What does NZVC invest in?
NZVC invests most often at Seed and Venture (63% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Deep Tech, Fintech and Health.

New Zealand · Investor
Last cheque observed Aug 2026; 46 cheques on record.
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5 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Venture: 63% of its rounds
Sole investor in 3 rounds, median $10M
NZVC is the New Zealand venture fund that writes the first check to Australasia's most ambitious founders, across deep tech, fintech, health and climate.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first46 appearances
4 rounds
10 rounds
14 rounds
9 rounds
6 rounds
An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
We hold 2 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
Who backs their funds
The institutions that put money into its funds, which the firm then invests in companies.Source: fund news.
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
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| NZVC Fund II | - | - |
| Fund | Vintage | Committed |
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| NZVC Fund II | - | - |
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
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Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
The investors most often in the same rounds as NZVC. A count of rooms they were both in, not a relationship either has claimed.
The latest companies NZVC put money into.
NZVC invests most often at Seed and Venture (63% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Deep Tech, Fintech and Health.
46 investments on record, 5 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Aug 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Vessev (Series A, Aug 2026), Dawn Aerospace (Series B, Jun 2026) and Hypercore (Series A, Feb 2026).
The median round it joins is $3.5M.
Rarely, if at all: none of its 46 investments on record names it as the lead.
Most of the companies it backs are in New Zealand (55%), the United States (35%) and Australia (5%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 5 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Icehouse Ventures (18 rounds together), Callaghan Innovation (13 rounds together) and Enterprise Angels (9 rounds together).
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