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Top 9 Venture Capital Firms in New Zealand in 2024

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The venture capital ecosystem in New Zealand has undergone major growth over the last decade.

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9 Venture Capital Firms in New Zealand

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1) Blackbird Ventures

Blackbird Ventures

Blackbird Ventures is an Australian-founded VC firm that invests in worldwide digital firms.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: Australia, New Zealand
  • City: Auckland, Melbourne, Sydney
  • Started in: 2012
  • Founders: Bill Bartee, Larry Marshall, Niki Scevak, Richard Baker
  • Industries: Enterprise, Deep Tech & Hard Science, Healthcare, Hardware, Education, Consumer
  • Stages: Seed, Early Stage, Growth, IPO
  • Minimum check size: $150,000
  • Maximum check size: $7,000,000
  • Number of investments: 199
  • Number of exits: 10
  • Funds raised: $791,700,000
  • 3 remarkable investments: Redbubble, Zoox, Lifx

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at contact@blackbird.vc.

2) NZ Growth Capital Partners

NZ Growth Capital Partners

NZGCP is New Zealand's government-backed fund investing startups from seed to series B stages.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: New Zealand
  • City: Auckland, Wellington
  • Started in: 2002
  • Founders: Annabel Cotton
  • Industries: Deep Tech & Hard Science, SaaS, Agriculture, Healthcare
  • Stages: Early Stage, Seed, Series A, Series B
  • Number of investments: 155
  • Number of exits: 1
  • 3 remarkable investments: Narative, Kami, Aroa

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at info@nzgcp.co.nz.

3) Movac

Movac

Movac is a New Zealand's venture fund investing in tech companies from pre-series A to series C stages.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: New Zealand
  • City: Wellington
  • Started in: 1998
  • Founders: Phil Mccaw
  • Industries: E-Commerce, Enterprise, SaaS, Deep Tech & Hard Science, Healthcare, InsurTech, Aerospace & Space
  • Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C, Seed
  • Maximum check size: $6,000,000
  • Number of investments: 35
  • Number of exits: 11
  • Funds raised: $250,000,000
  • 3 remarkable investments: Tracplus, Mobi2Go, Timely

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at fiona@movac.co.nz.

4) Pacific Channel

Pacific Channel

Pacific Channel is a multistage investor for deep tech companies in New Zealand.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: New Zealand
  • City: Auckland
  • Started in: 2004
  • Founders: Brent Ogilvie
  • Industries: Climate & Sustainability, Automation, Food & Beverage, Industrial, Deep Tech & Hard Science
  • Stages: Early Stage
  • Number of investments: 35
  • Number of exits: 6
  • 3 remarkable investments: Tasmanion, Geo40, CropX

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at enquiries@pacificchannel.com.

5) FiveV Capital

FiveV Capital

Five Ventures provides growth equity to Australia & New Zealand’s late-stage companies.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: Australia, New Zealand
  • City: Sydney, Darlinghurst
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: Adrian Mackenzie, Srdjan Dangubic
  • Industries: SaaS, AI & ML, E-Commerce, InsurTech, Fintech
  • Stages: Series A, Series B
  • Minimum check size: AU$1,000,000
  • Maximum check size: AU$10,000,000
  • Number of investments: 24
  • Number of exits: 10
  • Funds raised: AU$250,000,000
  • 3 remarkable investments: Automic Group, Carma, Cydarm

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at info@fivevcapital.com.

6) Cure Kids Ventures

Cure Kids Ventures

Cure Kids Ventures is a New Zealand-based investment fund specializing in providing seed funds to companies in the child health industry.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: New Zealand
  • City: Auckland
  • Started in: 2008
  • Industries: Healthcare, Health & Wellness
  • Stages: Early Stage, Seed
  • Number of investments: 22
  • Number of exits: 4
  • 3 remarkable investments: The A2 Milk Company, The Clinician, NZeno

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at info@curekidsventures.co.nz.

7) Aera VC

Aera VC

Aera VC is a sector-agnostic and geography-agnostic VC firm but preferentially invests in frontier and deep tech.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: New Zealand, Australia, Thailand, Hong Kong, USA
  • City: Auckland, Sydney, Bangkok, Hong Kong, New York, Los Angeles
  • Started in: 2017
  • Founders: Derek Handley, Keenan Kwok, Nick Winstone
  • Industries: Climate & Sustainability, Deep Tech & Hard Science, Aerospace & Space, Food & Beverage
  • Stages: Early Stage
  • Number of investments: 21
  • Number of exits: 1
  • Funds raised: $30,000,000
  • 3 remarkable investments: 54Gene, Aqua Cultured Foods, CabriCrete

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at hello@aera.vc.

8) Impact Enterprise Fund

Impact Enterprise Fund

Impact Enterprise Fund provides capital to New Zealand-based businesses with social or environmental impact.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: New Zealand
  • City: Auckland
  • Started in: 2018
  • Founders: Akina, New Ground Capital, Impact Ventures
  • Industries: Climate & Sustainability, Education, Healthcare, Agriculture
  • Stages: Early Stage
  • Number of investments: 10
  • Funds raised: $8,000,000
  • 3 remarkable investments: Tether, Learncoach, CertusBio

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at info@ief.co.nz.

9) Zino Growth Fund

Zino Growth Fund

Zino Growth Fund provides growth capital to series A and series B New Zealand-based companies looking to expand into Chinese speaking market.

Details of the VC firm:

  • Country: New Zealand
  • City: Auckland
  • Started in: 2016
  • Founders: James (Jimmy) Wu
  • Industries: Internet & Mobile, Media, Climate & Sustainability, Biotech, Healthcare, Food & Beverage, Agriculture, Fintech
  • Stages: Series A, Series B
  • Minimum check size: $1,000,000
  • Maximum check size: $2,000,000
  • Number of investments: 7
  • Number of exits: 1
  • 3 remarkable investments: Montoux, Kernel, Parrot Analytics

You can find their website here.

You can send them an email at info@zino.co.nz.

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