Industry news & updates
Your source for SaaS industry news, member success stories, and insights from New Zealand's thriving software-as-a-service community.
AskNicely raises $32M to empower frontline teams to delight their customers
AskNicely has announced that it has completed a $32M Series B funding round. The Portland, Oregon-based company, which has its tech team in New Zealand, develops customer experience software for service businesses.
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.
‘Kicking SaaS in 2022’ – it's a wrap!
If you missed any of our popular ‘Kicking SaaS in 2022’ online event on 1 December, or would just like to replay some of the action, the full recording is now available to view.
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.
Growth Mindset – How to build a $1 billion business
Online presentation – Thursday, 18 November 2021
Acquisition and sales: Don't underestimate team culture
We speak with Alex Burke, CEO of Education Perfect, on what international acquisition meant for this kiwiSaaS success story.
kiwiSaaS Opinion Piece (NBR)
We cannot afford to lose thousands of SaaS jobs in the war for tech talent.
NZ Companies buying others round the world (NZ Herald)
Kiwi software-as-a-service companies are acquiring others in a new trend.
Driving change
Partly is tackling the complex problem of cataloguing and matching fitment parts data with vehicle data to create a universal database, enabling users to buy and sell auto parts online.
Learning journey
Orah has developed a platform that helps schools, students and their families track and monitor school life – from managing permissions for excursions to organising co-curricular activities and monitoring student wellbeing.
Rocket boosters
Callaghan Innovation’s support has helped Rocketspark build connections, feed its talent pipeline and ramp up international expansion.
Supercharged software testing
Software testing is time-consuming and tedious. That’s the current standard Auckland-based Software-as-a-Service (SaaS) business TheTestMart is disrupting.
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.
CoGo's conscious effort to influence consumers
The chief executive and co-founder of Wellington tech company CoGo is heading to Australia later this year with the prime minister’s trade mission, and his trail-blazing firm that supports conscious consumerism is set for its next step on the path to global opportunities and behavioural change.
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.