WNT Ventures team

WNT Ventures profile: Ideas anchored in science

WNT Ventures is a venture capital fund focusing on deep technology: innovations in tangible science and engineering breakthroughs and the teams behind them. It calls itself a “high conviction” partner, supporting entrepreneurs from the earliest stages and connecting them with the resources and...

Supie

The growth in opportunities for female funders and founders

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland has a rich community of female entrepreneurs spanning fields from online supermarket disruption to robotics, aerospace and food technology. For investors, these innovators make an extraordinary talent pool. In the second part of our two-part series on the local female...

Opportunity in the Auckland female venture ecosystem

Opportunity in the Auckland female venture ecosystem

In part one of a two-part series on the vibrant female venture ecosystem in Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland, we look at key metrics and speak with industry insiders.

Circles SaaS

Investable opportunity: Circles SaaS for high-performance golf

Golf improvement start-up Circles is raising capital and looking for investors that love sport, and understand SaaS economics, to close the round in early November.

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Swoop Aero: bringing sustainable, drone-based deliveries to our skies

We talk to Richard Adams of Swoop Aero about its world-proven drone technology that could revolutionise healthcare logistics in New Zealand.

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Investable opportunities in Auckland’s growing technology sector

Tāmaki Makaurau Auckland’s tech sector continues to experience rapid growth and presents exciting opportunities for investment.

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Q&A with Suse Reynolds and Bridget Unsworth of Angel Association Aotearoa New Zealand

We speak with Angel Association New Zealand about the quantity, quality and success of angel investment in New Zealand.

GD1 VC Fund team

GD1: Born in Auckland, Global from Day One

We talk with Vignesh Kumar from Global From Day 1 (GD1) about helping Aotearoa New Zealand’s ambitious tech founders find global success

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Māui Energy set to unlock greater economic benefits for Māori communities on underutilised land

We talk to the co-founders of Māui Energy about their plans to partner with Māori landowners and invest in commercially viable solar farms.

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Specialist Climate Venture Capital Fund supports trans-Tasman tech start-ups that target carbon emissions

We spoke with Climate VC Fund partner, Rohan MacMahon, about accelerating funding for technology solutions tackling the climate crisis. The Climate Venture Capital Fund (CVCF) was set up in 2021 by Auckland-based venture capital firm 2040 Ventures (previously Lance Wiggs Capital Management). Rohan...