18 April 2025

Two Southland businesses collaborating on one clever solution. Have a read over on The Southland Tribune.

04 May 2025

Cam Richardson from Paysquad was one of 14 fintech founders pitching at the Fintech Lab in Wellington last week. The Post covered the event, highlighting Paysquad and the other startups tackling how we pay in fresh, creative ways.

November 2024

Thank you so much to the teams of Manaki whitebait, The NZ Abalone Company, Kelp Blue, The Bluff Distillery Company, CH4Global Aotearoa, and Ocean Beach NZ for hosting our COIN South and NZIFST tour!

Bringing together Southland food entrepreneurs, technologists, product developers and engineering firms. It was fantastic learning about the Ocean Beach businesses, their innovation journeys and seeing the scaling up from lab to pilot and into production stage. 

08 September 2024

Big news from the deep south — Bluff Distillery’s gin has just been named Australia’s Best Dry Gin at the World Gin Awards. A huge achievement for a Southland business proving that world-class craftsmanship can come from the edge of the world.

The sector continues to move at a rapid pace, and it's important that startups and established businesses understand future trends and capabilities that can help their businesses. AI is a good example of this, as this technology gains traction it is important for us to understand the many ways that it can improve and fast track some of the work we already do to  free up time for more important tasks.”

COIN South, Southland’s startup and innovation network, is excited to announce the appointment of Cathy Peters as its new General Manager.

If you’ve done the groundwork and are ready to scale, check out the criteria for the incubators below, and come in and have a chat about what incubator we can get you into to scale your business over 2023.

While businesses are busy approving annual leave, founders have the freedom to work throughout the holidays without any structured or ‘approved’ time off. Here are our top 3 tips to ensure you take some time out and allow that busy brain of yours to switch off.

COIN South’s Start It final cohort for 2022 begins next Monday 7 November, providing an opportunity for people to work hard on their next big idea before the summer break.

The Aotearoa financial technology startup Sharesies that changed the way Kiwis invest is coming South next week to share their story and spread the word on investing made simple.

COIN South, The Southern Pioneers Food Hub, Great South and SIT have joined forces to bring together the region’s food bounty with an eight week intensive food business development course.

Think Dragon’s Den meets speed dating, throw in some popcorn and you’ve got the year’s most anticipated Southland startup showcase.

Prove It, a new programme to support and boost Southland’s Food + Fibre startups will run from 9 April to 25 June 2021.

The Flying Kiwis team, made up mostly of Southern Institute of Technology (SIT) students, were the winners of the Start Up Queenstown Lakes Startup Weekend, held over the weekend in Queenstown.

COIN South and the New Zealand coworking industry association, Coworking Aotearoa, is welcoming the return of coworking in Level 2, saying it will help boost businesses and support local economies.

Over 950 participants joined in #HacktheCrisisNZ, a 48-hour online challenge hosted online across New Zealand, this weekend - making #HacktheCrisisNZ New Zealand’s largest collaborative StartUp event.

In the face of COVID-19, hundreds of startups, innovative businesses and individuals ready to roll up their sleeves have been recruited into New Zealand's largest taskforce to Hack the Crisis.

A new funding and support collective has been launched in Southland and Otago.

Here’s how to take an idea and, using the COIN Canvas, create a one-page business plan. This is based on a Lean Canvas, and rejigged to have a focus on investment as an end goal, the COIN Canvas.

According to Angela Clifford, founder of Eat New Zealand, “Southland has the remnants of what the whole country used to be,” and has access and connection to our land and our sea unseen across the country. A collective gathered at COIN to share their thoughts on the Southland Food Story.