Winter is kicking in, but that’s why we’re so good at tech & science in Wellington, right?

Our event on June 18th is very close to full, but there is a waiting list, details below.

Relevant Wellington News

Start up rule #1, celebrate the wins:

• ProjectWorks (based on Customhouse Quay) added another US$12m to their Series A round, to bring total investment to US$20m

• LabMates (local start-up) aiming to better connect up the science and innovation system to support collaboration, talent and impactful ideas has released a beta version

Got a win? Tell us!!

Wellington Events Coming Up

Thursday 12th June, 5.15pm, Vision for Wellington event at Star Boating Club, this time it’s about the city’s finances and should be a, errm, interesting debate - I wonder what the economic/science/tech vision is from our next WCC leaders?

Thursday 12th June, 5.30pm, Professor Ben Ruck: Superconducting computers, semiconductors, magnets, and other fun with physics, Hunter Building, Victoria

Weds, June 18th, 6-8pm, WellyForge’s first in-person meeting, to be held at Undercurrent at 118 Tory Street, a bohemian style book store, perfect for story telling. We’ll have two short, topical talks and various networking things. Tickets have just about gone but there is a waitlist. The speakers will be:

• Ian Douglas, Founder, Village Goldsmith (winners Hi-Tech Awards 2025)

• Professor Emily Parker, Science Advisor to MBIE, co-founder of Bontia Bio, who just raised $1.25m to get nature’s bioactive armour up and running.

• And 3 lucky PhDs (Marissa Dierkes, Taran John, Shae Patel) who will distil their life’s work down to 2 minutes in simple terms for us….

Weds, June 18th, 6pm, Talk by NASA astronomer, Dr Michelle Thaller at the Royal Society

Monday 23rd June, 3-6pm, KPMG Office on Bowen St, Wellington start-up Wellbeing Protocol is running a session on “A Smarter Way to Fund Social Good”

Tuesday 24th June, 3.00pm, Quantum Investments & Startups at Generator, 40 Bowen Street, hosted by IBM’s Quantum Ambassador, Sara Bilal

Tuesday 24th June, 5.30pm, Lenny’s Newsletter MeetUp at St Johns Bar for product people

Weds/Thurs 25/26th June, Electrify “supercharging NZ’s most ambitious women founders”

Thursday 26th June, 2-5pm, Climate Accelerator Aurora by CreativeHQ at Michael Fowler

Thursday 26th June, 4.30-6.30pm, BioTech & Beers at Fortune Favours

Thursday 26th June, 5 - 7pm, Gen AI Engineering Meet-Up (Sold Out!)

Thurs/Fri, 3/4th July, 9am- Wellington Bioimaging Symposium at Vic

Thursday 31st July, 4.30-7pm, Wellington Start Up Collective

Weds Aug 13th, NZ Energy Excellence Awards in Wellington

Aug 27th-30th, RustForge is in Wellington run by Tim McNamara with plenty of Wellington speakers, including your run of the mill nuclear fusion start-up, OpenStar.

Nov 19th-21st, Synbio (synthetic biology) is in Wellington, organized by Mark Calcott from Vic Uni.

Got an event coming up? Tell us!!

Other Stuff

• Nothing of note

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Useful Links

• Glean Report for a full rundown of Wellington events including humanities

• WhatFoundersWant useful stuff from Wellington-based Lane Litz

• AngelHQ for contacting the local angel community

• ADI Clinics in Wellington (Angelic Drop-In)

• Morgo for NZ entrepreneurs (run from Wellington by Jenny Morel)

• Wellington Start Up Collective to meet non-advising fellow start-up nuts

• Start-Up Coaching (Free, via CreativeHQ)

• Taiawa Wellington Tech Hub (WCC/Vic, over near Beehive)

Got other links? Tell us!!

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