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Top 40 Climate Startup Investors in New Zealand

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

Top 40 Climate Startup Investors in New Zealand

Investor Climate New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures 9
K1W1 8
Enterprise Angels 4
GD1 4
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund 4
Sparkbox Ventures 4
Global from Day One 3
Finistere Ventures 2
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund 2
Yamaha Motor 2
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners 2
Promus Ventures 2
Steven Adams 1
Climate Venture Capital Fund 1
Lincoln Agritech 1
Bay Trust 1
Marko Bogoievski 1
Outset Ventures 1
ACC 1
Quayside Holdings 1
Pacific Channel 1
Ngāi Tahu 1
Sante Ventures 1
Wolfgang Leitner 1
RIV Capital 1
Investible 1
Movac 1
Obayashi Corporation 1
Lewis Holdings 1
Nuance Capital 1
Carl Bass 1
Karl Iagnemma 1
Impact Enterprise Fund 1
AngelHQ 1
Fortescue Future Industries 1
Founders Fund 1
Seven Peaks Ventures 1
Khosla Ventures 1
Blackbird Ventures 1
Radicle Growth 1
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Icehouse Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 7 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, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • ANDFOODS — ANDFOODS is a supplier of dairy substitutes to make sure each item is delicious and environmentally friendly.
  • Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
  • 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.
K1W1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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
  • Akahu — Akahu provides open banking and open finance infrastructure. We make it simple for people to connect their financial accounts to trusted third parties.
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
  • Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.
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
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
  • 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.
GD1 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
  • StretchSense — The StretchSense hand motion capture solution brings together accurate and comfortable gloves, and machine learning to detect and render perfect hand poses. - StretchSense
  • Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
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
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 — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • 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.
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 Labs — 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.
Finistere Ventures VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States
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
  • Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
  • Animol Discovery — Animol is building its own pipeline of break-through proprietary veterinary small molecules led by a team of animal health industry experts with vast experience in bringing drugs to market. With our unique and powerful technology platform we deliver innovative medicines that are specifically designed for the needs of veterinary patients.
  • Growers Edge — Growers Edge leverages data science to build grower-relevant risk management solutions to meet ever-changing agricultural demands.
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.
  • BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
  • EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
Yamaha Motor VC Fund · Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.
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Investment focus
  • Transportation, Robotics, Logistics
  • Series A, Corporate Round, Series B
  • India, Japan, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • RIOS — We are helping enterprises automate their entire factories, warehouses or supply chain operations by deploying AI-powered end-to-end robotic workcells.
  • Joyride — Make mobility instantly shareable, connected, keyless and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
  • River — Empowering people, improving lives.
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners VC Fund
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
  • 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.
Promus Ventures VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • RobCo — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
  • Wakeo — Wakeo provides real time tracking on door-to-door multimodal transport flows including sea, air, rail and road freight. Discover the real-time visibility platform to manage disruptions, drive performance and collaboration and transform your business.
  • FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
Steven Adams Angel
Steven Adams
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Investment focus
  • Organic, Agriculture
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
Climate Venture Capital Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Climate Venture Capital Fund is a group of investors, scientists, business people, and experts in change.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
  • Seed, Series A
  • Australia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
  • MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
Lincoln Agritech VC Fund · Lincoln, Nebraska, United States
Lincoln Agritech is a vibrant organization with over 50 staff, including scientists, research engineers, and software developers.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing
  • Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • CertusBio — The CertusBio continuous monitoring system provides easy access to real-time data so that food processors can now mitigate losses and waste waterwater quality issues at the source. We are helping industrial food processors transition to a more sustainable model of production.
Bay Trust VC Fund
Community Trust
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Investment focus
  • Sensor, Hardware, Robotics
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • WNT Ventures — New Zealand's Venture Capital Deep Tech Investor. Investing in Deeptech founders from Aotearoa to build local companies and help them go global
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.
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
ACC VC Fund
ACC is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Organic, Agriculture
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
Quayside Holdings VC Fund
Quayside Holdings is the investment arm of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council which responsibly manages the commercial, property and horticulture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Sensor, FinTech, Hardware
  • Seed, Series B
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • TradeWindow — TradeWindow provides the tools and support for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to begin the journey to digital transformation.
  • WNT Ventures — New Zealand's Venture Capital Deep Tech Investor. Investing in Deeptech founders from Aotearoa to build local companies and help them go global
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 develops innovative, cross-industry location data solutions, services and products.
  • 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.
Ngāi Tahu VC Fund
Ngāi Tahu
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Investment focus
  • Organic, Agriculture, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Orbica — Orbica develops innovative, cross-industry location data solutions, services and products.
  • Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
Sante Ventures VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Privately Held Companies
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Investment focus
  • Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Series A, Series B, Series C
  • United States, Canada, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • BeeKeeperAI — BeeKeeperAI is a zero trust collaboration platform protecting both algorithm IP and regulated data.
  • Solu Therapeutics — Solu Therapeutics is a precision-medicine-focused company developing therapeutics to eliminate disease-driving cells.
  • Surgical Safety Technologies — Making Surgery Safer. Unifying safety, efficiency and compliance in healthcare with over a decade of research and clinical experience.
Wolfgang Leitner Angel
Wolfgang Leitner is CEO of Andritz.
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Investment focus
  • Nutrition, Sustainability, Food Processing
  • Seed, Series B
  • Israel, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Innovopro — Bringing a unique chickpea protein platform to the global food & beverage market, for creating nutritious, tasty, and sustainable food products.
  • Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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
Investible VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 25 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • CarbonHQ — CarbonHQ is your all-in-one platform making it easy to manage carbon projects across teams. Internal and external.
  • Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
  • Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.
Movac VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 3 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.
  • LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all matters, contracts and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
  • 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.
Obayashi Corporation VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States
Obayashi Corporation is a construction contractor that offers building construction, heavy civil construction, engineering, urban development, and real estate management services. The company offers services necessary to build and maintain office buildings, residences, tunnels, highways, rail systems, bridges, artificial islands, airports, andnuclear power plants.The company’s portfolio of services includes contracting of construction works; regional, urban, oceanic, and environmental development of businesses related to construction; engineering and management related to research, surveying, planning, devising, designing, and supervising; housing business; sale, purchase, exchange, lease, brokerage, ownership, caretaking, and utilization of real estate; operation of type II financial instruments and exchange business, investment advisory, and agency business under Financial Instruments and Exchange Law; planning, construction, retention, maintenance, and management of infrastructures such as road, port, water supply and drainage, municipal building, educational and cultural facility, waste treatment facility, medical facility, and others; recovering environmental pollutions such as purification of soil, sediment of river and lake, water-quality of lake and sea; and collection, transportation, treatment, and recycling of municipal and industrial wastes; power generation and supply of electricity and heat; manufacture, supply, sale, and lease of construction machinery and equipment, and materials and equipment for temporary works; manufacture and sale of concrete products for construction, fireproof or nonflammable building materials, materials for interior and exterior of buildings, furniture and wooden products for buildings, and sale of civil engineering and building materials; undertaking of maintenance and care of buildings, related facilities, and security and guard services; acquisition, development, licensing for use, and sale of software, industrial properties, and know-how related to utilization of computers; operation of information processing service, business of information furnishing service, and supply of telecommunication circuits; sale, lease, and maintenance service of electronic office machinery and equipment, including computers; management of health, medical, sport and leisure facilities, hotels and restaurants, and travel agencies; manufacture and sale of medical machinery and tools; operation of temporary personnel placement agency businesses under the Temporary Personnel Placement Agency Act; undertaking of services related to general affairs, personnel affairs, and accounting matters; operation of insurance agencies; production, processing, and sale of agricultural products, and acquisition, development, licensing for use and sale of agriculture-related technologies; money-lending and suretyship on obligations and other financial services; consulting serviced relates; and more.Obayashi Corporation has presence in Japan, North America, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Oceania.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Japan, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • KEMARO AG — KEMARO GmbH, headquartered in Eschlikon, Switzerland, was founded in August 2016 by three engineers specializing in the development and production of autonomous industrial robotics. Our first product, the KEMARO-800, is the world's first dry fully autonomous cleaning robot for industrial use, demonstrating our expertise internationally as aleader in artificial intelligence and robotics.
  • SafeAI — SafeAI retrofits existing heavy mining and construction vehicles with autonomous technology. Explore our solutions for creating safer, more efficient worksites.
  • Fabrum — Fabrum offers onsite liquid Nitrogen Systems for the production of cryogenic and engineering solutions. Contact us to meet your requirements.
Lewis Holdings VC Fund
Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Computer
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
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 — Automate and scale customer service to reduce support costs and drive revenue with Ambit's GPT conversational AI chatbot software.
  • Unleashed Software — A powerful tool for business growth, Unleashed delivers streamlined purchasing, accurate stock costs, easy sales management & smart manufacturing stock control
Nuance Capital VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Nuance Capital is a venture capital fund.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Software, Automotive
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • New Zealand
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.
  • Easy Crypto — The world's favourite place to buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Delivery in less than 2 minutes, easiest order process, and we're open 24/7.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Carl Bass
Founder @ Ithaca Software
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Software, Hardware
  • Series A, Funding Round
Karl Iagnemma Angel
Karl is an authority on robotics and autonomous vehicles. His commentary has been published and broadcast worldwide on Bloomberg, The Economist, CNBC, and BBC, among others. As former director of the Robotic Mobility Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his research resulted in more than 150 technical publications, 50 issued orfiled patents, and numerous edited volumes, including books on the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle competitions.In 2017, Karl was named one of the “Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs and designated a member of the “Recode 100” list of technology influencers. Karl holds MS and PhD degrees from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow, and a BS from the University of Michigan, where he graduated first in his class.Iagnemma co-founded nuTonomy, Inc. in 2013 and saw the company through acquisition by Aptiv in late 2017. nuTonomy was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2018 and Iagnemma was selected as a 2017 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is now president of Aptiv Autonomous Mobility, which is building the world’s safest and smartest driverless vehicle software.
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Investment focus
  • 3D Printing
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Foundry Lab — Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. This new form of additive manufacturing allows users to cast metal parts - without pouring molten metal - in the safety of their own office. This fully automated system is incredibly fast - CAD file to 50+ metal parts in just 8 hours.
Impact Enterprise Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
The Fund provides growth capital to businesses who deliver social and/or environmental impact, alongside attractive financial returns. This Fund has two primary objectives: delivering market-rate financial returns, and delivering tangible societal and environmental outcomes.
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Investment focus
  • AgTech, Analytics, Horticulture
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
  • CertusBio — The CertusBio continuous monitoring system provides easy access to real-time data so that food processors can now mitigate losses and waste waterwater quality issues at the source. We are helping industrial food processors transition to a more sustainable model of production.
  • CarbonCrop — CarbonCrop gets you recognised and paid for the carbon sequestered in trees on your land. Our artificial-intelligence based mapping and measurement mean we can give you fast, accurate results for no up-front cost.
AngelHQ VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Angel HQ is Wellington region's angel investment network - follow us for angel investing info, and a way to connect to local, national and international angels.
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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.
Fortescue Future Industries VC Fund
Welcome to Fortescue. We're a global green energy and metals company.
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Investment focus
  • Energy, GreenTech, Electronics
  • Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
  • Zhero — Zhero is a focused developer of green and clean energy projects, such as renewables, H2 and derivatives, interconnections, energy storage, and repurposing.
  • Mission Zero — Mission Zero is a DAC startup with patent-pending breakthrough technology and close the carbon cycle.
  • Fabrum — Fabrum offers onsite liquid Nitrogen Systems for the production of cryogenic and engineering solutions. Contact us to meet your requirements.
Founders Fund VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 42 investments in the past 12 months
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, FinTech
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Avail — Avail is the essential modular blockchain base layer for next-generation, trust-minimized applications.
  • Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
  • Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.
Seven Peaks Ventures VC Fund · Bend, Oregon, United States
Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions. Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, New Zealand
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  • Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
  • CrowdStreet — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
  • Prime Trust — Prime Trust powers innovation in the digital economy by providing fintech and digital asset innovators with financial infrastructure. Our API is customizable whether you're building a crypto exchange or expanding your business with digital assets.
Khosla Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 72 investments in the past 12 months
Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
  • Loyal — Loyal is a biotechnology company developing medicines to extend dog lifespan. By developing drugs with the potential to slow the aging process, they aim to delay or prevent age-related diseases like cancer and dementia.
  • Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Blackbird Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 25 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
  • Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
  • 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
Radicle Growth VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Radicle Growth is a San Diego, California based venture capital firm focused sustainable, early-stage ag and food tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Grant
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • PheroSyn — PheroSyn develops and produces novel pest pheromones. PheroSyn is a spin-out from Rothamsted Research, the world-leading, non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers and society worldwide.
  • FarmSense — FarmSense provides commercial farmers and agricultural operators the ability to monitor, count, and identify insect pests in real time.
  • Pluton Biosciences — The miniscule organisms Pluton Biosciences discover possess the power to create global change. Pluton quickly and inexpensively taps into the diverse world of bacteria, fungi and viruses to discover next-generation products for carbon sequestration, agriculture, pharmaceutical, biomaterials and bioremediation.Pluton Bioscience's discoveryprocess generates diverse commercialization options, including: Organisms (biological products), Small Molecule Chemistries (fermentable and non-fermentable) and New Traits (scale dependent).
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