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Founders’ Chat is a series where we share the entrepreneurial journey of founders from the GridAKL start-up hub. For our first Founders’ Chat, we spoke with Brough Johnson, co-founder of book and movie matchmaker Narrative Muse, hailing all the way from the USA. Brough had been working in [...]

As the sun set over the Wynyard Quarter in early June, founders from GridAKL / John Lysaght gathered for the first edition of Founders’ Chat.   The goal of the evening was simple: to get together founders from all stages of the start-up journey and provide a space for discussing their most [...]

Finding the right environment to grow your start-up business can be hard. Countless enterprises have been set up in bedrooms across the world, with little more than a great idea and a laptop. However, if you want to really grow your business and take things to the next level, tapping into the [...]

Every other week at Grid AKL / John Lysaght, we gather round for a spot of lunch and the opportunity to learn from each other’s skills and expertise. This week, our members crowded round the kitchen table to hear from Rudi Bublitz, part of the Flying Kiwi Angel investor group. Prior to [...]

When you walk through the doors of GridAKL / John Lysaght, it’s hard not to get excited.   Our residents are engaged with some of the biggest challenges facing society, making breakthroughs in technology and growing innovative businesses that will become an integral part of New Zealand’s [...]

The idea behind the name Weirdly? The things that make people interesting and unique are what makes us magic, what makes us really good at stuff. We are helping you to find the right kind of weirdness to make your business more productive.” Follow the story of Keren, Hayden, Dale and Simon who [...]

Check out Rob’s story which features in our GridAKL campaign ‘From Scratch’; GridAKL community founders talking about their entrepreneurial journey.  

  The search for New Zealand’s top space talent has come to an end, with the winner of the 2018 NZ Space Challenge recently announced in Christchurch. The inaugural Space Challenge was won by John Ahearn of  GPS Control Systems with their concept of a Global Navigation Satellite System to [...]

What to do with a boring black wall bordering the outside courtyard at the John Lysaght building? Invite the GridAKL community to come along and paint it! So that’s what we did and the result is pretty darn fine. Check out this cool little vid made by our friends from Phoenix [...]

The world of cryptocurrency and Bitcoin may seem baffling to many of us, a new-fangled piece of digital technology that is creating headline news around the world. But two digital entrepreneurs based at GridAKL / John Lysaght, founders Matt Gibson and Sam Blackmore, are determined to demystify [...]