Tech and Innovation
To support a diverse economy, we need to focus on both established core industries and emerging sectors.
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.
Join KāpitiTech
Join the KāpitiTech Cluster and connect with like-minded businesses.
The KāpitiTech 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.
See some of our members listed below. We meet regularly in-person and online.
To join the conversation online, join KāpitiTech on LinkedIn.
ThinkTech Kāpiti is the district’s flagship tech and innovation event, bringing together founders, business leaders, professionals, supporters and future talent for a day of ideas, insight and connection.
You’ll hear from people shaping industries in real time, across AI, infrastructure, game development, agritech, aerospace and global markets, alongside the next generation of tech founders. Together, we’ll dive into how we can better support and grow this talent, and what these shifts mean for businesses and districts like ours.
Get in quick and be in the draw to win a coaching session with Instinct Lab NZ. Registration commences at 8:30am.
Date: Wednesday 20 May 2026
Venue: Te Raukura ki Kāpiti
Registration: 8:30am
Time: 9am - 2:30pm, followed by networking and refreshments
Cost: $25
Re-live ThinkTech Kāpiti 2025 with Kaha Create
Kaha Create is your gateway to re-living powerful learnings. Explore videos enriched by AI to re-live learnings to enable you to reflect, learn, and grow.
Kaha Create is founded by Pera Barrett who was involved in the Kāpiti Startup Pilot.
To access Kaha Create, you will need to create a login to access the Sharing House.
Two forward-thinking tech entrepreneurs have created one of the world’s first hotel experience platforms, with Kāpiti Coast as their remote business base.
Altitude, co-founded by Anthony Radich and Ella Blake, is a state-of-the-art hospitality software platform currently used in Aotearoa, Australia, the Philippines, Japan, and Scotland. With a seven-person development team in Vietnam and partners across the globe, the start-up is set only to scale.
"I started building websites when I was 15 and have developed solutions for all kinds of customers
over the years, from government agencies to investors wanting an app." says Anthony, 34, who launched Altitude in 2019. One of those customers was a hotel where Ella was working. They needed a tech replacement across several systems, so we built an app for tablets in all the hotel rooms, which meant every room was paperless.”
Discover Exciting Events in Our District
Our district is proud to host a wide array of business events designed to foster growth, collaboration, and success.
Are you keen to learn more about be part of the tech innovation? Reach out here and Karyn Andreassend will be in touch.
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