# NZVC

NZVC is an early-stage venture capital firm in Auckland, New Zealand. We write the first institutional check into companies started in New Zealand and Australia, and we invest from pre-seed to Series B.

- First checks run NZ$100,000 to NZ$400,000, with follow-on of NZ$300,000 to NZ$700,000 in the companies that are working.
- 64 portfolio companies are announced. NZVC also holds positions it has not announced.
- Sectors: deep tech, bio and healthcare, ag-tech and climate, AI and B2B SaaS, fintech, and consumer and marketplace.
- TechMates is the NZVC podcast, hosted by Mark Pavlyukovskyy and Hendrik Remigereau. 63 episodes.
- Founders pitch via the address shown in the footer of every page on the site.
- NZVC is independent and is not connected to the New Zealand Venture Capital Association or to NZ Growth Capital Partners.

## Pages

- [Portfolio](https://nzvc.co.nz/portfolio): every announced company, with what it does and why we backed it.
- [For founders](https://nzvc.co.nz/founders): stage, check size, and how a deck moves through the fund.
- [Careers](https://nzvc.co.nz/careers): the roles NZVC has open and how to apply.
- [FAQ](https://nzvc.co.nz/faq): the questions founders and investors ask most.
- [Privacy](https://nzvc.co.nz/privacy): what NZVC collects and how to have it deleted.
- [Terms of use](https://nzvc.co.nz/terms): the terms these pages are published under.
- [Team](https://nzvc.co.nz/team): who founded NZVC (Mark Pavlyukovskyy, Ajay Gupta and Glen Anderson, 2021), why Mark moved to New Zealand on the Edmund Hillary Fellowship, and where NZVC invests and why.
- [TechMates](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates): every episode of the podcast, with transcripts.
- [Press](https://nzvc.co.nz/press): everything written about a company NZVC has backed.
- [Blog](https://nzvc.co.nz/blog): every post NZVC has published since 2020.
- [Events](https://nzvc.co.nz/events): Portfolio Day and everything else NZVC runs.

## Sections

- https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/<slug>.html: one page per portfolio company, 64 of them, each with what the company does, the insight NZVC backed and the press that covered it.
- https://nzvc.co.nz/press/<slug>.html: one page per story, written by NZVC, citing every publication that ran it.
- https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/<slug>.html: one page per podcast episode, with the guest, the summary and the companies it covers.
- https://nzvc.co.nz/blog/<slug>.html: one page per post.
- https://nzvc.co.nz/events/<slug>.html: one page per Portfolio Day.
- https://nzvc.co.nz/guides/<slug>.html: NZVC guides for founders.

## Portfolio companies

- [Aera](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/aera): Aera is a financial app that helps New Zealanders buy a first home.
- [Afterimage](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/afterimage): Afterimage builds AI software for healthcare accountability.
- [Andromeda Surgical](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/andromeda-surgical): Andromeda Surgical builds autonomous surgical robots, starting with endourology, using a software-led, human-in-the-loop system that gives surgeons GPS-like spatial navigation through anatomy.
- [Appetise](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/appetise): Appetise is a meal planning and grocery shopping app for households across Australia and New Zealand.
- [ArchiPro](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/archipro): ArchiPro is an online marketplace for the building and design industry, bringing architects, designers, builders, suppliers and product brands together in one place.
- [Becoming Bio](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/becoming-bio): Becoming Bio is building the capability to sustain mammalian development outside the body and to predict where that development goes.
- [Bonnet](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/bonnet): Bonnet is a New Zealand vehicle and fleet management app that keeps WOF, COF, registration, road user charges and servicing in one place, with reminders and data drawn directly from NZTA.
- [Bovonic](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/bovonic): Bovonic is a Bay of Plenty agritech company that makes QuadSense, an inline milk sensor system that detects mastitis in dairy cows during milking.
- [Carbon Crop](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/carbon-crop): CarbonCrop is a climate technology company that helps New Zealand landowners get paid to protect and restore forests by giving them access to carbon markets.
- [Coinrule](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/coinrule): Coinrule is a no-code automated trading platform.
- [Cupla](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/cupla): Cupla is a shared calendar app built specifically for couples that syncs both partners' Google, Apple and Outlook calendars into one color-coded view alongside shared to-dos, key dates and wishlists.
- [Curve Biosciences](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/curve-biosciences): Curve Biosciences, spun out of Stanford, develops blood tests that map cell-free DNA methylation patterns back to the organ they came from, extending liquid biopsy techniques from cancer into chronic disease monitoring.
- [Dawn Aerospace](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/dawn-aerospace): Dawn Aerospace builds a reusable rocket-powered spaceplane and green propulsion systems for satellites already in orbit.
- [DeckRobot](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/deckrobot): DeckRobot is an AI tool that designs and formats PowerPoint slides to match a company's brand guidelines, running as an add-in inside PowerPoint on both Windows and Mac.
- [Easy Crypto](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/easy-crypto): Easy Crypto was New Zealand's largest cryptocurrency exchange, founded in December 2017 by siblings Alan and Janine Grainger to give people a simple, trusted way to buy and sell digital assets.
- [Elo](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/elo): Elo Health makes goal-based nutrition products for sleep, energy, recovery, metabolism and weight management.
- [Emerge](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/emerge): Emerge is a New Zealand money app that runs a person's everyday account and a small business's account side by side, from a phone and without a branch.
- [Esper](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/esper): Esper Satellite Imagery maps critical minerals from orbit, using hyperspectral sensors that split sunlight into hundreds of narrow bands so a satellite reads the chemistry of the ground rather than its color.
- [Extraordinary](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/extraordinary): Extraordinary runs employee benefits for employers on one platform and one card, so a perk gets spent rather than claimed back.
- [Finlens](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/finlens): Finlens is an AI accounting platform for startup founders and the accounting firms that serve them, built on top of QuickBooks rather than in place of it.
- [Foundry Lab](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/foundry-lab): Foundry Lab casts metal parts from a digital file, using a 3D-printed ceramic mold and a microwave furnace in place of the tooling a foundry needs.
- [General Compute](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/general-compute): General Compute rents dedicated racks of inference silicon to companies running AI models at high volume.
- [Generalist](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/generalist): Generalist builds foundation models for robot manipulation, training one model to drive many different robot hands instead of writing control software for each machine.
- [Gluon](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/gluon): Gluon is a money app built on stablecoin rails rather than on a bank account.
- [Herasight](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/herasight): Herasight provides polygenic genetic screening for embryos created through IVF, combining DNA from embryo biopsies with family medical history to estimate the risk of thousands of conditions…
- [Humata AI](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/humata-ai): Humata is an AI tool that lets people ask natural-language questions of their own documents and get answers grounded in the files, with citations back to the source.
- [HYPERCORE](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/hypercore): Hypercore is a loan management platform built for private credit lenders.
- [Kara Technologies](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/kara-technologies): Kara Technologies builds digital humans that translate written and spoken content into sign language and deliver it live rather than as pre-recorded video.
- [Kiki](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/kiki): Kiki is an invite-only club for subletting a home, and it runs in London.
- [KiwiFibre Innovations](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/kiwifibre-innovations): KiwiFibre Innovations turns harakeke into a composite material that replaces or complements carbon fiber and fiberglass.
- [Lockii](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/lockii): Lockii is rental software that runs a hire business without anyone at the counter.
- [Looking Glass Factory](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/looking-glass-factory): Looking Glass Factory makes displays that show a hologram to a room of people at once, with nothing on anyone's face.
- [Lore Machine](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/lore-machine): Lore Machine turns writing into an illustrated world.
- [Lula Inc.](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/lula-inc): Lula Commerce is a digital commerce platform for convenience stores, pharmacies and other small-format retailers in the United States.
- [MACSO](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/macso): MACSO builds sensory AI for hardware companies, covering data collection, model training and deployment on the device.
- [Marama Labs](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/marama-labs): Marama Labs makes UV-Vis spectroscopy instruments that measure the true optical properties of cloudy and turbid liquids without the usual step of clarifying the sample first.
- [Markato](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/markato): Markato is a curated wholesale marketplace connecting independent brands from the United States, Europe and Australia with retailers across Asia.
- [Miruku](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/miruku): Miruku is a New Zealand food technology company making animal-free dairy proteins and fats through molecular farming, engineering oilseed crops to produce the same molecules found in milk.
- [Orion](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/orion): Orion makes an AI-powered smart mattress cover that senses body temperature and heart rate and adjusts heating and cooling through the night to keep each sleeper at their ideal temperature.
- [oVRcome](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/ovrcome): oVRcome is a Christchurch company whose smartphone and virtual reality app delivers exposure therapy for anxiety and specific phobias, including fear of flying, needles, heights, spiders and public speaking.
- [ParkHelp](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/parkhelp): ParkHelp builds parking technology for cities and property owners.
- [Parrot Analytics](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/parrot-analytics): Parrot Analytics measures global audience demand for television, film, and talent across streaming, social, and other platforms, giving studios and streamers a single view of how much interest a title or piece…
- [Plots](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/plots): Plots is a consumer app for discovering and hosting local events, from nightlife to community gatherings, letting people see what is on nearby, view guest lists, invite friends and buy entry.
- [Positron](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/positron): Positron designs memory-optimized silicon for AI inference.
- [PromptWell](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/promptwell): PromptWell is an AI-native healthcare engagement platform that turns member and patient data into personalized, multi-channel outreach across SMS, email and direct mail.
- [Puralink](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/puralink): Puralink builds autonomous robots that inspect and map underground pipe networks, giving water and infrastructure operators accurate records of the condition and location of assets they usually cannot see.
- [Pyper Vision](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/pyper-vision): Pyper Vision tackles fog, which causes close to a third of weather-related airport delays, by helping airports predict and manage low-visibility conditions.
- [River](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/river): River is building a long-lasting, non-penetrating brain computer interface to restore and augment the human experience.
- [Sahha Health](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/sahha-health): Sahha offers an API that turns passive smartphone and wearable data into digital biomarkers, health scores and behavioral archetypes, with a focus on mental wellbeing.
- [Sharesies](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/sharesies): Sharesies is a Wellington-based investing platform that made share ownership accessible to everyone through fractional investing.
- [Simfuni](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/simfuni): Simfuni is an Auckland company that builds cloud software for life insurers, covering policy servicing, underwriting and claims as well as the premium billing, payments, reconciliation and arrears management underneath them.
- [Sorcero](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/sorcero): Sorcero is an AI and data intelligence platform built for life sciences that unifies scattered structured and unstructured medical content into a single source teams can query.
- [Spoke Phone](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/spoke-phone): Spoke is a compliant mobile phone system for regulated industries, bringing call recording, transcription, monitoring, and business phone controls to mobile devices as well as desktops.
- [Stickybeak](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/stickybeak): Stickybeak is a consumer testing platform for marketers, brand teams and agencies that tests products, campaigns, packaging and concepts with real consumers and returns feedback in hours rather than weeks.
- [Sugar Wallet](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/sugar-wallet): Sugar Wallet is an Auckland-based savings app that automates saving and converts it into 24-karat gold stored in Brinks vaults.
- [Swan](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/swan): Swan is a financial services company focused only on Bitcoin, helping people buy, save, and securely hold it for the long term.
- [Syos Aerospace](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/syos-aerospace): Syos Aerospace is a New Zealand company building uncrewed vehicles that operate across air, land, sea and subsurface.
- [The Fourth Law](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/the-fourth-law): The Fourth Law builds AI-powered autonomy modules and software that let drones and other robotic platforms operate independently in GPS-denied environments and under electronic interference.
- [Upstock](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/upstock): Upstock is a wholesale ordering platform for the hospitality industry, connecting cafes, bars, restaurants and grocers with the food and beverage suppliers that stock them.
- [Venu](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/venu): Venu is a customer loyalty and marketing platform for hospitality and retail that turns anonymous payments into identifiable, repeat customers.
- [Vessev](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/vessev): Vessev designs and builds electric hydrofoiling vessels that lift their hulls clear of the water on foils, cutting energy use dramatically while producing almost no wake and very little noise.
- [VXT](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/vxt): VXT is a communications platform built for lawyers, accountants, and recruiters that handles calls, recording, transcription, and AI summaries, and connects them to practice management and applicant tracking systems such as Clio…
- [Wych](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/wych): Wych builds the open banking infrastructure that connects banks, fintechs and consumers, so financial data moves by customer consent over accredited rails rather than by handing a banking username and password to…
- [Zenno Astronautics](https://nzvc.co.nz/companies/zenno-astronautics): Zenno Astronautics develops superconducting electromagnet systems that let satellites point, rotate and maneuver without carrying fuel.

## TechMates episodes

- [Auckland's Mayor to Founders: "Skip the Valley, Come Here"](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/auckland-s-mayor-to-founders-skip-the-valley-come-here), with Wayne Brown, Mayor of Auckland, 17 August 2026
- [In 5 Years, Every Kid Will Have an AI Teacher](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/in-5-years-every-kid-will-have-an-ai-teacher), with Arash Tayebi of Kara Technologies, Penelope Barton of Crimson Global Academy, Jamie Beaton of Crimson Education & Finn Puklowski of Fluency Academy, 21 July 2026
- [Data Centers in Space, 5 Years Away?](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/data-centers-in-space-5-years-away), with Max Arshavsky, CEO of Zenno Astronautics, 1 July 2026
- [Could NZ Birth the Next SpaceX? Dawn Aerospace Closes Series B](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/could-nz-birth-the-next-spacex-dawn-aerospace-closes-series-b), with Stefan Powell, CEO of Dawn Aerospace, 16 June 2026
- [Why VC Funds Are Suddenly Pouring Billions Into Defense](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/why-vc-funds-are-suddenly-pouring-billions-into-defense), with Vu Tran, David Moodie & James Pinner, 1 June 2026
- [What Happens When AI Listens to Sick Pigs for Six Days Straight?](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/what-happens-when-ai-listens-to-sick-pigs-for-six-days-straight), with Saba Samiei, CEO of MACSO, 17 May 2026
- [The Startup Powering ANZ's Open Banking Moment](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/the-startup-powering-anz-s-open-banking-moment), with Dermot Butterfield, CEO of Wych, 6 May 2026
- [How to Hit #1 on the App Store with a $0 Marketing Budget](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-to-hit-1-on-the-app-store-with-a-0-marketing-budget), with Steph Kennard, Bonnet, 27 April 2026
- [Inside the Startups Bringing AI to the Physical World](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/inside-the-startups-bringing-ai-to-the-physical-world), with David Inggs, Nick Damiano & Harrison Crowe-Maxwell, 20 April 2026
- [Meet the Founders Disrupting Australia & NZ's Banking Monopolies](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/meet-the-founders-disrupting-australia-nz-s-banking-monopolies), with Dominic Pym, Dermot Butterfield & Leighton Roberts, 13 April 2026
- [Why Brand Is the Only Moat Left in SaaS](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/why-brand-is-the-only-moat-left-in-saas), with Simon Pound, 30 March 2026
- [The Secret Space Revolution in Australia & New Zealand](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/the-secret-space-revolution-in-australia-new-zealand), with Stefan Powell, Shoaib Iqbal and Billy Jeremijenko, 18 March 2026
- [From Advising HBO's Silicon Valley to Selling Startups to Big Tech](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/from-advising-hbo-s-silicon-valley-to-selling-startups-to-big-tech), with Andrew J. Nash, 9 March 2026
- [How to Deploy $5 Billion in New Zealand's New Wave of Tech Startups](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-to-deploy-5-billion-in-new-zealand-s-new-wave-of-tech-startups), with James Pinner, CIO of NZ Growth Capital Partners, 27 February 2026
- [Anatomy of a 2,000x Return: Lightspeed Founder Barry Eggers on Spotting Outliers](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/anatomy-of-a-2-000x-return-lightspeed-founder-barry-eggers-on-spotting-outliers), with Barry Eggers, Founding Partner of Lightspeed Venture Partners, 19 February 2026
- [A Dynasty of Inventors: From the Photocopier to Orion](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/a-dynasty-of-inventors-from-the-photocopier-to-orion), with Harry Gestetner, Founder of Orion, 12 February 2026
- [Scaling from the Edge: NZ’s Global Champions | NZVC Portfolio Day](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/scaling-from-the-edge-nz-s-global-champions-nzvc-portfolio-day), with Leighton Roberts, Co-founder of Sharesies, David Yu, Co-founder of VeVe & Penelope Barton, CEO of Crimson Global Academy, 5 February 2026
- [Born Global: Founding from New Zealand to the World | NZVC Portfolio Day](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/born-global-founding-from-new-zealand-to-the-world-nzvc-portfolio-day), with Jamie France, Founder of Newton Space, Anna Henwood, CEO of Stickybeak & Steph Kennard, Co-founder of Bonnet, 29 January 2026
- [The Robot That Lives in Your Pipes Forever](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/the-robot-that-lives-in-your-pipes-forever), with Harrison Crowe-Maxwell, Co-founder of Puralink, 22 January 2026
- [The Agentic AI Future | NZVC Portfolio Day](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/the-agentic-ai-future-nzvc-portfolio-day), with Bradley So, Principal at QCL, Philip Fierlinger, Co-founder of Xero and Upstock & Lane Rettig, Core Dev at NEAR Foundation, 15 January 2026
- [I Built a Machine to Delete Fog](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/i-built-a-machine-to-delete-fog), with Emily Blythe, CEO of Pyper Vision, 27 December 2025
- [I Hired My College Roommates to Build a $300M Empire](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/i-hired-my-college-roommates-to-build-a-300m-empire), with Jamie Beaton, CEO of Crimson Education, 18 December 2025
- [Fintech Frontiers: Reinventing Money from the Edge of the World | NZVC Portfolio Day](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/fintech-frontiers-reinventing-money-from-the-edge-of-the-world-nzvc-portfolio-day), with Jovan Pavlicevic, Co-Founder of Emerge & SquareOne; Dermot Butterfield, Founder of Wych & Steven Zinsli, Founder of Extraordinary, 6 December 2025
- [Grassroots to Global: Innovation the Kiwi Way | NZVC Portfolio Day](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/grassroots-to-global-innovation-the-kiwi-way-nzvc-portfolio-day), with Nicole Freed, Daisy Lab; Ben Scales, CEO of KiwiFibre; Jeremy Bryant, Aimer Farming & Amos Palfreyman, Founder of Miruku, 23 November 2025
- [He's Creating Australasia's PayPal Mafia](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/he-s-creating-australasia-s-paypal-mafia), with Dominic Pym, Co-Founder of Up and Euphemia, 17 November 2025
- [From Edge to Epicenter: Building the NZ Innovation Ecosystem | NZVC Portfolio Day](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/from-edge-to-epicenter-building-the-nz-innovation-ecosystem-nzvc-portfolio-day), with Shaun Quincey, CEO of Simfuni; Janine Grainger, Co-Founder of Easy Crypto & Jacques Richter, Investment Director at NZ Growth Capital Partners, 6 November 2025
- [Beyond Startup Hype: 5 Founders on Real Difficulties](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/beyond-startup-hype-5-founders-on-real-difficulties), with Shaun Quincey, CEO of Simfuni; Liam Kampshof, Founder of Bovonic; Nick Damiano, Co-Founder of Andromeda Surgical; Steven Zinsli, Founder of Extraordinary & Anna Henwood, CEO of Stickybeak, 30 October 2025
- [Why Big Tech Failed at This Simple Farming Task](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/why-big-tech-failed-at-this-simple-farming-task), with Liam Kampshof, Founder of Bovonic, 9 October 2025
- [He Rowed the Tasman, Then Built and Sold a Fintech](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/he-rowed-the-tasman-then-built-and-sold-a-fintech), with Shaun Quincey, CEO of Simfuni, 29 September 2025
- [Building the Tesla of Surgical Robots](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/building-the-tesla-of-surgical-robots), with Nick Damiano, Co-Founder of Andromeda Surgical, 22 September 2025
- [Exit at 27: Chasing Bigger Horizons](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/exit-at-27-chasing-bigger-horizons), with Steven Zinsli, Founder of Extraordinary, 7 September 2025
- [Healthcare is a $4.5 Trillion Broken System](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/healthcare-is-a-4-5-trillion-broken-system), with Ari Tulla, Co-Founder and CEO of Elo Health, 31 August 2025
- [Startups vs Hype: VeVe's Real Web3 Business](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/startups-vs-hype-veve-s-real-web3-business), with David Yu, Founder and CEO of VeVe, 25 August 2025
- [Ads Are Broken. Feedback Fixes Them](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/ads-are-broken-feedback-fixes-them), with Anna Henwood, Co-Founder and CEO of Stickybeak, 14 August 2025
- [Australia's Most Ambitious Defense Tech Startup](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/australia-s-most-ambitious-defense-tech-startup), with Vu Tran, Co-Founder of Go1 and Black Sky Industries, 7 August 2025
- [Energy's Internet: Beaming Power Globally](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/energy-s-internet-beaming-power-globally), with Billy Jeremijenko, Founder of Aquila, 31 July 2025
- [This Startup Knows What You'll Eat Next](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/this-startup-knows-what-you-ll-eat-next), with Toby Skilton, Founder of Appetise, 23 July 2025
- [Building the School of the Future](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/building-the-school-of-the-future), with Penelope Barton, CEO of Crimson Global Academy, 16 July 2025
- [Inside the Australian Startup Launching Hyperspectral Satellites](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/inside-the-australian-startup-launching-hyperspectral-satellites), with Shoaib Iqbal, Founder of Esper Satellites, 9 July 2025
- [Why Sam Altman Backed This Kiwi Startup](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/why-sam-altman-backed-this-kiwi-startup), with Bob Drummond, Co-Founder of Kami, 2 July 2025
- [How AI Is Revolutionizing Language Learning](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-ai-is-revolutionizing-language-learning), with Finn Puklowski, Founder of Fluency Academy, 23 June 2025
- [Dairy Without Cows: The Science Changing Food Forever](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/dairy-without-cows-the-science-changing-food-forever), with Irina Miller, Founder of Daisy Lab, 16 June 2025
- [Why Fusion Energy is Closer Than Ever](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/why-fusion-energy-is-closer-than-ever), with Ratu Mataira, Founder and CEO of OpenStar, 7 June 2025
- [Inside Blue Origin's Latest Space Trip](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/inside-blue-origin-s-latest-space-trip), with Mark Rocket, CEO of Kea Aerospace, 4 June 2025
- [How I Built & Sold NZ's #1 Crypto Startup](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-i-built-sold-nz-s-1-crypto-startup), with Janine Grainger, Founder and CEO of Easy Crypto, 28 May 2025
- [First Kiwi in Space](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/first-kiwi-in-space), with Mark Rocket, CEO of Kea Aerospace, 21 May 2025
- [Can AI Really Fix Academic Research?](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/can-ai-really-fix-academic-research), with Axton Pitt, Founder of Litmaps, 13 May 2025
- [From $50 to Millions: Investing Tips I Wish I Had at 17](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/from-50-to-millions-investing-tips-i-wish-i-had-at-17), with Leighton Roberts, Co-CEO of Sharesies, 6 May 2025
- [How Bitcoin Mining Could Save the Planet](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-bitcoin-mining-could-save-the-planet), with Daniel Batten, Climate Tech Investor and Startup Coach, 23 April 2025
- [How This Young Founder Beat Elon Musk](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-this-young-founder-beat-elon-musk), with Stefan Powell, CEO and CTO of Dawn Aerospace, 16 April 2025
- [How I Sold My Robotics Startup](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-i-sold-my-robotics-startup), with David Inggs, Co-Founder of Rocos, 3 April 2025
- [America's Secret Weapon Against China? A New Zealand Startup](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/america-s-secret-weapon-against-china-a-new-zealand-startup), with David Moodie, Founder of Foundry Lab, 27 March 2025
- [What It Takes to Build a Tech Unicorn from New Zealand](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/what-it-takes-to-build-a-tech-unicorn-from-new-zealand), with Philip Fierlinger, Co-Founder of Xero and Upstock, 18 March 2025
- [Why I Left Silicon Valley for New Zealand: A Tech Founder's Journey](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/why-i-left-silicon-valley-for-new-zealand-a-tech-founder-s-journey), with Philip Fierlinger, Co-Founder of Xero and Upstock, 14 March 2025
- [TechMates News: AI Tutors, Environmental Innovation & Financial Independence in New Zealand](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/techmates-news-ai-tutors-environmental-innovation-financial-independence-in-new-zealand), with Mark Pavlyukovskyy & Hendrik Remigereau, Hosts of TechMates, 11 March 2025
- [He Flunked School, Now Runs a Multi-Million Business](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/he-flunked-school-now-runs-a-multi-million-business), with Luke Campbell, Founder of VXT, 2 March 2025
- [How to Get Investors to Say YES](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-to-get-investors-to-say-yes), with Sam Kim, Founder of Zerobase, 21 February 2025
- [How to Electrify Space](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-to-electrify-space), with Max Arshavsky, Founder of Zenno Astronautics, 14 February 2025
- [Kiwi Startup Builds a Bank](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/kiwi-startup-builds-a-bank), with Jovan Pavlicevic, CEO of Emerge, 6 February 2025
- [The Secret Hack for Happy Couples](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/the-secret-hack-for-happy-couples), with Erika Palmer, Co-Founder of Cupla, 30 January 2025
- [How do They Turn Plants into Cars?](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/how-do-they-turn-plants-into-cars), with Ben Scales, CEO of KiwiFibre, 24 January 2025
- [Flying Boats: the Future of Moving on Water](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/flying-boats-the-future-of-moving-on-water), with Eric Laakmann, CEO of Vessev, 16 January 2025
- [Translating the World's Content into Sign Language with AI](https://nzvc.co.nz/techmates/translating-the-world-s-content-into-sign-language-with-ai), with Arash Tayebi, Co-Founder of Kara Technologies, 10 January 2025