SheEO NZ Announce 2020 Winners
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. [...]
Moves for NZ’s first seaweed farms begin in Hauraki Gulf
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 [...]
Te Whenua Law Ltd
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 [...]
McLean Drilling Limited
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 [...]
MIHI KEEPS MOVING
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 [...]
Whakakotahitanga – Poutama & Provincial Growth Fund
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 [...]
Oh no…..Gang of Monkeys Steals COVID Blood Samples in India
As if 2020 couldn't get any worse. It sounds like the opening of a bad apocalyptic zombie movie. A gang of monkeys in India stole a batch of blood samples taken from patients who [...]
NZ scientists excited by the promise of hemp crops
Braden Fastier/Stuff NZ scientists excited by the promise of hemp crops By Glenda Lewis We soon got used to cooking and eating exotic proteins and grains like chickpeas, couscous and quinoa. Now, attention has [...]
Nikola Tesla – The Ascendance of Absolute, Unrivalled Brilliance
Nikola Tesla testing his Tesla Coils. Source pic via Wikimedia Commons Nikola Tesla - The Ascendance of Absolute, Unrivalled Brilliance By Sean Kernan Every generation brings a few one-in-a-billion geniuses. Nikola Tesla was one [...]
Winter is Coming
How small businesses can survive the coming economic downturn By Gary Rohloff founder of Laybuy OPINION: The move to alert level 1 will have seen retailers and small business owners across the country breathe [...]
The Māori Trustee, to fund a $10m Top-Up package providing additional financial support for Māori SMEs
The Māori Trustee (Te Tumu Paeroa) has established a Top-Up Māori Small Business Cashflow Loan Scheme, making an additional $10m available for Māori SMEs to meet core operating costs. The Top-Up Loan Scheme will [...]
