GridAKL is part of the Wynyard Quarter Innovation Precinct in Auckland's downtown waterfront. GridAKL brings together place, community and services with a mission of growing innovative businesses, creating jobs and entrepreneurial talent to enrich the wider innovation community.
Part of the Food Innovation Network, The FoodBowl - Te Ipu Kai is Auckland’s state-of-the-art facility for food and beverage producers to test and develop new products. If you’re developing a new F&B product or want to add to your existing range, the FoodBowl could be the place to do it.
Click Creative Tech Studios are social enterprise coworking spaces set up to enable New Zealand’s creative tech companies and individuals to rapidly up skill and become internationally focused, while providing a local home to connect and learn from each other. Click 1 is situated in Mt Albert and Click 2 is in Avondale.
Incubators and accelerators
Business incubators usually combine a business development programme with infrastructure, such as co-working spaces and networks, and are designed to nurture start-up businesses through their early development.
Accelerators offer intensive, rapid-growth programmes - usually between three and six months - to get companies prepared for investors, commercialisation and their next phase of growth, within a short timeframe.
An incubator or accelerator can help:
- validate your idea or product
- plan your business model and validate the market
- build personal business skills
- prepare you to pitch to investors
- find the right space or environment to work in
- find funding for investment and commercialisation.
Shared spaces
Shared spaces, also known as co-work spaces, offer flexible and affordable workspaces for a variety of businesses, from sole traders and business travellers to small and medium enterprises (SMEs).
From IT to food and beverage, our Tātaki Auckland Unlimited business team has helped a variety of businesses transform their products and services, break into new markets and export to the world.
Browse our business toolkit for free tools and resources, ready for businesses to use right now. Resources cover topics ranging from marketing and business strategy to finance, HR and sustainability.