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Online platform to connect NZ businesses

New Zealand businesses can now be connected with funders, incubators, multinationals and other collaborators thanks to a recently launched free online platform from Callaghan Innovation.

As reported, Scale-Up NZ delivers accurate insights on ambitious innovative New Zealand companies. It removes information gaps that prevent businesses from achieving their potential.

Free trustworthy information

Scale-Up NZ contains crowdsourcing information from the companies themselves. Add to that a team of Callaghan Innovation data analysts who will verify data on the platform.

The platform has the potential to foster much greater collaboration in the economy.

NZ’s Innovation Agency worked with over 2,800 companies in the previous year and found out that many of them are struggling to locate partners or funders that could help take their business to the next level.

The Agency will be doing most of the work in curating the platform as a trusted, secure and high-quality source of intelligence so that innovative businesses are more visible and the potential for collaboration is more obvious.

Companies on Scale-Up NZ will be able to showcase their innovations so that potential investors and collaborators here and globally can discover and connect with them more easily.

Brief background

The platform is based on the hugely successful Start-Up Nation Finder, which provides information on over 7,000 companies that make up Israel’s innovation ecosystem.

Thousands of people use Start-Up Nation Finder every day to search for Israeli start-ups, potential partners and investors.

With the same basic platform as Start-Up Nation Finder, Scale-Up NZ will be able to benchmark itself against, and learn from, Israel, Ireland and other small advanced economies that are on this or similar platforms.

Easy to search and navigate

The platform has aspects of business networking and directory tools that profiles New Zealand businesses, investors and multinationals and the relationships between them.

This offers more context and verified information in one place than ever before.

The platform groups together companies in similar areas of innovation based on an advanced tagging system.

With My Collections, registered users can follow and analyse companies, investors, hubs, and multinationals in one easy to manage interface.

Users can request mediated introductions, which also has potential to help job seekers connect with possible employers.

Launching the platform allows the innovation system to witness the power of the platform and help build out the data faster.

The number of profiles on the platform is expected to reach thousands within a year or so as more New Zealand businesses realise the value of the connections and collaborations it enables.

How does it work?

Scale-Up NZ offers ways to help NZ businesses to grow and collaborate by:

  1. Tūhura: Find

The platform enables users to find the accurate information they need, when they need it, in multiple ways.

The ecosystem can be navigated to explore new technology and business trends. For more in-depth analysis, browse for specific information using the platform’s comprehensive search feature.

The advanced search options filter companies by business model, funding stage, geographic location, product stage and more.

  1. Tūhono: Connect

Find potential partners or complementary businesses in sectors and locations of interest and ask for facilitated introductions to key people.

This enables users to extend their networks and helps create connections that matter. Contact requests will be mediated to ensure their mutual value.

  1. Turuki: Grow

Similar networks overseas are growth engines for ambitious companies, innovation communities and national economies.

In Aotearoa New Zealand, Scale-Up NZ will supercharge innovation and help build world-beating businesses.

Interested parties can visit the website here.

PARTNER

Qlik’s vision is a data-literate world, where everyone can use data and analytics to improve decision-making and solve their most challenging problems. A private company, Qlik offers real-time data integration and analytics solutions, powered by Qlik Cloud, to close the gaps between data, insights and action. By transforming data into Active Intelligence, businesses can drive better decisions, improve revenue and profitability, and optimize customer relationships. Qlik serves more than 38,000 active customers in over 100 countries.

PARTNER

CTC Global Singapore, a premier end-to-end IT solutions provider, is a fully owned subsidiary of ITOCHU Techno-Solutions Corporation (CTC) and ITOCHU Corporation.

Since 1972, CTC has established itself as one of the country’s top IT solutions providers. With 50 years of experience, headed by an experienced management team and staffed by over 200 qualified IT professionals, we support organizations with integrated IT solutions expertise in Autonomous IT, Cyber Security, Digital Transformation, Enterprise Cloud Infrastructure, Workplace Modernization and Professional Services.

Well-known for our strengths in system integration and consultation, CTC Global proves to be the preferred IT outsourcing destination for organizations all over Singapore today.

PARTNER

Planview has one mission: to build the future of connected work. Our solutions enable organizations to connect the business from ideas to impact, empowering companies to accelerate the achievement of what matters most. Planview’s full spectrum of Portfolio Management and Work Management solutions creates an organizational focus on the strategic outcomes that matter and empowers teams to deliver their best work, no matter how they work. The comprehensive Planview platform and enterprise success model enables customers to deliver innovative, competitive products, services, and customer experiences. Headquartered in Austin, Texas, with locations around the world, Planview has more than 1,300 employees supporting 4,500 customers and 2.6 million users worldwide. For more information, visit www.planview.com.

SUPPORTING ORGANISATION

SIRIM is a premier industrial research and technology organisation in Malaysia, wholly-owned by the Minister​ of Finance Incorporated. With over forty years of experience and expertise, SIRIM is mandated as the machinery for research and technology development, and the national champion of quality. SIRIM has always played a major role in the development of the country’s private sector. By tapping into our expertise and knowledge base, we focus on developing new technologies and improvements in the manufacturing, technology and services sectors. We nurture Small Medium Enterprises (SME) growth with solutions for technology penetration and upgrading, making it an ideal technology partner for SMEs.

PARTNER

HashiCorp provides infrastructure automation software for multi-cloud environments, enabling enterprises to unlock a common cloud operating model to provision, secure, connect, and run any application on any infrastructure. HashiCorp tools allow organizations to deliver applications faster by helping enterprises transition from manual processes and ITIL practices to self-service automation and DevOps practices. 

PARTNER

IBM is a leading global hybrid cloud and AI, and business services provider. We help clients in more than 175 countries capitalize on insights from their data, streamline business processes, reduce costs and gain the competitive edge in their industries. Nearly 3,000 government and corporate entities in critical infrastructure areas such as financial services, telecommunications and healthcare rely on IBM’s hybrid cloud platform and Red Hat OpenShift to affect their digital transformations quickly, efficiently and securely. IBM’s breakthrough innovations in AI, quantum computing, industry-specific cloud solutions and business services deliver open and flexible options to our clients. All of this is backed by IBM’s legendary commitment to trust, transparency, responsibility, inclusivity and service.

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