# Phase One Ventures: portfolio, investments and team

> Phase One Ventures is an accelerator based in New Zealand. 1 investment on record, latest Feb 2025. Portfolio, stages, co-investors and team.

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# Phase One Ventures

Filed with the SEC to raise a fund in May 2025, closing $1M. Last cheque observed Feb 2025.

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Accelerator Quiet Last fund $1.2M, May 2025

Pre-seed Ed-tech Edutech Future Of Learning

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Cheques on record

**0%** of best year **0** **cheques in 12 months**, 1 on record

Since the last cheque **639** days **00** hrs **00** min **00** sec

Median round **$26M** Cheque size, as they say **$25K – $100K** Rounds led **0 of 1**

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## Phase One Ventures highlights

- 01 1 rounds on record
- 02 Mostly Series A: 100% of its rounds

## What they do

> Phase One is a founder community, growth incubator, and venture fund, partnering with New Zealand startups that obsess over their customers and want to change the world. From their own website

- **Type:** Accelerator (from a list, unverified)
- **Cheque size:** $25K – $100K as they say
- **Stages:** Pre-seed
- **Sectors:** Ed-tech Edutech Future Of Learning
- **Based in:** Auckland, New Zealand
- **Cold pitches:** Accepted

## The record

Every round we can evidence, newest first **1 appearances**

- **2025** 1 round
- **Feb** **[Ivo](https://millionrounds.com/company/ivo)** Series A · US · Startup Daily **$26M** With 6 others

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.

## What they claim to have backed

From their own portfolio page (on their website)

**9** of 16 we have independently watched raise

[Aquila](https://millionrounds.com/company/aquila)[Authsignal](https://millionrounds.com/company/authsignal)[Cotiss](https://millionrounds.com/company/cotiss)[Ivo](https://millionrounds.com/company/ivo)[Kiki](https://millionrounds.com/company/kiki)[KiwiFibre](https://millionrounds.com/company/kiwifibre)[Nextwork](https://millionrounds.com/company/nextwork)[Polymath](https://millionrounds.com/company/polymath)[VXT](https://millionrounds.com/company/vxt) Contented Cropsy Extraordinary Pay InjuryHub RingRadar RossOps Venu

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.

Latest fund on file

**$1.2M**

raised in May 2025

From its SEC filing. Nothing newer is on file yet.

## The cheque

Pre-seed

Median round joined **$26M** the round, not its cheque

Led 0 of 1 rounds **0%**

- **Said size:** $25K – $100K
- **Sole investor:** Never alone
- **Last cheque:** Feb 2025

Rounds by stage said on their site

- Series A *1*
- Pre-seed said *-*

Cheques by month Led Joined

Dec 2023 Nov 2026

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## Recently backed

The latest companies Phase One Ventures put money into.

[**Ivo** $26M · Feb 2025](https://millionrounds.com/company/ivo)

## Quick answers about Phase One Ventures

### What does Phase One Ventures invest in?

Phase One Ventures invests most often at Series A (100% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Ed-tech, Edutech and Future Of Learning.

### How active is Phase One Ventures?

1 investments on record, 0 of them in the last 12 months. The most recent was in Feb 2025.

### What has Phase One Ventures invested in recently?

Its most recent investments on record: Ivo (Series A, Feb 2025).

### How big are Phase One Ventures's cheques?

The median round it joins is $26M. It says it writes cheques of $25K to $100K.

### Is Phase One Ventures investing now?

No investments in the last 12 months; the latest was in Feb 2025.

### What kind of investor is Phase One Ventures?

Phase One Ventures is an accelerator based in Auckland, New Zealand.

### Has Phase One Ventures raised a new fund?

Its latest fund filing with the SEC was in May 2025, reporting $1.2M raised.

### Does Phase One Ventures take cold pitches?

Yes: its own website says it reads unsolicited pitches.

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