NZVC

Not career investors. Builders who crossed the table.

NZVC is New Zealand's first operator-run venture fund. Every partner has built, scaled or exited a company. We back the best builders in Australasia and beyond the way we wanted to be backed ourselves: early, hands-on, and for the long haul.

Partners

  • Hand-drawn portrait of Mark Pavlyukovskyy, General Partner at NZVC

    Mark Pavlyukovskyy

    General Partner

    Built Piper into 100,000+ DIY computer kits shipped to 70+ countries, backed by top Silicon Valley investors, and exited. Came to New Zealand as an Edmund Hillary Fellow one day before the borders closed in 2020.

  • Hand-drawn portrait of Hendrik Remigereau, General Partner at NZVC

    Hendrik Remigereau

    General Partner

    Led the expansion of Founders Intelligence and helped build one of Europe's leading AI venture studios.

  • Hand-drawn portrait of Glen Anderson, Partner at NZVC

    Glen Anderson

    Partner

    Led the applied machine intelligence team at Google Brain for close to a decade. Has invested in 50+ early-stage companies from deep tech to consumer.

  • Hand-drawn portrait of Ajay Gupta, Partner at NZVC

    Ajay Gupta

    Partner

    22 years in finance across Asia, Europe and North America; ran equity trading for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Now a Bay Area investor in dozens of early-stage startups.

How NZVC started

A traveler with a single suitcase arriving on a new shore

Mark landed in Auckland one day before the COVID borders closed, an Edmund Hillary Fellow with an exit behind him. He found founders here building world-changing companies with almost no operator capital on the ground, and started NZVC to fix that.

Advisors

When you work with NZVC you get the whole network: advisors who are veteran founders, operators and investors across New Zealand, Australia, Silicon Valley and beyond.

  • Tristan PollockTwo-time exited founder; raised $30M via 500 Startups.
  • Danielle StrachmanGeneral Partner at 1517 Fund; backed by Thiel and Andreessen.
  • Cory LevyCo-founder of After School; early-stage investor.
  • Casey Davies-BellCEO of Amplifier.
  • Rohit GoyalAerospace and urban aviation.
  • Dr. Cody ColemanAI researcher and founder.
  • Daria ZhaoPLG and B2B SaaS growth.
  • Rich RobinsonOperator and investor across Beijing and Bali.
  • Sukriti ChadhaAccessibility and data visualization.
  • Conor MyhrvoldTechnology and deep tech.
  • Jaikumar GaneshEngineering leadership.
  • Rob BlanckaertCompiler engineer.
  • Matthew LinnecarProduct and growth.
  • Andrea MillerBiotech and clinical trials.
  • John EnlowCEO of TracMap.
  • Amarit CharoenphanCo-founder of HUBBA; Southeast Asia ecosystem.
  • Matt ChengTaiwanese venture capitalist.
  • Lenka HuangCPO at Girl Up; ex-Zynga, Meta, Moody's.
  • Norbu HeInvestor and operator.
  • Courtney KleinFounder and community builder.

Want to join us? The careers page carries the one role we have open.