Pioneer Capital

Pioneer Capital is a New Zealand-based private equity firm founded in 2005, specializing in early-stage investments in businesses that target growth in large international markets. The firm partners with business owners and managers to enhance value and drive expansion. Its investment strategy emphasizes the capabilities of management teams and the potential size and nature of target markets. With a team possessing diverse skills and experience across various stages of business growth, Pioneer Capital is dedicated to responsible investing that supports the development of local enterprises.

Randal Barrett

Co-Founder & Managing Director

Ben Flay

Investment Director

Graham Fussell

Operations Director

Tom Goddard

Investment Director

Matthew Houtman

Co-Founder and Managing Director

Jeremy Hutton

Investment Analyst

Chanelle Jones

Investment Associate

Liesl MacDonald

Investment Manager

Laura McKinnie

Investment Associate

James Oliver

Investment Manager

Shayne Shepherd

Investment Director

Craig Styris

Executive Director

3 past transactions

Parkable

Venture Round in 2021
Parkable is a sharing economy platform for car parking that allows companies and individuals to rent out their empty parking bays and provides staff parking management solutions for enterprises and small businesses.

Kāhu

Seed Round in 2021
Kāhu is the Kiwi AI cancer-detection startup.

SLI Systems

Venture Round in 2007
SLI Systems develops learning-based search and navigation technology for publishers, ecommerce and corporate sites that Searches, Learns and Improves the user experience. SLI's patented Learning Search technology takes relevance a step further by learning from visitors' behavior over time to deliver more relevant results, which leads to increased customer satisfaction and more sales, while reducing costs and yielding valuable customer information that can positively impact other marketing activities. SLI also offers a version of Learning Search called Learning Search Ecommerce, an Ecommerce Site Search product that is designed specifically for sites who sell products online and require advanced product merchandising. SLI's Site Champion is a user-generated search engine optimization (SEO) service that automatically optimizes pages for search engine spiders (eg Google, Yahoo!, MSN etc), increasing a site's chances of ranking in natural searches for various keywords and driving more online traffic. SLI's Learning Navigation dynamically builds site navigation pages by creating product groups or 'facets' to show similar products together allowing customers a powerful way to merchandise products and information.