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In the face of all the challenges of 2021, Upstock helped many thousands of wholesale buyers and suppliers across New Zealand, along with customers in the US and AU, to streamline and grow their businesses.

It’s the health tech provider’s first acquisitions since raising $15m in early 2021. Auckland-based digital-first healthcare provider Tend Health has bought two GP practices following a $15 million capital raise at the start of the year. Article by Andrew Bevin, originally published on National Business Review, 13/12/21

Summary of Juno KiwiSaver: JUNO KiwiSaver offers three KiwiSaver funds, with the aim of making market-beating returns while making it simple for contributors to understand where their money is invested and how their retirement is being funded. Most KiwiSaver schemes have two fees - an annual fee, and a management fee. JUNO KiwiSaver instead, and rather helpfully, has ONE fee and it's in dollar terms, not as a percentage of your fund balance. This means you'll pay a fixed amount per month depending on your balance. There are no performance fees, despite the funds being actively managed. Many KiwiSaver fund managers take a bite of any market-beating returns - JUNO KiwiSaver does not. The funds launched in August 2018; the JUNO Growth has reported leading results and was ranked #1 for its Growth fund per this Stuff.co.nz article. Switching between any JUNO KiwiSaver fund is free. There are no joining fees or exit fees if you take your money to another fund.

Real-time capability and capacity software startup Runn.io has raised a US$1.41mil Seed round. Investors include Venture Capital firm GD1 as well as Wavemaker, NZGCP, K1W1, and Marlborough Angels. Through clever integration of 'the employee voice' - including features that ensure employees are doing work that's most meaningful to them - Runn.io believes its solution will help modern organizations thrive within a post-Covid world of work.

SmartPayroll is now back in the business world as Smartly with many new services and features.

As New Zealand continues to battle Covid-19, many of its small businesses have been forced to close their doors and others are in need of additional financial support to ensure they can survive the months ahead. To give small businesses a lifeline, two Kiwi businesses have created a partnership to provide them with crucial financial and accounting support so that they can not only survive, but thrive as we start to reopen.

A high-tech system that can control your farm from your phone? Holy cow! New Zealand agtech startup Halter is bringing farming into the future with GPS-enabled solar-powered collars for dairy cows that connect to a smartphone app.

CHICAGO, Nov. 3, 2021 /PRNewswire/ -- FingerprintJS, the open-source browser fingerprinting service with the most accurate identification rate on the web, raised $32 million in Series B funding led by Craft Ventures with participation from existing investors Nexus Venture Partners and Uncorrelated Ventures.

First AML raises $30 million in funding amid global compliance concerns

Even in our technology-dependent world, pen and paper are still a common sight out in the field of orchards and vineyards across New Zealand and the world. That’s because there has never been a tool which had quite ironed out all the challenges faced and unique requirements of the industry – until now. Erin Harrison explains.

The round into Partly values the business at NZ$46 million. It was led by existing investor Blackbird Ventures, with Beck, also an existing backer, joined by Dylan Field, co-founder & CEO of design platform Figma; Akshay Kothari, co-founder & COO of Notion; Connor Theilmann, VP business operations at Service Titan, as well as I2BF and K5 Ventures in the US.

The now trans-Tasman direct-to-consumer investment platform Sharesies has embarked on another capital-raising round that values the four-year old company at over $400 million.