Wellington, New Zealand's Startup Capital

Wellington:New Zealand’sStartup Capital

Dave Moskovitz@davemoskStartup NZApril 2014

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About Me

Founded first company age 18

Wellingtonian since 1982

Hacker, lexicographer by trade

Professional director and investor

“Godfather of Wellington startups”

Why Wellington?

Scale

Social

Smart / Creative

Startups

Culture

Coffee1.5 km(20 min)

Why Wellington?

“Wellington weather still best in

class if you like working and being

inside.”

@samfromwgtn 8 Aug 2012

DomPost

Rich Ecosystem

Organisms, environment interacting

Chaotic and dynamic

Increasingly antifragile

Players in it for the long haul

Accelerators and incubators

Investors

Support organisations

Tertriary institutions

“Big” Tech

Events WikiMedia

Accelerators, Incubators

Lightning Lab

CreativeHQ

Enspiral

Hikurangi

… more coming …

Stuff

Investors

AngelHQ

MOVAC

Kiwi Connect

Pledgeme Crowdfunding

Independent HNWs

Pearse Trust

Support Organisations

Summer of Tech

BizDojo

Chiasma

Viclink

Free Range Farm

Wellington City Council

Grow Wellington

Jonnyopinion.wordpress.com

Tertiary institutions

Victoria University

Massey University

Open Polytechnic

WelTec

UCOL

Whitireia Polytechnic

Te Wananga o Aotearoa

Youbee School of Design

… and scores of PTE’s …

fastcompany

“Big” Tech

Xero

TradeMe

Weta

Pikpok

IT Services companies

Financial institutions, Goverment

BTW Have you heard of:

Partstrader, Starnow,

iWantMyName, CricHQ ?

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Events

Startup Weekends

Meetups

Startup Sessions

Webstock

AnimFX

EdTech4Export

Festival of the future

Innovation Week (2015)

Wellington.startupweekend.org

Trends: Gov’t “gets” it

Innovation support is excellent

NZVIF, Callaghan, NZTE

Customer centricity

MBIE, IRD, DIA, ACC

Everything is Open

Open Data, Open Access

Only in NZ!3news

Trends: Recycling

Talent

Capital

Ideas

Expertise

Cio.co.nz

Trends: Attraction

The brain gain

Incoming capital

The flight of head offices

Network effects

We’re reaching critical mass

Google Earth

Trends: More, Better

More experienced people

Investment: quantum, valuation

Hyperlocal collaboration

Civic transformation

Time.com

The Future Is Awesome

We’ve put in the hard yards

We’re smarter than we used to be

We’re connected to the world

Economic tailwind

NZ is hot, and Wellington is the “coolest little capital in the world”

He tangata, he tangata, he tangata

Flickr: dailycuntpunch (with apologies)

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