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Investment thesis
NZVC focuses on helping ANZ (Australia and New Zealand) founders scale globally. Leveraging deep connections to Silicon Valley and beyond, the firm provides more than capital — offering mentorship, global reach, and long-term partnership. It backs bold ideas led by strong teams across a range of industries, from frontier tech to fintech, united by global ambition rooted in ANZ. The firm views the region as offering world-class talent, a collaborative startup culture, and a history of global success, positioning it to produce the next generation of global tech leaders.
Source: firm website, verified Sep 27, 2026.
Team · 26 people
from the firm's website
A partner with engineering and management experience at eleven Silicon Valley companies since 1990, having worked on Sun Microsystems' UltraSPARC, EDA software, data networking, and most recently eleven years at Google.
Technologist focused on open-source and crypto with prior roles at Singularity University and Kiva.org, and a founding member of SpaceBase.
Early-stage investor and advisor in the Asia-Pacific ecosystem for over a decade and an Edmund Hillary Fellow. Co-founded Xelp, which went public in India in 2019, with prior roles at Coca-Cola and RBS.
Financial industry veteran with 22 years across Asia, Europe, and North America who led equity trading at Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Now an active early-stage investor in deep tech, healthcare, and AI.
Co-founder and former CEO of HUBBA, Thailand's first coworking space.
Experienced leader with interests in startups, clinical trials, biotech, and the Asia-Pacific region.
Founder and CEO at Amplifier, focused on empowering founders and high-growth startups.
Advisor whose work spans performance benchmarking of hardware and software systems (DAWNBench and MLPerf) and computationally efficient methods for data selection.
Advisor experienced in on-demand services, international growth, scaling engineering teams, and content/editorial.
Launched and scaled two global nonprofit organizations focused on education and youth empowerment.
Product-led growth advisor for B2B SaaS focused on modern go-to-market strategies combining bottom-up adoption and top-down sales.
Led the expansion of Founders Intelligence before its acquisition by Accenture and helped build Merantix, a European AI venture studio, co-founding AI House Davos. Now based in Australia, focused on scaling ANZ startups globally.
Angel investor and mentor at Spearhead associated with After School, a teen social network with ~20M users acquihired by Ancestry.
CEO of TracMap, a profitable international AgTech company headquartered in New Zealand.
CPO for Girlup Entrepreneurs and former product leader at Zynga, Meta, and Moody's who led a PM team through Skillz's IPO. Experienced in fintech B2B, gaming, and social media.
Mark Pavlyukovskyy emigrated from Ukraine to the United States at age nine and went on to study molecular biology at Princeton and biomedical engineering at Oxford, working across cancer imaging, machine learning, and neuroscience before leaving his DPhil to pursue tangible impact. A trip to Ghana focused him on the delivery of knowledge rather than its discovery, leading him to build Piper, a DIY computer kit that grew from a dorm-room project to 100,000 units shipped across 70+ countries with an eventual exit. He then co-founded Learn With Mochi, screenless coding toys for young children that shipped 20,000 units across six continents. Arriving in New Zealand on an Edmund Hillary Fellowship in 2020, he co-founded NZVC, an operator-run venture fund whose first fund ranked in the top 5% globally, and now writes first institutional checks to founders in New Zealand and Australia, connecting them to US operators and investors. He also pursues data-driven side projects, including The Half-Life of History, which measures how quickly humanity forgets its past.
Generalist operator across industries including logistics, electric vehicles, SaaS, charity, and investments.
Internet startup veteran with 10+ years of experience who built two marketplace businesses backed by top VCs from Silicon Valley and China.
Seasoned advisor, entrepreneur, keynote speaker, professor, and investor with over three decades of experience in Asia helping startups and scale-ups grow.
Compiler engineer and rapid prototyping expert.
Aerospace engineer focused on building the future of urban aviation.
Built and open-sourced (in 2019) an Android data visualization solution making visualizations accessible for visually impaired users.
Tristan Pollock is a startup operator, community builder, and investor who has built and sold two tech companies and earned a spot on the Forbes 30 Under 30 list. Over the past decade he has scaled a global community to over 1.2 million members and a $300M ecosystem, led 12 global accelerator programs with partners including 500 Global and Google, and invested in roughly 250 startups. He now builds AI apps centered on human connection and trust, advises startups on growth and fundraising, and invests in founders through Cool Climate Collective. He is also developing The Shisharka Institute, a frontier-tech and culture initiative.
Founder mafia
6 people who came through NZVC went on to found or lead other companies.
What they invest in
from 71 of 96 portfolio companiesAI & Machine Learning ×28SaaS ×27Fintech ×14Hardware ×13Enterprise Software ×12Deep Tech ×10Healthtech ×10Consumer ×8
HQs:New Zealand×15United States×14United Kingdom×4Australia×3France×1Ireland×1
Who they back
founder profiles across 39 portfolio companiesFounding team size:solo founder×152 founders×123 founders×74+ founders×5
Where their founders studiedfrom 45 founders with education data
University of Auckland ×5Victoria University of Wellington ×4Harvard University ×3Massey University - Te Kunenga ki Pūrehuroa ×3Auckland University of Technology ×2Massachusetts Institute of Technology ×2Massey University ×2Stanford University ×2
What their founders studiedfrom 45 founders with field-of-study data
Business & Management ×9Computer Science ×7Engineering ×6Economics ×5Finance & Accounting ×5Life Sciences ×5Design & Architecture ×4Law ×4
Where their founders worked beforefrom 55 founders with career history
Edmund Hillary Fellowship (EHF) ×2Google ×2Nelson AI Institute ×2
Accelerator rootsportfolio companies that came through a program
5 founders hold a PhD (of 52 with degree data)
Investments · 96 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathBy year:2026 · 72025 · 42024 · 32023 · 32022 · 32021 · 121 dated
Venu integrates loyalty and marketing functionality directly into EFTPOS payment terminals, enabling businesses to acquire and retain customers with minimal operational overhead.
FintechMarketing TechRetail TechSaaS
JW Roth(Founder, Chairman, and Chief Executive Officer)William Hodgson(President)Heather Atkinson(Chief Financial Officer, Secretary, and Treasurer)Victor Sutter(Chief Operating Officer)in
AIMER offers an AI-driven pasture management platform that measures pasture covers via smartphone scans, partial farm walks, or satellite imagery and provides growth forecasts, feed wedges, and automated grazing and supplement plans.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningSaaSUK, GB
Jeremy Bryant(Founder)
Co-investorsPacific ChannelEnterprise AngelsSprout
Aera offers a mobile app and support service that guides first-home buyers through the home-buying process, using gamified learning modules covering topics like saving and improving credit scores.
Fintech
Derek Handley(Founder)in
Co-investorsNew Enterprise Associates (NEA)NewView Capital
Aleph Cloud provides decentralized cloud infrastructure for building, deploying, and managing applications, including serverless functions, virtual servers, GPU instances, confidential VMs, web hosting, and distributed storage.
Cloud ComputingCrypto & Web3Data & InfrastructureParis, FR
Claudio Pascariello(Co-Founder, Product)inJonathan Schemoul(Founder & CEO)in
Co-investorsBitfwd CapitalToken VenturesTRGC
Andromeda Surgical develops an AI-guided surgical platform that provides GPS-like navigation and autonomous task capabilities to surgeons, starting with endourology procedures.
AI & Machine LearningHealthtechMedical DevicesRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Nick Damiano(Founder)inKartik Tiwari(Founder)inNick Damiano Kartik Tiwari(Founder)Prakul Singh(In-house recruiter)Gaby Falotico(In house recruiter)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesAttack CapitalBBQ CapitalDevice of Tomorrow CapitalEarl Grey CapitalEight Capital+29 more
Appetise is a meal-planning app that generates recipes and smart shopping lists, letting users shop for ingredients online or in-store at their local supermarket.
ConsumerFoodTechMarketplacesRetail TechSaaS
Elise(Co-Founder)Toby Hilliam (Skilton)(Founder)in
Co-investorsArc AngelsBlack Sheep CapitalIcehouse VenturesOIF VenturesOur Innovation FundSprout+1 more
Arcanum AI offers Numa, an AI operating system that connects business tools like Xero and uses custom AI agents to automate administrative tasks such as quoting, reporting, data analysis, sales support, and knowledge search.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSWellington, NZ
Co-investorsAlt VenturesEnterprise AngelsNZ Growth Capital PartnersSnow Leopard Technology VenturesWNT Ventures
Becoming.bio develops robotic systems that sustain mammalian development outside the body, combining closed-loop hardware for metabolic regulation with AI models that predict how organisms develop and respond to intervention.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDeep Tech
Co-investorsLong Journey VenturesMyelin VCTranspose Platform Management
BONNET provides GPS fleet tracking and asset management software for small to medium-sized fleets in New Zealand's construction and agriculture industries.
IoTLogistics & Supply ChainMobility & TransportationSaaSMount Maunganui, NZ
Steph Kennard(Founder)in
Co-investorsEnterprise AngelsAscension VenturesAxel Springer PorscheImperial College London
Bovonic develops automated mastitis detection technology for dairy farmers, using a patented inline milk sensor and detection algorithm to identify mastitis in its early stages.
AgTechHardwareIoT
Co-investorsEnterprise AngelsPacific Channel
CarbonCrop uses AI and automation to help landholders, carbon project developers, forestry consultants and primary sector exporters turn carbon removals from their land or supply chain into an asset.
AgTechAI & Machine LearningCleantechClimate TechSaaS
Nick Butcher(CTO & Co-founder)inJulian Maclaren(Co-founder / Director)Alexey Rostapshov(Co-founder / Director)Mark Houghton Brown(Co-founder / Director)in
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital PartnersTractor VenturesWNT VenturesIcehouse VenturesImpact Enterprise Fund
Ciridae is an engineering firm that builds AI-native operating systems—software that runs core business operations—using proprietary kits, vertical playbooks, and production infrastructure to deploy quickly.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Jack Soslow(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccelAngel Capital ManagementSunflower Capital Management FundAndreessen HorowitzGeneral AtlanticGeneral Catalyst
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Coinrule provides automated cryptocurrency trading bots that execute buy and sell strategies on crypto exchanges without requiring coding.
AI & Machine LearningCrypto & Web3FintechSaaSLondon, GB
Gabriele Musella(CEO)inOleg Giberstein(Founder)inZdeněk Höfler(Founder)inAndrew Salvadore(CTO)
Co-investorsCV VCKube VCUrban InnovationY CombinatorMF SuperfundPioneer+1 more
Cosmic Robotics develops autonomous construction equipment for critical infrastructure projects, starting with solar installations.
Advanced ManufacturingCleantechConstruction TechRoboticsSan Francisco, US
James Emerick(CEO)inLewis Jones(CTO)in
Co-investorsGiant Ventures Global LlpHCVCMaC Venture CapitalTranspose Platform ManagementWSSY Combinator+23 more
Curve Bio builds Whole-Body Intelligence models from its Whole-Body Atlas, a molecular map of the body, to power blood tests that monitor organ health in chronic disease patients.
AI & Machine LearningBiotechDigital HealthDallas, US
Nathan Hunkapiller(Founder)inProf. Shan Wang, PhD(Chief Innovation Officer and Scientific Founder)Ritish Patnaik, PhD(Chief Executive Officer)CHUBA OYOLU(Executive Officer)SHAN XIANG WANG(Executive Officer, Director)RITISH PATNAIK(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsFirst Spark Ventures, LlcLifeX VenturesLuma GroupCivilization Ventures Management, LlcMintaka
Dawn provides digital therapy for insomnia treatment, offering patient-tailored programs delivered by sleep coaches.
Digital HealthHealthtechMental HealthWellness & Fitness
Rahul Shivkumar(Co-Founder)Andreas Meistad(Co-Founder)Varun Krishnamurthy(Co-Founder)in
Co-investorsKindred VenturesAlpha FundsANA Future Frontier FundBalerion Space VenturesCrosscourt VenturesGaingels+6 more
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Deckrobot is an AI-powered PowerPoint tool that generates branded, brand-compliant slides and decks from prompts and applies corporate style guidelines with one click.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaSWilmington, US
Andriy Kryvorchuk(Director)Anton Urbanas(Executive Officer, Director)
Co-investorsAdventures LabFlyer One VenturesPragmatech
Konos Digital is a microphone with variable beam technology and network audio output for film, broadcast, and live sports applications.
HardwareRoboticsAuckland, NZ
Shaun Edlinin
Co-investorsDRONE FUNDNZ Growth Capital PartnersTechstarsIcehouse VenturesJelix Ventures
Konos Digital is a variable-beam microphone with an 80-element MEMS array that streams four channels of network audio over AES67, designed for film, broadcast, and live sports production.
Hardware
Co-investorsDRONE FUNDJelix VenturesTechstars
New Zealand's largest crypto exchange offering secure digital asset trading and services for global crypto markets
Janine Grainger(Founder)in
Co-investorsEnterprise AngelsEven CapitalGD1Nuance Capital
Esper provides hyperspectral satellite imagery and geochemical analysis to identify critical minerals and alteration zones for mining exploration and environmental monitoring.
AgTechDeep TechSpace TechPatterson Lakes, AU
JoeyShoaib Iqbal(Founder)inPrzemyslaw Lorenczak(Founder)
Co-investorsCroc PitchInvestible Climate Tech FundScale Venture PartnersStellarTechstarsDolby Family Ventures
Exosat designs and builds low-Earth-orbit satellite constellations for sovereign operators, offering direct-to-cell, IoT, and broadband connectivity.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningHardwareIoTSpace TechSingapore, SG
Edward Ge(CEO)in
Co-investorsRedbud Trail GroupTranspose Platform ManagementY CombinatorZero Index007 Venture Partners57O Investments+33 more
Extraordinary provides a digital platform and smart card that consolidates employee benefits including allowances, rewards, gifting, and tax-free public transport into a single ecosystem.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechHR TechSaaSWellington, NZ
Steven Zinsli(Founder)in
Co-investorsEnterprise AngelsAirTree Ventures
Finlens is a finance platform designed for startup founders and accountants that simplifies accounting and financial management through a user-friendly dashboard.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSSan Francisco, US
Md Halim(Founder)inFinlens Team(Founder)Saurav KumarRachit Chopra
Co-investorsY CombinatorAccelCloud CapitalFrontier VenturesGlobal BrainGlobal Millennial Capital+8 more
FoundryLab produces metal casting parts for defense, aerospace, and automotive industries using 3D-printed ceramic molds and automated processes, delivering production-grade parts from CAD to finished product in 72 hours without tooling delays.
Advanced ManufacturingDeep TechDefense TechHardwarePetone, Wellington, US
David Moodie(Founder)inPeter Beck(Director)Mike Collett(Director)
BoardVignesh Kumar(Director)inSamantha Wong(Director)in
Co-investorsArc AngelsBlackbird VenturesEnterprise AngelsGD1Icehouse VenturesOutset Ventures+4 more
Poker Skill is a poker-learning app that teaches strategy through interactive puzzles and short guided lessons for players from beginner to expert, with progress tracking, streaks, and personalized learning paths.
AI & Machine LearningEdTechGaming
Co-investorsTRANSCENDInfinity VenturesMulticoin CapitalPharsalus CapitalSignalFireStreamlined Ventures
General Compute provides OpenAI-compatible API endpoints and dedicated infrastructure for low-latency model inference serving, enabling teams to deploy custom and hosted models with minimal changes to existing code.
AI & Machine LearningCloud ComputingDeveloper ToolsHardware
Jason Goodison(Founder)in
Co-investorsFUSEGaingelsMana VenturesPlug and Play VenturesStrategxy Ventures LLCUpper90
HeraSight develops genetic tests for families, including preimplantation embryo screening that uses polygenic risk scores and carrier screening to predict risks for conditions such as Alzheimer's, schizophrenia, cancers, autism, and diabetes.
BiotechDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsDraper AssociatesLong Game
Humata is an AI assistant for documents that reads uploaded PDFs and other files to answer questions, summarize content, and compare documents, with cited links back to source material.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Cyrus Khajvandi(Founder)inDan Rasmuson(Founder)in
Co-investorsGradient VenturesEarl Grey Capital
Hypercore provides software to track and manage syndicated debt funding sources, loan terms, and investor returns.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSTel Aviv-Yafo, IL
Daniel Liechtenstein(Founder)inEitan Frailich(Founder)inTomer Moshe(Founder)inDavid Yahalomi(Founder)inLee Ashuri(Operations and Finance Manager)
Co-investorsInsight PartnersY Combinatorat.inc/ATINCFAST — by GETTYLABGalaxy Interactive+3 more
Jeuneora develops marine collagen supplements, sleep and hormone-support formulations, and skincare products designed for women at different life stages.
ConsumerDirect to ConsumerWellness & Fitness
Kiki is an invite-only, community-based platform for subletting homes, matching members who want to earn rental income while away with vetted guests seeking stays.
MarketplacesPropTechTravel & HospitalityLondon, GB
Toby Thomas-Smith(Founder)inAlexander Nicholson(Founder)Jack Montgomerie(Founder)
Co-investorsBeachhead Venture CapitalBlackbird Venturesa16z crypto
KiwiFibre makes a plant-based composite material used as a regenerative alternative or complement to carbon fibre.
Circular EconomyCleantechNew Materials
Co-investorsStartmate Launch Club
Looking Glass Factory builds glasses-free holographic displays that convert 2D photos and video into 3D holograms viewable without XR headsets or eye-tracking.
Creator EconomyDeep TechHardwareNew York, US
Alexander Hornstein(Director)Shawn Frayne(Founder)inRob(Co-founder)Alex Hornstein(Founder)Lindsey Burrill(Founder)
BoardJacob Lodwick(Director)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesFoundryGaingelsSOSVUncork CapitalAccenture Ventures
Lula offers short-term business funding solutions to South African SMEs through online applications, including a revolving Cash Flow Facility and fixed-term funding products up to R5 million.
FintechSaaSSouth Africa, ZA
Neil Welman(Founder)in
Co-investorsAccionQuona CapitalGreen Circle Foodtech VenturesOutlander VCUP Partners
Lula provides a digital commerce platform focused on handling the operational side of online ordering, including integrations.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesBroad Street AngelsPlug and Play VenturesSOSVUP PartnersGreen Circle Foodtech Ventures+1 more
Lula provides digital commerce services that enable businesses to operate online transactions without managing complex backend operations themselves.
E-commerceRetail TechSaaS
Co-investorsGreen Circle Foodtech Ventures
Marama Labs develops optical spectroscopy instruments for life-sciences research, leveraging surface-enhanced Raman spectroscopy and nanoparticle characterization technology.
BiotechDeep TechHardwareHealthtechDublin, IE
Eric Le Ru(Founder)inBrendan Darby(Co-founder & CEO)inMatthias Meyer(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsBooster Innovation FundNZ Growth Capital PartnersQuidnet VenturesRadar VenturesWNT VenturesIcehouse Ventures+2 more
Markato is a distributor, logistics provider, and brand builder that helps beauty and lifestyle brands expand into Asian markets through offline retail placement (e.g.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainRetail Tech
Brian Lo(Co-Founder & CEO)Martin Li(Founder)in
Co-investorsLightspeed Venture PartnersTranscend Capital Partners
Mass Magnetics manufactures high-performance neodymium-iron-boron rare-earth magnets in the United States from recycled and domestic feedstocks, using a rapid sintering process and machine learning to sort scrap by grade and chemistry.
Advanced ManufacturingCircular EconomyNew MaterialsRoboticsBoston, US
Matthew Groll(CTO)inEric Silver(CEO)in
Co-investorsRedbud Trail GroupY CombinatorAcephale VenturesAndreessen HorowitzDoomers Media LLCFounders Factory+10 more
Miruku develops dairy proteins produced from oilseed crops, targeting the food and beverage industry.
AgTechBiotechFoodTech
Amos Palfreyman(CO-FOUNDER & CEO)inIra Bing(CO-FOUNDER, CAPITAL & VALUE)inOded Shoseyov(CO-FOUNDER & CSO)inHarjinder Singh(CO-FOUNDER & HEAD OF FOOD APPLICATIONS)in
Co-investorsBetter Bite VenturesMovacNZ Growth Capital PartnersMotion Capital
NZ Tech Podcast is a New Zealand technology news podcast featuring interviews, reviews, and opinions on topics such as AI, cybersecurity, and startups.
Media & Entertainment
Paul Spain(Host)in
Co-investorsPunakaiki Fund
Orion Sleep develops smart sleep technology, including sensors and covers, to make world-class sleep science accessible and affordable for consumers.
HardwareHealthtechIoTWellness & FitnessSan Francisco, US
Dr. Michael Breus(Chief Sleep Officer)harry gestetner(founder & ceo)in
Co-investorsBoot64 VenturesBreak Trail VenturesCriticalityMucker CapitalSHORThe Family Fund+2 more
Otago Daily Times (ODT) is a New Zealand news publisher covering Otago, Canterbury, Southland, the West Coast and national and world events.
Media & EntertainmentDunedin, NZ
oVRcome is a New Zealand-based digital mental health platform using virtual reality technology to treat phobias and anxiety disorders.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechDigital HealthEdTechEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMental HealthChristchurch, NZ
Adam Hutchinson(Founder / CEO)in
Co-investorsAngel HQMainland Angel Investors
Parrot Analytics offers an Investment Intelligence System that uses audience demand and content supply data to estimate the financial value of TV shows and movies, projecting gross earnings, licensing opportunities, and return scenarios.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureMedia & Entertainment
Co-investorsArc AngelsEnterprise AngelsIcehouse VenturesNZ Growth Capital Partners
Plots is an event discovery platform that helps people find in-person experiences and meet others in real life, while giving event organizers a way to reach the right audience.
ConsumerMarketplacesSocial
Co-investorsEthos Fund
Positron builds purpose-built hardware and inference accelerator silicon for running Transformer-based generative AI models, offering inference appliances that map HuggingFace Transformers models onto the hardware and expose an OpenAI API-compliant endpoint.
AI & Machine LearningHardwareSemiconductorsLovelock, US
Thomas Sohmers(Founder)inBarrett Woodside(Founder)inEdward Kmett(Founder)inMitesh Agrawal(Executive Officer, Director)in
BoardRobert Reid(Director)
Co-investorsAloniqAsimov VenturesBanyan VenturesCaucasus VenturesCisco InvestmentsFlume Ventures+16 more
Puralink builds the Ferret, a modular autonomous inspection robot that navigates complex pipe networks—including corners, intersections, and manholes—covering up to 1 km from a single access point.
Construction TechHardwareRobotics
Co-investorsNextGen VenturesStartmateStartmate Launch ClubAthletico Ventures
Pyper Vision develops fog-casting technology that forecasts fog over airports, aimed at reducing fog-related flight delays and disruptions in the aviation sector.
AI & Machine LearningClimate TechDeep TechSaaS
Emily Blythe(Founder)in
Co-investorsAngel HQArc AngelsIcehouse VenturesOutset VenturesMainland Angel Investors
PromptWell offers an AI-native platform for healthcare organizations to turn routine member outreach into personalized, timely communications.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthHealthtech
Co-investorsService Provider Capital
River is developing a speech brain-computer interface (BCI) that operates without touching the brain, aimed at restoring and augmenting human communication.
Deep TechHealthtechMedical Devices
Oseh Mathias(Founder)
Robocurve develops open-source tools and benchmarks for evaluating the real-world capabilities of AI systems and robots.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningDeep TechHardwareRoboticsSan Francisco, US
Jay Chooi(CEO)inAris Zhu(Founder)in
Co-investorsInitialized CapitalPioneerY CombinatorAcephale VenturesCapitalize VCDecasonic+10 more
Sahha provides behavioral archetypes derived from smartphone and wearable data, generating stable human-readable labels about users' sleep, exercise, and mental wellness patterns for personalization and segmentation.
AI & Machine LearningData & InfrastructureDigital HealthHealthtechSaaS
Aleksander Dahlberg(Founder)Douglas Macdonald(Founder)
Co-investorsAntlerAura VenturesGandel InvestR/GA VenturesStartup Dunedin DistillerSupermoon Capital+2 more
Sharesies is an investment platform that allows customers to buy and sell shares, ETFs, managed funds, and cryptocurrencies across New Zealand, US, and Australian markets, with features including auto-invest, AI-powered search, and portfolio management tools.
ConsumerCrypto & Web3FintechAuckland, NZ
Leighton Roberts(Founder)inBen Crotty(Founder)inMartyn Smith(Founder)inBrooke Roberts(Founder)Richard Clark(Founder)Sonya Williams(Founder)
Co-investorsAmplo VenturesArc AngelsCreative HQ — The IncubatorEven CapitalIcehouse VenturesRogue Insight Capital+2 more
Simfuni provides a unified operating platform for life insurance companies that consolidates policy management, customer servicing, underwriting, claims, and payments into a single connected system.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechInsurTechSaaSAuckland, NZ
Shaun Quincey(Co-founder & CEO)inDamon O'Neill(Co-founder & CTO)inTim von Dadelszen(Chief Product Officer)in
Co-investorsGD1
Siren Biotechnology develops next-generation AAV (adeno-associated virus) platforms for gene therapy applications, including gene repair, gene transfer, and gene editing.
BiotechDigital HealthMedical DevicesSan Francisco, US
Dr. Nicole Paulk(CEO, Founder, and President)inLauren Kelly(Founder)inSharon Tetlow(Director)Brad Allen(Director)
Co-investorsArtis VenturesAvilaCarnrite VenturesCivilization Ventures Management, LlcGaingelsHAWKTAIL+4 more
Sorcero develops AI-powered intelligence solutions for the life sciences industry, helping companies accelerate patient access to therapies and improve medical research and communications.
AI & Machine LearningDigital HealthEnterprise SoftwareHealthtechMedical DevicesWashington, US
Dipanwita Das(CEO and Co-founder)inRichard Graves(Executive Officer, Director)inWalter Bender(CTO)inClaiborne P. Deming(Director)
BoardOliver Libby(Director)inPeter Hart Callahan(Director)
Co-investorsAlumni VenturesFirst Trust Capital PartnersGaingelsHarmonix FundJanuary VenturesKoru Capital+8 more
Spoke provides mobile-first communication infrastructure for high-value conversations in regulated industries like finance, insurance, and healthcare, enabling teams to work remotely while maintaining compliance visibility and business records.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
Ben Farren(Founder)inKieronJason
Co-investorsAccelAda VenturesBethnal Green VenturesFelicis VenturesGreylock PartnersIndex Ventures+4 more
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SquareOne is a financial literacy app that gives children a youth money account and tools to learn how money works through everyday saving and spending.
ConsumerEdTechFintech
Co-investorsEnterprise Angels
Stickybeak is a consumer research tool that lets teams pre-test ideas such as headlines, packaging designs, and product launches with real consumers before committing.
AdTechConsumerMarketing TechSaaS
Anna Henwoodin
Co-investorsHoku GroupNZ Growth Capital Partners
Sugar Wallet helps UK households reduce bills and debts by aggregating financial accounts, comparing rates across providers, and automating switches to better deals on energy, broadband, insurance, loans, and credit products.
ConsumerFintechSaaSUnited Kingdom, GB
Swan provides infrastructure and education to help individuals, families, and businesses buy and hold Bitcoin as a long-term wealth-building asset.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Cory Klippstenin
Co-investorsKube VCLightning VenturesSGH CapitalTachi.ai Ventures
Swsh is a fan-engagement platform that began as a shared photo-album app for college social life and pivoted to helping artists, brands, and event organizers capture and analyze fan-generated photos/videos from live events.
Co-investorsGame Changers VenturesMaC Venture CapitalZ-FellowsCanaryIA VenturesNotable Capital+3 more
The Fourth Law is a Ukrainian defense technology company that builds AI autonomy systems for FPV and autonomous drones, including terminal-guidance modules (TFL-1) and the Zerov-8 autonomous interceptor for countering enemy UAVs.
AI & Machine LearningDefense TechRoboticsKyiv, UA
Co-investors1991 Ventures
Upstock is a wholesale ordering platform for FMCG foodservice suppliers that automates orders, invoicing, payments, and logistics, and connects suppliers with grocery and foodservice buyers through an online marketplace.
B2B MarketplacesFoodTechSaaS
Philip Fierlinger(Co-founder)inMatt Watson(Founder)inDuncan Ritchie(Co-founder)in
Co-investorsAngel HQArc AngelsEnterprise AngelsIcehouse VenturesPossible Ventures
Vessev develops electric hydrofoiling technology and builds vessels for marine transport, aiming to make water travel more sustainable.
CleantechHardwareMobility & Transportation
Eric Laakmann(Founder)inMax Olson(Founder)inGarry Jolliffe(COO)in
Co-investorsArc AngelsBlackbird VenturesGD1Icehouse VenturesInfinite CapitalShasta Ventures
VXT provides administrative automation tools for lawyers to reduce paperwork burdens.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareLegalTechSaaS
Jack Rutherford(Founder)
Co-investorsTractor Ventures
Wych.io provides open banking infrastructure solutions for banks and fintechs operating in Australia and New Zealand, offering deployable data holder and data recipient systems alongside testing and validation services to enable compliant cross-market operations.
Cloud ComputingData & InfrastructureFintechSaaS
Co-investorsBooster Innovation Fund
Zenno Astronautics builds superconducting electromagnet systems that let satellites point and manoeuvre without fuel.
Max Arshavsky(Founder)inSebastian Wieczorek(Founder)in
Co-investorsAlt VenturesEnterprise AngelsGD1Global BrainNZ Growth Capital PartnersOutset Ventures+1 more
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Andromeda Surgical · fenado.ai · Sep 20, 2026
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Mass Magnetics · ycombinator.com · Aug 18, 2026
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Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has NZVC made?
- NZVC has 96 tracked investments, 1 of which have exited, including 11 dated in the last 24 months.
- What stage does NZVC invest at?
- NZVC invests at the Seed stage.
- What sectors does NZVC focus on?
- NZVC focuses on AI & Machine Learning, Consumer, Deep Tech, Fintech, Robotics, SaaS, Sector Agnostic.
- Where is NZVC located?
- NZVC is headquartered in Auckland, NZ.
- Who does NZVC co-invest with?
- NZVC most often shares deals with Enterprise Angels, Icehouse Ventures, Arc Angels, among 142 tracked co-investors.
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