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‘These teams are going to change the game’: Sixteen impact-focused startups selected for Creative HQ’s 2023 Impact Accelerator
Sixteen remarkable startup teams brimming with impact-focused solutions to drive positive social and environmental change in New Zealand have been selected to participate in Creative HQ’s Impact Accelerator.
Growing a sustainable future for agriculture, amplifying rangatahi voices & more: GovTech 2022 teams take on social good
From tackling migrant exploitation, to developing a new approach to foster care, 14 GovTech Accelerator teams that have been taking on Aotearoa’s biggest social and environmental challenges presented at the 2022 Innovation Showcase.
Catherine Jones: Women are driving change in Aotearoa’s innovation space.
Of Creative HQ’s staff, 71 percent are women with 62 percent in positions of leadership. Women make up the majority of people in our programmes and they have since 2016.
5 challenges of online facilitation and how to overcome them
Online facilitation is here to stay, and with that comes a few challenges. Here’s what you can do to overcome them.
Government agencies, NGOs and startups coming together to tackle social and environmental root-cause problems in New Zealand
Creative HQ’s GovTech Accelerator announces this year’s cohort of innovators and celebrates five successful years of the programme and its alumni.
Wellington Innovation Hack puts Gen Z in the driving seat
A new Creative HQ programme has put young locals to work on real-world innovation solutions
An electric revolution that started in Wellington: FTN Motion
We chat with co-founders of FTN Motion to reflect on their history, their time in a Creative HQ Incubator, where they are and what’s next.
10 NZ Female entrepreneurs to keep on your radar
Celebrating the empowering and inspiring women in startup who are paving a way for future founders.
“No rules, no recipe” – the Wellington startup that made investing accessible to over half a million Kiwis
Sharesies all started with a problem and a conversation between friends and colleagues. Now, over half a million Kiwis use their investment platform every day.