Tech and Innovation

Kāpiti is a growing destination choice for Tech businesses, using its connected communities to support innovative thinking. 

The Kāpiti Tech sector features a wide range of innovative Tech companies including Startups, Creative Tech, Cyber-Security, IT Service Providers, Software, and Hardware companies.

The Kāpiti Coast is also home to a broad range of tech professionals along with supportive, successful entrepreneurs, connected nationally and internationally. The tech community is keen to collaborate and drive forward thinking projects and business initiatives that have the potential to reshape the business landscape.

Most work days, AgileData co-founder Shane Gibson steps out of his home office and heads across the road for a walk along the quiet Paekākāriki Beach stretch. With EarPods in, the data entrepreneur listens to podcasts to keep up to date with the data market, while breathing in the sights of water and nearby hills.

His business partner Nigel Vining also resets in nature, escaping his home office fifteen minutes from Shane’s. Only, the data engineer does it on a jet ski, launching off the beach and circling Kapiti Island, before grabbing coffee from his local coffee cart and returning to his ‘tech cave’ to work.

It’s the kind of lifestyle the pair wouldn’t go without now they’ve experienced the benefits of running a business remotely from the tranquil coast.

Join the Tech Cluster and connect with like-minded businesses.

A Tech Cluster has been established to support this diverse group connect, collaborate, and share knowledge. The cluster is all about celebrating new, emerging and established Tech companies based on the Coast.

Being a cluster member means you will be invited to regular networking events, capability building workshops, opportunities for shared storytelling and marketing and channels for better business collaboration.