Meet our RISE UP finalists: Kitti Bradley
Kitti Bradley is the co-founder of Mother Trucking - a dispatch management system that enables SMEs in the trucking industry to manage the day-to-day running of their business. Kitti has owned businesses since she was 24, with Mother Trucking her newest venture....
August 13, 2023Meet our RISE UP finalists: Niamh Buchanan and Melanie Lynn
RISE UP finalists Niamh Buchanan and Melanie Lynn co-founded WellNow - a digital marketplace that connects people looking for last minute health and wellness appointments to practitioners with availability, providing patients with better access to and ownership of healthcare. With a background in market research and strategy, Niamh manages WellNow's brand and customer experience. Co-founder Melanie has deep experience in ecommerce and SaaS businesses so looks after product and technology....
August 6, 2023Meet our RISE UP finalists: Gina Urlich
Our second RISE UP 2023 finalist is Gina Urlich, clinical nutritionist and founder of Norish. Norish uses freeze-dried technology and recipes to create baby food that delivers essential nutrients without the use of synthetic vitamins or minerals. Gina's background is in nursing and pathology. Her decade-long work at the Mater Mothers Hospital in South Brisbane sparked a passion for preventive medicine which led to her obtaining a Bachelor of Health Science in Nutritional Medicine and running a p...
August 1, 2023Meet our RISE UP finalists: Candace Kinser
Introducing our first RISE UP 2023 finalist - Candace Kinser, Vester founder. Vester is an employee share plan management system that enables companies to issue and manage employee shares while its user-centric design simultaneously allows employees to easily understand and manage their shares. Before starting Vester, Candace spent most of her career working in technology and on boards as a director with a special focus on technology governance....
July 23, 2023Sign Logic Makes Sense of Business with RBP Training
Starting a business is never easy. Since opening her Hamilton based signwriting business two years ago, Sign Logic owner Jean Krielen has made her fair share of mistakes and contemplated if she made the right decision. But in the last six months she has doubled her revenue and employed her first staff member....
June 29, 2023Falls Retreat Offers Exceptional Experiences
Nestled within the picturesque Karangahake Gorge near Waihi, you'll find Falls Retreat, a beautiful rustic venue with a delectable bistro and charming accommodation. Lovingly created 15 years ago by husband-and-wife duo, Emma Walters and Brad King, Falls Retreat also hosts weddings, functions, cooking classes and sustainability workshops....
May 2, 2023RBP Funding Helps Accent Photography Launch New Service
Accent Photography is a newborn, family and personal branding photography business based in Tuakau in North Waikato....
January 18, 2023Fieldays Innovation Award Winners
Guests at the 2022 Fieldays Innovation Awards were treated to a celebration of creative problem-solvers with four well-deserving winners selected by the panel of 15 industry expert judges....
December 5, 2022RBP Funding Helps Cosana Hit Sweet Spot
Caption: Cosana CEO Chris Bowman (centre) with some of his team....
October 26, 2022Cauliflower Ice-cream is Kinda Cool
Founders Milli Kumar and Jenni Matheson met at Venture Taranaki's Powerup Ideas Competition in 2021. A vegan for more than 20 years, Jenni had created vegan ice-cream made from cauliflower in her kitchen at home. The fortuitous meeting with food technologist, Milli, led the pair to create Kinda; a sustainable food start-up. They have three ice-cream flavours - strawberry ripple, triple chocolate and mint choc biccie - and will be launching their single serve tubs in 2023....
September 20, 2022Q&A with Aeroplanned
Aeroplanned founders Jen Liddle and Jacquie Udyavar have created a software solution for flight training schools. The data driven software enables flight schools to make highly effective decisions, maximise outputs and reduce costs. Jen and Jacquie recently completed Soda's customised LIFT programme where they were mentored by Timely founder Ryan Baker....
August 29, 2022Finery wins RISE UP 2022!
Finery founder Jane Allan has won Soda's RISE UP competition, taking home $10,000 cash to boost her cocktail in a can business....
August 18, 2022Meet our Rise Up finalists: Secret Kiwi Kitchen
Secret Kiwi Kitchen is an artisan food business launched in August 2020 during Auckland's second lockdown by two local mums, Lulu Taylor and Clare Gallagher. Wanting to make baking accessible and easy for everyone, they created a range of easy-to-make one bowl mixes that feature premium New Zealand ingredients and all-natural ingredients....
July 24, 2022Meet our Rise Up finalists: Jane Allan
Finery Cocktails offer a range of unique ready-to-pour cocktails, including alcohol free options. The business has been built on brand ethics of promoting moderation and healthy relationships with alcohol whilst exploring better for you No Alcohol alternatives. In July 2020 they launched a first to market ready to drink zero per cent adult beverage option to New Zealand supermarkets. Finery now exports to Australia, Singapore and Rarotonga with the UAE currently in the pipeline....
July 18, 2022Meet our Rise Up finalists: Becs Bartells
Outside the Box Caskets design and manufacture 100 per cent biodegradable cardboard caskets, made in New Zealand from sustainable and recyclable materials. With no plastic, no metal and no other nasties, its caskets are a kinder, ecological solution to traditional timber and MDF caskets. Founder Becs Bartells is a designer with a degree in Industrial design and a background in character animation, furniture design and graphic design....
July 10, 2022Meet our RISE UP Finalists: Laura Nixon
Based in Titahi Bay, Porirua, Solid is a sustainable toothpaste company whose mission is to stop the 16 million toothpaste tubes that go to landfill in Aotearoa every year. Solid tooth tablets, pastes and powders are vegan, cruelty free and have no palm oil. Everything is packed in glass bottles and jars that can be reused and returned. Co-founder Laura Nixon is a dental hygienist/therapist who has spent most of her career working with tamariki and adults to help improve their oral health....
July 4, 2022Soda is the Waikato's new Regional Business Partner
Hamilton based business growth driver, Soda Inc., is expanding its services to support more businesses as the Waikato's new Regional Business Partner (RBP)....
June 28, 2022Meet our RISE UP finalists: Renee Bignell
Introducing RISE UP finalist and Fundpay founder, Renee Bignell. Fundpay is a budgeting and payment platform that can be downloaded as an easy-to-use app on your phone. Smart, discreet and debt-free, Fundpay is New Zealand's first digital wallet for discretionary spending. It allows users to make regular payments into the app, save up and then splash out without guilt or debt!...
June 21, 2022Meet our RISE UP finalists: Charlotte Greer
Introducing one of our 2022 RISE UP finalists - Charlotte Greer, founder of veto. Based in Tauranga, veto. offers zero waste, multipurpose cleaning products to make sustainable living as accessible, practical and economic as possible. Products include washing powder, washing bars and cleaning products. All products are 100 per cent grey water safe, septic safe, compostable and handmade, formulated, designed and distributed by Charlotte....
June 20, 2022Q&A with Dust&Glow founder
Dust&Glow founder, Gaelle Thieme, was one of our 2021 RISE UP finalists. She recently completed Soda's LIFT programme so we asked her a few questions to find out how her business has progressed and her thoughts on the beauty industry....
May 26, 2022Q&A with Real Rad Food founder Hannah Mellsop
Meet Hannah Mellsop – founder of Real Rad Food, a Papamoa based business that creates plant-based treats and products including bliss ball mixes, supplements and healthy slices featuring delectable flavours such as pinky bar and after dinner mint. Hannah completed Soda's LIFT programme during New Zealand's first lockdown in 2020. Her mentor Pana Barbounis, the Melbourne based founder of handmade chocolate company Pana Organic, helped Hannah pivot her health food business by creating a product ...
March 1, 2022Q&A with Dunedin Craft Distillers
Meet Jenny McDonald (left) and Sue Stockwell - founders of Dunedin Craft Distillers who make gin and vodka using leftover bread and bakery products. Jenny and Sue are currently working through Soda's LIFT programme to grow their business. We asked Jenny and Sue a few questions about how they got started and where they hope to be in five years time....
January 31, 2022Kiwi invention behind World Coffee Championship win
A benchtop coffee roasting machine designed and manufactured in New Zealand has achieved global recognition through the 2021 World Brewers Cup competition, part of the 2021 World Coffee Championships in Milan....
January 16, 2022Lockdown Startup '& Again' Wins Rise Up and $10,000
Online thrift and consignment store & Again was created during lockdown when founder, Wendy Quach, returned home from London and wanted to find a solution to her clothes hoarding problem....
November 23, 2021Meet our Rise Up Finalists: Billie Jo Hohepa
In the lead-up to Rise Up, we asked our ambitious female founders a few questions about their entrepreneurial journey and what inspires them. Meet Billie Jo Hohepa, founder of BDÉT who create a range of eco-friendly personal hygiene products such as BDÉT Foam Wash which turns ordinary toilet paper into a cleansing, hygienic wipe....
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