The new Coralus Venture cohort in Aotearoa were selected last month! These 7 Ventures are addressing everything from reimagining the design, beauty, and sustainability of our systems, exploring the healing potential of food, and uplifting Māori culture and leadership. Together they are working across 5 different sectors + on 5 different UN Sustainable Development Goals. Of [...]
Native Nations - Tracing Indigenous Footsteps is a finalist this year in the New Zealand Tourism Awards under the category of "Industry Alignment & Collaboration". 6 months is all it took, for a couple of extremely passionate indigenous people from Australia and New Zealand to connect, develop, orchestrate and deliver an extraordinarily powerful Regenerative & [...]
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 [...]
An indigenous global knowledge exchange programme in the agri-food sector Arama Kukutai (Ngāti Maniapoto, Tainui, Te Aupōuri) is a venture capitalist and CEO of vertical farming company, Plenty, based in California. He is a US-based business leader who is championing more Māori to get into the science and technology sector by offering internships in America for [...]
Te Puāwaitanga Summer Internships - The meaning behind Te Puāwaitanga is ‘to flourish’ or ‘come to fruition’. AgResearch’s Te Puāwaitanga internship was established to provide opportunities for fresh minds to explore, collaborate and contribute to solving the challenges of our future. AgResearch is looking for enthusiastic and dedicated students to join them for their Te [...]
Congratulations to Poutama client, Dave Hare and his team from Treemachine Services who won national acclaim at the 2023 Primary Industries Good Employer Awards. The awards, announced at the Beehive last month, shine a light on leading employers that put their team at the heart of their business. Treemachine Services won multiple awards winning the [...]
Westpac are pleased to announce that applications for Te Waiu o Aotearoa Trust’s 2024 tertiary scholarships are now open. The Trust was established in 1994 to promote, develop and provide for the education and advancement of Māori within the general business, banking and finance industries. The tertiary study scholarships will be awarded to up to [...]
Leah Keown - Ngāi Tahu Beyond Your Numbers is based in Richmond, Nelson and has been operating since June 2016. "Our location limits us location wise, being a small region, so we adapt and are able to work with businesses throughout NZ as the work we do is mostly remote based," Leah says. "We work [...]
The Kāhui Legal team celebrated their 20th anniversary last month at Te Wharewaka o Pōneke. Wow what an awesome achievement and celebration of being Māori! Poutama was proud to be there to acknowledge the many years of mahi and achievements of their team and alumni. Kāhui Legal is a specialist law firm working at the [...]
The Tompkins Wake Rotorua Business Awards are delivered annually by the Rotorua Business Chamber. These high-profile business awards celebrate innovation and creativity in the business sector and have been a highlight of Rotorua’s business calendar for well over 20 years. If your business is a proud Māori bilingual business, we encourage you to enter the [...]
