The Mixdown Ltd

2024-03-06T09:35:18+13:00March 6th, 2024|Business, Creative, Digital, Innovation, Investment, Technology|

Nathaniel Leith - Ngāti Raukawa The Mixdown Ltd provides specialised Audio Post Production and Field Sound Engineering services.  Owned and operated by Nathaniel Leith, they focus on collaborating with businesses to create high-quality media content, produced for TV, social media campaigns, and business marketing materials. Leveraging expertise in Avid Pro Tools (210 certified), sound design, [...]

2024 NZ Hi-Tech Awards

2024-02-02T00:38:27+13:00February 2nd, 2024|Business, Digital, Innovation, Investment|

Once again, Poutama is partnering with Callaghan Innovation to co-sponsor the Hi-Tech Kamupene Māori o te Tau – Māori Company of the Year. Key dates: Nominations close Monday 19 February 2024 Entries close 5pm, Monday 4 March 2024 The Awards will be held on 24 May 2024. If you are interested or keen to know [...]

LifeStone

2023-12-12T08:56:35+13:00December 12th, 2023|Business, Creative, Digital, Innovation, Lifestyle, Service, Technology|

Dain Guttenbell - Ngātiwai & Ngāpuhi LifeStone is a Social Enterprise that started as a dream in 2016.  Dain is on a mission to create honourable memorials for loved ones, here in New Zealand without compromising on quality or authenticity. Dain's passion for this cause grew when he experienced loss himself, the passing of their [...]

Paku Limited

2023-12-12T08:56:46+13:00December 12th, 2023|Business, Creative, Digital, Innovation, Lifestyle, Technology|

Paku is a New Zealand design studio dedicated to creating products uniquely of Aotearoa.  They do this by combining mātauranga Māori (Māori knowledge) with the latest technologies to reimagine the objects around us in a bicultural way. Paku Limited was started by long-time friends Dr Johnson Witehira and James Prier.  The intention behind Paku was [...]

GO Media wins the MWDI Māori Businesswomen’s Overall Supreme Award 2023

2023-11-07T09:45:03+13:00November 7th, 2023|Business, Creative, Digital, Innovation, Lifestyle|

GO Media, a leading Māori-owned media company, has been awarded Te Tohu Aorangi Overall Supreme Winner of the prestigious MWDI Māori Businesswomen's Awards 2023.  This highly coveted accolade recognises outstanding achievements, innovation, and leadership within te ao pakihi Māori (the Māori business community). GO Media, co-founded by Andrea Rongonui, shone among a formidable line-up of [...]

MWDI Māori Businesswomen’s Awards 2023

2023-11-07T10:15:12+13:00November 7th, 2023|Business, Creative, Digital, Fashion, Innovation, Investment, Lifestyle|

Poutama was proud to support the MWDI Business Awards with our sponsorship of the Te Pōiketanga (Emerging Business) Category. Alongside MWDI, we’ve a solid reputation of supporting Wāhine Māori-led economic development.  Across Aotearoa, we see the contribution that this economic development has for wāhine, whānau and hapori whānui. Te Pōiketanga is about acknowledging a new [...]

Tupuānuku

2023-10-03T01:59:32+13:00October 3rd, 2023|Business, Cuisine, Digital, Education, Innovation, Lifestyle|

Raniera Rewiri - Whakatōhea, Te Arawa Raniera was born and bred in his slice of paradise of Whakatane and currently lives in Ōhope with his beautiful wife and their baby boy.  He is hugely passionate about personal development, health and wellbeing, business, and his identity as Māori. ​ His company Tupuānuku started in 2018 in the [...]

Hiwa Technology Ltd

2023-09-08T11:30:54+12:00September 8th, 2023|Business, Digital, Innovation, Lifestyle, Technology|

Hoani Matenga - Te Whānau-ā-Apanui, Rangitane  Hoani was born in Ōtautahi and now living in Tauranga.  He has been operating Hiwa Systems for 2 years, creating cutting edge GPS technology with the worlds first geo-location capable safety headset. They provide a solution to enhancing worker safety and productivity via tracking and geofencing.  It can aid [...]

New Poutama Trust whānau

2023-07-05T10:58:45+12:00July 5th, 2023|Business, Digital, Education, Export, Innovation|

Brittany Teei (Te Rarawa & Kuki Airani) was born and raised in Tāmaki Makaurau, she has joined our whānau as our new Business Advisor covering Te Tai Tokerau & Tāmaki Makaurau. She is an ex-professional tennis player, and entrepreneur who works in the international education, tech, beauty and sports industries. Brittany has previously worked as [...]

NZ Hi-Tech Awards 2023

2023-07-05T10:58:52+12:00July 5th, 2023|Business, Digital, Export, Innovation|

Poutama was proud to co-sponsor with Callaghan Innovation the HI-TECH Kamupene Māori o te Tau / 2023 Māori HI-TECH Company of the Year Award. Māori entrepreneur Aaron Ward's (Ngāti Maru) software company AskNicely won the Award at the recent New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards in Ōtautahi. With teams in the US and Europe, AskNicely serves millions of [...]

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