New Zealand’s Q3 2021 tech news
• July, August and September of 2021
• Tech news headlines at a glance
• Quick reference for a time-poor audience
• One-click access to each full tech news article
• Online and drawn from daily tech news
July 2021 | August 2021 | September 2021
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September 2021
- Available to download: The 2021 Investor’s Guide to the New Zealand Technology Sector
- Available to download: 2021 New Zealand Agritech Insights Report
- New Zealand: HeartLab raises $2.45M seed funding with AI-driven heart scanning and reporting platform for cardiologists, with sights on US entry early in 2022
- New Zealand: AWS to launch AWS Asia Pacific (Auckland) Region, joining 81 Availability Zones across 25 AWS Regions, potentially creating 1K jobs in the country
August 2021
- New Zealand’s LawVu, legal-tech startup for in-house legal teams, raises NZ$17M Series A with platform focused on large corporates
- New Zealand: A look at Kami, edtech making global moves with digital classroom platform and over 27M users
- New Zealand: Global From Day 1 VC firm raises NZ$130M for new fund, more than double its original first close target
- Video: Day 1 of the recently-held New Zealand Korea Tech Roadshow 2021, showcasing New Zealand as a testbed for agricultural technologies
- e-news, latest issue: Cambodia’s e-tuktuks, NZ VC funding, Vietnam’s NextUP, Google’s undersea net cables…
- e-news, latest issue: Vietnam’s Loship, AppWorks’ new fund, New Zealand legal-tech, Venmo’s crypto cash-back…
July 2021
- New Zealand: Icehouse Ventures’ First Cut Startup Challenge launches, seeking first-time entrepreneurs under 30 to pitch to 1K investors for up to $1M in investment
- New Zealand: Kāhu secures $3M with artificial intelligence tech for detecting skin cancers, aiding doctors in melanoma diagnosis
- New Zealand: Another look at Emrod’s moves into wireless electricity
- New Zealand: Startup Speaker Series hits New Zealand university campuses next week in a tour organised by Red Bull Basement and Icehouse Ventures
- New Zealand’s Imagr autonomous checkout firm opens London pop-up store, demonstrating ‘smart carts’ and cashierless tech
- New Zealand: A quick video intro to Imagr’s cashierless checkout retail system in action in London
- New Zealand: A brief video intro to the Programming Maori Potential digital technology accelerator
- New Zealand: An intro to the recently-launched Selfstarters accelerator for tech businesses looking to increase sales for software and service solutions
- New Zealand: An intro to Alimetry, working on a wearable device to aid diagnosis of cause of symptoms such as abdominal pain, indigestion, nausea and vomiting
- Aus/NZ venture studio, Dovetail, currently raising Au$10M fund for seed, Series A and Series B investments in 15 startups in ‘large but underappreciated’ industries
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