| Date | Title | Description |
| 12.12.2024 | Trade Me, Topsort Partner to Elevate Retail Media for NZ Sellers | Trade Me, New Zealand’s largest classified marketplace, is embarking on transforming their retail media strategy. With over 23,000 professional sellers, Trade Me sought a platform that would give sellers more control, transparency, and ease... |
| 04.12.2024 | South Auckland Industrial Real Estate Broker: New Commercial Leases Announced | Steve Buckley @ 027 339 8398 has announced commercial leases for industrial use in South Auckland.
AUCKLAND, NEW ZEALAND, December 4, 2024 /EINPresswire.com/ -- Steve Buckley is a commercial property broker from Real Estate Agent Buckley &a... |
| 14.11.2024 | New Zealand expands work visa options with 66 in-demand jobs | New Zealand updated its Long-Term Skill Shortage List (LTSSL) in November 2024, listing 66 in-demand jobs.
This gives skilled workers opportunities for work visas, family inclusion, and a path to permanent residency.
DAAD’s recent report st... |
| 26.06.2024 | The 2024 Engineering Chapter
The Engineering Chapter
Meet Ben
The line-up | Throughout 2024, we at Movac will be hosting the Movac Operating Chapters. These programs have been designed to help Kiwi companies become global leaders by exposing them to world-class functional experts and international best practices.
T... |
| 30.07.2021 | Exit Notes - Timely | Ryan Baker and Andrew Schofield (Scoff) were third-time founders when they started Timely in 2012. Before Timely, they had built a successful travel booking engine called BookIt, which sold to Fairfax in 2010. BookIt became the software beh... |
| 22.09.2020 | Elevate invests into $200m Movac Fund 5 | |
| 19.05.2020 | Building Back, Bigger and Better | This week we start our contribution to the rebuild of the Aotearoa New Zealand economy. Movac’s part is to accelerate the launch of our fifth technology investment fund, Fund 5. There is much work to do and we’re incredibly motivated to pla... |
| 19.05.2020 | Building Back, Bigger and Better | This week we start our contribution to the rebuild of the Aotearoa New Zealand economy. Movac’s part is to accelerate the launch of our fifth technology investment fund, Fund 5. There is much work to do and we’re incredibly motivated to pla... |
| 13.04.2020 | Trade Me takes NZ livestock and feed sales online during Covid-19 lockdown | New Zealand’s largest e-commerce company is re-listing online livestock and feed sales as the country enters the third week of a Covid-19 lockdown which has severely restricted farmers’ ability to buy, sell, and feed their animals.
When New... |
| 08.04.2020 | Movac invests in Revolution Fibres to scale global growth | 8th April 2020
Pictured: Chair Andrew Turnbull
Auckland-based Revolution Fibres has raised $6m in a Series A funding round led by Movac, New Zealand’s most experienced technology investment firm.
Founded in 2009 by Iain Hosie, Simon Feas .... |
| 31.07.2019 | What drives Movac and founding partner Phil McCaw | 31 July 2019
It was an exciting time back in 1998. No one quite knew what a force the internet would become. But back then when we started as Abbott, McCaw, Richter and Associates we had an eye to the future. We wanted our business to gener... |
| 26.03.2018 | Americans have started fleeing the country for New Zealand - here's how to buy a home there | Ariel Schwartz/Business Insider
Aoraki Mount Cook National Park in Canterbury, New Zealand.
Since the inauguration of President Donald Trump last year, an increasing number of frustrated Americans have considered moving to seemingly idyllic... |
| 05.03.2013 | Mega Eyes Stock Market as Secret Dotcom Extradition Hearing Gets Underway | Are you aged between 30 and 40 with a background as a Chief Financial Officer in a global business turning over between $5 and $50m? Looking for something new and exciting?
If so, you might want to contact Kim Dotcom, as he could have just ... |
| 27.02.2013 | New Zealand Accelerator Lightning Lab Launches Its First Intake Of Nine Startups | Wellington-based Lightning Lab, which bills itself as “the southern-most digital accelerator program on the globe,” just announced its first intake of nine startups from across New Zealand and Australia, who will work with over 100 mentors.... |
| 27.11.2012 | Telecom Foundation acquires Givealittle | Movac is pleased to report that the Telecom Foundation has agreed to acquire Givealittle.co.nz. Givealittle was founded by Nathalie Hofsteede, with some help from Movac, in 2008 with the goal of encouraging and promoting every day philanthr... |
| 27.11.2012 | Telecom Foundation acquires Givealittle | Movac is pleased to report that the Telecom Foundation has agreed to acquire Givealittle.co.nz. Givealittle was founded by Nathalie Hofsteede, with some help from Movac, in 2008 with the goal of encouraging and promoting every day ... |
| 11.07.2012 | Fund 3 Finalised at NZ$42million. | We’ve officially closed our capital raising activity for F ... |
| 11.07.2012 | Fund 3 Finalised at NZ$42million. | We’ve officially closed our capital raising activity for Fund 3 having raised $42 million to invest in New Zealand companies. We’re also thrilled to announce the appointment of Silicon Valley-based Kiwi Ben Anderson as a venture partner for... |
| 28.02.2011 | What do you say? What do you do? | To the people of Christchurch, we’re thinking of you.
http://www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/christchurchquake. 100% of all donations are going to Red Cross.
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| 28.02.2011 | What do you say? What do you do? | To the people of Christchurch, we’re thinking of you.
http://www.givealittle.co.nz/cause/christchurchquake. 100% of all donations are going to Red Cross.
http://www.redcross.org.nz/donate.
http://www.trademe.co.nz/christchurch-earthquake... |
| 27.02.2011 | #EQNZ: Social Media Response to the Christchurch Earthquake | Last Tuesday New Zealand time, the city of Christchurch suffered a destructive and deadly earthquake. Measuring 6.3 on the Richter scale, the quake wreaked havoc because it was shallow and close to the city center. It was the second major e... |
| 17.12.2010 | State of the Nation | I’ve been asked recently to comment on the “state of the early stage investment scene in New Zealand”. Despite the fact that the fog is yet to lift in terms of the global outlook, I’m very enthused by what I see going on in NZ Inc. at the m... |
| 17.12.2010 | State of the Nation | I’ve been asked recently to comment on the “s ... |
| 19.11.2010 | Hack of the Day: Kiwi Uses API to Buy Random Stuff Everyday | Paul Hunkin is using the API of the New Zealand auction site TradeMe to realize an XKCD strip about a guy who uses a script to buy a random inexpensive from eBay everyday. In the original comic, the script buys one $1 item with free shippin... |
| 02.03.2010 | Build (or just buy) your own flying hovercraft | http://www.liveleak.com/e/464_1267491476
Fancy having your own hovercraft? Want one that’ll take off and fly? Well a New Zealand man designed, built, and flies his very own flying hovercraft. The drawback – you have to launch and land from ... |
| 26.08.2009 | New angel investment network targets life sciences | Wellington, Tuesday 25 August, 2009 – A national angel investment network has been launched to back New Zealand high growth technology ventures, with an emphasis on life sciences, engineering and ICT. AngelLink aims to bring together active... |
| 26.08.2009 | New angel investment network targets life sciences | Wellington, Tuesday 25 August, 2009 – A national angel investment network has been launched to back New Zealand high growth technology ventures, with an emphasis on life sciences, engineering and ICT. AngelLink aims to bring together active... |
| 07.08.2008 | Flossie Set to Shake Up Women's Media Market | Jenene Freer, Movac Investments and NZ Girl shareholders inject $1,25 million into new venture aimed at stimulating the online advertising market and making it more effective to reach and engage with Kiwi women.
Auckland, New Zealand: Wedn... |
| 07.08.2008 | Flossie Set to Shake Up Women's Media Market | Jenene Freer, Movac Investments and NZ Girl shareholders inject $1,25 million into new venture aimed at stimulating the online advertising market and making it more effective to reach and engage with Kiwi women.
Auckland, New Zealand: Wedne... |
| 28.07.2008 | Finalists named for Gen-i NZ Incubator AwardsFinalists named for Gen-i NZ Incubator Awards | I had the pleasure of assisting with the judging for two of the Incubator New Zealand awards this week. The standard of innovations and businesses was truly exceptional with some fantastic results being achieved for companies in the first y... |
| 28.07.2008 | Finalists named for Gen-i NZ Incubator AwardsFinalists named for Gen-i NZ Incubator Awards | I had the pleasure of assisting with the judging for two of the Incubator New Zealand awards this week. The standard of innovations and businesses was truly exceptional with some fantastic results being achieved for companies in the first y... |
| 24.06.2008 | Trade Me partners put $1.25m in Ebus | The original TradeMe angel investment company Movac and TradeMe founder Sam Morgan have joined forces again to back ebus, a local film and television production software company that is set to tackle Asia.
ebus has developed cutting edge s... |
| 24.06.2008 | Trade Me partners put $1.25m in Ebus | The original TradeMe angel investment company Movac and TradeMe founder Sam Morgan have joined forces again to back ebus, a local film and television production software company that is set to tackle Asia.
ebus has developed cutting edge so... |
| 29.01.2007 | Windows Vista Hits New Zealand Stores First | New
Zealand is the first country to experience the worldwide consumer launch of
Windows Vista on 30 January, due to its position on the timeline. New Zealanders
get the opportunity to buy Windows Vista in retail stores a few hours before
Au... |
| 11.12.2006 | 2006 Web Technology Trends | It’s December already and so it’s about that time to reflect on what has happened in
Web Technology during 2006 – and ponder what 2007 may bring. Over the next few weeks
Read/WriteWeb is going to publish some in-depth posts analyzing the tr... |
| 20.08.2006 | TradeMe: Big Fish In A Small Pond | 68% of New
Zealand’s Internet traffic is to online auction site TradeMe, CEO Sam Morgan and Development Manager
Rowan Simpson told me when I visited their Wellington office last Thursday. TradeMe is
New Zealand’s version of eBay, even down ... |
| 03.07.2005 | The Read/Write Web for most people is community websites – like eBay | In my podcast with Alex Barnett the other day, I mentioned that the Read/Write Web (the theory, not my site) isn’t just about writing as we usually think of it on the Web – blogs, wikis, etc. It can also be interacting or transacting with w... |
