The new cohort of SheEO NZ Ventures was announced this week with a LIVE online celebration to meet the successful Ventures! The SheEO community from around the world all joined the call to watch. It was a historic moment for the SheEO New Zealand community as 60% of the 2020 cohort is Māori and 36% [...]
Seaweed could soon become NZ’s next big industry – and it could get its start in the Hauraki Gulf. Plans are underway to create the country’s first commercial seaweed farming industry, that will see farmers earn a living and oceans restored. With scientists, farmers, and buyers in the bag, and ocean space already secured, the [...]
Rotorua lawyer, Tania Te Whenua (Tūhoe, Whakatōhea), has been appointed to the Governance New Zealand Women on Boards Executive Committee. With support from Poutama Trust, Tania was able to enrol in Governance New Zealand’s chartered governance programme earlier this year. To Tania’s delight, she graduated at the top of her classes with first class distinction [...]
Steve McLean and Aimee Hiini (Tūhourangi) are the owner/operators of McLean Drilling Limited. Their business takes them all over the South Island/Te Waipounamu drilling and laying fibre optic cables for Chorus under the UFB2 sector. They also complete work for Enable Networks building fibre optic infrastructure in private laneways and extending the network where required [...]
What started out in early 2018 as a discussion with Waiū Dairy on the possibility of producing a plant based beverage has now morphed into one of Poutama’s largest collaborative groupings, MIHI (Movers In Hemp Innovation). MIHI recently held its third annual hui at the Riddet Institute, Palmerston North with 45 people turning up for the [...]
After a bit of behind the scenes collaboration between Poutama and the Provincial Development Unit (PDU) of the Provincial Growth Fund (PGF), a step change has been reached. This change will see Poutama over the next 6 months investing up to $100,000 into Māori enterprises based in regional Aotearoa. PGF has provided $5m to enable [...]
