Top 25 Medical Device Startup Investors in New Zealand in May 2025
A list of 25 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Medical device startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Medical device companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Medical Device Startup Investors in New Zealand in May 2025
Investor | Medical Device New Zealand investments |
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Icehouse Ventures | 4 |
Pacific Channel | 4 |
IP Group | 3 |
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners | 3 |
Cure Kids Ventures | 3 |
Uniservices | 3 |
Global from Day One | 3 |
Flying Kiwis | 2 |
GD1 | 2 |
Punakaiki Fund | 2 |
Matū Group | 2 |
K1W1 | 2 |
Hostplus | 1 |
Topcon Healthcare | 1 |
LCO Capital | 1 |
Bridgewest Group | 1 |
Bay Trust | 1 |
Tuhua Fund | 1 |
Quayside Holdings | 1 |
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund | 1 |
Enterprise Angels | 1 |
Powerhouse Ventures | 1 |
Flying Kiwi Angels | 1 |
National Vision | 1 |
Brisbane Angels | 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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
- Crimson Education — Crimson Education is the world's leading higher educational consultancy helping students around the world gain admission into leading US and UK universities by up to 400%!
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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- Medical Device, Medical, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand, Australia
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- PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
- Conry Tech — Conry Tech is a climate tech company, reinventing air-conditioning to decarbonise and improve comfort, founded by renowned HVAC industry revolutionising experts.
- Green Gravity — Green Gravity is an electric power generation company that enables renewable energy transition using energy storage technology.
IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.
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- Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United Kingdom, United States, Australia
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- Lumai — Lumai delivers fully optical computing for a quicker, smarter and more sustainable world. Lumai power the revolution of fully optical computing by working at the nexus of photonics and machine learning.
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- Diffblue — Diffblue Cover uses next generation autonomous AI to automate unit testing so that Java development teams can build better applications faster
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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- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
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- Scannable — Safety Equipment Management System
- 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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About Cure Kids Ventures
Cure Kids Ventures is a seed and early stage investment fund that invests in the commercialisation of innovations in products and services with a potential to
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- Medical Device, SaaS, Medical
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
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- 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.
- Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
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- Medical Device, SaaS, Audio
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand
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- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- 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.
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, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, China
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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.
- 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.
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- SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device
- Seed
- New Zealand
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- 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.
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, Information Technology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand, United States, China
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- 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.
Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- New Zealand, United States
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- Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
- Whip Around — Whip Around develops and builds solutions that tackle the paper-based compliance burden for a wide variety of transport companies in the United States and around the world. Effortlessly manage your fleet inspections, compliance, preventative maintenance, work orders, reporting & more! Create powerful checklists for your assets. Have yourdrivers conduct inspections anywhere, anytime via the Whip Around mobile app. Get alerts sent to you immediately, view the reports from the management dashboard and manage faults with ease. Come see why more than 85,000 users globally love Whip Around. Trial Whip Around free for 7 days!
- projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
Investing in scalable science and deep tech start-ups in Aotearoa NZ. We operate venture capital funds that invest in science and deep tech through a hands-on, active approach.
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Investment focus
- Biotechnology, Robotics, Nanotechnology
- Seed
- New Zealand, United States
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- Ligar — Providing molecular filtration solutions to companies in the food, beverage, health, therapeutics, flavour and aroma industries. Our unique MIP and Polymer technology enables companies to improve their products and operational processes by extracting, reducing or concentrating flavours or compounds.
- Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
- PowerON — Dielectric Elastomers for Soft Robotics
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
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- 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.
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- Software, Biotechnology, Renewable Energy
- Series A, Series B, Series C
- Australia, United Kingdom, United States
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- Brainomix — Since launching as a spin-out from the University of Oxford in 2010, Brainomix has developed award-winning, AI-powered imaging biomarkers, assisting physicians across the world to make better life-saving decisions. Brainomix seminal product, e-Stroke is a collection of tools that use state-of-the-art AI algorithms to support doctors by providingreal-time interpretation of brain scans to help guide treatment and transfer decisions for stroke patients, allowing more patients to get the right treatment, in the right place, at the right time.
- Sonder — One app. One go-to. One support system.Sonder is the trusted wellbeing partner for some of the world’s most innovative organisations as they reimagine how to care and support their people.With a clear purpose of breaking down barriers to help, providing the right support to people at the right time. Acknowledging that there are often multiplefactors at play, and wellbeing comprises of cultural, social, environmental and vocational factors, all which play a part in getting to the root cause of issues, and on a path to wellness.The heart of Sonder's solution is a technology-driven platform supported in real time by medical and mental health experts - experts that are available every minute of every day. Their mission is to get the right outcome across any wellbeing or safety issue.Trusted by major corporations, education providers and Government to enhance wellbeing across the world, Sonder is on a mission to create a better world, accepting differences and supportive of others. A world where it's OK to ask for help, for anything, at any time of the day or night.It takes humans to help other humans. That’s why Sonder combines a human first, tech supported approach.
- Cardiac Dimensions — Cardiac Dimensions, Inc. is a medical device company developing novel interventional tools for the treatment of heart failure and the related condition of mitral valve regurgitation. Our product, the Carillon® Mitral Contour System®, is a groundbreaking, non-surgical device developed to treat functional mitral valve regurgitation. Our system uses acatheter based approach to reshape the mitral valve and reduce mitral regurgitation.
Topcon Healthcare empowers providers with advanced imaging, diagnostic solutions and intelligent data technology, offering a more fully integrated approach to diagnosis and treatment in eyecare.
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Investment focus
- Health Care, Medical Device, Health Diagnostics
- Series A
- New Zealand
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- RetiSpec — RetiSpec is a medical imaging company using advanced AI for the detection of neurodegenerative diseases through hyperspectral imaging of the eye.
- Toku Eyes — Instant Healthcare Diagnostics. Toku Eyes developed a multi-modal artificial intelligence platform for instant healthcare diagnostics...
- Retinai — RetinAI optimises and simplifies clinics, research and pharmaceutical workflows to improve healthcare. To achieve this goal, the company builds tools to collect, analyze and organize health data, empowering healthcare professionals and patients with automatic image and data analysis supported by advanced machine learning. RetinAI has proprietarytechnology that provides unforeseen image quality enhancement, as well as automatic analysis of medical data for hospitals, private practitioners, pharmaceutical companies and device manufacturers at similar level of performance as a human would produce.
LCO Capital offer value-add financial and intellectual capital to underperforming business lines, using an LCO℠ business model.
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- Health Care, Manufacturing, Medical Device
- Funding Round
- New Zealand
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- Chitogel — Chitogel is a medical device company that offers edge wound healing gel for use in endoscopic sinus surgery.
Bridgewest Group is a closely held investment company with global assets in the biotech, wireless communications, infrastructure for "internet of things," semiconductor, real estate, and financial services industries.
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- Mobile, Hardware, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
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Community Trust
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- Sensor, Hardware, Robotics
- Seed
- New Zealand
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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
Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups
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- Software, Internet, B2B
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, Singapore, United States
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- 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
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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- Sensor, FinTech, Hardware
- Seed, Series B
- New Zealand
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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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- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
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- 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
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- Software, Information Technology, Health Care
- Funding Round, Seed, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
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- 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.
powerHouse is a New Zealand intellectual property commercialisation company investing to develop new spin-out ventures
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- Solar, FinTech, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, France, New Zealand
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- Granular — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. We are the leading provider of energy certificate management software for utilities, helping to streamline certificate managment processes and enabling utilities to launch next-generation green offers, including transparency down to the hourly level.
- Granular Energy — Granular Energy provides solutions for managing and trading clean energy. We are the leading provider of energy certificate management software for utilities, helping to streamline certificate managment processes and enabling utilities to launch next-generation green offers, including transparency down to the hourly level.
- Liquid Instruments — Redefining the way scientists, engineers, students, and professionals experience test and measurement with Moku software-reconfigurable hardware platforms
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Apps
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand
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- FileInvite — The simplest, most secure, document collection platform for professionals. Request files, forms, data and e-signatures all through a secure client portal.
- 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.
- Kara Technologies — Content accessibility using a signing avatar. Accessible solutions are at the core of all that we do here at Kara. One of our main goals is finding smarter ways of using technology that will help build a better future for everyone, in all areas of life.
National Vision is the second largest and one of the fastest growing optical retail companies in the U.S., helping people to see their best to live their best. Learn more about National Vision Inc. and how to join our team.
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- Health Care, Social Media, Digital Media
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand, United States
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- Toku Eyes — Instant Healthcare Diagnostics. Toku Eyes developed a multi-modal artificial intelligence platform for instant healthcare diagnostics...
- Digital Vision Systems — DigitalVision develops, manufactures, and distributes a technology platform for analyzing and correcting vision disorders. It offers vision simulators and prescribers, and spectacles and contact lenses. The company was founded in 2004 and is based in Atlanta, Georgia.
Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.
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- Information Technology, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, New Zealand
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- Tendl — Write tenders faster with Tendl's AI tool. Keep your data private and secure. Easy installation, no sharing. Boost productivity and streamline your contract opportunities.
- ReciMe — The #1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook & more!
- Shopfront — Shopfront provides tools for automated list generation, publishing, managing, and delisting of products across various marketplaces.
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