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We are proud to share that Figured took home the New Zealand Venture Investment FundHi Tech Start Up Company of the Yearaward at the 2016 awards gala on 21 May.

We're thrilled to share that Figured is a finalist in the New Zealand Hi Tech Awards, Start Up of the Year category for 2016.

The NZ Hi Tech Awards celebrate New Zealand’s most successful high-tech companies and highest achieving individuals, and it's an honour for Figured to be nominated as part of this year's event.

After dry weather withered last season's milk production in Victoria, it's easy to see how the financial success of regional farming can swing on the whims of Mother Nature. But as Warragul-based business advisory firm,Pursuit Advisersare proving, data-driven services are here to give farmers a new way forward.

While most people’s view on America may be taken from watching the Kardashians or the latest sound bites from Trump or Hillary in the upcoming US elections, I have been humbled to yet again to go into the heart of America and meet some real Americans, who couldn’t be more different from the media myth. Yup, that’s right. Figured has been on tour in the heart of America’s agricultural states - the mighty MidWest, and more specifically Omaha, Nebraska, followed up by attendance at the World Agritech Investment Summit in San Francisco.

Like many emerging tech businesses - we quite often get asked about the tools that we use at Figured. Given we don’t, and likely will never, own a server, here are the top web applications that we use and can’t do without - along with what makes them great for us.

At Figured, we are a pure play in the cloud software vendor; we love it and we are excited by what it offers us as a company.

We hear a lot about software companies (both in agri and other areas) who are planning on moving their desktop software into the cloud, on the promise that this will launch them into the new world and renew the life of their product.

It was great to get out and about with some of the locals down at the mighty Southern Fieldays in Waimumu a few weeks ago, not only to check out the latest in industry innovation but also to get a gauge on the general mood among the industry.

It was great to get out and about with some of the locals down at the mighty Southern Fieldays in Waimumu a few weeks ago, not only to check out the latest in industry innovation but also to get a gauge on the general mood among the industry. Listen here.

We’re excited to announce that Figured has entered into a strategic partnership that sees BNZ (a subsidiary of NAB Australia) acquire a cornerstone 17% shareholding.