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Why VC Funds Are Suddenly Pouring Billions Into Defense
What do you do when a foreign missile cruiser does a "hot lap" around your country? You build the manufacturing tech and deploy the VC capital needed to turn your nation into an unattackable…
What Happens When AI Listens to Sick Pigs for Six Days Straight?
She left a comfortable corporate career to build a Sensory AI startup that listens to pigs—and just secured a major global distribution deal.In this episode of TechMates, we sit down with Saba…
The Startup powering ANZ's Open Banking Moment
He built a bank-grade fintech platform while his twin daughters were napping, bootstrapped it for seven years through 677 investor rejections, and is now rewiring the entire financial system.In this…
How to Hit #1 on the App Store with a $0 Marketing Budget
She beat TikTok to #1 on the App Store with a $0 marketing budget—now this solo founder is using a consumer app as a "Trojan horse" to disrupt a multi-billion dollar legacy industry.🎧 Listen On:…
Inside the Startups Bringing AI to the Physical World
Why is teaching a robot to fold your laundry actually harder than building an autonomous surgical robot or a self-driving car?In this episode of TechMates, we cut through the sci-fi hype of humanoid…
Meet the Founders Disrupting Australia & NZ's Banking Monopolies
What do you do when you're so frustrated with your legacy bank that you can't take it anymore? You hire a "Chief Imaginer" and build a financial app designed to rival Instagram and TikTok.In this…
Why Brand Is the Only Moat Left in SaaS
In a world where software features can be "vibe coded" by AI in 30 minutes, brand expert Simon Pound explains why community and customer obsession are the only moats left for startups.In this episode…
The Secret Space Revolution in Australia & New Zealand
From hypersonics and space-based hyperspectral imaging to "Starlink for energy" - three deep tech founders are defying the laws of physics to build the future.In this episode of TechMates, we dive…
From Advising HBO’s Silicon Valley to Selling Startups to Big Tech
He advised HBO’s Silicon Valley for five seasons, was part of a database team built and acquired by Apple, and helped run an "eBay for seized, stolen, and abandoned goods"—now tech veteran Andrew J.…
How to Deploy $5 Billion in New Zealand's New Wave of Tech Startups
The former London financier who funded Harry Potter now controls the single biggest lever in New Zealand’s startup ecosystem—and he’s on a mission to deploy billions.In this episode of TechMates, we…
Anatomy of a 2,000x Return: Lightspeed Founder Barry Eggers on Spotting Outliers
From his daughter’s kitchen table tip about a new app called Snapchat to building a $300 billion venture empire—legendary VC Barry Eggers reveals how he spots the next big thing.In this episode of…
A Dynasty of Inventors: From the Photocopier to Orion
Harry Gestetner’s great-great-grandfather invented the photocopier and nail clippers—now Harry is reinventing how the world sleeps after selling his first startup for eight figures at 21.In this…
Scaling from the Edge: NZ’s Global Champions | NZVC Portfolio Day
From challenging big banks with a $120M fintech to generating $2.2B in digital collectibles sales—this is how New Zealand founders are conquering the global stage.In this power-packed panel from NZVC…
Born Global: Founding from New Zealand to the World
From early days at Rocket Lab to running global marketing for Les Mills, these founders reveal exactly how to build world-class startups from the edge of the world.In this "Born Global" panel from…
Why We Lose 30% of All Drinking Water
Harrison Crowe-Maxwell turned a flooded street on his way to work into a robotics startup that just raised seed funding from Sequoia’s Peak XV.In this episode of TechMates, we sit down with Harrison…
The Agentic AI Future | NZVC Portfolio Day
What happens when you put a crypto veteran, a Xero co-founder, and a high-stakes lawyer on stage with a robot dog to debate the future of AI? In this special panel from NZVC Portfolio Day, we dive…
We Tried to Control the Weather (And Made It Worse)
Emily Blythe skipped university to launch a quad-bike accessory business, spent years trying to clear airport fog with drones, and eventually pivoted to solve aviation’s biggest headache through…
I Hired My College Roommates to Build a $300M Empire
Jamie Beaton managed a hedge fund portfolio at Tiger Management while simultaneously taking maximum course loads at Harvard and building a startup that now generates over $300M in revenue.In this…
Fintech Frontiers: Reinventing Money from the Edge of the World | NZVC Portfolio Day
In this live NZVC Portfolio Day panel, Jovan Pavlicevic (Emerge & SquareOne), Dermot Butterfield (Wych), and Steven Zinsli (Extraordinary) join hosts Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau to…
Grassroots to Global: Innovation the Kiwi Way
Four founders: tackling milk without cows, carbon-free composites, AI farming, and plant-grown proteins—only in New Zealand could this panel exist.This special Portfolio Day panel brings together…
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