Step 2: Meet the Businesses

 

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Audit Professionals Limited

We are a specialist audit firm established in 2014, focused on providing professional and independent assurance services to smaller entities that prepare annual financial statements but are not issuers of securities.

Our purpose is to support transparency, accountability, and good stewardship, particularly for organisations responsible for managing public or charitable funds.

What sets us apart is our tailored approach - we focus not just on compliance with accounting standards but on ensuring that financial reporting reflects the true story of an entity’s activities.

We prioritise clear, meaningful financial statements that suit the nature and scale of the organisation. Through independent audits, we help clients demonstrate responsible use of resources and build trust with stakeholders.

Our clients include not-for-profit organisations, community groups, charities, and smaller businesses across New Zealand who value transparency and integrity in financial reporting.

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Coralcone Ltd

I'm the founder of Coralcone, a New Zealand-made, Dunedin-based sustainable period care brand.

Inspired by my background in scuba diving and coral conservation in Southeast Asia, Coralcone's mission is to reduce single-use period plastic waste by creating reusable, sustainable period products that improve health for people and the planet.

Our flagship product is a patented, two-part engineered reusable menstrual cup that lowers the usability barriers to cup adoption. By improving comfort, performance, and accessibility, we've built an award-winning product that's switching loyal customers away from the biggest menstrual cup brands on the global market.

Our customers are predominantly eco-conscious Gen Z and Millennials – planet-positive, into eco-travel, premium health and beauty, and wellness, living active lifestyles particularly around watersports, and ocean advocates. Our brand is inclusive of women, non-binary, intersex, and trans men – and anyone who menstruates. 

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Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust

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Proudly produced by Dunedin Fringe Arts Trust, the New Zealand Young Writers Festival (NZYWF) is a literary-focused festival held annually in the heart of Ōtepoti/Dunedin.

The festival celebrates young writers aged 15–35 across a diverse range of wordsmithing. This year’s festival takes place 3&4 October 2026, and will be preceded by a special wānaka/wānanga for selected young writers at Puketeraki Marae in Karitane from 30 September - 2 October 2026.

https://youngwritersfest.nz/

 

 

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LesserKey

Lesser Key Studio

We're a Dunedin-based video game development studio. We successfully applied for and received funding from CODE NZ when we were all only a year or two out of tertiary education. Now we feel it's our turn to give back to the next generation of graduates by bringing in an intern so they can get some indie studio experience. Our customers are gamers who like a spooky game with a rich world.

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Our Food Network

Our Food Network

We are a Dunedin Based charity looking to improve food security. Our stakeholders are other charities, food producers, local and central govt.

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Rppl

Rppl Limited

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Rppl is an async-first, AI-powered collaboration platform designed to transform how teams connect, decide, and execute work.

The platform addresses the common pain points faced by small and medium-sized businesses (SMBs) struggling with poor meeting culture, where teams find themselves stuck between endless meetings, messy messaging apps, and disconnected task tracking.

Rather than adding another point solution to an already fragmented software stack, Rppl consolidates essential collaboration functions into a unified platform that replaces the chaos of traditional meetings with streamlined, actionable outcomes. The solution features built-in video conferencing capabilities and integrated Kanban task management, while leveraging Google and Microsoft authentication systems and connecting with Google Calendar for seamless scheduling.

For organisations spending too much on disparate software solutions and seeking to improve their meeting effectiveness, Rppl provides a comprehensive alternative that helps teams collaborate smarter, focus on what matters, and accelerate execution across remote, hybrid, and in-office environments by eliminating the "who's doing what?" confusion through its all-in-one approach to team collaboration.

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Spellcaster

Spellcaster

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Spellcaster Education is a Dunedin-based serious game company building Spellcaster, a 16-bit adventure game driven by spelling. Schools, speech-language pathologists, and literacy interventionists across New Zealand, Australia, the UK and US use it to run structured spelling practice with learners aged 9 and up. 

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Village Wise

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VillageWise is a Dunedin based social impact start up developing MidStream, a digital platform that helps families navigate disability, health and support services more easily. MidStream is currently at early prototype/MVP development stage. We are testing and consistently co-designing the tool with families in Ōtepoti, including Māori, Pacific and other families, to improve the look, feel, usability and practical value of the platform.

The purpose of MidStream is to reduce the emotional and administrative burden on families by helping them organise their story, identify support needs, prepare information for services, and share relevant information securely with the agencies they choose.

VillageWise is unique because the platform is being developed from lived experience, community sector practice, systems thinking and direct testing with families. Rather than being a case management tool, MidStream sits closer to the family and supports better coordination across agencies. Our users include disabled people, families, carers and potentially agencies involved in disability, health, social services and Whānau Ora navigation.

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