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In-depth features, founder profiles, and business stories from across New Zealand. Real journeys, real impact.
aerospace
What Is a High-Altitude Platform Station (HAPS)?
A high-altitude platform station, HAPS, is an aircraft or airship that operates in the stratosphere for long periods, doing some of the jobs we normally.
Noteworthy Staff14 Jun 2026
aerospace
Dawn Aurora: The Spaceplane Aiming to Make Suborbital Flight Repeatable
The Mk-II Aurora is Dawn Aerospace's uncrewed, rocket-powered spaceplane: built to take off from a runway, fly toward the edge of space and land again like an aircraft, ready to fly the same day.
Noteworthy Staff13 Jun 2026
business
New Zealand Media Founders to Watch
Meet the New Zealand media founders building new platforms across social, newsletters, podcasts, and creator-led brands, from SYSCA to The Spinoff.
Noteworthy Staff12 Jun 2026
agritech
Robotics Plus: The New Zealand Company Building Farm Robots for the World
Robotics Plus is the Tauranga agritech company behind the Prospr farm robot, acquired by Yamaha Motor in 2025 to form the global Yamaha Agriculture.
Noteworthy Staff10 Jun 2026
food-tech
Leaft Foods: Making Protein From Leaves
Leaft Foods, founded by Maury Leyland Penno and Dr John Penno, extracts Rubisco, the world’s most abundant protein, from green leaves and turns it into a high-value food ingredient grown on Canterbury farmland.
Noteworthy Staff10 Jun 2026
agritech
New Zealand Farm Automation Startups
New Zealand farm automation startups are cutting manual work with robotics, sensors, software and AI. Meet the companies leading the shift.
Noteworthy Staff9 Jun 2026
agritech
How Halter Is Turning Farms Into Software-Enabled Businesses
How Halter is bringing software logic to livestock farming — turning collars, pasture and daily decisions into a connected farm operating system.
Noteworthy Staff8 Jun 2026
agritech
New Zealand Agritech Companies to Watch
Meet the New Zealand agritech companies building technology for farming, livestock, sustainability and global agriculture — led by Halter.
Noteworthy Staff7 Jun 2026
agritech
Halter: The New Zealand Agritech Startup Changing How Farmers Manage Livestock
Halter is a New Zealand agritech company helping farmers manage cattle, pasture and virtual fencing through solar-powered smart collars and software.
Noteworthy Staff6 Jun 2026
aerospace
Kea Aerospace: The New Zealand Company Building Aircraft for the Stratosphere
There’s a gap in how we observe the Earth from above. Satellites are powerful but expensive, locked to their orbits and can’t linger over one spot..
Noteworthy Staff5 Jun 2026
aerospace
Dawn Aerospace: The New Zealand–Linked Space Company Building Aircraft-Like Access to Space
Most space companies are judged by launches, the rocket, the countdown, the plume. Dawn Aerospace is trying to make that the wrong question. Its bet is.
Noteworthy Staff4 Jun 2026
aerospace
What Is a Spaceplane?
A spaceplane is a vehicle that combines features of an aircraft and a rocket: it can fly to the edge of space (or beyond) using rocket power, but takes.
Noteworthy Staff3 Jun 2026
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