Movac

Movac Limited is a venture capital firm specializing in early, late start-up stage (pre-profit and early revenue) through to expansion stage, growth capital, series A, series B and series C investments. It typically invests in technology companies. The firm seeks to invest in firms based in New Zealand. The firm seeks to invest larger amounts through co-investments. Movac Limited was founded in 1998 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

David Beard

Partner

GE

Greg E. Cross

Operating Partner

Jason Graham

Partner

Phil McCaw

Partner

LM

Lovina McMurchy

Partner

DM

Dion Mortensen

Partner

Mark Stuart

Partner

RT

Rebecca Treacy

Investor in Residence

Mark Vivian

Partner

Past deals in New Zealand

1Above Limited

Seed Round in 2013
1Above Limited offers a functional drink that helps people fight jet lag and combat health risks and discomfort related to flying. It offers its products at airports in New Zealand and Australia; and online at www.1above.myshopify.com internationally. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

YikeBike Limited

Seed Round in 2012
YikeBike Limited designs, develops, and manufactures mini-farthings. It offers YikeBike, an electric folding bike. The company sells its products online to customers worldwide. YikeBike was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

PowerbyProxi

Series C in 2013
PowerbyProxi is a leader in advanced, safe, wireless power solutions for consumer electronics (CE) and industrial markets. Our advanced wireless power solutions solve mission-critical problems in demanding, hostile industrial environments. We license and sell robust, flexible wireless power and data solutions, with proven implementations ranging from less than one watt to multiple kilowatts. PowerbyProxi is a venture-backed company spun out of The University of Auckland—an internationally recognized leader in wireless power innovation—and holds a comprehensive portfolio of over 350 patents worldwide. For more information visit: www.powerbyproxi.com

Ponoko

Angel Round in 2010
Ponoko Limited provides Personal Factory software platform for the mass customization of goods. It also provides Personal Factory online laser-cutting service in New Zealand, Europe, and the United States. In addition, the company provides Personal Factory online CNC routing service; Personal Factory online 3D printing service; and Personal Factory API. Additionally, it provides buy and sell services on its www.ponoko.com. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Pacific Fibre

Seed Round in 2010
Fibre optic cable between Australia, NZ and USA

Alimetry

Series A in 2022
Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.

Yabble

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Portainer.io Limited

Series A in 2022
Portainer offers a GUI management toolset designed to build, manage, and maintain container based evironments with Swarm, Kubernetes, ACI and more. It was developed to help customers adopt container technology and accelerate time-to-value. Portainer is easy to use, expert software that offers an intuitive interface for both software developers and IT operations. It gives a detailed overview of the environment and allows users to manage their containers, images, networks, and volumes.

Mobi2Go

Series A in 2018
Mobi2Go is an online and mobile ordering system for restaurants and hospitality businesses worldwide. Designed to increase revenue, reduce in-store wait time, gain brand loyalty, and improve overall customer experience, Mobi2Go seamlessly integrates with your current brand, website, and operating system. After a quick and easy setup, your customer can order online, download your white-labelled app, or order on Facebook with their social media integration.

Myia Labs, Inc.

Venture Round in 2021
Myia is a seamless and invisible intelligent health platform that monitors and engages patients beyond the clinical setting. Myia brings clinically valuable meaning and action to our own data. Today, readily available biosensors provide a stream of personal and vital health data and yet very little value for patients and caregivers. Myia bridges this gap. By providing actionable and immediate insights on patient condition, Myia improves quality of life for patients and predicts and prevents costly medical events for care providers.

Unleashed Software

Series C in 2017
Supply, production, inventory and sales software with exceptional product and customer focus

Maven

Venture Round in 2020
Maven provides business and information technology consulting services that offer services across the public, business, and NGO sectors. founded in 1998, Maven has expertise across a wide range of industries and disciplines. It is headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand.

Auror

Series B in 2021
Transforming the way police and communities prevent & solve crime in real-time. Auror bridges the gap between businesses and the police, so you can collaborate and share data on criminal activity. It’s the new standard in crime intelligence.

Mobi2Go

Series A in 2019
Mobi2Go is an online and mobile ordering system for restaurants and hospitality businesses worldwide. Designed to increase revenue, reduce in-store wait time, gain brand loyalty, and improve overall customer experience, Mobi2Go seamlessly integrates with your current brand, website, and operating system. After a quick and easy setup, your customer can order online, download your white-labelled app, or order on Facebook with their social media integration.

Mobi2Go

Venture Round in 2021
Mobi2Go is an online and mobile ordering system for restaurants and hospitality businesses worldwide. Designed to increase revenue, reduce in-store wait time, gain brand loyalty, and improve overall customer experience, Mobi2Go seamlessly integrates with your current brand, website, and operating system. After a quick and easy setup, your customer can order online, download your white-labelled app, or order on Facebook with their social media integration.

Huddle Insurance

Series B in 2021
We work with insurers, regulators and payment networks so the brokers and brands selling Open insurance policies don’t have to. Open’s technology has reinvented general insurance; powering instant claims settlements for car, home and travel customers. It enables advanced risk selection and management for insurers, more power to brokers and brands, and delivers an award-winning multi-channel customer experience. Open also owns and operates Huddle a consumer-facing insurance brand in Australia huddle.com.au

Mobi2Go

Seed Round in 2019
Mobi2Go is an online and mobile ordering system for restaurants and hospitality businesses worldwide. Designed to increase revenue, reduce in-store wait time, gain brand loyalty, and improve overall customer experience, Mobi2Go seamlessly integrates with your current brand, website, and operating system. After a quick and easy setup, your customer can order online, download your white-labelled app, or order on Facebook with their social media integration.

Portainer.io Limited

Series A in 2021
Portainer offers a GUI management toolset designed to build, manage, and maintain container based evironments with Swarm, Kubernetes, ACI and more. It was developed to help customers adopt container technology and accelerate time-to-value. Portainer is easy to use, expert software that offers an intuitive interface for both software developers and IT operations. It gives a detailed overview of the environment and allows users to manage their containers, images, networks, and volumes.

GiveALittle

Seed Round in 2008
Givealittle Limited offers online fundraising services. The company was founded in 2007 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand. As of January 15, 2020, Givealittle Limited operates as a subsidiary of Perpetual Guardian Trust Holding Company Limited.

PartsTrader Markets Limited

Private Equity Round in 2014
PartsTrader provides the PartsTrader platform in the US and New Zealand. PartsTrader is an easy-to-use online marketplace that provides collision repairers with a single source for procurement of parts from leading OEM dealers, parts recyclers, and alternative parts suppliers. In the US more than 9,500 collision repairers now source parts from 9,000 suppliers using PartsTrader every day. US collision repairers spend more than $12 billion annually on parts and 13% of that spend is ordered electronically via PartsTrader. The platform has complete US national coverage with more than 8,500 suppliers for all makes and all types of collision parts. PartsTrader is designed to give repairers a unique real-time competitive marketplace, allowing them to make the best parts procurement decisions after gathering information they need to consider part quality, delivery time, supplier reputation, supplier terms and part prices. PartsTrader now has more than 140 dedicated staff throughout the US and New Zealand. For more information about PartsTrader, visit our website at www.partstrader.us.com.

nzgirl

Series A in 2008
Nzgirl Limited publishes magazine for females. The company was founded in 2000 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand. Nzgirl Limited operates as a subsidiary of nzgirl 1999 Ltd.

Author-it Software Corporation

Venture Round in 2013
Author-it Software Corporation (ASC) is a world leader in enterprise software for authoring, content management, publishing, and localization. Its flagship product, Author-it, is an end-to-end content management solution capable of publishing content to multiple deliverables. Since its release in 1997, ASC has produced five major versions of Author-it, resulting in a robust product built on proven technologies. With the launch of Author-it Cloud in December 2011, Author-it has become the first end-to-end enterprise authoring platform available on the Cloud. Author-it is used in over 50 countries, by over 3500 clients and chosen by Fortune 100 organizations for worldwide deployments, making it one of the world's most popular content management tools. ASC has offices in San Jose, California, Dubai, United Arab Emirates, Sydney, Australia and Auckland, New Zealand.

GreenButton

Angel Round in 2010
GreenButton™ is an award winning global software company that specializes in high performance cloud computing. The company provides a cloud platform for development and delivery of software and services that enable independent software vendors (ISVs) to move to the cloud and for their users to access cloud resources. GreenButton is Microsoft Corp’s 2011 Windows Azure ISV Partner of the Year and the company is has offices in New Zealand, Palo Alto and Seattle. Cloud computing is a growing phenomenon, projected by industry analysts to exceed US$160billion, but end users and vendors are struggling with engagement models and portal interfaces. GreenButton has developed an intelligent interface (an API) called the “GreenButton” which enables the user to access this capacity whenever it is required, directly from their desktop application.

Vend

Series D in 2016
Vend Limited develops and provides point of sale (POS) software, which offers retail management solutions. The company offers product management, inventory management, customer management, e-commerce, and customer loyalty program solutions. It caters to electronics and computer, fashion, home and lifestyle, health and beauty, sports, and food and drink sectors. Vend Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Timely Limited

Venture Round in 2017
Timely is a privately held company that provides an appointment booking software. It enables users to effortlessly manage their appointments, clients, sales, staff, stock, and reporting. Users can create the perfect client experience with online bookings, deposits, payments, Afterpay, gift vouchers, and automatic SMS or email reminders. The company was founded in 2012 and is headquartered in Dunedin.