Small Business Series: Whare Hauora is community-first but could save the country $7 billion.
What started out as three women sitting around a kitchen table soldering, is now an organisation manufacturing internet-connected sensors in Shenzhen and creating unique data sovereignty plans that could benefit the entire country.
Not-for-profit Whare Hauora was founded in 2017 by Amber Craig and Brenda Wallace. Hīria Te Rangi joined a year later and was then handed the reins as kaiwhakahaere (chief executive). Craig is still on the board alongside Te Rangi, Jay Daley and Diana Minee.
“Essentially, I started as the cheerleader” says Te Rangi, who has a background as a product manager at Westpac, “then suddenly it’s a