Starting a company is never a straight line — it’s a rollercoaster. It’s easy to say “just start,” “go global,” or “build something people want,” but the real challenge is in the execution. This page brings together founder journeys that show what it actually takes to turn ideas into momentum: the sparks, the peaks, the setbacks, and the resilience that keeps the ride trending upwards.

Whether you’re building your first product, exploring new industries, or studying how great companies grow, these case studies surface the key learnings at a glance — practical lessons from founders who’ve lived the chaos, made the calls, and kept climbing.

Explore the Case Studies:

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**Global Scalers**

Kiwi companies going global

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Consumer Brand Case Studies

How NZ brands grow

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The NZ Start-a-Startup Wiki

The stories behind NZ’s household names

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🆕 Global Scalers

New Zealand is a small market. If you want to build something truly impactful, you have to build beyond it.

But going global? Easy to talk about. Brutally hard to do.

In Global Scalers, we follow real New Zealand founders as they take ambitious companies offshore—through timing dilemmas, capital challenges, distribution puzzles, and the emotional cost of scaling. Honest stories, practical lessons, and the truth behind the headlines

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Volpara Health: The Algorithm, the Breast, and the Belief

**Volpara Health** began with a simple but unfashionable insight: before you “do AI,” you standardise the physics. That decision became the backbone of a global med-tech platform built from Wellington to the world.

In this Global Scalers episode, **Angus Blair (Outset Ventures**) sits down with Ralph Highnam — the physicist-turned-founder who built Volpara from research into a twice-acquired med-tech platform trusted in clinics worldwide.

:volparahealth: Featuring The Volpara Health Top 10 — hard-won insights for NZ deep-tech founders.

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