"We will be getting hands-on with the companies selected, ensuring their business mentors help take their ideas to the next level.
"We want ideas that will make a massive impact on New Zealand, and we will help those start-ups go global, by leveraging our international networks."
Since it started two years ago, Vodafone xone's start-ups generated more than $11.5 million in new revenue, attracted more than $9.6 million in capital funding, and created 46 new jobs.
One of last year's biggest successes was Parkable, an app that aims to change the way people park, through a system of shareable parking utilising unused space from driveways to company carparks.
• Vodafone xone is now open for applications until April 15.