Top 50 Startup Investors in New Zealand
A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Startup Investors in New Zealand
Investor | New Zealand investments |
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Icehouse Ventures | 89 |
Enterprise Angels | 54 |
K1W1 | 40 |
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund | 23 |
Movac | 16 |
Global from Day One | 11 |
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners | 11 |
Ice Angels | 10 |
Flying Kiwi Angels | 10 |
Sparkbox Ventures | 10 |
Punakaiki Fund | 9 |
Blackbird Ventures | 9 |
Tuhua Fund | 8 |
AngelHQ | 8 |
Pacific Channel | 7 |
AfterWork Ventures | 6 |
Matū Fund | 6 |
Hillfarrance Venture Capital | 6 |
AirTree Ventures | 6 |
CP Ventures | 5 |
Quidnet Ventures | 5 |
Founders Fund | 5 |
EVP | 5 |
Promus Ventures | 4 |
Shasta Ventures | 4 |
GD1 | 4 |
Altonomy | 4 |
Phil McCaw | 4 |
Digital Finance Group (DFG) | 4 |
Chris Sang | 4 |
DCVC | 3 |
LD Capital | 3 |
Snowball Effect | 3 |
William Zeqiri | 3 |
Reinventure | 3 |
Endeavour Capital Limited | 3 |
Rich Chetwynd | 3 |
Uniservices | 3 |
Peter Beck | 3 |
Lewis Holdings | 3 |
Hypersphere Ventures | 3 |
Moonwhale Ventures | 3 |
Mark Hurley | 3 |
Jelix Ventures | 3 |
Chintaka Ranatunga | 3 |
Square Peg Capital | 3 |
Melbourne Angels | 3 |
Finistere Ventures | 3 |
Impact Enterprise Fund | 3 |
Cure Kids Ventures | 3 |
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, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
- 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.
- Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
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, Science/Engineering, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
- Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
- 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.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Hardware
- 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.
- Fabrum — Fabrum offers onsite liquid Nitrogen Systems for the production of cryogenic and engineering solutions. Contact us to meet your requirements.
- SafeStack — SafeStack Academy is the New Zealand online cyber security, privacy and secure development training company.
Your guide to finding and using government services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Insite AI — Join Consumer Goods leaders who win in Category Management and Revenue Growth Management with the best Assortment & Trade Promotion Capabilities
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
- 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.
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, Commerce/Shopping, Hardware
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic is design, prototyping, and collaboration software for teams. Atomic offers the fastest way to design beautiful interactions. Atomic handles animations and lets you make interactive designs. Atomic allow users to collaborate on their designs with their team in real time.
- ZeroJet — ZeroJet is the first jet propulsion system to be designed specifically for an electric motor, delivering the perfect balance of performance and runtime.
- Portainer — Portainer is a self-service container service delivery platform. It is the definitive container management GUI for Kubernetes, Docker and Swarm.
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, Manufacturing, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
- Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
- Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
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, IT, Data and Analytics
- 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.
- Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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, Hardware, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- beany.biz — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
- Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
- Spoke Phone — Spoke Phone is a cloud-based business phone and communications platform that unlocks the power of your people and your business, driving 10x business outcomes.
Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
- Apps, Software, Other
- Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- 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.
- Well Revolution — Online doctors, prescriptions, advice & treatment in NZ. Chat privately with a GP at the touch of a button for same-day consults & pharmacy prescriptions.
- Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Software, Sales/Marketing
- Angel
- United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
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- 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.
Venture capital helping New Zealand's pioneers build and scale world-changing tech companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Apps
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
- Whip Around — Whip Around improves your fleet uptime: automate preventive maintenance tasks, improve inspections, track work orders, and manage your fleet health.
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, IT, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Hardware
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
- Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
Angel HQ is Wellington region's angel investment network - follow us for angel investing info, and a way to connect to local, national and international angels.
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Investment focus
- Software, IT, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
- 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.
- Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Hardware
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
- Orbica — Location, data and connectivity: Orbica unlocks the value of location data to create effective business solutions and products.
- Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
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, Financial, Commerce/Shopping
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Aerotruth — Aerotruth is a B2B SaaS solution which automates the document on-boarding process for banks, financial institutions and fintechs
- Lyka Pet Food — Lyka Pet Food: for puppers living their best life. We deliver fresh, homemade dog food straight from our Australian kitchen to your door.
- klikit — Founded in 2021, klikit is a Singapore-based venture helping restaurants across Southeast Asia grow their business. With a first-of-its-kind enterprise technology stack, klikit helps restaurants become far more efficient in food delivery operations, while also connecting restaurants to role-model creators to launch virtual food brands for extrarevenue. This team of 30 led by ex-Gojek, Uber, Twitch, Nike and other alumni is backed by Global Founders Capital, Wavemaker Partners, Uber alumni syndicate Moving Capital, Gojek co-founder Kevin Aluwi, Nuseir Yassin of NasDaily, Radish Fiction Founder Seung-yoon Lee, and more.In its first seven months, klikit has serviced over US$2.8 million in food delivery orders across 150 brands in the Philippines, Malaysia, Indonesia, and Singapore, as well as Taiwan and Australia.We’re hiring — join us as we help restaurants take back their power in food delivery! http://bit.ly/joinklikit
Investing in scalable science and deep tech start-ups in Aotearoa NZ. We operate venture capital funds that invest in science and deep tech through a hands-on, active approach.
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Investment focus
- Science/Engineering, Biotechnology, Hardware
- Seed
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- Ligar — Novel technology to rapidly and cost effectively capture and recover specific molecules or groups of molecules from liquids, such as bioactives, bitter flavours or contaminants from natural extracts, wine, water, juices, coffee and wastewater. [et_pb_column type="1_3"
- PowerON — Dielectric Elastomers for Soft Robotics
We believe that the greatest challenges facing our world will be solved by audacious Kiwi entrepreneurs, and we are here to help their bold vision to become a reality.With passion, humility and transparency, we exist to serve entrepreneurs with honest advice, an open door to our international network, and investment capital that is fair toFounders.We invest in diverse entrepreneurs who are building sustainable and defensive business models, that democratize new technology, extract unique value from proprietary data and create an unfair market advantage as a result.Hillfarrance is named after the British ancestral village of our Founder - Rob. His family’s door was always open to good people and when they entered, they were treated as family - sitting around the fire for a chat and a cuppa.
We may have moved hemispheres, but the values remain the same. Welcome to our whānau.
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Investment focus
- Software, Data and Analytics, AI
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio
- Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
- Mobli — At Mobli we provide everything you need to build a great customer experience and optimise your mobility services with no long term commitments.
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, IT, Financial
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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.
- FrankieOne — FrankieOne helps banks and fintechs make better decisions using a single API and dashboard to manage KYC/AML and fraud.
- Abyss Solutions — Abyss is a company that delivers regular and reliable inspections using unmanned autonomous systems, using cutting-edge technology to push the boundaries of what is possible. Abyss is dedicated to providing risk reduction solutions for some of the world's largest companies.
CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Ahura AI — Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
- Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
- Ensuredit — ENSUREDIT enables and empowers end customers and Insurance Intermediaries with AI-based product platforms for transformational customer experience.
Quidnet Ventures invests in scalable and capital-efficient businesses created by founding teams.
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Investment focus
- Design, Software, Health Care
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- RosterLab — RosterLab uses state-of-the-art artificial intelligence techniques to build exceptional rosters for hospital staff.
- Litmaps — Visual citation navigation, powerful search, and relevant recommendations. The ultimate science discovery platform.
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Freeform — Freeform simplifies metal printing at any scale for all industries. Parts as a service to help you go from idea to production in days.
- Chronosphere — Chronosphere is the only observability platform that puts you back in control by taming rampant data growth and cloud-native complexity, delivering increased business confidence.
- SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
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, IT, Commerce/Shopping
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- ClearCalcs — Online structural design software. Calculation tools for shear force, bending moment, cantilever deflection, steel beam calculations, wood, concrete and more.
- Clipboard — Clipboard is a provider of software for managing extracurricular school activities. Clipboard is an Extracurricular Management System (EMS). An EMS is a purpose-built platform designed to help schools manage the administration of their extracurricular activities.
- Intellischool — Intellischool products are redefining the way schools use data and analytics around the world. How can you better use data analytics at your school?
Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
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Investment focus
- Software, Hardware, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.
- Recycleye — Recycleye is using advanced machine learning, computer vision and automation to revolutionise waste sorting on a global level.
- RobCo – The Robot Company — Easily automate the repetitive tasks in your production facility with modular industrial robots from RobCo.
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, IT, Internet
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- United States, Canada, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Nextdoor — Nextdoor is the neighborhood hub for trusted connections and the exchange of helpful information, goods, and services.
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
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, Manufacturing, Other
- Series B, Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- StretchSense — The StretchSense hand motion capture solution brings together accurate and comfortable gloves, and machine learning to detect and render perfect hand poses. - StretchSense
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
- Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Altonomy - market leading cryptocurrencies trading specialist
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Investment focus
- Other, Software, Financial
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Singapore, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Liqwid Labs — Liqwid Labs is an on-chain lending protocol on Cardano.
- Mangata Finance — Trade crypto without gas, front-running & MEV. L1 chain powered by Substrate. Start trading with Mangata X.
- Karmaverse — Karmaverse is a gamefi multiverse,it is created by the team behind two of the top 10 SLG games in the mobile gaming history.
Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac
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Investment focus
- Internet, Design, Energy
- 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.
- Flick Electric — Join Flick for Fairer Electricity Prices. We're not flicking around, we're here to shake up the electricity industry and fight for fair priced power in Aotearoa.
- CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
Digital Finance Group (DFG) is a global blockchain and cryptocurrency investment firm. DFG was founded in 2015 and has assets under management of over $1 billion.
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Investment focus
- Software, Financial, Other
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- United States, United Kingdom, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Sumi Network — Sumi Network is a decentralized storage solution provider.
- Shardeum — Shardeum is an Ethereum compatible Layer 1 blockchain protocol for smart contracts and decentralized applications. The protocol was founded by Omar Syed(ex-NASA, Yahoo, Zynga) and Nischal Shetty(founder of India's largest crypto exchange- WazirX). The protocol is built to scale to billions of users and transactions.
- ChainSafe Systems — ChainSafe Systems is a global leader in blockchain protocol and infrastructure development located in Toronto.
Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
Deep Tech VC firm with over $3B under management
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Investment focus
- Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
- Nest Genomics (YC W22) — Nest Genomics is a lab-agnostic, comprehensive software solution for implementing genomic programs at scale.
- Reach — Founded out of MIT, Reach Labs is deeply rooted in technology and design. Their mission is to empower the world with seamless connectivity.
LD Capital is one of Asia's earliest organizations focusing on value investing in blockchain field. Owing to industrial resource advantages and professional investment research teams, LD Capital has successively discovered and invested in projects such as Qtum, Vechain and Eos which all achieved over 100 times return.Their teams spread overChina, the United States, Europe, Singapore, Japan, and South Korea, and have accumulated rich experience in areas of traditional internet, Fintech, and advanced blockchain technology. They are committed to the globalization of blockchain and quality investment in the entire industry.LD Capital focuses on blockchain innovation projects within finance, games, content publishing, Internet of Things and other circuits, and we have been propelling broad layout of blockchain technology and infrastructure construction to facilitate the comprehensive development of the global blockchain ecosystem.
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Investment focus
- Other, Software, Financial
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Arcade2earn — Arcade2earn is the GameFi platform that gives its community the opportunity to earn access to the ecosystem.
- MM3 NFT — MM3 NFT is a social NFT platform for visualizing DIDs and dressing up.
- Matterverse — Matterverse is a leading platform and the first of its kind where brands can create and deploy immersive virtual stores and showrooms on their website without writing a single line of code. Matterverse has built our own proprietary no-code 3D store creation tool to make the creation process for brands as simple as stacking LEGOs. Our advancedcloud-accelerated rendering and streaming allows customers to shop online just as in real life, accessible on any device, and as easy as clicking a link.We aim to become the infrastructure for virtual shopping in the metaverse era and for truly interactive, immersive, and embodied e-commerce.We are just getting started in transforming how people shop and interact with online. Join us to bring the new reality, experiential e-commerce, to everyone.
New Zealand's leading equity investment marketplace. We simplify investment into high growth Kiwi companies.
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Investment focus
- Design, Clothing/Apparel, Commerce/Shopping
- Equity Crowdfunding
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Invivo Wines — Invivo Wines is a premium new zealand winery producing world class wines from both the marlboroughand central otafgo regions.
- Designer Wardrobe — Designer Wardrobe is an online marketplace for like-minded women to buy & sell designer items with each other. It was originally a Facebook group created by Donielle Brooke for her & friends. Their goal is for you to have an inspiring/fun/quick & easy experience buying & selling your favourite designer items.TheWebsite is created for women who love to buy good quality clothing & see the value and beauty that each item has. They are a community.They needed a place where they view countless amazing things in our free time and find that perfect outfit for the weekend without spending lots of money (and time) in the process.
William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.
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Investment focus
- Commerce/Shopping, Gaming, Food/Beverage
- 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.
- Invivo Wines — Invivo Wines is a premium new zealand winery producing world class wines from both the marlboroughand central otafgo regions.
- ArchiPro — ArchiPro is an online platform connecting people with products, professionals, project inspiration and education for their building project. Currently operating in New Zealand market only. The platform now showcases a directory of 20,000 building and interior products, 5,000 completed architectural projects and 1200 design and tradeprofessionals. The site connects architects, designers, builders and product suppliers with clients, using technology to help build their brands, while homeowners use ArchiPro to brainstorm ideas, research and hire professionals, find products and manage their projects.Our strong traction over 4-year history has resonated with thousands of Kiwi homeowners where the site now receives well over 1m annual websites visits, we has grown our database to 180,000 registered users and followers while successfully subscribing over 1200 companies and professionals to our services. The scalability of the platform has allowed the business to grow annualised revenue of $3m. ArchiPro's current 6% NZ penetration of the identified addressable market of 22,000 companies and professionals in NZ illustrates the significant room for additional growth in New Zealand before factoring in the growth opportunity that exists in much larger offshore markets, such as Australia, America, Uk, etc...
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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- Financial, Software, IT
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
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- Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.
- Kepler Analytics — Kepler uses retail in-store analytics to provide retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behaviour and create amazing customer experiences.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Trading, Capital, Trusted Advisory, Proven Stewardship
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- Software, IT, Mobile
- Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
- New Zealand, United States
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- Grasshopper Bank — Secure business accounts, flexible lending solutions and powerful digital tools to support your business at every stage.
- 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.
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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- Software, Privacy/Security, IT
- Seed, Angel
- New Zealand
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- Melodics — Melodics is an app that adapts to your abilities and musical tastes to help you get better at playing keyboards, pad controllers, and drums
- 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.
Auckland University's commercialisation arm
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- Hardware, Consumer Goods, Music and Audio
- Seed
- New Zealand
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- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
- Dotterel Technologies — Dotterel develops noise reduction and audio recording technology for UAVs. Our Aerial Audio Microphone is a payload for UAVs and is a unique world first capability. Throughout the development we have worked closely with customers to deliver for high value use cases in Emergency Services, Defence and TV/Film. Hearing audio from your UAV provides an important addition to the video. Now you can have live conversations one-to-one and one-to-many with people remotely via the UAV when there is no other communication methods available. We look forward to working with our customers and partners to deliver a new range of UAV solutions.
Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the world’s leading dedicated small satellite launch provider. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services, including complete satellite build and launch solutions, that provide rapid, frequent and reliable access to space. Rocket Lab has been launchingsince May 2017, delivering satellites to orbit for commercial and government customers, including DARPA, NASA, the NRO, the United States Air Force and more. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognized industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers. In addition to creating Electron, the world’s first fully carbon-fibre orbital launch vehicle, Peter also oversaw the development of the world’s first and only private orbital launch range, located on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula. He played a crucial role in establishing international treaties and legislation to enable orbital launch capability from New Zealand.
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- Software, Hardware, Transportation
- Series A, Series B
- New Zealand
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- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
- 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.
Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.
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- Hardware, Software, Data and Analytics
- Seed
- New Zealand
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- Ambit — Automate and scale customer service to reduce support costs and drive revenue with Ambit's conversational AI chatbot software.
- Avertana — Avertana is a process technology company that has developed a proprietary platform to refine solid industrial waste streams into valuable mineral and chemical raw materials used to make everyday products. Products of Avertana's process are used in products such as paint, building materials, paper and fertilisers. The process is costcompetitive with existing approaches but offers a much lower environmental footprint than traditional methods. Avertana helps its customers to build more sustainable supply chains by making mineral and chemical ingredients for widely-used products from sources that support optimal environmental outcomes. Avertana’s waste to value process helps industry to reduce its environmental footprint competitively.
- Unleashed Software — A powerful tool for business growth, Unleashed delivers streamlined purchasing, accurate stock costs, easy sales management & smart manufacturing stock control
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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- Other, Software, Financial
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Dynamic Labs — Dynamic is your multi-chain wallet-based authentication and authorization platform.
- Azuro — Azuro is a global decentralized betting protocol, utilizing smart-contracts to bring full transparency to the betting process and to deliver a classic betting experience with plentiful markets & liquidity and funky innovations like collectible bets and gamification via NFTs
- Astaria — Astaria is the solution to the hardest problem in Defi: instant highly liquid NFT lending. Astaria allows users to get instant liquidity for their NFTs.
Moonwhale is an STO Financial Advisory offering companies strategic advice on STO process & structure, as well as token issuance incl. lifecycle management and secondary market on-boarding for their projects. Moonwhale is also building an End-to-End Security Token Offering (STO) Investment Platform will cater to investors looking to invest inSTO projects, and to companies looking to raise capital through STO to finance business expansion or new ventures. Investors will be presented with vetted projects incl. due- diligence reports and will be able to manage their investments through our platform.
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- Software, Other, Financial
- Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
- Singapore, United States, New Zealand
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- reitio — We’re creating an effortless way for everyone to create custom metaverse assets visually via an intuitive and codeless templates-based design toolkit, introducing reitio protocol.
- Alphadex — Alphadex is the ultimate cross-chain AMM, incubator and NFT launchpad powered by Moonriver.
- Web3Auth — Web3Auth is simple, non-custodial auth infrastructure that enables Web3 wallets and applications to provide seamless user logins for both mainstream and native Web3 users.
Mark Jude Hurley is a New Zealand born entrepreneur, investor and advisor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Jasper, a startup which is democratising access to wealth generating opportunities, starting with commercial real estate. He was previously the Founder and CEO of Little Giant which was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in August 2017 for anundisclosed sum. Hurley is also an active angel investor in companies such as Sharesies and First AML.
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- Financial, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand, United States
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- Whip Around — Whip Around improves your fleet uptime: automate preventive maintenance tasks, improve inspections, track work orders, and manage your fleet health.
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
- Sharesies — Sharesies allows you to get started investing from just $5.
Jelix Ventures invests in world class Australian and New Zealand tech startups with sector insiders. Jelix invest in visionary young technology companies to accelerate growth and focus on globally scalable businesses positioned to disrupt traditional markets with innovative technology, led by tenacious entrepreneurs. Jelix is led by startup sectorinsiders, both experienced investors and entrepreneurs.
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- Software, Science/Engineering, IT
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand
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- Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.
- Syenta — Syenta is transforming the electronics manufacturing sector. Our patented fabrication method enables the 3D printing of multi-material electronics with fewer steps and less waste.
- SafeStack — SafeStack Academy is the New Zealand online cyber security, privacy and secure development training company.
Chintaka Ranatunga
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- Software, Apps, Mobile
- Seed, Series B
- New Zealand, United States
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- Kami — Kami was founded in 2013 by four university friends (although the team has grown a bit since). We are one of the fastest-growing education technology companies. Kami has millions of users worldwide and Kami Heroes – a community of passionate teachers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Kami is also a finalist for New Zealand Innovator of theYear. The investors backing Kami include leading Australian venture capitalist firm Right Click Capital, CapitalPitch, New Zealand-based Flying Kiwi Angels, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, and notable Silicon Valley investors, such as Sam Altman of Y Combinator and Scott Nolan of Founders Fund. As a Premier Google Partner, Kami works instantly through seamless integration with G Suite apps, like Google Drive and Google Classroom, as well other educational programs like Canvas and Schoology. Our Team: We believe that having a dedicated, enthusiastic, and non-hierarchical team can achieve remarkable heights. Our company culture embraces diversity, ownership, and, most especially, collaboration. With these values, we're working to transform education so that teachers and students can achieve more together. It is important for us to maintain an encouraging environment where people can create ideas, generate solutions and, most especially, grow. If you want to join us in building the future of education, we'd love to hear from you at careers@kamiapp.com
- APIMatic — APIMatic is an API documentation tool that provides a complete set of DX components such as autogenerated SDKs, API portal, API docs, live code samples, & more
- QuiverVision — Experience the immersive wonder of 3D Augmented Reality with engaging coloring experiences that let your creativity run wild.
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, Internet, IT
- Series A, Series B, Seed
- Australia, United States, Singapore
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- Chronicle — The modern format of storytelling
- Doctor Anywhere — See an Online Doctor and get medical advice on-demand. Connect with a Specialist for a 2nd opinion. Access health and wellness services
- retrain.ai — retrain.ai is a Talent Intelligence Platform that provides actionable HR insights using real-time labor market data, uncovering employee skills, skills gaps, and recommended learning and development training programs.
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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- Science/Engineering, Software, Commerce/Shopping
- Angel, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- Insite AI — Join Consumer Goods leaders who win in Category Management and Revenue Growth Management with the best Assortment & Trade Promotion Capabilities
- Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.
- Tayble — Spend more time enjoying your food and less time waiting.We hate waiting...For anything...And food and drinks are no exception!If your hobbies include:- Waiting in line - Calling out to a waiter - Watching the kettle boil - Calculating your split of the billPLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP... YOU'LL HATE IT!But if you're likeus...And want your food and drinks ready exactly when you are...Or to leave a restaurant without worrying about your bill...Then step right up, this bad boy's for you!With Tayble, you’ll never have to flag down a waiter... EVER!Simply order from your "Tayble"Or before you even arrive...Leave the rest to us and the 1,000's of minions in the cloud that keep this all running!You’ll be left asking where has this been all my life, guaranteed!*(Definitely not a real guarantee)
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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- Science/Engineering, Agriculture/Farming, Health Care
- Series B, Series C, Series A
- United States, New Zealand, France
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- Animol Discovery — Animol is building its own pipeline of break-through proprietary veterinary small molecules led by a team of animal health industry experts with vast experience in bringing drugs to market. With our unique and powerful technology platform we deliver innovative medicines that are specifically designed for the needs of veterinary patients.
- Eggmented Reality — Eggmented Reality offers lab-grown protein ingredients prepared using fermentation technology. The company's first product will be a vegan version of ovalbumin, the main protein in egg whites. Founded by Dr. Itamar Yadid and Itay Bloch from the Migal Galilee Research Institute in 2022, Eggmented is based in Qiryat Shmona, Israel.
- ProTag — Heat and lameness detection with pinpoint accuracy. Continuous tracking technology that improves heat detection accuracy, lameness detection and grazing. ProTag can track the location and grazing behaviour of each cow. Giving you the tools to manage the quality of your pasture more effectively
The Fund provides growth capital to businesses who deliver social and/or environmental impact, alongside attractive financial returns. This Fund has two primary objectives: delivering market-rate financial returns, and delivering tangible societal and environmental outcomes.
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- Agriculture/Farming
- Seed
- New Zealand
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- CarbonCrop — CarbonCrop gets you recognised and paid for the carbon sequestered in trees on your land. Our artificial-intelligence based mapping and measurement mean we can give you fast, accurate results for no up-front cost.
- Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
- CertusBio — The CertusBio continuous monitoring system provides easy access to real-time data so that food processors can now mitigate losses and waste waterwater quality issues at the source. We are helping industrial food processors transition to a more sustainable model of production.
Investing in innovation for a healthy childhood
Investing in innovation for a healthy childhood
About Cure Kids Ventures
Cure Kids Ventures is a seed and early stage investment fund that invests in the commercialisation of innovations in products and services with a potential to
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Science/Engineering
- Series A
- New Zealand
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- Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
- Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
- Upside Biotechnologies — Upside is developing the most advanced and best treatment for severe burns. The Upside product is a regenerative medicine solution to current shortcomings in the current treatment of severe burns patients. Upside will take a small sample of unburnt patient skin and grow it into differentiated, graftable skin in order to cover the patient’s ownburns. Product advantages are that Upside's engineered skin is produced faster than any competitive pipeline product, it is supplied in bigger sheets and has good handling characteristics. Upside has intellectual property covering the processes conferring these specific advantages.
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