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Top 25 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in New Zealand in November 2024

Last updated: Nov 2024 A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Food and beverage startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Food and beverage companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Food and Beverage Startup Investors in New Zealand in November 2024

Investor	Food and Beverage New Zealand investments
Enterprise Angels	7
Icehouse Ventures	6
Movac	5
Snowball Effect	4
Finistere Ventures	3
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund	2
William Zeqiri	2
Quayside Holdings	1
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund	1
Bay Trust	1
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION	1
RIV Capital	1
Harald McPike	1
OurCrowd	1
Spirit Investment Partners	1
Liquid Asset Brands	1
The Ahimsa Foundation	1
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners	1
Chris Hadley	1
Callaghan Innovation	1
K1W1	1
Radicle Growth	1
Fonterra Co-operative Group	1
Blackbird Ventures	1
Punakaiki Fund	1

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.

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.

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.

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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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Agriculture, Farming
Series B, Series C, Series A
United States, New Zealand, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.

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.

Investment focus

Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, The Netherlands, Canada

Portfolio highlights

30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.

William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.

Investment focus

E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
New Zealand, United Arab Emirates

Portfolio highlights

invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
ArchiPro — Browse projects, find products, connect with professionals and learn about building, all in one place. Find everything you need to build your dream right here.
Invivo Wines — Invivo Wines is a premium new zealand winery producing world class wines from both the marlboroughand central otafgo regions.

Quayside Holdings is the investment arm of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council which responsibly manages the listed assets, property, equities and private equity investments.

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

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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

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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

Retail solutions,Printing Solutions,Inkjet solutions,ODM solutions

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Series B, Series C
Japan, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

MUSE — MUSE is a robotics company that provides robotic solutions for retail stores to support in-store operations.
Axiom Cloud — Axiom Cloud Inc. uses AI to solve the biggest energy and maintenance problems plaguing the underserved commercial cooling/refrigeration industry ($120B/year in the US alone). Our first target customer segment is retail grocery. Customers pay an initial setup fee to install/configure the IoT platform onsite, along with recurring SaaSfees for one or more cloud-based software apps that run on the IoT platform.
COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.

RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.

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

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

Investment focus

Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series D
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
Health Data Analytics Institute — HDAI specializes in transformative healthcare data analytics and predictive tools designed for hospital systems and ACOs to enhance patient care and optimize resource allocation.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Series B, Series A, Seed
Israel, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Lidwave — Lidwave’s deep-tech solution revolutionizes 3D sensing and the verticals relying on it by examining the biggest challenge in LiDAR technology from a new perspective, free of bandwidth limitations.
Kando — Kando is an end-to-end solution that creates continuous awareness of events in the collection system. Kando enables utilities to remotely and continuously improve their operations by providing the following features:• Realtime wastewater quality data across the collection system • Pinpoint sources of pollution • Early warnings of damaging WWTPinfluent quality • Machine learning that evolves with your network • Autonomous sampling units • User fee calculator • Customized pollution alerts • A user-friendly, online interface • Detection of COVID-19 infection rates (New)The combination of these actionable insights results in:• Reduced CAPEX/OPEX • Greater WW reuse capabilities • Improved public health • Cleaner environmentsKando has been deployed in Los Angeles, Milan, Brisbane, and many other cities. To gain a greater understanding of how our system can help your organization, visit our homepage at www.kando.eco.
Blue Tree Technologies Ltd. — Blue Tree’s mission is to develop a sugar reduction platform for industrial applications in the drinks industry.

Spirit Investment Partners is a fast growing, entrepreneurial real estate investment company.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Stolen Rum — Stolen Rum is an independent and innovative rum company on producing innovative, world class rums that are presented with a strong design-led aesthetic.

Liquid Asset Brands actively make investments in early stage beverage businesses

Investment focus

Food Processing, Wine And Spirits, Food and Beverage
Funding Round
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Stolen Rum — Stolen Rum is an independent and innovative rum company on producing innovative, world class rums that are presented with a strong design-led aesthetic.

The Ahimsa Foundation is a non-harming or non-violence, compassion, kidness to all beings.

Investment focus

Food Processing, Food and Beverage, Organic
Seed, Pre-Seed
United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Impact Food — Say hello to reimagined seafood specially crafted for your taste buds and made completely with plants.
Opalia — Opalia is introducing a new era of dairy: functional, delicious, and sustainable dairy made from mammary cells.
Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.

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.

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.
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.

Chris Hadley - Managing Director @ Quadrant Private Equity

Investment focus

B2B, SaaS, Fitness
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alyte — Alyte Social Fitness App is a new way to hang out online. Think yoga and pilates, on demand, on your schedule with your mates. Get launch notification.
Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.
Sunfed Meats — Sunfed meats are made from pea protein, they cook, feel and taste just like animal meat but are healthier, both for you and the planet. Simply sub with Chicken Free Chicken, Bull Free Beef or Boar Free Bacon (aka Chickenless Chicken, Vegan Chicken, Chicken NOT Chicken, Vegan Bacon, Vegan Beef, No Bull Beef).

Callaghan Innovation is a stand-alone Crown Entity established on 1 February, 2013. Their role hasn’t previously existed in New Zealand.When they succeed, all New Zealanders will benefit from a stronger economy, higher value exports, more productive and sustainable resource use, more jobs and higher incomes.International evidence showsadvanced technology institutes like Callaghan Innovation have been successful at helping businesses build innovation capability that contributes to their growth and the broader economy.

Investment focus

AgTech, Construction, Horticulture
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
DNAiTECH — At DNAiTECH we develop innovative portable isothermal amplification instruments for point of care diagnostics, in-field applications, and rapid DNA testing.
Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.

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

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative

Radicle Growth is a San Diego, California based venture capital firm focused sustainable, early-stage ag and food tech startups.

Investment focus

Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech
Seed, Series A, Grant
United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FarmSense — FarmSense provides commercial farmers and agricultural operators the ability to monitor, count, and identify insect pests in real time.
Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
Impetus Agriculture — Impetus Agriculture focuses on developing multiple topical or transgenic insect control products. Products that are safe, effective, and sustainable. Products that are not subject to the same insect resistance that has developed in current commercial products.

We're a global dairy nutrition company owned by 10,000 farmers and their families, united by a fundamental belief in the power of dairy to make a difference.

Investment focus

Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Dietary Supplements
Seed, Series B, Funding Round
Germany, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Redactive — Redactive.ai is an Enterprise AI enablement platform that accelerates regulated organisations to secure & remediate their operational (unstructured) data, preparing it to be used by AI applications (eg: Co-pilots), along with providing engineering teams inside the enterprise the tools to build their own AI use cases securely with any LLM.
SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.
Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Whip Around — Whip Around develops and builds solutions that tackle the paper-based compliance burden for a wide variety of transport companies in the United States and around the world. Effortlessly manage your fleet inspections, compliance, preventative maintenance, work orders, reporting & more! Create powerful checklists for your assets. Have yourdrivers conduct inspections anywhere, anytime via the Whip Around mobile app. Get alerts sent to you immediately, view the reports from the management dashboard and manage faults with ease. Come see why more than 85,000 users globally love Whip Around. Trial Whip Around free for 7 days!
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.

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