UniServices spin outs Toku Eyes and Kitea Health were winners at the 30th Hi-Tech Awards this year. The celebrations took place with a gala dinner held for over 1000 guests at Wellington’s TSB Arena last Friday. A record 300+ companies from across the country and from all areas of the Hi-Tech sector enters this year’s competition. 

Toku Eyes scooped up the Duncan Cotterill Most Innovative Hi-Tech Software Solution. Toku Eyes has developed cutting-edge AI-powered software that can detect cardiovascular disease or Type 2 diabetes through retinal scans. This innovation allows for earlier, easier, and more cost-effective health risk assessments. By increasing accessibility to screening, Toku Eyes has changed the lives of numerous people who will be able to receive diagnoses of preventable diseases before it is too late.

And Kitea Health won the Aware Group Most Innovative Deep Tech award. Kitea Health has developed an implantable sensor for monitoring heart failure and hydrocephalus - a condition involving fluid buildup in the brain - in an easier and more accessible way that provides real pressure values for physicians to make informed decisions for treatment. 

Will Charles, Executive Director, Investment, says the awards evening was a spectacular success.

“It was a great night celebrating the New Zealand tech sector. Congratulations to Toku Eyes and Kitea Health for your well-deserved wins, and to all the entries and winners.”

The New Zealand Hi-Tech Awards celebrate the success of our producers of goods and services from the software, electronics, telecommunications, mobile, agritech, creative and other hi-tech industries. The Awards are run by the NZ Hi-Tech Trust, a not-for-profit organisation aimed at promoting and supporting the wider industry.