New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund
Auckland, New Zealand
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund is a VC fund in Auckland focused on Software and SaaS. New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, a New Zealand-based private equity fund, manages fund of funds investments and direct co-investments.
- Total investments:
- 40
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries New Zealand Venture Investment Fund invests in
Stages New Zealand Venture Investment Fund invests in
Countries New Zealand Venture Investment Fund invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $428k–$1.2M
- Angel
- $400k–$4.3M
- Series A
- $1.4M–$8.8M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 10 (25%)
- SaaS 7 (18%)
- Biotechnology 7 (18%)
- Artificial Intelligence 6 (15%)
- Health Care 5 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 16 (40%)
- Series A 7 (18%)
- Angel 4 (10%)
- Funding Round 3 (8%)
- Convertible Note 3 (8%)
Country
- New Zealand 22 (55%)
- United States 7 (18%)
- Japan 1 (3%)
- Canada 1 (3%)
- United Kingdom 1 (3%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Chris Twiss
Investment Director
|
Investment Director | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Stu Christie
Investment Manager
|
Investment Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Richard Dellabarca
Founder & CEO
|
Founder & CEO | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| 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. | $519.1K / Initial Coin Offering / Dec 20, 2023 | ||
| MarginFuel offers intelligent price optimization software that empowers rental vehicle operators to build profitable pricing strategies. They also extend to MaaS providers, providing predictive modeling, fleet flow optimization, and dynamic pricing capabilities. | $810K / Seed / Dec 20, 2020 | ||
| Each of the Top 100 Consumer Goods companies make billions of dollars of granular assortment and pricing decisions. This happens across thousands of their products at hundreds of thousands of their retail channels. Much like algorithmic trading systems, Insite AI is the cutting edge machine learning solution now handling these decisions. Thetechnology uniquely deploys in the customer's cloud environment so data never leaves the customer. Furthermore Insite AI is seen as the most configurable solution on the market to suit a customer's exact vision. By making granular decisions in advance, seeing all the scenarios, and having them explained, large CPGs are now in control of their retail channels. | Seed / May 11, 2020 | ||
| Each of the Top 100 Consumer Goods companies make billions of dollars of granular assortment and pricing decisions. This happens across thousands of their products at hundreds of thousands of their retail channels. Much like algorithmic trading systems, Insite AI is the cutting edge machine learning solution now handling these decisions. Thetechnology uniquely deploys in the customer's cloud environment so data never leaves the customer. Furthermore Insite AI is seen as the most configurable solution on the market to suit a customer's exact vision. By making granular decisions in advance, seeing all the scenarios, and having them explained, large CPGs are now in control of their retail channels. | Convertible Note / Apr 11, 2020 | ||
| Surgical Design Studios (SDS) was founded two years ago at the University of Auckland's Medical School department of surgery with help from MedTech CORE - a medical commercialisation arm funded by the Tertiary Education Commission and UniServices. | $4.3M / Angel / Aug 01, 2019 | ||
| Dexibit Provides visitor attractions with the latest in big data analytics and artificial intelligence. | Seed / Jun 01, 2019 | ||
| The Clinician is a Health IT company with a focus on driving better care outcomes while improving organisational efficiency and reducing costs. With hubs in New Zealand and Singapore The Clinician is swiftly gaining a reputation as the first mover in this vertical in Asia Pacific. The management team is internationally experienced who are expertsin their individual fields and have held senior level positions in medicine, engineering, research and business intelligence.The Clinician’s flagship product is ZEDOC - a cloud based Software as a Service (SaaS) platform that operates within existing clinical workflows, communicating directly with both patients and care teams, to enable collection and analysis of Patient Reported Outcome Measures (PROMs) throughout the care continuum in the clinic or remotely between visits. The solution seamlessly gathers data from health tracker devices and wearables throughout the patient journey. | Series A / May 30, 2019 | ||
| 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. | $8.8M / Series A / May 02, 2019 | ||
| Montoux's actuarial automation platform empowers actuaries to become more effective in their roles and return to being strategic decision makers. By automating low level handle turning tasks, actuaries can generate results faster and incorporate more scenarios into their calculations to increase the quality of their decisions.Montouxprovides cloud-based technology for life and health insurers to free up actuarial resources and make high-impact decisions based on data-driven predictions. | $10.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 04, 2019 | ||
| Each of the Top 100 Consumer Goods companies make billions of dollars of granular assortment and pricing decisions. This happens across thousands of their products at hundreds of thousands of their retail channels. Much like algorithmic trading systems, Insite AI is the cutting edge machine learning solution now handling these decisions. Thetechnology uniquely deploys in the customer's cloud environment so data never leaves the customer. Furthermore Insite AI is seen as the most configurable solution on the market to suit a customer's exact vision. By making granular decisions in advance, seeing all the scenarios, and having them explained, large CPGs are now in control of their retail channels. | $1.3M / Pre-Seed / Jan 01, 2019 | ||
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FAQ
What does New Zealand Venture Investment Fund invest in?
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 40 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is New Zealand Venture Investment Fund's check size?
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund typically joins rounds of $428k–$1.2M at Seed, $400k–$4.3M at Angel and $1.4M–$8.8M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds New Zealand Venture Investment Fund participates in.
How do I contact New Zealand Venture Investment Fund?
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Who are the partners at New Zealand Venture Investment Fund?
The team at New Zealand Venture Investment Fund includes Chris Twiss (Investment Director), Stu Christie (Investment Manager) and Richard Dellabarca (Founder & CEO). The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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