# Punakaiki Fund

> Punakaiki Fund is a VC fund in Auckland backing Software and SaaS. See 44 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 44
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 34%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/punakaiki-fund
- X (Twitter): https://www.twitter.com/lancewiggs
- Website: http://punakaikifund.co.nz

Punakaiki Fund is a VC fund in Auckland focused on Software and SaaS. 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $355k–$5M |
| Series A | $1.5M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 14 | 32% |
| SaaS | 6 | 14% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 3 | 7% |
| Telecommunications | 3 | 7% |

59 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 23% |
| Funding Round | 7 | 16% |
| Series A | 4 | 9% |
| Series B | 4 | 9% |
| Series C | 4 | 9% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 23 | 52% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| John Berry | Independent Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-berry-7987 |
| John Berry | Independent Director | 1 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/john-berry-a6cf |
| Lance Wiggs | Director | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-wiggs |
| Lance Wiggs | Director | 12 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lance-wiggs-2 |
| Nadine Hill | Investment Director | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nadine-hill-92d5 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| 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 | $7.3M | Series A | Feb 11, 2026 |  |
| Projectworks | Grow your firm - and your impact.Projectworks is professional services automation software built for consulting firms that want to grow - and make a difference.As a project intelligence platform, Projectworks connects time tracking, expense tracking, resource management, invoicing, and financial reporting in one live system. It gives you thevisibility to see what’s working, fix what’s not, and scale your firm with confidence.Projectworks was built by consultants who know what it’s like to lose hours to spreadsheets and billing chaos. Designed specifically for engineering, architecture, software development, and management consulting, it’s professional services automation (PSA) software that gets experts out of the admin grind and back to the work that matters.Our cloud-based PSA tool brings together everything your business needs to plan, track, forecast, and grow. By automating time tracking, expense tracking, resource planning, project financials, and real-time reporting, Projectworks frees your people to focus on solving the world’s hardest problems - not wrestling with manual processes. On average, Projectworks users grow 20% in their first year.Connect Projectworks with your existing stack - including Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce - to eliminate double handling, align your data, and operate with confidence.We’ll help you set up for success with expert data migration, comprehensive training, and responsive ongoing support.Key featuresTime tracking software: Easy, accurate timesheets that actually get filled out. Simplify project time tracking and keep billing up to date with integrated time management software for consultants.Expense tracking: Track project spend against budget with simple, mobile-friendly expense submission. Sync approved expenses directly to Xero as bills to pay.Resource management software: Plan and allocate resources effectively. See availability, utilization, and capacity in real time with powerful resource planning tools that make project delivery predictable.Revenue forecasting & project profitability: Combine financial and resourcing data to model revenue, monitor utilization and profitability, and make confident growth decisions.Invoicing automation: Create pre-populated invoices that sync seamlessly with Xero, reducing admin and helping you get paid faster.Reporting & insights: Access real-time dashboards, project profitability reports, and PSA analytics that bring clarity to every decision. Track the consulting metrics that matter most - across projects, clients, and teams.Integrations: Connect your favorite tools and run your firm on a unified project management and financial reporting platform.Flexible pricing means you only pay for what you use - plus, get a 10% discount on annual subscriptions. | $12M | Series A | Jun 03, 2025 |  |
| Projectworks | Grow your firm - and your impact.Projectworks is professional services automation software built for consulting firms that want to grow - and make a difference.As a project intelligence platform, Projectworks connects time tracking, expense tracking, resource management, invoicing, and financial reporting in one live system. It gives you thevisibility to see what’s working, fix what’s not, and scale your firm with confidence.Projectworks was built by consultants who know what it’s like to lose hours to spreadsheets and billing chaos. Designed specifically for engineering, architecture, software development, and management consulting, it’s professional services automation (PSA) software that gets experts out of the admin grind and back to the work that matters.Our cloud-based PSA tool brings together everything your business needs to plan, track, forecast, and grow. By automating time tracking, expense tracking, resource planning, project financials, and real-time reporting, Projectworks frees your people to focus on solving the world’s hardest problems - not wrestling with manual processes. On average, Projectworks users grow 20% in their first year.Connect Projectworks with your existing stack - including Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce - to eliminate double handling, align your data, and operate with confidence.We’ll help you set up for success with expert data migration, comprehensive training, and responsive ongoing support.Key featuresTime tracking software: Easy, accurate timesheets that actually get filled out. Simplify project time tracking and keep billing up to date with integrated time management software for consultants.Expense tracking: Track project spend against budget with simple, mobile-friendly expense submission. Sync approved expenses directly to Xero as bills to pay.Resource management software: Plan and allocate resources effectively. See availability, utilization, and capacity in real time with powerful resource planning tools that make project delivery predictable.Revenue forecasting & project profitability: Combine financial and resourcing data to model revenue, monitor utilization and profitability, and make confident growth decisions.Invoicing automation: Create pre-populated invoices that sync seamlessly with Xero, reducing admin and helping you get paid faster.Reporting & insights: Access real-time dashboards, project profitability reports, and PSA analytics that bring clarity to every decision. Track the consulting metrics that matter most - across projects, clients, and teams.Integrations: Connect your favorite tools and run your firm on a unified project management and financial reporting platform.Flexible pricing means you only pay for what you use - plus, get a 10% discount on annual subscriptions. | $5M | Series A | Oct 15, 2024 |  |
| Astute Access | Astute is using smart locks and cloud software, our enterprise solutions deliver a robust, scalable access control solution. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Dec 01, 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. | $15M | Series C | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| 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. | $15M | Series C | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| Conqa | CONQA is construction quality management software used by infrastructure contractors, civil engineers, precast concrete manufacturers, and commercial builders across New Zealand, Australia, the Americas, Asia, and the Middle East.It replaces paper-based QA systems with digital checklists, ITP management, hold point sign-offs, lot management, andautomated QA reporting - giving site teams and quality managers a real-time record of compliance and progress.Customers include Fulton Hogan, Downer, Doval, Abergeldie, Hawkins, Heyday and AE Smith. Pricing starts from $499/month based on the dollar volume of work managed through the platform, with unlimited users included. |  | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 01, 2022 |  |
| Projectworks | Grow your firm - and your impact.Projectworks is professional services automation software built for consulting firms that want to grow - and make a difference.As a project intelligence platform, Projectworks connects time tracking, expense tracking, resource management, invoicing, and financial reporting in one live system. It gives you thevisibility to see what’s working, fix what’s not, and scale your firm with confidence.Projectworks was built by consultants who know what it’s like to lose hours to spreadsheets and billing chaos. Designed specifically for engineering, architecture, software development, and management consulting, it’s professional services automation (PSA) software that gets experts out of the admin grind and back to the work that matters.Our cloud-based PSA tool brings together everything your business needs to plan, track, forecast, and grow. By automating time tracking, expense tracking, resource planning, project financials, and real-time reporting, Projectworks frees your people to focus on solving the world’s hardest problems - not wrestling with manual processes. On average, Projectworks users grow 20% in their first year.Connect Projectworks with your existing stack - including Xero, QuickBooks Online, MYOB, Jira, Azure DevOps, and Salesforce - to eliminate double handling, align your data, and operate with confidence.We’ll help you set up for success with expert data migration, comprehensive training, and responsive ongoing support.Key featuresTime tracking software: Easy, accurate timesheets that actually get filled out. Simplify project time tracking and keep billing up to date with integrated time management software for consultants.Expense tracking: Track project spend against budget with simple, mobile-friendly expense submission. Sync approved expenses directly to Xero as bills to pay.Resource management software: Plan and allocate resources effectively. See availability, utilization, and capacity in real time with powerful resource planning tools that make project delivery predictable.Revenue forecasting & project profitability: Combine financial and resourcing data to model revenue, monitor utilization and profitability, and make confident growth decisions.Invoicing automation: Create pre-populated invoices that sync seamlessly with Xero, reducing admin and helping you get paid faster.Reporting & insights: Access real-time dashboards, project profitability reports, and PSA analytics that bring clarity to every decision. Track the consulting metrics that matter most - across projects, clients, and teams.Integrations: Connect your favorite tools and run your firm on a unified project management and financial reporting platform.Flexible pricing means you only pay for what you use - plus, get a 10% discount on annual subscriptions. | $3.5M | Seed | Apr 04, 2022 |  |
| MOBI | MOBI is a leading multichannel digital ordering & engagement platform for restaurants and hospitality businesses worldwide. Our end to end solutions support brands to increase revenue, reduce in-store wait time, gain brand loyalty, and improve overall customer experience, MOBI seamlessly integrates with existing brands, websites, and operatingsystems. | $5.5M | Series C | Apr 01, 2022 |  |
| Couchdrop | Couchdrop is your next-generation cloud SFTP and MFT platform. Through acting as your conduit between systems or clients to your cloud storage backend, Couchdrop saves time by automating file workflows and ensuring its scalable infrastructure removes the headache from your engineering team. Couchdrop's detailed enterprise grade auditing andlogging provides more granularity and traceability on your file transfers and file operations.Couchdrop supports the likes of SharePoint, Dropbox, S3, Azure Blob storages which provides you full control and visibility of your data at rest and means Couchdrop does not store or sync data at any stage of the process. Real-time file transfer like it should be. |  | Seed | Mar 24, 2022 |  |

10 of 44 investments shown.

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- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does Punakaiki Fund invest in?

Punakaiki Fund invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Funding Round stage. Most of the 44 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 Punakaiki Fund's check size?

Punakaiki Fund typically joins rounds of $355k–$5M at Seed and $1.5M–$12M 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 Punakaiki Fund participates in.

### How do I contact Punakaiki Fund?

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### Who are the partners at Punakaiki Fund?

The team at Punakaiki Fund includes John Berry (Independent Director), John Berry (Independent Director) and Lance Wiggs (Director). 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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