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 2026
ThinkTech Kāpiti brought around 140 people together to celebrate the ideas, businesses and people shaping the district’s growing tech sector.
The main event showcased the depth of talent already based on the Coast, with founders, innovators, educators, business leaders and future-focused thinkers sharing ideas, making connections and shining a light on the work happening locally.
A series of supporting events held throughout the week created even more opportunities to connect, learn and explore the breadth of Kāpiti Coast’s tech community.
ThinkTech helped bring the sector into view and showed the strength of an ecosystem that includes start-ups, established businesses, digital specialists, creative technologists and founders building products and services with local roots and wider reach.
“The event featured a powerhouse lineup of speakers – leaders and innovators at the forefront of technology, community development, and business growth.”
Summer of Tech interns join Kāpiti businesses
Three Summer of Tech interns have joined Pipi Learning, Ask Astro and Kaha Create, bringing fresh capability and new perspectives into local businesses.
The placements give interns the opportunity to work on real projects, build practical experience and develop connections within Kāpiti Coast’s tech and start-up community.
For the businesses involved, the programme provides access to emerging talent and additional capability to help progress new ideas and projects.
The placements also strengthen the connection between local employers, education and future workforce pathways, helping more emerging talent see Kāpiti Coast as a place to build a career and contribute to innovative businesses.
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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