Sparkbox Ventures
VC Fund
Auckland, New Zealand
Sparkbox Ventures is a VC fund in Auckland focused on Software and EdTech. Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
- Total investments:
- 23
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 17%
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Sparkbox Ventures invests in
Stages Sparkbox Ventures invests in
Countries Sparkbox Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $593k–$1.6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 7 (30%)
- EdTech 4 (17%)
- Manufacturing 4 (17%)
- Education 3 (13%)
- Biotechnology 3 (13%)
Stage
- Seed 15 (65%)
- Angel 3 (13%)
- Series A 1 (4%)
- Series B 1 (4%)
- Series C 1 (4%)
Country
- New Zealand 13 (57%)
- United States 4 (17%)
- Japan 1 (4%)
- United Kingdom 1 (4%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
David Booth
Venture Principal
|
Venture Principal | Total investments: 3 | Find email | |
Ben Reynolds
Venture Analyst
|
Venture Analyst | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
Chintaka Ranatunga
Venture Partner
|
Venture Partner | Total investments: 10 | Find email | |
Greg Sitters
CEO
|
CEO | Total investments: 5 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Aroa Biosurgery is a soft-tissue regeneration company that develops, manufactures, sells and distributes medical and surgical products to improve healing in complex wounds and soft tissue reconstruction. Committed to ‘unlocking regenerative healing for everybody’, Aroa’s products are developed from the Company’s proprietary Endoform® technologyplatform, a novel extracellular matrix biomaterial derived from ovine (sheep) forestomach. The company was founded in February 2008 based on intellectual property relating to the use of a novel form of ECM isolated from forestomach extracellular matrix for use in tissue regeneration applications. Aroa’s focus is delivering better healing, every day, everywhere for everybody. Aroa’s products make a meaningful impact for patients, surgeons and clinicians. Aroa delivers high quality, simple to use products that significantly improve outcomes. Aroa also believes its products should be widely accessible, affordable and change the standard of care for many patients.Maori for ‘understanding’, Aroa is at the forefront of understanding how biology, structural form and human factors can unlock the body’s intrinsic power to heal. | $11.6M / Series C / May 01, 2020 | ||
| SimTutor is a provider of simulation-based learning tools that make training more interactive, measurable, and accessible. | Seed / May 01, 2017 | ||
| Big Noise Games is a mobile games development studio dedicated to making music games. | Seed / Jan 01, 2017 | ||
| Humble Bee Bio is a startup that combines the power of synthetic biology and a recipe from a solitary bee to help solve plastic pollution. Humble Bee Bio discovered a solitary bee species that produces a remarkable bioplastic. The company is developing a method to manufacture this material on a large scale using microbes, based on the geneticblueprint of bees. The DNA of bees provides a platform for engineering sustainable materials with tailored properties for a wide range of market applications. Humble Bee Bio's mission is to remove plastic pollution from the realm of individual responsibility and replace the materials used by industry in the production of consumer goods. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 01, 2016 | ||
| Visualize and navigate your Evernote, Google Drive, and Dropbox content. Mohiomap allows you to explore relationships in a dynamic Mind Map, get valuable insights, and visually organize your Cloud data! | $593K / Seed / Oct 01, 2015 | ||
| Booktrack is an A.I Soundtrack company. Booktrack's Artificial Intelligence automatically creates soundtracks for any text or any voice. Backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Booktrack is a disruptive force in the publishing and audio world; equivalent to the introduction of sound transforming the experience of film forever. For moreinformation, visit booktrack.com. | $5M / Series B / Jul 21, 2015 | ||
| Mish Guru is a full service storytelling suite for Snapchat and Instagram Stories that scales a brand’s content team, quickly. | Angel / Jun 06, 2015 | ||
| Mish Guru is a full service storytelling suite for Snapchat and Instagram Stories that scales a brand’s content team, quickly. | $1.4M / Seed / Jun 01, 2015 | ||
| Common Ledger was born in April 2013 when Drew saw an opportunity arise for a 'common ledger' after developing a solution to translate Point of Sale data into one format. Drew discovered the same data needed to be sent to accounting systems that varied as much as the diverse Point of Sale software. For years Vince was a client responsiblefor campaigns created by the digital media agency where Drew was the technical lead. In this chaotic environment of media agencies and campaigns Drew and Vince managed to build a solid relationship which flourished beyond employment. Thus began the founding Common Ledger team.Later, Brendan a chartered accountant joined Drew and Vince to bring his industry knowledge, number crunching and strategy.Finaly, Carlos Chambers then came aboard wearing the Operations, Legals and Commercials hats and completing the team's fundamental skill-set.The team have since created something many businesses and accountants desperately need, solving a problem they are unable to find a solution to. | $1M / Seed / Apr 14, 2015 | ||
| Kami was founded in 2013 by four university friends (although the team has grown a bit since). We are one of the fastest-growing education technology companies. Kami has millions of users worldwide and Kami Heroes – a community of passionate teachers across the Americas, Europe, and Asia. Kami is also a finalist for New Zealand Innovator of theYear. The investors backing Kami include leading Australian venture capitalist firm Right Click Capital, CapitalPitch, New Zealand-based Flying Kiwi Angels, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, and notable Silicon Valley investors, such as Sam Altman of Y Combinator and Scott Nolan of Founders Fund. As a Premier Google Partner, Kami works instantly through seamless integration with G Suite apps, like Google Drive and Google Classroom, as well other educational programs like Canvas and Schoology. Our Team: We believe that having a dedicated, enthusiastic, and non-hierarchical team can achieve remarkable heights. Our company culture embraces diversity, ownership, and, most especially, collaboration. With these values, we're working to transform education so that teachers and students can achieve more together. It is important for us to maintain an encouraging environment where people can create ideas, generate solutions and, most especially, grow. If you want to join us in building the future of education, we'd love to hear from you at careers@kamiapp.com | Seed / Feb 17, 2015 | ||
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FAQ
What does Sparkbox Ventures invest in?
Sparkbox Ventures invests primarily in Software, EdTech and Manufacturing startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 23 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 Sparkbox Ventures's check size?
Sparkbox Ventures typically joins rounds of $593k–$1.6M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Sparkbox Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Sparkbox Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Sparkbox Ventures?
The team at Sparkbox Ventures includes David Booth (Venture Principal), Ben Reynolds (Venture Analyst) and Chintaka Ranatunga (Venture Partner). 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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