What will Rewa cover?
- Identifying your team’s skills and knowledge gaps, and building a roadmap to achieve product-market fit and impact pathways.
- Forming a strong team in a driven but friendly atmosphere that provides accountability.
- Understanding what compelling customer validation looks like, how to test for it, and how to communicate value to the market.
- Building direct connections with both NZ and Australian commercial mentors, export market awareness, and investment opportunities.
- Understanding the best ways to finance your project, or where to take it next.
- Exploring and identifying potential translation pathways. Including progressing NZ SME engagement and global licensing opportunities.
- By the end of the programme each team will be supported to build a robust and rigorous application for KiwiNet phase II funding.
Programme Outline
Immersion Week
Immersion week to kick-start the programme in Auckland
You will:
- Gain understanding of the customer discovery process
- Conduct customer and stakeholder conversations
- Identify and prioritise potential impact pathways
- Build ability to tell a compelling impact narrative through storytelling
- Gain appreciation of each team member's goals and motivations
- Form new relationships with Rewa program facilitators, Australian and NZ mentors, and the guides from NZTE
1:1 virtual coaching session
A check-in with the programme facilitators, Australian and NZ mentor, and NZTE guide.
- Help teams identify and overcome roadblocks to team progress, map their impact pathway, and their KiwiNet Tier 2 funding application
- Provide a mechanism to help each team meet their customer discovery milestones
1:1 virtual coaching session
A check-in with the programme facilitators, Australian and NZ mentor, and NZTE guide.
Mid-point workshop
2-day residential team building experience for all teams in Wanaka.
You will:
- Reflect on team learning and progress
- Undertake an experiential learning exercise to improve team dynamics and collaboration
- Finalise goals to be achieved by the end of the Rewa program
1:1 virtual coaching session
1:1 virtual coaching session
Final Week
2-day residential experience for all teams to reflect on customer evidence gathered and present project analysis and next steps. Includes KiwiNet Phase II funding pitch if completing
You will:
- Analyse results and capture learnings important for future execution
- Master a Storytelling Training framework to deliver a presentation and impact narrative to an audience
- Submit application to KiwiNet Tier 2 funding process (optional)
International pitch event
Qualifying teams travel to Sydney for an AU investors pitch event
- Optional for those teams that submit an application for the KiwiNet Tier 2 funding process
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A 1-day experience that includes:
- An “Understanding Venture Capital” masterclass
- Mentoring by a science entrepreneur who has raised venture capital
- Pitching to two Australian VCs and receive detailed feedback
- Attending a networking event with representatives of the Australian VC community