Whakapapa
By making connection our focus, we create opportunities for our people.
Our Partners
Ōrawa
Māori centre for economic innovation in the Hawkes Bay. A newly formed not-for-profit company setting out to inspire and enable whānau prosperity through innovation and disruption.
Hudson recruitment
Hudson is an Asia-Pacific wide recruitment and talent management company with a key focus on the Technology & Digital space. We help organisations achieve great performance by discovering the right talent, and help people realise their potential
Savvy Millennial
Savannah "Savvy" Peterson and the team at Savvy Millennial build community around new technology. Based in the Silicon Valley, it is our goal to make the future less scary for companies and consumers around the globe. We love amplifying authentic human stories, and helping products that add value to the world succeed in the market. We look forward to helping Maori founders achieve their dreams through the T3W ecosystem.
Savvy is a proud two-time Hack Tairāwhiti mentor. The regional impact of this group is felt around the world. You can read more about why we feel New Zealand innovation is so unique, watch past hacks on our YouTube, and learn more about Savannah on her website below.
Activate Tairāwhiti
The regional economic development agency who administers joint planning with the local authority and its subsidiaries, the business and corporate community and the four local iwi. The region covers Gisborne and the East Coast and boasts the highest per capita Māori population by descent nationally.
IDA Ireland
Ireland's inward investment promotion agency, the IDA, is a non-commercial, semi-state body promoting Foreign Direct Investment into Ireland through a wide range of services. Ireland is the beach-head for tech into the world’s largest market the European Union.
amazon web services
Amazon Web Services provides startups with the low cost, easy to use infrastructure needed to scale and grow. With the AWS Activate program, startups get access to the resources they need to quickly get started on AWS – including credits, training, and support.
We currently have a Portfolio package designed for startups in participating accelerators, incubators, seed/VC funds, and other startup enabling organizations. The world’s hottest and most successful startups use AWS – including Airbnb, Lyft, and Slack. Join them – and build your business on AWS today.
Callaghan Innovation
New Zealand’s innovation agency providing a range of innovation and research and development (R&D) services to suit each stage of growth for companies.
media design school
Media Design School was founded in 1998, in response to global industry demand for highly trained graduates in the fields of digital design and creative technology. Based in the heart of Auckland, the category one provider is part of Laureate International Universities, the world’s largest private sector tertiary network serving more than 875,000 students globally.
Tāmaki Regeneration Programme
This is the largest urban transformation project in New Zealand. The programme is focused on creating a thriving, attractive, sustainable and self-reliant community where the future looks brighter for the residents of today and tomorrow. Creating the conditions for economic innovation and tech plays an important part in the way forward for this part of Auckland. This area in East Auckland covers 18,000 residents with a large proportion of Māori and Pasifika.
DATACOM
Datacom is New Zealand-owned and operated, 38.5 percent by The Guardians of The New Zealand Superannuation. It has grown from Aotearoa reaching across some 32 countries, employs over 6,300 people, and has annual revenues of over $1.3 billion. Datacom has grown to one of Australasia’s largest professional Tech services companies. Datacom has extensive expertise in the operation of contact centres, data centres, the provision of IT services, software engineering and application management, as well as payroll and customer service design and operations.
Founded in 1965 and operating across Australia and New Zealand, Asia, Europe and the Americas, Datacom has a successful trading history of consistent growth and profitability from a track record of delivering innovative, cost effective digital and technology solutions. Datacom is committed to hiring, developing and promoting diverse talent. Our people are the best in their fields – smart, passionate, and dedicated to providing exceptional IT services to our customers. This makes for a rewarding and fast-paced work environment.
spring
At Spring we make businesses grow faster. We do this by identifying new quantum growth opportunities, re-inventing business models, and designing, developing and commercialising new products for our clients. We assist our clients in opening and activating new sales channels and markets, we also identifying merger, acquisition, divestment and alliance opportunities.
Our team have unique experience in undertaking research and analysis and then translating these into insights and validated strategies. Having built their own businesses as well as advising large corporations and SME’s for over twenty years, Spring’s founders have consolidated their experience into a methodology-rich and low-cost process to support businesses to make market-led significant strategic decisions.
Te puni kokiri
The government’s Māori development agency.
New Zealand Trade and Enterprise
Is the government’s international business development and foreign direct investment agency.