Top 50 Manufacturing VC Funds & Investors in New Zealand (July 2026)

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• Vessev — Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.

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• Evnex — NZ manufactured and installed EV chargers for homes and businesses. Starting at $2,295 inc for a charger and full install - Electric vehicle charging simplified.
• Groov —
• Astrix Astronautics — Inflatable, rigidising deployment enables low-cost spacecraft solar arrays, high gain antennas, powering earth with solar energy from space, and more.

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• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
• Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.

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• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.
• Kai's Education — Kai's Education is an innovative force in the EdTech sector, pioneering the integration of coding, STEM, and robotics into engaging learning experiences for children. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our mission is to ignite young minds through our award-winning educational products, including the all-in-one STEAM toolbox, Kai's Clan, andthe hybrid robot, KaiBot.Our flagship product, Kai's Clan, breaks new ground by allowing children aged seven to fifteen to learn to code with state-of-the-art technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, Tinkercad, and Minecraft. KaiBot, designed for hands-on learning, uses screen-free coding cards to instill the fundamentals of coding, providing immediate feedback to enhance learning.Complemented by the Kainundrum Lite app, Kai's Education facilitates a seamless transition from tactile to advanced text-based coding, nurturing problem-solving skills and creativity. Recipient of the Smart AI Toy Award and the Common Sense Top Pick for Learning Award, Kai's Education is dedicated to equipping the next generation with the skills for tomorrow's challenges. We're not just teaching coding; we're inspiring creators.

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• Tectonus — Revolutionary self-centring seismic connections that protect structures in earthquake sequences.
• Regen —
• Androgenix —

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• 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.

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all legal matters, contracts, spend and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
• 1Above — 1Above is designed with Vitamins, Electrolytes and Super Antioxidant to help you recover faster on Travel, Work, Party occasions. Well known to help combat jet lag since 2010.

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• RosterLab — RosterLab goal is to automate every part of the rostering process for healthcare.
• Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
• Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• 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.
• Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
• Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.

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• chnnl — Optimise your employee wellbeing strategy with chnnl. Centralised resource management, track psychosocial risks and team psychological wellbeing measurement.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• ISpy Nits — ISpy Nits manufacturer develops a biofluorescent powder for treating lice and nits. The company's product kit includes lotion and a non-toxic glow powder that binds to the egg sheath to intensify the effect. As the chemicals interact with bioluminescent proteins, they emit light that is visible to the human eye, identifying lice and their eggsand removing them.

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• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
• Wych Limited — Wych an open banking powered digital financial advisor with a focus on personal financial automation.

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• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.
• Wallo Pay — Wallo Pay, incorporated in July 2023, is a New Zealand-based fintech startup transforming digital payments for consumers and businesses. Operating across Aotearoa and with plans to expand into Australia, our founder-led team is building a B2C and B2B payments platform powered by banking APIs, enabling direct, real-time account-to-accounttransactions. By bypassing traditional card networks, Wallo Pay slashes merchant service fees from 1.5–2.5% to 0.6% or less, potentially saving New Zealand businesses $700M annually. Our product suite includes a Consumer Mobile App with QR-based and unique digital ID based payments, a Business Mobile App, and a Business Web Portal, targeting retail, hospitality, and other businesses accepting payments from end customers.Aligned with New Zealand’s Consumer Data Right (2025), Wallo Pay’s open API infrastructure empowers developers, fintech startups, and public agencies to build innovative solutions, from loyalty programs to interoperable transport payments. Our platform fosters an inclusive ecosystem, enabling business of all sizes and innovators to participate in the digital economy with low-cost, scalable payment tools. Since starting MVP development in June 2024, Wallo Pay is gearing up for an alpha pilot in Q3–Q4 2025, driving transparency, affordability, and trust in Aotearoa’s payment landscape.
• Forever Harvest — Forever Harvest is a food technology startup specializing in cellular horticulture.

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• Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.

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• Vessev — Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water.
• VXT — Automate, integrate, and accelerate. Get more from your phone calls for less. VXT Call is a simple, mobile and powerful system.
• Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and private equity funds to save time, impress investors, and grow AUM.

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• MAPTO — Bringing industries together since 2008, Mapto.com stands as the premier platform for a global business directory. Serving millions of companies and suppliers worldwide.Mapto, the “Business Development Guide,” has been specially designed to offer an e-commerce solution that brings together all companies in the world and provides an excellent B2Cuser experience without sacrificing B2B functionality. The most significant difference from other marketplaces is that it is customer-supported!In today’s world, product, manufacturer, and communication demands are the basis of e-commerce searches on the internet. It restructures the “roadmap of e-commerce” by bringing all these demands together and making them accessible to users.
• 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.
• Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

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• ALL.SPACE — One Device. All Networks. No Compromise. The world’s first smart terminal delivers total communications convergence.ALL.SPACE, formerly Isotropic Systems, has developed the 5th generation smart terminal, capable of linking with all satellites, all networks, in all orbits, all at once. Our ground-breaking software-defined service enablementplatform integrates intelligent routing, edge computing and on-demand services to deliver unprecedented network resilience and application performance. Whether you're on land, sea or air, we ensure that you stay connected.Our S2000 range is customisable across a range of sizes, Tx/Rx ratios, aperture combinations and scan ranges with up to 8,100 unique configurable options. Our modular architecture allows you to pick the exact terminal configuration to meet your requirements.
• Lunar Outpost — Lunar Outpost creates technologies that enable a sustainable presence in cislunar space while driving a positive impact here on Earth. With product lines focused on robotics and advanced instrumentation Lunar Outpost has helped create the first oxygen on Mars as part of the Perseverance mission, has the first ever contract to sell space resources(specifically lunar resources) to NASA, and has successfully created product line from advanced technology work. Key products include the commercial lunar rover MAPP that can provide mobility to a variety of payloads on the lunar surface, and the Canary Air Quality and Monitoring System, an IoT system, which has collected over 20 Billion unique data points to date in over 20 different states.[
• Ellipsis Drive — Seamlessly manage, access and consume spatial files that instantly render into your workflows, apps and tools of choice

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• Luminoma — Luminoma is a medical device manufacturer that offers LumAssure, a device that indicates whether a skin lesion is malignant or benign.
• TheiaNova — TheiaNova provides nonsurgical therapies to patients with vision impairment due to ecstatic vision disorders. A patient suffering from keratoconus will undergo therapeutic remodeling of the cornea with the company's therapy, allowing healthcare professionals to focus on correcting vision impairments with glasses and corrective lenses orhalting progression of the disease with corneal crosslinking.
• Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.

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• Carbn Group — Carbn Group is a car fleet management company that makes car fleet services sustainable and accessible to more users.
• Zenobe Energy — Zenobe Energy ( formerly known as Battery Energy Storage Solutions Limited) is the largest independent owner and operator of battery storage in the UK. We transform the way grid operators and businesses use power to reduce costs, improve reliability and benefit the environment.

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• 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, rentable and trackable on the world's smartest software platform for lightweight vehicles. Say farewell to fragmented fleets.
• eve autonomy — eve autonomy is an autonomous transportation service that offers logistics solutions utilizing the latest technology for society.

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• Mara Bio —
• Hot Lime Labs —

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• fileAI — Automate and analyze any file with AI. fileAI builds proprietary AI components for complex agentic workflow automation.
• VoiceByte — VoiceByte is an application platform that allows its users to record and share their voice either privately or on social networks.
• GeoSnapShot — Let's put your photos to work. Built for professionals, available to everyone. GeoSnapShot is loved by amateurs, professionals, teams and individuals.

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• Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.
• Hachiko —
• Dot Ingredients — Dot Ingredients operates a surfactant company designed to offer commercially viable particle surfactants. It produces cellulose from wood pulp, makes sustainable emulsifiers from renewable cellulose, and is able to not only cleanse hands, clothes, surfaces, and cars, but also protect crops, enhance food, color textiles, and flow into the oceans andsoil.

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• Agovor — Agovor develops autonomous electric tractors and a connected ecosystem of towable attachments that automate outdoor tasks for row-based agriculture and horticulture. The company’s flagship product, the GOVOR eTractor, uses GPS and IoT connectivity to autonomously tow interchangeable smart trailers for spraying, mowing, cultivating, hauling, andother field operations. Its platform includes a web and mobile portal for remote deployment, monitoring, and control of individual units or fleets. Agovor’s system is designed to reduce manual labor requirements and emissions by replacing traditional driver-operated tractors with battery-powered autonomous machines. The attachment ecosystem allows growers to tailor capabilities to seasonal and operational needs while maintaining a consistent interface for task management and oversight.
• SwarmFarm Robotics — Global crop protection specialists ADAMA and Australian ag-tech company.

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• ReciMe — ReciMe is the #1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest & more. Its free to use and easy to try.
• Heatseeker — Determine how successful your business, product or campaign will be before launching by testing your products and messaging with AI-powered digital campaigns.
• GoFIGR — We are a talent insights and opportunity marketplace platform that helps you develop, engage and retain employees in the flow of work.

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• HealthBeats — HealthBeats is a product based on their belief,regular monitoring outside of healthcare settings will only lead to better results.
• ChemT Biotechnology — The goal of ChemT Biotechnology is to increase patient access to the most cutting-edge biologics, beginning with the urgent issues in manufacturing and research and development.
• Protuoso Biosciences — Protuoso Biosciences is a biotechnology company developing next-generation multifunctional biologics designed to address complex disease biology.

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• WNT Ventures — New Zealand's Venture Capital Deep Tech Investor. Investing in Deeptech founders from Aotearoa to build local companies and help them go global

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• 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

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• 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.

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• TradeWindow — TradeWindow provides the tools and support for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to begin the journey to digital transformation.
• WNT Ventures — New Zealand's Venture Capital Deep Tech Investor. Investing in Deeptech founders from Aotearoa to build local companies and help them go global

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• Aktwist — AI-Powered Battle Royale Platform , Experience next-generation gaming with AI-driven combat, immersive environments, and competitive gameplay.
• Sahinov — Generate launch-ready visuals from a simple prompt
• SocheraAI — Turn your ideas into professional videos, realistic voiceovers, and high-quality content, all from a single AI-powered platform. No editing skills required.

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• REVELOHEALTH — REVELOHEALTH provides advisory services. Their services include healthcare provider solutions, revenue cycle solutions, price transparency solutions, payment integrity, network claim repricing, data analytics, denial management, and direct-to-employer.
• Sonire Therapeutics — SONIRE Therapeutics Inc. (SONIRE) is working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) therapy system that will employ acoustic engineering (ultrasound) technologies developed through cutting-edge academic research. SONIRE has been working on a next-generation high-intensity focused ultrasound (HIFU) treatment system as a noveltherapeutic modality with the goal of giving cancer patients and their families a new future.
• SONIRE Therapeutics — SONIRE Therapeutics is a clinical-stage medical device company. It is a U.S. subsidiary of SONIRE Therapeutics Co., Ltd..

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• Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
• beany.biz — Accounting, tax and advisory services for New Zealand business owners. We help you make smarter decisions for both your business and life.
• Spoke Phone — Can you see the conversations your mobile teams are having right now? Spoke gives regulated teams full visibility over every call, SMS, and WhatsApp.

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• Rosy Soil — Crafted for the specific needs of indoor plants, this blend contains all-natural, renewable ingredients that optimize drainage, deliver plant-boosting nutrients, and support a diverse community of beneficial fungi and microbes.
• Immaterial — Facilitating the energy transition with advanced materials.
• Rubi Laboratories — Rubi Laboratories turns carbon emissions into carbon-negative textiles for the fashion industry, with a proprietary synthetic biology technology.

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• Canva — Canva is a graphic design software solutions provider that helps users to design presentations, social media graphics, and more with various layouts, images, photo filters, icons and shapes, and fonts. The platform combines a drag-and-drop design tool with a stock library of photographs, illustrations, and imagery.It was founded in 2012 andheadquartered in Sydney, New South Wales.
• 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.
• Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

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• 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 — Supply, production, inventory and sales software with exceptional product and customer focus

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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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• 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.

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• Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
• Crowd Street — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.

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• Chitogel — Chitogel is a medical device company that offers edge wound healing gel for use in endoscopic sinus surgery.

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• uHoo — Air quality, now visible. Discover uHoo TRUSTED BY Elevate your health, focus, and performance https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=miqSQuOVWjs&list=PLC-yooIAsXuwt0o22nxVp9wJrTCsjIvBE&index=7 WHY UHOO? Optimize your air to maximize your life. Indoor air quality affects your overall health and well-being. Let uHoo measure and monitor your air quality for a healthier indoor environtment. Less Allergies Know exactly what products and chemicals to
• RateIt — An omni-channel CX platform that captures, interprets & analyses customer feedback in ways that makes it easy to see the right moves to make.
• Shikho — Shikho is a Bangladeshi education technology company on a mission to revolutionise the way Bangladesh learns today and democratise access to a high quality education. It is building a hyper-localised digital learning ecosystem designed specifically for the Bangladeshi national curriculum to serve a growing total addressable market of ~42 millionstudents. "Shikho - The Learning App" is available on the Google Play Store.

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• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Kai's Education — Kai's Education is an innovative force in the EdTech sector, pioneering the integration of coding, STEM, and robotics into engaging learning experiences for children. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our mission is to ignite young minds through our award-winning educational products, including the all-in-one STEAM toolbox, Kai's Clan, andthe hybrid robot, KaiBot.Our flagship product, Kai's Clan, breaks new ground by allowing children aged seven to fifteen to learn to code with state-of-the-art technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, Tinkercad, and Minecraft. KaiBot, designed for hands-on learning, uses screen-free coding cards to instill the fundamentals of coding, providing immediate feedback to enhance learning.Complemented by the Kainundrum Lite app, Kai's Education facilitates a seamless transition from tactile to advanced text-based coding, nurturing problem-solving skills and creativity. Recipient of the Smart AI Toy Award and the Common Sense Top Pick for Learning Award, Kai's Education is dedicated to equipping the next generation with the skills for tomorrow's challenges. We're not just teaching coding; we're inspiring creators.

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• Quantcast — We are taking an entirely new approach to advertising on the open internet.
• Workstream — Workstream is the leading HR, Payroll, and Hiring platform for the hourly workforce. Its smart technology streamlines HR tasks so franchise and business owners can move fast, reduce labor costs, and simplify operations—all in one place. 46 of the top 50 quick-service restaurant brands—including Burger King, Jimmy John’s, Taco Bell—rely onWorkstream to hire, retain, and pay their teams. Learn more at workstream.us.
• Valinor Enterprises — Valinor is a new kind of defense and government tech company. We build and buy mission-critical technologies to fill the gaps others ignore.

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• 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.
• Estes Energy — Estes Energy is a California-based startup developing advanced, U.S.-made, chemistry-agnostic battery packs for mobility and industry—supporting both NMC (for high energy density) and LFP (for cost-sensitive applications)—and targeting commercial vehicles, defense, marine, rail, and off-highway markets.
• Voltify — Voltify is a climate tech company that offers decarbonization solutions for the freight rail industry.

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• Glydways — Glydways, formerly Wayfarer is a transportation technology and clean energy company based in South San Francisco, California. It specializes in the design, manufacture, installation, and operation of affordable autonomous transportation for low, medium, and extremely high-capacity needs.
• SkyDrive — SkyDrive is a start-up for development,manufacturing,sales of the “Flying cars” established by CARTIVATOR members.
• Linea Innovations — Linea Innovations is an energy production company that develops commercial fusion reactors with advanced fuel technology.

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• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.

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• Dot Ingredients — Dot Ingredients operates a surfactant company designed to offer commercially viable particle surfactants. It produces cellulose from wood pulp, makes sustainable emulsifiers from renewable cellulose, and is able to not only cleanse hands, clothes, surfaces, and cars, but also protect crops, enhance food, color textiles, and flow into the oceans andsoil.

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• Coolsense — Coolsense is a chilling equipment manufacturing company that manufactures refrigeration and thermal energy storage systems.
• Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

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• Luminoma — Luminoma is a medical device manufacturer that offers LumAssure, a device that indicates whether a skin lesion is malignant or benign.
• PowerON — Dielectric Elastomers for Soft Robotics
• Soul Machines — Go beyond avatars. Create interactive, customizable, Soul Machines Digital People for AI-driven impact. Try it now.

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• chnnl — Optimise your employee wellbeing strategy with chnnl. Centralised resource management, track psychosocial risks and team psychological wellbeing measurement.
• Upstock — Manage wholesale orders with a simple app.
• Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.

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• Agovor — Agovor develops autonomous electric tractors and a connected ecosystem of towable attachments that automate outdoor tasks for row-based agriculture and horticulture. The company’s flagship product, the GOVOR eTractor, uses GPS and IoT connectivity to autonomously tow interchangeable smart trailers for spraying, mowing, cultivating, hauling, andother field operations. Its platform includes a web and mobile portal for remote deployment, monitoring, and control of individual units or fleets. Agovor’s system is designed to reduce manual labor requirements and emissions by replacing traditional driver-operated tractors with battery-powered autonomous machines. The attachment ecosystem allows growers to tailor capabilities to seasonal and operational needs while maintaining a consistent interface for task management and oversight.