The ICEHOUSE is a business growth centre that includes: business growth programmes for SMEs; a business incubator for start‐ups; and New Zealand’s largest group of Angel Investors. It is a collaborative partnership between The University of Auckland Business School as founder and The Boston Consulting Group, Telecom and Gen‐i, BNZ, Ernst & Young, HP, Microsoft and Minter Ellison Rudd Watts Lawyers. It was established in 2001 in recognition of the importance of SMEs to the New Zealand economy. The ICEHOUSE won the 2009 Vero Excellence in Business Support‐ Education Provider Award.

The ICEHOUSE’s purpose is to take responsibility for delivering 500 of the 3,000 firms needed to get New Zealand into the top half of the OECD by 2013. It works with a range of SMEs, from start‐ups to established multi‐million dollar enterprises.

Over 2,000 entrepreneurs and business owners have already experienced The ICEHOUSE growth difference – new expertise and skills, valuable global network connections and investment pathways.