New Zealand’s startup news: A snapshot collection of tech news across the first month of 2020, listing items in AI, retail technology, agri-tech and more.
New Zealand’s startup news across other months and years can be read online in monthly startup news collections and quarterly news round-ups.
- New Zealand: A brief intro to Manta5, unveiled at CES in Las Vegas, designed to replicate the cycling experience on water
- New Zealand: Soul Machines raises $40M for AI-powered customer-facing digital avatars
- New Zealand: An intro to Again Again, providing reusable, redeemable coffee cups on a returnable deposit basis
- New Zealand: Spoke Phone gains $6.7M series A with aim to eliminate desk phones in favour of mobile set-ups
- New Zealand: Radius Robotics developing system which would direct-drill seeds into soil with minimal impact, and irrigate, weed and collect data
- New Zealand: Kōkiri accelerator partners MYOB and Callaghan Innovation to boost Māori startups with 3-month Te Wānanga o Aotearoa program
- New Zealand: Air New Zealand and Auckland Airport working with global tech firm Assaia to apply computer vision AI to improve the airline’s performance
- New Zealand: IMAGR raises $9.5M pre-A funding with SmartCart intelligent shopping trolley, using AI and computer vision to dodge shopping queues
- New Zealand: A look at YieldTec, startup working on fruit-picking with smart fruit bags that send an automated message to mobile robots when they are full
- India’s Telangana and New Zealand ministers discuss ties and collaboration, touching on startups and agritech
