Thank you for subscribing, and for the kind words, but we’re a city of action right, not just words? So, let’s go…. and see you June 18th, full speaker line-up below.

Relevant Wellington News

Start up rule #1, celebrate the wins:

• Wellington students win awards at world’s largest science fair. Jesse Rumball-Smith has a smartphone app for safer driving, Isabelle Aduna has a way of using fruit & vegetable waste as natural dyes for sustainable solar cells.

• Robinson Research Institute has $71m from the Govt towards setting up and hosting an advanced technology platform in Future Magnetic and Materials Technologies.

Got a win? Tell us!!

Events Coming Up

Thursday 5th June, 8am, Kapti Startup & Innovation Network at 180 Degrees Cafe

Friday 6th June, 8.30am, KiwiNet are running a “Get Funded” session in Seatoun for publicly funded researchers.

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. Seats will be limited so get tickets early. 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 (and trust me, even science companies needs product people, in fact, they even need sales 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

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

Got other stuff? Tell us!!

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

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

Got other links? Tell us!!

WellyForge