Kia ora koutou It’s been an interesting couple of weeks. Scratch that – it’s been an interesting 18 months! As well as keeping COVID at bay, lockdowns certainly provide ample time for reflection on what’s really important in life, and I took the opportunity to do that this week. Naturally, I also got to thinking about what it all means …
Kia ora koutou We’ve had a fantastic response to our 2021 TIN survey with a record number of completed surveys received after just two weeks! As detailed in our last TINWire, we’ve made some subtle changes to the way we’re doing things this year which will deliver even better results, both for TIN and the companies we survey. This year’s annual tech …
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 …
Aroa Biosurgery is a soft tissue regeneration company whose proprietary Aroa ECM™ platform technology is derived from sheep forestomach. Their products have been used in more than four million procedures to date. Aroa Biosurgery ranks No 94 amongst the TIN200, steadily climbing the ranks since entering the TIN Report in 2018. The company listed on the ASX in July 2020 and …
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 …
TIN Member CEO Chat: Raising Capital TIN’s CEO Chat series is designed to draw reflections from our TIN member company CEOs on best practice ideas and actions for tech sector success. Our first CEO Chat of the year focused on ‘Raising Capital’ in anticipation of TIN’s forthcoming Investor’s Guide to the NZ Tech Sector, which reflects the current state of …
Kia ora koutou A very warm welcome from TIN in 2021 – we trust you’ve enjoyed our stunning summer and have returned from your break feeling refreshed, revived, and revitalised. 2021 holds plenty of hope and promise, especially for the tech sector. With international tourism waning, the fast-growing tech sector has been largely responsible for aiding New Zealand’s economic rebound …
Kia ora koutou 2020 will go down in the history books as a year to remember, and quite possibly one that many would prefer to forget. Many of our country’s tech businesses have had to dig deep in order to find opportunities to grow and survive. Two of those companies –Serko and Pushpay – were profiled in a recent news …
Kia ora koutou The news on Monday that Cabinet is holding steady on the current Alert Level restrictions until next week serves as a sobering reminder that the virus remains an active part of our communities. But there’s movement on the horizon with the news late last week that the Government is loosening the criteria for overseas workers being allowed …
Kia ora koutou Aucklanders collectively breathed a sigh of relief as we shifted to Alert Level 2 yesterday, hoping that the efforts of the past few weeks to contain the spread of COVID-19 haven’t been in vain. As we chart this next stage of the course, predicted unemployment figures for New Zealand make for sobering reading, and show Auckland taking …
