The move follows a report by the Prime Minister’s Science, Innovation and Technology Advisory Council identifying four priority areas for future public investment.
The Canterbury startup is signing up customers for its pharmacy management platform but faces an incumbent player with a market stranglehold.
The contract comes as the company considers a sizeable funding round to accelerate its already rapid growth.
The new lobby group has launched in election year, pushing a barrow of policies to change the country’s thinking on economic growth and innovation.
Bioplant Tairawhiti NZ got forestry transformation funds towards building a pyrolysis plant on the East Coast. Nothing has eventuated so far.
The moves come before an official April launch into export markets for the Hamilton-based tech startup.
The cleantech company’s technology efficiently captures carbon dioxide from industrial processes.
It has made a first close of a pre-Series A funding round at $7.2 million.
The two female co-founders have raised $4.1m in their first seed round.
Buyers sought for creator of AI ‘digital workers’ co-founded by double Oscar winner Mark Sagar.