# Brent Ogilvie

> Brent Ogilvie is a seed investor at Pacific Channel (Auckland) backing Farming and Medical. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pacific Channel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pacific-channel)
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: May 2023
- Lead investor: 50%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/ogilvie
- Website: https://x.com/Brent_S_Ogilvie

Brent Ogilvie is a seed investor at Pacific Channel in Auckland focused on Farming and Medical. Brent Brent Ogilvie is the Founder and Managing Director of Pacific Channel Limited. Through Pacific Channel activities as a seed investor, Brent Ogilvie serves as an Advisory board member of ICE Angels, Australasia’s largest group of experienced investors, with over 90 members and founder of its Chinese investor group; and Trustee of the UrbanEco-living Trust, which teaches New Zealand youth about sustainable living through a mobile-learning centre.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Farming | 1 | 25% |
| Medical | 1 | 25% |
| Agriculture | 1 | 25% |
| Health Care | 1 | 25% |
| Product Design | 1 | 25% |

9 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 25% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Upstream Medical Technologies | Upstream Medical Technologies is a medical diagnostics company specializing in cardiovascular disease testing.It develops a cardio endocrine bio-markers designed for accurate diagnosis of heart disease and associated complications, enabling doctors to detect and treat heart diseases without causing much harm to the patient. Its patentedtechnology is based on specialist protein peptides. Upstream's pipeline of tests enables earlier diagnosis for improved patient recovery.The diagnostics company was founded by Chris Pemberton in Seacliff, Otago in 2015. | $1.2M |  | May 17, 2023 |  |
| Quantifi Photonics | Coherent Solutions has been enabling engineers and researchers to fully characterize optical pulses. Our skills, experience, and capabilities have grown and so has the market. | $10.4M | Series B | Jul 08, 2021 |  |
| Regen | Regen Ltd is a provider of cloud-based, precision effluent and irrigation decision support tools. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |
| Androgenix |  |  | Seed |  |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Investors Marlborough](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-investors-marlborough) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Booster](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/booster-aa31) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Enterprise Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [New Zealand Growth Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-zealand-growth-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Nuance Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nuance-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pacific Channel

VC Fund · Auckland, New Zealand

Pacific Channel is New Zealand’s leading venture creation, development and investment firm focused on start-up and early-stage life-science and clean-tech innovation. Through their expertise, seed funds and access to external capital, they create, build and fund companies to develop and channel their products and/or services into the UnitedStates, Europe and East Asia.Since their formation in 2006, Pacific Channel has placed in excess of NZD 25 million of seed and early-stage funding into 16 New Zealand-based life science and clean-tech companies over 35 deals. Including since mid-2008 as a seed and early stage investor in partnership with the NZ Venture Investment Fund, and a number of wealthy co-investors.

5 contacts available at Pacific Channel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin McCutcheon | Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-mccutcheon |
| Brent Ogilvie | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-ogilvie |
| Harrison McCarthy | Junior Analyst | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-mccarthy-22de |
| Lifei Wang | East Asia Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifei-wang-ed6f |
| Richard Pinfold | Partner - Investment Banking | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-pinfold-2683 |

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## FAQ

### What does Brent Ogilvie invest in?

Brent Ogilvie invests primarily in Farming, Medical and Agriculture startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Brent Ogilvie last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Brent Ogilvie closed in May 2023. Shizune tracks 4 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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