Top 50 Agriculture (AgTech) Startup Investors in New Zealand (October 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Enterprise Angels
VC Fund
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17 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $227k–$3.7M |
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New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund
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10 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $435k–$10M |
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Pacific Channel
VC Fund
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10 | New Zealand, Australia, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | $511k–$5.5M |
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K1W1
VC Fund
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9 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence | $550k–$18M |
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Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
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9 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $485k–$20M |
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Finistere Ventures
VC Fund
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6 | United States, New Zealand, Israel | Series B, Series C, Series A | Biotechnology, Agriculture, Food and Beverage | $3.5M–$45M |
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Callaghan Innovation
VC Fund
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6 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed | Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology | $3.5k–$1M |
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Quidnet Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $337k–$3M |
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The Yield Lab Europe
VC Fund
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4 | Ireland, France, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology | $605k–$10M |
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AngelHQ
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, United States, Canada | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Software, SaaS, Manufacturing | $259k–$11M |
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Fonterra Co-operative Group
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, United States, Germany | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B | Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Wellness | $151k–$50M |
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $410k–$22M |
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OurCrowd
VC Fund
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3 | Israel, United States, New Zealand | Series B, Series A, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $604k–$62M |
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NZVC
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $940k–$33M |
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Nuance Capital
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series B, Series A | Software, Manufacturing, Medical Device | $1.7M–$12M |
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Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, The Netherlands, Canada | Series A, Series B, Seed | Agriculture, AgTech, Farming | |
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Yamaha Motor
VC Fund
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2 | Japan, India, United States | Series B, Series A, Corporate Round | Transportation, Robotics, Software | $820k–$1.6B |
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Radar Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Biotechnology, Robotics, Health Care | $1.8M–$30M |
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AgriZeroNZ
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Biotechnology, AgTech, Livestock | $677k–$27M |
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DeepIE Ventures Management Co.
VC Fund
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2 | Ireland, France, Switzerland | Seed, Series A | Manufacturing, AgTech, Software | $648k–$5.5M |
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Flying Kiwi Angels
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $334k–$3.7M |
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Peter Beck
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Automotive, Manufacturing | $5.5M–$21M |
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New Zealand Green Investment Finance
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom | Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar | $372k–$49M |
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Promus Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1.3M–$53M |
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Impact Enterprise Fund
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Sustainability, Information Technology, AgTech | $1.1M–$3.3M |
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Punakaiki Fund
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $355k–$12M |
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Gallagher
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Corporate Round | Software, Agriculture, Internet of Things | $355k–$821k |
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Khosla Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | |
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New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Biotechnology, SaaS | |
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Seven Peaks Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | |
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Tuhua Fund
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, Singapore, United States | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Internet, B2B | |
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GD1
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Hort Innovation
VC Fund
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1 | Pre-Seed | |||
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MIG Angels
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Seed, Series B | AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology | $940k–$1.8M |
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Ubiquity Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Bay Trust
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Seed | Sensor, Hardware, Robotics | |
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Cultivate Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Biotechnology, Sensor, Farming | $3M–$9.6M |
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Sprout
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Seed | Farming, Livestock, Real Time | |
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GD1 (Global From Day One)
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $600k–$19M |
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Radicle Growth
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Grant | Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech | $250k–$17M |
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RIV Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Canada, United States, Italy | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Cannabis, AgTech, Food and Beverage | $1.5M–$12M |
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Aspire NZ Seed Fund
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Seed | AgTech, Training, Education | $1.5M–$2.5M |
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Steven Adams
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Organic, Agriculture | |
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ACC
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Organic, Agriculture | |
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Seraph Group
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Canada, Latvia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence | $600k–$51M |
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Founders Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.7M–$100M |
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Bioeconomy Science Institute
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed | Horticulture, Biotechnology, Plant-Based Foods | |
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Quayside Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Seed, Series B, Private Equity | Agriculture, Sensor, Forestry | |
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DCVC
VC Fund
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $1M–$130M |
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Ngāi Tahu Holdings
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Organic, Agriculture, Information Technology | |
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $328k–$3.7M; Venture - Series Unknown $227k–$3.6M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $14M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Linca — Domestic refining of lithium, nickel & cobalt for the energy transition.
- 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.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 114
- Round size: Seed $532k–$4.3M; Series A $2M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $435k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $300M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Linca — Domestic refining of lithium, nickel & cobalt for the energy transition.
- 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.
- Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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- Industry: Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $517k–$5M; Pre-Seed $511k–$1.6M; Venture - Series Unknown $755k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Regen — We send daily recommendations to our farmers' phones based on their own farm data, so NZ can farm smarter.
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- Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.1M; Series A $1.8M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hyades — Hyades is an AI-powered hyperspectral intelligence platform that offers soil and land insights.
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- First Table — Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off the food bill for two to four people!
Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 279
- Round size: Seed $643k–$4.9M; Series A $2.5M–$20M; Venture - Series Unknown $485k–$19M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $318k in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- First Table — Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off the food bill for two to four people!
Finistere Ventures is an agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor. Founded in 2005, the company partners with other entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to build innovative companies that have the potential to transform modern agriculture, increase food security, improve nutrition, and enhance sustainability. Their applied experience as operators, and pioneering role in Ag Tech, is actively utilized to benefit its portfolio companies and Partners. Finistere has global access to the best new technologies from centers of Ag Tech excellence in the U.S., Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada through its venture partner networks. Finistere’s locations in San Diego and Palo Alto, California keeps them connected to the centers of mainstream venture investment and the world’s leading innovation ecosystem.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Agriculture, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Series A $3.5M–$10M; Series B $5.3M–$45M; Series C $5M–$43M
- Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $28M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- POP — Strengthen your dog's immunity with Pop-Topper. Developed with top animal scientists and food innovators, our formulas leverage clinically proven superfoods to reduce inflammation and promote longevity. Backed by science, our daily meal topper seamlessly integrates into your dog's routine for optimal health benefits.
- 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.
Callaghan Innovation supports businesses with research and development services, technical expertise, funding programs, and commercialization support. It provides scientific research, laboratory services, innovation programs, and industry partnerships across sectors including biotechnology, health technology, and advanced manufacturing. The agency is currently transferring its services to other public research organizations as part of New Zealand's science and innovation system reforms.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, Software, Information Technology
- Stage:Grant, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3461
- Round size: Seed $351k–$1M; Grant $3.5k–$139k; Pre-Seed $607k–$716k
- Lead/follow: 99% lead, 1% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Sterling — Sterling operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate back-office operations for financial and accounting teams. The software deploys deterministic AI agents that execute repetitive tasks like accounts payable, accounts receivable, compliance checks, and bank reconciliations directly inside existing enterprise applications. Byfunctioning as a background virtual assistant, its value proposition centers on eliminating administrative bottlenecks while maintaining strict human-in-the-loop oversight and enterprise-grade audit standards.
- Forever Harvest — We are an Aotearoa New Zealand based cellular horticulture company, partnering with food & beverage manufacturers to develop new fruit & nut food solutions.
Backing world-class Kiwi deep tech for global markets. Fund I fully deployed and tracking strongly. Fund II (Discovery Fund) now open to qualified investors.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $500k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $337k–$682k; Venture - Series Unknown $898k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs is a developer of a novel UV-Vis spectroscopy technology for scientific-analytical instrumentation. It assists customers in identifying and measuring turbid samples' characteristics by using light's spectral properties. It offers an ultra-violet and visible spectrophotometer for measuring absorption, extinction, and scatteringspectra of clear and turbid liquids to help customers keep their samples intact, reduce sample preparation steps, and improve measurement turnaround time.
- Arcanum AI — Rapidly build and integrate machine learning features with the Accelerate Platform library of pre-built workflows. Hosted API or deploy into your own cloud.
- Ocean Intelligence — Ocean Intelligence helps aquaculture, port operations and monitoring teams use marine data in day-to-day decisions.
The Yield Lab Europe is a €55m early stage Agrifood and Ag Tech fund which comprises an accelerator and a larger follow-on fund, investing in high tech companies with the potential to significant disrupt and improve our current systems of global food production, and to improve the environmental sustainability of the industry. The main fund invests€1m each into 10-12 companies over several follow on rounds, with the strongest accelerator companies expected to progress to the main fund. The Yield Lab Europe is also part of a global network of Agrifood Tech funds, with global headquarters in St Louis USA, and sister funds in LATAM and Singapore.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Ireland, France, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 40
- Round size: Seed $605k–$2.9M; Series A $2.1M–$10M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.7M–$9.6M
- Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $67M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- BBLeap — Spray technology | Excellent spraying - flawless and no compromises, Precision Spraying with variable rates at plant level.
- BiOceanOr — BiOceanOr harnessed the power of Marine Biology and AI to deliver bio-guided services that optimize fish welfare and fish growth, while supporting aquaculture sustainability standards
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs is a developer of a novel UV-Vis spectroscopy technology for scientific-analytical instrumentation. It assists customers in identifying and measuring turbid samples' characteristics by using light's spectral properties. It offers an ultra-violet and visible spectrophotometer for measuring absorption, extinction, and scatteringspectra of clear and turbid liquids to help customers keep their samples intact, reduce sample preparation steps, and improve measurement turnaround time.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $351k–$2.5M; Angel $367k–$1M; Venture - Series Unknown $259k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Luminoma — Luminoma will enable easy access to objective and precise skin cancer screening. With Luminoma, clinicians can confidently discern malignant from benign, reducing unnecessary referrals and biopsies.
- Upstock — Easily manage all your hospitality, foodservice and FMCG grocery orders. Automate invoicing, pricing, payments and logistics with powerful AI tools.
- Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Food and Beverage, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $581k–$724k; Pre-Seed $151k–$612k; Series B $10M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
- POP — Strengthen your dog's immunity with Pop-Topper. Developed with top animal scientists and food innovators, our formulas leverage clinically proven superfoods to reduce inflammation and promote longevity. Backed by science, our daily meal topper seamlessly integrates into your dog's routine for optimal health benefits.
- Prolific Machines — Difficult protein production made simple. A next-generation expression system for next-generation therapeutics.
We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 86
- Round size: Seed $624k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $410k–$2.2M; Series A $5M–$22M
- Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OneMRI — A comprehensive whole-body MRI. Radiation-free, clinically reviewed, and explained by doctors.
- Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
- BarterAds Pty Ltd — BarterAds is a programmatic advertising exchange that enables businesses to acquire customers without cash spend by converting unused ad inventory into a tradable asset. Instead of paying in fiat, companies earn and spend a proprietary internal currency called Barter Dollars, which are issued when they display ads on their owned media propertiessuch as websites, apps, or platforms.The platform operates as an auction-based exchange, similar to traditional ad networks, where advertisers bid for impressions using Barter Dollars. Inventory is matched contextually and priced dynamically through real-time bidding, ensuring efficient allocation of supply and demand across the network. This allows both advertisers and publishers to maximize the value of otherwise underutilized inventory.BarterAds primarily targets startups, SaaS platforms, marketplaces, gaming companies, and content publishers that have traffic but are constrained by rising customer acquisition costs. By removing the need for upfront cash spend, the platform provides a capital-efficient growth channel, particularly for small and mid-sized businesses.The system includes controls for brand safety, fraud prevention, and inventory quality through business verification, campaign approvals, and continuous monitoring. Barter Dollars are non-transferable and expire periodically, preventing hoarding and ensuring continuous circulation within the ecosystem.BarterAds is designed as a hybrid between barter networks and modern ad exchanges, combining the scalability and automation of programmatic advertising with a closed-loop, cashless economy. The company is headquartered in Australia and is focused on building a global network of advertisers and publishers who both contribute inventory and run campaigns within the platform.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Seed
- Geography: Israel, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 393
- Round size: Seed $604k–$8M; Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $6.1M–$62M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $230k in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- N.Light — N.Light is a Metaverse 3D design software that allows individuals to effortlessly turn their ideas into reality.
- BloomX — Helping nature do its magic with the power of technology
- Hemispheric — Hemispheric develops fundamental AI technologies aimed at deciphering brain activity for innovative applications.
The NZVCA’s mission is to develop a world-best private equity (“PE”) and venture capital (“VC”) environment for the benefit of investors and entrepreneurs in New Zealand. Their activities cover the whole spectrum of investment in New Zealand private capital including Angel investment, seed and early-stage venture capital through to development capital and private equity (including management buy-outs and buy-ins).
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 63
- Round size: Seed $940k–$6.6M; Series A $2.4M–$33M; Venture - Series Unknown $2.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $17M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- SYOS — SYOS designs and manufactures a multi-domain portfolio of advanced uncrewed autonomous systems across air, land, sea, and subsurface.
- Andromeda Surgical — Empowering surgeons with autonomous precision
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$6.6M; Series A $7.3M–$12M; Series B $10M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
- 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.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.
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- Industry: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, The Netherlands, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 21
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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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- Industry: Transportation, Robotics, Software
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: Japan, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Series A $5.2M–$1.6B; Series B $6.7M–$88M; Corporate Round $820k–$28M
- Lead/follow: 45% lead, 55% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Joyride — Joyride powers the largest global network of micromobility operators. They offer turnkey software solutions for dockless bike-share and electric scooter operators. Their platform includes a white-label mobile application for end-users and a web-based dashboard for fleet operators. They currently power customers in 100-plus markets worldwide, andtheir management software enables an any-sized business to launch their fleet within 24 hours and seamlessly scale their operations from five to 500,000-plus vehicles.
- River — Empowering people, improving lives.
- eve autonomy — eve autonomy is an autonomous transportation service that offers logistics solutions utilizing the latest technology for society.
Radar Ventures operates as an venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Robotics, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 22
- Round size: Seed $1.8M–$11M; Series A $3.2M–$15M; Venture - Series Unknown $19M–$30M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Acumino — AI-powered robot models for dexterous industrial automation.
- OncoRes Medical — OncoRes Medical develops an imaging technology to provide intraoperative information available to surgeons to assist with the identification of tumor and healthy tissue.OncoRes Medical is an early-stage medical device company located in Perth, Western Australia and is developing the patent-protected technology in collaboration with leadingresearchers at the University of Western Australia and the Harry Perkins Institute of Medical Research and breast cancer surgeons at the Western Australian public health system.With funding provided by the Medical Research Commercialisation Fund (MRCF), OncoRes Medical aims to develop the technology for use in clinical applications that require the real-time assessment of tissue microstructure.
- Diag-Nose.io — Antibiotic resistance is rising to dangerously high levels in all parts of the world threatening our ability to treat common infectious diseases. Diag-Nose is working on a novel diagnostic tool to non-invasively distinguish between viral,bacterial and allergy-mediated sinusitis.
A world-first public-private partnership helping farmers reduce emissions while maintaining profitability and productivity.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, AgTech, Livestock
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $677k–$10M; Series A $7M–$27M; Venture - Series Unknown $3M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rumin8 — Rumin8 - Solving livestock methane emissions
- Arkea Bio — ArkeaBio is using innovative vaccine technologies to create solutions to reduce the on-farm methane emissions responsible for 6% of global GHG emissions.
- Ruminant BioTech — Ruminant BioTech is a company that creates slow-release devices for long-term controlled-release methane mitigation.
DeepIE Ventures Management Co. operates as a venture capital firm.
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- Industry: Manufacturing, AgTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Ireland, France, Switzerland
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $648k–$5.5M
- Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow
Portfolio highlights
- eID easy — One integration - access a worldwide network of QTSPs & CAs, for eSignatures, eID authentication & eSealing. Ensure full compliance with regulations.
- ArrayPatch — Revolutionising drug delivery with painless microneedle patch technology. Backed by prestigious funding and award-winning innovation.
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs is a developer of a novel UV-Vis spectroscopy technology for scientific-analytical instrumentation. It assists customers in identifying and measuring turbid samples' characteristics by using light's spectral properties. It offers an ultra-violet and visible spectrophotometer for measuring absorption, extinction, and scatteringspectra of clear and turbid liquids to help customers keep their samples intact, reduce sample preparation steps, and improve measurement turnaround time.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $334k–$3.7M; Angel $550k–$918k
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PAM NZ — Forward a school newsletter, snap a screenshot, brain-dump your to-do list - PAM turns it all into a smart shared family calendar and helps manage the family tasks and events. Set up in 2 minutes. Free trial.
- 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.
- Kai's Education — Make coding education engaging for elementary and middle school students using robotics solutions that support STEM goals & modern classrooms. Shop Now!
Peter Beck is based out of Huntington Beach, California, and is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Rocket Lab. Peter has received the New Zealand EY Entrepreneur of the Year award.
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $5.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Halter — Halter provides GPS-enabled collars and software that help farmers monitor and control cattle movement. Its system uses virtual fencing to guide animals without physical barriers, allowing users to manage grazing patterns and land use through a mobile interface. The platform collects data on animal location, behavior, and health indicators,supporting day-to-day farm operations and decision-making. Halter also enables remote shifting of herds, reducing the need for manual labor in moving livestock. Its services are used in agricultural settings to improve pasture utilization and streamline herd management processes.
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
- Dotterel Technologies — Dotterel develops noise reduction and audio recording technology for UAVs. Our Aerial Audio Microphone is a payload for UAVs and is a unique world first capability. Throughout the development we have worked closely with customers to deliver for high value use cases in Emergency Services, Defence and TV/Film. Hearing audio from your UAV provides an important addition to the video. Now you can have live conversations one-to-one and one-to-many with people remotely via the UAV when there is no other communication methods available. We look forward to working with our customers and partners to deliver a new range of UAV solutions.
New Zealand Green Investment Finance provides support to the growth of innovative energy and carbon management.
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- Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Solar
- Stage:Debt Financing, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 32
- Round size: Seed $3.1M–$7.6M; Debt Financing $644k–$49M; Venture - Series Unknown $372k–$3.2M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Ruminant BioTech — Ruminant BioTech is a company that creates slow-release devices for long-term controlled-release methane mitigation.
- Far North Solar Farm — Far North Solar Farm (FNSF) is a New Zealand solar developer: utility-scale solar farms, solar farms for landowners and commercial solar for businesses.
Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 180
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$8.7M; Series A $6M–$28M; Series B $13M–$53M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $139M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
- WHOOP — Optimize sleep, strain, and recovery with WHOOP, the most advanced fitness and health wearable. With personalized insights, improve performance, build healthier habits, and extend healthspan with continuous health monitoring.
- Lunar Outpost — Lunar Outpost is redefining our relationship with the Moon and space by building the robotic infrastructure for future exploration and commerce. Our mission: make the Moon accessible, sustainable, and open for innovation.
The Fund provides growth capital to businesses who deliver social and/or environmental impact, alongside attractive financial returns. This Fund has two primary objectives: delivering market-rate financial returns, and delivering tangible societal and environmental outcomes.
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- Industry: Sustainability, Information Technology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $1.3M–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.1M–$3.3M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZeroJet — ZeroJet is the first jet propulsion system to be designed specifically for an electric motor, delivering the perfect balance of performance and runtime.
- Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
- 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.
Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 46
- Round size: Seed $355k–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$12M; Venture - Series Unknown $775k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
- Projectworks — Grow your firm - and your impact.Projectworks is professional services automation software built for consulting firms that want to grow - and make a difference.As a project intelligence platform, Projectworks connects time tracking, expense tracking, resource management, invoicing, and financial reporting in one live system. It gives you thevisibility to see what’s working, fix what’s not, and scale your firm with confidence.Projectworks was built by consultants who know what it’s like to lose hours to spreadsheets and billing chaos. Designed specifically for engineering, architecture, software development, and management consulting, it’s professional services automation (PSA) software that gets experts out of the admin grind and back to the work that matters.Our cloud-based PSA tool brings together everything your business needs to plan, track, forecast, and grow. By automating time tracking, expense tracking, resource planning, project financials, and real-time reporting, Projectworks frees your people to focus on solving the world’s hardest problems - not wrestling with manual processes. On average, Projectworks users grow 20% in their first year.Connect Projectworks with your existing stack - including Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce - to eliminate double handling, align your data, and operate with confidence.We’ll help you set up for success with expert data migration, comprehensive training, and responsive ongoing support.Key featuresTime tracking software: Easy, accurate timesheets that actually get filled out. Simplify project time tracking and keep billing up to date with integrated time management software for consultants.Expense tracking: Track project spend against budget with simple, mobile-friendly expense submission. Sync approved expenses directly to Xero as bills to pay.Resource management software: Plan and allocate resources effectively. See availability, utilization, and capacity in real time with powerful resource planning tools that make project delivery predictable.Revenue forecasting & project profitability: Combine financial and resourcing data to model revenue, monitor utilization and profitability, and make confident growth decisions.Invoicing automation: Create pre-populated invoices that sync seamlessly with Xero, reducing admin and helping you get paid faster.Reporting & insights: Access real-time dashboards, project profitability reports, and PSA analytics that bring clarity to every decision. Track the consulting metrics that matter most - across projects, clients, and teams.Integrations: Connect your favorite tools and run your firm on a unified project management and financial reporting platform.Flexible pricing means you only pay for what you use - plus, get a 10% discount on annual subscriptions.
- Sea-Flux Vessel Management Software — Sea-Flux is a cloud-based vessel management software package focused on simplifying and streamlining maritime operations. Our mobile-friendly app provides unparalleled features that reduce risk and cost to your operation.
Gallagher are a global leader in the innovation, manufacture and marketing of animal management, security, fuel systems and contract manufacturing solutions. Their customers and their needs inspire us to create new possibilities adding value to their business.
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- Industry: Software, Agriculture, Internet of Things
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Corporate Round
- Geography: New Zealand, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $355k–$821k
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kenai — Kenai unifies visitor, employee, vehicle & perimeter access on one platform. SOC 2 certified, POPIA & GDPR compliant. Schedule a demo today.
- 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.
Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, India, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 843
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Vahan — Vahan's AI-Driven virtual assistant helps field sales teams and frontliners do better work at scale. A web-based dashboard allows employers to track usage data that can be used for business intelligence. Their virtual assistant is completely customizable to align with employers' support, training, communication, and reporting needs.
- Synex Medical — Synex Medical develops non-invasive blood testing technology. This portable device will allow users to monitor metabolite concentrations without having to penetrate skin. They use a miniaturized magnetic resonance system to detect blood metabolites. The system only consists of magnets and radio waves, meaning there are no negative health effects.
- Vahan.ai — Vahan uses Artificial Intelligence to match job seekers with employers inside messaging apps
Your guide to finding and using government services.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
- Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions. Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
- CrowdStreet — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
- Prime Trust — Prime Trust powers innovation in the digital economy by providing fintech and digital asset innovators with financial infrastructure. Our API is customizable whether you're building a crypto exchange or expanding your business with digital assets.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, B2B
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, Singapore, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
- Type One Energy — At Type One Energy, we are mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world over the coming decade.
We invest grower levies and Australian Government contributions in research and development, marketing, trade and industry insights that help growers stay productive, competitive and ready for the future.
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- Stage:Pre-Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Agovor — Agovor - Robotic towing machines to boost productivity while reducing your environmental footprint.
The Factory supports early-stage founders across Aotearoa with tailored startup support, connections to capital, and a strong regional ecosystem.
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- Industry: AgTech, Agriculture, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $940k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bovonic — Bovonic; your partner in QuadSense technology, offering instant mastitis detection for dairy farmers. Register for QuadSense & improve your animal health today.
- 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.
- HydrOxSys — HydrOxSys was established in June 2012 to commercialise dense film asymmetric membrane technology. There is a growing need for novel water purification concepts based on membrane filtration. Global businesses and local governments require water extraction solutions that are scalable and cost effective and can survive harsh industrial processstreams. Their mission is to develop revolutionary technologies to meet these needs.
Ubiquity Ventures is a seed-stage institutional venture capital firm that invests in "software beyond the screen" startups and has close to $100 million under management. Ubiquity's portfolio includes B2B technology companies that utilize smart hardware or machine learning to solve business problems outside the reach of computers andsmartphones. By transforming real-world physical problems into the domain of software, Ubiquity startups tap into large greenfield markets and offer more effective solutions. Leveraging a decade of institutional venture capital experience, Sunil Nagaraj leads Ubiquity Ventures along with an extended team of over 40 experts with a range of technical and marketing expertise. See more details on the Ubiquity Ventures website at http://www.ubiquity.vc.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 49
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Community Trust
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- Industry: Sensor, Hardware, Robotics
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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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
Cultivate Ventures is an investment and advisory firm built to catalyze growth for promising food, wellness and fitness companies. We focus specifically on investment, business concept incubation, seed-to-growth stage acceleration and turn around advisory services. We believe strongly in strong returns on capital combined with collaboration,transparency, conscious consumerism. We take a long-term, collaborative and flexible approach to each company and client we work with and invest in, allowing our financial and operational stake to grow as our partners grow.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Sensor, Farming
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $3M–$7M; Series A $7.3M–$9.6M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
- Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
- Ruminant BioTech — Ruminant BioTech is a company that creates slow-release devices for long-term controlled-release methane mitigation.
Welcome to Sprout Agritech. Igniting the next wave of technology startups in the Agrifood value chain
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- Industry: Farming, Livestock, Real Time
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
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- ProTag — Heat and lameness detection with pinpoint accuracy. Continuous tracking technology that improves heat detection accuracy, lameness detection and grazing. ProTag can track the location and grazing behaviour of each cow. Giving you the tools to manage the quality of your pasture more effectively
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 71
- Round size: Seed $600k–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $860k–$11M; Series A $1.2M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $60M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 950+ real estate, private credit, and PE funds to save time and grow AUM.
- Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.
Radicle Growth runs an Ag & Food Innovation platform where it finds, funds, builds and provides market access for start-ups. The Ag Innovation Platform has enabled transformative partnerships with the top corporations and start-ups from around the world. Radicle Growth pioneered a concept called The Radicle Challenge to proactively seek out the best and brightest entrepreneurs solving a problem or looking to disrupt an existing business model in the ag and food industries.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Grant
- Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $250k–$3M; Grant $250k–$1M; Series A $5M–$17M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $85M in 2025
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- Citroniq — Carbon-Negative Materials at Scale. Leading the Transition to a Renewable and Carbon-Negative Plastics Industry
- Future Origins — Future Origins produces sustainable, biomanufactured alternatives to palm-derived fatty alcohols and acids, including NALO™.
- 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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- Industry: Cannabis, AgTech, Food and Beverage
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: Canada, United States, Italy
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.5M; Series A $6.7M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
- 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.
- High Beauty — High Beauty is a skincare brand that offers clean beauty skincare products made from hemp seed oil. High Beauty chooses organic ingredients to create the purest and cleanest ingredients for all of our formulations. High Beauty makes every effort to source all raw ingredients from organic farms and extraction processes.
Aspire NZ Seed Fund partners with private investors to co-invest in start-ups with potential for high growth. Aspire is structured as an evergreen fund that can continue to invest indefinitely as long as it generates returns.Aspire NZ Seed Fund invests directly into early-stage Kiwi tech start-ups at Seed and Angel investment stages. Aspire NZSeed Fund is managed by NZ Growth Capital Partners.
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- Industry: AgTech, Training, Education
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Cropsy Technologies — Pruning, yield, health and land insights for a better crop at lower cost. Backed by data from every vine, built exclusively for winegrowers.
- 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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- Industry: Organic, Agriculture
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
ACC is an investment firm.
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- Industry: Organic, Agriculture
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
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- Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
Seraph Group invests and shares exclusive, early-stage investment opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Latvia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 77
- Round size: Seed $600k–$6.1M; Series A $2M–$23M; Series B $5.5M–$51M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $3.6M in 2014
Portfolio highlights
- Lightsprint — LightSprint is the software factory for product teams. PMs, designers and ops build in a shared cloud workspace while engineering controls every merge.
- Venus Aerospace — Venus Aerospace is a space company that provides an innovative approach to hypersonic transportation. Venus Aerospace is a startup aerospace company focused on engineering the future of hypersonic flight. We are making one-hour global transport possible to connect the world and make it safer.The company is an expert team of PhDs, rocketscientists, and engineers taking on the biggest challenges in aerospace at Mach 9 speed. The company also takes pride in being moms and dads, military veterans, and BBQ enthusiasts.
- 4AG Robotics — Revolutionizing mushroom farming with robots that pick, trim, and pack. Our automation solutions boost quality, yield, and value for farmers worldwide.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1072
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$14M; Series A $5.5M–$50M; Series B $15M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $6B in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Quantcast — We are taking an entirely new approach to advertising on the open internet.
- Anvil — Anvil provides a decentralized finance protocol that enables users and applications to manage collateral and issue credit backed by digital assets. The platform offers a secure vault for holding collateral and tooling for allocating assets into collateral pools. Anvil supports creation and management of onchain letters of credit as fully secured financial guarantees for different applications. Users interact with the protocol through a web interface that connects to their digital wallets and relevant smart contracts. The protocol is intended for organizations and individuals seeking predictable, programmable credit arrangements and collateralized transactions in onchain finance.
- Ramp — Join thousands of forward-thinking businesses using Ramp to control spend, save time, and automate busywork.
Bioeconomy Science Institute is a Crown Research Institute, owned by the New Zealand Government and governed by an independent Board of Directors.
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- Industry: Horticulture, Biotechnology, Plant-Based Foods
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Forever Harvest — We are an Aotearoa New Zealand based cellular horticulture company, partnering with food & beverage manufacturers to develop new fruit & nut food solutions.
Quayside Holdings is the investment arm of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council which responsibly manages the listed assets, property, equities and private equity investments.
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- Industry: Agriculture, Sensor, Forestry
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Private Equity
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PF Olsen — PF Olsen offers a wide range of forestry, environmental management, harvesting, and consultancy services.
- 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
We are deep tech venture capital.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 520
- Round size: Seed $1M–$9.1M; Series A $6M–$50M; Series B $15M–$130M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- CH4 Global — CH4 Global is an aquaculture solutions provider dedicated to urgently impacting climate change at scale. Lead by a world-class team of senior business builders, scientists and entrepreneurs, the company is initially leveraging proven science and technology for growing seaweed into innovative new livestock supplement that reduces methane produced bycows by up to 90%. Among early investors are a select group of prominent family offices and private investors. CH4 Global have also received non-dilutive capital support from government organizations from around the world. CH4 Global is a Delaware corporation based in Henderson, NV.
- TypeSafe AI — TypeSafe AI develops artificial intelligence models and software tools designed to support automated decision-making within applications and business workflows. Its primary product, Jev, is a System One Model that processes structured questions and returns typed decisions accompanied by probability scores and confidence estimates. These outputs help software systems perform tasks such as classification, scoring, routing, content evaluation, and customer service operations. TypeSafe AI provides an application programming interface and a web-based console that enable developers and organizations to integrate Jev into their existing systems. Its technology uses a training approach called Reinforcement Learning for Calibrated Decisions, which focuses on producing decisions that software can interpret and apply directly. The platform also supports configurable confidence thresholds, allowing applications to automate actions when confidence meets defined criteria or direct uncertain cases for human review. Through these capabilities, TypeSafe AI focuses on making AI-driven decisions usable in structured, programmatic workflows.
- Universal Quantum — Universal Quantum is building quantum computers to tackle real-world problems that would take today’s fastest supercomputers billions of years to solve.
Ngāi Tahu
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- Industry: Organic, Agriculture, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- 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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