David Booth

Venture Analyst

AC

Andrew Campbell Duff

Director and Co-Founder

DH

Dave Husselmann

Venture Principal and COO

ML

Micaela Lewenz

Investor Relations

Chintaka Ranatunga

Venture Partner and Managing Partner Gd1 Fund Ii

Greg Sitters

CEO

Past deals in New Zealand

Aroa Biosurgery Ltd

Series C in 2020
Aroa Biosurgery Limited, a regenerative medicine company, develops and manufactures medical devices for wound and tissue repair in the United States and internationally. Its products include Endoform Natural and Endoform Antimicrobia for treating acute and chronic wounds; Myriad, an implant and dermal procedures for soft tissue repair, reinforcement, and complex wounds; and Reinforced Bioscaffolds, a biologics and synthetics product used in surgical ventral hernia repair solutions. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Auror

Angel Round in 2014
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.

QuiverVision

Seed Round in 2014
QuiverVision Limited develops a 3D colouring mobile application. QuiverVision Limited was formerly known as Puteko Limited. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Mobotech

Angel Round in 2013
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. This disruptive 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.

Puteko

Seed Round in 2013
Puteko was founded in 2012 as a spin-off company of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand. We produce both branded content and the technology to transform that content into personalized, immersive experiences. With the colAR Mix app, users can download branded artwork, color it in, and then bring it to life via interactive, three-dimensional, personalized animations. The app is available for free on iTunes, the Apple App Store, and the Google Play store. For more information, go to http://www.colarmix.com.

APIMATIC

Seed Round in 2014
APIMATIC Ltd. provides developer kits for APIs. The company enables users to create, import, validate, and generate SDKs for REST APIs. It also offers automatic code generation, a process where source code is automatically generated from a model or description of an API. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Mobotech

Seed Round in 2012
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. This disruptive 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.

Mohiomap

Seed Round in 2013
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!

Footfalls & Heartbeats

Seed Round in 2013
Footfalls & Heartbeats Ltd. develops and manufactures textile structure that acts as a sensor. Its textile structure is used in various areas, including wound care, compression garment systems, infant monitoring, athlete monitoring, and remote monitoring of health and physiological symptoms; and other areas. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Texus Fibre

Seed Round in 2013
Texus Fibre creates value for manufacturers by providing branded, high performance ingredient materials that harness the superb characteristics of natural wool.

Booktrack

Convertible Note in 2012
Booktrack Ltd. operates a content creation and distribution platform that turns reading into a movie-like experience. The company offers Booktrack Studio, a content creation software that synchronizes movie-style soundtrack, including music, ambient audio, and sound effects—to an e-Book or other digital text content, with the audio paced to individual’s reading speed. It offers e-books with soundtracks for iPhones, iPads, PCs, Android tablets, and MAC devices. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand with an additional office in Toronto.

Common Ledger Limited

Seed Round in 2014
Common Ledger Limited develops a Web platform that offers standardization of accounting data for accountants and bookkeepers worldwide. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Mish Guru Limited

Angel Round in 2015
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 channels where 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.

Puteko

Angel Round in 2014
Puteko was founded in 2012 as a spin-off company of the Human Interface Technology Laboratory New Zealand. We produce both branded content and the technology to transform that content into personalized, immersive experiences. With the colAR Mix app, users can download branded artwork, color it in, and then bring it to life via interactive, three-dimensional, personalized animations. The app is available for free on iTunes, the Apple App Store, and the Google Play store. For more information, go to http://www.colarmix.com.

HydrOxSys Limited

Seed Round in 2012
HydrOxSys was established in June 2012 to commercialise dense film asymmetric membrane technology. There is a growing need for novel water purification concepts based on membrane filtration. Global businesses and local governments require water extraction solutions that are scalable and cost effective and can survive harsh industrial process streams. Their mission is to develop revolutionary technologies to meet these needs.

GreenButton

Angel Round in 2012
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.

Kami

Seed Round in 2015
Kami is on a mission to give teachers and students the power to change classroom learning and interaction so they can achieve more together. Kami is a web application that offers easy-to-use tools to millions needing a document and PDF solution. With the increasing number of American K-12 schools going paperless, Kami enables them to collaborate on publisher-supplied PDF files and worksheets using their Chromebooks or other devices. Kami is also available in the Chrome Web Store and Google Apps Marketplace, attracting millions of installs and gaining high user ratings.

RESULTS.com

Angel Round in 2014
RESULTS is a SaaS comparison platform that brings transparency into the b2b-Software-Market. Their team of professional software experts reviews and compares hundreds of SaaS solutions. They’re a high-quality resource for software buyers and teams to find the best tools for their business. Results deliver the unbiased solutions the customers need to make the right sustainable decisions for their business. It was founded in 2019 and is based in Berlin, Germany.

StayToday

Seed Round in 2012
StayToday

Booktrack

Series B in 2015
Booktrack Ltd. operates a content creation and distribution platform that turns reading into a movie-like experience. The company offers Booktrack Studio, a content creation software that synchronizes movie-style soundtrack, including music, ambient audio, and sound effects—to an e-Book or other digital text content, with the audio paced to individual’s reading speed. It offers e-books with soundtracks for iPhones, iPads, PCs, Android tablets, and MAC devices. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand with an additional office in Toronto.

Mohiomap

Seed Round in 2015
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!

Glassjar

Seed Round in 2014
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, such as 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.

Mohiomap

Seed Round in 2012
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

Series A in 2014
Booktrack Ltd. operates a content creation and distribution platform that turns reading into a movie-like experience. The company offers Booktrack Studio, a content creation software that synchronizes movie-style soundtrack, including music, ambient audio, and sound effects—to an e-Book or other digital text content, with the audio paced to individual’s reading speed. It offers e-books with soundtracks for iPhones, iPads, PCs, Android tablets, and MAC devices. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand with an additional office in Toronto.