Strategy
Creating a Better World
The world needs innovation and creativity to meet the challenges of our time. We believe in the power of deep-tech to provide a bright and hopeful future for our planet and its people.
Our diverse team of employees and advisors bring a wealth of knowledge across many disciplines. We actively engage with the organisations we invest in, ensuring the founders receive the support they need to successfully commercialise their visions.
Investment Strategy
Deep-tech is ambitious. It often aims to create entirely new markets that have not previously been imagined. Rather than simply market disruption, we describe deep-tech as transformational — it is daring and ambitious, but it is also capital intensive and risky to be the first person to attempt to change the way the world works.
Supporting deep-tech requires a fundamentally different approach.
Stage
As a multi-stage investor, we invest at different stages with a primary focus on Pre-Seed to Series A. Our approach extends beyond providing the right mix of patient capital to being a long-term partner, providing expertise, experience and access to global networks.
Sector
We invest in deep tech companies focused on commercialising breakthrough technologies in the areas of:
Health
Devices and diagnostics to improve quality, accessibility, and commercial viability of healthcare delivery.
Food
Efficiently and sustainably feed and provide enhanced nutrition to the 10 billion people of the world’s future global increasingly wealthy consumers.
Environment
Efficiently and sustainably deliver, provide and utilise the resources to fuel the world's economy to drive sustainable growth.
Geography
We invest in deep-tech companies across Australasia that understand the global potential for their breakthrough technology. Partnering with these companies, we support them to establish a strong presence in large international markets including the US, Europe and Asia.
Advantage
We look for deep-tech companies that have the potential to scale globally and transform markets. Together with an attractive technological asset, we invest in founders and entrepreneurs who are enthusiastic about execution, not just the idea, and experienced management teams with the expertise to achieve future milestones.
Heritage
TE WHĀRIKI KIA MOHIO AI TĀTOU KI A TĀTOU
E kore e taea e te whenu kotahi
ki te raranga i te whāriki
kia mōhio ai tatou ki a tātou.
Mā te mahi tahi ō ngā whenu,
mā te mahi tahiō ngā kairaranga,
ka oti tēnei whāriki.
I te otinga
me titiro tātou ki ngā mea pai
ka puta mai,
ā tana wā, me titiro hoki
ki ngā raranga i makere
nā te mea he kōrero anō kei reira.
The tapestry of understanding cannot be woven by one strand alone.
Only by the working together of strands and the working together of weavers will such a tapestry be completed.
With its completion let us look at the good that comes from it.
In time we should also look at those stitches which have been dropped, because they also have a message.
Kukupa Tirikatene
