Genius Bar: Wednesday
14 October 2026
- Scaling Up
- Early Stage/Growth
The Genius Bar offers growth stage startup founders and senior operators 30min in-person advisory sessions with a rotating cast of very high quality, high impact advisors.
The growth stage of a startup is where your problems start to get really complicated and decisions have to balance immediate and long-tail impact.
You're making decisions about international expansion, org chart growth and hiring key roles, investments and partnerships, IP and legal frameworks, ESOP and financial structure, product and growth strategies. At exactly the stage where speed is your best asset, slow decisions (or bad decisions) can be the difference between your startup achieving scale or not.
It's stressful.
The Genius Bar is set up to give you access to the right experienced advisors that can share their very qualified, knowledgable advice - free of charge and lift some of that stress off your (already full enough) shoulders.
Free
Venue
Halsey Traders
124 Halsey Street
Wynyard Quarter
Auckland 1010
Halsey Traders is the beautifully restored original building at Pipiri Lane, now home to a warm and welcoming hospitality lounge and bar. Thoughtfully refurbished to retain its heritage charm, it’s seamlessly connected to the newly constructed building behind — together forming the full Pipiri Lane experience. Located on the ground floor, Halsey Traders is ideal for casual networking, brand activations, or arrival drinks before events in Te Kāhui, the larger event space on level two.