The ICEHOUSE is a business growth centre that creates learning environments for entrepreneurial firms to enable them to significantly grow their companies. This charitable trust encompasses a business incubator

Business incubator

Business incubators are programs designed to accelerate the successful development of entrepreneurial companies through an array of business support resources and services, developed and orchestrated by incubator management and offered both in the incubator and through its network of contacts...

 for startup companies, a training company for owner managed companies and is home to New Zealand’s largest grouping of angel investors. The current CEO of The ICEHOUSE is Andy Hamilton.

The ICEHOUSE is a collaborative partnership between The University of Auckland Business School, The Boston Consulting Group

Boston Consulting Group

The Boston Consulting Group is a global management consulting firm with offices in 42 countries. It is recognized as one of the most prestigious management consulting firms in the world. It is one of only three companies to appear in the top 15 of Fortunes "Best Companies to Work For" report for...

, Telecom

Telecom New Zealand

Telecom New Zealand is a New Zealand-wide communications service provider , providing fixed line telephone services, a mobile network, an internet service provider , a major ICT provider to NZ businesses , and a wholesale network infrastructure provider to other NZ CSPs...

 and Gen-i, BNZ, Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young

Ernst & Young is one of the largest professional services networks in the world and one of the "Big Four" accountancy firms, along with Deloitte, KPMG and PricewaterhouseCoopers ....

, HP, and Microsoft

Microsoft

Microsoft Corporation is an American public multinational corporation headquartered in Redmond, Washington, USA that develops, manufactures, licenses, and supports a wide range of products and services predominantly related to computing through its various product divisions...

. It was established in 2001, to reflect the partners’ commitment to empower New Zealand companies to achieve and sustain high levels of small and medium enterprises economic performance.

John Hood

John Hood

John Hood was Vice-Chancellor of the University of Oxford from 5 October 2004 until 30 September 2009. He was the first Vice-Chancellor to be elected from outside Oxford's academic body, and the first to have addressed the scholars' congregation via a webcast...

, the previous Vice Chancellor of Oxford University said in his visit to New Zealand

“Successfully nurturing creative and clever new business ventures is the essence of ensuring the future wealth and welfare of societies: in New Zealand, The ICEHOUSE, led and inspired since its inception by Andrew Hamilton, is the beacon.”

In 2010, The ICEHOUSE is hosting a leading US investor Bill Payne

Bill Payne (investor)

William H. Payne, known as Bill Payne, is an engineer, entrepreneur, angel investor and educator. Bill graduated with BS and MS degrees in Ceramic Engineering from the University of Illinois, where he has served on the Dean’s Board of Visitors of the College of Engineering. In 1971, he started...

 for him to share his knowledge and network to the New Zealand community.

Major Initiatives

ICE Accelerator – A dynamic learning environment for entrepreneurs. It provides support that is tailered to the individual, the idea and the target market. Notable ICE Accelerator graduates include Biomatters Ltd

Biomatters

Biomatters Limited is the company behind the Geneious Pro software, a bioinformatics software development company headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. Biomatters develops sequence analysis and bioinformatics software capable of scaling from a single user to the enterprise level of...

 who developed Geneious

Geneious

Geneious is suite of cross-platform bioinformatics software applications developed by Biomatters Ltd.- Features :Geneious comes in a Basic version that is free for academic use, and a commercial Pro version with added features. Geneious bundles various bioinformatics tools under one hood with an...

, a bioinformatics software.

ICE Bridge – A collaborative learning environment for owner-managers. It helps them identify and overcome roadblocks and gives them the tools to move their business forward.

ICE Angels – New Zealand’s largest group of experienced investors who inject smart money into start-up businesses

ICE Lab – A research initiative focused on the challenges to growth faced by owner-managed businesses in New Zealand.

ICE Network – The ICEHOUSE’s extended family. It brings together thousands of useful contacts including customers, speakers, partners and alumni.

Awards

The ICEHOUSE won the Education Category in 2009 Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards

In May 2010, Forbes

Forbes

Forbes is an American publishing and media company. Its flagship publication, the Forbes magazine, is published biweekly. Its primary competitors in the national business magazine category are Fortune, which is also published biweekly, and Business Week...

names The ICEHOUSE as a top ten technology incubator changing the world.

Notable Publications

Irving, D et al. (2009). Changing Gears: How to Take Your Kiwi Business From the Kitchen Table to the Board Room, Auckland University Press

External links

1.The ICEHOUSE

2.Angel Association New Zealand