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Top 50 Software Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025

A list of 50 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Software startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Software companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Software Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025

Investor Software New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures 56
K1W1 25
Enterprise Angels 23
Punakaiki Fund 14
Blackbird Ventures 14
GD1 12
Flying Kiwi Angels 11
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund 11
Movac 8
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners 7
Sparkbox Ventures 6
Global from Day One 6
Airtree Ventures 6
Hillfarrance Venture Capital 6
AfterWork Ventures 6
Shasta Ventures 5
Pacific Channel 5
CP Ventures 5
Emlyn Scott 4
Founders Fund 4
Chris Sang 4
Tuhua Fund 4
Ice Angels 4
Rich Chetwynd 3
Rampersand 3
Quidnet Ventures 3
Chintaka Ranatunga 3
Reinventure 3
AngelHQ 3
Peter Beck 3
Flying Fox Ventures 3
Endeavour Capital Limited 3
EVP 3
Insight Partners 2
Lewis Holdings 2
Richard Collier Keywood 2
Snowball Effect 2
Nicole Fougere 2
Maurice Eng 2
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON 2
Flying Kiwis 2
Possible Ventures 2
Liam Don 2
Dylan Field 2
Digital Asset Capital Management 2
Folklore Ventures 2
Promus Ventures 2
Five V Capital 2
Threshold 2
Advent International 2
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Icehouse Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 10 investments in the past 12 months
Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
  • Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
  • Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
K1W1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in the past 12 months
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
  • Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Enterprise Angels VC Fund · Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand
Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
  • Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Punakaiki Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Funding Round, Seed, Series B
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Astute Access — Astute is using smart locks and cloud software, our enterprise solutions deliver a robust, scalable access control solution.
  • Projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
  • Quantifi Photonics — The world evolves, and so do we. As optical communication technologies find new applications, our...
Blackbird Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 19 investments in the past 12 months
Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Ravio — Ravio allows you to understand compensation in your market in real-time. Make smarter salary, equity and benefits decisions without touching a spreadsheet.
  • Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
  • Blinq — Blinq makes it easy to share your contact details via QR code scanning on the mobile app.
GD1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in the past 12 months
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
  • Ivo — Ivo reduces the time, effort, and cost of negotiating agreements.
Flying Kiwi Angels VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Apps
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • FileInvite — The simplest, most secure, document collection platform for professionals. Request files, forms, data and e-signatures all through a secure client portal.
  • Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
  • Kara Technologies — Content accessibility using a signing avatar. Accessible solutions are at the core of all that we do here at Kara. One of our main goals is finding smarter ways of using technology that will help build a better future for everyone, in all areas of life.
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Your guide to finding and using government services.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Insite AI — The chosen partner by executives in RGM, insights, and I.T. to grow revenue and market share. Learn how CPGs win in pricing, assortment, trade and more.
  • Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Movac VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
  • Miruku — Miruku is a molecular farming dairy startup developing advanced dairy proteins through plant technologies that hold the potential to produce animal-free milk proteins cost-effectively.
  • Re-Leased Software Company Limited — Commercial property management software that makes life easier for property managers, landlords and owners.
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Scannable — Scannable helps Arborists, Rope Access Technicians, Riggers, and Rescuers easily manage PPE and safety equipment.
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
Sparkbox Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, EdTech
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • 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!
  • 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.
  • 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.
Global from Day One VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Medical Device
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
  • Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
  • Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Airtree Ventures VC Fund · Paddington, Western Australia, Australia · 9 investments in the past 12 months
AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Haast — Haast is an artificial intelligence SAAS company that offers marketing compliance automation services.
  • Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
  • Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
Hillfarrance Venture Capital VC Fund
We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.
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Investment focus
  • Animation, Information Technology, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
  • Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
  • Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio
AfterWork Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, FinTech
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Enrola — Looking for online training courses? Discover the perfect course for you with our easy course advisor quiz. Get individual guidance and apply directly.
  • PropHero — Award-winning property investment technology and services to help you build wealth from a global pool of high yield properties.
  • Matilda Migration — Migration made simple. Specialising in Employer Sponsored visas and Partner visas. With a 99% success rate for ultimate peace of mind. Visit us now.
Shasta Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Enterprise Software, SaaS
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, Canada, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Overland AI — Overland AI is a manufacturer and developer of autonomous navigation for off-road autonomous vehicles.
  • Cloudsmith — Cloudsmith is the only universal, cloud-native solution for software artifact management and software supply chain security. Start your free trial today.
  • Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Pacific Channel VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
  • Conry Tech — Conry Tech is a climate tech company, reinventing air-conditioning to decarbonise and improve comfort, founded by renowned HVAC industry revolutionising experts.
  • Green Gravity — Green Gravity is an electric power generation company that enables renewable energy transition using energy storage technology.
CP Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
The CP Ventures Fund invests in early-stage technology companies that are highly scalable, at the forefront of breakthrough technologies, and driven by the fourth industrial revolution.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Ahura AI — Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
  • Greenfly — Greenfly's short-form media orchestration software platform captures, collects, organizes & distributes videos & photos to drive fan engagement and boost revenue for sports and entertainment organizations.
  • Skylark Labs — Skylark Labs develops continuously evolving and customizable threat detection systems for enhanced physical security. Our clients (CCTV or Drone companies) can customize our proprietary AI solutions at the time of deployment or continuously evolve them if needed after deployment making them preferable to other comparable market solutions.
Emlyn Scott Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
  • Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
  • Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Founders Fund VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 37 investments in the past 12 months
Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Armada — The Armada Platform is a whole new way to succeed at the Edge with Starlink connectivity, mobile data centers & AI. Schedule a demo today.
  • Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
  • Bitmine Immersion Technologies — Bitmine Immersion Technologies engages in bitcoin mining and hosting.
Chris Sang Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
  • Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
  • Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth
Tuhua Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, B2B
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • New Zealand, Singapore, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
  • Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Ice Angels VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
  • beany.biz — Beany provides online accounting services to New Zealand businesses. Compliance and advisory services, expert support, transparent pricing, and smarter financial insights for your business.
  • Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)
Rich Chetwynd Angel
Founder/CEO of ThisData, a login intelligence and contextual authentication platform. Founder/CEO of Litmos.com, a leading SaaS Learning Management System that was acquired by CallidusCloud (NASDAQ: CALD) in 2011.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
  • ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
Rampersand VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
We back ambitious ANZ tech founders from inception to seed, with proven support, no empty promises, and a track record of helping startups scale smarter.
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Investment focus
  • Software, FinTech, Financial Services
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
  • Cuttable — Turn your existing content and products into agency-grade Meta ads in minutes. Cuttable's AI advertising platform combines decades of advertising expertise with cutting-edge technology to help ecommerce brands create high-performing ads at scale - without the agency price tag.
  • JigSpace — JigSpace is the interactive 3D presentation software that anyone can use to create immersive AR demonstrations and rich product stories. No coding required!
Quidnet Ventures VC Fund
Connecting investors with high-growth NZ tech firms. Explore our portfolio and discover groundbreaking Kiwi startups impacting the global stage.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Hospital, Health Care
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • RosterLab — RosterLab goal is to automate every part of the rostering process for healthcare.
  • Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
  • Kara Technologies — Content accessibility using a signing avatar. Accessible solutions are at the core of all that we do here at Kara. One of our main goals is finding smarter ways of using technology that will help build a better future for everyone, in all areas of life.
Chintaka Ranatunga Angel · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Chintaka Ranatunga
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, EdTech
  • Seed, Series B
  • New Zealand, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kami — Kami's all-in-one platform turns any resource into interactive, accessible learning experiences. Save teacher time, improve outcomes. Try it free now.
  • APIMatic — The Trusted Developer Experience platform for APIs. Achieve faster API onboarding via automatic SDKs, docs, code samples, and guided walkthroughs.
  • QuiverVision — Experience the immersive wonder of 3D Augmented Reality with engaging coloring experiences that let your creativity run wild.
Reinventure VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
  • Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
  • Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
AngelHQ VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Learn about Angel HQ, Wellington's Angel Investing Network - the meeting place for ambitious startups and passionate investors.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
  • Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
Peter Beck Angel · Huntington Beach, California, United States
Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the world’s leading dedicated small satellite launch provider. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services, including complete satellite build and launch solutions, that provide rapid, frequent and reliable access to space. Rocket Lab has been launchingsince May 2017, delivering satellites to orbit for commercial and government customers, including DARPA, NASA, the NRO, the United States Air Force and more. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognized industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers. In addition to creating Electron, the world’s first fully carbon-fibre orbital launch vehicle, Peter also oversaw the development of the world’s first and only private orbital launch range, located on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula. He played a crucial role in establishing international treaties and legislation to enable orbital launch capability from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
  • Software, AgTech, Hardware
  • Series A, Series B
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
  • Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
Flying Fox Ventures VC Fund · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
  • EverYoung AI — Everyoung AI is a pioneering organization in the field of Aged Care, utilizing advanced AI technology to enhance the quality of life for seniors. They are committed to building evolutionary AI solutions and have a vision to revolutionize Aged Care with new technology. Everyoung AI is inviting interns to join their team and contribute to theirmission of redefining Aged Care through innovative AI solutions. Their goal is to make Aged Care more personalized, efficient, and accessible, and they are dedicated to nurturing fresh talent in pursuit of this meaningful cause.
  • Factor House — Here for Engineers
Endeavour Capital Limited VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Trading, Capital, Trusted Advisory, Proven Stewardship
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • SMX — SMX offers a cloud-based email security solution for SEG, archiving and added Microsoft 365 defence. Trusted by enterprises, governments and ISPs across ANZ.
  • GFG Group — GFG Group is a supplier of consumer electronic payments software and card payment solutions. GFG has provided applications, systems integration and IT managed services to customers in 40 countries.
  • Grasshopper Bank — Secure business accounts, flexible lending solutions and powerful digital tools to support your business at every stage.
EVP VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 3 investments in the past 12 months
EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Modii — Modii is a leading provider of smart parking solutions, dedicated to transforming the way parking and mobility are managed and experienced through a unified platform of digital infrastructure, data integration, and parking intelligence. By integrating cutting-edge technology with user-friendly platforms, Modii helps institutions, organizations, andurban areas optimize their parking operations, improve efficiency, and enhance user satisfaction by enabling thoughtful parking planning through data-driven insights. For more information about Modii visit modii.co.
  • splose — splose isn’t just practice management software. It's your ally in handling the ins-and-outs of running a practice and a savvy tool for growth. At splose, we are dedicated to continuously improving and embracing the power of AI and automation to give healthcare professionals like you more time to focus on what matters most.
  • InvestorHub — We provide comprehensive access to listed capital raises for institutional, family office and high net worth investors.
Insight Partners VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 74 investments in the past 12 months
Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Israel, Germany
Portfolio highlights
  • Xelix — Empower your AP & P2P teams with Xelix: AI-powered software that prevents overpayments & delivers meaningful insights around working capital.
  • Delve — Delve speeds up the process of achieving HIPAA compliance.
  • Asylon — Asylon created a complete robotic security solution, allowing aerial security drones and ground security robots to automatically patrol and respond to alarms.
Lewis Holdings VC Fund
Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Computer
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Avertana — Avertana is a process technology company that has developed a proprietary platform to refine solid industrial waste streams into valuable mineral and chemical raw materials used to make everyday products. Products of Avertana's process are used in products such as paint, building materials, paper and fertilisers. The process is costcompetitive with existing approaches but offers a much lower environmental footprint than traditional methods. Avertana helps its customers to build more sustainable supply chains by making mineral and chemical ingredients for widely-used products from sources that support optimal environmental outcomes. Avertana’s waste to value process helps industry to reduce its environmental footprint competitively.
  • Ambit — From natural language processing to machine learning, our conversational AI platform empowers organisations. Business focused and aligned, Ambit chatbots carve a direct path to meeting your strategic objectives. Ultimately, Ambit enables you to deliver to your customers and internal stakeholders better.
  • Unleashed Software — With an extraordinary 4.9/5 rating from 800+ users on Trustpilot, Unleashed is the highest rated, most recommended inventory management software in the world
Richard Collier Keywood Angel
Richard Collier-Keywood was named as Network Vice Chairman on 1 November 2011. In this role, Richard will be responsible for the coordination of PwC's global strategy across the network leading PwC's Network Executive Team (NET).Prior to this appointment Richard was the Global Leader, Tax, an appointment he took up on 1 July 2008.He previously led the UK firm's tax practice for five years.
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Investment focus
  • Information Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Cogo — At Cogo we are on a mission to empower hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses world-wide to become conscious consumers by taking action to measure, reduce and compensate for their impact on the world. Cogo enables everyone to join together to create a fairer and more sustainable world. Talk to us now or see our website for details.
  • Conscious Consumers — Our accreditation programme and Good Spend Counter make it easier for you to support businesses that align with your values and track our collective impact
Snowball Effect VC Fund · Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
Simplified access to top-tier managed funds and private companies
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Investment focus
  • Manufacturing, Health Care, Software
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Ubco — UBCO is a New Zealand and US-based tech company that designs, develops, and distributes Utility Electric Vehicles and Portable Power Supplies for on-and off-road adventures, leisure and recreation, and commercial use where vehicle utility is required. UBCO have a desire to Power Your Purpose, through it's Utility Electric Vehicles (UEVs) thatcan change the way people ride, work, and play. UBCO currently has a digitally connected UEV platform which includes on- and off-road transport (2×2), portable power, accessories, and software. They provide a complete solution, from users to managers across a wide range of applications.
  • Tether Limited — Tether develops a solution that continuously assesses, reports on, and rates the environmental quality and energy efficiency of homes, offices, and classrooms. Tether will not only enable continuous evaluation and feedback, but it will also provide ways to improve the environments in which users live, work, or learn.Through connected hardware andsoftware solutions, Tether promotes healthy living, learning, and working environments.
  • Projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
Nicole Fougere Angel
Nicole Fougere - Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
  • Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
Maurice Eng Angel
Maurice Eng
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON Angel · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Flying Kiwis VC Fund
Super-seeded by new entry: Flying Kiwi Angels
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Possible Ventures VC Fund · Munich, Bayern, Germany · 8 investments in the past 12 months
Possible Ventures backs ambitious teams building frontier technology to positively impact society. We invest globally in the early stages, actively supporting founders via our collective of global entrepreneurs.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Germany, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Heidi Health — Heidi Health is modernizing primary care with AI-powered technologies to improve care's quality and accessibility. its creators and engineers is to completely eradicate missed and sluggish diagnoses worldwide. They are committed to bridging the gap between the level of care that patients desire and the level of care that doctors can delivergiven their budget constraints. To create a platform where patients can quickly and easily get the treatment they require and to give every clinician the resources they need to deliver care that is secure, efficient,
  • ViridiCO2 — ViridiCO2 technology transforms Carbon Dioxide into a variety of high-value chemical intermediates.
  • SWARM Biotactics — SWARM Biotactics develops Biobots that enter, sense, and report where nothing else can.
Liam Don Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Liam Don is the Co-founder and President at ClassDojo.
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Investment focus
  • Children, Software
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Polymath — Personalised learning and fun means you can be confident that your child is getting the learning experience they want and deserve.
Dylan Field Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Dylan Field is the CEO and co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams that build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA, Evan Wallace. They built Figma on the web in the hopes of breaking down the barriers around the siloed design process.Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tools must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Ambrook — Manage your finances, improve your margins, and stay independent.
  • Revel — Software for our most daring hardware endeavours
  • Senra Systems — Senra Systems operates in the manufacturing industry, focusing on software configuration to improve manufacturing processes. The company works to transform skilled assembly tasks into production lines, enhancing production efficiency. It also has involvement in the Aerospace and Defense industry. It collects anonymous data through Google Analyticsto analyze user behavior and use the insights to improve its services.
Digital Asset Capital Management VC Fund · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
  • United States, Australia, Singapore
Portfolio highlights
  • Kelp DAO — Restake your ETH with Kelp, one of the largest Liquid Restaking Protocols built on EigenLayer, to maximize your staking and restaking rewards
  • Mitosis — Mitosis is an EOL L1 blockchain that redefines the DeFi LP experience. EOL implements economies of scale to asset management and empowers LPs with increased bargaining power.
  • Zeta Markets — Trade crypto like never before. Zeta lets you trade all your favorite assets at lightning speed without compromising security.
Folklore Ventures VC Fund · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
  • HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
  • SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.
Promus Ventures VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 6 investments in the past 12 months
Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, Germany, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Samp — Samp accelerates modernization and de-risks contracts by connecting outdated drawings with current 3D reality captures of your facilities using our AI.
  • SatSure — SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security.
  • The Exploration Company — For Space & Non-Space Industries.
Five V Capital VC Fund · Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
Five V Capital is a leading, growth-focused private equity & venture capital firm in Australia and New Zealand
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • Australia, United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Cyclotek — Cyclotek helps patients achieve better health through better diagnosis. They are reliable, cost-efficient suppliers of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) empowering radiopharmaceuticals. PET scanning provides unique insights into many serious diseases, translating directly to more personalized healthcare and better patient outcomes.
  • Fat Zebra
  • DyFlex Solutions — Incorporating adaptive technologies to unlock new levels of success for your organisation using next-generation SAP solutions backed by industry expertise.
Threshold VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Mobile
  • Series B, Series A, Series C
  • United States, Israel, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Ritten — Ritten delivers a platform that helps clinicians and administrators provide personalized, data-informed care. The company's platform offers customized workflow configurations that help to deliver complex treatment consistently and compliantly, enabling clinicians and administrators to maintain a comprehensive patient record that tracks allaspects of a patient's care, including clinical notes, medications, and treatment plans, and deliver personalized, data-informed care.
  • Transcarent — The One Place for Health and Care
  • ChangeEngine — Elevating People leaders to deliver the employee moments that matter most.The challenge people leaders face is that the employee experience design process resides across distributed teams, disparate HR systems, and in many cases, spreadsheets & powerpoints. Once people programs are launched, there’s an initial buzz, then they get swept underthe rug in sixty days and it’s onto the next burning need.Creating & executing best-in-class people programs to treat employees like internal customers is extremely manual and time-consuming—they include many moving parts such as goals, branding, content, communications, timeline, rewards, and ROI. In the hybrid workplace, there’s no effective way to manage this.We’re here to change that—our goal is to elevate the role of people leaders everywhere and help them to sustain their people program utilization over time. We’re empowering them to showcase the impact of the people org to their leadership team & board while helping them to get executive buy-in and unlock more budget internally to experiment & run innovative people programs.
Advent International VC Fund · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Advent is a leading global private equity investor committed to working with management teams, entrepreneurs, and founders to help transform businesses.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Financial Services
  • Private Equity, Series C, Series B
  • United States, Brazil, India
Portfolio highlights
  • Prometheus Group — Enterprise asset management software for plants and facilities to simplify and enhance maintenance and operations tasks in SAP, Oracle, and IBM Maximo.
  • Fisher Investments — Fisher Investments is a fee-only financial adviser with offices in Woodside and San Mateo, CA and headquartered in Camas, WA. The firm was first founded in 1979 as a sole proprietorship by Ken Fisher, later incorporated in 1986 in the state of California, and then reorganized as a Delaware limited liability company in 2005. Fisher Investments is aregistered investment adviser with the Securities and Exchange Commission under the Investment Advisers Act of 1940.Fisher Investments maintains four principal business units, Fisher Investments Institutional Group, Fisher Investments Private Client Group, Fisher Investments 401(k) Solutions Group and Fisher Investments International Group, which serve a global client base of diverse investors. Fisher Investments' wholly-owned subsidiaries include: Fisher Investments UK, offering services to investors in the UK, and Grüner Fisher Investments GmbH, serving investors in Germany.Author, columnist, and Fisher Investments Executive Chairman and Co-Chief Investment Officer Ken Fisher's Forbes "Portfolio Strategy" column ran from 1984 to 2017, making Ken the longest continuously running columnist in the magazine’s history, and has authored several New York Times bestselling books on investing. An overview of books written by thought leaders at Fisher Investments can be found at Fisher Investments Press: www.fisher-investments-press.comFisher Investments has been recognized as A Top US-Based Fee-Only Registered Investment Adviser by InvestmentNews, a Top Adviser 5 years in a row by Financial Times, Best Independent Money Management Firm 2015 by Wealth & Finance International, Wealth Manager of the Year 2015 by Advanced Financial Network, World’s Largest Asset Managers by Pensions & Investments/Towers Watson, Best Places to Launch a Career by Business Week, Best Places to Work for Recent Grads by Symplicity, Top Workplace in Oregon and SW Washington 2017/2018 by The Oregonian, Top 100 Places to Work 2018 by Dallas Morning News, Training Top 125 2019 by Training Magazine, and Great Places to Work Certified 2017-2019.
  • Shuaike Pet Food Products — Shuaike is a company specializing in pet supplies and food. The brand is derived from the English "seek", adheres to the brand management philosophy of "only natural fresh meat", and aims to make the best natural and healthy food for pets all over the world. American micropowder puffing technology and fresh meat emulsificationtechnology, combined with local fresh chicken and duck meat, natural food, organic vegetables, fruits and other nutrients to extract natural fresh meat pet food, now export dog food and cat food Shuikesaijia Natural cat and dog food.
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