WELLY Forge

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Before COVID it felt like Wellington was extremely inter-connected, everyone knew everyone, everyone knew what was going on, and you couldn’t walk out the door without meeting someone useful. That changed with COVID and afterwards we realised:

  • Numbers of people in the CBD were down as people worked from home

  • Interesting talks were taking place with poor audiences, mostly because people weren’t being told in advance

  • Good news stories about Wellington companies and science institutes were not making our local papers

  • Numbers of Wellington start-ups coming to local angels were low

We now issue a weekly newsletter covering Wellington wins & events, and we host an event every 6 weeks which aims to entertain, teach, meet and generally let everyone have a good time.

Meet Our Founders

WellyForge was founded by 4 people across the science-tech eco-system who all recognised the same issues and decided to do something about it, namely, create an ecosystem of tech, science, founders, investors and operators to forge new paths ahead for the economic prosperity of Wellington:

We host regular events at the intimate bohemian style book store, Undercurrent.

No slides, props allowed, with two aims for each talk:

  • Teach us one thing

  • Entertain us

Join the newsletter to get the info on talk dates and speakers.

Join THE Community

Bringing together science & city to create a more connected Wellington via a weekly newsletter celebrating local successes and a regular meet-ups. Let's really get Wellington moving and forging new paths.

WELLINGTON SCIENCE, TECH & INNOVATION DIRECTORY:

  • AngelHQ for contacting the local angel community