Powerhouse Ventures
VC Fund
Christchurch, New Zealand
Powerhouse Ventures is a VC fund in Christchurch focused on Biotechnology and Health Care. powerHouse is a New Zealand intellectual property commercialisation company using private and public investment to develop new spin-out ventures sourced primarily from research partners such as universities and Crown Research Institutes. A pioneer of seed-stage investment in New Zealand, powerHouse focuses on the earliest stages of new high-value technology development. Unlike incubators that offer general business services to any innovative companies, powerHouse is extremely focused and selective. It rigorously screens each opportunity to identify those with the strongest intellectual property value and the greatest potential to gain an unfair advantage in global markets. powerHouse then invests in these companies, sourced from powerHouse's annual seed-stage fund and co-investment. powerHouse also runs an innovation education programme for studdents and organisations.
- Total investments:
- 25
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 8%
Last updated:
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Industries Powerhouse Ventures invests in
Stages Powerhouse Ventures invests in
Countries Powerhouse Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 18 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $285k–$7.9M
- Pre-Seed
- $51k–$373k
- Series A
- $255k–$7M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Biotechnology 7 (28%)
- Health Care 6 (24%)
- Software 5 (20%)
- Medical 4 (16%)
- Pharmaceutical 3 (12%)
Stage
- Seed 9 (36%)
- Pre-Seed 8 (32%)
- Series A 3 (12%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 3 (12%)
Country
- New Zealand 14 (56%)
- United States 3 (12%)
- Australia 2 (8%)
- France 1 (4%)
- The Netherlands 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Anya Hornsey
Christchurch Regional General Manager
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Christchurch Regional General Manager | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Colin Dawson
Chief Operating Officer
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Chief Operating Officer | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Conrad Anderson
Investment Analyst (Dunedin)
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Investment Analyst (Dunedin) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Jennifer Anderson
Investment Manager (Wellington)
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Investment Manager (Wellington) | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
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Matthew Turnbull
Corporate Accountant
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Corporate Accountant | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 18 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| VeriQuantix was spun out of the University of Queensland. VeriQuantix is an Australian startup specializing in cybersecurity, focusing on quantum technology to enhance the security of optical fiber communication networks. Their core innovation, Quantum Link Verification (QLV), is designed to detect and alert network operators to physical tappingattempts and intercept cyber attacks on fiber optic networks. This technology leverages quantum principles, specifically entangled photons, to verify the trustworthiness of network links by ensuring that any unauthorized access disrupts photon entanglement and triggers immediate alerts. | $2.4M / Seed / Oct 24, 2025 | ||
| Liquid Instruments develops software-defined test and measurement systems that enable engineers and scientists to perform complex experiments and signal analysis using a single, reconfigurable hardware platform. The company’s core offering is the Moku product line, which integrates multiple laboratory instruments, such as oscilloscopes, spectrumanalyzers, waveform generators, and lock-in amplifiers, into one device that can be configured and updated through software. Its platform is built on field-programmable gate arrays, allowing users to dynamically switch between instrument functions or combine multiple tools within the same system depending on testing requirements. This approach replaces traditional setups that rely on multiple standalone instruments, reducing equipment complexity, cost, and physical space while enabling customized configurations for different applications. | $8M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 19, 2024 | ||
| Granular is a start-up providing market solutions for 24/7 clean energy. | Seed / Oct 02, 2023 | ||
| Granular Energy is the platform of the future for managing and trading clean energy. | $7.9M / Seed / Oct 02, 2023 | ||
| Inhibit Coatings is a start-up company that produces high-performance antimicrobial paints and coatings for food safety and healthcare. It uses a unique silver nanoparticle functionalization method that produces physically robust, low-leaching, and long lifetime antimicrobial coatings.Its technology produces silver particles evenly dispersedthroughout the polymer coating and bound to the resin backbone. Only very small amounts of silver are required, typically less than 0.1%, owing to silver’s excellent and well-documented performance as an antimicrobial agent, with proven activity against over 650 different microorganisms. Its technology has been applied to a number of resin systems including acrylics, epoxies, and polyurethanes.It was founded by Dr. Eldon Tate and Prof. Jim Johnston in 2016. | $920.7K / Venture - Series Unknown / Jun 30, 2023 | ||
| Granular is a start-up providing market solutions for 24/7 clean energy. | Seed / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Granular Energy is the platform of the future for managing and trading clean energy. | $2.1M / Seed / Jun 14, 2022 | ||
| Cirrus Materials Science is a niche eco-science spin-out from the university of Auckland, that provides patented technology to the global aerospace and electronics industry. They apply Cirrus nano-technology to overcome major cost, regulatory, and performance challenges in aerospace electronics. Cirrus has a small, green footprint and exportsweightless, environmentally friendly technology to global manufacturers. Cirrus provides applied functional surface technologies to help clients solve challenging technical problems. | $255.4K / Series A / Jun 09, 2022 | ||
| Salient Predictions uses ML & ocean data to provide long range weather forecast for use in diverse industries. | $5.6M / Seed / May 18, 2022 | ||
| Energetic Capital was created to catalyze deployment of renewable energy with a focus on sub-investment grade and unrated credit risks. Our process is faster and more scalable than any existing financing options, allowing more organizations to access and procure clean energy and efficiency solutions. We provide a comprehensive financing packagethat unlocks the benefits of efficient and affordable financing for renewable energy. | $7M / Series A / Sep 27, 2021 | ||
| See all 25 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Powerhouse Ventures invest in?
Powerhouse Ventures invests primarily in Biotechnology, Health Care and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 25 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Powerhouse Ventures invest in?
Powerhouse Ventures typically joins rounds of $285k–$7.9M at Seed, $51k–$373k at Pre-Seed and $255k–$7M at Series A. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Powerhouse Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Powerhouse Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Powerhouse Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Powerhouse Ventures?
The team at Powerhouse Ventures includes Anya Hornsey (Christchurch Regional General Manager), Colin Dawson (Chief Operating Officer) and Conrad Anderson (Investment Analyst (Dunedin)), among 18 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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