Locations
Lightning Lab is a national programme that runs business accelerators across New Zealand. Discover the programmes and delivery partners in each city here.
Mentors
Mentors play an active and crucial role in Lightning Lab. Some of New Zealand’s top minds in business, these leaders join startups in the trenches, connect them to partners and prepare the startup for investment.
Marcel van den Assum
Angel Investor & Professional Director
Pallas Hupe Cotter
Award-winning Founder, Mentor & Coach
Ben Kepes
Technology Evangelist, Business Advisor & Investor
Alumni
Lightning Lab has worked with 123 entrepreneurs across 45 startups, who collectively have raised over $11M on Demo Day. Learn more about each cohort and Lightning Lab alumni…
Wipster
Wipster is a beautifully simple video workflow platform that lets you watch, share and comment on your work-in-progress videos, so you get better feedback faster.
Cloud Cannon
CloudCannon is the easiest way for web designers to deploy, host and maintain websites for clients. It doesn’t require any programming and fits in with the web designer’s existing workflow.
MishGuru
MishGuru turns Snapchat into a marketing and communications tool for businesses. Plan, execute and track customer engagement on today’s #1 photo sharing platform.
Partners
