NZ's 'fruit tech' startup Hectre picks up business award golds

NZ's 'fruit tech' startup Hectre picks up business award golds
Hectre's Spectre app can instantly sample and grade a bin of apples. (Image: Hectre)
Greg Hurrell
Fast-growing fruit-tech startup Hectre has notched up two business awards as it looks forward to a new funding round in the next 12 months.The New Zealand company provides a comprehensive orchard-management app to digitise complex paperwork and its Spectre fruit-sizing app for the apple – and recently the pear – industry.Last week, Hectre picked up two gold awards in the Asia-Pacific Stevie business awards. Both were for the most innovative tech startup of the year, with one in the software category and the other in the business pro...

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