NZ Startup Directories

Free, verified directories of the funders, grants, accelerators, providers and templates open to New Zealand founders. Nobody pays to be listed, and nothing here is promotion.

The information exists. It sits across a dozen agency sites, inside PDFs, or with founders already in the right networks. It also goes out of date quietly. Programmes close, agencies get restructured, funds stop writing cheques, and the pages describing them keep ranking in Google for years afterwards. A founder working off one of those pages loses weeks and applies for something that no longer exists.

Setting Up

Start a Business in New Zealand

How to register a company or set up as a sole trader in New Zealand, with what each actually costs, IRD, GST and ACC, licences, and the founder visa options that are still open. Covers companies, sole traders, charitable trusts and incorporated societies, so it works for a software company, a café or a side project that started making money. Every official link in one index.

Free Legal & Financial Templates

Startup documents ordered the way companies grow: company setup, hiring, capital, then governance. Shareholders' agreements, SAFEs, cap tables, IP assignments, contractor agreements and board packs, NZ-specific where they exist, with the widely used global ones like YC's marked as needing local review.

NZ Startup Perks & Credits

Over $1M in cloud credits, AI compute, software discounts and fee waivers available to New Zealand startups, from AWS and Google Cloud to Notion, HubSpot and Carta. Every perk is checked for NZ eligibility, with no expired offers, and each one says whether you need venture funding or an accelerator place to qualify, so you don't spend a day applying for a headline number you were never going to get.

Grants and Support Organisations

NZ Startup Ecosystem Directory

Every founder support organisation in New Zealand you can approach directly: regional hubs, incubators, Māori and Pasifika networks, support for women founders, deep tech facilities, university commercialisation offices and student programmes. Each entry says whether it's free, paid, or a mix, and which region and stage it serves, so you find the right door first rather than after three referrals.

NZ Government Support Directory

Every active New Zealand government grant, R&D tax credit, co-funding scheme, capability voucher, export guarantee and immigration pathway for startups and small businesses. All of it non-dilutive, none of it costing you equity or debt. Rebuilt after Callaghan Innovation was disestablished and its programmes moved to MBIE, so you're not applying through links that stopped working in December 2025.

NZ Startup Accelerators

Every accelerator open to New Zealand founders, NZ and Australian, with the terms in a single table: whether they put cash in, how much, and what equity they take for it. Startmate's AUD 120,000 for up to 8%, the programmes that take nothing, and the ones that don't publish their terms at all. No incubators, no pre-accelerators, no self-paced courses.

Raising Money

Startup Funding in New Zealand

Every active investor and lender backing New Zealand startups: VC funds here and in Australia, angel networks, family offices, equity crowdfunding, secondary liquidity through Catalist, venture debt and revenue-based finance. Includes which angel networks charge founders a success fee, which is the kind of thing you want to know before you pitch, not after you sign.

Running the Company

Startup Service Providers

Nearly 60 verified lawyers, accountants, fractional CFOs, recruiters, IP and immigration specialists, product teams and PR firms who work with New Zealand startups as their main business. Organised by what you're trying to do: build the company, protect it, or grow it. Nobody pays to be listed and nobody can pay for placement.

Co-Working Spaces in New Zealand

Every verified co-working space, shared office and hot desk in the country, by region from Northland to Southland, including the small towns other lists skip.