Directory

AJ Park is a leading provider of intellectual property law services in Australia, New Zealand and the Pacific region. With offices in Auckland and Wellington, we have one of the largest, most experienced teams of intellectual property experts in the area.

Accord is New Zealand’s largest precision manufacturer specialising in the design, manufacture and assembly of medical devices. Accord produces critical, high-value components as a total solutions provider to brands including Fisher & Paykel Healthcare and manufactured / exported 15 million individual components in 2020 alone to 138 countries. Accord possesses an extensive portfolio of industry accreditations, including ISO:13485, ISO:9001, ISO:14001, ISO:15001 compliance, and FDA certification.

With an experienced team and proven track record, Adcelerate offer a range of services to start-ups looking to establish their business, and established businesses looking to expand. These services include Market Research (both local and global), Competitor Research, Website Design & Development, Domain Names & Email Setup, Brand Awareness, and Digital Marketing (local and global).

Adjutor Healthcare specialises in Development, Regulatory and Commercialisation. We are a full-service life science consultancy company, qualified and experienced to provide end-to-end services for medicines and medical devices. We have international and Australian partners for full global coverage of your projects. Our comprehensive services include strategy and project management, development, including clinical and regulatory affairs, quality and training, sponsorship, and commercialisation.

AANZ exists to support the creation of New Zealand born, world changing businesses delivering exponential financial, social and economic returns through a superlative programme of mutual support, connectivity and collaboration. By 2026, NZ-born angel-backed companies will be part of a world-renowned venture ecosystem with access to a full and sustainable capital pathway from New Zealand based venture and institutional investors.

At Apagie we focus on the only thing that really matters: is your customer willing to hand over money for your product or service? Everything we do is focused on growing sales internationally for our clients. We do this by better understanding why customers buy and matching their behaviour to the most effective marketing and sales channels. We have first-hand commercial experience in 34 countries, so we know how to make it happen.

Ara Manawa is an interdisciplinary research, design and innovation studio inside Te Toka Tumai (formally Auckland DHB). We are a team of creative problem solvers who develop solutions to challenges in Papakainga Atawhai (Auckland Hospital) and our wider health sector. We work with startups and researchers to help them with user research (through human-centred design and co-design) and connections with clinicians.

Bell Gully is a leading New Zealand law firm. As one of the oldest New Zealand firms, established in 1840, our history is deeply embedded in domestic business.

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BioPacific Partners is a life science consultancy deeply embedded in the ANZ innovation ecosystem. We work with clients including startups, multinationals, governments and research institutes to bring local innovation to the world stage. Our work includes fundraising, intellectual property advisory, and guiding operational strategies to produce the best outcomes. With our strong scientific knowledge and commercialisation acumen, we identify, assess and engage with opportunities best suited to your vision.

BioValeo provides bespoke CRO and consultation services for clinical trials. BioValeo is dedicated to the delivery of high-quality clinical trials, offering adaptable solutions tailored to the needs of each study and sponsor. Specialising in personalised medicines and immunotherapy trials, BioValeo clinical research professionals have extensive knowledge and experience within the clinical trials sector.

Brandon Capital invests in the most promising biomedical opportunities that have the potential to improve the lives of patients. From early-stage seed investment through to expansion capital, we are able to support life science companies from proof-of-concept through to commercialisation.

Bridgewest Ventures is a globally connected partner, on the lookout for founders aiming to have a profound social, environmental, or economic impact on our world. This can come in many forms, from technology advances in AI development and semiconductor engineering to life science breakthroughs or biomedical discovery. As an approved partner under Callaghan Innovation's Technology Incubator Programme, we are taking applications for local ventures ready to commercialise on a global scale.

Business Networking NZ offers each New Zealand based business the opportunity to list in our free and human-edited online business directory. Continually evolving with the addition of new categories and business themed website content, we provide all directory listings with an SEO friendly backlink.

CCL is New Zealand’s largest locally-focused multi-cloud and IT services company, supporting clients at every step in the management and modernisation of their business technology. CCL is also part of Spark Business Group, New Zealand’s largest digital services provider, helping New Zealand business win big in a digital world.

We are a leading international company that helps you to design, finance, and manage customised, innovative technology lifecycles. We offer unique IT, healthcare and industrial technology and asset finance solutions which enable your business to keep up-to-date with the latest technology, reduce your costs, minimise workload and above all, maintain full transparency.

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At Canterbury Tech we are passionate about helping our region’s tech companies and people prosper. Across our broad-based member community we are proud to include some of New Zealand’s most innovative companies and successful entrepreneurs, based in a region renowned globally for its tech excellence. We offer a range of opportunities for our members to Connect, Grow, and be Inspired.

Catalyst Intellectual Property provides a comprehensive range of intellectual property advisory and related commercial services across diverse technology fields. We work with our clients devise useful and commercially driven intellectual property strategies to help their businesses succeed

A list of sites for which self-certification has been lodged with Medsafe.

As the Canterbury region’s economic development agency, ChristchurchNZ has catalysed strong eco-systems around each Supernode, aligning and connecting industry, students, iwi, education providers and government to accelerate opportunities and growth.

The CMDT was established to help grow the medical device industry in NZ. The CMDT is a national resource linking research activities at NZ Universities and Crown Research Institutes and agencies with companies, healthcare providers, regulatory and industry bodies, the Health Innovation Hub, and the Commercialisation Partner Networks.

We were founded in 2009 by patent attorney, Robert Snoep, to offer our customers a service he thought was lacking in larger firms – a personal approach to IP advice with agreed costs and deliverables. Since then CreateIP has acquired an enviable reputation for providing intelligent and dependable advice on all matters related to IP. We don’t just think it.

Creative HQ helps innovators around the world to transform their ideas into real-world solutions. We don’t just supply the answer. Instead, we put people at the heart of their own problems. We give them the energy and skills to innovate. Whether you have a problem to solve in government, hunger for new approaches in your work or an idea to launch a startup, we can help you get you there.

Cure Kids Ventures (CKV) is a seed and early-stage investment fund that invests in the commercialisation of innovations in healthcare products and services. CKV invests in companies covering medical devices, biotechnology, medications, diagnostics, health information and healthcare delivery systems.

A growth-led digital marketing agency taking kiwi HealthTech companies global. We work closely with our clients as a partner, and have an experienced team of digital marketers with a broad perspective on sales and marketing.

Long-term backing and investment to launch your Deep Tech venture, drive forward scientific and technological advancements, and make a positive impact on the world.

Dentons Kensington Swan is a recognised New Zealand law firm with a global reach. Dentons currently works with a number of health tech providers to bring their products to market, and has particular expertise in software licensing and regulation of therapeutic products. Dentons also offers a comprehensive suite of services including protection and commercialisation of IP, privacy and cybersecurity, corporate structuring, commercial contracts, consumer law and employment law.

The Digital Health Association has grown to be a large membership of 170+ organisations and is the peak industry body for the digital health sector in Aotearoa New Zealand. We have extensive reach across the health and disability system that enables our members to be part of a strong, influential, and relevant association that ensures the importance of digital health is 'front and centre' in everything we do.

We have legal experts across all key areas who will leverage their extensive HealthTech knowledge and experience with start-ups through to some of New Zealand’s largest businesses to help you achieve your goals. Our strengths in the HealthTech sector span governance set-up, company structuring, joint ventures and M&A, technology and intellectual property, complex contracts, and more.

With over 30 years experience in design, manufacture and product development, ESP Medical is your medical device product realisation partner. ESP Medical specialises in injection and blow moulding using a wide range of polymers including silicone. We are ISO13485 and ISO9001 approved, with a GMP-clean room manufacturing site, in-house tooling capabilities and analytical chemical laboratory to support drug delivery analysis for combination devices. ESP can support you from concept to post-production.

Companies engage Elephant Ventures to de-risk and complete digital transformations, validate priorities, and build innovative digital solutions/products that create new business value. Our experienced agile-focused team works either in partnership with client internal teams or, as a fully outsourced team. Whilst industry agnostic, we deeply value the work we do in healthcare, by empowering providers, policy makers, suppliers, and payors to drive impact for patient populations.

Australasia’s most influential business network, EO New Zealand is run by entrepreneurs for entrepreneurs. We are part of a global organisation of 14,000+ entrepreneurs, with 196 chapters across 62 countries, and over 90 members in the New Zealand Chapter.

Flint IP is a boutique patent attorney firm with a particular focus on the IP protection and defence of medical device technologies. Our small and flexible team has deep and in-house expertise in what it takes to build and execute an IP strategy to support the scaling-up of medtech businesses. Based in Auckland, we provide services around the country and manage global IP portfolios.

Our campaigns are based around generating a clear return on investment. Our work is highly efficient and effective, reverse-engineered around the potential client’s positive ROI. Whether you need a killer website or video content, to look your best online – or you need someone to utilise tools like Social Media and Google’s product range to generate more inquiries and sales – Flow has you covered.

Galantai has 40 years' experience in managing the plastics injection moulding process, while the manufacture and marketing of our own medical devices under ISO 13485 provides a broad understanding of the regulatory environment. Facilities include dedicated clean areas for manufacturing, assembly and packing. Galantai is accredited to ISO 13485:2016, ISO 9001:2015, registered with the FDA and supplies products to EU customers under current Medical Device Regulations.

Globex is a product engineering company. We help companies take ideas all the way through to mass production. We do anything that you would expect from an inhouse engineering development team for medical devices or other hardware projects. We can also help with small run manufacturing, suppliers, certification and testing. Our experience is ready to help you.

Green Lane Coordinating Centre is a New Zealand-based Academic Research Organisation providing clinical trials and consulting management solutions to the pharmaceutical, biotechnology and device industry in New Zealand and the Asia-Pacific region.

Market Access - We help you navigate the New Zealand healthcare environment. For clients wanting to enter OECD markets such as New Zealand, Australia and the United Kingdom. Pricing - We provide systematic and robust methodology that aims to translate clinical superiority, design process and various inputs into pricing that accurately reflects clients' market, direction and vision.

The Health Research Council (HRC) identifies and funds research that can lead to new medicines, breakthroughs and cures, and improve the health and wellbeing of all New Zealanders.

The Health and Disability Ethics Committees (HDECs) are Ministerial committees (established under section 87 of the Pae Ora (Healthy Futures) Act 2022), whose function is to secure the benefits of health and disability research by checking that it meets or exceeds established ethical standards. In doing so, the HDECs are required to act in accordance with the procedural rules contained in the Standard Operating Procedures for Health and Disability Ethics Committees.

The HealthTech Challenge 2023 is a ten-week Validator that aims to equip individuals and teams with a venture idea, research, or a non-commercialised product or service to develop commercially feasible solutions for the health sector.

As New Zealand’s first firm of Patent Attorneys we have significant experience in all IP matters in New Zealand, Australia and across the Pacific Region. We have long standing relationships with like-minded attorneys around the world so that we can ensure that whatever your IP needs we can assist you to achieve your desired outcome.

HiNZ is a not-for-profit organisation that supports the field of digital health, with a focus on events and professional development. Its annual conference is the largest digital health event in New Zealand. HiNZ publishes a broad range of media, including webinars, podcasts, eHealthNews.nz, and CONNECT magazine.

Hogan Lovells offers extensive experience and insights gained from working in some of the world's most complex legal environments and markets for corporations, financial institutions, and governments. We help you identify and mitigate risk and make the most of opportunities. Our 2,500 lawyers on six continents provide practical legal solutions wherever your work takes you.

The delivery of health in NZ can be revolutionised by Tech – enabling better health outcomes and better return on the government health $. We are members of a number health and technology industry groups, and sit on the board of NZ HIT. We are committed to helping the industry thrive – because this will enable NZ to thrive.

Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture firm that backs brave kiwi founders building global ventures based on unique insights. We’ve invested >$160m to date in >230 kiwi startups including Heartlab, The Insides Company, Adherium, Chnnl, Mentemia, and Helico Bio.

We're an award-winning New Zealand digital and marketing agency that has been delivering outstanding results to local and global brands like yours. Through Sales & CRM, Marketing Strategy, Digital Marketing, Website and CMS Development, software integration and more. We collaborate, innovate and execute to deliver, for you.

Infinity IP is a boutique IP firm where we are passionate about helping our clients to protect their intellectual property to let their ideas shine and their business thrive - whether they’re on the domestic stage or aiming for the global limelight. We can help with patents, trade marks, design registration, and copyright.

Innovation Liberation Front (ILF) helps entrepreneurial businesses develop and execute their IP strategy to enhance investability, profitability and competitiveness, and decrease risk. ILF is lead by Simon Rowell, who is ranked as one of the top 300 IP strategists globally by IAM Magazine.

Intranel provides consulting services and technology delivery to industry clients to accelerate R and D projects. Our diverse, cross-domain expertise means we can deliver end-end projects across a full range of emerging tech, including AI/ML, predictive analytics, IoT, Computer Vision, and Blockchain, along with supporting software, hardware design, mobile and Web app development, data engineering and Cloud services.

With more than 50 years’ collective experience, Ironside McDonald Intellectual Property truly understand IP. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, we provide high-quality advice and strategies for all aspects of local and international IP, including trade mark protection, copyright, designs, IP enforcement, as well as IP licenses and agreements.

JR Associates is a medical reimbursement consultancy, focused on finding solutions that pay. For more than two decades, we have created business value for medical technology innovators by developing and implementing strategies that improve their US reimbursement outcomes. Our proven consultants intervene at all stages in the product lifecycle, with actionable insights, hands-on guidance and specialised services that position biomedical and device products for market access and adoption.

James & Wells is New Zealand’s largest independent intellectual property firm. Our award-winning experts assist with all aspects of IP. We have specialist expertise in health technology; our health tech team includes patent attorneys who are engineers and scientists, and industry-leading lawyers. We are dedicated to championing our clients and providing them with the highest levels of service. We are here to help you identify, protect and leverage your IP.

Johner Institute New Zealand Ltd. specialises in expert regulatory consultancy for medical devices, SaMD and IVDs, ensuring seamless global market entry in New Zealand, Australia, USA, Europe and Asia. As an integral part of an international network, we offer specialised regulatory insight, hands-on compliance support and comprehensive educational services. Trust us to be the cornerstone of your success, making complex regulations manageable and your global ambitions achievable.

We help New Zealand exporters take on the world by researching, preparing and implementing go-to-market plans that take the guesswork out of exporting. This includes big strategic decisions, like which market and segment is right for your product, right through to helping you qualify and sell to potential international partners. We provide outsourced export expertise that is the right shape and size for your business.

Callaghan Innovation, in partnership with NZTE, is supporting and developing a world-class community of SaaS company founders and leaders right here in NZ with kiwiSaaS. The events offered through kiwiSaaS provide invaluable networking opportunities, practical skills, advice, and support to enable our SaaS entrepreneurs to scale and succeed on the world stage.

Lancom Technology is a leading IT company specialising in providing software development, cloud services, managed services and data & insights to help businesses succeed by doing more with less. With extensive experience serving the healthcare sectors of New Zealand and Australia, we can help turn your good idea into great results.

At leanRAQA, our mission is to deliver medical device regulatory and quality system solutions customised to your business needs. Regulatory strategy, quality systems, and submissions are not one size fits all. Clients get practical, sustainable solutions that meet their business needs without creating undue burden.

Leaven is a business consultancy covering the critical stages of transformation, bringing clarity to cloud adoption, digital innovation, and ongoing operations. Leaven is also part of Spark Business Group, New Zealand’s largest digital services provider, helping New Zealand business win big in a digital world.

LegalVision is a leader in delivering commercial law legal services in Australia and New Zealand and has assisted more than 150,000 businesses. LegalVision was recently named the fastest growing law firm in the Asia-Pacific by the Financial Times and is focused on creating great client and member experiences.

Matū's vision is to create employment, commercial success and wealth for New Zealanders from inventions drawn from within the scientific community. Matū aims to select scientific ideas and discoveries with commercial potential in global markets, investing in pre-seed and seed funding rounds.

New Zealand VC/PE Funding Sources directory managed by Matū.

The MedTech Actuator was founded in 2018 by serial MedTech entrepreneurs and health policy experts who understood that MedTech, HealthTech and BioTech ventures require a bespoke acceleration model. We connect the region’s broad ecosystem to empower founders to build the next wave of global MedTech, HealthTech and BioTech success stories.

MedTech Innovator is the industry’s nonprofit global competition and accelerator for medical device, digital health and diagnostic companies. Our mission is to improve the lives of patients by accelerating the growth of companies that are transforming the healthcare system.

The Medical Technology Association of New Zealand (MTANZ) is the leading industry body representing medical technology manufacturers, importers and distributors of medical devices in New Zealand.

Medicines New Zealand advocates to improve access to modern medicines for New Zealand patients. Medicines New Zealand is an industry association whose members are engaged in the research, development, manufacture and marketing of modern prescription medicines. Medicines that are recognised as life changing, breakthrough or leading therapies.

Directory of licensed medicine manufacturing sites managed by Medsafe

Medsafe directory of independent regulatory, clinical and other consultancy services to the therapeutic products sector in New Zealand.

Inviting innovators to collaborate with us to accelerate technology innovation in APAC.

Meta Digital designs beautiful user experiences that highlight your services and offerings, using visual communication cues to resonate with your target audiences and build trust. Our approach includes robust design thinking, creative design methodology as well as expert software development to provide meaningful digital experiences for you and your audiences.

We drive results that are meaningful to you, whether it’s increasing revenue, finding a leak in your marketing funnel, marketing training, building brand trust, driving website traffic, increasing conversions, or knocking a competitor off the top of a winner’s podium. Contact us for a free Warrant of Fitness for your website and digital marketing. We're here to help!

Named New Zealand Law Firm of the Year by Chambers and Partners first in 2017 and again in 2020, we're a leading full service law firm with the expertise to help your team achieve your business objectives.

We help our clients focus their digital marketing & web design towards strategic customer acquisition and ROI. We believe digital success is balanced on three pillars and we’re brilliant at connecting them all.

NZGCP was established in 2002 by the New Zealand Government to stimulate investment into early-stage Kiwi companies with high-growth potential. Our Aspire fund invests directly into early-stage NZ tech start-ups at the Seed and Angel investment stage. One of our 4 key focus areas is health-tech with a particular interest in investments into diagnostic technology, medical device technologies and digital health platforms.

We are the voice of the New Zealand technology ecosystem and our vision is simple – more prosperity for New Zealand through better use of technology. NZTech’s strategy is to connect tech ecosystems, organisations and passionate people with each other and create a coordinated national voice for technology.

Whether you’re a technology start-up, an emerging, or established business, there are ample organisations within New Zealand that are keen to help support you and your business growth. From creating clear roadmaps for your business, providing network connections, educational resources, or advice on going global, here are a few entities that may be able to help you with your business growth.

There are a wide range of funding options for high-growth technology start-ups and companies in New Zealand. From incubators and grants, to Angel investment, venture capital, and private equity. Here are a few entities that may be able to help kick-start your funding journey.

Incubators and accelerators are both valuable players in the US medtech ecosystem. These application-based programmes provide mentorship, education and funding to US-bound start-ups and are a great way to learn the market.

Our Export Essentials workshops are designed to help New Zealand businesses take control of their export plans and grow faster internationally. We get like-minded businesses together with expert facilitators to explore key elements of successful exporting and build a plan to accelerate their growth.

Consultant for medical device regulatory and quality systems with extensive experience obtaining product approvals and QMS certifications for New Zealand companies to enter international markets; including risk management, usability engineering, labelling development, handling external testing submissions, US 510(k) / EU MDR / TGA approvals, and implementing quality systems covering in-house production and contract manufacturing.

NZACRes was established in 2004 as a professional association for clinical researchers in New Zealand. We represent a wide range of industry members from the private and public sectors. We promote and support clinical research within New Zealand through the provision of networking and educational opportunities, industry resources, and collaborations. NZACRes also provides the clinical research community with a unified voice and a means for industry consultation.

New Zealand Clinical Research (NZCR) is a world-renowned, physician-led, early phase research unit located across Auckland, Hamilton, Wellington, and Christchurch. NZCR has 35+ years of combined research excellence (as ACS and CCST) across a wide range of therapeutic areas, including hepatology, nephrology, oncology, gene editing, and HV/biosimilar studies.

The New Zealand Health Innovation Hub (NZHIH) is here to help accelerate and scale healthcare innovations originating from our district health boards. Innovators from universities and Crown Research Institutes can access our services through their technology transfer offices. We can also support private sector innovations that require public sector partnership to reach potential.

Novotech is internationally recognised as the leading Asia Pacific centred Biotech Contract Research Organisation (CRO) with global execution capabilities. Novotech is a clinical CRO with labs, Phase I facilities, drug development consulting services and FDA regulatory expertise and has experience in over 5,000 clinical projects, including Phase I to Phase IV clinical trials and bioequivalence studies. Novotech is positioned to serve biotech clients conducting clinical trials in Asia Pacific, the US and Europe.

Outset Ventures offers investment, commercial laboratory and workshop facilities, and incubation programmes for early-stage ventures founded on science and engineering breakthroughs. Currently home to 21 deep tech ventures, entrepreneurs backed by Outset Ventures can access its facilities and its expanding entrepreneurial community while preparing their companies for global markets.

We aim to provide capital, capability and connections to NZ-based 'deep-tech' companies based on breakthrough science and advanced engineering innovation. Through this support, we seek to create significant impact and thereby value for New Zealand, our stakeholders and all those involved in our ventures.

PharmaSols-CRO, a global team of experts, delivering excellence in clinical trials in the AUNZ region for over 20 years. As part of the HiRO group, we provide global, full service, end to end, clinical trial solutions to global biotech and pharma. PharmaSols-CRO works collaboratively with sponsors and local networks providing innovative solutions that deliver outstanding outcomes: rapid study start-ups, high recruitment, quality-accepted data, cost-effective clinical trials.

Potter IP specialises in providing IP related legal advice and capability building to New Zealand businesses of any size and stage of their IP journey. We fundamentally believe businesses need to make IP decisions themselves and assist them to develop the knowledge, capability and confidence to leverage their IP.

Product Accelerator is a national network that drives collaboration by bringing together its research network companies to progress technologies that accelerate product development, create new market opportunities, and grow exports. Product Accelerator identifies and delivers the “Missing Science/Technology” needed in manufacturing, materials, and design to enable companies to compete and grow. We aim to develop technology platforms for maximum economic benefit to New Zealand by using a novel enterprise engagement model based on “Pull Science.”

Product360 is a collection of resources that set out the commercialisation landscape with the purpose of helping you to identify areas that may need to be resolved in order to achieve product success.

Project Advisory: we help improve the effectiveness of change within organisations and increase the likelihood of complex project’s success. Education: our courses and workshops help organisations think differently; providing core understanding of concepts and knowing when and how to apply them.

As Christchurch lawyers, in both private and commercial practice, we are committed to achieving the goals of individuals and ensuring the success of businesses and organisations. Since 1922, our team of Christchurch lawyers has worked together with iwi, big business, small business and private individuals to help them realise their goals.

As West Auckland’s leading law firm, Smith and Partners Lawyers have been helping develop West Auckland business and community since 1988. Our skilled team of lawyers provide easy to understand legal advice in property law, business law, commercial property law, family law, employment law, estates, elder law, wills & trusts, debt collection and litigation.

Based out of Wellington, NZ, we specialise in user experience, user interface, customer experience, workshops, web design, web development, agile delivery, hosting, and digital marketing to create experiences that put people at the heart of everything we do. Corporates, Not-for-Profits, and Government Agencies choose to work with us because we listen, get things done, and put care into all we do to deliver user-friendly, accessible, and reliable websites on time and on budget.

At Spark Health our vision is to empower the New Zealand health system to keep people well through the power of digital technology. As the health division of Spark New Zealand, we are a dedicated team of clinicians and technologists, specialising in health, digital and data. We bridge the gap between technology and healthcare, by empowering healthcare providers with innovative digital solutions to improve patient outcomes and streamline their operations.