January, February, March 2020
Each link below will take you to the original New Zealand startup news article for that headline, gathered from online New Zealand-focused tech news coverage in Q1 2020 – the months of January, February and March of 2020.
Our quarterly New Zealand startup news listings provide a brief at-a-glance listing of the startup headlines for New Zealand as a quick reference on the country’s early-stage startup scene and, where applicable, providing coverage of New Zealand’s startups making headlines overseas.
Startup News Asia’s quarterly summaries can also be ordered online in hardcopy, printed, bound and delivered. Our hardcopy publications feature scan-able links to connect you from print to each headline’s online news article using the Startup News Asia mobile app, or any similar app you already have on your device.
January 2020 | February 2020 | March 2020
New Zealand: January 2020
- 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
New Zealand: February 2020
- New Zealand: PlaceMakers online store partners CarbonClick, allowing shoppers to offset their purchases’ carbon emissions
- New Zealand: Gov’t signs MOU with Wisk, JV between Boeing and Kitty Hawk, to conduct a flying taxi trial using Wisk’s Cora, an all-electric, self-flying aircraft
- New Zealand Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade to offer 6-8 North Asian tech entrepreneurs/business leaders a visit to NZ in May
- New Zealand: A podcast intro to Sparrows, cutting food waste using smart sensors and data tracking across food items’ lifecycles
- New Zealand: A look at Kami, software firm providing cloud-based tools for allow teachers and students to annotate, edit and collaborate on digital documents
- A look at the Australian and New Zealand publishers who have grown readership revenue through the Facebook Accelerator, part of the FB Journalism Project
New Zealand: March 2020
- New Zealand: Gov’t launches Digital Council to advise government on how to maximise societal benefits of digital and data-driven technologies
- New Zealand: Gov’t launches Elevate NZ, a $300M VC fund focusing on high-potential early-stage tech startups
- New Zealand’s fintech sector is outgrowing the rest of the world; while the global average is 31-33%, New Zealand is growing at a rate of 48.5%
- New Zealand: Mainland Angel Investors network launches, founded by Startup Dunedin, COIN South and Startup Queenstown Lakes
- New Zealand: Department of Conservation considering use of drones to drop poison bait in remote areas for invasive pests that kill native and endangered species
