If you missed the Auckland Runway event in March, don’t miss this upcoming expert session.

Join us for a lively and interactive 90-minute online session with Jeff Wallace, founder of Silicon Valley in Your Pocket.

The Generator, a project by MSD and Ka Puta Ka Ora Emerge Aotearoa, helps new start up business owners with seed funding, guidance, and expert coaching for financial advice, setup, and business planning. The team supports community service card holders in financial hardship to explore the feasibility of a business idea, learn business skills and scale up their enterprise.

Applications are now open for their current funding round. If you’re interested, read more here.

Ministry of Awesome Presents: Electrify Aotearoa

Electrify Aotearoa is New Zealand’s leading high-impact conference for startup founders, investors, and supporters — built to supercharge the growth of women-led ventures and spark connections that last long after the event ends!

Ministry of Awesome Presents: Electrify Aotearoa

Electrify Aotearoa is New Zealand’s leading high-impact conference for startup founders, investors, and supporters — built to supercharge the growth of women-led ventures and spark connections that last long after the event ends!

A first-of-its-kind programme offering world-class education and support for entrepreneurial high school students. If you are curious, ambitious, and have the conviction to build something that matters, we want to hear from you.

Join Trevor McIntyre for a free lunch-and-learn built specifically for pre-seed and seed-stage SaaS founders, practical, no fluff, and easy to fit into a lunch break.

Join Startup Dunedin and NZ CODE for a TechWeek 26 breakfast panel bringing together founders, developers, and industry experts from Dunedin's game development scene.

Connect in-person with the New Zealand EdTech community in Dunedin!

Angel 103 workshop we will take attendees through the lifecycle of a company and the key considerations that need to be made at each investment round. We will look at what terms become important and when; that different methodologies that can be used for determining valuation and what things to look for in future rounds.

A practical workshop evening built for students, ready to back themselves, gain real skills, real connections, and real progress. Expect a fun night of collaboration, free food, and prizes. Brought to you by Startup Dunedin and Otago Polytechnic.

Join Startup Dunedin and Hudson Gavin Martin for a free BYO lunch workshop is designed to help founders and start ups understand the different types of IP and what a company needs to think about in terms of protecting its IP.

Angel 102 is focused on the investment activity an angel investor needs to undertake in order to manage their portfolio of investments and opportunities they are presented with regularly and give you some key tools and techniques in order to do this.

Understanding your motivation for becoming an angel investor and having an appreciation for the risk profile and mechanics of angel investment is all covered in this succinct 'awareness raising' course.

Join Nanise, the founder of Startline. Supporting early-stage entrepreneurs to move from idea to structured, commercially sound businesses.

Running a trade business isn’t just about winning jobs. It’s about margins, cash flow, time, and making sure all that hard work actually pays off. 

Over 90 minutes, we’ll follow the dollar through your business. From job margins and cash flow, to finance, marketing spend, and the numbers you should be watching every week.  

The Blackbird Foundry roadshow brings free VC learning sessions across New Zealand and Australia, helping aspiring and early-stage deep tech founders understand how venture capital works in 2026, how to raise well, and how Blackbird’s Foundry programme supports founders from idea to scale.

Kick off 2026 with a transformative mindset experience that will enable you to set and execute the right intentions for your career throughout 2026 and beyond.

MedTech Innovator is the largest and highest performing accelerator of medical technology in the world and the medtech industry’s premiere showcase and competition for innovative medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies.

Companies that have raised up to a Series C are eligible to apply.

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Join the FoundX Dunedin fireside chat featuring Boyd Peacock, founder of GetHomeSafe. Learn about his journey from launch to scaling a tech company. The event includes pitches from emerging Dunedin startups and networking opportunities.

Event Details:

• Date: Wednesday, 12 November 2025

• Time: 5.30pm - 8.30pm

• Venue: Petridish, 8 Stafford Street, Central Dunedin, Dunedin 9016

Registration:
https://www.eventbrite.com.au/e/foundx-dunedin-founder-stories-registration-1672144000719?aff=StartupDunedin

• Register by 5 November to secure your spot.

For questions, contact: events.newzealand@findex.co.nz

Join Caffeine online for a real and honest conversation with Ellie Brade, Co-Founder of Cleanery, who is building a global company with success.

Join us for a live conversation, where we dive into the moments, missteps, and lessons that have shaped Ellie's journey in being a founder.

This session will explore what our guest wishes she had known earlier, the pivotal experiences that shifted her perspective, and the insights she carries forward today. It’s an honest, practical discussion designed to spark reflection and help others navigate their own path.

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The Mainland Angel Investors will host our sixth investment evening for 2025 on October 15th in Invercargill, Queenstown, Christchurch, Wanaka and Dunedin. Join in to hear from three startups as they pitch their unique value propositions, growth potential, and financial projections. This is a fantastic opportunity to network with like-minded investors and entrepreneurs who are interested in supporting the next generation of successful startups. RSVP Here.

As a founder or startup owner, you most likely have many questions about setting up your business, raising capital, or managing legal risks.

What better way to get answers than from two experts with serious startup experience and success? Read More Here.

See what this year’s cohort of Otago tertiary students have been working on, and watch them pitch their startups for $5,000!

After weeks of shaping ideas and putting pitches through their paces, Dunedin students will present and share their startups, side hustles, research projects, and not-for-profits. Our Pitch Night gives you the opportunity to see what our student entrepreneurs have been building and to get behind the next wave of student startups right here in Ōtepoti.

Read more & RSVP here.

Looking for ways to connect into the digital identity ecosystem? Join these informal monthly drop in/coffee chats for the Digital Identity NZ community. Each session is designed to help you connect, share stories and spark discussion, and runs for 45 minutes to allow more time for discussion and ideas exchange. Read More.