# Pacific Channel

> Pacific Channel is a VC fund backing Manufacturing and Health Care. See 54 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 54
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 28%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/pacific-channel-limited
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/PacificChannel
- Website: http://www.pacificchannel.com

Pacific Channel is a VC fund in Auckland focused on Manufacturing and Health Care. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $900k–$5M |
| Pre-Seed | $511k–$1.6M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3.2M–$5.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Manufacturing | 8 | 15% |
| Health Care | 7 | 13% |
| Biotechnology | 7 | 13% |
| Medical Device | 7 | 13% |
| AgTech | 5 | 9% |

65 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 27 | 50% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 9 | 17% |
| Pre-Seed | 5 | 9% |
| Series A | 5 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 2% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 31 | 57% |
| Australia | 8 | 15% |
| United States | 2 | 4% |
| Singapore | 1 | 2% |
| Philippines | 1 | 2% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Benjamin McCutcheon | Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/benjamin-mccutcheon |
| Brent Ogilvie | Co-Founder & Managing Partner | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brent-ogilvie |
| Harrison McCarthy | Junior Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harrison-mccarthy-22de |
| Lifei Wang | East Asia Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lifei-wang-ed6f |
| Richard Pinfold | Partner - Investment Banking | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/richard-pinfold-2683 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Navi Medical Technologies | Navi Medical Technologies is a medical device development company. | $4.7M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 29, 2026 |  |
| 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. | $4.3M | Seed | Feb 10, 2026 |  |
| Mars Bioimaging | Mars Bioimaging Ltd (MBI) was formed in 2007 to commercialise the ground-breaking MARS imaging system for its applications in medical diagnosis.The MARS imaging system is based on the new generation Medipix chip licensed out of CERN, Switzerland and technology developed by the University of Canterbury (UC) and partners. It has establisheditself as the world’s leading spectral (multi-energy ‘true colour’) imaging technology. It is the first commercially available spectral, high definition computed tomography (CT) system and has already demonstrated exciting applications. | $15M | Series A | Jan 13, 2026 |  |
| Bovonic | Bovonic is an agriculture software developer that helps dairy farmers to enhance the productivity and profitability of their animals. |  | Seed | Aug 20, 2025 |  |
| InsituGen | InsituGen’s unique cell-free bioassays replicate the natural biological signalling pathways of estrogen and androgen receptors, detecting activity from any known or unknown compound that interferes with steroid hormone receptors. InsituGen’s bioassays and are simple to use, cost-effective, adaptable, fast, sensitive, and accurate. |  | Pre-Seed | Jul 04, 2025 |  |
| Aimer Development | Aimer Farming is an agritech company that develops AI-powered tools to assist dairy farmers in optimizing pasture management and improving farm profitability. Aimer's primary product, Aimer Vision, is a smartphone-based application that utilizes machine vision and artificial intelligence to measure pasture cover. By performing a five-second,180-degree scan, the app estimates pasture mass with approximately 90% accuracy, providing immediate analysis and tailored recommendations for grazing and supplement planning. The system creates a digital twin of each paddock, learning growth rate patterns and predicting pasture performance. This enables farmers to plan inputs and resources up to 21 days in advance, enhancing operational efficiency and sustainability. |  | Seed | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Hectre | Hectre provides growers and enterprise with simple to use, leading edge orchard management software. Easy to use in the orchard, on the farm, in the warehouse and in the packhouse. Please complete your details below and we'll be in touch to arrange your demo |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 11, 2025 |  |
| PHNXX | PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations. | $1.1M | Seed | Mar 10, 2025 |  |
| Farm Minerals | Farm Minerals is dedicated to empowering farmers globally by providing the most efficient fertilizers and feed additives available. Our innovative products, developed with cutting-edge carbon capsule technology, enhance plant and animal nutrition, significantly boosting productivity while reducing environmental impact. This strategic approachensures that farmers can achieve higher yields and healthier livestock, driving sustainable agricultural success worldwide. |  | Seed | Dec 19, 2024 |  |
| Conry Tech | Conry Tech is reinventing air-conditioning to make comfort sustainable, as it causes 15% of global emissions takes 60% of a buildings power. Conry Tech have patented a new approach and system to tackle this issue and improve comfort. They are decentralizing air-conditioning for commercial buildings, allowing each room to be optimised for comfortand energy efficiency, reducing energy consumption >70%, improving comfort and health, reducing a buildings carbon footprint and helping drive building valuations higher. | $1.6M | Pre-Seed | Dec 10, 2024 |  |

10 of 54 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Zealand Growth Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-zealand-growth-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 13 deals together
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 11 deals together
- [Enterprise Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/enterprise-angels) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 10 deals together
- [AngelHQ](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelhq) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Booster](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/booster-aa31) — VC Fund, 6 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Pacific Channel invest in?

Pacific Channel invests primarily in Manufacturing, Health Care and Biotechnology startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 54 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 Pacific Channel's check size?

Pacific Channel typically joins rounds of $900k–$5M at Seed, $511k–$1.6M at Pre-Seed and $3.2M–$5.5M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Pacific Channel participates in.

### How do I contact Pacific Channel?

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### Who are the partners at Pacific Channel?

The team at Pacific Channel includes Benjamin McCutcheon (Analyst), Brent Ogilvie (Co-Founder & Managing Partner) and Harrison McCarthy (Junior Analyst), among 9 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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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