Mahesh Muralidhar has held multiple executive roles in some of Australia's iconic start-ups. He was the first-ever Head of People at Canva, helping the company scale to over 200 employees, and also worked at Simply Wall St as their Chief Operating Officer. He is now the founder and CEO of Phase One Ventures, an early-stage venture firm.

The brains behind a revolutionary solution to help improve precision and safety during neurosurgery were awarded first place in the 2022 Velocity $100k Challenge awards ceremony at the University of Auckland this week.

LEGO® is being increasingly adopted at the University of Auckland as a teaching tool by educators looking to find new ways to engage with students who want active rather than passive learning experiences. The Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) has become a champion of the technique, with sessions delivered at Unleash Space, one of its innovation hubs.

This year, a record 59 student participants of the Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) have had their newly acquired skills and extra-curricular work recognised with a University of Auckland Distinguished Graduate Award. 

MAUI63 is so named as when the venture began, there were only 63 Māui dolphins left in existence. Using drone technology and AI to collect and process visual data, the founders hope to empower scientists, government, fisheries and the general public to take action to try and save the world’s rarest dolphin from extinction and influence future marine conservation efforts.

Native Harvest is a start-up created by University of Auckland students that is exploring the use of edible native plants as novel high-value foods.

A scientist using drones for application for manta ray conservation efforts in the Indo Pacific, New Zealand Universities National League Case Competition winners and the founder of a social media platform for making platonic friendships have all been recognised as outstanding student innovators in the 2022 University of Auckland Blues Awards.

A group of 13 University of Auckland students recently enjoyed the opportunity of a lifetime to have an all-expenses-paid trip to Silicon Valley, where they met with world-leading innovators and entrepreneurs.

Behaviour change problems of sustainable shopping, sidewalk safety and composting were addressed with hi tech solutions in the first ever Solve It with 5G sustainability innovation sprint run by the University of Auckland Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE).

The Business School’s Centre for Innovation and Entrepreneurship (CIE) runs a wide range of free programmes and workshops designed to help students and staff of all faculties at the University of Auckland develop entrepreneurial mindsets and innovative capabilities. Leading the team that creates CIE's programmes is CIE Manager Judith Marecek.