New Zealand tech innovators are, once again, being recognised as world-leaders as Auckland-based tech startup Tatau won
awards, both abroad and at home, last week.
Tatau, the world’s first distributed supercomputing platform for artificial intelligence, won two titles back-to-back at
the prestigious 2018 Trescon World Blockchain Summit in Dubai. These were The Startup World Cup Regional Finals - UAE
and The Grand Slam Pitch Competition. Tatau then wrapped up the week with a Spark ‘Early Stage Companies’ award at the Technology Investment Network (TIN) awards in Auckland.
Nithin Eapen, Chief Investment Officer & Partner, Arcadia Crypto Ventures, and one of the competition judges, noted that he “chose to award Tatau with the top
spot, in both competitions, because it exceeded expectations in all of the major assessment areas: founded by a team of
seasoned entrepreneurs, significant and growing market opportunity, executable go-to-market market strategy, product
gaining traction in market, and the ability to tell the story impactfully on-stage”.
Tatau Co-Founder Martyn Levy says that the company relished the opportunity to present Tatau’s world-leading distributed
supercomputer platform to a global panel of experienced tech investors and industry participants.
“We’ve known since day one that Tatau has a significant and timely market opportunity and that our team is well-placed
to execute on our strategy. It was great to have that validation as a standout opportunity and to receive invaluable
feedback from the judges,” said Levy.
The World Blockchain Summit is a global series of events connecting technology start-ups with governments, investors and world-leading developers.
Tatau came out on top at last week’s Dubai event, beating a field of 16 other tech companies to be picked as the Fenox
VC Startup World Cup regional champion. It backed that up the following day by taking out the Trescon World Blockchain
Summit “Grand Slam” top pitch award, topping 17 other finalists from all over the world.
Tatau will now compete with 15 other regional winners at the Start-up World Cup Finals held in San Francisco in May next
year, and judged by a panel of tech legends including Reid Hoffman, Founding CEO of Linkedin, and Vinod Khosla,
Co-Founder of Sun Microsystems.