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Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in New Zealand (May 2026)

The most active venture capital funds and angel investors investing in New Zealand Hardware startups. This investor list is updated monthly from the Shizune investor database, ranked by number of investments in New Zealand Hardware startup companies. Find investors to raise a Seed, Series A or Series B round with Shizune.
Investor Relevant Deals Geography Stage Focus Round Size
K1W1
VC Fund
12 New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Enterprise Angels
VC Fund
11 New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom Seed, Angel Software, Information Technology, Health Care $149k–$2.4M
Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
9 New Zealand, United States, Australia Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Information Technology $450k–$21M
Tuhua Fund
VC Fund
4 New Zealand, Singapore, United States Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Internet, B2B $735k–$4.8M
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund
4 New Zealand, United States, Japan Seed, Series A, Angel Software, Biotechnology, SaaS $400k–$8.5M
Ice Angels
VC Fund
3 New Zealand, United States, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Mobile Apps, Internet $357k–$8.5M
Global from Day One
VC Fund
3 New Zealand, United States, China Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Medical Device $595k–$5M
Flying Kiwi Angels
VC Fund
3 New Zealand Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed Software, Apps, Internet $460k–$1.3M
Pacific Channel
VC Fund
3 New Zealand Seed, Series A Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
Punakaiki Fund
VC Fund
3 New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A, Series B Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps $355k–$5M
Uniservices
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Seed, Pre-Seed Medical Device, SaaS, Audio
Alex Rigopulos
Angel
2 United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Angel Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities $550k–$2.5M
Peter Beck
Angel
2 New Zealand Series A, Series B Software, AgTech, Hardware $19M–$19M
Movac
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States, Australia Seed, Series A Software, E-Commerce, SaaS $774k–$16M
Harald McPike
Angel
2 United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series D Software, Analytics, Information Technology
Yamaha Motor
VC Fund
2 Japan, India, Brazil Corporate Round, Series A, Series B Transportation, Robotics, Logistics $1.9M–$1.6B
GD1
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
AngelHQ
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States, Canada Seed, Angel, Series A Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS $357k–$1.5M
Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund
2 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $15k–$6M
Endeavour Capital Limited
VC Fund
2 New Zealand, United States Series B, Private Equity Software, Information Technology, Mobile $30M–$116M
Promus Ventures
VC Fund
2 United States, Germany, United Kingdom Seed, Series A, Series B Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning $1M–$40M
Digital Asset Capital Management
VC Fund
2 United States, Singapore, United Kingdom Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency $1.2M–$12M
Flying Kiwis
VC Fund
2 New Zealand Seed SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device
TCG 1 Seed, Series A, Series B Media and Entertainment, Software, Internet $500k–$30M
Advent International 1 Private Equity, Series C Software, Financial, Health Care $8.4M–$344M
TMT Ventures
VC Fund
1 New Zealand, United States Series C Software, CRM, Mobile
Toyota Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, United Kingdom Series A, Seed, Series B Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics $1.3M–$126M
Wave Digital Assets
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Switzerland Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology $500k–$70M
Enjin
VC Fund
1 Singapore, United States, India Seed, Initial Coin Offering Blockchain, Gaming, Online Games $2.5M–$6M
Enjinstarter
VC Fund
1 Canada, Indonesia, Nicaragua Seed Blockchain, Gaming, SaaS $1.7M–$5M
Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, New Zealand Angel, Seed Science/Engineering, Software, Commerce/Shopping $32k–$893k
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund
1 New Zealand, United States Seed, Series A Software, SaaS, Manufacturing $1.3M–$6.2M
Dialectic
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services $1M–$22M
Horizon Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Israel, China Series A, Series C, Series B Software, Manufacturing, Electronics $2.7M–$40M
Delphi Digital
VC Fund
1 United States, Philippines, Brazil Seed, Series A Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency $2.6M–$15M
AirTree Ventures
VC Fund
1 Australia, United States, New Zealand Series A, Seed, Series B Software, Information Technology, SaaS $385k–$57M
6th Man Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Canada Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software $2M–$20M
Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, India Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services $2M–$40M
Raised In Space Enterprises
VC Fund
1 United States, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Series B Media and Entertainment, Software, Internet $6M–$6.7M
Par Equity
VC Fund
1 United Kingdom, United States, Brazil Seed, Series A Software, Information Technology, Computer $244k–$7.9M
BNP Paribas
VC Fund
1 France, United States, Belgium Series A, Seed Software, Information Technology, Financial Services $643k–$33M
Obayashi Corporation
VC Fund
1 Japan, United States, New Zealand Series A, Seed, Series B Manufacturing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence $1.5M–$62M
Flamingo DAO
VC Fund
1 United States, Croatia, New Zealand Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Blockchain, Information Technology, Art $150k–$50M
Sante Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, New Zealand Series A, Series B, Series C Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical $1M–$30M
Wavemaker Genesis
VC Fund
1 United States, United Kingdom, Philippines Seed, Series A Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
AP Ventures
VC Fund
1 United States, France, Norway Seed, Series A Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas $3.1M–$23M
Muse Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Canada, Denmark Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed Health Care, Software, E-Commerce $2M–$6.5M
Vendetta Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Belize Seed, Private Equity Blockchain, Gaming, Software $1.5M–$6M
Fourth Revolution Capital
VC Fund
1 United States, Singapore, Brazil Seed, Series A Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency $5M–$15M
Polygon Studios
VC Fund
1 United States, Nigeria, Singapore Seed, Series A, Grant Blockchain, Gaming, Software $3M–$26M
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K1W1
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 12 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 6 in the past 12 months

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 61
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
  • Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
  • Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.
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Enterprise Angels
VC Fund · Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand · 11 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Angel
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $149k–$2.4M; Angel $223k–$655k
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

  • Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
  • Zenno Astronautics — At Zenno Astronautics, our hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 9 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 14 in the past 12 months

Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 125
  • Round size: Seed $450k–$2.6M; Series A $1.4M–$21M
  • Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • DataMasque — Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise.
  • Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
  • Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
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Tuhua Fund
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Internet, B2B
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: New Zealand, Singapore, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $735k–$3.2M; Series A $1.4M–$4.8M
  • Lead/follow: 30% lead, 70% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $6.5M in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
  • Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
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New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 4 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Your guide to finding and using government services.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Japan

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 35
  • Round size: Seed $417k–$1.2M; Angel $400k–$417k; Series A $1.4M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
  • Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
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Ice Angels
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 15
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$1.6M; Angel $357k–$417k; Series A $1.4M–$8.5M
  • Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
  • beany.biz — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
  • Spoke Phone — Break free. Configure the exact customer experience you want with VoIP business phone calls, SMS, and WhatsApp conversations that integrate anywhere.
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Global from Day One
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $595k–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
  • Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
  • Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
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Flying Kiwi Angels
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Apps, Internet
  • Stage:Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Angel $595k–$893k; Pre-Seed $460k–$1.3M
  • Lead/follow: 60% lead, 40% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • FileInvite — The simplest, most secure, document collection platform for professionals. Request files, forms, data and e-signatures all through a secure client portal.
  • Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
  • Well Revolution — Online doctors, prescriptions, advice & treatment in NZ. Chat privately with a GP at the touch of a button for same-day consults & pharmacy prescriptions.
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Pacific Channel
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 8
  • Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Orbica — Orbica develops innovative, cross-industry location data solutions, services and products.
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
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Punakaiki Fund
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 3 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $355k–$5M; Series A $1.5M–$3M
  • Lead/follow: 42% lead, 58% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
  • Whip Around — Providing fleet maintenance software that automates preventive maintenance tasks, improves inspections, tracks work orders, and manages your fleet health.
  • projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
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Uniservices
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Auckland University's commercialisation arm

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Medical Device, SaaS, Audio
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 4
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
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Alex Rigopulos
Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Alex Rigopulos Co-Founded Harmonix in 1995 with the mission of inventing new ways for non-musicians to experience the joy of making music. He was CEO until 2014. Now, as CCO, Alex is responsible for ensuring the creative excellence of all Harmonix products. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Alex studied computer music at the MIT Media Laboratory andmusic composition at MIT.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
  • Geography: United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 11
  • Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. Shop Cell Alpha, the world's first Triphonic speaker.
  • GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
  • Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
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Peter Beck
Angel · Huntington Beach, California, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the world’s leading dedicated small satellite launch provider. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services, including complete satellite build and launch solutions, that provide rapid, frequent and reliable access to space. Rocket Lab has been launchingsince May 2017, delivering satellites to orbit for commercial and government customers, including DARPA, NASA, the NRO, the United States Air Force and more. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognized industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers. In addition to creating Electron, the world’s first fully carbon-fibre orbital launch vehicle, Peter also oversaw the development of the world’s first and only private orbital launch range, located on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula. He played a crucial role in establishing international treaties and legislation to enable orbital launch capability from New Zealand.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, AgTech, Hardware
  • Stage:Series A, Series B
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 5
  • Round size: Series B $19M–$19M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Halter — 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.
  • Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
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Movac
VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $1.4M–$4.3M; Series A $774k–$16M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2016

Portfolio highlights

  • Atomic — Atomic embeds native, actionable customer interaction inside your iOS, Android or web app. Turn your customer data and insights into loyalty, retention and conversion.
  • ZeroJet — ZeroJet is the first jet propulsion system to be designed specifically for an electric motor, delivering the perfect balance of performance and runtime.
  • Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.
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Harald McPike
Angel · Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
  • Geography: United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
  • Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
  • Health Data Analytics Institute — Health Data Analytics Institute is created a predictive platform that transcends the understanding of healthcare data and connects it to quantifiable, actionable information that benefits patients, providers, and society. But we don’t just translate data, we transform it into a continuum of insights — applicable across all touch points in anindividual’s dynamic health journey. It’s deep knowledge that quantifies longevity, health status, health risks, and health costs. But that’s just the start.
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Yamaha Motor
VC Fund · Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Transportation, Robotics, Logistics
  • Stage:Corporate Round, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, India, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 18
  • Round size: Series A $7M–$1.6B; Corporate Round $1.9M–$27M
  • Lead/follow: 39% lead, 61% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Wassha — Wassha provide the rental device and charging service using clean energy. WASSHA lends all devices to start WASSHA business. Remote management and monitoration of every operation made possible with our innovative technology, so that we can check every transactions like sales, customer information, and power generation.We are looking for businesspartners to expand WASSHA to off-grid areas! s a power supplier for off-grid Africa.
  • Skipperi — Skipper is a meeting place for boats and boaters. Private individuals and companies can announce their boat rent for free. The boat can hire everyone whose skills and experience are on the boat owner's behalf. The boat owner decides who to rent their boats.
  • Arpac Drones — ARPAC delivers important results in pest control through their own research and development of their aircraft and application systems; as well as, performing services in locations where other vehicles can not reach.
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GD1
VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
  • StretchSense — The StretchSense hand motion capture solution brings together accurate and comfortable gloves, and machine learning to detect and render perfect hand poses. - StretchSense
  • Zenno Astronautics — At Zenno Astronautics, our hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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AngelHQ
VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Angel HQ is Wellington region's angel investment network - follow us for angel investing info, and a way to connect to local, national and international angels.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 12
  • Round size: Seed $893k–$1.5M; Angel $357k–$1M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
  • Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
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Blockchain Founders Fund
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 16 in the past 12 months

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 123
  • Round size: Seed $125k–$4M; Pre-Seed $15k–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $75M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Freename — Redefining Web3 Naming System. Web3 Registrar: custom TLDs and Domains
  • LunarCrush — Smarter crypto, NFT, and stock investing with insights from millions of conversations happening across social.
  • SuperSight — SuperSight (https://supersight.xyz/), a UK-based start-up, is building crypto-specific Large Language Models (LLMs) to revolutionise the way we interact with crypto data. With 420 million crypto users but only 30,000 able to code for onchain insights, SuperSight bridges the gap, enabling easy access to information from a range ofboth on-chain and off-chain sources like Discord, Telegram, Twitter, Mirror, Podcast Transcripts, and news sites. Beyond just collecting data, SuperSight uses AI to improve the search experience, making it personalised, accurate, and ultimately, more insightful.
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Endeavour Capital Limited
VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Trading, Capital, Trusted Advisory, Proven Stewardship

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Mobile
  • Stage:Series B, Private Equity
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 7
  • Round size: Private Equity $30M–$116M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • SMX — SMX offers a cloud-based email security solution for SEG, archiving and added Microsoft 365 defence. Trusted by enterprises, governments and ISPs across ANZ.
  • GFG Group — GFG Group is a supplier of consumer electronic payments software and card payment solutions. GFG has provided applications, systems integration and IT managed services to customers in 40 countries.
  • Grasshopper Bank — Secure business accounts, flexible lending solutions and powerful digital tools to support your business at every stage.
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Promus Ventures
VC Fund · Chicago, Illinois, United States · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 140
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$5.7M; Series A $4M–$25M; Series B $4.6M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Halter — 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.
  • FERNRIDE — Fernride enables automated, sustainable logistics by combining the skills of remote drivers with autonomous technologies.
  • SatSure — SatSure is an innovative decision analytics company that leverages advances in satellites, machine learning, and big data analytics to help solve problems at the nexus of sustainability of food, water, and energy security.
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Digital Asset Capital Management
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Software, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $1.2M–$9M; Initial Coin Offering $3.6M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • NeoSwap — NeoSwap is a multi-party, multi-item NFT swap platform that redistributes items in a win-win-win manner, using minimal currency. It provides neo-barter solutions to unlock value within existing marketplaces and enable marketplaces where they were previously unsustainable. It was founded by John Ennis.
  • Reputation DAO — Join us to build the reputation layer on web3. Experience in blockchain not required, but a passion to fix the world is mandatory.
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
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Flying Kiwis
VC Fund · 2 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Super-seeded by new entry: Flying Kiwi Angels

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Investment focus

  • Industry: SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 2
  • Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

  • Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
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TCG
1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 98
  • Round size: Seed $500k–$10M; Series A $4.6M–$30M; Series B $8.5M–$29M
  • Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $700M in 2019

Advent International
1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Advent is one of the largest and most experienced global private equity firms, with deep sector expertise.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Financial, Health Care
  • Stage:Private Equity, Series C

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 124
  • Round size: Series C $8.4M–$260M; Private Equity $46M–$344M
  • Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $25B in 2022

TMT Ventures
VC Fund · Karachi, Sindh, Pakistan · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

TMT Ventures is a venture capital company based in Pakistan that funds technology, media, and technology startups.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, CRM, Mobile
  • Stage:Series C
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 3
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GFG Group — GFG Group is a supplier of consumer electronic payments software and card payment solutions. GFG has provided applications, systems integration and IT managed services to customers in 40 countries.
  • Enprise Solutions — Kilimanjaro Consulting is the largest, most experienced implementer of MYOB Enterprise Solutions: Advanced and Exo. Talk to us today!
  • Redfern Integrated Optics — Leading global supplier of single frequency narrow linewidth lasers, modules, and subsystems to clean energy, security, oil & gas, test/measurement markets.
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Toyota Ventures
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 18 in the past 12 months

Toyota Ventures is a San Francisco Bay Area-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups from around the world. Founded in July 2017, its mission is to discover what’s next for Toyota by helping startups bring disruptive technologies and business models to market quickly. With more than $500 million in assets under management,the firm’s funds include the Toyota Ventures Frontier Fund focused on artificial intelligence, cloud computing, autonomy, mobility, robotics, smart cities, digital health, financial technologies, materials, and energy; and the Toyota Ventures Climate Fund focused on innovative solutions for carbon neutrality.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Robotics
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Canada, United Kingdom

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 96
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$14M; Series A $7M–$30M; Series B $5M–$126M
  • Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $150M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • Boxbot — Dynamic storage and retrieval platform that adapts to varying cubic dimensions and eliminates manual pick stations.
  • Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
  • Stoke Space — STOKE Space Technologies seamlessly connecting earth and space.
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Wave Digital Assets
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Switzerland

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 89
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$18M; Series A $500k–$70M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • IYK — IYK inspires people to live in the moment by bridging immersive physical and digital experiences.
  • 1Kin Labs — Get early access to in-development games, claim rewards, and take your digital assets with you wherever you go - all with a single sign-on.
  • Fluree — Fluree is an open-source, blockchain-backed Data Management Platform for Web3 apps. Fluree empowers connected, trusted, and intelligent data ecosystems. Fluree is built on W3C semantic web standards in order to facilitate trusted data interoperability.
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Enjin
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Enjin offers a suite of integrated products that make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) easy for individuals, businesses, and developers.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Online Games
  • Stage:Seed, Initial Coin Offering
  • Geography: Singapore, United States, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $2.5M–$6M; Initial Coin Offering $3.6M–$4.5M
  • Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • GamePad — GamePad is a platform that curates and nurtures then accelerates top gamefi, guilds, and metaverse projects.
  • Kingdom Karnage — Kingdom Karnage is a cross-platform virtual trading card game for PC and Android.
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
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Enjinstarter
VC Fund · Singapore, Central Region, Singapore · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, SaaS
  • Stage:Seed
  • Geography: Canada, Indonesia, Nicaragua

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.7M–$5M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AlterVerse — Discover AlterVerse, an immersive free-to-play game coming to the Epic Store. Explore endless possibilities in our boundless sandbox environment where survival skills are key. Join the adventure today!
  • Championfy — Championfy's mission is to empower and unleash everyone's inner champion through Esports and ignite the region with hope, inspiration, respect, strengths, and friendship.
  • Smobler Studios — Smobler Studios is a multimedia design agency headquartered in Singapore with offices in Canada, USA and Bhutan. We specialize in creative ideation, design thinking, storyboarding, 3D, graphic & technical design, animation, video production and metaverse development.
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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Science/Engineering, Software, Commerce/Shopping
  • Stage:Angel, Seed
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 34
  • Round size: Seed $32k–$771k; Angel $601k–$893k
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Tayble — Spend more time enjoying your food and less time waiting.We hate waiting...For anything...And food and drinks are no exception!If your hobbies include:- Waiting in line - Calling out to a waiter - Watching the kettle boil - Calculating your split of the billPLEASE DO NOT DOWNLOAD THIS APP... YOU'LL HATE IT!But if you're likeus...And want your food and drinks ready exactly when you are...Or to leave a restaurant without worrying about your bill...Then step right up, this bad boy's for you!With Tayble, you’ll never have to flag down a waiter... EVER!Simply order from your "Tayble"Or before you even arrive...Leave the rest to us and the 1,000's of minions in the cloud that keep this all running!You’ll be left asking where has this been all my life, guaranteed!*(Definitely not a real guarantee)
  • Insite AI — Join Consumer Goods leaders who win in Category Management and Revenue Growth Management with the best Assortment & Trade Promotion Capabilities
  • Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.
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New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
VC Fund · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: New Zealand, United States

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 14
  • Round size: Seed $1.3M–$6.2M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
  • Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
  • Zenno Astronautics — At Zenno Astronautics, our hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
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Dialectic
VC Fund · Zug, Zug, Switzerland · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Dialectic is a machine that solves cyphers to unlock exceptional value for our members.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 27
  • Round size: Seed $1M–$22M; Series A $4.1M–$10M
  • Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Anoma — An intent-centric architecture for decentralized counterparty discovery, solving, information flow control, & multi-chain atomic settlement
  • nftperp — First perpetual futures dex for NFTs
  • Fuel Labs — At Fuel, we are building the fastest execution layer for the modular blockchain stack.
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Horizon Ventures
VC Fund · Los Altos, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Horizon Ventures is a California based venture capital firm specialized in early- and late-stage investments.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Electronics
  • Stage:Series A, Series C, Series B
  • Geography: United States, Israel, China

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 46
  • Round size: Series A $2.7M–$30M; Series B $8.5M–$18M; Series C $10M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $20M in 2004

Portfolio highlights

  • Kytopen — Kytopen is pioneering a novel and non-viral process to engineer human cells for therapeutic applications in immuno-oncology and genetic disorders.
  • what3words — Every 3 metre square has a unique 3 word address.
  • Sandbox Banking — Build new products integrated with existing systems, work with fintechs securely and quickly and engage customers with data-driven experiences.
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Delphi Digital
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 7 in the past 12 months

Delphi Digital is a leading cryptocurrency research firm, providing cutting-edge insights and updates to a community of over 30,000 investors and venture firms.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Philippines, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 66
  • Round size: Seed $2.6M–$14M; Series A $6.3M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $5M in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • GRVT — Trade on the next-gen hybrid derivatives exchange 100% self-custody. 0% counterparty risk. Traditional finance meets the power of blockchain.
  • Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
  • Karate Combat — Karate.com is the Official Home for Karate Combat: Full-Contact Karate Fighting. Watch our Events, Free! And Get the Latest News about Upcoming Fights.
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AirTree Ventures
VC Fund · Paddington, Western Australia, Australia · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 14 in the past 12 months

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 132
  • Round size: Seed $385k–$7.1M; Series A $1.5M–$57M; Series B $5.1M–$53M
  • Lead/follow: 43% lead, 57% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.
  • Secure Code Warrior — Secure Code Warrior helps developers write more secure code. We are focused on bringing an innovative approach to developer security training. Contact us today.
  • High Earth Orbit Robotics — HEO Robotics provides on-orbit inspection services for satellites, using a network of space-based sensors. The high quality image data and insights allow satellite operators to conduct predictive maintenance and diagnose issues with their assets
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6th Man Ventures
VC Fund · New York, New York, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Canada

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 86
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$20M; Series A $4.1M–$18M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $145M in 2022

Portfolio highlights

  • Polybase — Polybase Labs is building fair, accessible and safe blockchain infrastructure to make the world more equitable. Our main product is a layer 2 blockchain with private transactions and MEV-resistance powered by zero knowledge proofs.
  • Gleen AI — Delight your customers. Get Gleen, the world's most accurate & capable generative AI-based chatbot. Trustworthy answers. Automatic actions. Unify knowledge.
  • Orb Labs — Enable apps to access users on any chain without account fragmentation
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Coinbase Ventures
VC Fund · San Francisco, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 40 in the past 12 months

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, India

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 258
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$7.5M; Series A $4.2M–$40M
  • Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $15M in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • FirstMate — FirstMate is a software company that designs and develops software tools for NFT creators.
  • Rocket Pool — Your friendly decentralised Ethereum staking protocol
  • Mountain Protocol — At Mountain Protocol, we believe that everyone deserves access to the "risk-free rate" through a secure, regulated, and enterprise-grade product that elevates the world finance industry. Our yield-bearing stablecoin, USDM, provides permissionless composability, regulatory compliance, and an enterprise-grade setup with a seamless userexperience. Backed by US Treasuries and custodied by Fidelity in a bankruptcy-remote setup.
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Raised In Space Enterprises
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

A music/tech investment group focused on raising the value of music through technology

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Media and Entertainment, Software, Internet
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Geography: United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 9
  • Round size: Series A $6M–$6.7M
  • Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • AuDIGENT — AuDIGENT is an audience intelligence platform that provides brands with actionable data, analytics and insights that optimize the targeting, engagement and ROI of online, mobile and social video ads while opening up new revenue streams for artists and other social influencers. AuDIGENT's platform allows brands to discover, monitor and targetaudiences that drive media performance. AuDIGENT's platform empowers artists and influencers to tap into the tools and technology needed to monetize their social influence and fan engagement. AuDIGENT's executives, data scientists, developers and operations team are in New York, Philadelphia and London. For more information visit AuDIGENT.com
  • Songclip (Audiobyte) — Songclip™ is a new licensed music format built specifically for texting, social posts, and quick communication. Songclip’s multi-patented networked product solution, the Songclip API, integrates seamlessly into social platforms, mobile apps, and virtual marketplaces to drive expression, monetization, and music streaming. Songclip operates theworld’s foremost searchable library of 5-30 second meta-tagged music clips, in partnership with the music industry. For more information, visit songclip.com
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
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Par Equity
VC Fund · Edinburgh, Edinburgh, City of, United Kingdom · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups, 11 in the past 12 months

Founded in 2008, Par Equity is a venture capital firm that backs the most innovative, high growth technology companies in the North of the UK. Based in Edinburgh, Par invests across Northern England, Northern Ireland and Scotland.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Computer
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 163
  • Round size: Seed $244k–$4.7M; Series A $1.6M–$7.9M
  • Lead/follow: 56% lead, 44% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2020

Portfolio highlights

  • Plotbox — Award winning Cemetery and Crematory management software that enables world class death care facility operations. Fully integrated software and true digital mapping solve long standing problems and accelerates business development. Various packages available.
  • Partful — Make sure customers get the right parts first time, every time with digital 3D parts catalogue software and digital work instructions.
  • Manus Neurodynamica — Manus Neurodynamica is a triage device to support early diagnostics in Parkinson's disease.
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BNP Paribas
VC Fund · Paris, Ile-de-France, France · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

BNP Paribas Private Equity brings together the third party private equity teams of BNP Paribas Investment Partners. As of September 2008, this activity has EUR 817 million of assets under management, spread out over five different types of vehicles: funds of funds and investment management mandates, innovation funds (FCPI), local investment funds(FIP ISF), unlisted small cap funds and feeder funds.The asset management activities are supported by:- A strategy and development arm dedicated to the creation of new activities both in and outside France using BNPP IP's global network.- A comprehensive fund administration service.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
  • Stage:Series A, Seed
  • Geography: France, United States, Belgium

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 95
  • Round size: Seed $643k–$2.2M; Series A $2.1M–$33M
  • Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • MICA — MICA save lives & improve life quality. Our approach to the environmental and social dimensions is reflected in our commitment to United Nations Sustainable
  • Santexpat.fr — Santexpat is a health insurance platform for French expatriates in more than 200 countries. It allows users to analyze more than 100 health insurance solutions and subscribe to them directly. The company also offers teleconsultations with French-speaking doctors 24/7. Santexpat was founded in 2020 and is based in Paris, France.
  • Pollen Robotics — Pollen Robotics develops humanoid service robots specialized in the interaction and manipulation of objects.
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Obayashi Corporation
VC Fund · Burlingame, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Obayashi Corporation is a construction contractor that offers building construction, heavy civil construction, engineering, urban development, and real estate management services. The company offers services necessary to build and maintain office buildings, residences, tunnels, highways, rail systems, bridges, artificial islands, airports, andnuclear power plants.The company’s portfolio of services includes contracting of construction works; regional, urban, oceanic, and environmental development of businesses related to construction; engineering and management related to research, surveying, planning, devising, designing, and supervising; housing business; sale, purchase, exchange, lease, brokerage, ownership, caretaking, and utilization of real estate; operation of type II financial instruments and exchange business, investment advisory, and agency business under Financial Instruments and Exchange Law; planning, construction, retention, maintenance, and management of infrastructures such as road, port, water supply and drainage, municipal building, educational and cultural facility, waste treatment facility, medical facility, and others; recovering environmental pollutions such as purification of soil, sediment of river and lake, water-quality of lake and sea; and collection, transportation, treatment, and recycling of municipal and industrial wastes; power generation and supply of electricity and heat; manufacture, supply, sale, and lease of construction machinery and equipment, and materials and equipment for temporary works; manufacture and sale of concrete products for construction, fireproof or nonflammable building materials, materials for interior and exterior of buildings, furniture and wooden products for buildings, and sale of civil engineering and building materials; undertaking of maintenance and care of buildings, related facilities, and security and guard services; acquisition, development, licensing for use, and sale of software, industrial properties, and know-how related to utilization of computers; operation of information processing service, business of information furnishing service, and supply of telecommunication circuits; sale, lease, and maintenance service of electronic office machinery and equipment, including computers; management of health, medical, sport and leisure facilities, hotels and restaurants, and travel agencies; manufacture and sale of medical machinery and tools; operation of temporary personnel placement agency businesses under the Temporary Personnel Placement Agency Act; undertaking of services related to general affairs, personnel affairs, and accounting matters; operation of insurance agencies; production, processing, and sale of agricultural products, and acquisition, development, licensing for use and sale of agriculture-related technologies; money-lending and suretyship on obligations and other financial services; consulting serviced relates; and more.Obayashi Corporation has presence in Japan, North America, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Oceania.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Manufacturing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
  • Geography: Japan, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 10
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$62M; Series A $5.6M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • KEMARO AG — KEMARO GmbH, headquartered in Eschlikon, Switzerland, was founded in August 2016 by three engineers specializing in the development and production of autonomous industrial robotics. Our first product, the KEMARO-800, is the world's first dry fully autonomous cleaning robot for industrial use, demonstrating our expertise internationally as aleader in artificial intelligence and robotics.
  • SafeAI — SafeAI retrofits existing heavy mining and construction vehicles with autonomous technology. Explore our solutions for creating safer, more efficient worksites.
  • Fabrum — Fabrum offers onsite liquid Nitrogen Systems for the production of cryogenic and engineering solutions. Contact us to meet your requirements.
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Flamingo DAO
VC Fund · Sacramento, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Flamingo DAO is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for ownable, blockchain-based assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Information Technology, Art
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Croatia, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 25
  • Round size: Seed $150k–$11M; Series A $12M–$50M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Metahood — Metahood offers services for discovering, purchasing, and selling land in the open metaverse.
  • Hook — Hook provides an NFT-native options protocol that enables active traders to earn more with less. For active traders, options allow them to earn multiples of buying the floor for the best trades.
  • Hume — Hume provides a web3 record label creating music-driven metastars.
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Sante Ventures
VC Fund · Austin, Texas, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Santé Ventures is a life sciences venture capital firm that invests exclusively in early-stage companies developing innovative new medical technologies or healthcare delivery models. The firm was founded in 2006 and has $281 million in capital under management in two funds.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
  • Stage:Series A, Series B, Series C
  • Geography: United States, Canada, New Zealand

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 81
  • Round size: Series A $1M–$25M; Series B $2.6M–$30M; Series C $3.5M–$12M
  • Lead/follow: 70% lead, 30% follow
  • Last fund: Likely still investing — fund raised in 2021

Portfolio highlights

  • BeeKeeperAI — BeeKeeperAI is a zero trust collaboration platform protecting both algorithm IP and regulated data.
  • Solu Therapeutics — Solu Therapeutics is a precision-medicine-focused company developing therapeutics to eliminate disease-driving cells.
  • Surgical Safety Technologies — Surgical Safety Technologies delivers data-driven AI technology to hospitals for safe surgeries. It empowers surgeons with an objective assessment of technical and non-technical proficiency using academically validated frameworks.
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Wavemaker Genesis
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Philippines

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Fineqia — Fineqia provides a platform to support and manage securities issuances and debt securities. Fineqia brings investors an information advantage as well as access to lucrative and risk-adjusted opportunities. Fineqia contributes to the ongoing democratization of financial services.
  • Fluree — Fluree is an open-source, blockchain-backed Data Management Platform for Web3 apps. Fluree empowers connected, trusted, and intelligent data ecosystems. Fluree is built on W3C semantic web standards in order to facilitate trusted data interoperability.
  • Quadrata — Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.
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AP Ventures
VC Fund · London, England, United Kingdom · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

AP Ventures invests in pioneering technologies and businesses that harness the unique chemical and physical properties of Platinum Group Metals to solve global challenges.AP Ventures is led by a specialist investment team with proven expertise and a successful track record. We offer investors access to high growth technologies that are developingsolutions to solve global issues.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Energy, Renewable Energy, Oil and Gas
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, France, Norway

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 23
  • Round size: Seed $3.1M–$7M; Series A $3.5M–$23M
  • Lead/follow: 35% lead, 65% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Hystar — Hystar is a high tech company specializing in advanced PEM electrolysers for large scale green hydrogen production, that is 100% sustainable.
  • Immaterial — Immaterial is a manufacture super-adsorbent nanomaterials which can dramatically reduce the cost of separating, storing, and transporting gas.
  • Fabrum — Fabrum offers onsite liquid Nitrogen Systems for the production of cryogenic and engineering solutions. Contact us to meet your requirements.
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Muse Capital
VC Fund · Los Angeles, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Muse Capital is a seed stage fund that focuses on investing in entrepreneurs who are disrupting the consumer space. Since 2016, Muse Capital has operated as a bridge for entrepreneurs between Silicon Valley, the entertainment industry, and the corporate F500 ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • Geography: United States, Canada, Denmark

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 42
  • Round size: Seed $2M–$2.3M; Series A $3.5M–$6.5M
  • Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow
  • Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2018

Portfolio highlights

  • Eli — The women's health company providing lifelong insights from your saliva.
  • Midi Health — Expert care for women 40+. Made for midlife. Delivered by experienced clinicians. Covered by insurance. Book a visit today.
  • Cofertility — Egg donation, egg freezing, and egg donor matching made better. Whether you want kids today or someday, we're in the "family" business.
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Vendetta Capital
VC Fund · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Vendetta Capital has brought together a multi-disciplinary team that has immense experience spanning from investing, portfolio management, and capital markets to marketing and blockchain technology.Vendetta invests in, leads, and helps projects to accelerate developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, andinteroperability for decentralized protocols and applications.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Private Equity
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Belize

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 24
  • Round size: Seed $1.5M–$5M; Private Equity $2.7M–$6M
  • Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • The Unfettered — The Unfettered is a blockchain PC game.
  • The Red Village — The Red Village is a groundbreaking dark-fantasy Play and Earn game, with a team dedicated to re-imagining what blockchain gaming can, and should, look like.
  • Balthazar NFT Gaming — Own Your Game! We envision a future where gaming is powered by the players, not held captive by centralised systems.
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Fourth Revolution Capital
VC Fund · Santa Monica, California, United States · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Fourth Revolution Capital (4RC) is an alternative investment firm focused exclusively on blockchain technology and digital assets.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
  • Stage:Seed, Series A
  • Geography: United States, Singapore, Brazil

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 30
  • Round size: Seed $5M–$10M; Series A $6M–$15M
  • Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • Jungle — Jungle is a new web3 gaming studio. We develop and publish hybrid games that are mobile first and blockchain-enabled.
  • Utopia Labs — Trusted by leading DAOs to streamline operations, manage payroll, and consolidate financial reporting.
  • Midnight Society — Midnight Society is a game studio developing online multiplayer games. It is a AAA game studio and develops community-focused, online PVP multiplayer games.
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Polygon Studios
VC Fund · 1 investments in New Zealand Hardware startups

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

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Investment focus

  • Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Software
  • Stage:Seed, Series A, Grant
  • Geography: United States, Nigeria, Singapore

Investor stats

  • Total investments: 17
  • Round size: Seed $3M–$11M; Series A $10M–$26M
  • Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow

Portfolio highlights

  • MetaZone — MetaZone's mission is to harness and expand the application layer of the metaverse to onboard a billion citizens. MetaZone is the first content distribution platform designed to facilitate the open digital economy. At its core, creators submit Metaverse Enabled Tokenized Applications (METAs) to the marketplace, allowing anyone to own,experience, and deploy them to any virtual world. Anyone connected to the platform can host high-quality functional 3D content on digital lands with the click of a few buttons.
  • Anima — Making the imaginary real.
  • Stems Labs — community and platform for collaborative creativity
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Hardware Investor funding in New Zealand at a glance

Stats across 12 deals from 19 investors.

19
investors
in New Zealand Hardware startups
12
deals
in New Zealand Hardware startups
$2.7M
median round
in New Zealand Hardware startups
42%
lead investors
lead at least one round
25%
Series B
most common funding stage
95/5
VC / Angel
share of investor count

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