The Icehouse (business growth centre)


The Icehouse is a business growth centre that creates learning environments for entrepreneurs, business owners and founders to enable them to grow their companies. The Icehouse encompasses a Startup accelerator for startup companies, programmes and workshops for owner managed companies to develop their business skills and is home to New Zealand’s largest group of angel investors. The current Group CEO of The Icehouse is Gavin Lennox. In 2019, the various investment and startup activities of the Icehouse were spun off into a separate venture capital business called Icehouse Ventures.
The Icehouse is owned by a not-for-profit trust.

Awards

The Icehouse won the Education Category in 2009 Vero Excellence in Business Support Awards
In May 2010, Forbes names The Icehouse as a top-ten technology incubator changing the world.

Notable Publications

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