Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in New Zealand in November 2024
A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Media (entertainment) startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Media (entertainment) companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 50 Media (entertainment) Startup Investors in New Zealand in November 2024
Investor | Media (entertainment) New Zealand investments |
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Enterprise Angels | 4 |
Hillfarrance Venture Capital | 4 |
Enterprise Angels | 4 |
Hillfarrance Venture Capital | 4 |
GD1 | 3 |
K1W1 | 3 |
Icehouse Ventures | 3 |
K1W1 | 3 |
GD1 | 3 |
Icehouse Ventures | 3 |
Maurice Eng | 2 |
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON | 2 |
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund | 2 |
Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
Tuhua Fund | 2 |
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund | 2 |
Jonathan Hendriksen | 2 |
Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
Tuhua Fund | 2 |
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON | 2 |
Jonathan Hendriksen | 2 |
Maurice Eng | 2 |
Yoshihiro Kawamura | 1 |
Ice Angels | 1 |
University of Auckland Inventors Fund | 1 |
Jelix Ventures | 1 |
Uniservices | 1 |
Ableton | 1 |
Karl von Randow | 1 |
Rich Chetwynd | 1 |
Rowan Simpson | 1 |
AngelHQ | 1 |
AngelHQ | 1 |
TransCosmos | 1 |
APEX Capital | 1 |
Scottish Enterprise | 1 |
FatPipe | 1 |
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners | 1 |
Jelix Ventures | 1 |
Ice Angels | 1 |
Uniservices | 1 |
University of Auckland Inventors Fund | 1 |
Rich Chetwynd | 1 |
Snowball Effect | 1 |
AfterWork Ventures | 1 |
Ableton | 1 |
Paul Reeve | 1 |
Paul Bingham | 1 |
Par Equity | 1 |
HATCHER+ | 1 |
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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.
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Investment focus
- Animation, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
- Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
- Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
- Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.
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Investment focus
- Animation, Information Technology, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
- Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
- Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio
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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- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
- Type One Energy — At Type One Energy, we are mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world over the coming decade.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Akahu — Akahu provides open banking and open finance infrastructure. We make it simple for people to connect their financial accounts to trusted third parties.
- Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
- Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
- Re-Leased Software Company Limited — Commercial property management software that makes life easier for property managers, landlords and owners.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Mushroom Material — We can match the mechanical properties of polystyrene styrofoam and replace any existing packaging with a sustainable mushroom alternative
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, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
- Type One Energy — At Type One Energy, we are mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world over the coming decade.
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
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- 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.
- Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.
Maurice Eng
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
- Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Alex Rigopulos Co-Founded Harmonix in 1995 with the mission of inventing new ways for non-musicians to experience the joy of making music. He was CEO until 2014. Now, as CCO, Alex is responsible for ensuring the creative excellence of all Harmonix products. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Alex studied computer music at the MIT Media Laboratory andmusic composition at MIT.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. their hardware and software platform gives creators and listeners the power to engage with, explore, and share sound in transformative new ways.
- GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, B2B
- 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.
- Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Your guide to finding and using government services.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
- Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Alex Rigopulos Co-Founded Harmonix in 1995 with the mission of inventing new ways for non-musicians to experience the joy of making music. He was CEO until 2014. Now, as CCO, Alex is responsible for ensuring the creative excellence of all Harmonix products. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Alex studied computer music at the MIT Media Laboratory andmusic composition at MIT.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. their hardware and software platform gives creators and listeners the power to engage with, explore, and share sound in transformative new ways.
- GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, B2B
- 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.
- Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Maurice Eng
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED
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Investment focus
- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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 — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
- Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)
University of Auckland Inventors Fund
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Audio
- Series A, Series B, Convertible Note
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Soul Machines — Go beyond avatars. Create interactive, customizable, Soul Machines Digital People for AI-driven impact. Try it now.
- Rain Therapeutics — Rain Therapeutics researches, develops and translates innovative targeted cancer therapies to patients
- 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.
Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Gelomics — Gelomics operates as a biotechnology company. Gelomics provides 3D cell culture technologies.
- Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
- Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.
Auckland University's commercialisation arm
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Investment focus
- Medical Device, SaaS, Audio
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
- 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.
Ableton makes software and hardware for creating, producing, and performing music.
Ableton's flagship product, Live, has introduced a new approach to making music with computers on stage and in the studio that has attracted several hundred thousand Live worldwide.
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Investment focus
- Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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
Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd
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Investment focus
- Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- 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
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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Investment focus
- SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Music, Parking
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- 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
- Parkable — Parkable is award winning software for managing employee and tenant parking, finding short-term or monthly public parking and sharing space to earn money.
- 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.
Angel HQ is a Wellington-based angel investment network dedicated to fostering the growth of innovative Kiwi companies. We offer resources, funding, and support to startups and entrepreneurs, helping...
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Canada
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.
- 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.
- Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
Angel HQ is a Wellington-based angel investment network dedicated to fostering the growth of innovative Kiwi companies. We offer resources, funding, and support to startups and entrepreneurs, helping...
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Canada
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.
- 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.
- Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
Transcosmos Investments & Business Development, Inc., is a strategic corporate investor and an active local business partner for Internet-based U.S. technology companies expanding into the Japanese and Asian marketplace.It is offering capitalization of joint ventures, infrastructure development, strategic relationships, and localization tocompanies in the U.S. technology sector. Transcosmos Investments' portfolios, which focus on companies specializing in digital marketing, e-commerce and digital media, include such brand names as Ask.com, DoubleClick Inc., RealNetworks Inc., NetRatings Inc., Atom/Shockwave Entertainment, Inc., Become, Inc., Pheedo, Inc. and Brightcove, Inc.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, Software
- Series B, Series A, Series C
- United States, Singapore, China
Portfolio highlights
- Erasco — Erasco is Indonesia’s largest B2B trucking platform. Kargo’s product suites can seamlessly integrate with any business and empower supply chains to work with more transparency & efficiency. Kargo’s workflow tools allow freight to be priced, tracked and billed with technology. Kargo’s platform has highly managed and vetted transporters alongwith reputation systems to instill trust. The platform has managed to grow to tens of thousands of truckers and attracted notable clients such as some of the world's largest MNCs, the largest eCommerce platforms, and thousands of SME businesses
- Anchanto — Anchanto is a global B2B SaaS company enabling warehouse management, omni-channel retail management; offers inventory management system, order management system and product information management
- Reply.ai — Scale your customer service and deliver great customer experiences using AI chatbots and intelligent self-service that goes beyond static long FAQ answers. Improve self-service on chat, email and messaging.
Investing with elite athletes in Sports, Media and Entertainment
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Investment focus
- Sports, Media and Entertainment, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Portugal, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Hexis — Hexis optimises your daily energy needs to the unique demands of your workouts, lifestyle and goals. The only system to personalise, periodic and plan, your daily carbohydrate and calorie needs.
- VRTL — The Virtual Venue of Fandom. A fully white-labeled platform designed for live entertainment brands to live on their owned-sites, that executes all in-person best practices in a virtual setting. (fka Virtual Tables)
- Traits Insights — Traits is a player profiling platform which enables decision-makers in sport to harness the value of analytics by translating complex performance data into powerful and meaningful insights.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Software, Health Care
- Grant, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- MiAlgae — MiAlgae is a new-age microalgal production company that aims to revolutionize the £340 billion global livestock feed industry by producing microalgal products – through the remediation of wastewater – as nutrient supplements for fishmeal in livestock feeds. Their microalgal products are high in omegas and proteins, both of which are required forthe production of many livestock feeds, especially in the aquaculture sector.Their production methodology uses circular economy to reduce the operating costs involved in the production of microalgae and as such allows them to compete with other supplements currently on the market.
- Solasta Bio — Solasta Bio develops environment-friendly products that meet a global need for new and effective crop protection.
- ILC Therapeutics — ILC Therapeutics Ltd is an early-stage biotechnology company focused on modulating the Innate Immune System through the development of novel peptide therapeutics for the treatment of Covid-19, Cancer, Atopic Dermatitis, and Psoriasis.
FatPipe Networks provides the highest levels of WAN Optimization, SD-WAN, Load Balancer, WAN Load Balancing, Hybrid Network, Dual WAN Load Balancing
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Investment focus
- Internet, Broadcasting
- Series A
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Tranz-Send — Tranz-Send provides complete Internet broadcast technologies and services--providing home and business users.
The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
- Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Gelomics — Gelomics operates as a biotechnology company. Gelomics provides 3D cell culture technologies.
- Fugu — Cheap green carbon at scale for the dawn of the e-fuel age
- Fugu Carbon — Fugu Carbon is a machinery manufacturing company that helps in carbon dioxide removal (CDR) technology from air.
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 — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
- Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)
Auckland University's commercialisation arm
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Investment focus
- Medical Device, SaaS, Audio
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
- 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.
University of Auckland Inventors Fund
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Therapeutics, Audio
- Series A, Series B, Convertible Note
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Soul Machines — Go beyond avatars. Create interactive, customizable, Soul Machines Digital People for AI-driven impact. Try it now.
- Rain Therapeutics — Rain Therapeutics researches, develops and translates innovative targeted cancer therapies to patients
- 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.
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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- SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
- 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.
New Zealand's leading equity investment marketplace. We simplify investment into high growth Kiwi companies.
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- Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- New Zealand
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- Ubco — UBCO is a New Zealand and US-based tech company that designs, develops, and distributes Utility Electric Vehicles and Portable Power Supplies for on-and off-road adventures, leisure and recreation, and commercial use where vehicle utility is required. UBCO have a desire to Power Your Purpose, through it's Utility Electric Vehicles (UEVs) thatcan change the way people ride, work, and play. UBCO currently has a digitally connected UEV platform which includes on- and off-road transport (2×2), portable power, accessories, and software. They provide a complete solution, from users to managers across a wide range of applications.
- Tether Limited — Tether develops a solution that continuously assesses, reports on, and rates the environmental quality and energy efficiency of homes, offices, and classrooms. Tether will not only enable continuous evaluation and feedback, but it will also provide ways to improve the environments in which users live, work, or learn.Through connected hardware andsoftware solutions, Tether promotes healthy living, learning, and working environments.
- projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
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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- Software, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- Primary — Primary is the modern operating system for treasury management. We empower startups & innovative corporates to grow by reducing complexity around treasury, payments and cash flow.Primary is used by leading founders and finance teams that value safety, control and efficiency. Our product simplifies access to best-in-class yield instruments,enables monitoring of real-time cash positions across multiple banking partners and improves cash forecasting capabilities. We are powering the secure, smart and transparent treasury to help all companies meaningfully extend their runways.
- Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.
- Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.
Ableton makes software and hardware for creating, producing, and performing music.
Ableton's flagship product, Live, has introduced a new approach to making music with computers on stage and in the studio that has attracted several hundred thousand Live worldwide.
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- Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed
- 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
Paul Reeve
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- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Series A
- New Zealand
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- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Paul Bingham - Chairman @ Shuttlerock
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- Apps, Video, Facebook
- Series A
- New Zealand
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- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.
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- Software, Information Technology, Computer
- Funding Round, Seed, Series A
- United Kingdom, United States, Brazil
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- Artus — Artus is a revolutionary heating and air conditioning product. Applications include residential, commercial and high-precision environments.
- iGii — Integrated Graphene enable better products with a revolutionary design for manufacture process producing the world's highest quality pure 3D Graphene Foam, Gii.
- Nova Pangaea Technologies (NPT) — NPT is a cleantech company that has developed a revolutionary process technology called REFNOVA. REFNOVA allows customers to converts non-food plant residues into sustainable products such as biochar, activated carbon, biofuel, biopolymers and biochemicals. Our products help customers replace fossil based products and enable decarbonisation.
Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.
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- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- United States, Italy, Australia
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- Cropify — Eliminating subjective testing from the classification process using AI and machine learning. Cropify.io
- Kybele's Garden — Algae Biotechnology for Agrifood & Cosmetics Solutions
- Cellivate Technology — Startup, with proprietary platform technologies and products that enable cellular meat companies to accelerate the growth of cells
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