October, November & December
4th Quarter
New Zealand’s tech, startup and VC funding news from across October, November and December of 2019, focusing on early stage startups.
For technology-specific news for the most recent month, visit the Other News section, covering blockchain, artificial intelligence, fintech and cryptocurrency news across the 17 jurisdictions that we cover.
October 2019 • November 2019 • December 2019
October 2019
- New Zealand: A look at Trickle, helping hospitality to reduce beer wastage, recording data in real time and tracking every and any pour activity
- New Zealand: A brief intro to 7 NZ startups set to showcase at TechCrunch Disrupt in San Francisco later this month
- New Zealand: A look at Quantiful, gathering global real-time consumer demand data and applying machine learning to forecast customer purchasing
- New Zealand: An intro to myReflection, making bespoke, affordable, mass-produced prostheses for breast cancer survivors using 3D printing
- New Zealand: Massey University team takes $50K win at global IoT Innovation Challenge with real-time, low cost air quality monitoring sensors
- New Zealand’s First AML secures $2.5M to help estate agents, lawyers, and accountants avoid unwittingly taking on crooks, drug dealers and despots as clients
- New Zealand: An intro to Winely, ‘precision wine technology’ startup allowing winemakers to track wine ferments using smart sensors
- New Zealand: IMAGR secures partnership with Japan’s H2O Retailing Corporation with SmartCart shopping trolley system, which uses computer vision and AI
- New Zealand: FileInvite secures $1M with mortgage broker platform, streamlining requests and storage of documents around loan applications
- New Zealand: iSANZ Awards, focused on information security, unveil 2019 finalists
- New Zealand: Iris Data Science aims to develop facial recognition software focusing on sheep, eliminating electronic identification and ear tagging
- New Zealand produces the world’s highest numbers of female-founded startups, says study of Crunchbase data
- New Zealand: An overview of JRNY, AI-backed insurtech gaining traction internationally
- An intro to FlexCareers, platform connecting talented individuals, entrepreneurs, carers, adventurers and others seeking a balanced life, with progressive employers
November 2019
- New Zealand: Meet Vxt, app startup app that transcribes your voicemail messages into text messages
- New Zealand: Purpose Capital Impact Fund hits first close on $20M fundraise, preps to begin investing in social impact projects nationwide
- New Zealand: Joyous HR-focused tech startup raises $3.8M with enterprise-focused employee feedback system
- New Zealand: An intro to UneeQ (previously FaceMe), developing interactive digital humans, AI-backed and capable of analyzing facial expressions
- New Zealand: Southern Cross Health Society launches artificial intelligence-powered digital assistant from UneeQ to help customers make decisions on health insurance
- New Zealand: Movie piracy investigation leads to NZ’s largest cryptocurrency seizure
- New Zealand: A podcast intro to startup Micropod, producing an environmentally sustainable home grow kit for microgreens
- A brief intro to the 12 Australian and New Zealand tech startups chosen to compete in the $1M Ingram Micro Comet competition
December 2019
- New Zealand: Micromaker3D printing startup wins 2019 ENVI Engineering Innovation Award, with tech creating high-detail items smaller than a strand of hair
- New Zealand: An intro to Lonelyseat, startup service connecting drivers with people who need parcels or objects shipped around the country
- New Zealand: Halter startup uses solar-powered GPS cattle collar to track animals while monitoring their health
- New Zealand Rugby selects AWS-driven Play in the Grey analytics platform via Intela AI and DOT Loves Data startups to gain game insights and boost team performance
- New Zealand: Komodo Monitr selected for Taiwan’s Hype Spin sports accelerator with software to help amateur athletes develop skills and avoid injury
- New Zealand’s Valocity Global takes Fintech Startup of the Year trophy at India FinTech Awards 2019
- New Zealand: Grounded sustainable packaging supplier lands backing from Impact Enterprise Fund, NZ’s first impact investing fund
- New Zealand: TradeWindow secures $2.7M with SaaS supply chain solution to gather all components of arranging export/import orders
- New Zealand: OurCrowd global investment crowdfunding platform wins tender to operate NZ startup incubator, focusing on agri-tech and food-tech businesses
- ICYMI: The 2019 Investor’s Guide to the New Zealand Technology Sector is available to download in pdf
- New Zealand: Aider digital assistant developer startup funded to NZ$750K in maiden investment by Coca Cola’s Amatil X early stage venture fund
- Lime, US e-scooter startup, launches LimePass weekly subscription plan in Australia and New Zealand, giving users unlimited unlocks for e-scooters and bikes
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