Our thoughts on how Blackrock's $2 billion clean energy fund came to our shores 

The Startup Blueprint series shares stories of founders and team members from some of Aotearoa's most epic and fast-growing startups. Hear about their journeys, learn from their insights, and maybe leave with a dose of inspiration.

We spoke with our very own Jo Wickham, a Partner here at Icehouse Ventures, about her illustrious career that has spanned mergers and acquisitions, entering international markets, hustling in bootstrapped startups, and supporting founders to achieve their vision. 

A note on OpenStar, one of Icehouse Venture’s most ambitious startups.

The Startup Blueprint series shares stories of founders and team members from some of Aotearoa's most epic and fast-growing startups. Hear about their journeys, learn from their insights, and maybe leave with a dose of inspiration.

We spoke with Simon Pound, Partner at Previously Unavailable, host of the 'Business is Boring' podcast, and an all-around creative strategy and branding guru.

The Startup Blueprint series shares stories of founders and team members from some of Aotearoa's most epic and fast-growing startups. Hear about their journeys, learn from their insights, and maybe leave with a dose of inspiration.

We spoke with Samantha Gadd and Jenny Busing, co-founders and co-CEOs of Excellent. Excellent believe in a world where every employee has a voice in designing their experience of work. They are spearheading the EX revolution, calling for leaders to design with rather than for their people. 

The Startup Blueprint series shares stories of founders and team members from some of Aotearoa's most epic and fast-growing startups. Hear about their journeys, learn from their insights, and maybe leave with a dose of inspiration.

We spoke with Nick Jackson, CTO of Pyper Vision about his journey growing with Pyper Vision, how he's up-skilled and continued learning along the way, and the juggling act of innovating while also working with regulators and other stakeholders.

The Startup Blueprint series shares stories of founders and team members from some of Aotearoa's most epic and fast-growing startups. Hear about their journeys, learn from their insights, and maybe leave with a dose of inspiration.

We spoke with Helen Robinson; professional director, legendary tech executive, founder of many startups including Organic Initiative (Oi), and champion of 'doing good at scale'.

The Startup Blueprint series shares stories of founders and team members from some of Aotearoa's most epic and fast-growing startups. Hear about their journeys, learn from their insights, and maybe leave with a dose of inspiration.

This time around we spoke with Mikayla Hopkins, an all-around marketing (track)star, and the Head of Marketing at the fast-growing startup, Tracksuit. Tracksuit provide beautiful, always-on-brand tracking and are changing the way companies talk about and measure brand. 🚀

Mint Innovation is an NZ cleantech company that has developed and scaled their low-carbon chemistry and biological process to recover valuable metals from e-waste and feed them back into local economies and supply chains. 

Introducing the Startup Blueprint series, our way of sharing the stories of founders and team members from some of Aotearoa's most epic and fast-growing startups. Hear about their journeys, learn from their insights, and maybe leave with a dose of inspiration.

To kick the series off we speak with Milot Zeqiri and Brittany Gribben, co-founders of ArchiPro, the all-in-one platform helping kiwis find trusted products and professionals for their building projects. They founded ArchiPro in 2014 and have scaled rapidly, becoming one of Aotearoa's fasting growing tech startups with over 186,000 registered users and followers.

Icehouse Ventures joined ArchiPro in their journey in 2021. Read on to learn more about how ArchiPro started, Brittany and Milot's learnings when it comes to scaling quickly, growing a team, and entering new markets, and what they'd do differently if given the chance.