Top 20 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in October 2024
A list of 20 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 20 Food and Beverage VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in October 2024
Investor | Food and Beverage New Zealand investments |
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Enterprise Angels | 7 |
Icehouse Ventures | 6 |
Movac | 5 |
Snowball Effect | 4 |
Finistere Ventures | 3 |
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund | 2 |
Spirit Investment Partners | 1 |
Quayside Holdings | 1 |
OurCrowd | 1 |
Bay Trust | 1 |
RIV Capital | 1 |
Liquid Asset Brands | 1 |
Punakaiki Fund | 1 |
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION | 1 |
K1W1 | 1 |
Radicle Growth | 1 |
Better Bite Ventures | 1 |
Sage Capital | 1 |
Blackbird Ventures | 1 |
Fonterra Co-operative Group | 1 |
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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.
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
- Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
- Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
- Re-Leased Software Company Limited — Commercial property management software that makes life easier for property managers, landlords and owners.
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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- 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
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- 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.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Agriculture, Farming
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, New Zealand, Israel
Portfolio highlights
- Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
- Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
- Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
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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- 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.
Spirit Investment Partners is a fast growing, entrepreneurial real estate investment company.
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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.
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.
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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
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Series B, Series A, Seed
- Israel, United States, Canada
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- Carrar — A complete thermal management solution for electric vehicles dissipating heat faster and more efficiently than ever before. Thermal management for ev batteries.
- 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.
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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
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
Liquid Asset Brands actively make investments in early stage beverage businesses
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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.
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, 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.
Retail solutions,Printing Solutions,Inkjet solutions,ODM solutions
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Investment focus
- Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Seed, Series B, Series C
- Japan, New Zealand
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.
- ABEJA — ABEJA develops AI business solutions utilizing deep learning.
- COUNTERWORKS — Counter works is an Information technology company.
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.
- 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.
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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.
Better Bite Ventures is a venture capital firm.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Biotechnology
- Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
- India, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- AgriG8 — AgriG8 is an enterprise designed to align, collaborate, de-risk and grow value chains and ecosystems within the agricultural industry.
- Algenie — Algenie is an algae biotech company whose groundbreaking technology revolutionises algae production at scale, powering a sustainable economy.
- Qarbotech — QarboGrow Photosynthesis Enhancer Sustainable and Efficient Farming Uncover the significance of photosynthesis and learn how our product can enhance it to new heights! Learn More https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zCp_pY8CzLg Curious about how our patented nanotechnology-based solution revolutionizes photosynthesis? What is photosynthesis and why is it inefficient? Photosynthesis is nature's remarkable process, where plants harness the power of sunlight
Sage Capital is an Investment Manager focused on emerging market Real Asset and Private Equity opportunities. In addition to managing bespoke capital pools, Sage currently manages the SAGE NPE Fund I.Sage specializes in mezzanine and equity investments in mid-market Indian companies and real assets comprising of real estate and infrastructure.We believe that successful real asset investing is driven by local insight and execution, and the ability to manage business partners and assets through the investment cycle.We like to partner with owner-managers who are willing to tie personal success to the value created by the business. In areas where our team possesses deep domain knowledge and expertise, we also own and manage assets.The Sage team has ten decades of combined Indian and international experience that spans capital markets, investment banking, private equity, real estate, operations and legal & regulatory
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Investment focus
- Software, CRM, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- India, Belgium, New Zealand
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.
- Teamleader — No more paperwork with straightforward business software.
- Happyeasygo — HappyEasyGo is an India based local Online Travel Company. We are providing best air tickets and hotels with the lowest Price. Now you can book various airline tickets such as IndiGo, Jet airways, Go air, Spice Jet, air Asia, Vistara and Air India. We also provide you updated and verified Happy Easy Go instant discount hotels and special offers onflight tickets.
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, 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.
We're a global dairy nutrition company owned by 10,000 farmers and their families, united by a fundamental belief in the power of dairy to make a difference.
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Investment focus
- Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Dietary Supplements
- Seed, Series B, Funding Round
- Germany, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
- Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
- Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
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