1. ISN'T THE ICEHOUSE A BAND FROM THE 80s?
The ICEHOUSE is a business growth centre which was
established in 2001 to recognise the importance of SME
businesses to New Zealand’s economy.
business growth centre
3,000
1,000
3,000
Did you know that
New Zealand needs
internationally successful
companies to crack the top
half of the OECD?
We want to be the place that turns
entrepreneurial companies into
international successes, and deliver
of the
companies required to
get us in the top half of
the OECD by 2020.
OUR VISION
SINCE 2001 TODAY
has worked with over 4,000
ambitious organisations - from start-ups
to many established multi-million dollar
owner managed companies.
www.theicehouse.co.nz
A start-up business incubator named
in the top 10 in the world by Forbes magazine.
New Zealand's largest group of
Angel investors.
THE ICEHOUSE IS TWO SIDED
An established business centre that
runs development and growth programmes
for SME business leaders.
On average, businesses that have gone
through the Owner Manager Programme
show earnings growth of 38.2% per year.1
We have a proven model of accelerating business growth.
We bring in entrepreneurs who have been there
and done it, and we challenge the way you think.
This just happens to create great businesses!

2. In everything we do, we believe in challenging the status quo, we believe in thinking
differently. We want to see Ma-ori businesses at the cutting edge of innovation and
becoming internationally successful.
We are backed by...
15%Ma-ori make up approximately
so we believe it is the
of New Zealand's population,
ICEHOUSE's responsibility to...
150 2020 $12B 149,000
50
Enable
successful Ma-ori
businesses...
...by
which will contribute
to realising...
...the
growth in GDP
contribution...
...and additional
jobs that the Ma-ori
economy can create...
...over the next
years.
To help with this we are building a team that thinks differently;
HEAD OF MA
-
ORI DEVELOPMENT
Shay Wright
(Te Rarawa, Nga-ti Ruanui)
SERIAL MA
-
ORI ENTREPRENEUR
Travis O'Keefe
(Nga-ti Porou)
MA
-
ORI PARTNERS & PARTICIPANTS
Collaborators
(Aotearoa, Global)
THE STATUS QUO ISN'T GOOD ENOUGH!
Ma-ori have both a strong entrepreneurial pedigree and high-potential businesses.
We believe that with the backing of the ICEHOUSE's expertise; access to markets
and capital; and our networks into influencers and entrepreneurial high-flyers,
both nationally and internationally; we will change the status quo.
1
ICE Lab post-programme survey data over 4 years; "earnings" measured as Earnings Before Interest and Taxes (EBIT).
Silicon Valley
New York
Singapore
Tokyo, Shanghai,
Mumbai and we
are adding more
CHALLENGING & CHANGING THE STATUS QUO…
WE ARE CONNECTED NATIONALLY AND INTERNATIONALY
The ICEHOUSE Ma-ori Division is about
For inquiries, whakapa
-
mai ki a Shay Wright: s.wright@theicehouse.co.nz 027 523 1560 09 308 6214