ManaGlobal
About

ManaGlobal Holdings.

A New Zealand holding company building digital products where technology meets social responsibility. Incorporated 10 April 2025. Our first product, Mt Whare, is currently in development.

Mt Whare didn't start in a boardroom. It started in conversations about whānau who play games every day but feel locked out of the economy those games inhabit. About rangatahi with phone-pocket fluency and zero pathway to homeownership.

We built ManaGlobal Holdings to answer that with a product, not a policy paper. Mt Whare is a gamified marketplace where players learn business by doing business — virtually, then materially. Top performers don't get a leaderboard pat on the back; they get microloans, mentorship, and a real-world path to a home.

Our vision extends far beyond profit margins. Mt Whare is a vehicle for social change, rooted in three Māori values: manaakitanga, kaitiakitanga, and whanaungatanga. These shape how we build, who we hire, and the partners we choose.

We are not just constructing a platform. We are constructing pathways — to homeownership, to financial stability, to emancipation from cycles of disadvantage.

A founder note

From Dereck Paora, CEO.

“The future is not something we enter. It is something we create. With Mt Whare, we are not playing games — we are changing the game entirely.

Our financial model shows a clear pathway to profit. But this is about more than profit. It's about a self-sustaining engine for societal transformation — measured not just in dollars, but in lives changed.

Join us. Let's not just disrupt. Let's transform.”

— Dereck Paora, Tumuaki (CEO), ManaGlobal Holdings

Meet the people building this.