This year, Poutama is partnering with Callaghan Innovation to co-sponsor the Hi-Tech Kamupene Māori o te Tau – Māori Company of the Year at the 2023 Hi-Tech Awards. Entering the NZ Hi-Tech Awards: Helps you analyse and articulate your core messaging and where your business sits Primes your business - entering other awards, responding to [...]
ANZ invites you to a webinar at 11am, Thursday 23 February 2023. Designed to inspire and inform Māori in business, whether well-established or just starting out. You’ll hear from: Michele Wilson - co-founder and CEO of AWWA Period Care; a company dedicated to breaking down the barriers. Michele's business, and personal life, is centred around [...]
Māori Women’s Development Inc. (MWDI) provide a range of business support services to Wāhine Māori across Aotearoa, this includes: Business Loans - latest round of applications are due by 5 March 2023 HineBoss - the next Online courses are scheduled for 17-19 February & 3-5 March 2023 Tauhoko-ā-Rangi - a 12 week online guided e-commerce [...]
Poutama Trust is providing Māori businesses with greater choice by becoming a Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) delivery partner, enabling Poutama to collaborate directly with Māori businesses wanting to access RBP support. The RBP provides support to small-to-medium business owners that seek to strengthen and grow their business. Funded by the New Zealand government and [...]
Buy Māori Made founder Michelle Paki encourages kiwi shoppers to buy Māori made in the lead up to the Christmas shopping season. Paki says, “You’re investing in so much more when you purchase from pakihi Māori… you’re investing in te reo Māori, mātauranga Māori, hauora Māori, we come with a little bit more.” Read and [...]
Poutama Trust will provide Māori businesses with greater choice by becoming a Regional Business Partner Network (RBP) delivery partner, enabling Poutama to work directly with Māori businesses wanting to access RBP support. The RBP provides support to small-to-medium business owners that seek to strengthen and grow their business. Funded by the New Zealand government and [...]
Aotearoa New Zealand’s Ministry of Foreign Affairs and Trade (MFAT) is hosting a series of events in November, for businesses to learn more about the NZ-UK FTA and to engage with experts. Attendees will also hear from New Zealand businesses active in the UK, and from New Zealand’s Trade Commissioner for the United Kingdom and [...]
Last week the 2022 Coralus (formerly SheEO) NZ Ventures were announced. Two of the five winning NZ businesses are wāhine Māori owned. Te Whenua Group’s Kushla Okano (Ngāti Apa ki te Rā Tō, Rangitāne, Tūwharetoa) and Banqer’s Kendall Flutey (Ngāi Tahu) are incredible entrepreneurs who are leaders and change makers who are transforming systems in [...]
Māori Women’s Development Inc (MWDI) provide loans to wāhine Māori and their whānau. The loans enable and assist them to enter into and commence business and/or to expand and restructure their existing businesses. The loans are OPEN and applications must be submitted no later than Monday 7 November 2022. If you are looking to apply, [...]
Kōkiri is a Māori business accelerator wānanga, based on kaupapa Māori values and focused on accelerating early-stage Māori led technology start-ups who have bold ambitions. Registrations for the Pre-accelerator 1-day wānanga are now open. Have you got a great idea but would like to receive validation around the concept? The 1-day wānanga is the perfect [...]
