Gentrack Group Limited (NZX: GTK) has been selected for inclusion in the S&P/NZX 20 Index, following the June 2025 quarterly review by S&P Dow Jones Indices. The change takes effect prior to the market open on Monday 23 June.

The 2025 NZ Tech Ecosystem Report is out and it’s a milestone moment for Aotearoa’s innovation economy.

We’ve got our first founding members (YASS!), we’re pushing on with the raise, but still need your input and support. Plus: don’t miss Movac’s AI pricing event!

With support from NZTE, NZTech is helping re-establish kiwiSaaS as a membership organisation — built by the SaaS community, for the SaaS community.

NZ Herald (paywalled): Executives at Xero, Datacom, Gallagher (CEO Kahl Betham pictured) and many rising software firms call for public funding of kiwiSaaS to continue.

Newstalk ZB: Nick Whitehead, Serko Chief Marketing Officer, says the tech industry is seeking "engagement' not just to talk "funding" on what the Government’s plans are for the sector going forward.

NZ Herald (paywalled): Some of New Zealand’s tech industry’s biggest names have sent a letter to Technology Minister Judith Collins - in the context of millions in public funding to boost the cloud software sector being about to expire.

VoiceQ, owned by Kiwa Digital, appoints Grey Willow Music and Production Studios to represent the localisation software to grow its presence in indigenous markets in the USA.

Southern SaaS 2024 speaker Aaron Ward (Ngāti Maru), co-founder of AskNicely, is one of the few Māori working in the tech industry. He believes tangata whenua could help combat a pressing shortage of staff in Aotearoa.

As the only Māori in his company, AskNicely, Aaron Ward raises the issue of including more indigenous people in the tech sector. Aaron will speak at Southern SaaS 2024 on 12 March.

A New Zealand tech startup has secured a multi-million dollar funding boost from Silicon Valley.

Sean O’Brien and Jason Ennor are North Shore entrepreneurs with global ambitions for their hybrid HR service. Having established a strong presence across New Zealand and Australia, they’re now working hard to take MyHR even further afield.

Auror, a business providing crime-fighting software to retailers and police forces around the world, has been crowned Supreme Winner at the New Zealand International Business Awards 2023. The kiwiSaaS member company also won the Best Medium Business Award earlier in the night.

The fast-growing startup had no trouble securing capital, with healthtech a hot sector for investors.

Accountancy firm Hnry is adding a debit card to its arsenal to help sole traders manage their expenses in real-time.

Clarinspect was nominated for, and won, the FireNZ award for Innovative Product & Design for 2023, announced at the FireNZ conference.

Company-X text-to-speech platform Voxcoda was a part of the winning solution lauded as the best fleet safety product at the 2023.

Primary sector exporters to benefit from easier access to carbon removals in their supply chain, enabling low-carbon exports

The agritech startup will use the funds to further extend into the Latin American and European markets.