Valentine Bick (née Boiarkine)
Founder & Principal Engineer
Established 2003 · Auckland, New Zealand

Specialist software solutions, quietly in production since 2003.

Blade NZ Ltd is a boutique software company founded by Valentine Bick (née Boiarkine) in 2003. Over more than two decades, together with a number of world class collaborators Blade have designed and built robust, production-grade software used across multiple industries and organisations.

Our work spans government, mining, tourism and other sectors, with solutions that favour reliability, security and long-term maintainability over hype.

Technology focus

Intellectual property

Blade holds a patent for a secure file transfer engine, deployed in specialised environments where data integrity and security are critical.