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Waste-to-value, bioenergy and the carbon economy in Aotearoa — field notes from the living biorefinery.
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Nobody in That Room Was Short of Money. So Why Isn't Anything Getting Built?
The money was in the room. The projects still aren’t getting built.
Read the piece →From 960 to 50
Through to the Top 50 of the QBE AcceliCITY Challenge, from 960 applications.
Read the piece →What global investors actually look for: inside the international investor panel
Five investors managing billions between them sat down after lunch to answer the question every founder in the room wanted answered: what does it take to get funded — and what does a Series A climate company really look like in 2026?
Read the piece →Scaling from the edge: how Kiwi climate companies actually get into Europe
A textile-waste founder, a scale-up advisor, an ambassador and a returning expat sat down to answer one question — what does it really take to go global? The answers were specific, and occasionally surprising.
Read the piece →The $30 billion circle: inside the bioeconomy breakout
"The bioeconomy isn't one product — it's a circle." A room full of foresters, scientists and founders spent an hour arguing about why New Zealand keeps leaving that circle on the table.
Read the piece →"Bring the world to New Zealand": Alice Havill's challenge to Aotearoa's climate-tech founders
The summit opened with a keynote from a Kiwi engineer who left to scale climate companies overseas — and came home with an uncomfortable diagnosis and a very practical plan.
Read the piece →Under One Roof: The Aurora Climate Tech Summit 2026
Why New Zealand's bioeconomy is a deployment problem — not a technology problem.
Read the piece →We're in the Global Top 100
Selected for the 2026 QBE AcceliCITY Resilience Challenge.
Read the piece →The 16% GDP Problem: Two Crises, One Solution
How solving energy and sanitation together can unlock trillions in economic value
Read the piece →New Zealand's Climate Policy Pivot
Market Opportunities Amid Policy Uncertainty
Read the piece →🧭 Insights from the CRANE Impact Measurement Workshop
Reframing How We Measure Impact: Comparative, Data-Driven, and Contextual
Read the piece →Eccuity Podcast
In this episode of the Ways to Wealth Podcast, one of our co-founders Matthew Jackson speaks with Charlie from Eccuity who offer Smart Investment Options. Listen: Spotify Matthew’s story is one of rei...
Read the piece →Under One Roof: The Aurora Climate Tech Summit 2026
Why New Zealand's bioeconomy is a deployment problem — not a technology problem.
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