About
Before COVID it felt like Wellington was extremely interconnected, everyone knew everyone, everyone knew what was going on, and you couldn’t walk out the door without meeting someone useful. That changed with COVID and afterwards we realised:
- The number of people in the CBD was dramatically down as people worked from home
- Interesting talks were taking place with poor audiences, mostly because people weren’t being told in advance
- Good news stories about Wellington companies and science institutes were not making our local papers
- The number of Wellington start-ups coming to local angels were low
We now issue a weekly newsletter covering Wellington wins & events, and we host an event every 6 weeks which aims to entertain, teach, meet and generally let everyone have a good time.
Meet Our Founders
WellyForge was founded by 4 people across the science-tech eco-system who all recognised the same issues and decided to do something about it, namely, create an ecosystem of tech, science, founders, investors and operators to forge new paths ahead for the economic prosperity of Wellington.
