Meet our Tupu Accelerator 2024 Purapura cohort and find out more about their pakihi
Alps2Oceans Foods is a food innovation company and has developed New Zealand's first, indigenous, sustainable dairy beef snack product called Mīti. Mīti has been designed as a protein rich, dried meat bar, which combines 10-12 month old dairy beef with a unique New Zealand honey product (honeydew), and native New Zealand seaweed (Karengo).
In a similar fashion to the commercial success of Korean and Italian cuisine, DRINK DA MILGY envision the untapped market of Polynesian and Māori cuisine becoming a global sensation, accessible to people worldwide.
Kaenga Hou Trust offers an innovative whānau-centric finance model, assisting lower-income whānau in achieving homeownership through a unique Progressive Home-Ownership initiative. It seeks to optimise affordability leveraging collective financing, eliminating land ownership barriers, and providing comprehensive support.
ŌKU New Zealand is an herbal product company whose range consists of herbal teas, healing balms and elixirs. ŌKU focuses on sustainability and regeneration of New Zealand native bush which they sustainably harvest and press into rongoā/wellness products. ŌKU builds upon the foundations of Mātauranga Māori principles.
Bhone is a nutraceutical company dedicated to providing wahine with premium supplements and wellness solutions that prioritise their health, well-being, and self-care.
IndigiShare is mātauranga Māori led and mana motuhake driven social enterprise building economic resilience amongst whānau so that we can live in a world where the power of koha grows and enables impact.
IRIS is a Climate Tech startup that is working on the adoption issues of renewable energy to the main grid. These are intermittency and lack of inertia problems to not just the grid of Aotearoa, but to every grid in the world who runs renewable energy.
Puāwai Farms's goal is simple, making high quality medicinal cannabis product accessible for all. Its founder Longo Reo Te Kooro brings years of experience and already proven models honed in California through four market cycles. He aims to cultivate and provide affordable, high quality medical cannabis for all of Aotearoa.
Taurus Concrete utilises cutting edge "smart crushing" technology to create a fully circular concrete system. They exist to close the loop on concrete by transforming waste rubble concrete back into its original components of aggregate, sand and cement.
Anthony Bell (Whakatōhea) is the Co-founder of Kiwi Brandy Company. His career has been in the export cut flower industry for 40 years as part of a family business, Bell Orchids Ltd. This involved growing cymbidium orchids and then transitioning to Hydrangea. Anthony worked for 15 years as the manager, however it was recently disestablished due to climate change.
Timmy Smith (Whakatōhea) is the founder and innovator behind Toi Tī. Having formed a number of companies over her 20-plus years in the entrepreneurial space, the pou whenua of care and connection have been the foundations of all she has crafted.