The Icehouse

The Icehouse helps small and medium-sized enterprises owners and entrepreneurs grow. The Icehouse is owned by a not-for-profit trust (The ICE Foundation) and backed by the financial support and expertise of the New Zealand government. It was founded in 2001 and headquartered in Aukland, New Zealand.
SB

Stephanie Benseman

Principal

MB

Mason Bleakley

Principal

LF

Lauren Fong

Principal

AH

Andrew Hamilton

THE ICEHOUSE CEO

Barnaby Marshall

Partner

Jack McQuire

Partner

Robbie Paul

CEO

JW

Jason Wang

Partner

JW

Jo Wickham

Venture Partner

108 past transactions

Mobli

Seed Round in 2021
We provide you with modular, cost-effective, and sustainable mobility management solutions for any mode of travel and any fleet size. Mobli helps you manage your entire mobility ecosystem easily and in one place, with professional support as you need it.

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.

Melodics

Seed Round in 2015
Melodics Limited develops an application that adapts to users abilities and musical tastes to help them get better at pad drumming. It offers music education with tracks, such as hip hop, future beats, footwork, EDM, techno, trap, dubstep, downbeat, jungle, funk, soul, electronic, reggae, rock, jazz, Bmore, electro, classic breaks, and others for playing. The company also allows getting insight into how favorite producers, DJs, and performers structure their tracks and sets. Its application is compatible with iPhone and iPad devices. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Wipster

Seed Round in 2017
Wipster Inc operates a platform to share and review work-in-progress videos, images, and PDFs. The platform allows content makers to encode videos; setup multiple teams and provision users of the content; real-time review cycles; and platform integration into software used by the content makers. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is headquartered in Portland, Oregon. Wipster Inc operates as a subsidiary of WIP APP Limited.

Mish Guru Limited

Seed Round in 2016
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.

Nyriad

Venture Round in 2019
Nyriad is a global software technology company.

LightKnight International

Venture Round in 2012
LightKnight International Limited develops, manufactures and markets workplace and recreational safety equipment including self illuminating vests, and other related products. The company was incorporated in 2011 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

FaceMe

Series A in 2018
FaceMe Limited offers a artificial intelligence based conversational platform. The company provides a platform that converse with customers using Automatic Speech Recognition (ASR) and Text to Speech (TTS). FaceMe Limited serves banking , telecommunication, health, and retail sector. The company offers customer engagement platform that also provides customer advisory services, employee assistant, and hardware integration. The platform can be used to provide health care tips, diagnostic services, educational assistance, concierge services, and retail assistant services. FaceMe Limited is based in Auckland, New Zealand. It has additional offices in San Francisco, California and Melbourne, Australia.

Biolumic Limited

Series B in 2022
Biolumic Limited provides lighting solutions based on smart light array technology for horticultural producers. It focuses on developing treatments for transplant crop seedling quality; growth and quality regulation of indoor produced leafy vegetables and salad herbs; and pathogenic disease treatments for a range of horticultural crops. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New Zealand.

Halter Limited

Series C in 2023
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.

Dawn Aerospace

Seed Round in 2018
Dawn Aerospace designs and manufactures reusable spacecraft to launch satellites. The company's products include MK-1, MK-2, MK-3, and MK-4 vehicles. Dawn Aerospace was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Delft, Netherlands with research, manufacturing and test facility in Auckland, New Zealand.

Crimson Consulting

Venture Round in 2019
Crimson currently has offices in Auckland, London, Melbourne and Sydney, with over 1000 tutors based at the most prestigious institutions around the world, providing expert tutoring and mentoring to students anywhere, at any time. Crimson has over 500 tutors based at more than 50 colleges around the world. Crimson's student-to-student education model harnesses integrated e-learning platforms engineered to advance students' trajectory towards world-class education and career opportunities.

Snakk Media

Seed Round in 2011
Snakk Media helps agencies, brands and publishers find and reach consumers that are using apps, games and social media on their smartphones, tablets and other smart screens. The advertising is targeted to ensure the right audiences see it at the right time and place. By using an innovative and unique portfolio of technologies Snakk Media produces outcomes that are highly successful, measurable and scalable.

ArchiPro

Series A in 2022
ArchiPro is an online platform connecting people with products, professionals, project inspiration and education for their building project. Currently operating in New Zealand market only. The platform now showcases a directory of 20,000 building and interior products, 5,000 completed architectural projects and 1200 design and trade professionals. The site connects architects, designers, builders and product suppliers with clients, using technology to help build their brands, while homeowners use ArchiPro to brainstorm ideas, research and hire professionals, find products and manage their projects. Our strong traction over 4-year history has resonated with thousands of Kiwi homeowners where the site now receives well over 1m annual websites visits, we has grown our database to 180,000 registered users and followers while successfully subscribing over 1200 companies and professionals to our services. The scalability of the platform has allowed the business to grow annualised revenue of $3m. ArchiPro's current 6% NZ penetration of the identified addressable market of 22,000 companies and professionals in NZ illustrates the significant room for additional growth in New Zealand before factoring in the growth opportunity that exists in much larger offshore markets, such as Australia, America, Uk, etc...

Stolen Rum

Venture Round in 2015
Stolen Spirits NZ Limited produces and sells rum in New Zealand, Australia, and the United States. The company was founded in 2010 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Mushroom Material

Pre Seed Round in 2020
Mushroom Material is a sustainable mushroom-based alternative to polystyrene Styrofoam and cardboard packaging.

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

Jasper

Convertible Note in 2019
Jasper Property Limited develops a commercial real estate investment platform. The company offers a platform, which allows the investors to purchase ownership in commercial properties through digital on-boarding, accreditation, and subscription process. It also provides investment advisory and asset management services. It serves the real estate industry. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It has an additional office in Sydney, Australia.

Sharesies

Seed Round in 2017
Sharesies Limited owns and operates an investing platform. The company’s platform enables individuals to build a portfolio by buying Sharesies investment parcels across a range of different industries. Further, the company allows users to set risk tolerance in the dashboard and track and manage their investments though the mobile application. It helps people with no prior knowledge of investing choose what’s right, based on chosen level of risk. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

ableX Healthcare

Seed Round in 2011
ableX healthcare Limited develops and offers versatile handheld controllers along with a subscription-based digital healthcare platform that connects patients, therapists, and the care team. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Segna

Seed Round in 2021
Segna’s online data analysis platform focuses on streamlining data analysis, getting you insightful analysis that works anywhere you do, regardless of your industry or skill level. Machine learning enables automated data wrangling that works irrespective of data quality. We’re empowering you to use messier, more complex, or previously unanalyzed data to unlock better results. Combined with an intuitive, beautifully simple user interface, we’ll have you automating everyday analysis and reports in no time. We dramatically decrease the time and expertise required to get insights from raw data—our promise: the total process, easier, more accurately, and in minutes not months.

Cove

Seed Round in 2018
Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.

Kiwi Semiconductor Ltd.

Venture Round in 2011
Kiwi Semiconductor Ltd. develops, markets, and supports companion IC and analog semiconductor solutions for HDCCTV, IP CCTV, and analog CCTV security cameras, as well as networked CCTV systems. It offers KA310 LEDMate, an analog to PWM converter solution for application in LED driver-based LCD systems for TVs, LCD monitors, notebooks, portable electronics, and general LED dimming; and KA909A PixMate, an analog system-on-chip for use with digital imaging systems aimed at security cameras. The company also provides KA808 LensMate and KA909B HD LensMate analog system-on-chips for mega-pixel, IP, and ISP-based CCTV security camera applications. Kiwi Semiconductor was founded in 2009 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

TranscribeMe Inc.

Seed Round in 2012
TranscribeMe develops an audio search and transcription platform designed to make audio content searchable and shareable, by converting speech to text. The platform utilizes it's proprietary micro-tasking technology to produce a speaker identified transcription from complex audio that involves multiple speakers and overlapping conversations, by processing pieces of audio in parallel, enabling medical professionals, corporations, conferences, writers, podcasters, and academics to monetize their audio content by transcribing it to word-for-word text. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

CarbonCrop

Seed Round in 2022
We apply state of the art Artificial Intelligence to a mix of satellite and aerial imagery from the last 40 years, together with climate data, topographic data, soil data etc which lets us provide unparalleled accuracy in carbon forestry applications for your land

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.
Upside is developing the most advanced and best treatment for severe burns. The Upside product is a regenerative medicine solution to current shortcomings in the current treatment of severe burns patients. Upside will take a small sample of unburnt patient skin and grow it into differentiated, graftable skin in order to cover the patient’s own burns. Product advantages are that Upside's engineered skin is produced faster than any competitive pipeline product, it is supplied in bigger sheets and has good handling characteristics. Upside has intellectual property covering the processes conferring these specific advantages.

Chatterize

Seed Round in 2020
Chatterize builds conversational chatbots that help young Chinese kids speak English with confidence.

Fileinvite

Venture Round in 2018
FileInvite Limited develops software which arranges files and collects information. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Penrose, New Zealand.

LearnCoach

Seed Round in 2018
LearnCoach Ltd. provides online tutorial services for national certificate of educational achievement students. It offers tutorial videos in the areas of English, math, science, biology, chemistry, and physics, as well as weekly tutorials and cram courses for Health Sci studies. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Biolumic Limited

Seed Round in 2016
Biolumic Limited provides lighting solutions based on smart light array technology for horticultural producers. It focuses on developing treatments for transplant crop seedling quality; growth and quality regulation of indoor produced leafy vegetables and salad herbs; and pathogenic disease treatments for a range of horticultural crops. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is based in New Zealand.

Preno Limited

Seed Round in 2015
Preno offers the hospitality industry with a property management software solution. It facilitates booking and accounting processes and provides reports about revenue and occupancy. Preno offers its solutions for a monthly payment that is according to the number of rooms. Preno was founded by Amelia Gain in 2014. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Cropsy

Seed Round in 2022
Cropsy believe the future of horticulture depends on technology that’s reliable, adoptable, and accessible to every grower. Cropsy Will be rolling out new models and results from our trial program.

Fileinvite

Venture Round in 2019
FileInvite Limited develops software which arranges files and collects information. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Penrose, New Zealand.

Datagate

Venture Round in 2019
Datagate Innovation Limited provides an online portal for importing, publishing, and analyzing customer, reseller, and distributor usage and billing information. Its portal allows distributors, resellers, and their customers to view invoices, usage, costs, pricing, and margins for various supplier services. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand. As of April 1, 2014, Datagate Innovation Limited operates as a subsidiary of Enprise Group Limited.

Joyous Limited

Series A in 2021
Joyous Limited provides an application for conversational pulse survey of employees. It offers Joyous, an application that delivers questions weekly to get employees talking about their work with rating, text, and photos. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

NextSpace

Angel Round in 2011
Nextspace Coworking & Innovation, Inc. operates shared workspaces in Santa Cruz, San Francisco, Berkeley, San Jose, Culver City, and Chicago. The company provides physical and virtual workspace infrastructure for freelancers, entrepreneurs, and creative professionals. Its amenities include desks, private offices, virtual offices and communities, Internet and utilities, conference rooms, printing galore, physical mailboxes, caffeine, and entrepreneurial programming. Nextspace Coworking & Innovation, Inc. was founded in 2008 and is based in Santa Cruz, California. As of June 29, 2017, Nextspace Coworking & Innovation, Inc. operates as a subsidiary of PBC Management LLC.

Ethique

Venture Round in 2018
Ethique Limited manufactures shampoo, beauty bars, conditioners, cleansers, scrubs, moisturizers, serums, a self-tanning bar, men’s shampoo, men’s shaving bar, pet shampoo, and household cleaners. The company distributes its products online. Ethique Limited was formerly known as Sorbet. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

INRO

Venture Round in 2009
INRO apply robotics to forklifts operating in warehouses.

Jasper

Seed Round in 2019
Jasper Property Limited develops a commercial real estate investment platform. The company offers a platform, which allows the investors to purchase ownership in commercial properties through digital on-boarding, accreditation, and subscription process. It also provides investment advisory and asset management services. It serves the real estate industry. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It has an additional office in Sydney, Australia.

Geo40

Seed Round in 2015
Geo40 Limited engages in the extraction of silica from waste geothermal fluids and processes the extracted silica into colloid sizes with increased weight concentration. The company also distributes silica to the specialty chemical companies. Geo40 Limited was incorporated in 2010 and is headquartered in Taupo, New Zealand with plants in Wairakei and Kawerau, New Zealand.

Nectar NZ Limited

Seed Round in 2017
Nectar NZ Limited operates cloud based lending platform. The company offers personal loans, such as car, emergency, debt consolidation, home improvement, holiday, and wedding loans. Nectar NZ Limited was founded in 2015 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

First AML

Series B in 2021
First AML Limited provides customer due diligence (CDD) outsourced services. It provides CDD, identify verification, source of wealth / source of funds, PEP screening, and annual reporting and audit support services. It serves law firms, accounting firms, real estate agents, financial firms and other entities. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Vertus Energy

Pre Seed Round in 2021
Vertus Energy operates as a climate tech startup. Vertus Energy is accelerating the world’s transition to green energy. Its BRIO™ technology turbocharges the production of green fuel from waste and generates a more powerful biofuel, producing 60% more energy from the same amount of waste while also processing three times the amount of waste than any other system on the market.

Sharesies

Series C in 2021
Sharesies Limited owns and operates an investing platform. The company’s platform enables individuals to build a portfolio by buying Sharesies investment parcels across a range of different industries. Further, the company allows users to set risk tolerance in the dashboard and track and manage their investments though the mobile application. It helps people with no prior knowledge of investing choose what’s right, based on chosen level of risk. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

Runn Fast Limited

Seed Round in 2021
Runn Fast Limited, doing business as Runn, designs and develops Software-as-a-Service resource planning and forecasting software. Its software features include capacity planning and forecasting, resourcing and rescheduling, project management, people management, financial forecasting, time sheets, and reporting. The company was incorporated in 2018 and is based in Wellington, New Zealand.

JRNY

Seed Round in 2018
We help insurance providers protect people better​. We do this​ with our highly configurable,​ intelligent​ and white-labelled Insurance Distribution Product. ​ ​ ​Insurers and their agent networks can now transparently inform their customers, sell more of the right policies to the right people, deliver better customer experiences, improve agent productivity, and more easily comply with regulatory obligations. The Product consists of three layers: ​ JRNY INSURANCE MODULES are designed for life, health, home & contents, business, and car insurance products. For the customer, key parts of the customer journey take place in a conversational interface embedded in an insurer's digital ecosystem, like needs analysis, quote & bind, renewals, and claims lodgement. JRNY PLATFORM is the JRNY juice powering the JRNY Modules and allows companies to analyse data and conversations so that they can know their customers like never before. JRNY INTEGRATIONS & BESPOKE CUSTOMISATIONS allow the product to be tailored to an individual company's requirements and fit like a glove.

Litmaps

Seed Round in 2021
Litmaps combines interactive citation maps, modern search tools, and targeted updates, to create the best research discovery experience ever.

Aspiring Materials

Seed Round in 2021
Aspiring Materials extracts mineral products from silicate rocks using magnesium hydroxide – one of the minerals in the rock – to produce a powdery material that can remove and solidify carbon dioxide at the source of emission, such as a factory’s exhaust system.

Rocos Global Limited

Seed Round in 2018
Rocos Global Limited offers software and cloud platform to design, monitor, control, and automate robots. It provides robot health, to monitor and analyze robot telemetry in real-time; robot control, a control stack for teleoperation; data pipeline management; shared data replay; automate operations; and virtualization. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Parnell, New Zealand.

MiniMonos

Venture Round in 2010
MiniMonos.com is a virtual world for children who love to play and love the planet. On the site, kids create monkey avatars, make friends, decorate their treehouses, and play games. MiniMonos is “fun first” and kids join to play, not to learn – but the site has core messages of sustainability, generosity and community embedded throughout. Every purchase on MiniMonos supplies clean water to kids in India (over 14,000 days to date); we’ve adopted orangutans and supported wild tigers, and kids get in-world rewards for real-world eco-actions. The site, which launched out of beta April 1, 2011, has been growing by more than 20% per month for the past nine months and now has more than 300,000 registered members; it is generating revenue through subscriptions and microtransactions from its target market of 8-12-year-old boys. The top four countries for registrations are the US, the UK, Australia, and New Zealand; memberships are being driven through natural traffic (word of mouth), Google Adwords, the Miniclip games aggregator site, and PR, primarily kids’ television. The company has just launched TV commercials in the UK and will be launching branded prepaid cards in Sainsbury's nationwide in October. MiniMonos has been going for two years and is led by a solid and committed team of startup veterans; the CEO, Melissa Clark-Reynolds, has more than 20 years of experience as a successful entrepreneur. MiniMonos raised initial capital in New Zealand and is also incorporated in the US and the UK.

Vidapp Ltd

Angel Round in 2017
Vidapp Ltd publishes video content on mobile applications. The company converts DVDs into applications. The company also integrates the application with the customers web platform. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand.

90 Seconds

Series A in 2016
90 Seconds is the world’s leading cloud video production platform, allowing brands to create high quality video anywhere in the world, online and on mobile. Launched in 2011, 90 Seconds powers the world's largest brands including Apple, HP, Amazon, Salesforce, Accenture, Barclays and Sony to produce high quality, fast, easy and affordable video content. Over 32,000 videos have been produced in 100 countries. The company has a global team of around 100 working on product, growth and customer success based in Singapore, London, Tokyo, Sydney, San Francisco, Hong Kong & Auckland.

Ceryx Medical

Seed Round in 2022
Ceryx Medical is developing bioelectronics based on unique, patent protected, chip technology which is able to mimic nerve centres within the body called Central Pattern Generators (CPGs). These CPGs help to control a range of autonomic or rhythmical processes within the body such as peristalsis, heart rate and even walking. It is hoped that Ceryx’s artificial CPGs can restore normal performance where these processes have been affected by disease or injury.

Komodo Monitr

Seed Round in 2021
Komodo is the easy to use wellbeing platform that enables boarding staff to monitor the mental and physical health of their students. The company aims to empower boarding staff, and take the guesswork out of pastoral care with data-driven conversations. Komodo also provides parents with peace of mind with the only boarding platform that facilitates proactivity. Finally, the software gives every student a voice when they need it most with boarding house communication tools.

TranscribeMe Inc.

Angel Round in 2012
TranscribeMe develops an audio search and transcription platform designed to make audio content searchable and shareable, by converting speech to text. The platform utilizes it's proprietary micro-tasking technology to produce a speaker identified transcription from complex audio that involves multiple speakers and overlapping conversations, by processing pieces of audio in parallel, enabling medical professionals, corporations, conferences, writers, podcasters, and academics to monetize their audio content by transcribing it to word-for-word text. The company was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

Fileinvite

Convertible Note in 2020
FileInvite Limited develops software which arranges files and collects information. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Penrose, New Zealand.

Unimarket

Seed Round in 2009
Unimarket is an IT company providing sourcing and expense management services.

AskNicely

Series A in 2019
AskNicely tracks Net Promoter Score on a daily basis and drives word of mouth referrals for your brand. Conventional survey products are the wrong tool for customer feedback - they take too much effort and provide too few responses which come too late to do something about it. AskNicely solves this with an automated, one click customer experience that gets a 4-6x more responses and has clever tools to put things right for detractors and spread the word of mouth of your promoters.

Mint Innovation

Seed Round in 2016
Mint Innovation Limited provides metal recovery services from electronic waste, mining residues, toxic metal waste, and heavy metal recovery. The company develops and produces bio-metallurgical processes that use microbes to capture value from metal waste streams while mitigating environmental harm. Mint Innovation Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in Auckland, 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.

Spoke Network, Inc.

Series A in 2020
Spoke Network, Inc. provides an application for people to interact in the business via mobile phones to optimize real-time voice conversations. The company is based in Parnell, New Zealand.

Insite AI

Convertible Note in 2020
Every year, each large retailer & CPG needs to make billions of dollars of granular category management, merchandising, and supply chain decisions. Insite AI is a cutting edge machine learning company that enables them to make these decisions in advance, holistically, with confidence towards the utmost financial impact. We provide an AI-decision engine. This technology layer easily integrates to supercharge a retailer or CPG's workflow.

Carbon Click

Seed Round in 2020
carbonclick.com We create clever solutions that help people offset the carbon emissions of their purchases. We remove the need for businesses to build their own offsetting programme, by providing everything they need to offer carbon offsets to customers. We power up your climate action.

Avertana Limited

Seed Round in 2015
Avertana Limited manufactures mineral and chemical raw materials from industrial waste using chemistry, advanced materials, and process design. Its products include titanium dioxide (TiO2) for paints, plastics, and paper manufacturing and other industries; alum for potable and wastewater purification; gypsum for wallboards and cement production and soil conditioning; and epsom salts for papermaking, fertilizer, consumer products, and animal feeds production. The company serves industrial, agricultural, municipal water, consumer goods, mining, and chemical processing industries. Avertana Limited was founded in 2012 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

iDefigo

Venture Round in 2019
iDefigo Limited manufactures and delivers Internet of things (IoT) security and surveillance device and solutions. Its products include Mi5 security cameras, which consists of wire-free, weatherproof cameras which offers quick and easy installation without cumbersome wiring and power requirements; RedEye camera, which incorporates a patented and ultra low power design, which helps the outdoor devices to run for longer; and iDefigo Video Surveillance as a Service (VSaaS) platform, a secure cloud based solution that collects and presents images, footage, and information from remotely connected cameras and other devices. The company also provides surveillance solutions, which includes security and technology solutions; construction and building solutions; and environmental monitoring solutions. The company was founded in 2008 and is based in Reading, United Kingdom.

Beany.biz

Venture Round in 2019
We are New Zealand accountants bringing you online, fixed price services. We are Xero Partners, and offer unlimited advice and support.

Fuel50

Series A in 2017
Fuel50 Inc., trading as Career Engagement Group, designs and develops a career pathing platform for employees. The platform enables employees to map their career path, find experiences, stretch assignments, and connect with mentors, coaches, and colleagues. The platform is used for employee engagement and retention. Fuel50 Inc. was founded in 2011 and is based in Laguna Nigel, California.

Joyous Limited

Seed Round in 2019
Joyous Limited provides an application for conversational pulse survey of employees. It offers Joyous, an application that delivers questions weekly to get employees talking about their work with rating, text, and photos. The company was founded in 2017 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

IMeasureU Limited

Seed Round in 2016
IMeasureU Limited develops a motion measurement sensor which enables researchers and athletes to gain data-driven insights into athletic performance. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand. As of June 27, 2017, IMeasureU Limited operates as a subsidiary of Oxford Metrics plc.

Parrot Analytics

Seed Round in 2014
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.

Halter Limited

Series A in 2018
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.

Squirrel Money

Seed Round in 2017
We're a peer-to-peer lender. We use funding from people keen to invest, and lend it to people who want to borrow. Our service is easy to use and secure.

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!

First AML

Series A in 2020
First AML Limited provides customer due diligence (CDD) outsourced services. It provides CDD, identify verification, source of wealth / source of funds, PEP screening, and annual reporting and audit support services. It serves law firms, accounting firms, real estate agents, financial firms and other entities. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

The Optima Corporation

Venture Round in 2006
The Optima Corporation provides mathematically based software solutions to solve resource allocation problems for organizations. It offers Siren software, which ensures the utilization of scarce resources within the constraints derived from each business problem. The company provides Siren software in two versions, including Siren Predict, the simulation package used for future planning; and Siren Live, which takes a real-time feed from an emergency service's system. It serves emergency services, paper mills, airlines, government, shipping ports, and railway sectors. The company was formerly known as Optimal Decision Technologies and changed its name to The Optima Corporation in 2006. The Optima Corporation was founded in 1998 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Relab.co.nz

Seed Round in 2020
Relab connects property professionals and home buyers and sellers with comprehensive, unrivalled and unbiased property data and insights to help them make smart, data- driven property decisions. With features including unitary plan details, underground service, sales history, AVM, advanced search and the ability to order titles easily online, Relab is fast becoming the number one go-to platform for savvy property professionals and everyday property buyers and sellers alike. Relab’s ability to allow users to gather all their data in one place, their mobile friendly interface and exceptionally competitive monthly pricing separates it from other players in this space.

Cumulo9

Seed Round in 2005
Cumulo9 provides transformational business email services for delivering transactional email documents.

Nexx New Zealand

Seed Round in 2007
Online money matchmaking service that allows borrowers to list their financial projects online and lenders to pledge funds at an interest rate acceptable to them - just like an online auction. With no bank or finance company in the middle, the interest rate paid by borrowers is the same as the rate that lenders receive.

Biomatters

Seed Round in 2004
Biomatters creates applications for omics analysis. Our WebApp Development Group builds production quality, public- and private cloud based responsive web applications to deliver the highest usability and visualized insight for applied genomics workflows. By collaborating with clinical and molecular diagnostics developers, we build the platforms that crunch their data and deliver results reports to their customers. We turn genomic research workflows into production-ready, regulatory-compliant diagnostic pipelines. Geneious, our desktop app for research biologists, features tools for DNA/RNA/protein sequence analysis, data management, database searching, and publication-quality image generation. Geneious is used by university, government, and medical research labs worldwide in disciplines such as agricultural genomics, evolutionary biology, biofuels, synthetic biology, microbiology, virology, and next-gen sequence analysis.

Engender Technologies

Series A in 2016
Engender has developed a proprietary process to separate X (female) and Y (male) bearing bull sperm cells, enabling dairy farmers to accelerate genetic gain and improve productivity. Engender has secured scientific and laboratory facilities from one of the world’s largest AI companies in exchange for an option for it to non-exclusively license Engender’s technology.

Right Hemisphere

Seed Round in 2009
Right Hemisphere is the recognized standard for Visual Enterprise Solutions that enable manufacturing companies around the world to unify, synchronize and deliver visual product and business information to optimize their global product development, launch and support processes. Organizations have invested substantially in engineering design applications, business management systems, operational processes and IT systems in an effort to improve product lifecycle efficiencies. However, it is challenging to deliver accurate, relevant and up-to-date product information to the functional organizations throughout the enterprise in a timely, efficient and usable form. Right Hemisphere effectively unifies product information from appropriate information systems (CAD, PLM, MES, DAM and ERP), synchronizes it to ensure accuracy and delivers it in a role and workflow-dependent fashion to individuals throughout the extended enterprise. The Right Hemisphere Visual Enterprise Solutions are designed to maximize productivity, improve process efficiency and quality while reducing cost and product life cycle time through visual communications.

TNX Limited

Seed Round in 2016
TNX Logistics is a procure-to-pay platform lowering transport spend and introducing zero-touch invoicing for major users of road transport. It is lowering transport spend by >7% for customers on three continents while achieving no-touch processing on 99.5% of invoices. They known for the software so simple that it looks like Fischer Price built it, but with powerful, practical AI in the middle. TNX Logistics offers autonomous tendering, real-time price predictions, and market analytics. The company was started in 2016, went live in 2017, and has customers in the USA, Europe, and New Zealand.

Dexibit Limited

Seed Round in 2016
Dexibit Limited provides online analytics and integration services for visitation, collection, and venue management needs. The company offers analytics Software-as-a-Service options, hardware accessories, and digital consulting and data concierge services. It serves museums, galleries, zoos, aquariums, parks, gardens, libraries, performing arts, cultural centers, and other venues in New Zealand and internationally. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Tradify Limited

Seed Round in 2014
Tradify Limited provides Tradify, a cloud-based job management software for small business focused in trade industries worldwide. Its serves customers in industries, such as electricians, plumbing, HVAC, building, construction, and trade. The company was incorporated in 2010 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Acuite automatically collects the information you need to put you on the front foot. It’s designed to help you manage your projects proactively, so you can spend your energy making game-changing decisions, instead of fighting fires.Acuite collects and aggregates data from across your whole project. It presents real time information on a central dashboard at head office, helping you catch problems before they happen. Protect your margins and stick to timelines. Since it’s subscription-based you just pay for what you use.

Genoapay

Seed Round in 2017
Genoapay is a registered financial services company located in Auckland.

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.

ZyGEM Corporation Limited

Seed Round in 2010
ZyGEM Corporation Limited, a biotechnology company, produces DNA extraction products and enzymes for molecular biology, diagnostics, and industrial applications. It offers forensicGEM for DNA extraction from crime and CODIS samples; RNAGEM, which produces RNA for direct use in a range of downstream applications; and prepGEM kits for DNA extraction from animal tissue samples. The company also provides ZyGEM Blood kits, an enzymatic DNA extraction system optimized to overcome the PCR inhibition found with single tube extraction protocols for blood; ZyGEM Saliva kits for extracting DNA from buccal swabs and saliva stains; and ZyGEM Tissue kits for extracting DNA from solid tissue, hair roots, and dispersed tissue culture. In addition, it offers ZyGEM Storage Card Saliva kits for extracting DNA from saliva stored on FTA cards; ZyGEM Storage Card Blood kits for extracting DNA from human and animal blood stored on FTA cards; and forensicGEM Cigarette that delivers PCR/profile-ready DNA from various cigarette brands tested. Further, the company provides prepGEM Bacteria kit for extracting DNA from various bacteria; and prepGEM Insect, a formulation developed for extracting DNA from whole insects or insect parts. It serves forensics, animal livestock genetic testing/traceability, clinical/human diagnostics, environmental, food safety testing, life science research, and veterinary markets. ZyGEM Corporation Limited was formerly known as Pacific Gem Corporation Limited and changed its name to ZyGEM Corporation Limited in December 2005. The company was incorporated in 1999 and is based in Hamilton, New Zealand.

Partly

Seed Round in 2020
Partly Group Limited operates as a SaaS company that reimagines the world interacting with the vehicle parts. The company was incorporated in 2020 and is based in Christchurch, New Zealand.

Adherium Limited

Seed Round in 2005
Adherium (previously known as Nexus6) is a privately owned developer and manufacturer of solutions that help patients and their healthcare professionals monitor and increase patient adherence to prescribed therapies, leading to improved disease management and reduced healthcare costs.

Mohio

Seed Round in 2012
Mohio is a proven clinical information platform for general practice and primary care organizations.

Drumleaf

Seed Round in 2010
Drumleaf is a digital content company that is applying Jim Henson

Narrative.so

Seed Round in 2020
Narrative develops software tools for storytellers, bloggers, and photographers. The company is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Appreciation Engine

Angel Round in 2012
Appreciation Engine is the platform that collects all customer insights in a single view in real-time. Their simple dashboard helps to create loyal fans, improve open rates, save marketing dollars, and drive revenue easily using their customer data. It also helps digital marketers improve open rates and save money on advertising spend. Appreciation Engine was founded in 2011 and is headquartered in Victoria, British Columbia, Canada.

SIMTICS Ltd.

Seed Round in 2006
SIMTICS Ltd. develops and delivers web-based simulations for learning the cognitive skills required for performing complex or invasive healthcare procedures. The company’s simulator allows trainees to learn procedures in various fields that include diagnostic medical, obstetrics and pediatric, vascular sonography, radiography, medicine, medical assisting, basic nursing, general sonography, and echocardiography. Its solution features video demonstration of the procedure performed by an expert; quizzes to test theoretical knowledge; and personal logbook to track learning history, scores, completion times, and errors made. The company’s training software is available in learn mode, which provides guidance to the user; and test mode that checks proficiency in performing the procedure. It services large and small institutional customers in the United States, the United Kingdom, Australia, India, and New Zealand; and supports students and professionals internationally. SIMTICS Ltd. was formerly known as Go Virtual Medical, Ltd. The company was founded in 2003 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand with additional offices in New Zealand and the United States.

1Centre

Seed Round in 2011
1Centre Limited offers an online platform for trade credit application. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in Parnell, New Zealand.