Top 40 Agriculture (AgTech) Startup Investors in New Zealand (July 2026)

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• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.
• Kai's Education — Kai's Education is an innovative force in the EdTech sector, pioneering the integration of coding, STEM, and robotics into engaging learning experiences for children. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our mission is to ignite young minds through our award-winning educational products, including the all-in-one STEAM toolbox, Kai's Clan, andthe hybrid robot, KaiBot.Our flagship product, Kai's Clan, breaks new ground by allowing children aged seven to fifteen to learn to code with state-of-the-art technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, Tinkercad, and Minecraft. KaiBot, designed for hands-on learning, uses screen-free coding cards to instill the fundamentals of coding, providing immediate feedback to enhance learning.Complemented by the Kainundrum Lite app, Kai's Education facilitates a seamless transition from tactile to advanced text-based coding, nurturing problem-solving skills and creativity. Recipient of the Smart AI Toy Award and the Common Sense Top Pick for Learning Award, Kai's Education is dedicated to equipping the next generation with the skills for tomorrow's challenges. We're not just teaching coding; we're inspiring creators.

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• Evnex — NZ manufactured and installed EV chargers for homes and businesses. Starting at $2,295 inc for a charger and full install - Electric vehicle charging simplified.
• Groov —
• Astrix Astronautics — Inflatable, rigidising deployment enables low-cost spacecraft solar arrays, high gain antennas, powering earth with solar energy from space, and more.

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• Vessev — Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.

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• Tectonus — Revolutionary self-centring seismic connections that protect structures in earthquake sequences.
• Regen —
• Androgenix —

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• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.
• Wallo Pay — Wallo Pay, incorporated in July 2023, is a New Zealand-based fintech startup transforming digital payments for consumers and businesses. Operating across Aotearoa and with plans to expand into Australia, our founder-led team is building a B2C and B2B payments platform powered by banking APIs, enabling direct, real-time account-to-accounttransactions. By bypassing traditional card networks, Wallo Pay slashes merchant service fees from 1.5–2.5% to 0.6% or less, potentially saving New Zealand businesses $700M annually. Our product suite includes a Consumer Mobile App with QR-based and unique digital ID based payments, a Business Mobile App, and a Business Web Portal, targeting retail, hospitality, and other businesses accepting payments from end customers.Aligned with New Zealand’s Consumer Data Right (2025), Wallo Pay’s open API infrastructure empowers developers, fintech startups, and public agencies to build innovative solutions, from loyalty programs to interoperable transport payments. Our platform fosters an inclusive ecosystem, enabling business of all sizes and innovators to participate in the digital economy with low-cost, scalable payment tools. Since starting MVP development in June 2024, Wallo Pay is gearing up for an alpha pilot in Q3–Q4 2025, driving transparency, affordability, and trust in Aotearoa’s payment landscape.
• Forever Harvest — Forever Harvest is a food technology startup specializing in cellular horticulture.

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• Apparo —
• Animol Discovery — Animol is building its own pipeline of break-through proprietary veterinary small molecules led by a team of animal health industry experts with vast experience in bringing drugs to market. With our unique and powerful technology platform we deliver innovative medicines that are specifically designed for the needs of veterinary patients.
• Berkeley Yeast — Better yeast for better beer. Make cleaner tasting beer with ultra low diacetyl strains, brew non alcoholic beer that tastes more like actual beer, or unlock bright grapefruit and passionfruit notes with the cleanest thiol yeast.

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• 30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
• MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
• EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.

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• Samp — Samp accelerates modernization and de-risks contracts by connecting outdated drawings with current 3D reality captures of your facilities using our AI.
• RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
• SatSure — SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security.

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• chnnl — Optimise your employee wellbeing strategy with chnnl. Centralised resource management, track psychosocial risks and team psychological wellbeing measurement.
• Vessev — Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water.
• Curve Biosciences — Whole-Body Intelligence to resolve chronic diseases.

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• Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
• Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.

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• Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
• Easy Crypto — The world's favourite place to buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Delivery in less than 2 minutes, easiest order process, and we're open 24/7.
• Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
• CertusBio — The CertusBio continuous monitoring system provides easy access to real-time data so that food processors can now mitigate losses and waste waterwater quality issues at the source. We are helping industrial food processors transition to a more sustainable model of production.
• CarbonCrop — CarbonCrop gets you recognised and paid for the carbon sequestered in trees on your land. Our artificial-intelligence based mapping and measurement mean we can give you fast, accurate results for no up-front cost.

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• TradeWindow — TradeWindow provides the tools and support for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to begin the journey to digital transformation.
• WNT Ventures — New Zealand's Venture Capital Deep Tech Investor. Investing in Deeptech founders from Aotearoa to build local companies and help them go global

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• Eyebot — Vision care at the touch of a button
• PAXAFE — PAXAFE's platform provides end-to-end visibility capable of answering who, what, when, where and how for all your shipments
• Excarta — Excarta is a cutting-edge AI research project that aims to make businesses more adaptable to unpredictable weather.

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
• Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.

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• Hgen — Hgen provides affordable green hydrogen for deep decarbonization.
• Helius — Solana RPCs, APIs, webhooks and infrastructure to build and ship crypto apps, fast. Get started for free in 1 click.
• Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery

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• Orbica — Orbica Environmental Monitoring
• Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
• Tend Health Ltd — Tend Health provides various types of Health Care services by providing an easy to use application.

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• Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
• Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
• TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in

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• Noetik — Noetik is an AI-native biotechnology company. Our mission is to leverage advanced machine learning methods to discover and develop cancer immunotherapies.
• Twelve — Twelve is a carbon transformation company converting captured carbon dioxide into valuable chemicals, fuels, and other essential products. Their technology eliminates emissions by turning CO2 into essential products that are made from fossil fuels. They specialize in the fields of CO2 electrocatalysis and electrochemical reactor design.
• Zap Energy — Zap Energy's fusion reactor stabilizes plasma using sheared flows rather than magnetic fields. Driving electric current through the flow creates the magnetic field, which confines and compresses the plasma. The higher the current, the greater the pressure and density in the plasma. Zap Energy's reactor is the least expensive, mostcompact, most scalable solution with the shortest path to commercially viable fusion.

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• Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
• SafeStack — Secure the software you design and build and meet compliance requirements with ease supported by the leading secure development training platform.

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• Leaft Foods — Leaft Foods has proven viability across New Zealand's pasture-based agricultural economy.

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• Kenai — Kenai gives corporates the ability to securely manage the flow of workers and visitors at their premises by using facial recognition as a biometric
• Farmote Systems — Farmote is a smart, innovative pasture monitoring system that combines satellite-based multispectral technology with accurate on-ground Motes to take the guesswork out of pasture and grazing management.
• StrongBó Agritech — Live Data at your Fingertips! - Boost the Performance of your Herd with StrongBo's Latest Beef Cattle Management Software.

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• Forever Harvest — Forever Harvest is a food technology startup specializing in cellular horticulture.

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• Rumin8 — Rumin8 - Solving livestock methane emissions
• Ruminant BioTech — Ruminant BioTech is a company that creates slow-release devices for long-term controlled-release methane mitigation.
• Āmua Innovation —

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• Tristar AI — Tristar AI is a software development company that provides AI-enabled manufacturing solutions.
• 4AG Robotics — Revolutionizing mushroom farming with robots that pick, trim, and pack. Our automation solutions boost quality, yield, and value for farmers worldwide.
• Pinpoint Predictive — Pinpoint Predictive helps P&C insurers fast-track profitable growth by improving loss ratios on the industry's leading risk selection platform

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• Nbryo —
• Agovor — Agovor develops autonomous electric tractors and a connected ecosystem of towable attachments that automate outdoor tasks for row-based agriculture and horticulture. The company’s flagship product, the GOVOR eTractor, uses GPS and IoT connectivity to autonomously tow interchangeable smart trailers for spraying, mowing, cultivating, hauling, andother field operations. Its platform includes a web and mobile portal for remote deployment, monitoring, and control of individual units or fleets. Agovor’s system is designed to reduce manual labor requirements and emissions by replacing traditional driver-operated tractors with battery-powered autonomous machines. The attachment ecosystem allows growers to tailor capabilities to seasonal and operational needs while maintaining a consistent interface for task management and oversight.
• SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.

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• Agovor — Agovor develops autonomous electric tractors and a connected ecosystem of towable attachments that automate outdoor tasks for row-based agriculture and horticulture. The company’s flagship product, the GOVOR eTractor, uses GPS and IoT connectivity to autonomously tow interchangeable smart trailers for spraying, mowing, cultivating, hauling, andother field operations. Its platform includes a web and mobile portal for remote deployment, monitoring, and control of individual units or fleets. Agovor’s system is designed to reduce manual labor requirements and emissions by replacing traditional driver-operated tractors with battery-powered autonomous machines. The attachment ecosystem allows growers to tailor capabilities to seasonal and operational needs while maintaining a consistent interface for task management and oversight.

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• Bovonic — Bovonic is an agriculture software developer that helps dairy farmers to enhance the productivity and profitability of their animals.
• BioLumic — BioLumic develops light signals that activate plant growth and unlock the natural genetic potential of crops. The company's photogenics platform leverages innovation in plant science, light technology and genetic insights. Demonstrated results include higher yield, improved vigor, increased disease and pest resistance, and improvements incrops composition. These results have been across a variety of seeds and seedling: soybean, cannabis and vegetable and fruit crops. It is a clean technology that does not require the use of chemicals or amendments. BioLumic is a private company and was founded in 2013.

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• Aquit — Aquit develops preventive treatments for infections in fish that replace antibiotics, improve survival rates, and boost natural immunity.
• Pinpoint Earth — Pinpoint Earth is revolutionizing the fishing and transportation industries with its cutting-edge satellite and cellular communications technologies and GPS asset tracking.
• Blue Carbon — Blue Carbon focuses on ensuring environmental security for future generations by solving both the climate and biodiversity problems.

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• Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
• Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

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• MAPTO — Bringing industries together since 2008, Mapto.com stands as the premier platform for a global business directory. Serving millions of companies and suppliers worldwide.Mapto, the “Business Development Guide,” has been specially designed to offer an e-commerce solution that brings together all companies in the world and provides an excellent B2Cuser experience without sacrificing B2B functionality. The most significant difference from other marketplaces is that it is customer-supported!In today’s world, product, manufacturer, and communication demands are the basis of e-commerce searches on the internet. It restructures the “roadmap of e-commerce” by bringing all these demands together and making them accessible to users.
• Insite AI — The chosen partner by executives in RGM, insights, and I.T. to grow revenue and market share. Learn how CPGs win in pricing, assortment, trade and more.
• Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

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• Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
• DNAiTECH — At DNAiTECH we develop innovative portable isothermal amplification instruments for point of care diagnostics, in-field applications, and rapid DNA testing.
• POP — POP offers a nutrient-packed supplement for pet dogs to reduce inflammation and support whole-body health.

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• Wattpad — Wattpad is a digital entertainment company providing an online social storytelling platform for original stories.The company utilizes the power of community and technology to enable the creation and distribution of content across a variety of formats. Its flagship app, Wattpad, is home to a community of more than 65 million people who spend over20 billion minutes a month engaged in original stories. Tap by Wattpad, the company’s second storytelling product, offers short, chat-based stories in over a dozen languages. Wattpad Studios co-produces stories for film, television, digital, and print, together with industry partners. Wattpad Brand Solutions offers a full suite of advertising products to help brands build deep engagement with Millennial and Gen Z consumers.It was established by Allen Lau and Ivan Yuen in Toronto, Ontario, Canada in 2006.
• Breeze — Cargo insurance reinvented.
• Shoes of Prey — Shoes of Prey creates bespoke, hand-made women's shoes designed by the customer, and delivers them to anywhere in the world.Shoes of Prey has grown rapidly over 5 years and has won a number of awards including Online Retailer of the Year and Store Design of the Year at the World Retail Awards in Paris 2013.Founded in 2009, the company isheadquartered in Santa Monica, California, United States.

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• Vessev — Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water.
• VXT — Automate, integrate, and accelerate. Get more from your phone calls for less. VXT Call is a simple, mobile and powerful system.
• Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and private equity funds to save time, impress investors, and grow AUM.

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• Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
• Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.
• Sea-Flux Vessel Management Software — Sea-Flu is a cloud-based platform designed to streamline and digitize maritime operations for commercial vessels.

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• Oriient — Bringing the GPS revolution indoors with the most scalable and accessible solution for buildings. No Hardware, Cost Effective, and Highly Accurate.
• Sequentify — Sequentify provides a technology that is based on tools from the synthetic biology and AI software worlds for targeted DNA sequencing applications such as cancer diagnostics, carrier screening, COVID-19 surveillance and other applications.
• BetterSeeds — The company focuses on non-GMO genome editing using CRISPR-Cas9 for creating a novel breed of seeds and crop traits that address the 21st-century agriculture challenges. BetterSeeds provides advanced seeds enabling better crops for mechanized harvesting, extreme e climate resistance, higher calory and nutrient values, and more.

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• Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
• Crowd Street — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.

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• Leaft Foods — Leaft Foods has proven viability across New Zealand's pasture-based agricultural economy.

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• New Iridium — Kemvera is a sustainable chemical innovation company empowering customers to reduce carbon impact through sustainable, cost-effective, drop-in chemicals and materials with equal performance as fossil products.-
• Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
• SWARM — SWARM is a Software-as-a-Service platform that uses a next generation cognitive computing system, structured around a multi-agent approach which can utilize a cur

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• WNT Ventures — New Zealand's Venture Capital Deep Tech Investor. Investing in Deeptech founders from Aotearoa to build local companies and help them go global