Top 35 Manufacturing Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025
A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Manufacturing startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Manufacturing companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 35 Manufacturing Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025
Investor | Manufacturing New Zealand investments |
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Icehouse Ventures | 8 |
K1W1 | 8 |
Sparkbox Ventures | 4 |
GD1 | 3 |
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund | 3 |
Global from Day One | 3 |
Promus Ventures | 2 |
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners | 2 |
Enterprise Angels | 2 |
Yamaha Motor | 2 |
Lewis Holdings | 1 |
Snowball Effect | 1 |
Movac | 1 |
Ice Angels | 1 |
Founders Fund | 1 |
Carl Bass | 1 |
Investible | 1 |
Seeds Capital | 1 |
Quayside Holdings | 1 |
Seven Peaks Ventures | 1 |
Karl Iagnemma | 1 |
Marko Bogoievski | 1 |
Nuance Capital | 1 |
AP Ventures | 1 |
Climate Venture Capital Fund | 1 |
Wavemaker Partners | 1 |
Blackbird Ventures | 1 |
Wolfgang Leitner | 1 |
Black Kite Capital | 1 |
Lincoln Agritech | 1 |
Sante Ventures | 1 |
Bay Trust | 1 |
Obayashi Corporation | 1 |
Fortescue Future Industries | 1 |
Impact Enterprise Fund | 1 |
Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
- Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
- Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Mohiomap — Visualize and navigate your Evernote, Google Drive, and Dropbox content. Mohiomap allows you to explore relationships in a dynamic Mind Map, get valuable insights, and visually organize your Cloud data!
- Booktrack — Booktrack is an A.I Soundtrack company. Booktrack's Artificial Intelligence automatically creates soundtracks for any text or any voice. Backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Booktrack is a disruptive force in the publishing and audio world; equivalent to the introduction of sound transforming the experience of film forever. For moreinformation, visit booktrack.com.
- Aroa Biosurgery Ltd — Aroa Biosurgery is a soft-tissue regeneration company that develops, manufactures, sells and distributes medical and surgical products to improve healing in complex wounds and soft tissue reconstruction. Committed to ‘unlocking regenerative healing for everybody’, Aroa’s products are developed from the Company’s proprietary Endoform® technologyplatform, a novel extracellular matrix biomaterial derived from ovine (sheep) forestomach. The company was founded in February 2008 based on intellectual property relating to the use of a novel form of ECM isolated from forestomach extracellular matrix for use in tissue regeneration applications. Aroa’s focus is delivering better healing, every day, everywhere for everybody. Aroa’s products make a meaningful impact for patients, surgeons and clinicians. Aroa delivers high quality, simple to use products that significantly improve outcomes. Aroa also believes its products should be widely accessible, affordable and change the standard of care for many patients.Maori for ‘understanding’, Aroa is at the forefront of understanding how biology, structural form and human factors can unlock the body’s intrinsic power to heal.
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
- Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
- Ivo — Ivo reduces the time, effort, and cost of negotiating agreements.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Insite AI — The chosen partner by executives in RGM, insights, and I.T. to grow revenue and market share. Learn how CPGs win in pricing, assortment, trade and more.
- Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
- Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
- Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
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Investment focus
- Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Jua — A new paradigm in weather forecasting. AI learning physics. Delivering accuracy beyond expectation. Covering use cases beyond belief. Accessible to everyone, wherever in the world they are. The world's first end to end deep learning model for weather forecasting, delivered on an intuitive platform for anyone to customise it. Startups,governments and large companies alike can now develop global, high frequency and high accuracy weather models within days.
- 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.
- Chef Robotics — Chef Robotics | Empowering Humans to Do What They Do Best
The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Scannable — Scannable helps Arborists, Rope Access Technicians, Riggers, and Rescuers easily manage PPE and safety equipment.
- Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
- Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.
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Investment focus
- Transportation, Software, Robotics
- Series B, Series A, Corporate Round
- Japan, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- RIOS — We are helping enterprises automate their entire factories, warehouses or supply chain operations by deploying AI-powered end-to-end robotic workcells.
- Joyride — Make mobility instantly connected, keyless, shareable and trackable on the world's leading software platform.
- eve autonomy — eve autonomy is an autonomous transportation service that offers logistics solutions utilizing the latest technology for society.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Ambit — From natural language processing to machine learning, our conversational AI platform empowers organisations. Business focused and aligned, Ambit chatbots carve a direct path to meeting your strategic objectives. Ultimately, Ambit enables you to deliver to your customers and internal stakeholders better.
- Unleashed Software — With an extraordinary 4.9/5 rating from 800+ users on Trustpilot, Unleashed is the highest rated, most recommended inventory management software in the world
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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.
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.
iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
- beany.biz — Beany provides online accounting services to New Zealand businesses. Compliance and advisory services, expert support, transparent pricing, and smarter financial insights for your business.
- Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Information Technology
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
- Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
- Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
- Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.
Carl Bass was president and CEO of Autodesk from 2006-2017. He spent 24 years at Autodesk where he held a series of executive positions including chief technology officer and chief operations officer. Carl co-founded Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993. Bass serves on the boards of directors of Autodesk, Zendesk Inc., Formlabs,Built Robotics, Zoox, Planet Labs, and Autolabs AI; on the board of trustees of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design, and California College of the Arts; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University.Bass serves on the boards of directors of Autodesk and HP Inc.; on the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design, and California College of the Arts; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University. Bass is a maker and spends his spare time building things—from chairs and tables to boats, and most recently, an electric go-kart.
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, Computer
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
- Toolpath — Toolpath accelerates the production of precision CNC machined components with AI-powered part analysis, machining strategies, and CAM automation.
- Foundry Lab — Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. This new form of additive manufacturing allows users to cast metal parts - without pouring molten metal - in the safety of their own office. This fully automated system is incredibly fast - CAD file to 50+ metal parts in just 8 hours.
Investible is an early-stage venture capital firm backing the visionaries advancing humanity through technology in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and globally.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
- Voltavate — Voltavate is dedicated to driving innovation in battery technology to support the global transition towards sustainable energy solutions.
- Kite Magnetics — Electric motors enabling electric aircraft of all sizes to fly further, carry more and emit less. The future of aviation is electric.
- Quantum Brilliance — Quantum Brilliance builds room temperature quantum computers powered by synthetic diamond, enabling applications in everyday computing, including edge and massively parrellelized computing.
Catalysing smart monies into Singapore-based, early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Hong Kong
Portfolio highlights
- Nuevocor — Nuevocor is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing gene therapy‑based treatments that have the potential to restore cardiac function in diseased hearts.
- GlobalTix — GlobalTix is an online electronic ticketing platform for merchants and travel agents. it also provides customized solutions for online stores and mobile apps.The platform manages the sale and redemption of e-tickets to tourist attractions. It also helps the park earn more revenue by running promotions, connecting with a much wider network oftravel agents across the continent, and introducing a tiered-pricing model. Partners, such as travel agents and hotel concierges, will be able to access a one-stop-shop for their travel needs, customize their own packages, and re-distribute to their own sub-agents.GlobalTix was co-founded by brothers Chan Chee Chong and Chan Chee Kong in 2014. The company is based in Singapore.
- Callio Therapeutics — Callio Therapeutics focuses on developing next-generation, multi-payload antibody-drug conjugates to maximize therapeutic benefits.
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
Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions.
Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
- CrowdStreet — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
- Prime Trust — Prime Trust powers innovation in the digital economy by providing fintech and digital asset innovators with financial infrastructure. Our API is customizable whether you're building a crypto exchange or expanding your business with digital assets.
Karl is an authority on robotics and autonomous vehicles. His commentary has been published and broadcast worldwide on Bloomberg, The Economist, CNBC, and BBC, among others. As former director of the Robotic Mobility Group at the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), his research resulted in more than 150 technical publications, 50 issued orfiled patents, and numerous edited volumes, including books on the DARPA Grand Challenge and Urban Challenge autonomous vehicle competitions.In 2017, Karl was named one of the “Most Intriguing Entrepreneurs” by Goldman Sachs and designated a member of the “Recode 100” list of technology influencers. Karl holds MS and PhD degrees from MIT, where he was a National Science Foundation fellow, and a BS from the University of Michigan, where he graduated first in his class.Iagnemma co-founded nuTonomy, Inc. in 2013 and saw the company through acquisition by Aptiv in late 2017. nuTonomy was named one of Fast Company’s Most Innovative Companies in 2018 and Iagnemma was selected as a 2017 Technology Pioneer by the World Economic Forum. He is now president of Aptiv Autonomous Mobility, which is building the world’s safest and smartest driverless vehicle software.
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Investment focus
- 3D Printing
- Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Foundry Lab — Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. This new form of additive manufacturing allows users to cast metal parts - without pouring molten metal - in the safety of their own office. This fully automated system is incredibly fast - CAD file to 50+ metal parts in just 8 hours.
Marko retired as CEO of Morrison & Co in 2021 after 13 years of leading the business. He continues to provide guidance for investments in telecommunications and digital infrastructure. His 30 year career has been in the infrastructure and technology sectors in a variety of senior finance, operational and sales roles in the United States and NewZealand. Prior to joining Morrison & Co in 2008, Marko was CFO of Telecom NZ, responsible for corporate finance, M&A and group strategy. Marko is Chair of Vodafone New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Pictor — PictorDx offers a flexible multiplex proteomics platform that delivers multiple biomarker insights simultaneously and cost-effectively for multiple sample types
Nuance Capital is a venture capital fund.
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Investment focus
- AgTech, Security, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand, United States
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.
- Easy Crypto — The world's favourite place to buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Delivery in less than 2 minutes, easiest order process, and we're open 24/7.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
AP Ventures invests in pioneering technologies and businesses that harness the unique chemical and physical properties of Platinum Group Metals to solve global challenges.AP Ventures is led by a specialist investment team with proven expertise and a successful track record. We offer investors access to high growth technologies that are developingsolutions to solve global issues.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Renewable Energy, Manufacturing
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United States, France, Norway
Portfolio highlights
- Mitico — C-Quester is a carbon capture startup that offers point source emitters, primarily natural gas powerplants, the ability to absorb CO2 emissions at a 40% lower cost than existing systems.
- Semi Zabala — Welcome to Semi Zabala, a pioneering semiconductor company dedicated to innovation and excellence. Our mission is to push boundaries and enhance technology, embodying our slogan: beyond the power. Explore our advanced solutions designed for a smarter, more connected future.
- Noble Gas Systems — Noble Gas manufactures high pressure, safe, light-weight, conformable gas storage and delivery for all compressed gasses, including nitrogen, air, oxygen, hydrogen and natural gas.
Climate Venture Capital Fund is a group of investors, scientists, business people, and experts in change.
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Investment focus
- Energy, Sustainability, Renewable Energy
- Seed, Series A
- Australia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
- MGA Thermal — MGA Thermal, specialists in thermal energy storage technology. Renewable, high-power, economical, modular, safe and sustainable thermal storage solutions.
Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Singapore, Philippines
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
- Oneteam — We acquire small to medium businesses and help next-gen hardworking employees grow into capable owners of these businesses. Using digital-first solutions to drive growth, synergies and innovation, we collaborate with your employees to transform your business into global enterprises.
- Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
- Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
- Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
Wolfgang Leitner is CEO of Andritz.
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Investment focus
- Nutrition, Sustainability, Food Processing
- Seed, Series B
- Israel, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Innovopro — Bringing a unique chickpea protein platform to the global food & beverage market, for creating nutritious, tasty, and sustainable food products.
- Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Black Kite Capital is a single-family investment office based in Singapore.
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Investment focus
- Software, EdTech, Retail
- Seed
- Singapore, Bangladesh
Portfolio highlights
- Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
- MOINS Coffee — Leyin is a coffee supply chain company with cold brewing and hot brewing industrialization technology. It currently has product categories such as cold brewing liquid/frozen cubes, flash brewing liquid/frozen cubes, flash brewing powder, etc., and 67% of the domestic emerging coffee brands Ten are its customers, including Yongpu Coffee,Yingji Coffee, Fisheye Coffee, Grey Box Coffee, .JPG, TAG, OATLY and Yongxia Coffee.
- Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
Lincoln Agritech is a vibrant organization with over 50 staff, including scientists, research engineers, and software developers.
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Investment focus
- Manufacturing
- Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Privately Held Companies
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Graici — Meet Graici, Adaptive Engagement Technology delivering at the speed of need to power positive outcomes for individuals and institutions.
- Ten Bay Bio — Ten Bay Bio is a biotechnology company that offers biological therapies for treatment of complex diseases in immunology.
- Solu Therapeutics — Solu Therapeutics is a precision-medicine-focused company developing therapeutics to eliminate disease-driving cells.
Community Trust
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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
Obayashi Corporation is a construction contractor that offers building construction, heavy civil construction, engineering, urban development, and real estate management services. The company offers services necessary to build and maintain office buildings, residences, tunnels, highways, rail systems, bridges, artificial islands, airports, andnuclear power plants.The company’s portfolio of services includes contracting of construction works; regional, urban, oceanic, and environmental development of businesses related to construction; engineering and management related to research, surveying, planning, devising, designing, and supervising; housing business; sale, purchase, exchange, lease, brokerage, ownership, caretaking, and utilization of real estate; operation of type II financial instruments and exchange business, investment advisory, and agency business under Financial Instruments and Exchange Law; planning, construction, retention, maintenance, and management of infrastructures such as road, port, water supply and drainage, municipal building, educational and cultural facility, waste treatment facility, medical facility, and others; recovering environmental pollutions such as purification of soil, sediment of river and lake, water-quality of lake and sea; and collection, transportation, treatment, and recycling of municipal and industrial wastes; power generation and supply of electricity and heat; manufacture, supply, sale, and lease of construction machinery and equipment, and materials and equipment for temporary works; manufacture and sale of concrete products for construction, fireproof or nonflammable building materials, materials for interior and exterior of buildings, furniture and wooden products for buildings, and sale of civil engineering and building materials; undertaking of maintenance and care of buildings, related facilities, and security and guard services; acquisition, development, licensing for use, and sale of software, industrial properties, and know-how related to utilization of computers; operation of information processing service, business of information furnishing service, and supply of telecommunication circuits; sale, lease, and maintenance service of electronic office machinery and equipment, including computers; management of health, medical, sport and leisure facilities, hotels and restaurants, and travel agencies; manufacture and sale of medical machinery and tools; operation of temporary personnel placement agency businesses under the Temporary Personnel Placement Agency Act; undertaking of services related to general affairs, personnel affairs, and accounting matters; operation of insurance agencies; production, processing, and sale of agricultural products, and acquisition, development, licensing for use and sale of agriculture-related technologies; money-lending and suretyship on obligations and other financial services; consulting serviced relates; and more.Obayashi Corporation has presence in Japan, North America, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Oceania.
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- Manufacturing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Japan, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- SkyDrive — SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members.
- Fabrum — Fabrum offers onsite liquid Nitrogen Systems for the production of cryogenic and engineering solutions. Contact us to meet your requirements.
- Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.
Welcome to Fortescue. We're a global green energy and metals company.
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Investment focus
- Energy, GreenTech, Electronics
- Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United Kingdom, The Netherlands
Portfolio highlights
- Hyproof — Hyproof manufactures novel fluorine-containing materials for hydrogen energy and batch preparation technologies of hydrogen energy car fuel cells.
- Metafuels — Our breakthrough sustainable aviation fuel (SAF) technology, aerobrew™, will make affordable net-zero aviation a reality. The technology is innovative, highly scaleable and able to tap into future global renewable energy systems efficiently. Starting from renewable feedstocks including green hydrogen, driven by renewable electricity, andsustainably sourced CO2, for example from direct air capture, aerobrew™ provides an efficient route to large-scale production of e-kerosene, overcoming the scale up challenges and high costs of alternative e-fuels technologies. aerobrew™ is also compatible with the biogenic route whereby the carbon required for the process is derived from renewable and sustainable cellulosic biomass which, does not compete with the food chain (wood, miscanthus, etc.). With a high carbon conversion, high selectivity and a high overall SAF yield, aerobrew™ leads to attractive production economics and cost leadership. With a rapidly growing demand for SAF, aerobrew™ stands to contribute significantly to the decarbonisation of global aviation and to support the achievement of net zero 2050 targets.
- Tree Energy Solutions — Green energy, naturally - TES is building the fastest, most efficient and affordable way to decarbonize the global energy market.
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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- AgTech, Analytics, Horticulture
- Seed, Funding Round
- New Zealand
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- 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.
- 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.
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