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Entrepreneurs’ Challenge winners all have a biological look about them – how can that be?


If you look at it slightly askew there’s a general biological theme to the three winners of a $1 million prize in the University of Auckland’s Business School Entrepreneurs’ Challenge. But the businesses that now have some welcome additional growth … Continue reading

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Data software simplifiers looking to be bought out (Biomatters)


If all goes according to plan, in five years time Biomatters Ltd. should be clearly in the purchasing sights of larger companies in the life sciences or gene sequencing industries. The Auckland-based company which makes Geneious proprietary software that places … Continue reading

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Graphically illustrating genetic data drives expansion of weightless software exports


If biologists were also computer science experts, there would be no need for Biomatters Ltd.’s software. But because they’re not coding genius’s, the Auckland-based company’s programs, which put an easy to use, robust and highly visual interface on top of … Continue reading

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Innovative and fast-growing companies line up for funding prize


And the finalists for the Entrepreneurs’ Challenge are…..drum roll….a healthy range of New Zealand businesses looking for the capital funding prize to help expand into overseas markets. Ten companies have been shortlisted to claim a chunk of $1 million in … Continue reading

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