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Halter taught the fence to move.
A fence fixes a line in the ground. Halter puts that line on a phone - and lets farmers move it when the grass, the weather or the cattle demand something different.
Datacom makes the everyday work
A payday rescue, a council’s dog registrations and a sprawling cloud bill reveal the business behind Datacom: making complicated systems behave.
Māoriland: A small town teaches the world to tell its stories
In Ōtaki, a Māori-led film organisation has joined a festival, an arts hub and a training ground into one continuing conversation. The audience can become the crew.
Shuttlerock makes one good ad work a hundred different ways
The New Zealand creative technology company turns existing assets into ads for different screens, markets and audiences. Its most useful trick is making the work after the big idea easier to repeat.
Spalk sends the voice, spares the airfare
A two-minute audio delay gave two New Zealand sports fans a business idea. Spalk now helps broadcasters put local voices on global games without flying every commentator to the stadium.
Foundry Lab puts the waiting room out of work
A backyard microwave experiment became a way to make real cast metal parts without waiting for hard tooling. Foundry Lab’s wager: the most useful thing to print is the mold.
The Airline That Copied a Brand - and the PR Firm That Sent Instructions
SweeneyVesty made its name doing the serious work of reputation and crisis counsel. Its clearest lesson came from a joke: when an American airline appeared to copy a client, the firm skipped the legal scowl and mailed the rival a how-to kit.
The Agency That Made Distance Its Best Product
PPR did not sell a clever slogan so much as a map: people on the ground across Australia and New Zealand, ready to make one brief feel local. Its best work shows why that mattered - and why, after 49 years, the map became more valuable inside a global network.
The Foundry Circle Wants One Hour of Your Week
A free network for founders turns the lonely business of building into a weekly appointment. The price of admission is showing up with something to work on.
Neocrete wants your concrete to cost less. The secret is in the ash.
The Auckland company is turning low-performing ash into a useful cement replacement. In Brunei, its first scale customer reports lower carbon and a US$6 saving on every cubic metre.
Spark New Zealand Is Learning What to Let Go
The former Telecom has quit sports streaming and sold control of its data centres. Its next test is turning a narrower focus into better connections for New Zealanders.
2degrees made calls cheaper. Staying a challenger costs more.
New Zealand’s third mobile network won attention with 44-cent calls. Its next act involves fibre, private 5G and a proposal to share infrastructure with an old rival.
Serko’s big business is behind your business trip
The Auckland software company put its technology inside Booking.com for Business and bought a bigger seat in corporate travel. Now it must make growing booking volumes pay - while teaching AI to handle the itinerary.
Manukora Turned a Spoonful of Honey Into a Daily Wellness Ritual
A New Zealand founder, a blind master beekeeper and a scannable jar built a premium food brand around one unusually potent spoonful. Now Manukora is stretching mānuka honey from pantry staple into wellness platform.
Les Mills International
How a family gym in Auckland packaged the group fitness class, shipped it to 20,000 gyms, and taught the world to lift to the beat.
BioLumic
BioLumic is a New Zealand-founded agricultural biotechnology company that uses precisely tuned ultraviolet light treatments to program desirable traits into seeds and seedlings without genetic modification. Applied in seconds, its patented 'light recipes' switch on plants' natural genetic expression to deliver double-digit yield gains, stronger disease resistance and stress tolerance across crops including corn, soybean, rice and ryegrass. The company partners with seed producers to commercialize non-GMO, climate-smart traits at scale.
Xero
Xero is a cloud-based accounting software company founded in Wellington, New Zealand in 2006. It serves more than 4.4 million subscribers - mostly small businesses and the accountants and bookkeepers who advise them - across New Zealand, Australia, the UK, the US and beyond. Xero connects bank feeds, invoicing, payroll, expense tracking and a marketplace of thousands of third-party apps into a single real-time platform, and reported NZ$2.1 billion in revenue in FY25.