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Top 50 Artificial Intelligence VC Funds & Investors in New Zealand (June 2026)

The most active venture capital funds investing in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startup companies. Find investors to raise a Pre-Seed, Seed or Series A round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
22 New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $593k–$16M
GD1 (Global From Day One)
VC Fund
5 New Zealand, United States, China Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, SaaS $600k–$15M
K1W1
VC Fund
5 New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Biotechnology $419k–$17M
Enterprise Angels
VC Fund
4 New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Software, Health Care, Information Technology $153k–$2.4M
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund
4 New Zealand, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Biotechnology, SaaS $400k–$8.8M
Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $34k–$35M
Hillfarrance Venture Capital
VC Fund
3 New Zealand, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Animation, Information Technology $473k–$2M
Pacific Channel
VC Fund
3 New Zealand, Australia, Canada Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Medical Device, Biotechnology $1.1M–$5M
Rampersand
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Financial Services, FinTech $1M–$10M
CP Ventures
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, India Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $350k–$3.9M
EVP
VC Fund
3 Australia, New Zealand, United States Series A, Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $942k–$5.4M
Flying Kiwi Angels
VC Fund
3 New Zealand, United States Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, Apps $334k–$1.3M
Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund
3 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology $120k–$5.7M
Five V Capital
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, New Zealand Series A, Private Equity, Seed Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $2.2M–$54M
Sparkbox Ventures
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States, Japan Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Manufacturing, EdTech $593k–$1.6M
AngelHQ
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Apps, SaaS $367k–$3M
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A Software, Medical Device, SaaS $830k–$17M
Flying Kiwis
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Seed SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device $5M–$5M
Movac
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States, Australia Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, E-Commerce $795k–$16M
First Round Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Canada, India Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence $1.1M–$60M
Investible
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, Singapore Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $250k–$20M
Global from Day One
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Video $612k–$5M
Punakaiki Fund
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States Seed, Series B Software, SaaS, Information Technology $355k–$14M
Folklore Ventures
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Apps $500k–$21M
Alpine Venture Capital
VC Fund
2 United States, Italy, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown Software, Artificial Intelligence, Accounting $462k–$5.4M
Digital Asset Capital Management
VC Fund
2 United States, Australia, Singapore Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $1.5M–$12M
Reinventure
VC Fund
2 Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand Series A, Seed, Series B FinTech, Software, Financial Services $800k–$54M
Rootz Labs
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Seed Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Web3 $1.2M–$1.5M
Valar Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Financial Services, FinTech, Banking $1.2M–$75M
Tidal Ventures
VC Fund
2 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, SaaS, Information Technology $508k–$15M
Altered Capital
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Series A, Seed Finance, Software, Market Research $10M–$14M
Waterdrip Capital
VC Fund
2 Singapore, United States, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3 $500k–$6M
Founders Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Germany Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Health Care, Information Technology $1.5M–$105M
Quidnet Ventures
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Hospital, Health Care $500k–$2M
Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Seed, Series A Software, Predictive Analytics, Information Technology
Threshold
VC Fund
2 United States, India, Canada Series B, Series A, Series C Software, Internet, Mobile $2.3M–$81M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Singapore Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech $200k–$6M
AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, New Zealand Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, FinTech
Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, New Zealand Angel, Seed Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
DePIN X
VC Fund
1 Singapore Seed Web3, Blockchain
Delphi Digital
VC Fund
1 United States, Philippines, Brazil Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
Exponential Founders Fund
VC Fund
1 New Zealand Seed Software, Market Research, Data Visualization
Refactor
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Series B Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $2.5M–$103M
Lewis Holdings
VC Fund
1 New Zealand Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Computer $550k–$1.1M
Bragiel Brothers
VC Fund
1 United States, Finland, Japan Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Software, Information Technology, FinTech $255k–$68M
Transformation Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, New Zealand Series B, Series C Health Care, Medical, Software $23M–$106M
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION
VC Fund
1 Japan, New Zealand, United States Seed, Series B, Series A Software, Machine Learning, SaaS $5.7M–$81M
DWF Labs
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
ODIG
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Par Equity
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Health Care
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Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 22 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 184
  • Round size: Seed $593k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $69M in 2021

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.
  • Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and private equity funds to save time, impress investors, and grow AUM.
  • OpenStar Technologies — OpenStar Technologies is a renewable energy company that develops fusion reactors for baseload power to the grid.
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GD1 (Global From Day One)
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 5 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 56
  • Round size: Seed $600k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $860k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vessev — Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water.
  • Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
  • Type One Energy — At Type One Energy, we are mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world over the coming decade.
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K1W1
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 5 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 80
  • Round size: Seed $437k–$3.5M; Series A $419k–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
  • Mara Bio
  • Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.
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Enterprise Angels
VC Fund · Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand · 4 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 106
  • Round size: Seed $153k–$2.4M; Angel $229k–$651k
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2019

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.
  • HealthNow — HealthNow provides accessible healthcare services that give you control of your health. Manage how you access care, when you need it.
  • Kai's Education — Kai's Education is an innovative force in the EdTech sector, pioneering the integration of coding, STEM, and robotics into engaging learning experiences for children. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our mission is to ignite young minds through our award-winning educational products, including the all-in-one STEAM toolbox, Kai's Clan, andthe hybrid robot, KaiBot.Our flagship product, Kai's Clan, breaks new ground by allowing children aged seven to fifteen to learn to code with state-of-the-art technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, Tinkercad, and Minecraft. KaiBot, designed for hands-on learning, uses screen-free coding cards to instill the fundamentals of coding, providing immediate feedback to enhance learning.Complemented by the Kainundrum Lite app, Kai's Education facilitates a seamless transition from tactile to advanced text-based coding, nurturing problem-solving skills and creativity. Recipient of the Smart AI Toy Award and the Common Sense Top Pick for Learning Award, Kai's Education is dedicated to equipping the next generation with the skills for tomorrow's challenges. We're not just teaching coding; we're inspiring creators.
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New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $428k–$1.2M; Angel $400k–$4.3M; Series A $1.4M–$8.8M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • 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.
  • 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
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Blackbird Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 311
  • Round size: Seed $34k–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
  • Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.
  • 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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Hillfarrance Venture Capital
VC Fund · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Animation, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $606k–$2M; Pre-Seed $473k–$1.2M
  • Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
  • Mobli — At Mobli we provide everything you need to build a great customer experience and optimise your mobility services with no long term commitments.
  • 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!
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Pacific Channel
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical Device, Biotechnology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand, Australia, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 19
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Bovonic — Bovonic is an agriculture software developer that helps dairy farmers to enhance the productivity and profitability of their animals.
  • Mars Bioimaging — MARS portable CT imaging systems bring diagnostics closer to patients with unprecedented spectral resolution and extremely low radiation doses.
  • Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.
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Rampersand
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$1.5M; Series A $2.9M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 28% lead, 72% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
  • Cuttable — The AI ad creative production system for high-growth DTC brands. Scale Meta ad volume and variation without scaling headcount. Built for performance teams.
  • Parachute
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CP Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

The CP Ventures Fund invests in early-stage technology companies that are highly scalable, at the forefront of breakthrough technologies, and driven by the fourth industrial revolution.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 58
  • Round size: Seed $417k–$3.9M; Pre-Seed $350k–$900k
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • LeadStory — Watch breaking news from around the world and stay up to date with current events. Follow topics that matter to you from providers you can trust. See whats happening nearby or in places you care about.
  • Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.
  • Skylark Labs — Skylark Labs develops continuously evolving and customizable threat detection systems for enhanced physical security. Our clients (CCTV or Drone companies) can customize our proprietary AI solutions at the time of deployment or continuously evolve them if needed after deployment making them preferable to other comparable market solutions.
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EVP
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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 agnosticand 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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 105
  • Round size: Seed $942k–$3M; Series A $1.2M–$5.4M
  • Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AutoGrab — Australia's Automotive Intelligence Platform
  • Practifi — The leading wealth management CRM purpose-built for advisors, Practifi transforms how financial professionals connect with and grow their client base.
  • Smartabase — Centralize your health, medical, and performance data in Teamworks' AMS to gain a holistic view of your athletes and optimize performance.
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Flying Kiwi Angels
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $334k–$1.2M; Angel $592k–$918k; Pre-Seed $473k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 63% lead, 37% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PAM NZ
  • Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
  • Kai's Education — Kai's Education is an innovative force in the EdTech sector, pioneering the integration of coding, STEM, and robotics into engaging learning experiences for children. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our mission is to ignite young minds through our award-winning educational products, including the all-in-one STEAM toolbox, Kai's Clan, andthe hybrid robot, KaiBot.Our flagship product, Kai's Clan, breaks new ground by allowing children aged seven to fifteen to learn to code with state-of-the-art technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, Tinkercad, and Minecraft. KaiBot, designed for hands-on learning, uses screen-free coding cards to instill the fundamentals of coding, providing immediate feedback to enhance learning.Complemented by the Kainundrum Lite app, Kai's Education facilitates a seamless transition from tactile to advanced text-based coding, nurturing problem-solving skills and creativity. Recipient of the Smart AI Toy Award and the Common Sense Top Pick for Learning Award, Kai's Education is dedicated to equipping the next generation with the skills for tomorrow's challenges. We're not just teaching coding; we're inspiring creators.
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Flying Fox Ventures
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 3 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 104
  • Round size: Seed $992k–$3.2M; Pre-Seed $120k–$3M; Series A $649k–$5.7M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Predelo — Streamline workflows and optimize operations with Predelo's AI-driven automation. Discover the benefits of our solutions and stay ahead!
  • Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
  • Mass Dynamics — Mass Dynamics exists to enable more life scientists to accelerate their studies using Mass Spectrometry (MS). It's our contribution towards enriching lives and freeing humanity and society from the burden of disease. Mass Dynamics includes Enrichment Analysis based on GSEA algorithms and utilises Gene Ontology (GO) and Reactome knowledge bases.
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Five V Capital
VC Fund · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Five V Capital is a leading, growth-focused private equity & venture capital firm in Australia and New Zealand

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Private Equity, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 33
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$5.6M; Series A $2.2M–$50M; Private Equity $44M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $250M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Blastone — BlastOne is a supplier of blasting and coating equipment, abrasives, and painting equipment.
  • Fat Zebra
  • DyFlex Solutions — Incorporating adaptive technologies to unlock new levels of success for your organisation using next-generation SAP solutions backed by industry expertise.
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Sparkbox Ventures
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, EdTech
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 16
  • Round size: Seed $593k–$1.6M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Mohiomap — Visualize and navigate your Evernote, Google Drive, and Dropbox content. Mohiomap allows you to explore relationships in a dynamic Mind Map, get valuable insights, and visually organize your Cloud data!
  • Booktrack — Booktrack is an A.I Soundtrack company. Booktrack's Artificial Intelligence automatically creates soundtracks for any text or any voice. Backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Booktrack is a disruptive force in the publishing and audio world; equivalent to the introduction of sound transforming the experience of film forever. For moreinformation, visit booktrack.com.
  • 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.
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AngelHQ
VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Learn about Angel HQ, Wellington's Angel Investing Network - the meeting place for ambitious startups and passionate investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $918k–$3M; Angel $367k–$1M
  • 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.
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
  • Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.
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New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Medical Device, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $830k–$6.4M; Series A $6.2M–$17M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Oxin
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.
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Flying Kiwis
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Super-seeded by new entry: Flying Kiwi Angels

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Investment focus

  • 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 Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
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Movac
VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 49
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.9M; Series A $795k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $125M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • 1Above — 1Above is designed with Vitamins, Electrolytes and Super Antioxidant to help you recover faster on Travel, Work, Party occasions. Well known to help combat jet lag since 2010.
  • Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
  • Open — Open is on a mission is to provide the fastest insurance, at the best price, for the world. Providing embedded insurance to businesses of all sizes.
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First Round Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 801
  • Round size: Seed $1.1M–$8.4M; Series A $2.1M–$25M; Series B $7M–$60M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • PullString — PullString, Inc. is leading the field of computer conversation in both text and voice through a combination of design and technology. PullString (formerly ToyTalk) is an entertainment and technology company combining art and science to enable computer conversation with characters.The company's primary product, the PullString Platform, offersa professional authoring environment, hosted AI and machine learning runtime, and integrated conversation analytics to enterprises, agencies, and startups across verticals as diverse as entertainment, customer service, gaming and VR, travel, automotive, health and fitness, finance, human resources, and IoT.With direct support for all major conversational platforms like Facebook Messenger, Amazon Alexa, Skype, Slack, Kik, mobile, and web, the PullString Platform has been used to create award winning experiences like Call of Duty’s Lt Reyes on Messenger, Hello Barbie, and The Winston Show.PullString, founded as ToyTalk in 2011, has raised more than $44 million in funding from Greylock Partners; Charles River Ventures; Khosla Ventures; True Ventures; and First Round Capital.
  • &Open — For businesses that gift to give back, share joy, or show they care. All you need is an email.
  • Merlin Labs — Merlin is the aviation technology company propelling the future of fully autonomous flight.
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Investible
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 169
  • Round size: Seed $250k–$4.7M; Pre-Seed $404k–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$20M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2023

Portfolio highlights

  • Inspace XR — Inspire and engage prospective tenants, buyers, and your team with interactive virtual replicas of your assets, with 360 virtual tours, analytics & more.
  • Directo — Directo operates as an independent B2B e-commerce pharmacy marketplace.
  • EdenFarm Indonesia — EdenFarm Indonesia merupakan Start Up B2B, Pemasok bahan makanan mulai dari produk segar hingga sembako untuk restoran, warung nasi, hingga toko grosir.Menjual berbagai bahan pangan untuk usahamu mulai dari restoran hingga warung nasi
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Global from Day One
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Video
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 29
  • Round size: Seed $612k–$5M; Series A $1.2M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — 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 — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
  • Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
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Punakaiki Fund
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series B
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 41
  • Round size: Seed $355k–$5M; Series B $5.8M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
  • Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.
  • Sea-Flux Vessel Management Software — Sea-Flu is a cloud-based platform designed to streamline and digitize maritime operations for commercial vessels.
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Folklore Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 47
  • Round size: Seed $725k–$5M; Series A $500k–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised 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.
  • Hullbot — Hullbot is a developer of a robotic in-water cleaning system designed to inspect, map, and clean the hull of a boat without a human operator present. They offer design, development, and deployment of autonomous drones, delivering solutions to stop the growth of marine organisms, improve performance, and extend the time between haul-outs. Theirembedded intelligence enables their robots to interact with the environment on-the-fly.
  • Sphere — Live courses led by vetted experts for professionals who want to advance their careers
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Alpine Venture Capital
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Alpine Venture Capital operates as a venture capital firm that supports seed stage founders worldwide.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Accounting
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Venture - Series Unknown
  • Geography: United States, Italy, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $462k–$5.4M; Pre-Seed $2.8M–$4.4M
  • Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Browse AI — Easily scrape web data, monitor webpage changes, and turn websites into APIs with Browse AI.
  • Bunker — Bunker is a financial analytics tool that gives modern leaders quick access to information and deep visibility. Bunker subsidiary, bunker books, is a strategic consultancy that offers expert financial stewardship.
  • Entendre Finance — Entendre is the intelligent, enterprise-grade accounting agents for automating the bookkeeping and reporting of digital assets.
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Digital Asset Capital Management
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Australia, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$9M; Initial Coin Offering $2M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 19% lead, 81% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RISE Chain — RISE is a next-generation Ethereum Layer 2 blockchain designed to redefine blockchain performance by delivering near-instant transaction confirmations at unprecedented scale, all while upholding Ethereum’s foundational principle of decentralization
  • Macropod
  • Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI
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Reinventure
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 69
  • Round size: Seed $800k–$4.7M; Series A $3.3M–$18M; Series B $8.1M–$54M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $31M 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.
  • InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.
  • 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
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Rootz Labs
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Blockchain venture oriented studio

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, SaaS, Web3
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$1.5M
  • 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 Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure for ubiquitous computing that utilizes blockchain technology to create a shared economy of computing power. It connects and manages resources globally to form a stable, distributed network that can support various applications such as DePIN, AI and Edge Computing.
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Valar Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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 andopportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Banking
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 186
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6.5M–$41M; Series B $16M–$75M
  • Lead/follow: 61% lead, 39% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • 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
  • Parker — Parker is a developer of a digital financial platform designed to help users to pay expenses and manage their e-commerce finances.
  • Neo Financial — At Neo, we're innovating to make saving, spending and getting rewarded even more rewarding.
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Tidal Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 53
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $508k–$1.3M; Series A $1.7M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 62% lead, 38% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Operata — Continuously measure performance to deliver the best possible customer experience.
  • Socialsuite — Share your impact with the world using Socialsuite’s social impact and ESG technology.Whether you're looking to monitor your nonprofit's impact on people, or would like to demonstrate your organization's ESG commitments, Socialsuite's powerful impact technology can help you to show the change you're making.With officesin Australia, America and Canada, Socialsuite simplifies the complexity of social impact and sustainability reporting for corporates, nonprofits, charities, NGO's, governments, foundations, management consultants and impact investors.
  • 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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Altered Capital
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Finance, Software, Market Research
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Round size: Series A $10M–$14M
  • Lead/follow: 75% lead, 25% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
  • Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.
  • Starboard Maritime Intelligence — Monitor and protect your maritime domain
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Waterdrip Capital
VC Fund · Shanghai, Shanghai, China · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Waterdrip capital invests in blockchain industries.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Web3
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 84
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$6M; Pre-Seed $500k–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • DGrid AI — DGrid AI operates a decentralized AI inference network built on Web3 infrastructure. The platform provides an AI RPC layer that routes requests across distributed network nodes to run large language models. It offers a unified interface for AI app developers to access many LLMs and build AI-powered applications. The network uses tokenizedincentives and DAO governance to reward node operators and community participants. DGrid AI focuses on scalable on-chain inference and monetization of AI models for open, community-powered usage.
  • 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.
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Founders Fund
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 783
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$15M; Series A $5.5M–$43M; Series B $15M–$105M
  • Lead/follow: 34% lead, 66% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

  • Citrea — Bitcoin's First ZK Rollup
  • Lagrange Labs — Seamlessly interact between chains with cryptographically secured state proofs, not opaque intermediaries.
  • Workstream — Workstream is an automated hiring platform that helps companies employing hourly workers. The platform helped Jamba, Chick-fil-A, McDonald's, Dunkin', Applebee's, Auntie Anne's, Cinnabon to increase their bottom line and cost savings.Workstream was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California, UnitedStates.
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Quidnet Ventures
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Hospital, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • RosterLab — RosterLab goal is to automate every part of the rostering process for healthcare.
  • Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
  • Kara Technologies — Content accessibility using a signing avatar. Accessible solutions are at the core of all that we do here at Kara. One of our main goals is finding smarter ways of using technology that will help build a better future for everyone, in all areas of life.
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Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

The Whakatupu Aotearoa Foundation is a private philanthropic trust, established in 2020.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Predictive Analytics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Safe Surfer — Safe Surfer is an innovative platform that protects kids from harmful content
  • Starboard Maritime Intelligence — Monitor and protect your maritime domain
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Threshold
VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs to build innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Series A, Series C
  • Geography: United States, India, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 506
  • Round size: Series A $2.3M–$21M; Series B $4.2M–$50M; Series C $4.5M–$81M
  • Lead/follow: 24% lead, 76% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $450M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • CrowdAI — The world's most intuitive computer vision platform built for users of all technical abilities, no code required.
  • Benepass — Give your employees flexible benefits.
  • Elementary — The world's best manufacturers trust Elementary to improve quality, maximize yield, and gain valuable insights from real-time production quality data.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 206
  • Round size: Seed $570k–$6M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2M
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • KINO — KINO is a film production company that brings fans behind the scenes of their favorite hollywood films.
  • Tanssi Network — The Tanssi Network is a permissionless appchain infrastructure protocol designed for swift and effortless deployment of application-specific blockchains.
  • Virtualtech Frontier — Virtualtech Frontier develops business processes through virtual reality technology. It operates virtual event platforms, metaverse services, and virtual reality solutions. Virtualtech Frontier was founded in 2021 and is based in Selangor, Malaysia.
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AfterWork Ventures
VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

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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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 59
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
  • PropHero — Award-winning property investment technology and services to help you build wealth from a global pool of high yield properties.
  • Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.
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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Tayble — Spend more time enjoying your food and less time waiting.We hate waiting...For anything...And food and drinks are no exception!If your hobbies include:- Waiting in line - Calling out to a waiter - Watching the kettle boil - Calculating your split of the billPLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP... YOU'LL HATE IT!But if you're likeus...And want your food and drinks ready exactly when you are...Or to leave a restaurant without worrying about your bill...Then step right up, this bad boy's for you!With Tayble, you’ll never have to flag down a waiter... EVER!Simply order from your "Tayble"Or before you even arrive...Leave the rest to us and the 1,000's of minions in the cloud that keep this all running!You’ll be left asking where has this been all my life, guaranteed!*(Definitely not a real guarantee)
  • Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
  • Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.
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DePIN X
VC Fund · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

DePIN refers to a new sort of decentralized network for physical infrastructure. The goal of this network is to combine and activate various physical resources, such as hard drives and computing power, to construct a huge infrastructure network.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Web3, Blockchain
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • HashPower — HashPower is a professional blockchain expert that provides investors seamless access to blockchain mining.
  • aZen Protocol — aZen Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure for ubiquitous computing that utilizes blockchain technology to create a shared economy of computing power. It connects and manages resources globally to form a stable, distributed network that can support various applications such as DePIN, AI and Edge Computing.
  • Datagram — Datagram is an AI-driven, decentralized infrastructure platform operating as a DePIN baselayer. The company provides a live, scalable node network for launching custom DePIN networks and real-world decentralized applications, with cost savings over traditional cloud providers.
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Delphi Digital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups, 6 in the past 12 months

Delphi Digital is a leading cryptocurrency research firm, providing cutting-edge insights and updates to a community of over 30,000 investors and venture firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Philippines, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 67
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
  • Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
  • Squads — Collaborative infrastructure for web3 native teams
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Exponential Founders Fund
VC Fund · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Exponential Founders Fund is a Venture Capital Fund that invests in technologies that are changing the planet for the better.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Market Research, Data Visualization
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Litmaps — Visual citation navigation, powerful search, and relevant recommendations. The ultimate science discovery platform.
  • iVerify — IVerify is a mobile threat hunting company that provides mobile security solutions for individuals who want to know they can trust their devices with their most sensitive information without sacrificing privacy.
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Refactor
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Refactor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders solving fundamental human problems.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 103
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$9M; Series A $10M–$34M; Series B $16M–$103M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
  • Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2024

Portfolio highlights

  • Knowde — knowde is the online marketing platform dedicated to chemicals and ingredients. They make it easy to connect with customers, online. Use knowde Pages to get your products noticed every time a customer searches on any search engine. Build your knowde Page in an hour and get started for free.
  • Astranis — Four billion people still have no internet access. Astranis is here to change that. We're making small satellites for geostationary orbit, recently signed a contract to triple the satellite internet capacity of Alaska, and raised our Series A from Andreessen Horowitz.
  • Shield Bio — At Shield, we’re ensuring that antibiotic resistance doesn’t become more deadly than cancer.In 2050 more people will be dying of antibiotic resistant pathogens than cancer. Infections that were once treatable with a simple oral antibiotics are now requiring complex, painful treatments and resulting in serious health complications for patients.Gonorrhea is one such infection, having become resistant to over 10 different antibiotics, they have only one treatment that is still effective and resistance to this has already begun to emerge. With 820,000 new infections every year in the US, antibiotic resistance will spread quickly, which is why the CDC has resistant gonorrhea at an urgent threat level, the highest level available.Shield's novel genomic testing platform enables STI clinics to identify the antibiotic resistant strains of gonorrhea and other pathogens that their patients have, so they can select the correct antibiotics and halt the spread of antibiotic resistance.
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Lewis Holdings
VC Fund · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$1.1M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Avertana — Avertana is a process technology company that has developed a proprietary platform to refine solid industrial waste streams into valuable mineral and chemical raw materials used to make everyday products. Products of Avertana's process are used in products such as paint, building materials, paper and fertilisers. The process is costcompetitive with existing approaches but offers a much lower environmental footprint than traditional methods. Avertana helps its customers to build more sustainable supply chains by making mineral and chemical ingredients for widely-used products from sources that support optimal environmental outcomes. Avertana’s waste to value process helps industry to reduce its environmental footprint competitively.
  • Ambit — From natural language processing to machine learning, our conversational AI platform empowers organisations. Business focused and aligned, Ambit chatbots carve a direct path to meeting your strategic objectives. Ultimately, Ambit enables you to deliver to your customers and internal stakeholders better.
  • Unleashed Software — Supply, production, inventory and sales software with exceptional product and customer focus
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Bragiel Brothers
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Classic arcade gaming experience

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, FinTech
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Finland, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 75
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$7M; Pre-Seed $255k–$3.8M; Series A $6.1M–$68M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Vital — Intuitive, user friendly, smart hospital software that leverages AI for an optimized patient and clinician experience.
  • 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.
  • Green Room — Easily keep track of your live shows, team members, and live event finances with Green Room. Green Room is your business manager, scheduling assistant, and basic accountant, all from the convenience of your phone.
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Transformation Capital
VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Transformation Capital is the successor management company to Leerink Transformation Partners LLC (“LTP”).11 LTP was founded in 2016 by Todd Cozzens and Jared Kesselheim, MD together with SVB Leerink Capital LLC (formerly Leerink Capital Partners LLC) (“Leerink Capital”), an affiliate of SVB Leerink LLC (“Leerink”), a leading healthcare investmentbank. Leerink Capital provided seed capital to Fund I (approximately 3% of capital commitments) and operational support. In January 2019, SVB Financial Group (“SVB”), the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank, a U.S.-based high-tech commercial bank, acquired the Leerink businesses including Leerink Capital. Todd Cozzens, Jared Kesselheim, MD, and SVB expect to agree to a mutually beneficial ongoing relationship in which Transformation Capital (as an independent management company owned by Todd Cozzens, Jared Kesselheim, MD, and Michael Dixon and not affiliated with SVB or Leerink Capital) shall manage Fund II and whereby Transformation Capital shall manage Fund I’s investment portfolio pursuant to a sub-advisory agreement with SVB (or an affiliate). Transformation Capital has the same operational leader, Kevin Brown, formerly CFO of Leerink Capital, and Transformation Capital expects to continue to derive benefits from its ongoing relationship with Leerink and SVB.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Medical, Software
  • Stage:Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 72
  • Round size: Series B $24M–$72M; Series C $23M–$106M
  • Lead/follow: 49% lead, 51% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $500M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Judi Health — Capital Rx is a health technology company that engages in managing pharmacy benefit plans. The company is redefining the way prescriptions are priced and administered in the U.S. Through its Clearinghouse Model, it unlocks the pharmacy supply chain and reduces prescription costs for employer groups. By establishing a competitive marketplace fordrug pricing, Capital Rx focuses its resources on deploying actionable strategies that improve plan performance and patient outcomes.
  • Qualified Health — Discover the Infrastructure for enforceable governance, agent creation, and post-deployment monitoring for Generative AI in healthcare
  • TMRW Life Sciences — Discover automated fertility storage built for IVF clinics and patients. Trusted technology for safe, reliable cryopreservation.
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TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION
VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Retail solutions,Printing Solutions,Inkjet solutions,ODM solutions

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series B, Series A
  • Geography: Japan, New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Seed $9.5M–$81M; Series B $5.7M–$55M
  • Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Ukka — Ukka is a Creating the ideal form of food and agriculture.
  • Logiless — Logiless is a cloud type all-in-one software dedicated to net shop. Since both orders and stocks can be managed together in a logical manner, efficiency of operations can be realized at low cost.
  • MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
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DWF Labs
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

DWF Labs is the leading crypto venture capital company, market maker & liquidity provider. We help build strong web3 companies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 108
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Rice AI — Rice AI is a decentralized AI smart-contract protocol designed to provide autonomous training and incentive mechanisms for robots.
  • Depinsim — DepinSim is a blockchain-based eSIM platform that lets users access global mobile data and earn rewards.
  • Block Street — Blockstreet is a multichain platform driving USD1 stablecoin adoption, smart contract deployment, and cross-chain DeFi growth tools.
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ODIG
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

We Are Reshaping Digital Infrastructure Via WEB3.0

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 26
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Swan Chain — FilSwan provides a layer 2 cross-chain infrastructure for Web3 projects by integrating data, computing, and payment into one suite. FilSwan offers a complete solution that enables web3 developers to integrate decentralized storage, edge computing, and payment across multiple chains with ease.
  • aZen Protocol — aZen Protocol is a decentralized infrastructure for ubiquitous computing that utilizes blockchain technology to create a shared economy of computing power. It connects and manages resources globally to form a stable, distributed network that can support various applications such as DePIN, AI and Edge Computing.
  • Glacier Network — Glacier Network is building a programmable, modular, scalable blockchain for storing, indexing, and querying data from off-chains and on-chains, supercharging AI, DePIN and large-scale DApps. Glacier empowers verifiable computing through GlacierAI, GlacierDA, and GlacierDB.
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 1 investments in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 183
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • CSignum — Revolutionising underwater communications with electromagnetic technology for seamless data integration between surface & submerged devices.
  • Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
  • Watercycle Technologies — Watercycle Technologies specialized in the development of high-yield, low-cost mineral extraction, and water treatment systems. Its core technology, capable of treating highly concentrated water, is an end-to-end solution encompassing mineral extraction, concentration, and crystallization.
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Artificial Intelligence VC funding in New Zealand at a glance

Stats across 85 deals from 143 investors.

143
investors
in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups
85
deals
in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups
$3M
median round
in New Zealand Artificial intelligence startups
34%
lead investors
lead at least one round
46%
Seed
most common funding stage

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