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After several months of hard work, the Go Innovate! idea competition culminated in a dragon’s den style pitching competition, held in the Wonder Room at Massey University's Albany campus. Finalist teams pitched for a grand prize worth including seed funding from Massey Ventures, a place on the ecentre’s Sprint development programme, and services and software package from Microsoft.

Uber and Airbnb changed the game in the taxi and accommodation industries by making inaccessibility obsolete through shared economy. Now All Space is taking on the storage industry from its base in New Zealand after completing the ecentre Sprint programme.

The ecentre at Massey University has reaffirmed its place as a leading incubator hub for tech startups, winning a Callaghan Innovation service expansion contract, announced by the Science and Innovation Minister, Paul Goldsmith. And from next month, the North Shore, Auckland-based ecentre, will work with Northland Inc, Northland’s Regional Economic Development Agency, to deliver services to startups from the Te Tai Tokerau region.

Ecentre CEO, Jackie Young, says winning the Callaghan Innovation contract is a significant indicator that its programmes deliver results.