Tech Stories
Stories about Kiwi technology startups and the engineers building the future from New Zealand.

Boring on Purpose: The NZ Founders Who Built Moats Out of Regulation
New Zealand celebrates consumer app heroes. Its most durable tech is built by founders who embed in regulated systems nobody notices.

Christchurch Founder Launches LDOO, the Tool That Lets You Ask Your Data a Question
After twenty years in digital marketing, Gideon Banks has launched LDOO, a conversational analytics tool that answers plain-English questions about your data in seconds instead of building dashboards.

Dawn Aurora: The Spaceplane Aiming to Make Suborbital Flight Repeatable
The Mk-II Aurora is Dawn Aerospace's uncrewed, rocket-powered spaceplane: built to take off from a runway, fly toward the edge of space and land again like an aircraft, ready to fly the same day.

Kea Aerospace: The New Zealand Company Building Aircraft for the Stratosphere
There’s a gap in how we observe the Earth from above. Satellites are powerful but expensive, locked to their orbits and can’t linger over one spot..

Dawn Aerospace: The New Zealand–Linked Space Company Building Aircraft-Like Access to Space
Most space companies are judged by launches, the rocket, the countdown, the plume. Dawn Aerospace is trying to make that the wrong question. Its bet is.

Conversational Analytics: The End of the Dashboard Era
The dashboard model is broken. Conversational analytics is not an improvement — it is a full replacement for how teams use data.

A New Zealand Safety Switch for Cancer Immunotherapy
An innovative safety switch designed at the Malaghan Institute could transform the safety of CAR T-cell therapy and cancer immunotherapy.

25 New Zealand Companies Making a Global Mark
Discover 25 innovative New Zealand startups redefining global innovation — from space travel breakthroughs to cloud-based solutions.
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