All returning applicants for investment funding need to talk to their Business Adviser before re-applying. Please call 0800 4POUTAMA (0800 476 882) before submitting an application.

Funding Approach: Poutama focuses on funding that helps grow your business beyond regular activities. Applicants must demonstrate how the investment will contribute to business growth and sustainability. We aim to understand your business and are happy to visit or communicate virtually.

Tailored Investment Services: Once we understand your business, we can determine how our investment services can best assist you. Our funding is limited, so we aim to maximise its benefit. Given the high demand for our limited resources, please carefully consider how our services can help you and contact us to explore potential opportunities.

Funding Coverage: Our funding can potentially cover –

Innovative Business Development Ideas: Trade missions, intellectual property protection, feasibility studies, prototype development, business planning, and consultancy.
Products/Services for Growth: Specialty equipment, website development, software, marketing materials, and leveraging funds for finance. These must be industry-specific and beyond normal operational costs.
Business Development Training: Short courses for owners, management support, industry-specific training.

There are a number of conditions and criteria to our grant funding.
These are outlined below, please take the time to read and understand what these are.

Key criteria and conditions of our grants funding:

Grant Value

Available on a 50-50 basis, up to $10,000.
You must match Poutama’s contribution. For example:
- Total $5,000: Poutama $2,500, You $2,500.
- Total $10,000: Poutama $5,000, You $5,000.
- Total $20,000: Poutama $10,000, You $10,000.
- Total $30,000: Poutama $10,000, You $20,000.

Lifetime Limit

Apply up to three times or receive a maximum of $30,000 over the business’s lifetime.

Māori Ownership

At least 50% Māori ownership.

Operations

Business must have been operating for more than 12 months.

Documentation

Provide a business plan and financial statements.

Annual Turnover

At least $80,000.

For any questions about our grants, please contact Poutama on 0800 476 882 or email po*****@po*****.nz.

Poutama Investment – Online Application

Conditions and Criteria

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To apply for Poutama investment you must meet the following conditions and tick the check box next to each.

In making an application for funding from Poutama you must ensure that all the information provided by you (including that provided by any advisors) is true and correct. In acknowledging/signing the declaration on the application, you acknowledge that if any information provided by you or your advisors is, or subsequently proves to be incorrect, that you are liable to repay any monies provided by Poutama to you (including any administrative or collection fees incurred by Poutama). Poutama reserves all its rights at law and in the case of any alleged fraudulent behaviour on the part of the applicant, Poutama reserves the right to lay a criminal complaint with the Police.

Poutama may require you or other partners/shareholders in your entity to provide evidence proving that you are Māori from a recognised kaumatua or other iwi leader in order for you to prove that you or your entity meets Poutama’s funding criteria.

The business must have a turnover of at least $80,000.

The business must have operated for at least 12 months.

You must provide an up to date business plan.

Click here - for a business plan template.

You must provide actual financial statements for the previous 12 months of trading or for the period since the business began trading.

You should demonstrate that you could not get access to investment from other sources, for example, banks or private investors.

You should demonstrate how the investment in industry-specific products and/or services is essential to your business operation.

You should demonstrate how the investment would assist your business to achieve growth and sustainability.

You should be prepared to meet Poutama business advisers to discuss your business and investment requirements.

Poutama's investment services are specifically targeted at businesses seeking to grow their business activities. The investment should not be considered as something that will help prop a business up or fund normal operational costs. You will need to strongly demonstrate how Poutama's investment will help grow your business.

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