
It takes collaboration to create a community. With the Nelson-Tasman region increasingly becoming a hub for innovators, entrepreneurs, and businesses, we aim to connect them with reliable networks, experts, and services to provide a community of collaboration and success — and to make the ordinary extraordinary. Through collaboration, we hope to harness innovation as a way of solving challenges, building culture, and generating value for the region we all call home.
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Our Collaborators





Who is at the Colab?
Alongside our founding partners - NMIT, Nelson Tasman Chamber of Commerce and NRDA, you will find a diverse community of collaborators.
These public good organisations each provide value to our business community, as well as to each other by working from a shared space.
Nelson Artificial Intelligence Institute
Top of the South Community Foundation

Why Mahitahi Colab?
Alongside being an innovation hub, and the go to for business development resources and tools for all businesses at any stage of the lifecycle, Mahitahi Colab is collaboration in action for public good organisations.
Ideas, events and joint ventures are sparked from Mahitahi Colab, making it an innovation hub for the wider community, as well as its collaborators.