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Top 40 Biotechnology Startup Investors in New Zealand in November 2024

A list of 40 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Biotechnology startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Biotechnology companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 40 Biotechnology Startup Investors in New Zealand in November 2024

Investor Biotechnology New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures 8
Finistere Ventures 5
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund 5
Enterprise Angels 5
K1W1 4
OurCrowd 3
Matū Fund 3
Fonterra Co-operative Group 2
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund 2
Callaghan Innovation 2
IP Group 2
Sparkbox Ventures 1
Sante Ventures 1
Sustainable Food Ventures 1
Cure Kids Ventures 1
ArcAngels 1
AngelHQ 1
Global from Day One 1
Marko Bogoievski 1
Paul Davidson 1
Ice Angels 1
University of Auckland Inventors Fund 1
Catamount Ventures 1
Movac 1
Toyota Ventures 1
Powerhouse Ventures 1
Adam Clark 1
Melanie Melanie 1
RIV Capital 1
Even Capital 1
Tribe Global Ventures 1
Uniservices 1
Latesha Randall 1
Serge van Dam 1
Tuhua Fund 1
Pacific Channel 1
Octopus Ventures 1
David Ross 1
Snowball Effect 1
Outset Ventures 1
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Icehouse Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 16 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
  • 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.
Finistere Ventures VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Finistere Ventures is an agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor. Founded in 2005, the company partners with other entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to build innovative companies that have the potential to transform modern agriculture, increase food security, improve nutrition, and enhance sustainability. Their appliedexperience as operators, and pioneering role in Ag Tech, is actively utilized to benefit its portfolio companies and Partners. Finistere has global access to the best new technologies from centers of Ag Tech excellence in the U.S., Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada through its venture partner networks. Finistere’s locations in San Diego and Palo Alto, California keeps them connected to the centers of mainstream venture investment and the world’s leading innovation ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Agriculture, Farming
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, New Zealand, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
  • Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
  • Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
  • Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Enterprise Angels VC Fund · Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand
Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
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.
  • Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
K1W1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in the past 12 months
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
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.
  • Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
  • Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
OurCrowd VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 13 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Israel, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
  • Kando — Kando is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
  • Blue Tree Technologies Ltd. — Blue Tree’s mission is to develop a sugar reduction platform for industrial applications in the drinks industry.
Matū Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Investing in scalable science and deep tech start-ups in Aotearoa NZ. We operate venture capital funds that invest in science and deep tech through a hands-on, active approach.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Robotics, Nanotechnology
  • Seed
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Ligar — Providing molecular filtration solutions to companies in the food, beverage, health, therapeutics, flavour and aroma industries. Our unique MIP and Polymer technology enables companies to improve their products and operational processes by extracting, reducing or concentrating flavours or compounds.
  • Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
  • PowerON — Dielectric Elastomers for Soft Robotics
Fonterra Co-operative Group VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We're a global dairy nutrition company owned by 10,000 farmers and their families, united by a fundamental belief in the power of dairy to make a difference.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Dietary Supplements
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
  • Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
  • Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund VC Fund · Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, The Netherlands, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
  • MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
  • EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
Callaghan Innovation VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Callaghan Innovation is a stand-alone Crown Entity established on 1 February, 2013. Their role hasn’t previously existed in New Zealand.When they succeed, all New Zealanders will benefit from a stronger economy, higher value exports, more productive and sustainable resource use, more jobs and higher incomes.International evidence showsadvanced technology institutes like Callaghan Innovation have been successful at helping businesses build innovation capability that contributes to their growth and the broader economy.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Construction, Horticulture
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
  • DNAiTECH — At DNAiTECH we develop innovative portable isothermal amplification instruments for point of care diagnostics, in-field applications, and rapid DNA testing.
  • Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
IP Group VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 5 investments in the past 12 months
IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
  • Microbiotica — Microbiotica is a developer of human microbiome therapeutics intended to discover and develop live bacterial therapeutics and biomarkers. The company's therapeutics identify gut bacteria linked to phenotype with unprecedented precision, enabling researchers to phenotype before testing of candidate bacteria in advanced human in vitro and invivo models.
  • MISSION Therapeutics — Deubiquitylating enzymes: multiple drug opportunities across therapeutic areas
Sparkbox Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, EdTech
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Japan
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.
Sante Ventures VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Endogenex — DyaMX is an early stage medical device company focused on the treatment of Type 2 Diabetes
  • Solu Therapeutics — Solu Therapeutics is a precision-medicine-focused company developing therapeutics to eliminate disease-driving cells.
  • Reprieve Cardiovascular — Reprieve Cardiovascular is bringing intelligence to decongestion management to safely accelerate fluid removal for heart failure patients.
Sustainable Food Ventures VC Fund · Raleigh, North Carolina, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
SFV backs globally early-stage founders building leading Future of Food companies that are: #Cell-based #Plant-based #Recombinant
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Biotechnology, Food Processing
  • Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
  • United States, India, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Another Food — Another Food is a plant cell culture startup which develops sustainable coffee from plant cells. A nature-identical coffee, healthier for consumers and better for the planet.
  • Peruvian Veef — Peruvian Veef is an offline and online store that offers real burgers, grilled seitan, crispy cravings, and vegan nugget products.
  • Atlantic Fish Company — Atlantic Fish Co is a cultivated seafood company using cellular agriculture to bring the world sustainable delicious seafood.
Cure Kids Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Investing in innovation for a healthy childhood Investing in innovation for a healthy childhood About Cure Kids Ventures Cure Kids Ventures is a seed and early stage investment fund that invests in the commercialisation of innovations in products and services with a potential to
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, SaaS, Medical
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • 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.
  • Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
ArcAngels VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
At ArcAngels Funding, we connect female entrepreneurs across New Zealand to venture capital and investment to help their businesses grow.
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Investment focus
  • Medical, Genetics, Health Care
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Engender Technologies — Engender has developed a proprietary process to separate X (female) and Y (male) bearing bull sperm cells, enabling dairy farmers to accelerate genetic gain and improve productivity. Engender has secured scientific and laboratory facilities from one of the world’s largest AI companies in exchange for an option for it to non-exclusively licenseEngender’s technology.
AngelHQ VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Angel HQ is a Wellington-based angel investment network dedicated to fostering the growth of innovative Kiwi companies. We offer resources, funding, and support to startups and entrepreneurs, helping...
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Canada
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.
  • Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
Global from Day One VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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
  • Software, SaaS, Medical Device
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, China
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.
  • Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
  • 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.
Marko Bogoievski Angel
Marko retired as CEO of Morrison & Co in 2021 after 13 years of leading the business. He continues to provide guidance for investments in telecommunications and digital infrastructure. His 30 year career has been in the infrastructure and technology sectors in a variety of senior finance, operational and sales roles in the United States and NewZealand. Prior to joining Morrison & Co in 2008, Marko was CFO of Telecom NZ, responsible for corporate finance, M&A and group strategy. Marko is Chair of Vodafone New Zealand.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Manufacturing
  • Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Pictor — Pictor is a biotechnology company develops, manufactures and market immunodiagnostic products.
Paul Davidson Angel
Paul Davidson joined private equity group, West Coast Capital in 2005 following a successful career in corporate law in the UK, the US and Commonwealth of Independent States. As an active partner in West Coast Capital as well as providing legal counsel, Paul focusses on deal sourcing and transacting.Since joining the group, Paul has successfulyled the acquisition and delisting from the LSE of the UK's largest garden centre business, Wyevale as well as a series of acquisitions and disposals.Prior to joining West Coast Capital headed the corporate team of UK lawyers, McGrigors.In late 1994 Paul was seconded to an oil and gas company called JKX whose focus was on the former Soviet Union, primarily in Ukraine, Georgia and the Russian Federation. JKX listed on the London Stock Exchange in mid 1995 and at that time Paul joined the company as its Legal Director on a full time basis. During his time as Legal Director, Paul gained wide commercial experience as the company concluded a number of transactions throughout the former Soviet Union.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, FinTech, Privacy
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Finland, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
  • TVSquared — With trusted, independent attribution and partnerships with DSPs, publishers, advertisers and MVPDs, TVSquared measures the effectiveness of TV advertising through an infinitely scalable platform for linear, addressable and OTT/CTV.
  • Ubisecure — Ubisecure B2B IAM, Legal Entity Identifiers LEI, IDaaS and hybrid identity management. European SSO, MFA, LEI made easy.
Ice Angels VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
  • beany.biz — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
  • Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)
University of Auckland Inventors Fund VC Fund
University of Auckland Inventors Fund
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Audio
  • Series A, Series B, Convertible Note
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Soul Machines — Go beyond avatars. Create interactive, customizable, Soul Machines Digital People for AI-driven impact. Try it now.
  • Rain Therapeutics — Rain Therapeutics researches, develops and translates innovative targeted cancer therapies to patients
  • Dotterel Technologies — Dotterel develops noise reduction and audio recording technology for UAVs. Our Aerial Audio Microphone is a payload for UAVs and is a unique world first capability. Throughout the development we have worked closely with customers to deliver for high value use cases in Emergency Services, Defence and TV/Film. Hearing audio from your UAV provides an important addition to the video. Now you can have live conversations one-to-one and one-to-many with people remotely via the UAV when there is no other communication methods available. We look forward to working with our customers and partners to deliver a new range of UAV solutions.
Catamount Ventures VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States
Founded in 2000 by Jed Smith, Catamount Ventures works with passionate entrepreneurs to help them build companies in the education, healthy living, and sustainability markets. Our common goal? To generate enduring value and produce outstanding returns for our investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Education
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Modumetal — Modumetal has enabled a revolutionary new class of nanolaminated materials with broad application in structural, corrosion and high temperature performance of coatings, bulk materials and partsModumetal is based on the interaction of different materials at their interfaces. By laminating metals, Modumetal creates a new way to influence materialproperties. By growing metal using low-cost electrochemical methods, Modumetal enables a whole new class of applications of these materials.Modumetal is currently producing nanolaminated alloys for applications in construction, energy and aerospace markets.
  • MasteryConnect — Drive student growth with software for innovative assessment, curriculum planning, benchmark assessment, and free apps for teachers.
  • PresenceLearning — Expand access to services and engage students in new ways with our award-winning technology and network of expert clinicians.
Movac VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
  • Miruku — Miruku is a molecular farming dairy startup developing advanced dairy proteins through plant technologies that hold the potential to produce animal-free milk proteins cost-effectively.
  • Re-Leased Software Company Limited — Commercial property management software that makes life easier for property managers, landlords and owners.
Toyota Ventures VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Agtonomy — Agtonomy is a hybrid autonomy and tele-assist platform for agriculture vehicles.
  • Paladin Drones — Equipped with the latest in LTE-enabled drone technology, First Responders can increase their situational awareness, operate more effectively, and save lives.
  • Matter Intelligence — Matter Intelligence is creating the most detailed map of the world using first-of-a-kind sensors to understand our planet like never before
Powerhouse Ventures VC Fund · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
powerHouse is a New Zealand intellectual property commercialisation company investing to develop new spin-out ventures
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Investment focus
  • Solar, FinTech, Big Data
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, France, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Granular — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. We are the leading provider of energy certificate management software for utilities, helping to streamline certificate managment processes and enabling utilities to launch next-generation green offers, including transparency down to the hourly level.
  • Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. We are the leading provider of energy certificate management software for utilities, helping to streamline certificate managment processes and enabling utilities to launch next-generation green offers, including transparency down to the hourly level.
  • Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
Adam Clark Angel · Clearwater, Florida, United States
Adam Clark is the Co-Founder, COO at Turncast. Adam Clark attended The Master's University.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Melanie Melanie Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
RIV Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
  • Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
  • TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in
Even Capital VC Fund
Even Capital operates as an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed, Series C
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
  • Sharesies — Sharesies allows you to get started investing from just $5.
Tribe Global Ventures VC Fund · Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
A venture capital fund for ambitious Australian & New Zealand B2B technology ventures seeking to expand to the UK or USA. Tribe Global Ventures.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Biometrics
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • APLYiD — APLYiD is a trusted & accredited digital ID solution designed to streamline your customer onboarding with a first-class user experience.
Uniservices VC Fund
Auckland University's commercialisation arm
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, SaaS, Audio
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • 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.
Latesha Randall Angel
Latesha Randall is the Co- Founder at Raglan Coconut Yoghurt. Latesha attended Homeschooled.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Serge van Dam Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Serge has a depth of experience in technology startups that is difficult to rival. As CMO of M-Com, Serge led the growth of M-Com from a four person mobile commerce development company to the world's most successful provider of mobile banking and payment solutions (in both licensed and SaaS categories). He has since held executive levelpositions and Directorships, including as Chair on four boards, of many successful B2B SaaS companies. He is also an avid investor.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Tuhua Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • New Zealand, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
  • Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Pacific Channel VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Orbica — Orbica Environmental Monitoring
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
Octopus Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 25 investments in the past 12 months
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Desia — Desia provides advanced AI applications for productivity, automation, and analytics for financial services.
  • NanoSyrinx — NanoSyrinx is an award-winning, discovery stage biotechnology company based in the UK. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop protein nanosyringes as a completely novel modality for intracellular delivery of protein and peptide biologic drugs.
  • Stema — It serves as a platform for hiring engineers
David Ross Angel
David Ross
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Investment focus
  • Biopharma, Biotechnology
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Helico — Helico is developing a proprietary computational platform for synthetic biology research using modelling tools and AI-based prediction algorithms. The long-term aim is to develop a seed bank of different drugs able to be licensed to grow medical supplies in confined greenhouses anywhere in the world.
Snowball Effect VC Fund · Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand's leading equity investment marketplace. We simplify investment into high growth Kiwi companies.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Ubco — UBCO is a New Zealand and US-based tech company that designs, develops, and distributes Utility Electric Vehicles and Portable Power Supplies for on-and off-road adventures, leisure and recreation, and commercial use where vehicle utility is required. UBCO have a desire to Power Your Purpose, through it's Utility Electric Vehicles (UEVs) thatcan change the way people ride, work, and play. UBCO currently has a digitally connected UEV platform which includes on- and off-road transport (2×2), portable power, accessories, and software. They provide a complete solution, from users to managers across a wide range of applications.
  • Tether Limited — Tether develops a solution that continuously assesses, reports on, and rates the environmental quality and energy efficiency of homes, offices, and classrooms. Tether will not only enable continuous evaluation and feedback, but it will also provide ways to improve the environments in which users live, work, or learn.Through connected hardware andsoftware solutions, Tether promotes healthy living, learning, and working environments.
  • 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.
Outset Ventures VC Fund · Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
Outset, Empowering NZ's deep tech startups: investment, space, support. Join our community of innovators for global impact.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
  • Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.
  • Aspiring Materials — Aspiring Materials. Civil Engineering and Geoengineering Research for the Future and Mars
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