Three entrepreneurial Kiwi companies with real potential to make strong international marks on their specialist sectors have shared the $1 million in funding offered by the inaugural University of Auckland Business School Entrepreneurs’ Challenge for 2009.

Coffee roasters Allpress Espresso, smart water meter technology developers Outpost Central and hot water heating control technology company Senztek have all topped the pool of more than 100 companies which put their names forward for a share of the money, donated as part of a $3 million gift by ex-pat international financier Charles Bidwill.

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