Challenging the single-use plastic industry by producing plant-based biomaterials and launching 'Recircle' - a closed-loop system for reuse and recycling.

Kara Technologies brings sign language into the digital age. Their hyper-realistic digital humans translate content into visual sign language.

Cleanery creates high-performance, powder-based cleaning and personal care products that eliminate single-use plastic and unnecessary packaging.

Critical transforms hard-to-recycle plastics into high-end building panels, blending sustainability and aesthetic design. 

Homes of Choice creates housing for disabled whānau that is affordable, accessible, and designed for dignity. 

Localised is the commercial arm of the Zero Waste Network. It’s on a mission to expand the scale and impact of community-led resource recovery enterprises throughout Aotearoa. 

Kai's Education delivers inclusive, hands-on coding and STEAM kits, designed for neurodiverse and visually impaired learners.

Cogo helps people and small businesses take climate action, one transaction at a time. Their platform connects financial and accounting data to carbon insights…

Money Sweetspot breaks the debt cycle. Their financial reset consolidates debt into a single, fair loan and ties financial education to incentives that reduce what customers owe.

Starboard is a maritime domain awareness platform that can pinpoint any vessel in the maritime environment, assess the vessel's behaviour over time…

Soul Capital supported the development of 10 affordable rental homes in Tikipunga, Whangārei, supporting local whānau into healthy and affordable homes…

Narrative Muse is a story discovery and audience intelligence platform that reveals what underrepresented and emerging audiences want next.

Pioneer Energy creates a better future through sustainable energy. They seek to achieve this by developing projects within the waste to energy…

Kitea Health is a Tāmaki Makaurau based medical device technology company developing a miniaturised wireless pressure sensor implant for managing hydrocephalus.

Supa enables schools and businesses to turn their roofs into renewable energy hubs, empowering them to generate and share the benefits of solar with their community. 

OpenStar aims to provide clean, abundant and available fusion energy to the world, by developing a fusion power reactor. 

Teacher's Buddy is the AI platform built around schools — across every classroom, every teacher, every stakeholder.

StaplesVR is a pioneering immersive technology company developing advanced VR/AR training solutions across aviation, defence, healthcare, emergency response, and high-risk industries. 

E-Leviate Pharma develops a world-first estriol-eluting pessary ring that combines structural support with six months of sustained local oestrogen delivery, improving treatment for pelvic organ prolapse and urinary stress incontinence. 

Ooooby connects small-scale food producers directly with the households who want what they grow and is growing fast.