Investors in New Zealand

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New Zealand Growth Capital Partners

New Zealand Growth Capital Partners is a venture capital firm established in 2002, with offices in Auckland and Wellington. The firm focuses on supporting early-stage and seed-stage technology companies in New Zealand, aiming to stimulate private investment in this sector. It primarily invests in small to medium-sized enterprises and is particularly interested in various technology-related fields, including financial services, information technology, big data, the Internet of Things, mobile applications, software as a service, artificial intelligence, and machine learning. New Zealand Growth Capital Partners typically invests up to $1.5 million in each portfolio company, emphasizing direct investments as well as participation in fund of funds.
Made 33 investments in New Zealand

The Icehouse

Established in 2001, The Icehouse is a not-for-profit organization based in Auckland, New Zealand. It supports small and medium-sized enterprise owners and entrepreneurs by providing growth assistance. Backed by the New Zealand government, it focuses on helping Kiwi founders build global companies.
Made 64 investments in New Zealand

K1W1

K1W1, established in 1999, is a family office based in Auckland, New Zealand. It specializes in providing early and later-stage venture capital investments to startups and businesses within New Zealand.
Made 43 investments in New Zealand

Enterprise Angels

Enterprise Angels is a membership-based investment network based in Tauranga, New Zealand, founded in 2008. The organization connects experienced investors with entrepreneurs and innovators, enabling members to make individual investment decisions while leveraging each other’s expertise. This collaborative approach aims to enhance the success and returns of investments. Since its inception, Enterprise Angels has facilitated over $40 million in investments across more than 80 early-stage and established businesses in various industries. While members consider opportunities from all sectors and at any growth stage, they focus primarily on innovative ventures in agriculture, dairy, horticulture, engineering, food, and clean technology. The diverse experience of its members plays a crucial role in supporting early-stage businesses and helping them to realize their full potential.
Made 57 investments in New Zealand

Movac

Founded in 1998 and based in Wellington, New Zealand, Movac is a venture capital firm primarily investing in early-stage technology companies across New Zealand.
Made 29 investments in New Zealand

Pacific Channel

Founded in 2006, Pacific Channel is New Zealand's leading venture creation and investment firm focused on start-up and early-stage life-science and clean-tech innovations. Through expertise, seed funds, and access to external capital, they create, build, and fund companies to develop products/services for global markets.
Made 16 investments in New Zealand

Flying Kiwi Angels

Established in 2014 and headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, Flying Kiwi Angels is a venture capital firm that supports start-up companies by providing funding, expertise, and connections. They primarily invest in information technology sectors.
Made 14 investments in New Zealand

Powerhouse Ventures

Powerhouse Ventures Limited is a venture capital firm based in Christchurch, New Zealand, with additional offices in Wellington, Dunedin, and Auckland. Established in 2006, the firm specializes in incubation, start-up, early-stage, and growth capital investments, primarily targeting companies within Canterbury. It focuses on sectors such as engineering and clean technology, biotechnology and agri-science, health and medical devices, food, and information technology. Powerhouse Ventures aims to invest in companies that typically do not seek more than NZD 5 million in funding and have total capital and reserves, along with shareholder loans, not exceeding NZD 10 million. The firm is known for its selective approach, rigorously screening opportunities to identify those with strong intellectual property and significant potential in global markets. Additionally, Powerhouse Ventures engages in intellectual property commercialization and operates an innovation education program for students and organizations.
Made 7 investments in New Zealand

Punakaiki Fund

Punakaiki Fund is a venture capital firm based in Auckland, New Zealand, that provides long-term equity funding to high-growth, revenue-generating technology companies. The firm concentrates on the information technology sector, with a focus on software as a service and B2B software across New Zealand, supporting early-stage and growth-stage ventures that show scalable business models and strong potential for regional and national expansion.
Made 7 investments in New Zealand

Angel Investors Marlborough

Founded in 2017, Angel Investors Marlborough is an angel network based in Blenheim, New Zealand. It focuses on investing in early-stage startups.
Made 10 investments in New Zealand

Nuance Capital

Nuance Capital is a venture capital firm established in 2021 and located in Auckland, New Zealand. The firm specializes in investing in the deep technology sector, focusing on innovative companies that leverage advanced technologies to drive growth and transformation. Through its investments, Nuance Capital aims to support the development of cutting-edge solutions and foster advancements in technology-driven industries.
Made 6 investments in New Zealand

GD1

GD1 is a New Zealand‑based venture capital firm that invests in early‑stage companies with global ambitions. It offers capital, operational expertise, and access to an international network to help founders scale beyond their local markets.
Made 13 investments in New Zealand

WNT Ventures

WNT Ventures is a Tauranga, New Zealand based venture capital firm that partners with ambitious deep tech founders to turn global technology into reality. Founded in 2014 by experienced entrepreneurs and institutional capital providers, the firm supports emerging companies with a long term view across a broad range of sectors. Its investment focus spans agritech, food and horticulture tech, cleantech and climate tech, marine sciences, software, hardware, robotics, materials and engineering, aerospace, automation, medical devices and tools, and other advanced manufacturing and digital technologies. WNT Ventures seeks to back early to growth stage ventures, helping them scale via capital, strategic guidance and a collaborative environment that emphasizes practical outcomes and global impact.
Made 12 investments in New Zealand

Alt Ventures

Alt Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Auckland, New Zealand, founded in 2019. It concentrates on backing early-stage opportunities in gaming and technology, with a preference for pre-seed and seed investments to support disruptive ideas and early growth in New Zealand.
Made 3 investments in New Zealand

Outset Ventures

Established in 2016, Outset Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Auckland, New Zealand. It focuses on investing in and supporting early-stage, deep technology startups by providing flexible laboratory and workshop facilities.
Made 2 investments in New Zealand

Sparkbox Ventures

Sparkbox Ventures is a New Zealand-based venture capital firm, founded in 2001 and based in Auckland, focusing on seed and early-stage investments in technology sectors, including software, biotechnology, and renewable technologies, with activity across the Asia-Pacific region and interest in consumer goods.
Made 15 investments in New Zealand

Bridgewest Ventures

Bridgewest Ventures is a venture capital and incubator firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It funds and supports early-stage companies across biotechnology, agtech, pharmaceuticals, unmanned aerial vehicles, Internet of Things, semiconductors, artificial intelligence, software development, drug discovery, life sciences, and health tech, seeking opportunities with global commercialization.
Made 1 investment in New Zealand

Hillfarrance Venture Capital

Hillfarrance is a venture capital investment firm founded in 2019 and based in Auckland, New Zealand. The firm focuses on early-stage investments in the information technology sector, specifically targeting areas such as machine learning, media, gaming, and solutions for climate challenges. Hillfarrance aims to support diverse entrepreneurs who are developing sustainable business models that leverage proprietary data and innovative technologies to gain competitive advantages. The firm is committed to providing honest advice, access to a global network, and fair investment capital to help turn ambitious visions into reality. Named after the founder's ancestral village, Hillfarrance embodies values of openness and community, ensuring that entrepreneurs feel welcomed and supported in their endeavors.
Made 3 investments in New Zealand

Global From Day One

Established globally from inception, Global From Day One supports startups from seed to growth stages, offering operational assistance across product development, expansion strategies, and human resources.
Made 11 investments in New Zealand

Blackbird Ventures

Blackbird Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Sydney, Australia, that provides seed-to-late-stage funding to startups across Australia and New Zealand. The firm invests in technology-driven companies spanning software, hardware, space, healthcare, consumer products, autonomous robotics, artificial intelligence, infrastructure, clean energy, and quantum technology, supporting them from early idea stages through growth.
Made 11 investments in New Zealand

Kitaki Ventures

Kitaki Ventures is a venture capital fund based in Auckland, New Zealand, established in 2020. It focuses on early to growth-stage investments in technology companies across South East Asia, Israel, and North America. The firm targets sectors such as agriculture technology, health technology, cyber technology, and artificial intelligence, aiming to support innovative companies with strong intellectual property. Kitaki Ventures employs an exit-driven strategy and utilizes the extensive experience of its team, composed of entrepreneurs and industry veterans, to offer not only capital but also operational and technical expertise. The firm is dedicated to building a robust ecosystem for its portfolio companies by leveraging a global network that includes connections to prestigious institutions. By facilitating market fit identification, team building, and partnerships, Kitaki Ventures aims to help visionary entrepreneurs transform their ideas into successful, sustainable businesses.

Airtree Ventures

Airtree Ventures is a Sydney-based venture capital firm that backs technology startups in Australia and New Zealand. It focuses on early-stage investments and leverages its network to help founders accelerate product development and growth, guiding ideas from concept to market. Its portfolio includes notable technology companies such as Canva, Go1, Employment Hero, Pet Circle, Immutable and Linktree.
Made 11 investments in New Zealand

Promus Ventures

Founded in 2012, Promus Ventures is a Chicago-based venture capital firm with additional offices in San Francisco and Luxembourg. The firm specializes in early-stage investments, focusing on deep-tech software and hardware companies led by visionary founding teams. It typically invests between $0.5 million to $1 million globally, with a primary focus on the United States, UK, Germany, Finland, and New Zealand.
Made 7 investments in New Zealand

IP Group

IP Group is a London-based corporate firm that provides financial, strategic, and commercial expertise to clients internationally. Founded in 2001, the company focuses on creating value through the commercialisation of intellectual property derived from research-intensive institutions. It manages the end-to-end process of identifying viable IP, developing or partnering to build value, and establishing commercial arrangements that translate scientific advances into practical products and businesses. IP Group combines industry insight and financial experience to support science- and technology-based ventures, offering capital as well as strategic guidance to help companies grow and accelerate the impact of research. Its work spans clean technology, life sciences, and other deep technology sectors, with a track record of backing and developing ventures that aim to deliver tangible societal and economic outcomes.
Made 7 investments in New Zealand

Folklore Ventures

Folklore Ventures, founded in 2013 and based in Sydney, Australia, is a venture capital firm dedicated to supporting early-stage technology companies in Australia and New Zealand. The firm focuses on investing in sectors such as software, healthcare, robotics and automation, and decentralization. Comprising a team of investors, founders, and builders, Folklore Ventures aims to be a first cheque to forever investment partner, emphasizing the importance of founder vision and team potential from the outset.
Made 4 investments in New Zealand

Brandon Capital

Brandon Capital Partners, established in 2007, is a Melbourne-based venture capital firm with additional offices in California and Sydney. It focuses on seed and venture capital investments in innovative life science, healthcare, and technology companies across Australia and New Zealand. The firm's strategy involves working closely with entrepreneurs to build and grow businesses, creating value for both the entrepreneurs and their investors, primarily Australia's leading superannuation funds. Brandon Capital Partners' investment preferences span across pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, healthcare devices, life sciences, digital health, healthtech, oncology, and manufacturing sectors.
Made 2 investments in New Zealand

Rampersand

Founded in Melbourne, Australia in 2013, Rampersand is a venture capital firm focusing on early-stage investments. They specialize in late seed to Series A financing for enterprise software, B2B/B2C companies, and technology firms across Australia, New Zealand, Silicon Valley, Israel, Europe, and Asia.
Made 3 investments in New Zealand

SEEK

SEEK is a technology-driven employment and education company that operates online job marketplaces in Australia, New Zealand and internationally, supported by segments covering Asia Pacific & Americas and SEEK Investments. It matches job seekers with hirers through its online platforms and provides related services, and it owns and operates employment listings platforms in Southeast Asia. Beyond recruitment, SEEK offers online education services through SEEK Learning and distribution of higher education courses, along with offline education services. The group also invests in early-stage human capital management technologies and related ventures. Founded in 1997 and headquartered in Melbourne, SEEK combines its core online employment business with education and investment activities across multiple countries.
Made 5 investments in New Zealand

GD1

Established in 2012, GD1 is a venture capital firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It focuses on investing in early-stage technology companies based in New Zealand.
Made 1 investment in New Zealand

Altered Capital

Founded in 2022, Altered Capital is a venture capital firm based in Auckland, New Zealand. It invests globally with a focus on New Zealand, supporting teams in technology, healthcare, and finance sectors to achieve rapid growth through expansion, innovation, and acquisitions.
Made 1 investment in New Zealand

Right Click Capital

Right Click Capital is a Sydney-based venture capital firm founded in 2003 that invests in early-stage technology startups in Australia and New Zealand. It targets pre-seed and seed rounds and provides capital, guidance, influence, and connections to help portfolio companies reach the next stage of growth.
Made 6 investments in New Zealand

Square Peg Capital

Square Peg Capital is a venture capital firm founded in 2012 and based in Sydney, Australia, with additional offices in Singapore, Melbourne and Tel Aviv. It focuses on early to growth-stage technology investments, backing online and technology companies across the internet economy. The firm targets opportunities in Australia, New Zealand, Southeast Asia and Israel, and typically invests tens of millions of Australian dollars to support startups solving meaningful problems in sectors such as artificial intelligence, fintech, software-as-a-service, cloud infrastructure, cybersecurity, health, marketplaces and retail. Its approach combines deep sector experience with hands-on support to help entrepreneurs scale from inception to multinational enterprises.
Made 5 investments in New Zealand

Equity Venture Partners

Established in 2014, Equity Venture Partners is an Australian venture capital firm specializing in early-stage investments in software companies across Australia and New Zealand.

Flying Fox Ventures

Founded in 2021 and based in Melbourne, Australia, Flying Fox Ventures is an early-stage investment firm focusing on pre-seed and seed rounds across various industries. It primarily invests in companies from Australia and New Zealand.
Made 2 investments in New Zealand

Macdoch Ventures

Founded in 2011, Macdoch Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Woollahra, Australia. It focuses on supporting late seed stage founders across Australia and New Zealand, particularly those building networked businesses like platforms and marketplaces, and select SaaS companies.

Jelix Ventures

Jelix Ventures is a venture capital firm based in Darlinghurst, Australia, founded in 2016. The firm specializes in investing in innovative technology startups in Australia and New Zealand, particularly those in deep technology, automation and artificial intelligence, climate solutions, developer tools, and software as a service (SaaS). Jelix Ventures aims to support visionary entrepreneurs and accelerate the growth of companies that have the potential to disrupt traditional markets. Led by experienced investors and sector insiders, the firm focuses on businesses that are globally scalable and positioned for significant impact in their respective industries.
Made 1 investment in New Zealand

Paloma

Founded in 2014, Paloma is Australasia's leading venture studio, investing in seed and early-stage technology companies across Australia and New Zealand. It focuses on industries previously underserved by technology.
Made 1 investment in New Zealand

The Growth Fund

Established in 2011, this fund provides capital to high-performing businesses for purposes such as founder succession planning, organic expansion, acquisitions, management buy-outs/buy-ins, and public-to-private transactions. It is industry agnostic, excluding property and direct commodity exposures.
Made 2 investments in New Zealand

Parc Capital

Parc Capital is a growth equity investment firm established in 2019 and located in Sydney, New South Wales. The firm specializes in venture capital, concentrating on growth investments in profitable businesses based in Australia and New Zealand. By targeting companies that have demonstrated financial success, Parc Capital aims to support and accelerate their development while fostering economic growth in the region.
Made 1 investment in New Zealand

Zino Ventures

Zino Ventures was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. The firm focuses on investing in business‑to‑business and technology companies.

Qualgro Partners

Qualgro Partners is a Singapore-based venture capital firm that invests across early and growth stages in technology-driven companies. It focuses on fintech, B2B software, data analytics, and digital platforms such as marketplaces, web services, and peer-to-peer or consumer-to-consumer models, including enterprise software as a service. The firm also pursues opportunities in education and healthcare and targets investments across Southeast Asia, the Asia Pacific region, India, Australia, and New Zealand.

Goat Ventures

Goat Ventures is a venture capital firm founded in 2015 and based in Parnell, New Zealand. The firm focuses on investing in early and seed stage technology companies across the USA, New Zealand, and Australia. With a team of founding partners who are experienced entrepreneurs turned investors, Goat Ventures has built a diverse portfolio that includes dozens of active and acquired companies spanning various industries.

Endeavour Capital Limited

Endeavour Capital Limited is a New Zealand-based private equity firm established in 1999. It specializes in providing seed, early-stage, and growth capital to innovative companies, primarily in the technology, biotechnology, and clean technology sectors. Endeavour invests in New Zealand, China, Southeast Asia, and Sub-Saharan Africa, typically taking a 20-40% equity stake and seeking board representation. It aims to hold investments for up to eight years. Additionally, Endeavour offers business advisory services, including strategy development, governance, and investment planning, to support its portfolio companies and other clients.
Made 2 investments in New Zealand

Right Side Capital Management

Right Side Capital Management is a San Francisco based venture capital firm that backs early-stage technology startups with a focus on pre-seed rounds. It makes about 75-100 investments per year in capital-efficient companies seeking to reach product-market fit, typically in rounds of 50k to 500k and pre-money valuations of 1M to 3M. The firm pursues opportunities outside the San Francisco Bay Area and New York City, and it invests across the United States, Canada, Israel, Australia, New Zealand, and Western Europe, with a portfolio spanning many states and roughly two hundred prior investments since its early operations.
Made 1 investment in New Zealand

Omnes Capital S.A.S.

Omnes Capital S.A.S. is a venture capital and private equity firm specializing in direct and fund of fund investments. Within direct investments, the firm specializes in seed, startup, series A rounds, series B rounds, early venture, development stage, mid venture, late venture, emerging growth, growth capital, expansion, replacement capital, middle market, successions, small and mid-cap buyout, owner and leveraged buyout, mezzanine, PPP infrastructure, special situations, industry consolidation, mature, turnaround, and investing in small and medium enterprises. It is involved in all forms of business buy-ins/buyouts, on the occasion of inheritances, and in the form of spin-offs or delisting. Within fund of fund investments it invests in venture capital funds and secondary fund of funds. The firm prefers to invest in all the sectors including the information technology, life sciences, agri-food, telecommunications, and renewable energy sectors. It also invests in energy equipment and services; materials; construction and engineering; electrical equipment; commercial services and supplies; transportation infrastructure; hotels, restaurants, and leisure; agricultural products; cosmetics; real estate; online services; infrastructure services; electronic equipment and instruments; electronic manufacturing services; and water purification. Within information technology, the firm invests in electronics, materials, components, systems, laboratory and manufacturing equipment, design and test software, mobile, fiber optics, networks and operators, software applications, SaaS, cloud, hardware, development, administration and infrastructure, web-based technology services, media, and new information and communication technology (NICT). In life sciences, the firm invests in drug development, diagnostics, biotechnology, medtech, and medical devices. Under renewable energy, the firm invests in electricity and heat production, onshore wind, solar, hydro, heating networks in Europe with a focus on France, Germany, United Kingdom, Scandinavia, and Italy. It invests in companies based in Central America and Mexico; Caribbean; North America region with a focus on United States. The firm also invests in Turkey, Australia, Japan, New Zealand, Austria, Belgium, Denmark, Finland, France, Germany, Greece, Iceland, Italy, Luxembourg, Netherlands, Norway, Portugal, Spain, Sweden, Switzerland, and United Kingdom. The firm makes direct private equity investment in non-listed companies. Within mid-cap buyout and growth capital, the firm seeks to invest ticket size between €8 million ($8.80 million) and €25 million ($27.52 million) in companies with enterprise value between €25 million ($27.52 million) and €180 million ($198.12 million). Within small-cap buyout and growth capital, it invests in French small and medium enterprises with ticket size between €1 million ($1.10 million) and €8 million ($8.80 million) and enterprise value between €8 million ($8.80 million) and €25 million ($27.52 million). Within mezzanine buyout and growth capital, it makes investments in the form of bonds with share warrants (OBSA in French) in high-potential unlisted SMEs with a value of less than €300 million ($329.46 million). It seeks to invest between €1 million ($1.10 million) and €50 million ($55.03 million) in companies having revenues from $6.55 million to $322.7 million and enterprise value between $5.5 million and $1306.83 million. The firm also makes co-investments. When the firm co-invests, it seeks for a target enterprise value between €500 million ($550 million) and €1 billion ($1.10 billion) and investment capacity of €15 million ($16.51 million) per deal. The firm seeks to take minority stakes in its portfolio companies. It prefers to have a board seat on its portfolio companies. The firm seeks to invest for a period between two years and six years. It was formerly known as Credit Agricole Private Equity. Omnes Capital S.A.S. was founded in 2000 and is based in Paris, France with additional offices in Bruxelles, Belgium and Zurich, Switzerland.

Calm Company Fund

Calm Company Fund is a U.S.-based venture capital firm founded in 2019, specializing in early-stage investments in B2B software-as-a-service (SaaS), software, and software-enabled companies. The fund invests between $75,000 to $250,000 initially, with the capacity to lead rounds up to $1 million, focusing on companies generating up to $1 million in annual revenue. Calm Company Fund primarily invests in companies based in the United States, Canada, most of Europe, Australia, and New Zealand.

Bailador Technology Investments

Bailador Technology Investments is a Sydney-based growth capital investment firm that backs technology companies in Australia and New Zealand. It focuses on technology, software, SaaS, online education, telecommunications, applications and services, and provides post-investment support including fundraising, M&A assistance, and pre-IPO preparations, often with board representation. The firm connects portfolio companies to larger international growth funds and helps manage fundraising processes and expansion. Founded in 2010 in Sydney by Paul Wilson and David Kirk, Bailador backs a diversified portfolio that includes Access Telehealth, Brosa, InstantScripts, Mosh, Nosto, Rezdy, SiteMinder and Straker Translations.

M8 Ventures

M8 Ventures is a Sydney-based venture capital firm that concentrates on early-stage technology investments in Australia and New Zealand. It backs companies from pre-seed to Series A, focusing on sectors such as information technology, advanced manufacturing, big data, the Internet of Things, mobile commerce, SaaS, and audio technology.

OPTrust Private Markets Group

OPTrust Private Markets Group is the private equity and venture capital division of the OPTrust Pension Fund, established in 2006 and headquartered in Toronto, Canada, with additional offices in London and Sydney. The firm focuses on creating diversified private equity and infrastructure portfolios, primarily targeting credit opportunities, private debt, and growth investments. It emphasizes investments in the infrastructure sector, particularly in transportation assets such as toll roads and airports, as well as in communications, power generation, utilities, and renewable energy. The firm aims to invest in developed markets, with a notable focus on North America, Europe, Australia, New Zealand, Japan, South Korea, and other regions in Asia. OPTrust Private Markets Group's investment strategy includes allocations ranging from A$20 million to A$250 million, depending on the asset class. The firm seeks to achieve strong long-term returns, contributing significantly to the overall asset allocation of the pension plan.

Tanarra Capital

Tanarra Capital is an Australian investment and advisory firm that focuses on early-stage ventures, private and public companies across various sectors such as B2B, healthcare, agriculture technology, industrials, and oil & gas. The company invests globally but has a strong presence in Australia and New Zealand.