Zino Ventures
VC Fund
Auckland, New Zealand
Zino Ventures is an investment fund that focuses on empowering technology-based expansion stage companies to the Chinese speaking markets. It is investing and empowering New Zealand startups and entrepreneurs who want to go further to global markets. Zino Ventures was launched in 2016 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 10%
Last updated:
For AI agents: llms.txt
Industries Zino Ventures invests in
Stages Zino Ventures invests in
Countries Zino Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
Round size
- Seed
- $1.8M–$2.2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $1.3M–$11M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 3 (30%)
- Analytics 3 (30%)
- SaaS 2 (20%)
- FinTech 2 (20%)
- Internet 2 (20%)
Stage
- Seed 5 (50%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
Country
- New Zealand 6 (60%)
- United States 2 (20%)
- Singapore 1 (10%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jimmy Wu
Founding Partner
|
Founding Partner | Total investments: 0 | Find email |
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Kernel Wealth is a wealth management platform that provides fund management and investment management services. | Seed / Jan 01, 2021 | ||
| Montoux's actuarial automation platform empowers actuaries to become more effective in their roles and return to being strategic decision makers. By automating low level handle turning tasks, actuaries can generate results faster and incorporate more scenarios into their calculations to increase the quality of their decisions.Montouxprovides cloud-based technology for life and health insurers to free up actuarial resources and make high-impact decisions based on data-driven predictions. | $10.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Jan 04, 2019 | ||
| MerlotAero is a company marketing avionic software for pilots to use during flight. | $1.3M / Venture - Series Unknown / Oct 01, 2018 | ||
| Wukong Education is a leader in online education for overseas children. | Seed / Jul 05, 2018 | ||
| HReasily is one of the fastest growing HR-Tech companies in Asia. We understand that as businesses grow, human resource management grows in complexity. At HReasily, we focus on the only resource that matters: people. We are more than just a platform, we are your partners. We provide you with solutions that make every day better. (Payroll, StaffManagement, Claims, Leave, Time & Attendance, Benefits) | $1.8M / Seed / Apr 02, 2018 | ||
| Parcelport is the largest courier company in New Zealand by vehicle number without owning any vehicle. As online shopping continue to grow, fulfillment remains the last major hurdle for ecommerce businesses to overcome. A typical ecommerce business sells on multiple channels and ships using multiple courier companies, as you can imagine it canbe a very messy and manual process involving multiple platform and courier accounts.Parcelport sits in the middle of this eco system, aggregating all these sales channels and delivery channels, this means no more buying prepaid courier tickets and manually writing the address and recording the tracking information. You can print courier tickets on demand, managing dispatching and tracking in one account in one streamline and automated process, the end result, it saves money and significant amount of time in manual processing of the customer orders. This also eliminate many human errors that comes with the manual process. It also use data analytics to help business make informed decisions.Parcelport will also be rolling out a number of post shops throughout the country, providing better coverage in terms of locations and opening hours, this also created opportunities for store owners to generate extra revenue from their existing stores and customer base, we can also help drive foot traffic into the stores. | $385.3K / Angel / Nov 24, 2017 | ||
| Enring provides cloud-based IT and digital marketing services to assist brands in building and promoting their online businesses. In addition to providing online social channel technology, marketing technologies, and cross-border payment services, the company allows organizations to connect with their target customers and audiences via mobile orsocial apps, allowing clients to market their products and brands and start online businesses. | Seed / Oct 01, 2017 | ||
| Latipay is a first to market, fully compliant financial technology (FinTech) New Zealand business. Our platform provides an online solution that focuses on New Zealand enterprise level merchants. The Latipay platform allows for Chinese payers to pay for goods and services with CNY (Chinese Yuan) whilst our New Zealand/Australian merchantreceives full payment for goods or service direct to their NZD/AUD bank account in NZD/AUD, at no cost to the merchant. Chinese payers can make payment through their preferred bank payment channels or their Alipay, WeChat, Baidu, Jd Pay wallets, whilst paying in their preferred currency of CNY. Our bi-lingual platform solves the significant Chinese and New Zealand/Australia payer and merchant dissatisfaction within the education, export, insurance, software and travel verticals. | $3M / Series A / Jan 31, 2017 | ||
| Parrot Analytics is a data science company that measures & predicts audience demand for media content, across all platforms, in all countries around the world. The company works with studios, networks, broadcasters, brands, agencies and OTT platforms; providing data and deep content expertise to drive content investment, distribution,acquisition, licensing, partnership and advertising decisions. Wielding the world's largest audience behavior datasets, Parrot Analytics has introduced a set of AI-powered solutions to future-proof the media industry. The company has already established its global Demand Measurement system as the TV industry's only global standard for assessing demand for content across platforms. In addition, the company has also introduced the media industry's leading Content Genome™ system to drive granular content decisions and the world's first context-aware discovery and recommendations engine – powered by its global demand data – to improve content monetization and enhance OTT consumer experience. Parrot Analytics believes in the magic of content and the impact it has on people's lives. The company's mission is to connect content creators with consumers by enabling data-driven content decisions along the entire value chain. | $2.2M / Seed / Nov 01, 2016 | ||
| See all 10 investments → | |||
Co-Investors
Access 48,091 investors
822 industries, 177 countries. Updated daily. Emails and phones included.
Browse database — It's Free!
Find investors for your startup
Search 48,091 investors by industry and country. Emails and phones included.
Similar Investors
Similar industry
Similar stage
Similar country
Featured in Investor Lists
Recommended lists
FAQ
What does Zino Ventures invest in?
Zino Ventures invests primarily in Software, Analytics and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 10 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 Zino Ventures invest in?
Zino Ventures typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$2.2M at Seed and $1.3M–$11M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Zino Ventures's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Zino Ventures took part in.
How do I contact Zino Ventures?
Public channels for Zino Ventures include 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 Zino Ventures?
The team at Zino Ventures includes Jimmy Wu (Founding 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 Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
Contact your first 100 investors today
Find who invests in your industry, stage, and country. Download investor list with emails in 5 minutes.
Find investors — It's Free!
Continue with Google
Continue with LinkedIn
