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Top 25 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in September 2024

A list of 25 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Gaming startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Gaming companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 25 Gaming VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in September 2024

Investor Gaming New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures 7
Enterprise Angels 7
Movac 5
Snowball Effect 4
Finistere Ventures 3
Hillfarrance Venture Capital 3
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners 2
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund 2
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund 2
Tencent 1
Sage Capital 1
Spirit Investment Partners 1
Liquid Asset Brands 1
Bay Trust 1
Punakaiki Fund 1
K1W1 1
The Ahimsa Foundation 1
RIV Capital 1
OurCrowd 1
Blackbird Ventures 1
Quayside Holdings 1
Better Bite Ventures 1
Fonterra Co-operative Group 1
Supercell 1
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION 1
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Icehouse Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 13 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
  • 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.
Enterprise Angels VC Fund · Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand
Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
  • Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Movac VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
  • 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.
Snowball Effect VC Fund · Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand's leading equity investment marketplace. We simplify investment into high growth Kiwi companies.
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Ubco — UBCO is a New Zealand and US-based tech company that designs, develops, and distributes Utility Electric Vehicles and Portable Power Supplies for on-and off-road adventures, leisure and recreation, and commercial use where vehicle utility is required. UBCO have a desire to Power Your Purpose, through it's Utility Electric Vehicles (UEVs) thatcan change the way people ride, work, and play. UBCO currently has a digitally connected UEV platform which includes on- and off-road transport (2×2), portable power, accessories, and software. They provide a complete solution, from users to managers across a wide range of applications.
  • Tether Limited — Tether develops a solution that continuously assesses, reports on, and rates the environmental quality and energy efficiency of homes, offices, and classrooms. Tether will not only enable continuous evaluation and feedback, but it will also provide ways to improve the environments in which users live, work, or learn.Through connected hardware andsoftware solutions, Tether promotes healthy living, learning, and working environments.
  • projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
Finistere Ventures VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Finistere Ventures is an agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor. Founded in 2005, the company partners with other entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to build innovative companies that have the potential to transform modern agriculture, increase food security, improve nutrition, and enhance sustainability. Their appliedexperience as operators, and pioneering role in Ag Tech, is actively utilized to benefit its portfolio companies and Partners. Finistere has global access to the best new technologies from centers of Ag Tech excellence in the U.S., Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada through its venture partner networks. Finistere’s locations in San Diego and Palo Alto, California keeps them connected to the centers of mainstream venture investment and the world’s leading innovation ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Agriculture, Farming
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, New Zealand, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
  • Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
  • Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
Hillfarrance Venture Capital VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners VC Fund
The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • 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.
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
  • Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund VC Fund · Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, The Netherlands, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
  • BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
  • EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
Tencent VC Fund · Shenzhen, Guangdong, China · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Tencent is an internet service portal offering value-added internet, mobile, telecom, and online advertising services. Its communications and social platforms Weixin and QQ connect users with each other, with digital content and daily life services in just a few clicks. Tencent has maintained steady growth under its user-oriented operatingstrategies. It provides value-added internet, mobile, and telecom services, as well as online advertising under the strategic goal of providing users with "one-stop online lifestyle services." Tencent’s Internet platforms in China – QQ (QQ Instant Messenger), WeChat, QQ.com, QQ Games, Qzone, 3g.QQ.com, SoSo, PaiPai, and Tenpay – aim to address the various needs of internet users, including communication, information, entertainment, e-commerce, and others.In September 2013, Tencent's market valuation rose to $101 billion, and as of November 21, 2013, QQ had 2 billion active users and WeChat had 650 million monthly active users. The numbers of active users for QQ mail, Qzone, Tencent Weibo, and QQ news were 274 million, 626 million, 220 million, and 150 million, respectively.Tencent was founded in November of 1998. In April 2000, the IDG and PCCW invested a total of $2.2 million dollars in the company. Tencent was listed on the Hong Kong Stock Exchange (SEHK) on June 16, 2004. Baidu, Alibaba, and Netease are Tencent's major competitors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Financial Services, E-Commerce
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • China, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Chainbase — Chain Base develop systems with blockchain technology and to create a new market by combining and utilizing both the technology.
  • Gensciences — Gensciences develops drugs that focus on underserved illnesses like hemophilia, metabolic diseases, and anti-tumor fields.
  • Moonshot AI — Dark Side of the Moon is an AI large-scale model company.
Sage Capital VC Fund · Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
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 — Customer management, project management and invoicing in one handy tool. Teamleader makes work easier for 15,190 SMEs.
  • 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.
Spirit Investment Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States
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.
Liquid Asset Brands VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States
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.
Bay Trust VC Fund
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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
Punakaiki Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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.
K1W1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in the past 12 months
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • 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
The Ahimsa Foundation VC Fund · Niwot, Colorado, United States
The Ahimsa Foundation is a non-harming or non-violence, compassion, kidness to all beings.
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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.
  • 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.
  • Umaro Foods — Umaro Foods specializes in developing a plant-based protein source from ocean-farmed seaweed.
RIV Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
  • Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
  • TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in
OurCrowd VC Fund · Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Access exclusive venture capital angel investment deals in pre-vetted startup companies. Create your free OurCrowd investor account today!
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Series B, Series A, Seed
  • Israel, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 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.
Blackbird Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 22 investments in the past 12 months
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
  • Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
  • Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com
Quayside Holdings VC Fund
Quayside Holdings is the investment arm of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council which responsibly manages the commercial, property and horticulture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Sensor, FinTech, Hardware
  • Seed, Series B
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • TradeWindow — TradeWindow provides the tools and support for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to begin the journey to digital transformation.
  • WNT Ventures — New Zealand's Venture Capital Deep Tech Investor. Investing in Deeptech founders from Aotearoa to build local companies and help them go global
Better Bite Ventures VC Fund · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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.
  • Prefer — delicious. affordable. sustainable. bean-free coffee.
  • 70/30 Food Tech — 70/30 Food Tech makes functional plant & mycelium based ready meals that enrich human health using fermentation technology.
Fonterra Co-operative Group VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in the past 12 months
We're a global dairy nutrition company owned by 10,000 farmers and their families, united by a fundamental belief in the power of dairy to make a difference.
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Investment focus
  • Food and Beverage, Nutrition, Dietary Supplements
  • Seed, Series B, Funding Round
  • Germany, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Vivici — Our mission is to meet the world's growing need for sustainable, nutritious and great tasting animal-free proteins.
  • Jooules — Jooules offers a sustainable food system to ensure a greener, healthier future by using fermentation technologies to create nutritious protein ingredients.
  • Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
Supercell VC Fund · Helsinki, Southern Finland, Finland · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Visit Supercell.com and find out more about us and our games.
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Investment focus
  • Gaming, Video Games, PC Games
  • Seed, Funding Round, Corporate Round
  • United States, Finland, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
  • Bitmagic — Discover Bitmagic, the revolutionary game development platform powered by Generative AI. Create multiplayer 3D games with simple prompts, no coding needed. Join our community and start creating your own games today!
  • Phantom Gamelabs — Phantom Gamelabs is a mobile game studio that specializes in multiplayer Action RPGs and Looter Shooter games.
  • Games for a living — Games for a Living is a Barcelona-based blockchain video game developer.
TOSHIBA TEC CORPORATION VC Fund · Tokyo, Tokyo, Japan · 3 investments in the past 12 months
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
  • 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.
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