Kia ora koutou With the year racing by, TIN has a busy event schedule with a lot on offer for the tech community in the next four months. The 2022 TIN Report is starting to take shape and the full picture of the last year in NZ’s technology sector is beginning to emerge as TIN’s research team collates the data for the 18th edition. We are excited to announce that pre-orders of the 2022 TIN Report are open, and …
AFT Pharmaceuticals continues to be one of New Zealand’s most successful Healthtech companies with a revenue of $113,100m in 2021. Despite a challenging year, the company managed to hold on to rank 24 in the TIN200 (New Zealand’s top 200 tech exporters), launched a range of new products and continues to build its presence across various territories like Europe and …
Kia ora koutou This week’s arrival of the print edition of the 2021 TIN Report on desks around the country was heralded by another period of intense activity for New Zealand’s tech companies.  The recent news that Sir Peter Jackson is to sell Weta Digital’s technology division to American 3D game-development platform Unity for around NZ$2.3 billion is the latest in a flurry of deals …
Kia ora koutou I’m pleased to announce that in the midst of what’s been an especially challenging time across New Zealand, the 2021 TIN Report is now available! This year, TIN surveyed a sector that had experienced a full year operating under the shadow of the COVID-19 pandemic – and what we discovered is inspiring. The New Zealand tech sector …
The ‘Super Saturday’ initiative of last weekend was a great initiative to boost the vaccination rates across New Zealand. Clearly, vaccination is how we as a country – along with the rest of the world – are going to move through and eventually beyond COVID-19. What was even more inspiring to see though was how we not only met the …
There were two big announcements made in Auckland this week. The first was to remain in Level 3, with some small restrictions eased. While it was essentially a small shift it created a lot of discussion. It’s natural to want simple answers to complex problems, especially the problem of COVID, but it’s also vitally important to be able to simplify …
Kia ora koutou New Zealand has always had an urban / rural divide, and last week some frustrated representatives from the rural part drove into some of New Zealand’s biggest cities on tractors and utes to make a point. Although that point may have been somewhat hijacked by resulting traffic woes and spray-painted slogans, the message that did get through …
AFT Pharmaceuticals company vision is simple: to develop innovative products that help people. At the heart of the company’s success therefore sits Research and Development to constantly improve existing products and develop new ones. AFT Pharmaceuticals has grown steadily since its formation in 1997 and jumped an impressive nine ranks in the 2020 TIN Report from position 33 in 2019 …
Kia ora koutou A recent interesting commentary piece from NZ Growth Capital Partners about fostering innovation across New Zealand shows that it’s not just the big players in our largest cities that are taking New Zealand tech to the world, but that there are also success stories from almost every region. I couldn’t agree more. Companies on TIN’s radar, including …
Kia ora koutou This time last year the nationwide COVID-19 lockdown was in full swing. The news was full of community cases, job losses, hibernating businesses, and economic relief. Fast forward a year, and we have travel bubbles opening up, international tourism resuming, businesses bouncing back and a far rosier economic picture. We also have the return of the national …
