Tag: South Pacific
Games Industry Explodes Down Under
The success of animated feature films such as Avatar and renewed interest in the online games industry by investors has helped fill the sails of digital game developers across New Zealand. Chairman of the New Zealand Games Developer Association, Stephen Knightly recently reported that the local industry grew by 46% and created over 100 new [...]
uSnap.Us Aces Kiwi Startup Weekend
After 54 hours of pitching, researching, coding and designing – uSnap.Us emerged as the winner of Startup Weekend Wellington. Despite the fact that it was the first Startup Weekend ever held in New Zealand’s capital, the event attracted around 100 participants; further cementing the reputation of the city as a creative hub for start-ups. Perhaps [...]
Xero Targets U.S. Growth
With a major back-end reconfiguration in hand plus redeployment of key staff to San Francisco, web based accounting services provider Xero looks nicely positioned for growth in the United States. The Wellington, New Zealand based company is part of an early vanguard of Kiwi software companies gaining a foothold in the U.S. with the help [...]
Soft Landing For IntuitionHQ
IntuitionHQ co-founder Jacob Creech got the shock of his life recently with a phone call explaining he had just won an all expenses paid trip to San Francisco. The prize was part of a competition to help web start-ups get up to Silicon Valley and get engaged in the market. IntuitionHQ offers a web [...]
VendHQ Banks Funding Round
Fast growing point-of-sale software provider VendHQ has secured a funding round led by German based venture fund Point Nine Capital. The “low seven figure” sum will set the cash register ringing as Auckland based Vend prepares to engage more developers and open shop in San Francisco. The company sprang from the Southgate Labs stable which [...]
Learning Software Passes Litmos Test
In 2007 New Zealand entrepreneur Richard Chetwynd realised that many of the learning management systems on the market were promising much but failing to deliver. So he began writing software code at home in his spare time. Last month his company Litmos was bought by Silicon Valley based and Nasdaq listed Callidus Software in a [...]
Peter Thiel on Startups: Something fundamentally new, fundamentally different
Why will employee number 20 join your company? Speaking at the ICE Ideas Conference in Auckland yesterday, Peter Thiel brought up the question every new entrepreneur might have never thought of – why will employee number 20 join the company. He told the audience, it’s the one question he asks entrepreneur looking to begin a startup. [...]
Startup: Kiwi Tech Takes Flight
There must be something in the water, judging by the way New Zealand keeps breeding successful software, technology and web start-ups. But overcoming distance from major consumer and investment markets is a substantial challenge for Kiwi tech companies that often begins with building relationships to both consumers and investors in the United States. Unquestionably, the [...]
