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Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Enterprise startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Enterprise companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Enterprise Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025

Investor Enterprise New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures 44
K1W1 21
Enterprise Angels 20
Blackbird Ventures 11
Punakaiki Fund 9
GD1 9
Movac 9
Flying Kiwi Angels 8
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund 7
Shasta Ventures 5
Airtree Ventures 5
Phil McCaw 4
Global from Day One 4
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners 4
Ice Angels 4
Hillfarrance Venture Capital 3
Rampersand 3
Snowball Effect 3
AngelHQ 3
Sparkbox Ventures 3
AfterWork Ventures 3
Reinventure 3
Bessemer Venture Partners 2
Five V Capital 2
Carthona Capital 2
Direct Capital Private Equity 2
Quidnet Ventures 2
Jonathan Hendriksen 2
I2BF Global Ventures 2
Alpine Venture Capital 2
Melbourne Angels 2
Craig Winkler 2
Insight Partners 2
Sam Morgan 2
Endeavour Capital Limited 2
TMT Ventures 2
Flying Fox Ventures 2
Octopus Ventures 2
Tidal Ventures 2
Nicole Fougere 2
Square Peg Capital 2
Maurice Eng 2
Pacific Channel 2
Rich Chetwynd 2
Akshay Kothari 2
Soul Capital 2
EVP 2
Hypersphere Ventures 2
Folklore Ventures 2
Richard Collier Keywood 2
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Icehouse Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 10 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
  • Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
  • 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.
  • Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
K1W1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 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, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
  • 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.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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.
Blackbird Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 19 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, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
  • Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
  • Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
Punakaiki Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Astute Access — Astute is using smart locks and cloud software, our enterprise solutions deliver a robust, scalable access control solution.
  • 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 — The world evolves, and so do we. As optical communication technologies find new applications, our...
GD1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
  • Ivo — Ivo reduces the time, effort, and cost of negotiating agreements.
Movac VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
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.
Flying Kiwi Angels VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • FileInvite — The simplest, most secure, document collection platform for professionals. Request files, forms, data and e-signatures all through a secure client portal.
  • 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.
  • 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.
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 — 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
Shasta Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Airtree Ventures VC Fund · Paddington, Western Australia, Australia · 9 investments in the past 12 months
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
  • Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
  • Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
Phil McCaw Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
  • CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
  • Flick Electric — Flick Electric Co. is the only power company that gives New Zealanders access to the wholesale price of electricity direct from the spot market. In fact we pass on all of the costs of getting power to your place, without any mark-up – that’s generation, distribution, transmission and metering – so you can relax knowing that you’re not paying a centmore than you need to.And in your personalised online portal we’ll show you exactly how much power you’re using every half hour of every day, and what you’re paying for it, so you are empowered to change how you use electricity to save even more.
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.
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Scannable — Scannable helps Arborists, Rope Access Technicians, Riggers, and Rescuers easily manage PPE and safety equipment.
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • 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.
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 — Beany provides online accounting services to New Zealand businesses. Compliance and advisory services, expert support, transparent pricing, and smarter financial insights for your business.
  • Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)
Hillfarrance Venture Capital VC Fund
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
  • Animation, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
  • 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!
  • Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio
Rampersand VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
  • Cuttable — Turn your existing content and products into agency-grade Meta ads in minutes. Cuttable's AI advertising platform combines decades of advertising expertise with cutting-edge technology to help ecommerce brands create high-performing ads at scale - without the agency price tag.
  • JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
Snowball Effect VC Fund · Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
Simplified access to top-tier managed funds and private 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.
AngelHQ VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Learn about Angel HQ, Wellington's Angel Investing Network - the meeting place for ambitious startups and passionate investors.
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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.
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.
AfterWork Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
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.
Reinventure VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
Bessemer Venture Partners VC Fund · Redwood City, California, United States · 73 investments in the past 12 months
We partner with audacious entrepreneurs building enduring businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, India, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Datafy.io — Optimize cloud storage costs with Datafy. Our solution auto-scales your EBS storage so you only pay for the storage you use saving you up to 50%.
  • MaintainX — MaintainX helps you track your reactive maintenance, preventive maintenance, and control the daily operations of your business. Get started for Free!
  • Crash Override — Crash Override is a cyber security company founded by Mark Curphey and John Viega. Screw security busy work. We reduce the noise and increase the signal.
Five V Capital VC Fund · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Five V Capital is a leading, growth-focused private equity & venture capital firm in Australia and New Zealand
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Cyclotek — Cyclotek helps patients achieve better health through better diagnosis. They are reliable, cost-efficient suppliers of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) empowering radiopharmaceuticals. PET scanning provides unique insights into many serious diseases, translating directly to more personalized healthcare and better patient outcomes.
  • 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.
Carthona Capital VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 9 investments in the past 12 months
Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, FinTech
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Qlarifi — Consumer lending decisions transformed with real time, comprehensive data.
  • 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
  • Ajust — Ajust makes it easy to resolve customer complaints with banks, telcos and energy companies. It's fast, fair and free for consumers.
Direct Capital Private Equity VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Direct Capital is a private equity manager established in 1994. Today Direct Capital remains owned and managed by three of its founding directors, Ross George, Mark Hutton and Bill Kermode. The team has grown to 13 investment professionals, who together have 110 years of private equity experience.Direct Capital seeks to be a pre-eminentprovider of equity capital to Australasian businesses lacking ready access to the stock market, with a focus on increasing shareholder wealth in private companies, and assisting shareholders to release value.
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Investment focus
  • Software, CRM, Energy
  • Funding Round, Private Equity
  • New Zealand, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Beca — Engineers and consultants making everyday better for our clients and the community.
  • POP — POP is a holding company led by entrepreneurs to build a specialist insurance ecosystem.
  • Momentum Energy — The power company owned by Australia's largest renewable generator. See how our prices compare to other gas and electricity providers in 2 minutes.
Quidnet Ventures VC Fund
Connecting investors with high-growth NZ tech firms. Explore our portfolio and discover groundbreaking Kiwi startups impacting the global stage.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Hospital, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
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.
Jonathan Hendriksen Angel · Tasman, Nelson, New Zealand
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
I2BF Global Ventures VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
I2BF Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm with a global investment mandate. Established in 2005, I2BF Global Ventures has $400M+ under managment and it is currently investing from its fifth fund.The mission of I2BF Global Ventures is to seek out innovative and competitive companies across SaaS, Hardware Enabled B2B solutions(AI, IoT, AR, VR, robotics, RPA & automation), Digital Healthcare, and New Media, which it believes can lead the path to a brighter future. Since the first investment in 2006, I2BF Global Ventures has successfully backed 60+ startups and exited 12 companies.In keeping with its worldwide investment focus, I2BF Global Ventures retains a team of technology and sector experts in New York, London, and Los Angeles. This impressive team ensures a truly global venture capital strategy and a hands-on management approach.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Paiv (formerly Gamify) — Gamify integrates with CRM that is configurable to the team's needs. Sales data has a greater purpose than being used for micromanaging. Gamify data with leaderboards, spiffs, trophies, and a company currency! Every aspect of the sales cycle is incentivized within its mobile app to get the sales team invested in every moment of their day.
  • Hauler Hero — Hauler Hero is a waste management software solution that helps waste haulers improve their operations, increase efficiency, and reduce costs.
  • FuseBase (formerly Nimbus) — FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) - Free Online Collaboration Software for Remote Teams. Build your wikis, client portals and more with the FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) collaboration tool ? A perfect space for online work
Alpine Venture Capital VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Alpine Venture Capital operates as a venture capital firm that supports seed stage founders worldwide.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Italy, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • VXT — Automate, integrate, and accelerate. Get more from your phone calls for less. VXT Call is a simple, mobile and powerful system.
  • OpusClip — Opus Clip turns long videos into high-quality viral clips for you to share on TikTok, YouTube Shorts, and Reels to increase social media reach.
  • Covision Media — Covision Media specializes in creating high-quality, relightable 3D models using their industrial 3D scanners. These scanners capture detailed surface information and PBR textures, and are designed for easy integration into virtual environments.
Melbourne Angels VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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
  • Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
  • Angel, Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
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.
  • Seitec — Seitec is a security company that manufactures seismic security applications and instruments for civilian and military markets.
  • Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
Craig Winkler Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Apps
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
  • Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
  • Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.
Insight Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 74 investments in the past 12 months
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
  • Delve — Delve speeds up the process of achieving HIPAA compliance.
  • Asylon — Asylon created a complete robotic security solution, allowing aerial security drones and ground security robots to automatically patrol and respond to alarms.
Sam Morgan Angel · Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which, in 2006, sold for $NZ750 million. Sam also built a successful online dating and friend reuniting businesses in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.Sam is an active investor and philanthropist. Sam's holdings include a number ofother successful web businesses including Visfleet and Sonar6.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Web Hosting
  • Seed, Series D, Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
  • Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
  • CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
Endeavour Capital Limited VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Trading, Capital, Trusted Advisory, Proven Stewardship
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SMX — SMX offers a cloud-based email security solution for SEG, archiving and added Microsoft 365 defence. Trusted by enterprises, governments and ISPs across ANZ.
  • GFG Group — GFG Group is a supplier of consumer electronic payments software and card payment solutions. GFG has provided applications, systems integration and IT managed services to customers in 40 countries.
  • Grasshopper Bank — Secure business accounts, flexible lending solutions and powerful digital tools to support your business at every stage.
TMT Ventures VC Fund · Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan
TMT Ventures is a venture capital company based in Pakistan that funds technology, media, and technology startups.
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Investment focus
  • Software, CRM, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Series C
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • GFG Group — GFG Group is a supplier of consumer electronic payments software and card payment solutions. GFG has provided applications, systems integration and IT managed services to customers in 40 countries.
  • Enprise Solutions — Kilimanjaro Consulting is the largest, most experienced implementer of MYOB Enterprise Solutions: Advanced and Exo. Talk to us today!
  • Redfern Integrated Optics — Leading global supplier of single frequency narrow linewidth lasers, modules, and subsystems to clean energy, security, oil & gas, test/measurement markets.
Flying Fox Ventures VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
  • EverYoung AI — Everyoung AI is a pioneering organization in the field of Aged Care, utilizing advanced AI technology to enhance the quality of life for seniors. They are committed to building evolutionary AI solutions and have a vision to revolutionize Aged Care with new technology. Everyoung AI is inviting interns to join their team and contribute to theirmission of redefining Aged Care through innovative AI solutions. Their goal is to make Aged Care more personalized, efficient, and accessible, and they are dedicated to nurturing fresh talent in pursuit of this meaningful cause.
  • Factor House — Here for Engineers
Octopus Ventures VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 30 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, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United Kingdom, United States, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
  • Apheris — Build ML-powered products using data that spans organizational or geographical boundaries, while ensuring compliance with regulation.
  • Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.
Tidal Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Tendl — Write tenders faster with Tendl's AI tool. Keep your data private and secure. Easy installation, no sharing. Boost productivity and streamline your contract opportunities.
  • Minikai — Meet your team of AI agents, trained to take care of admin and put compliance on autopilot. We specialise in disability and aged care, already helping care providers supporting 144,407 vulnerable Australians spend more time caring and less time on paperwork.
  • Aimon Labs — AIMon is a Bessemer Ventures-backed company that helps you evaluate and improve RAG systems and LLM applications.
Nicole Fougere Angel
Nicole Fougere - Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
  • Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
Square Peg Capital VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 7 investments in the past 12 months
Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Australia, United States, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
  • Voyantis — Voyantis game-changing technology helps marketing and growth teams optimize their CAC payback by leveraging AI to acquire the most valuable users, across any platform
  • AI Hay — AI Hay develops an AI-driven answer engine that allows users to access information through a question-and-answer format. The company combines hyperlocal, culturally nuanced knowledge discovery engines with social loops to enhance community validation and perspectives. It utilizes in-house specialized large-language models, retrieval-augmentedgeneration (RAG), and social features to build a knowledge discovery platform that serves the community.
Maurice Eng Angel
Maurice Eng
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Pacific Channel VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
  • Conry Tech — Conry Tech is a climate tech company, reinventing air-conditioning to decarbonise and improve comfort, founded by renowned HVAC industry revolutionising experts.
  • Green Gravity — Green Gravity is an electric power generation company that enables renewable energy transition using energy storage technology.
Rich Chetwynd Angel
Founder/CEO of ThisData, a login intelligence and contextual authentication platform. Founder/CEO of Litmos.com, a leading SaaS Learning Management System that was acquired by CallidusCloud (NASDAQ: CALD) in 2011.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
  • ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
Akshay Kothari Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Soul Capital VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Soul Capital is an impact investment organisation working towards a more inclusive and sustainable economy.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Consumer
  • Seed, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
  • Linear Finance — Linear Finance is a cross-chain compatible, decentralized delta-one asset protocol to cost-effectively and instantly create, manage, and trade synthetic assets with unlimited liquidity.
  • Conscious Consumers — Our accreditation programme and Good Spend Counter make it easier for you to support businesses that align with your values and track our collective impact
  • Starboard Maritime Intelligence — Monitor and protect your maritime domain
EVP VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Modii — Modii is a leading provider of smart parking solutions, dedicated to transforming the way parking and mobility are managed and experienced through a unified platform of digital infrastructure, data integration, and parking intelligence. By integrating cutting-edge technology with user-friendly platforms, Modii helps institutions, organizations, andurban areas optimize their parking operations, improve efficiency, and enhance user satisfaction by enabling thoughtful parking planning through data-driven insights. For more information about Modii visit modii.co.
  • splose — splose isn’t just practice management software. It's your ally in handling the ins-and-outs of running a practice and a savvy tool for growth. At splose, we are dedicated to continuously improving and embracing the power of AI and automation to give healthcare professionals like you more time to focus on what matters most.
  • InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.
Hypersphere Ventures VC Fund · Miami, Florida, United States · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. A Hypersphere is an investment group leveraging on-chain treasuries, decentralized organizations, and governance to increase the utility of the blockchain networks in which we invest.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • PuffPaw — PuffPaw is an e-cigarette maker that uses blockchain technology to track its consumers' smoking behavior.
  • Irys — Irys is the first L1 programmable datachain, bringing together data storage and execution for a simpler and more efficient development process. Built for scalability, Irys supports both temporary and permanent data, ensuring reliable and flexible data management. With a clear pricing model and EVM compatibility, Irys offers a solid and affordable platform for creating dynamic, data-driven applications. Irys bridges the gap between temporary and permanent data, ensuring efficient and verifiable onchain interactions. Our mission is to lead the transition to a fully onchain, data-driven future, setting a new standard for web services and empowering innovation at every step.
  • Sentient — Community-built open AGI
Folklore Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
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
  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, 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.
  • HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
  • SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.
Richard Collier Keywood Angel
Richard Collier-Keywood was named as Network Vice Chairman on 1 November 2011. In this role, Richard will be responsible for the coordination of PwC's global strategy across the network leading PwC's Network Executive Team (NET).Prior to this appointment Richard was the Global Leader, Tax, an appointment he took up on 1 July 2008.He previously led the UK firm's tax practice for five years.
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Investment focus
  • Information Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Cogo — At Cogo we are on a mission to empower hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses world-wide to become conscious consumers by taking action to measure, reduce and compensate for their impact on the world. Cogo enables everyone to join together to create a fairer and more sustainable world. Talk to us now or see our website for details.
  • Conscious Consumers — Our accreditation programme and Good Spend Counter make it easier for you to support businesses that align with your values and track our collective impact
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