# Sparkbox Ventures

> Sparkbox Ventures is a VC fund in Auckland backing Software and Manufacturing. See 17 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 17
- Last investment: May 2020
- Lead investor: 18%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/company/2659088
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/sparkboxnz
- Website: http://www.sparkboxventures.com

Sparkbox Ventures is a VC fund in Auckland focused on Software and Manufacturing. Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $593k–$1.6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 6 | 35% |
| Manufacturing | 4 | 24% |
| EdTech | 2 | 12% |
| Education | 2 | 12% |
| Health Care | 2 | 12% |

31 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 10 | 59% |
| Angel | 3 | 18% |
| Series A | 1 | 6% |
| Series B | 1 | 6% |
| Series C | 1 | 6% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 10 | 59% |
| United States | 2 | 12% |
| Japan | 1 | 6% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 6% |

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| David Booth | Venture Principal | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-booth-5 |
| Ben Reynolds | Venture Analyst | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ben-reynolds |
| Chintaka Ranatunga | Venture Partner | 10 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chintaka-ranatunga |
| Greg Sitters | CEO | 5 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/greg-sitters |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Aroa Biosurgery Ltd | 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 |  |
| Mohiomap | 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 | 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 | Mish Guru is a full service storytelling suite for Snapchat and Instagram Stories that scales a brand’s content team, quickly.Over one billion Stories are created on Snapchat and Instagram every single day. Mish Guru has been helping brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Spotify for the past four years tap into real Stories, on the channelswhere their audience are paying attention.Ephemeral storytelling channels are content hungry and chaotic, and the people who work as marketers in this industry deserve a freakin’ medal. So, we made this software instead. |  | Angel | Jun 06, 2015 |  |
| Glassjar | Glassjar designs and develops software that enables its users to manage their flat's shared expenses. It offers Flatting, a software product that enables its users to keep track of their flat's expenses, including flat account, flat-mates, and payments. The company offers a dashboard that provides an overview of their flat accounts, suchas how much is available to spend, each person’s ledger, and summaries of their previous spending. Glassjar was founded by Matthew Galloway and George Smith in 2013; and is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand. |  | Seed | Oct 06, 2014 |  |
| APIMatic | APIMatic is a developer experience platform for web APIs. Their mission is to make developers productive through automatic code generation. APIMATIC allows companies to share their API descriptions with team members and stay updated about new API definitions. It also allows its users to share their subscriptions with team members. APIMATIC workswith SDK platforms such as Windows, Java, Android, Apple, and Go Language.Their code generation engine enables API providers to generate SDKs for their APIs within minutes and at a fraction of the cost. They provide tools like their API editor and API transformer to further aid API providers in minimizing the time required to ship excellent quality SDKs to the developers using their APIs. Their code generation engine is also capable of generating succinct and error-free documentation for APIs and SDKs, both. The documentation for the SDKs includes dynamic screenshots detailing usage instructions tailored to the provider's specific API and also code snippets showing example usage. As the cherry on the cake, they provide beautifully designed DX portals to encapsulate this documentation. |  | Seed | May 09, 2014 |  |
| QuiverVision | We are an Augmented Reality research and development company based in New Zealand. We started by pioneering the colourable Augmented Reality market and are now building suite of Augmented Reality tools and features that provide entertaining and highly engaging user experiences for all ages!We have two products live on the market at the moment(detailed below) and have plenty of more in the product and R&D roadmap / pipeline! We use our flagship product to work with some of the largest brands in the world to create engaging and memorable user experiences for their customers! Demo videos:- Air NZ: … · href="https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EnrXqDD66M" rel="nofollow" target="_blank">https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=9EnrXqDD66M- DreamWorks: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zXpgBx7wlu0Media:- TechCrunch - https://techcrunch.com/2013/07/17/colar-uses-augmented-reality-to-brings-your-kids-drawing-to-life/ | $1.6M | Seed | May 01, 2014 |  |
| Booktrack | 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. | $3M | Series A | Apr 09, 2014 |  |
| Mobotech | Mobotech designs and manufactures robotic handling solutions for commercial applications. Its first product, Mobot, fills the gap between hand barrow and forklift. Due to health and safety constraints trucks doing deliveries of FMCG products are only running with 60% capacity. Its customers are large FMCG distributors/logistics companies. Thisdisruptive technology gives logistics companies a ROI in less than 3 months.The Mobot is a patented small robotic forklift: offering more cost effective & safer distribution logistics for the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), light industry, container de-stuffing and military industries.They are a New Zealand registered (2519891) Limited Company exporting to Australia, North America and Europe. |  | Angel | Dec 01, 2013 |  |
| Texus Fibre | Texus Fibre creates value for manufacturers by providing branded, high performance ingredient materials that harness the superb characteristics of natural wool. |  | Seed | Nov 16, 2013 |  |

10 of 17 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Sparkbox Ventures invest in?

Sparkbox Ventures invests primarily in Software, Manufacturing and EdTech startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 17 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?

Public channels for Sparkbox Ventures include LinkedIn, X (Twitter) and the website linked on this profile. For a verified work email and phone number, create a free Shizune account — contact data is searched across 20+ sources and validated before delivery, so your outreach lands in the right inbox.

### 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.

### 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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