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Inside the newsletter decoding cutting-edge tech

16 April 2026

University of Auckland student Charlotte Print has developed a fast-growing global newsletter, which decodes knowledge from patents into key insights, helping founders and investors make better decisions.
Why raising millions is not the real measure of success

26 March 2026

Alumnus Min-Kyu Jung has built global AI legal tech company Ivo, raising NZ $133 million along the way. He explains why progress and product matter more than capital raised.
A reality check on entrepreneurship, from Tim Brown

26 March 2026

Allbirds co-founder Tim Brown opened the 2026 Velocity programme with a clear message: don’t start a business. But if you must, do it with your eyes wide open.
Opening the black box of finance

26 March 2026

Technology powering quantitative finance has traditionally been ring-fenced by elite hedge funds and banks. After encountering those barriers firsthand, alumnus Jared Broad built a platform designed to open quantitative trading to the world.
Hectre raises millions to tackle global fruit waste

16 February 2026

An oversubscribed Series A round signals strong investor confidence in University of Auckland alumnus Matty Blomfield’s mission to fix one of horticulture’s biggest data problems.
The superconductor technology set to advance Japan’s space industry

16 February 2026

Born out of the University of Auckland’s entrepreneurial ecosystem, venture Zenno Astronautics has partnered with Mitsubishi Electric to develop a high-fidelity simulator of its fuel-free satellite control system.
The journey to becoming a professional content creator

12 February 2026

Mitchell Carlyle is turning storytelling into a profession through his own video content business.
What start-ups need from politicians

11 February 2026

Rod McNaughton asks how the economically vital start-up community can be better served by politicians.
A new approach to antimicrobial resistance and environmental risk

5 February 2026

A University of Auckland research collaboration is taking aim at one of the hardest problems in modern medicine and industry: how to kill harmful microbes without leaving a long environmental footprint behind.
Turning eye research into real-world impact

4 February 2026

Research to Innovation Hatchery alumna Dr Priyanka Agarwal is helping develop a world-first regenerative eye drop for keratoconus through Auckland start-up TheiaNova.
The smallest losses holding back New Zealand’s biggest aquaculture ambition

28 January 2026

Marine scientist Dr Brad Skelton is tackling a hidden constraint in aquaculture, focusing on the earliest stages of shellfish farming to support an industry with outsize ambition.
If you want to understand our problems, mind the gaps

20 January 2026

The entrepreneurs who will matter most in the future will not be sector specialists but boundary-spanning problem-solvers in the spaces between.

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