Māori trades start-up raises $500k, sparks interest from venture capitalists
28 Feb, 2021 04:00 PM
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Josh Faraimo and Jarome Cavubati, co-founders of Kwotimation. Photo / Supplied
Aimee Shaw is a business reporter focusing on retail, small businessaimee.shaw@nzherald.co.nz@AceeyShaw
The founders of an automated quotation platform designed for tradies are bucking the capital funding trend they say typically favours men and those from Pākehā backgrounds. Tiler Josh Faraimo, co-founder of Kwotimation, which he started with mate Jarome Cavubati, has successfully raised $500,000 in a pre-seed capital round and attracted the attention of multiple angel investors.
The Auckland pair s technology that addresses the most common bugbear for tradies - creating a quote and securing the job - was designed with tilers in mind, but will be expanded further to cater for other tradespeople.
News by Alexis Carey  A school principal has thrown his support behind the gang of thugs filmed savagely beating tradies during a wild rampage earlier this week. But soon after their arrival at the school for at-risk teens, a group of up to 10 students began surrounding the men and verbally abusing them, with footage of the incident livestreamed to Instagram. One of the students smashed the front windscreen of the tradiesâ work car. Picture: Instagram The incident soon escalated, with around six teens seen throwing punches at the men while they are trapped in a corner, amid shouts of bomb him, bomb that motherf ⦠and keep going .
Covid 19 coronavirus: Testing times for tradies as wild weather collides with alert level jump
15 Feb, 2021 01:05 AM
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Some plumbers are reporting blockages in communication as wild weather collides with alert level boundary confusion. Photo / 123RF
Some plumbers are reporting blockages in communication as wild weather collides with alert level boundary confusion. Photo / 123RF
Wild weather is colliding with changes to New Zealand s Covid alert levels to create some challenges for plumbers and other tradespeople.
Confusion about the Auckland-Northland boundary and ongoing instability from the pandemic was adding pressure on tradies, an industry group said.
NZ Plumbers, Drainlayers and Gasfitters Association president Glen Burr said rains battering the North Island strained some infrastructure and raised demand for plumbers.