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New Zealand’s SaaS business community that's growing faster, together.
The home for people working and investing in kiwi software-as-a-service firms.
Subscribe for updatesFrom 2021-2024, the kiwiSaaS community successfully connected nearly 4,000 SaaS professionals across Aotearoa, fostering invaluable knowledge exchange and accelerating the growth of New Zealand's SaaS sector. Through this initiative, which was funded by government until June 2024, the community was enabled to increase collaboration and scale up the sector's global impact.
Now, kiwiSaaS is entering an exciting new chapter as an industry-led community within the NZTech Group. This transition ensures long-term sustainability, with kiwiSaaS becoming a member-driven network that will continue to empower SaaS businesses and champion their success on the global stage.
It just takes the right people, a computer and an internet connection to start up a SaaS company. But growing a globally-focused SaaS business can be challenging. It can be tough scaling one alone.
Inside our kiwiSaaS community you will find others like you. People with a common purpose who are determined and willing to put in the hard yards. Our members know that their chances of success are higher if they can learn and grow together.
With government funding for kiwiSaaS ending in June 2024, we are now transitioning to a powerful industry-led community, that's funded and run by its members.
Our kiwiSaaS whakatauki is:
Mā mua ka kite a muri, mā muri ka ora a mua.
Those who lead give sight to those who follow. Those who follow give life to those who lead.
With your involvement, we are making kiwiSaaS a community driven by insights and data.
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If you would like to help transform kiwiSaaS into a powerful industry-led community, get in touch!
Contact uskiwiSaaS Central, our online community home, is LIVE!
It's a safe space where we solve our everyday SaaS challenges together.
Here's what kiwiSaaS members are saying about kiwiSaaS Central:
“A great place to pose a question and have a wide range of people respond and help to answer it. It's also opened up some great Go To Market discussions with other Kiwi SaaS companies I may not have been connected to or know to reach out to. Being able to locate other nearby SaaS GTM people to network with is so helpful with our more remote ways of working these days.”
“kiwiSaaS Central has been great to meet and chat with people across the industry. We get input into issues we're facing, and do the same for others in areas where we know a thing or two”
kiwiSaaS Central is FREE to join for people working in SaaS businesses and for active investors in NZ SaaS companies. It's the only place to:
-Ask questions, post challenges, and have your peers help solve them.
-Access exclusive curated content including the library of kiwiSaaS ‘Need to Know’ webinar videos.
-Connect with other kiwiSaaS members, both local and international.
-Access member-only kiwiSaaS events.
Insights from our community help us to connect you with like-minded people who are best placed to help you on your learning journey. You’ll have access to a range of online and in-person networking opportunities tailored to your individual needs – saving you time and leaving none of your connections to chance.
Our popular Orbiit ‘match-making’ service connects you with other kiwiSaaS members who are in similar roles and businesses to your own - for a monthly online discussion on topics chosen by you.
You are 'matched' based on your common SaaS interest areas and role attributes, so your conversations are always on point.
Our Orbiit programme has been up and running since early 2022, and offers a convenient and highly effective way to grow useful SaaS connections quickly!
We have established a range of SaaS business skills training courses to deliver vocational upskilling and founder ‘soft skills’ education on topics identified by our members. Our current 14 courses include:
Customer Success essentials (4 courses covering: reducing churn, customer retention planning, and driving expansion revenue.)
SaaS Scaling and Sales topics (10 courses covering: first steps to Product-Market Fit, financial and market analysis, understanding scaling, the importance of the customer in scaling, RevOps, leading and hiring for scaling success, managing sales teams, operating systems and OKRs, operating rhythm and MBO, building and managing an effective Board).
Want to learn more?
Contact the kiwiSaaS community team:
• Bruce Jarvis, Head of kiwiSaaS
• Deanne Bloom, kiwiSaaS Marketing & Communications Director
• Korey Rubenstein, kiwiSaaS Community Director
• Kim Ellis, kiwiSaaS Community Events & Partners Manager
• Veronica Verdonk, kiwiSaaS Community Operations Manager
• Marco Ghirardelli, kiwiSaaS Product Manager
