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 Lightning Lab facts

• Lightning Lab is owned and managed by Creative HQ, a startup incubator in Wellington
• Lightning Lab programmes have been delivered in Wellington, Auckland and Christchurch
• Lightning Lab operates various different programmes that each have a separate focus
• Lightning Lab Digital is the accelerator catered towards software companies and has been run in Auckland, Wellington and Christchurch
• Lightning Lab Manufacturing caters towards hardware startups, and there has been a single programme, run in Lower Hutt, Wellington
• Additionally, in 2016 Lightning Lab XX was held in Wellington with a focus on women-led companies with at least one woman on the founding team
• Lightning Lab is sponsored nationally by Spark, Microsoft, and Callaghan Innovation, and programmes have been delivered by Creative HQ in Wellington, ICEHOUSE in Auckland, and CDC in Christchurch
• Lightning Lab is a part of the Global Accelerator Network (GAN)
• To date, Lightning Lab has guided 150 entrepreneurs (63 startups) through rigorous learning, mentoring and business development that has resulted in over $10 million in private investment following the programme’s Demo Day investment events