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Wellington
Wellington ( mi, Te Whanganui-a-Tara or ) is the capital city of New Zealand. It is located at the south-western tip of the North Island, between Cook Strait and the Remutaka Range. Wellington is the second-largest city in New Zealand by metr ...
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New Zealand
New Zealand ( mi, Aotearoa ) is an island country in the southwestern Pacific Ocean. It consists of two main landmasses—the North Island () and the South Island ()—and over 700 smaller islands. It is the sixth-largest island count ...
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crowdfunding platform which offers project and
equity crowdfunding
Equity crowdfunding is the online offering of private company securities to a group of people for investment and therefore it is a part of the capital markets. Because equity crowdfunding involves investment into a commercial enterprise, it is ...
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The company was founded as a rewards-based platform by Anna Guenther in 2011 and later became one of the first platforms to receive its equity crowdfunding license from the
Financial Markets Authority in 2014. As of August 2015 over NZ$7.5 million has been raised on the platform from over 900 successful campaigns.
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Business.govt.nz
Business.govt.nz is the New Zealand government's online resource for small business, bringing together information from across the public and private sectors, packaged into tools and resources designed with small businesses in mind. It exists to ...
Crowdfunding platforms of New Zealand
Companies based in Wellington
1991 establishments in New Zealand
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