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• Business ‘angels’ a shining light in gloomy budget?

  Start-up businesses and angel investors have been spared in the federal government's hefty budget cuts, with Labor committing $350 million in administered capital to its Venture Australia program and changes to tax concessions to encourage the participation of angel investors.
  
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• Tourist supplies venture wins Startup Weekend

  ArriveSupplied, which delivers items tourists need when they touch down in unfamiliar destinations, has beaten 11 other teams to the top prize at this year's Auckland Startup Weekend.

  The team's e-commerce platform is initally targeting the 200,000 tourists who fly into New Zealand each year and is eyeing interested channel partners like Skycity and Air New Zealand.
  
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