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Kiwi start-up leads global payments revolution
kiwiSaaS member Greg Beehre, CEO of Auckland's Centrapay, is driving a global revolution to overhaul how New Zealanders pay for goods and services.
kiwiSaaS Lead Talks SaaS Careers on Breakfast TV
New Zealand's software-as-a-service (SaaS) sector is growing fast and in need of talent. Short training courses offered by organisations such as Dev Academy and Mission Ready HQ offer school leavers, or Kiwis looking for a job change as part of the 'Great Resignation', a promising SaaS career. Bruce Jarvis from kiwiSaaS talks to TVNZ's Breakfast.
Tech companies need Kiwi investors to support their high-growth ventures
Technology stocks have had a bit of a battering on the local sharemarket so far this year as rising interest rates prompt investors to re-evaluate the prospects of high-growth companies. Serko founder Darrin Grafton argues that local investor support for these companies is more important now than ever.
Capital no longer a constraint as tech sector takes off
Today’s headlines are full of technology companies raising capital, and reaching eye-watering valuations every time they do so. Stuff's Dileepa Fonseka investigates.
Silicon Valley of the South Pacific: Grand dream or pipe dream?
Communications Minister David Clark might see “no reason New Zealand can’t be the Silicon Valley of the Southern Hemisphere”, but others are more than happy to point out some potential problems.
Griffin on Tech: The PM is off to the US to spruik our tech
The Prime Minister will lead a trade delegation to the US in May that will largely focus on the west coast and on pushing our high-tech exports. Software-as-a-service (SaaS) products will no doubt be a large part of the mix.
How to unleash New Zealand's digital productivity
Bruce Jarvis from the kiwiSaaS Community team talks to Radio New Zealand about the recent 2022 OECD Economic Survey of NZ findings.
Tech border exception welcome but more training key
The announcement of 600 new technology worker visa exemptions is welcomed by the kiwiSaaS Advisory Council, but it also calls for quick scaling of local work-ready tech skills programmes.
Record-breaking tech M&A activity grows from $750m to over $11b in just 15 years
New kiwiSaaS community initiative launched to help grow SaaS into New Zealand’s highest revenue earning sector.
Seven years without an income, now only way is up for Mobi2Go founder
A year ago, Wellington tech company Mobi2Go had 30 employees, with just two in its Toronto office. Twelve months on its staff numbers 100 and its Canadian contingent has grown ten-fold.
From the dining table to the top table – one firm's extraordinary growth
There's no time to sit down for Claire and James Fuller, who co-founded tech business Hnry and are now about to move into a new central Wellington office.
Tech sector worth billions, but could be so much more
Wellington has its Golden Mile: a ribbon of concrete that extends from Parliament, through much of the capital’s shopping precinct and deep into its hospitality quarter. But it also has a golden triangle of tech companies creating many tens of millions of dollars in revenue and bringing in hundreds of new jobs.