Recommended resources to get plugged into the Hawaii tech scene.

The Hawaii startup scene is growing and has lots of resources available. The goal of this collaboratively-written guide is to make it easy to find people and resources. It can be easily found at guide.hawaiitech.com. The live, latest version lives in Google Docs here. You are invited to contribute—drop us a line! Last updated March 3, 2024.

Contents

Contents

Related Community Resources

Hawaii Bulletin

Hawaii Slack

Hawaii Tech

Organizations

Code With Aloha

Creative Lab Hawaii

Creative Mornings Honolulu

Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council (HIGICC)

Hawaii Small Business Development Center

Hawaii Technology Development Corporation

Hawaii Venture Capital Association

Hawaiians in Tech

IEEE Hawaii Section

The Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship

PICHTR

Purple Maiʻa

Startup Hawaii (Hawaii Island)

UXHI

UH Office of Innovation and Commercialization

Coworking Spaces

BoxJelly

Cohana (Maui)

Entrepreneurs Sandbox

Hanalei Initiative (Kauai)

Hub Coworking Hawaii

SAVON (formerly Gather Coworking Hawaii)

Tidepools @ Central Pacific Bank

Treehouse Coworking

Waiwai Collective

Workshop Coworking Hawaii

Accelerators

Blue Startups

Common Ground

Elemental Excelerator

FoundHer

HATCH

Hawaii Investment Ready

HITIDE

Mana Up

SIIP

XLR8HI / Pre-X

Venture Capital

John’s List (Hawaii Slack)

Alpaca VC

Builders VC

Coyote Ventures

Decisive Point

Hawaii Angels

Sultan Ventures

Surfclub Ventures

Threshold VC

UH Student Venture Fund

Meetup Groups

AI Hawaii

Hawaii Tech Mentors

Hawaii Women in Tech

Hawaii XR

Honolulu Tech Network

Kauai Tech

Maui Techies

PyHawaii: Python Users Group

ThriveHI

Facebook Groups

Hawaii Tech Group

Big Island Startups

Maui Techies

Makerspaces

Kauai Makerspace

Maui Makers

Ourspace Hawaii

Coding Schools

DevLeague

Dev-Island (Kauai)

Keiki Coders

Local Guides

r/Hawaii on Reddit

WebRender’s Guide to Oahu

Industry Reports

DBEDT Targeted & Emerging Industries Report (2021)

Hawai‘I Digital Literacy & Readiness Study (2021):

An Analysis of Hawaii’s IT Workforce Needs (2021):

HTDC 2016 Annual Report (2016):

Hawaii Innovation Assets Report (2015):

Building Hawaii's Innovation Economy (2012):

Contributors

Credits

Related Community Resources

Hawaii Bulletin

Hawaii Slack

Hawaii Tech

Organizations

Code With Aloha

Creative Lab Hawaii

Creative Mornings Honolulu

Hawaii Geographic Information Coordinating Council (HIGICC)

Hawaii Small Business Development Center

Hawaii Technology Development Corporation

Hawaii Venture Capital Association

Hawaiians in Tech

IEEE Hawaii Section

The Pacific Asian Center for Entrepreneurship

PICHTR

Purple Maiʻa

Startup Hawaii (Hawaii Island)

UXHI

UH Office of Innovation and Commercialization

Coworking Spaces

BoxJelly

Cohana (Maui)

Entrepreneurs Sandbox

Hanalei Initiative (Kauai)

Hub Coworking Hawaii

SAVON (formerly Gather Coworking Hawaii)

Tidepools @ Central Pacific Bank

Treehouse Coworking

Waiwai Collective

Workshop Coworking Hawaii

Accelerators

Blue Startups

Common Ground

Elemental Excelerator

FoundHer

HATCH

Hawaii Investment Ready

HITIDE

Mana Up

SIIP

XLR8HI / Pre-X

Venture Capital

John’s List (Hawaii Slack)

Alpaca VC

Builders VC

Coyote Ventures

Decisive Point

Hawaii Angels

Sultan Ventures

Surfclub Ventures

Threshold VC

UH Student Venture Fund

Meetup Groups

AI Hawaii

Hawaii Tech Mentors

Hawaii Women in Tech

Hawaii XR

Honolulu Tech Network

Kauai Tech

Maui Techies

PyHawaii: Python Users Group

ThriveHI

Facebook Groups

Hawaii Tech Group

Big Island Startups

Maui Techies

Makerspaces

Kauai Makerspace

Maui Makers

Ourspace Hawaii

Coding Schools

DevLeague

Dev-Island (Kauai)

Keiki Coders

Local Guides

r/Hawaii on Reddit

WebRender’s Guide to Oahu

Industry Reports

DBEDT Targeted & Emerging Industries Report (2021)

https://files.hawaii.gov/dbedt/economic/data_reports/emerging-industries/Hawaii_Targeted_Emerging_Industries_2021_Update_Report.pdf

Hawai‘I Digital Literacy & Readiness Study (2021):

https://labor.hawaii.gov/wdc/files/2021/11/Final-Statewide-Digital-Literacy-Survey-Report-from-Omnitrak-11.15.2021.pdf

An Analysis of Hawaii’s IT Workforce Needs (2021):

https://www.hec.org/itworkforce/

HTDC 2016 Annual Report (2016):

https://www.htdc.org/wp-content/uploads/2017/07/HTDC-Annual-Report-2016-Reduced-Size.pdf

Hawaii Innovation Assets Report (2015):

https://www.hawaii.edu/innovation/wp-content/uploads/2015/06/HIAR_r11_lores.pdf

Building Hawaii's Innovation Economy (2012):

https://ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/books/NBK99287/

Contributors

I encourage you to contribute to this guide. This document won’t be truly great without your help! It’s just a Google Docs document to keep updates simple. Email guide@hawaiitech.com to be invited!

Credits

This doc was started by Ray Berger and originally shared in Hawaii Slack. Thanks to subsequent contributors: