It’s been just over a month since the LookSee Wellington week, when 93 LookSee finalists from around the world had job interviews for skills shortage roles with Wellington employers. So far, 64 of the 93 tech specialists have either accepted job offers or are in discussions or negotiations with Wellington employers. Dave Jones, Wellington Regional [...]

Global digital workspace provider SuiteBox announces today it has won the mobility solutions category in the fin5ive challenge, part of the BankTech Asia Awards program. SuiteBox’s digital meeting, collaboration and digital signature solution beat hundreds of applications to impress a judging panel for its innovativeness and relevance to the Asia market. SuiteBox’s SE Asia representative, [...]

My Food Bag was founded in 2013 and was the first meal-kit business to launch in NZ. It is the clear market leader in this sub-sector of the grocery channel. The business is primarily operated on a subscription basis, providing customers with recipes and ingredients for three or five meals per week/fortnight from a variety [...]

lders Financial Planning has announced it has teamed up with SuiteBox Australia to provide new digital tools to its adviser network. In a statement this morning, Elders general managing Tony Beaven said the partnership comes as the dealer group undergoes significant change. “We have transformed our business over the last 14 months, improving our social [...]

Global software provider of digital workspace technology SuiteBox has upgraded its software to allow for four-person meetings that, for the first time, enables the multi-party signing of documents in a secure cyber environment. Ian Dunbar, CEO of SuiteBox, said: “This new functionality allows for a meeting host and up to three participants to meet together [...]

2016 in Review - A brief look at what we’ve achieved in the past year. View PDF

Formed in 2010 and based in Wellington, Spotlight Reporting is a Kiwi software business with 33 staff in NZ, the US, UK and Australia. They provide business intelligence reporting tools to an array of accountants, advisors and business owners. Spotlight Reporting’s business intelligence tools are designed to provide accountants, business owners, franchises and not for [...]

SuiteBox, the mobile office solution for professionals, has been honoured with a Cloud Platform Innovation Award. SuiteBox was named as a winner at Oracle OpenWorld in San Francisco on Tuesday evening for its use of Oracle’s PaaS and IaaS services. The award reflects SuiteBox’s new and innovative use of the cloud, which it has used [...]

Spotlight Reporting, the Wellington-based cloud software company, has secured $5 million in a Series A raise. The fresh capital includes contributions from NZVIF-backed Venture Capital Fund Global from Day One Fund 2, ex-Xero Director and Spotlight Reporting Chairman Graham Shaw, Vend Director David Wilson, MYOB co-founder and Xero Director Craig Winkler and others. CEO and [...]

CricHQ, the world’s largest digital platform for cricket is using its expertise in cricket and technology to help improve the computer literacy of hundreds of underprivileged children in Sri Lanka and India. CricHQ today announced its first charitable partnership with the Cricket Live Foundation (CLF). The CLF runs the ‘Life through Cricket’ programme which uses [...]

Raygun has released Pulse for mobile, the mobile offering of their Real User Monitoring service, Pulse. The Raygun Platform is already used by more than 30,000 developers worldwide. Pulse for mobile is an exciting new platform addition to Raygun’s current Real User Monitoring service, Pulse, which alerts development teams to user experience & performance issues [...]

Fantastic to see Richard and Julie Francis being recognised in the February edition of NZBusiness Magazine for their role in transforming the accounting industry and the innovative launch of our newest version of Spotlight Forecasting. Spotlight Forecasting is an all-in-one budget creator, three-way forecasting (Balance Sheet, Profit & Loss and Cash-flow) and scenario testing tool, [...]

9 Spokes International Limited, (ASX: 9SP) (“9 Spokes” or “the Company”), the cloud based business software platform, is pleased to announce the successful completion of its initial public offering (IPO) and that it will commence listing today, 9 June 2016, at 12.00pm AEST. 9 Spokes recommends the best business applications for small businesses and integrates [...]

New Zealand-based cloud app integrator 9 Spokes is launching a roadshow in Melbourne and Sydney this week and then New Zealand and Asia next week to drum up support for a A$25 million listing on the ASX. 9 Spokes’ platform allows small businesses to aggregate their various cloud computing applications on a single dashboard, helping [...]

As the internet pulls audiences in all sorts of directions, and brands risk losing touch of their market, Motion Sickness Studio and Latch Digital have responded by creating The Social Club, a platform which aims to create meaningful connections between brands and influencers - and it's not as exclusive as you think. Founded late last [...]

The former head of AXA has unveiled a service for retirees to turn their nest-eggs into a guaranteed lifetime income. The Retirement Income Group, founded by former AXA chief executive Ralph Stewart, has launched New Zealand's first "variable annuity with guaranteed lifetime withdrawal benefits". As people's life expectancies increase, there is a growing worry that [...]

Almost three years since inception, the Ralph Stewart-led variable annuity business, Lifetime Income Ltd (LIL), opened for applications last week after earning its final regulatory badge from the Reserve Bank of New Zealand (RBNZ). The RBNZ handed LIL, which mixes a fund structure with an insurance component, the country’s first variable annuities licence following a [...]

Deloitte Private and Spotlight Reporting are delighted to announce their strategic partnership to the New Zealand market. Deloitte Private plans to roll out a national offering featuring Spotlight Reporting tools for clients in coming months. Deloitte partner Darren Johnson says “the partnership with Spotlight Reporting is an exciting development for both Deloitte and their clients.” [...]

A Wellington accounting company riding on the coat-tails of Xero has taken a Wairarapa company along for the ride as both set their sights on further expansion. Xero's add-on partner Spotlight Reporting has teamed up with cloud based advisory and accountancy firm RightWay. Cloud-based software business, Spotlight Reporting, was established in 2010 and now employs [...]

Midwinter Financial Services has become the first Australian financial planning software company to provide a "virtual advice" offering after inking a deal with SuiteBox. Speaking to ifa, Midwinter managing director Julian Plummer said the Midwinter/SuiteBox integration will allow advisers to initiate a SuiteBox online video meeting via Midwinter's AdviceOS Software. "Advisers have enquired about the [...]

About 70 Australasian financial services firms – including banks, super funds, insurance advisers and financial planning firms – are currently using the award-winning, NZ-designed ‘virtual room’ system, SuiteBox. Craig Meek, SuiteBox founder, said the client feedback has been “very positive” with more than 10 new enquiries each week. Meek said the group – which released [...]

CricHQ said today that it has secured up to US$10 million funding from Singapore-based private equity firm Tembusu Partners to enhance its cricket digital platform and grow global operations. 41 of 106 national governing bodies have partnered with Wellington-based CricHQ to better administer the game in their jurisdictions. Cricket is the world's second most popular [...]

Software bug-fixing company Raygun is preparing for another growth spurt after helping clients such as Microsoft and Apple identify the cause of more than 10 billion software crashes. Chief executive and co-founder John-Daniel Trask says the Wellington firm needs to scale up its business in the United States to maintain its small lead in the [...]

9Spokes, a Kiwi company that sells online business reporting software, kicked off investor meetings in Melbourne on Monday for a pre-IPO raising of $4 million that values the company at $36 million. The company, founded in 2011, plans to raise another $15 million through a listing in the first quarter of 2016. They have been [...]

Mobi2Go, a leader in digital ordering solutions for hospitality, is set to expand after today announcing it has raised up to $1.1m of new investment to further accelerate the company’s already impressive growth and customer success. Chief Executive Tarik Mallett says the funding “is a great vote of confidence in Mobi2Go’s vision to be recognised [...]

Hi everyone, I wanted to drop a quick note outside of my usual two-monthly investor updates. A positive development since the last shareholder update is the employment of Zheng Li as the director of product. Given great product is at the core of our offering it’s important that we have a strong lead in this [...]

Listen to a radio interview from Radio Live with Craig Meek, Founder and Creative Director, Suitebox: Click here.

SuiteBox Solutions SugarCRM’s 2015 global conference held in San Francisco, has just concluded and this year the event was bigger and better than ever. As one of 50 entrants for the annual AppThrowdown competition SuiteBox was awarded best in class Mobile solution. A panel of industry leaders made the decision and we were invited to [...]

Spotlight Reporting was awarded the Add-On of the Year prize at Xerocon on Friday night! As one of 400+ add-ons in the Xero eco-system, this is 'the big one', so we're understandably thrilled. The reaction has been hugely positive, from Partners, the Xero crew, our fab team - and beyond. Find out more.

SuiteBox is a unique and intuitive means of collaboration. Complete with video and telephony, document collaboration, selective recording and real-time signing, it helps you accelerate and close business. From your CRM, you can organize and initiate secure video meetings, share digital assets such as documents, video, photos and web information and electronically sign documents, regardless [...]

Helping accountants switch from poking through shoeboxes for receipts to advisers who make their clients successful gets Richard Francis out of bed in the morning. And after a $3 million capital injection this year, his business has rapidly grown to being on the cusp of seven-figure turnover, as it looks to become the number one [...]

What is Spotlight Reporting? Spotlight Reporting has a family of apps designed to provide the insights you need for advisory and business success. Using a quick data import from QuickBooks Online and other connected business Apps, Spotlight Reporting products help create outstanding business reports in minutes. […]

11 November was like any other Tuesday for Mobi2Go. Except it wasn't. Because on Tuesday they hit $100 million in orders in just 3 short years. They want to say a big thanks to all of our amazing clients and staff – They love you!

We’re thrilled to announce that Leslie Riggs has joined the Spotlight Reporting team as Director of Sales, US. […]

New Zealand-based mobile developer Suitebox is the first company to globally launch a recordable video app that integrates fully with any Customer Relationship Management (CRM) systems. The immediate business benefit is for staff to video call clients, interact and record some or all of the conversation and then store the footage directly in their CRM [...]

Suitebox CEO Richard Mannell says the immediate business benefit is that staff can video call clients, interact and record some or all of the conversation and then store the footage directly in their CRM systems. […]

9Spokes, a well-funded New Zealand startup that has shaken up the accounting profession, moved from to public beta in early September. The platform first broke cover in July as the core component behind a revolutionary in-house online accounting service, Deloitte Private Connect. […]

As part of our on-going commitment to build our board capability we are delighted to announce the appointment of Dr Paul Reynolds as a United Kingdom based Director of 9 Spokes. […]

Tech firm CricHQ, promoted by former New Zealand cricketers Simon Baker, Stephen Fleming and Brendon McCullum, plans to make India its home ground, hiring over 400 people over the next three years. […]

Scoring a deal with global mobile phone company Nokia could drive CricHQ to more than two million users, the company’s greatest stroke of its four-year career. […]

Wellington web and mobile food ordering system Mobi2Go is expanding rapidly. The website, tablet and smartphone-ordering system that Hell Pizza and other eateries use,processes $2.5 million orders a month up from $1.5m a year ago. […]

Competition was tough at this year’s NZ Hi-Tech Awards. Winners were presented with their awards at the annual Gala Dinner in Christchurch this evening, marking the 20th anniversary of the Awards. Judges reported that the calibre of this year’s entrants was extremely high, making the job of selecting winners exceedingly challenging for the more than [...]

We’re very pleased to announce that Mindscape has been awarded a top placing in the SD Times 100 in the category of ALM & Development Tools! We’re in good company with other winners such as Microsoft and IBM. […]

Here at Suitebox we wanted to share with you our “coming out”. We have our first product ready to launch and we are beginning our campaign to raise our profile. The first article is online at Idealog. […]

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I am delighted to announce that the 9 Spokes Team of Mark Estall and Brendan Roberts yesterday won IBM SmartCamp Australia New Zealand 2014. The event involved a full day of presentations by the team in front of a group of thought leaders, entrepreneurs, investment firms, academic leaders, and industry and technology experts. […]