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Angel investors ask who is next in line to provide company funding?
The angel investment community is questioning who is going to provide the next round of development funds for fast-growing young New Zealand companies? Angel investors, typically high net worth...
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Movac gets SCIF backing for young company co-investment
Wellington angel investor group Movac has formed a partnership with the New Zealand Venture Investment Fund to access up to $4 million of government funding for development of promising young...
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Robotics company better, miniaturised transmitter basis of business, Jetpack...
Its fortunes took a tumble with the global recession, but Dunedin-based robotic and automated production systems maker Scott Technology is bouncing back. The NZ Herald reports Scott’s acquistion of...
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Kiwi private equity returns similar to rest of world
Well, it looks like New Zealand pretty much matches the rest of the world in returns from private equity investments. Till now, no one was able to say with any degree of accuracy what the rate of...
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NZ’s largest single VC recipient picks up another international prize...
An Auckland-based global company, that in August was the target of New Zealand’s largest single venture capital investment, has picked up an international award. Atlantis Healthcare has unique...
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LanzaTech’s clean technology ticks all the right boxes for rapid global growth
Yesterday New Zealand, today and tomorrow the world…..literally for clean technology company LanzaTech. The Auckland-based firm that uses proprietary bacteria and fermentation to produce useful...
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Angel Association comes out with some ‘New Year’s revolutions’
Angel Association chairman Phil McCaw’s got a big year in front of him – and echoing his daughter’s misheard words, has made some late New Year’s revolutions. His wide-ranging thoughts are available...
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NZ V.C. industry needs more money
From what I gather, the NZ Venture Investment Fund needs more capital input to be able to continue backing seed and start up companies. It hasn’t (yet) made enough of a return on its investments to...
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Startup investment scene in NZ, like the rest of the world, is changing fast
The world of investment in startups is changing, and what’s happening in the rest of the world will soon be occurring downunder. Part of the change comes about because one of the little uncool secrets...
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Should you bother with venture capital funding…the numbers suggest no?
The scramble that many startups make to secure venture capital funding may be detrimental to the budding business’s health. In fact John Mullins, writing in Havard Business Review’s blogs, makes the...
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