now employs over 100 people in NZ, the Netherlands and the US.
www.dawnaerospace.com
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Mar 6, 2023
Bill Buckley with Buckley Systems
Bill Buckley is New Zealand tech royalty. Do listen to this! Buckley Systems makes ion implanters to put the metal into silicon chips (300 lines in the width of a human hair); its ionising machines make all the flat panel screens for your phones, iPads etc; and they make medical devices and R&D machines. These are all based on using huge precision magnets to direct & accelerate ion streams. They ship over 1,000 tonnes per month from Auckland to the world.
www.buckleysystems.com
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Feb 20, 2023
Ian White with ZX Security
ZX Security is a specialist cyber security consultancy with staff in New Zealand, Asia & Europe. It tests and finds vulnerabilities in an organisation’s networks, cloud environments, buildings and more. ZX also provides senior leadership security advice specific to customer environments. Ian talks about the importance of the company’s employees in building a company whose customers around the world range from start-ups to a company with over a million employees.
www.zxsecurity.co.nz
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Feb 6, 2023
Neil Cresswell with Portainer.io
Portainer is a container management system for Kubernetes, Docker/Swarm, and Nomad that simplifies container operations so you can deliver software to more places, faster. Neil talks about the challenges of commercialising open source software and of building a business out into the world from New Zealand. The company now has thousands of customers across the world.
www.portainer.io
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Jan 23, 2023
Chantelle Cole & Niamh Fitzgerald, Dinosaur Polo Club
Dinosaur Polo Club is an independent game development studio, founded by Peter & Robert Curry. Well known for its award-winning games, Mini Metro and Mini Motorways, the last couple of years have seen the studio grow, and they’re now working on some exciting new games. With an inclusive and supportive culture Chantelle, CEO, and Niamh, COO, talk about growing the business and the lessons they’ve learned along the way.
www.dinopoloclub.com
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Jan 9, 2023
Sarah Kennedy with Calocurb
Calocurb’s natural product capsules reduce appetite to help with weight loss. The active ingredient was developed by Plant & Food Research, who work alongside Calocurb in clinical trials. An FDA-approved drug for weight loss in the US has the same course of action, costs a lot more and must be injected – with side effects. Calocurb’s sales of capsules have taken off as a result! Sarah talks about building a business based on science with most functions outsourced.
www.calocurb.co.nz
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Dec 12, 2022
Dave Blackwell with Spidertracks
Spidertracks was born on the back of huge personal tragedy and an incredibly inefficient search and rescue effort following a high-profile helicopter accident in 2005. Initially solving the problem of locating an aircraft in distress, today Spidertracks is the preferred provider of aircraft tracking, flight following and flight safety insights for thousands of commercial operators across the general aviation sector.
www.spidertracks.com
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Nov 28, 2022
Barney Chunn with CONQA
CONQA is an online platform to give construction contractors quality assurance as you go – not as an afterthought, making quality assurance into a genuine measure of progress and saving time and money. CONQA can help construction businesses reduce defects, minimise risk, track progress and support your payment claims, altogether enhancing your reputation in the market. It now has close to 60 people across Australia & NZ and is poised for further expansion.
www.conqa.com
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Nov 14, 2022
Darryn Keiller with WayBeyond
Darryn and WayBeyond are on a mission to transform the way greenhouse and protected crops are grown using sensors, data, and AI. Three years of deep R&D was followed by the launch of Folium (an IoT network of sensors) and its digital farming platform, FarmRoad in 2020. It now has more than 35 enterprise customers across North America, Europe, Africa, China and Australasia, who represent thousands of hectares growing fresh produce supply fed to millions of people.
www.waybeyond.io
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Oct 31, 2022
Adeel Ali with APIMatic
APIMatic makes the integration of its customers APIs as simple as possible. It provides documentation, SDKs, Code Samples, Assisted Authentication, Test Cases, CI/CD integrations - and keeps them updated if the API changes. Its Code Generation Engine emits code in a variety of languages. APIMatic is currently being used in over 190 countries. It employs over 60 people in Auckland, San Francisco and Islamabad.
www.apimatic.io
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Oct 17, 2022
Howard Moore with Pictor
Pictor is an in-vitro diagnostics company that has a patented multiplex platform for highly accurate testing for complex and infectious diseases in human and animal health. PictArray™ multiplex technology makes it possible to detect multiple disease markers in a single test simultaneously. The lead product is a diagnostic for Covid 19 which can detect multiple antibodies. The company has also developed tests for M. bovis, for maternal infections and other diseases.
www.pictordx.com
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Oct 3, 2022
James Sampson with FileInvite
FileInvite transforms the way you collect information from your clients – hassle-free and on time. No longer do you have to receive multiple emails from clients, files that are too big, the wrong data. It has customers in real estate, banking, mortgage broking, accountants, lawyers, insurance brokers, website designers … James talks about their founding story, raising money through to a US Series A. It now has over 30 million files collected securely.
www.fileinvite.com
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Sep 19, 2022
Milan Cooper with First AML
Milan is the CEO & a co-founder of First AML, which streamlines the entire anti-money laundering (AML) onboarding and compliance process. The company was founded in 2017. In 2021 it was named by LinkedIn as one of NZ’s top 10 start-ups, tripling its headcount that year to 75. It now has 160 people. Its cloud-based know-your-customer (KYC) passport allows complex entities to share their verification across multiple companies & geographies.
www.firstaml.com
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Sep 5, 2022
David Leach with Cin7
Cin7 was started by Danny Ing in 2012 to provide connected inventory and a point-of-sale system for small & medium businesses who sell through multiple channels. In 2019, the company received significant investment from a US PE firm and David joined as CEO to scale the company into the world. At that time the company had 140 employees in Auckland and 1,800 customers. Now the company is approaching 400 staff around the world and has more than 8,000 customers.
www.cin7.com
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Aug 22, 2022
Mike Carden with Joyous
Mike is a founder & co-CEO of Joyous, an enterprise conversation app. Joyous is designed to make everyone feel comfortable talking about work, encouraging feedback to drive positive changes at every level of the organisation - from individuals up. Joyous unlocks authentic conversations for teams: building a sense of belonging, boosting engagement, retention and eNPS. It gathers the expertise of your team, identifies actionable themes, and solves critical challenges.
www.joyoushq.com
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Aug 8, 2022
Christopher Boyle with Fabrum
Christopher leads Fabrum, a precision engineering company in Christchurch which has developed world-leading cryogenic technology. The AFCryocooler technology was chosen by NASA for use on the MARS Lander. And the America’s Cup team went to Fabrum to develop the technology for hydrogen powered foiling chase boats, which Fabrum developed in 5 weeks. Fabrum is driven by developing technological excellence whilst leaving the lightest footprint possible on the earth.
www.fabrum.nz
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Jul 18, 2022
Richard Wyles with Totara Learning Solutions
Richard is the CEO & co-founder of Totara whose learning and talent management platform is used by organisations across many sectors, governments & not-for-profits throughout the world. Totara leverages open code to enable more flexibility for the customer and deliver better value. The objective is to lower barriers to using enterprise-level learning technologies and unlock new innovation potential.
www.totaralearning.com
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Jul 4, 2022
Tim Pointer with Reason & Rescue Metrics
Reason is a digital marketing agency that helps ambitious businesses around the world re-imagine and realise their opportunity for growth through digital. It charges on how well it performs, not on how much is spent. As a result, it is one of Asia Pacific's fastest-growing digital companies. Two years ago it spun out a SaaS company, Rescue Metrics, to give clients full visibility over conversion analytics.
www.reasonagency.co.nz
www.rescuemetrics.com
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Jun 20, 2022
Don Christie with Catalyst IT
Catalyst IT develops & supports expert open source solutions: UX and design, eLearning, website development, training, library management, enterprise solutions, document management & cloud hosting. With 25 years of experience, Catalyst IT has worked with organisations across the globe, spanning all sectors. It now has 400 people, with offices in New Zealand, Australia, Canada, and the UK.
www.catalyst.net.nz
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Jun 6, 2022
Michael Steckler with Tradify
Over 25,000 tradespeople around the world use Tradify job tracking software. It promises to be the fastest, simplest and easiest way to run a business: invoicing, quoting and scheduling integrate with existing accounting solutions. You can use it on desktop, tablet and mobile, anywhere, anytime. Michael brings a wealth of business experience to the job of scaling Tradify out into the world.
www.tradifyhq.com
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May 23, 2022
Bex Rempel with ZeroJet
ZeroJet is a fast-growing start-up developing high-performance electric jet propulsion systems for boats. Its vision is to eliminate combustion engines on small watercraft, such as tenders. Did you know that 10,000 outboards produce the same emissions as 1.5 million cars? ZeroJet is the first jet propulsion system to be designed specifically for an electric motor, accelerating the marine industry's transition to sustainable energy.
www.zerojet.nz
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May 3, 2022
Ray Connor with Nanolayr
NanoLayr uses nanofibre as a technology platform to solve many industry needs in markets ranging from composite reinforcement to cosmetic applications and filter media for use in facemasks. Using the process of electrospinning, and only the finest materials, it creates custom-made fibres, delivering revolutionary products to multiple markets including filtration, cosmetics and healthcare, textiles, composites and electronics.
www.nanolayr.com
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Apr 18, 2022
Andy Stevens from Quantifi Photonics
Quantifi Photonics is on a mission to transform the world of photonics tests & measurements. From its New Zealand base, it develops and manufactures a wide range of test & measurement instruments along with customized test solutions for multinational tech companies and world-leading research organizations developing the technologies to enable future global networks. The company has just completed a Series B funding and acquired a company in Thailand to strengthen its R&D capabilities and IP position.
www.quantifiphotonics.com
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Apr 4, 2022
Mark Sagar & Greg Cross with Soul Machines
Soul Machines is a digital people company: re-imagining how real & virtual humans can connect in today’s digital worlds and the metaverse. It develops intelligent, emotionally responsive avatars as a user interface for AI platforms, creating the digital workforce of the future and digital twins. It has patented Digital Brain and Autonomous Animation technology based on work by double academy-award winner, Mark Sagar.
www.soulmachines.com
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Mar 21, 2022
Paul Trotter with Author-it
Author-it provides cloud-based structured component authoring systems for the creation, management, localization & publishing of information, with products for Life Sciences, Compliance & Technical Documentation, & eLearning catering for SMBs to Enterprise. It now has 120 people around the world.
www.author-it.com
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Mar 7, 2022
Ken Brickley with Macroactive
Every 6 seconds someone dies of an obesity related illness. Macroactive is on a mission to empower fitness & wellness coaches to help 10 million people enjoy happier & healthier lives, with 1:1 exercise routines, nutrition plans & mindset coaching delivered to their mobile device. The software platform, wrap-around services and creator support frameworks provide a scalable “business in a box” for entrepreneurs committed to impacting more lives - at scale.
www.macroactive.com
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Feb 21, 2022
Toby Littin from Parkable
Parkable was founded with an ambitious goal: to make parking easy and stress-free by connecting the available parking space to the people who need to park. It lets workplaces and commercial properties manage their parking with ease, automating the management of staff and tenants’ parks and EV chargers. Using the Parkable app, staff and tenants can easily share and book parking. And anyone can use the app to find parking in major cities in Australasia.
www.parkable.com
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Feb 1, 2022
Leon & Stephen Grice with Rako Science
Rako Science provides saliva-based COVID-19 surveillance testing at scale to protect New Zealand workers, businesses and vulnerable communities, & pre-departure PCR testing for passengers leaving New Zealand. It developed its own test: the only diagnostically validated saliva test for COVID-19 in New Zealand, which has been proven to be as accurate as nasal tests. In this podcast, they talk about building a business fast to meet the market demand.
www.rakoscience.com
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Jan 17, 2022
Mel Gollan with RIPA
RIPA stands for Receipt-Invoice-Payment-Automation. It started with receipt automation for expense recording. It now also provides disbursement payments as a service, transforming the way government, business & health insurance companies deliver entitlements. A payer, such as a Government social agency, authorises an entitlement, sends that with the payment token and the booking apps to the user, who can then pay using the agency’s funds.
www.ripaglobal.com
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Dec 14, 2021
Jason Wilby from Open
Open is on a mission to offer the fastest car, home & travel insurance at the best price for the world. Its AI-powered platform offers personalised products such as usage-based pricing, and instant claims settlements. Its home, car & travel insurances sell under the Huddle brand and are offered as a white-label product for businesses to embed into their own digital experiences. Open operates now in Australia & NZ, soon the UK & Europe. It is a certified B Corporation.
www.beopen.com
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Nov 22, 2021
Tarik Mallett with MOBI
MOBI is an end-to-end digital platform that provides customer ordering solutions for hospitality businesses. Great customer experience starts with a great platform: websites, mobile apps, table ordering, kiosks, aggregator middleware, loyalty, delivery, analytics. Its end to end solutions help to increase revenue, reduce in-store wait time, gain brand loyalty, and improve the overall customer experience. MOBI is now used by 900+ restaurant brands in 35 countries.
www.mobihq.com
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Nov 8, 2021
Luke Irving with Fingermark
Fingermark offers a suite of hardware and software solutions, using artificial intelligence, computer vision and deep learning to design fit-for-purpose industry-specific solutions. Its real-time and predictive business analytics are deployed through next-generation digital hardware for solutions in a range of industries - from improving customer service in fast-food outlets to improving safety in mining.
www.fingermark.tech
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Oct 26, 2021
Gabe Rijpma with Aceso Health
Aceso brings together the islands of healthcare: intelligent referrals, online booking & scheduling, care journeys, telehealth and the associated workflows to enable better care. It is relentlessly applying digital technology to improve the health system to deliver a better health experience for all.
www.aceso.health
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Oct 11, 2021
Levi Fawcett with Partly
Partly is building a global platform for replacement auto parts. Sound simple? Not when you realise there are 150M auto parts which can be used in multiple car models and configurations. Partly has catalogued 50M of these parts. Thousands of businesses, from small companies to large enterprises, use Partly's software and API to add fitment, check interchanges and manage parts online. Partly is building its business by taking a very hard problem and solving it.
www.partly.com
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Sep 27, 2021
Jason Wargent with Biolumic
BioLumic deploys light signals to unlock the natural genetic potential of seeds and seedlings—without requiring use of chemicals or genetic modification. Its technology uses a ground-breaking combination of photobiology, engineering and data science to give increases in plant yield, vigour, and disease resistance. Its team of plant scientists, agronomists, engineers and data scientists are based in the United States and New Zealand.
www.biolumic.com
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Sep 13, 2021
Shareena Sandbrook with Frogparking
Frogparking makes solar-powered parking sensors, laser indoor sensors, & wireless parking guidance for cities & property owners who want efficient parking. It has custom mobile apps, dynamic signage, and cloud-based reporting and data software. (Use the app to find a park!) It has robust hardware, beautiful software, easy to understand data & analytics. Founded in Palmerston North, NZ, Frogparking also has offices in Canada, the USA, Australia & Europe.
www.frogparking.com
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Aug 30, 2021
Kathryn Topp with Yabble
Yabble's SaaS market research platform gives brands fast, easy access to high-quality consumer insights. Hey Yabble is an automated AI-powered insights generator & connects brands with over 62 million consumers globally. You can build your own surveys, run your own customer research communities & use dynamic reporting to create insights to drive your business. Yabble is changing the way brands and consumers interact to improve experiences & shape products of the future.
www.yabblezone.net
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Aug 16, 2021
Craig Herbison from Plexure
Global brands use Plexure’s software to engage consumers on mobile devices and drive them to store with personalized offers and content, rewards programs, mobile order and payment. Through AI and machine learning, Plexure’s technology platform enables brands to deliver deep personalization at scale and pace in real-time. It now has over 270 million end users on its platform in over 60 countries. Plexure is listed on the NZX and ASX, with a market cap of around $100M.
www.plexure.com
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Aug 3, 2021
Micah Gabriels from Mooven
Mooven cuts traffic delays during construction projects. Its data-backed insights show the real-time impacts of construction work on traffic congestion or noise pollution and show how to accelerate infrastructure delivery and minimise disruption. Its scalable, real-time software is running in the UK, Europe, Nth America, Australia & New Zealand, playing into what McKinsey defines as a US$57 trillion need for infrastructure investment over the next 10 years.
www.mooven.io
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Jul 21, 2021
Phil Thomson & Tom Batterbury with Auror
Auror is the platform for enterprise retailers focused on reducing loss, preventing crime, and improving store safety. It does this by streamlining the reporting process and connecting retailers and police with information through its crime management platform. This provides visibility over criminal activity: keeping staff and customers safe, saving time and money, and enabling better crime prevention.
www.auror.co
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Jul 5, 2021
Janine Grainger
Easy Crypto is a fast, easy, safe way to buy and sell cryptocurrency: Bitcoin, Ethereum, Tron and many more. It is New Zealand's largest cryptocurrency retailer, and is now operating in Australia, South Africa and Brazil, and planning to open in the Philippines later this year. Its mission is to make cryptocurrency accessible and understandable so that everyone can get involved in the crypto market.
www.easycrypto.ai
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Jun 21, 2021
Simon O’Sullivan
Maxava provides innovative monitoring, high availability and disaster recovery solutions for more than 500 customers in over 40 countries, ensuring business continuity, reduced risk and meeting regulatory requirements. It provides 24x7x365 support through regional offices in North America, Europe and Asia Pacific. Maxava’s implementations span a diverse set of industries including Banking, Telecommunications, Government, Manufacturing and Healthcare.
www.maxava.com
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May 31, 2021
Jamie MacDonald
Storypark links early childhood education centres to the families of the children, helping bridge the communication gap between a child's home & early learning centre. It allows the centre to record and communicate learning as it happens by sharing photos, video, audio, observations & routines within a secure online environment. Its purpose is to help every child fulfil their unique potential, by connecting and empowering the community around them.
www.storypark.com
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May 17, 2021
Tom Wallace
Re-Leased is a cloud-based, commercial property management platform which centralises portfolio data, automates workflows, and provides real-time reporting for landlords and property managers. It integrates with Xero, QuickBooks and other platforms, to create connected ecosystems.
In 2020, Re-Leased launched CREDIA to provide market insights based on data from 75,000 properties globally to help customers better manage their businesses.
www.re-leased.com
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May 4, 2021
Asa Cox
Arcanum makes machine learning more accessible to mid-size enterprises. There are endless roadblocks and limitations to commercial AI success and scale. Arcanum helps ambitious technology leaders overcome these challenges and quickly demonstrate strategic momentum. Using its applications and a low-code platform for custom solutions, it enables data teams to rapidly deploy applications and models. Its world-leading Play in the Grey JV takes visual data from sports game videos.
www.arcanum.ai
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Apr 19, 2021
Greg Sheehan
PlayBooks lets business advisors, accountants, coaches and consultants manage their meetings and the expertise they share with clients in one smart platform. Create playbooks of your own expertise and resources or leverage the public library of playbooks written by industry experts to support your recommendations and decision making. It makes meetings the ultimate place of business guidance, decision making and purchase.
www.playbooks.live
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Apr 6, 2021
John-Daniel Trask
Raygun provides application monitoring for large clients around the world. Its dashboards visualize critical error and performance data. It detects, diagnoses, and resolves issues quickly to deliver a better digital experience to the client’s customers. It allows companies to quickly diagnose problems in their codebase, enjoy faster development cycles and make sure users are having error-free experiences.
www.raygun.com
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Mar 22, 2021
AJ Smith
TradeWindow streamlines global trade - replacing manual paper-based processes with a secure digital platform connecting exporters with their supply chain partners. TradeWindow is the only sector-neutral super-connector capable of linking the four data silos that make up global supply chains: commercial, logistics, finance & interconnected networks. Its solution delivers end-to-end trust, speed, and efficiency using distributed ledger technology.
www.tradewindow.io
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Mar 8, 2021
Adrian Grant
The 9Spokes business Tracker helps small & medium businesses visualise and monitor their data in one simple dashboard. By connecting the apps they use to manage their business, companies can easily track performance across all areas – from finance and marketing to HR and inventory – in one place, helping them make informed decisions. The 9Spokes ecosystem comprises SMBs, apps, and banks to create an ecosystem that supports the business and the core SMB-bank relationship.
www.9spokes.com
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Feb 22, 2021
Will Barker
Mint Innovation uses biological & chemical processes to recover valuable metals from waste. Its first process recovers metals - gold, copper & palladium - from e-waste using proprietary microbes that are selective for specific metals & low-cost chemistry to make it viable. Mint's vision is to provide a low cost, sustainable solution to recover precious metals by having a biorefinery in every major city around the world.
www.mint.bio
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Feb 8, 2021
Bob Drummond & Jordan Thoms
Kami’s mission is to reimagine the classroom, helping teachers & students embrace a digital future. With 24 million users they are well underway. Kami is used by 65% of schools in Nth America & in 64 other countries. The founding team - Hengjie Wang, Jordan Thoms, Alliv Samson & Bob Drummond – persisted in EdTech when others told them it was a graveyard. When Covid hit, they gave the product away – and found people wanted to pay them anyway. An awesome story!
www.kamiapp.com
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Jan 18, 2021
Jenny Morel, Morgo & Katherine Corich, Sysdoc
The 50th Morgo podcast! Katherine Corich of Sysdoc (the 1st Morgo podcast) talks to Jenny about Morgo – her experiences in investment banking, company directorships and venture capital that led to her forming the Morgo Community to support the CEO’s building tech companies out into the world from Australia & NZ. Jenny looks back over some lessons from the first 49 podcasts – so many great companies being built. And more stories to come …
www.morgo.co
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Dec 8, 2020
Glenn & Denise Campbell
Tourwriter’s itinerary management software enables travel operators to create customised client experiences through drag-and-drop itinerary creation, automated supplier confirmation & customised reports. A new SaaS offering, Minim, offers a collaborative mobile-friendly experience for agents & travellers throughout their entire travel journey. Glenn & Denise used their experience in the travel industry to build the tools other travel businesses want.
www.tourwriter.com
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Nov 23, 2020
Geraldine McBride
MyWave.AI enables powerful personalised customer experiences which are smart, truly personalised and guided across any channel, delivering high conversion rates for both sales and service.
MyWave.AI interacts in a human-like way, learns from previous and concurrent interactions, understands and uses customer context to eliminate the need to fill in forms, bounce around call centres or getting stuck in a department when trying to get an outcome.
www.mywave.ai
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Nov 9, 2020
Ben O’Brien
StretchSense makes motion capture gloves for content creation for games, movies, and AR/VR. Instead of optical or inertial technology, the gloves use stretch sensors and AI to deliver high-quality mocap. Unaffected by shock, drift, occlusion, or magnetic interference, you get stable hand performance from the gloves. And you can train the solution to learn the poses you want to see, bringing art direction in at the very start of production, rather than in post.
www.stretchsense.com
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Oct 26, 2020
Ben Gleisner
Ethical living made easy: CoGo helps you match your spending with your values. With thousands of consumers and businesses in NZ and the UK on the platform, it is building a movement of people whose voices make a difference to our world, every day. CoGo aspires to create a product that 100s of millions of people use to help them align their spending with their values to bring about lasting change in the world.
www.cogo.co
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Oct 13, 2020
John Wikstrom
Magic Memories is in the business of capturing memories: special times with special people at special places. It leverages technology and design to create and distribute personalized digital content directly to guests’ mobile devices. John built the company to $170M revenue from iconic tourist attractions in 10 countries. Then Covid struck. He talks about building the business, and re-building after Covid closed ALL the attractions where they operated.
www.magicmemories.com
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Sep 28, 2020
Dale Clareburt
Weirdly is a smart recruitment screening tool that can improve retention by up to 50%, improve engagement and hugely reduce screening time. It doesn’t just provide a faster and more fun recruitment process, it also gives candidates a taste of company culture, before they’ve even applied. It takes candidates from apply to offer in 48 hours with custom profiles and a screening process puts the most important things first - soft skills, values alignment, and culture.
www.getweirdly.com
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Sep 14, 2020
Richard Conway
Pure SEO is a digital marketing company with a team of more than 60 providing digital marketing services to companies in New Zealand, Australia, China and the UK. Pure SEO have been listed in the Deloitte Asia Pacific Tech Fast 500 for the past 7 years (a New Zealand record). Pure SEO specialises in search engine optimisation (SEO), analytics and paid media.
www.pureseo.com
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Aug 31, 2020
Hadleigh Bognuda
ezyVet is intuitive cloud software that improves the workflow of the vets who look after your pets. With a bit of Kiwi ingenuity and a lot of passion ezyVet created a powerful cloud-based, feature-rich and easy to use Veterinary Practice Management solution. Founder and CEO Hadleigh Bognuda shares the journey through to today, where the software supports clinical data across the workflows of over 40,000 licensed users globally with teams in Auckland, London and Dallas.
www.ezyvet.com
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Aug 18, 2020
Tim Allan
UBCO’s iconic electric utility motorbike goes on and off-road. It can go through mud, up hills, over asphalt, and across streams without a second thought. This digitally connected Utility Vehicle and Portable Power platform is being used from milking cows to delivering pizza, selling to individuals & fleet managers around the world.
www.ubcobikes.com
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Aug 4, 2020
Greg Jarvis
Bluelab is an instrumentation company for the horticulture industry. Its devices measure and control pH, conductivity, moisture and temperature for a range of horticultural growing applications, particularly in glasshouses and in hydroponic growing. It sells across North America, UK, Europe and Australia.
Bluelab’s vision is of a healthier world, free of pesticides, with reduced water usage and fewer food miles.
www.bluelab.com
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Jul 20, 2020
Cameron Mehlhopt
StarNow is a leading auditions and jobs website for actors, models, dancers, photographers, stylists, crew, and musicians with over 4 million members worldwide. It is strong in the UK and Australia and now expanding in the USA.
www.starnow.com
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Jul 6, 2020
Jonny Hendriksen
Jonny Hendriksen is the founder of Shuttlerock, a creative video platform for a world where content needs to be fast, multi-platform and global. Its proprietary platform leverages designers and technology to quickly create video ads from a single visual asset as simple as a still photo. The resulting ads allow companies to maximize existing creative for a wide audience across FaceBook, Instagram and other platforms in 30 languages. The company has offices in New York, Los Angeles, Austin, Chicago, London, Berlin, Paris, Singapore, Tokyo, Auckland and New Zealand.
www.shuttlerock.com
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Jun 22, 2020
Anne Fulton
Anne Fulton & Jo Mills created Fuel50 for the new career landscape: where organizations need to be built around highly empowered employees and teams with employee-centric learning models. Fuel50’s AI-powered platform provides career pathways and a jobs marketplace. Hundreds of clients across the world use it to drive engagement of employees, career acceleration and retention while gaining workforce agility. It is the world’s fastest-growing talent experience platform.
www.fuel50.com
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Jun 8, 2020
Shaun Maloney
Seequent develops collaborative tools and 3D geological modelling software for the global mining, energy and environment markets. These tools help people create rich stories and uncover valuable insights from geological data and ultimately make better decisions about their earth, environment and energy challenges. Shaun has grown the business to over $100M in revenue & 450 staff around the world, cash positive all the way.
www.seequent.com
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May 26, 2020
Steve Saunders
Steve is a horticultural entrepreneur with a vision of making his industry sustainable by using technology. 12 years ago he met Alistair Scarfe, who he supported to do a PhD in mechatronics, & together they formed Robotics Plus, to design and build technologies that improve quality, productivity and sustainability across food and fibre supply chains solving large global problems. Their first products are a robotic apple packer and an autonomous log scaler.
www.roboticsplus.co.nz
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May 12, 2020
Karl Redenbach & Peter Nguyen-Brown
LiveTiles’ solutions improve the employee experience with Intelligent workplace technology including Intranets, AI & Employee Chat-bots, Employee Mobile Apps, Employee Data capture and insight tools & many other capabilities designed to simplify the complex within the workplace. In this podcast, the founders talk about how they complement each other, how they raised money by listing early, and how they have sustained growth at over 100% p a.
www.livetiles.nyc
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Apr 27, 2020
Mahmood Hikmet
Ohmio makes autonomous electric vehicles which it sees as a first and last mile mode of transport to and from large bus stations or ferry terminals or carparks at airports. Ohmio vehicles follow a virtual track, and are able to connect with other vehicles, infrastructure and traffic management systems. The technology was originally created by HMI Technologies, an innovator of Intelligent Transport Systems. (Ohmio is HMI in wheels.)
www.ohmio.com
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Apr 13, 2020
Aaron Ward
The best brands grow on a diet of happy customers that come back for more and rave to their friends. AskNicely’s customer experience software helps them do that. Using the Net Promoter Score framework, it empowers front line teams to deliver the right experience to every customer, every day. It is rated #1 by G2 Crowd. The business is based in Auckland, New Zealand and Portland, Oregon.
www.asknicely.com
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Mar 30, 2020
Andrew Sharp
Bobux is a design-focused business committed to creating innovative footwear for children from newborn to 8 years that mimics the healthy benefits of bare feet. For children that wear Bobux it’s simply about having healthy, high quality, stylish shoes so they are free to play and be kids.
Andrew loves scaling businesses. He joined Bobux as CEO 5 years ago to grow revenue, shift Bobux into the digital world and focus on growing online sales. They now sell in 40 countries.
www.bobux.com
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Mar 16, 2020
Ben Thompson
Employment Hero is an all-in-one HR, payroll and employee benefits platform. It helps employees maximise their income while streamlining the way businesses manage employment, compliance and payroll. Ben says, “Nobody has ever started a company because they want to be an employer. Being good at employment is very hard. And it’s hard to find good help.”
www.employmenthero.com
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Mar 9, 2020
Steve Torso
Wholesale Investor connects companies that are looking to raise capital with an active ecosystem of about 30,000 investors through its online platform & showcase events in 8 countries.
CRIISP is a software-driven approach to raising capital. The platform provides an end to end solution SaaS platform for raising capital, accessing investors, engaging in Q&As, managing and tracking investor interest, and operating an investment deal room.
www.wholesaleinvestor.com.au
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Mar 1, 2020
Emma Weston
AgriDigital is leading the way in digitizing, connecting and securing global agricultural supply chains - from farmer to consumer. The cloud-based commodity management platform transforms the way you capture, store and sell grain, cotton, and other crops. The use of blockchain enables trust in the supply chain and the use of smart contracts.
www.agridigital.io
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Feb 24, 2020
Erica Crawford
After selling the highly successful Kim Crawford brand, Erica & Kim Crawford founded Loveblock Wines to make sustainable organic wine: wine that is elegant, restrained and complex, wine that speaks of its place and a season. Land is precious; grape growers are custodians of this land and restore soil balance and fertility without commercial fertilisers and chemical protection. Erica’s journey takes us from the Marlborough vineyard to the market in the USA.
www.loveblockwine.com
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Feb 18, 2020
Aliesha Staples
Aliesha founded Staples VR to provide VR & AR equipment rental and content creation, specializing in camera movement and custom applications. Their multidisciplinary work spans many sectors including advertising, entertainment, medical, aviation, and health & safety training using creative technologies such as Virtual and Augmented Reality, 360 Video production, Digital Human Capture, 3D Modelling and other emerging technologies.
www.staplesvr.com
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Feb 11, 2020
Mike Carden with JoyousHQ
Mike is a co-founder of Joyous, an employee obsessed business which provides a feedback tool for large employers. It uses the power of open feedback to increase employee engagement, connect with frontline staff, and build high performing teams. Mike talks about the tech requirements when you’re building a business for very large corporate customers.
www.joyoushq.com
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Dec 15, 2019
Todd Welling
Todd Welling is CEO of Overdose, a digital commerce accelerator. Or, what they call a digital commerce anti-agency agency. With teams in New York, Melbourne, Auckland, London, Sydney, Singapore, Wellington and Ukraine, they provide end-to-end services for high growth retailers: strategy and user experience, tech delivery, search, performance marketing, email automation, data-driven ai and conversion optimisation.
www.overdose.digital
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Dec 2, 2019
Murray Holdaway
Murray Holdaway is the founder of Vista Group. Vista began by providing the software to run cinemas – which is now in 8,000 cinemas across over 100 countries. After listing on the NZSX and the ASX in 2014, Vista has expanded by organic growth and acquisition. It aims to become the leading software company across the global film industry sectors of distribution, exhibition, and consumer (moviegoers).
www.vistagroup.co.nz
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Nov 17, 2019
Siobhan Bulfin
Siobhan Bulfin is the founder of Melon Health, which provides a patient engagement platform for helping people to manage chronic health conditions such as diabetes, early to moderate mental illness and pain management. It leverages social technology, mobile intervention, tracking tools and data analytics. For the user it’s like having a coach, care team and support crew on your phone.
www.melonhealth.com
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Nov 3, 2019
Phil Richards
Phil Richards is the founder & Chairman of Smart Payroll, which processes payroll payments of over $5 billion per year for over 25,000 businesses, paying over 150,000 employees per month while working with over 2,000 accountants and bookkeepers across Australia and New Zealand. Phil shares his love of building companies in this podcast.
www.smartpayroll.com.au
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Oct 20, 2019
Brian Ward
Brian Ward is the founder & CEO of Aroa Biosurgery, a soft tissue repair company which helps doctors and surgeons heal complex wounds. Aroa’s expertise lies in medical device development for soft tissue reinforcement and cellular scaffolding. Its products combine the best of biologics and synthetics to address the current shortcomings in surgical ventral hernia repair solutions.
www.aroabio.com
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Oct 13, 2019
Angie Judge
Angie Judge is the founder of Dexibit, which provides big data analytics for visitor attractions - predicting and analysing visitor behaviour through big data analytics powered by artificial intelligence.
Angie is Chair of the American Alliance of Museum’s M&T Network, Chair of the Museum Computer Network’s Data & Insights SIG and runs a series of regular thinktanks for attractions analytics.
Dexibit is based in Auckland and Washington DC.
https://dexibit.com/
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Oct 6, 2019
Karen Sanders
Karen Co-founded Real Serious Games in 2009. Now the company is in 3 countries, has delivered over 300 projects and is expanding globally. Real Serious Games creates innovative and engaging ways for customers to educate, plan and communicate with Extended Reality (XR) technology. The company aims to influence change solutions in XR Experiences, 4D Planning, Realtime Visualisation and Forensic Animation.
www.realseriousgames.com
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Sep 29, 2019
Ian Pollard
Ian Pollard & Craig Kirk launched Delta Insurance in 2014 to bring a fresh approach to the liability & financial lines market in New Zealand. By covering emerging risks, focusing on customer service, embracing technology and encouraging companies to focus on risk mitigation, they now have over 10,000 clients and have established a Singapore office. Their aim is to be in ten countries within ten years.
deltainsurance.co.nz
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Sep 22, 2019
Sam Riley
Ansarada is a provider of AI-powered virtual data rooms and material information platforms for business transactions and material events such as mergers and acquisitions, fundraising, tenders and IPOs. It has helped thousands of businesses get ready for and experience success in raising capital, M&A, post-acquisition integration, tenders, audits and more.
ansarada.com
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