Winner – BNZ: Breaking the Rules Above: Chuffed – CEO of KlickEx, Ross Peat with his award. A new web-based foreign exchange service managed to sufficiently pique the judges’ interest, including that of Dave McClure – Director of Marketing for PayPal from 2001 to 2006. KlickEx aims to change the way foreign exchange transactions take place by providing market making …

Andrea Zurek Founding Partner XG Ventures newzealandinc.com got the chance to catch up with Andrea to find out what she thought of the entrepreneurial space here in Godzone. “There’s a lot of diversity here in New Zealand,” Zurek said of her time spent here so far. The entrepreneurial landscape was so different to that of the United States according to …

Winner – No.8 Wire   Above: Founder of Outpost Central James Riddell with the Geeks. Outpost Central is a Penrose based New Zealand firm developing smart water meter technology. Their solution enables organizations to monitor their water and energy use whilst managing environmental and resource-based activities. The flagship product for Outpost Central is WASP, a smart water device the provides real-time access …