Top 50 Artificial Intelligence Startup Investors in New Zealand (November 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
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32 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $485k–$21M |
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New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund
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12 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $435k–$10M |
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K1W1
VC Fund
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10 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Manufacturing, Artificial Intelligence | $550k–$18M |
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GD1 (Global From Day One)
VC Fund
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8 | New Zealand, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Manufacturing, Information Technology | $600k–$19M |
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Enterprise Angels
VC Fund
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8 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Health Care | $227k–$3.6M |
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Flying Kiwi Angels
VC Fund
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6 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, SaaS | $334k–$3.7M |
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New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund
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6 | New Zealand, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Biotechnology, Health Care | $393k–$8.8M |
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Hillfarrance Venture Capital
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, United Kingdom | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Information Technology, Gaming | $362k–$2.3M |
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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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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $36k–$45M |
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CP Ventures
VC Fund
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5 | Australia, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $150k–$12M |
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NZVC
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $940k–$33M |
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AngelHQ
VC Fund
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5 | New Zealand, United States, Canada | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | Software, SaaS, Manufacturing | $259k–$11M |
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Uniservices
VC Fund
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4 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology | $283k–$8.4M |
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Cure Kids Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Medical Device, Manufacturing | $999k–$9.7M |
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Airtree Ventures
VC Fund
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4 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $894k–$54M |
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Soul Capital
VC Fund
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4 | New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong | Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown | Information Technology, Software, Recycling | $608k–$12M |
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Altered Capital
VC Fund
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4 | New Zealand, Australia | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Financial Services, FinTech | $3M–$14M |
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Five V Capital
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, Canada | Series A, Private Equity, Series B | Information Technology, Software, SaaS | $1.2M–$59M |
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Flux Accelerator
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand | Seed | Software, Internet, Advertising | $351k–$2.5M |
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Pacific Channel
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, Australia, United States | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Manufacturing, Biotechnology | $511k–$5.5M |
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EVP
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $998k–$10M |
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Movac
VC Fund
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3 | New Zealand, United States, Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A | Software, SaaS, Manufacturing | $1.4M–$16M |
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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $120k–$11M |
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Rampersand
VC Fund
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3 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $1M–$14M |
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Chris Sang
Angel
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3 | United States, Australia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $120k–$21M |
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Digital Asset Capital Management
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Australia, Singapore | Seed, Initial Coin Offering | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software | $1.2M–$12M |
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Lightspeed Venture Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, India, China | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $2M–$125M |
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Flying Kiwis
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand | Seed | SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device | $5M–$5M |
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ArcAngels
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Health Care, Biotechnology, Product Research | $518k–$1.3M |
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech | $200k–$6M |
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Folklore Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps | $698k–$18M |
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Alium Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Hong Kong | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech | $2M–$465M |
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Investible
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $300k–$20M |
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Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, Furniture, Recycling | $1.5M–$3M |
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Threshold
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Series B, Series A, Series C | Software, Internet, Mobile | $2.6M–$75M |
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Reinventure
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $800k–$55M |
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Founders Fund
VC Fund
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, Germany | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care | $1.6M–$100M |
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Punakaiki Fund
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States | Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $355k–$12M |
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Sparkbox Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States, Japan | Seed, Angel, Series A | Software, EdTech, Manufacturing | $200k–$1.8M |
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Global from Day One
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States, China | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Manufacturing | $694k–$18M |
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First Round Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Canada, India | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology | $1.2M–$63M |
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Germany, United Kingdom | Series A, Seed, Series B | FinTech, Financial Services, Banking | $1.2M–$65M |
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Mark Clayton
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology | |
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Waterdrip Capital
VC Fund
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2 | Singapore, United States, China | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 | $500k–$50M |
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Bragiel Brothers
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Finland, Japan | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence | $125k–$25M |
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Horizon Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Israel, China | Series A, Series C, Series B | Software, Manufacturing, Mobile | $2.7M–$49M |
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Rootz Labs
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States | Seed | Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.2M–$5M |
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Alpine Venture Capital
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Italy, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown | Artificial Intelligence, Software, Accounting | $750k–$5M |
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $596k–$15M |
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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: 281
- Round size: Seed $643k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$21M; 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.
- General Compute — General Compute provides an ASIC-based cloud inference platform focused on running AI inference workloads. The company offers an OpenAI-compatible API that allows users to access hosted large language models and switch from existing GPU-based providers by changing the base URL and API key. It supports deploying both its own supported models andcustomer-supplied models on its infrastructure, emphasizing high token throughput and low time to first token. General Compute also offers dedicated custom deployments with service-level agreements, custom scaling, and guaranteed capacity for production workloads. Its infrastructure targets use cases such as AI agents, coding assistants, and real-time voice applications that require low-latency, high-throughput inference.
The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.
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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: 117
- 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.
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: 137
- Round size: Seed $550k–$4.1M; Series A $1.5M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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!
- SupaHuman AI — VETos drafts and maps your assessment tools and resources. Nova 5 turns them into practice learners finish. For RTOs, TAFEs and PTEs in Australia and NZ.
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 — The world's leading managers trust Caruso to help them save time, impress investors 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.
Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.
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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: 172
- Round size: Seed $328k–$3.6M; 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.
Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups
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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!
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, a New Zealand-based private equity fund, manages fund of funds investments and direct co-investments.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 58
- Round size: Seed $393k–$1.8M; Angel $400k–$4.3M; Series A $1.6M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- MarginFuel — MarginFuel provides intelligent price optimisation software that empowers rental vehicle operators to build profitable pricing strategies.
We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Gaming
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 33
- Round size: Seed $618k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $362k–$1.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $900k–$2.1M
- Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kyoryu — Re-engineered dinosaurs roam a post-apocalyptic Japan. Follow the Samurai T-rex clan as they navigate complex dino clan rivalries.
- RiffRaff Games — Developers of Sleight of Hand
- Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
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.
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 405
- Round size: Seed $36k–$7.2M; Pre-Seed $51k–$2.7M; Series A $3.8M–$45M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $812M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
- General Compute — General Compute provides an ASIC-based cloud inference platform focused on running AI inference workloads. The company offers an OpenAI-compatible API that allows users to access hosted large language models and switch from existing GPU-based providers by changing the base URL and API key. It supports deploying both its own supported models andcustomer-supplied models on its infrastructure, emphasizing high token throughput and low time to first token. General Compute also offers dedicated custom deployments with service-level agreements, custom scaling, and guaranteed capacity for production workloads. Its infrastructure targets use cases such as AI agents, coding assistants, and real-time voice applications that require low-latency, high-throughput inference.
- Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 92
- Round size: Seed $482k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $150k–$900k; Series A $3.8M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 41% lead, 59% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RedOwl AI — RedOwl leverages the power of generative AI to empower of the office of the CFO to make error-free and compliant pre-transactional decisioning.
- LeadStory — Watch breaking news video from providers you can trust. Follow the topics you care about and see whats happening near you or anywhere in the world.
- Greenfly — Greenfly is an enterprise SaaS company and the leader in advocacy marketing. The Greenfly digital media exchange platform enables organizations to fuel brand love by tapping the social media power of their advocates. Emotional connection is the key to building a brand that people love. You can’t buy it – brand love is earned through genuineinteractions, personal connections and real word-of-mouth. Sports, media, entertainment, social causes, and agent-driven organizations depend on Greenfly’s advocacy marketing platform to easily share short-form media. When advocates share great photos and videos on their social profiles, it creates personal engagement with the brand’s customers. Organizations can extend their organic social media reach by 1,000% or more, and brand advocacy can be more effective and much less expensive than social advertising.Greenfly started helping sports and entertainment brands in 2014, and has been named one of the fastest-growing organizations in California by Inc. magazine. Headquartered in Santa Monica, California, Greenfly has sales offices across the U.S. and Europe.
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, sea and subsurface.
- Andromeda Surgical — Empowering surgeons with autonomous precision
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 59
- Round size: Seed $351k–$2.5M; Angel $385k–$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: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $694k–$5M; Pre-Seed $283k–$1.3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.6M–$8.4M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RosterLab — RosterLab goal is to automate every part of the rostering process for healthcare.
- Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Investing in innovation for a healthy childhood Investing in innovation for a healthy childhood Impact investing since 2008 Portfolio Companies Invested Health Tech Products Launched Product and Service Revenue Generated Jobs Created in NZ Paediatric Patients
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical Device, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $999k–$9.7M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- ISpy Nits — ISpyNits - everything you need to get rid of lice and nits once and for all
- Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 226
- Round size: Seed $894k–$10M; Series A $3.4M–$35M; Series B $5M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $320M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cuttable — Create on-brand AI ads that learn from your results. Cuttable helps eCommerce teams plan, build, edit and publish ad creative at scale.
- HEO — HEO delivers on-demand, high-frequency images on satellites and actionable insights using the world's largest non-Earth imaging dataset and sensor network.
- Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
Soul Capital is an impact investment organisation working towards a more inclusive and sustainable economy.
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $608k–$12M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Staples VR — StaplesVR is a leading provider of augmented and virtual reality training & entertainment solutions for various businesses and industries. Contact us today!
- Kai's Education — Make coding education engaging for elementary and middle school students using robotics solutions that support STEM goals & modern classrooms. Shop Now!
- Teacher’s Buddy — Create lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and more in minutes. AI-powered tools designed for educators.
We're Altered Capital: venture capital and growth investors. Altered Capital exists to unlock potential. Of founders. Of employees. Of our investors.
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- Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $3M–$4.1M; Series A $4.4M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 64% lead, 36% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $69M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Pearler — Kickstart or continue your long term investment journey with Pearler, a simple alernative for those who crave boring investing.
- SYOS — SYOS designs and manufactures a multi-domain portfolio of advanced uncrewed autonomous systems across air, sea and subsurface.
- First Table — Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off the food bill for two to four people!
Five V Capital is a leading, growth-focused private equity & venture capital firm in Australia and New Zealand
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- Industry: Information Technology, Software, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Private Equity, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Series A $1.2M–$40M; Series B $4.5M–$26M; Private Equity $39M–$59M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $250M in 2019
Portfolio highlights
- Blastone — Leading supplier of blasting abrasives and equipment for the surface preparation and protective coating industry.
- DyFlex Solutions — Incorporating adaptive technologies to unlock new levels of success for your organisation using next-generation SAP solutions backed by industry expertise.
- Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
They back talented founders as they build world leading technology companies from NZ.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Advertising
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 17
- Round size: Seed $351k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Rocos — Send ground robots on autonomous inspection missions. Quickly capture job site data, track progress over time, and detect issues early.
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
- First AML — Get AML/CTF compliant and solve your toughest AML challenges with First AML. It's the only AML & KYC software solution you need.
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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.
- Androgenix —
- Navi Medical Technologies — Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company.
EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages. Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnostic and have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies. Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 130
- Round size: Seed $998k–$3.5M; Series A $1.2M–$5.8M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$10M
- Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $70M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Practifi — The only intelligent CRM built specifically for wealth management firms, Practifi combines native AI functionality with purpose-built capabilities.
- HotelClub — Find cheap hotels and discounts when you book on Hotels.com. Compare hotel deals, offers and read unbiased reviews on hotels.
- Fergus — Fergus is a smart field service management software for service businesses. Make job management easy and carry out work better with our all-in-one solution.
Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.9M; Series A $1.5M–$16M; Venture - Series Unknown $2M–$13M
- Lead/follow: 46% lead, 54% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $125M in 2022
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.
- LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
- Migco Pharmaceuticals — Migco Pharmaceuticals is a pharmaceutical company focused on designed to develop new drug therapies for migraine headache.
Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 112
- Round size: Seed $662k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
- SPEC Toolbox — Design CLT, glulam and connection details to AS1720.1 in minutes, with certified AU/NZ supplier data built into every SPEC Toolbox calculator.
- Teacher’s Buddy — Create lesson plans, worksheets, assessments, and more in minutes. AI-powered tools designed for educators.
Rampersand is an early-stage venture capital firm. We invest in the best Australian technology founders, teams and companies and are committed to helping them become major national, regional and global leaders. The rampersand team has worked with successful startups and technology firms in Australia, Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe and Asia. Our partners have seen numerous companies from the early stages through to successful exits including BEA Systems (acquired by Oracle for US$7.2bn), Jajah (acquired by Telefonica), Snaptu (acquired by Facebook), Onavo (acquired by Facebook), StepStone (acquired by Axel Springer) and Amobee (acquired by Singtel for over US$300m). As you can see, we have done it before and know that companies need more than just capital to succeed.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 65
- Round size: Seed $1M–$4.6M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $3.1M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $30M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Cor — Obi by Cor is the leading voice AI agent for customer onboarding and user activation. It uses voice and on-screen awareness to guide users, share best practices, and answer questions in real time.
- Cuttable — Create on-brand AI ads that learn from your results. Cuttable helps eCommerce teams plan, build, edit and publish ad creative at scale.
- Parachute — Parachute catches the weight of research and drafting so you can focus on the work that matters. Stop writing off billable hours and scale your firm's output.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 135
- Round size: Seed $343k–$4M; Pre-Seed $120k–$900k; Series A $2.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
- Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
- Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth
A specialist digital asset investment manager running liquid directional and venture strategies for wholesale and professional investors since 2018.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
- Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 55
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Initial Coin Offering $2M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Portfolio highlights
- RISE Chain — RISE is a high-performance Ethereum L2 where orderbooks are a native primitive. Purpose-built for onchain financial markets. Secured by Ethereum.
- Macropod —
- Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
Lightspeed Venture Partners is a multi-stage venture capital firm focused on accelerating disruptive innovations and trends.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2493
- Round size: Seed $2M–$26M; Series A $7M–$82M; Series B $15M–$125M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $600M in 2025
Portfolio highlights
- Tennr — Tennr is a custom AI assistant that accelerates research, answers complex questions, and generates custom reports.
- Whizzo — Whizzo specializes in materials science-driven manufacturing of engineered fashion and technical textiles. Our expertise lies in creating and executing innovative textile blends tailored for applications across automotive, agriculture, medical textiles, and engineered fashion.
- Daletlabs — Dalet Labs is pioneering the future of e-commerce through Generative AI and visual product discovery. Its platform transforms AI-generated imagery into interactive shopping experiences featuring real, purchasable products. By combining creativity, personalization, and technology, Dalet Labs is redefining how consumers discover and shop for products.
Super-seeded by new entry: Flying Kiwi Angels
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- Industry: SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $5M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Formus — Formus is enabling personalized orthopedics at scale through a fusion of AI-automation with computational biomechanics. Built on 20 years of musculoskeletal research at the Auckland Bioengineering Institute, Formus 3D pre-op planning is FDA, PMDA, and TGA cleared, and has planned over 3,000 hip replacement surgeries at more than 25 sites acrossANZ, Japan, and the US. We are at the next frontier of orthopedics, combining AI-automation with patient-specific modelling of bony and soft-tissue to optimize joint replacement surgeries for each and every patient. Working in tandem with implant manufacturers, we integrate seamlessly into existing industry workflows to reduce costs and vastly increase reliability and scalability. Formus's unique capabilities empower surgeons to revolutionize personalized orthopedics at scale to improve the outcomes of every patient.
At ArcAngels Funding, we connect female entrepreneurs across New Zealand to venture capital and investment to help their businesses grow.
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- Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Product Research
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $518k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- chnnl — Optimise your employee wellbeing strategy with chnnl. Centralised resource management, track psychosocial risks and team psychological wellbeing measurement.
- VidApp — VidApp makes it easy to build, design and launch your own mobile and tv apps. Connect your current website or channel and build your audience today.
- Grater Goods — Grater Goods is a food and beverage manufacturing company that aims to provide customers with gourmet plant based deli items.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 267
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022
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+.
- Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
- Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!
Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 52
- Round size: Seed $698k–$5.5M; Series A $1.2M–$18M; Venture - Series Unknown $751k–$2.6M
- Lead/follow: 44% lead, 56% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $70M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Arkeus — Arkeus is a leader in the fusion of optics and autonomy. Our wide area autonomous optical systems are deployed to conduct Search, Intelligence, Surveillance and Reconnaissance in a range of operating environments.
- Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
- Octopusbot — Accurate AI Forecasts for Wheat, Corn, Grains, and Oilseeds | Global Production Insights, Supply & Demand Analysis, and Future Price Scenarios to Maximize Profit and Mitigate Risks.
Alium Capital focuses on listed and unlisted technology investments to generate out-sized returns. The company invests in technology, innovation, and early-stage businesses, all the way through to publicly listed assets. It specializes in the fields of finance, investing, innovation, and capital.Alium Capital was founded in 2016 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, FinTech
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Hong Kong
Investor stats
- Total investments: 50
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$10M; Series A $2M–$11M; Series B $2M–$465M
- Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $79M in 2017
Portfolio highlights
- Boost Lab — Boost Lab provides solutions for skincare products that are cost-effective, effective, and safe.
- Koala — We're simplifying the mattress and furniture game. With free & fast delivery and a 120 night risk-free trial Australia-wide, try it out online today.
- York Street Brands — York Street Brands, formed by the merger of Boost Lab and tbh Skincare specializes in serums that target a range of skin concerns.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 249
- Round size: Seed $300k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $392k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
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- Apate.AI — Is the next generation of scam prevention and intelligence. We deploy advanced conversational AI bots combined with real-time insights to protect businesses, governments and communities globally.2
- Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
- GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.
The Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation is a private philanthropic trust, established in 2020.
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- Industry: Software, Furniture, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.5M–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Safe Surfer — Safe Surfer is an innovative platform that protects kids from harmful content
- Critical — Made in Aotearoa from 100% reclaimed NZ plastic waste, our panels come in a variety of pre-designed or custom colours and finishes, so you can realise your design vision and create a space that is truly unique. We help architects and designers to push design boundaries while meeting Green Star & sustainability targets.
- Starboard Maritime Intelligence — Monitor and protect your maritime domain
Threshold is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology companies across sectors such as enterprise software, consumer platforms, fintech, and digital health. It provides capital to founders at seed and Series A stages and supports portfolio companies with strategic guidance, operational input, and access to industry networks. The firm collaborates with entrepreneurs on product development, market positioning, hiring, and go-to-market planning. Its investment approach centers on backing technology-driven businesses that address evolving market needs and scalable digital opportunities.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 548
- Round size: Series A $2.6M–$25M; Series B $5M–$65M; Series C $5M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $450M in 2022
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- Vera Health — Improve patient outcomes with evidence-based answers from 60M+ peer-reviewed medical papers. Built by clinicians and AI researchers.
- Probably Genetic — Affordable DNA tests for thousands of variants related to autism, developmental delay, and any set of unexplained symptoms. We sequence all of your genes, not just those related to ancestry or cancer. Our test can be done at home and expect results in just 6 weeks! Speak to an expert for free!
- Autopoiesis Sciences — Autonomous scientific discovery. Building the architectures, training methods, and reasoning systems that give AI judgment.
Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally. With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner, Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 74
- Round size: Seed $800k–$4.9M; Series A $3.1M–$15M; Series B $9.2M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 31% lead, 69% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $37M in 2018
Portfolio highlights
- Kasada — Kasada stops automated threats and bot attacks from the very first request across web, mobile apps, and APIs. Real-time bot mitigation with no rules to manage.
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
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: 1102
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$15M; Series A $5.5M–$45M; 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.
- Coherence Neuro — Opto Biosystems specializes in the development of innovative healthcare technologies that bridge the gap between cancer neuroscience and bioelectronics. The company focuses on creating smaller, softer, and wireless biological interfaces designed to offer a new treatment modality. By leveraging advancements in neural engineering and bioelectronics,Opto Biosystems is dedicated to building new tools that interface with the body, aiming to improve patient outcomes in the healthcare sector. Their work includes exploring the stability of thin-film electrodes for neuromodulation, highlighting their commitment to advancing medical technology.
- Watchtower Labs — Watchtower Labs is an AI-first team with a single mission: to solve the most difficult technical obstacles in vital simulations and defense.
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:Venture - Series Unknown, Seed, 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.
Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
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- Industry: Software, EdTech, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 29
- Round size: Seed $200k–$1.8M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- SimTutor — SimTutor is a provider of simulation-based learning tools that make training more interactive, measurable, and accessible.
- Aroa Biosurgery Ltd — Aroa Biosurgery is a soft-tissue regeneration company that develops, manufactures, sells and distributes medical and surgical products to improve healing in complex wounds and soft tissue reconstruction. Committed to ‘unlocking regenerative healing for everybody’, Aroa’s products are developed from the Company’s proprietary Endoform® technologyplatform, a novel extracellular matrix biomaterial derived from ovine (sheep) forestomach. The company was founded in February 2008 based on intellectual property relating to the use of a novel form of ECM isolated from forestomach extracellular matrix for use in tissue regeneration applications. Aroa’s focus is delivering better healing, every day, everywhere for everybody. Aroa’s products make a meaningful impact for patients, surgeons and clinicians. Aroa delivers high quality, simple to use products that significantly improve outcomes. Aroa also believes its products should be widely accessible, affordable and change the standard of care for many patients.Maori for ‘understanding’, Aroa is at the forefront of understanding how biology, structural form and human factors can unlock the body’s intrinsic power to heal.
- Sharesight — Leading online stock portfolio tracker & reporting tool for investors. Sharesight tracks stock prices, trades, dividends, performance and tax!
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Browse database — It's Free!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, Manufacturing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 36
- Round size: Seed $694k–$5M; Series A $890k–$18M
- Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $90M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
- Alimetry — Gastric Alimetry brings data-driven clarity to chronic gastric symptoms, helping clinicians diagnose with confidence.
- Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 995
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Series A $3M–$26M; Series B $7M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $296M in 2020
Portfolio highlights
- Actively — Actively is custom-built AI for GTM teams.
- Serval — Serval is the AI-native ESM that automates employee requests, onboarding/offboarding, just-in-time access, and more.
- Mach9 — Mach9 is building the operating system for cities. We're monitoring surface and underground infrastructure to predict and prevent infrastructure failures.
Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges and opportunities.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 271
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6M–$33M; Series B $18M–$65M
- Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow
- Last fund: Likely actively investing — fresh fund, raised $5.3M in 2026
Portfolio highlights
- Tab — Tab is an text-based AI assistant that acts as an execution agent rather than just an information provider. Developed by Terrasoft, Inc., it allows users to delegate actual workloads directly via their messaging app using text, photos, documents, or video.
- Bound — Bound helps SME's protect themselves from currency risk, whilst using technology to simplify the process. We aim to help the 78% of SME's who are at risk of losing money everyday
- Octane — Simple financing for motorcycles, ATVs, mowers, and more. Check your rate with no impact to your credit.
Mark Clayton
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- Industry: Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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- Mooven — Mooven is a technology platform that enables the infrastructure and transport industry to deliver roading projects faster and with fewer complaints by managing disruption and understanding traffic conditions with real-time visibility.
Waterdrip capital invests in blockchain industries.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Singapore, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 93
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M; Venture - Series Unknown $1.5M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LNT — LNT provides a Bitcoin Taproot-based token system that allows basic asset creation and transfers with limited available details.
- ChimpX AI — ChimpX AI is an AI-powered decentralized finance (DeFi) superapp designed to simplify crypto trading, cross-chain asset management, and blockchain interactions through natural language commands. The platform focuses on making complex DeFi operations accessible to everyday users by combining artificial intelligence, automation, and gaslesstransactions into a single interface.
- ZENi — ZENi is a data intelligence engine that powers autonomous AI agents. The platform transforms real-time on-chain and off-chain signals into actionable insights, enabling agents to make decisions, automate workflows, and execute tasks with high precision. Built as a decentralized data intelligence layer, ZENi supports Web3, fintech, e-commerce ,gaming and enterprise applications that require scalable, intelligent agent operations.
Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds. Dan Bragiel launched the firm in San Francisco, California in 2016.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Finland, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 83
- Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $125k–$3M; Series A $6.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Salmon Labs — Use Salmon to transform your CRM. Effortlessly clean, verify, and enrich your data. with AI capabilities. Keep Your CRM Data Fresh and Dynamic.
- Assured Health — Streamline healthcare credentialing, licensing & payor enrollment with Assured's all-in-one platform. Automate admin Ops, boost efficiency & manage providers effortlessly.
- Inspectify — If you are looking to buy or sell a home, Inspectify helps you find the best home inspectors in your area.
Horizon Venture is a Real estate company located in 2573 Clay Bank Rd, Fairfield, California, United States.
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- Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Mobile
- Stage:Series A, Series C, Series B
- Geography: United States, Israel, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 48
- Round size: Series A $2.7M–$20M; Series B $8.5M–$49M; Series C $4.5M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2004
Portfolio highlights
- PINC — PINC provides scalable software, hardware, and services that enable companies to move inventory throughout the supply chain faster, cost-effectively, consistently, and more efficiently. Its cloud-based real-time asset tracking platform powered by an Internet of Things (IoT) sensor network that includes passive RFID, GPS, optical, cellular, andother sensors, provides actionable insights and connected expert guidance that allow companies to optimize their supply chain execution.The company was founded in 2004 and is headquartered in Union City, California.
- Identity Engines — Identity Engines (idEngines) develops identity-based solutions for securing enterprise networks. It offers Ignition server, a network identity management device to centralize, streamline, and secure access across the network. The company also offers Ignition Portal that provides Web authentication capability to support network access control forvarious guest and visitor device types, operating systems, and browsers; Ignition Posture that provides endpoint posture checking; Ignition Guest Manager that secures network services for vendors and partners; and Ignition AutoConnect, an automated solution to streamline secure wireless and wired deployments.idEngines was acquired by Avaya Inc/Nortel Networks in December of 2008, and is now part of Extreme Networks through Extreme's acquisition of Avaya's enterprise networking business.
- Golden Gate Technology — Buy a domain and see how a premium domain can be the best investment. Your business starts here. Buy a domain today.
A research-oriented venture studio that leverages full-stack capacity to build with blockchain innovators.
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- Industry: Blockchain, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ZENi — ZENi is a data intelligence engine that powers autonomous AI agents. The platform transforms real-time on-chain and off-chain signals into actionable insights, enabling agents to make decisions, automate workflows, and execute tasks with high precision. Built as a decentralized data intelligence layer, ZENi supports Web3, fintech, e-commerce ,gaming and enterprise applications that require scalable, intelligent agent operations.
- aZen Protocol — aZen transforms computing resources & apps into dynamic fractional NFT, scheduled by smart contracts to build #DePIN for ubiquitous AI
- Zerobase — Trust layer of global finance. A proving network for real yield, with verifiable execution for capital, settlement, and risk. https://t.co/Y71G4wo3H9
Alpine Venture Capital operates as a venture capital firm that supports seed stage founders worldwide.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Accounting
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: United States, Italy, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $750k–$5M; Pre-Seed $2.8M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $13M in 2022
Portfolio highlights
- Omneky — Omneky - Omnichannel Creative Orchestration
- Deduction — Fast, accurate, and delightful AI tax prep. Organizes your documents. Advises all-year. IRS-ready. Human-reviewed.
- Tethys Robotics — Tethys Robotics develops AI-powered application oriented robotics system that enables professionals in carrying underwater search & recovery to inspection & surveillance.
We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 68
- Round size: Seed $1M–$6.5M; Pre-Seed $596k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$15M
- Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023
Portfolio highlights
- RedOwl AI — RedOwl leverages the power of generative AI to empower of the office of the CFO to make error-free and compliant pre-transactional decisioning.
- SecurePII — SecurePII provides a cloud-based platform that enables organisations to reduce exposure of personally identifiable information (PII) across voice, chat, and AI training channels. The service includes call-by-call redaction of credit-card and other sensitive data via its SecureCall component, enabling businesses to offload PCI-DSS complianceobligations while still retaining customer-facing interactions. SecurePII also empowers companies to process conversation data more safely, by filtering or anonymising PII in real time, to enable AI, analytics, and automation initiatives without compromising customer privacy. The platform integrates with existing payment gateway and communications infrastructure to support both contact centres and unified communications environments.
- Checkbox — Checkbox is an award-winning no code platform which allows users to build their own business apps for process automation.
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