New Zealand-based urban mining company, Mint Innovation (Mint), is developing affordable, scalable processes for salvaging valuable metals from e-waste streams.
The deep tech labs designing our future
One Auckland building has birthed millions of dollars’ worth of science experiments. Now it’s got a new name, and a new purpose.
Parnell’s Kenwyn Street is quiet and lined with unassuming old buildings. You’d never know that down the end of it, on the left, is a basement spiked with Rocket Lab shrapnel.
It’s part of an old government research facility. Scientists have been tinkering away in its labyrinthine basements since the 1970s, first as members of the Department of Scientific and Industrial Research (DSIR), then as members of Industrial Research Ltd and Callaghan Innovation.
Press Release – Outset
Today New Zealand’s largest and fastest growing hub for deep tech startups is getting a new name, with LevelTwo becoming Outset Ventures.
CEO Imche Fourie says the new name reflects the evolution of Outset Ventures into the country’s largest company incubating and investing in early stage ventures founded on science and engineering breakthroughs addressing global challenges.
“We’ve grown beyond being a shared space on the second floor of a building to a place where entrepreneurs can grow their groundbreaking science and engineering innovations with us ‘from the outset’,” says Ms Fourie. “The new name speaks to our commitment to grow New Zealand’s flourishing deep tech entrepreneurial community, where founders can find support to fuel their global ambitions of curing diseases, slowing climate change, reversing pollution; and producing sustainable foods, fuels and space flights.”