New Zealand investors
Early-stage investor allocating around 80% to breakthrough climate technologies (carbon-negative concrete, atmospheric carbon removal), acting as a first believer through a venture-and-philanthropy platform backed by the Fukutake family.
Builds a large open-source library of playbooks and legal templates for all founders, enforces a diversity pledge to add underrepresented co-investors on leads, and runs a free angel-training program.
Covalent Ventures is an active health & wellness sector investor that provides venture capital to early stage companies. It has invested in a wide range of startups in the health and wellness space, such as medical technology, biotechnology, digital health, and health services. Covalent Ventures also provides advice and guidance to the companies it invests in, helping them to build and manage successful businesses. Covalent Ventures has offices in San Francisco and New York.
Quidnet Ventures is a venture capital fund based in New Zealand, investing in science-based, deep-tech companies that are working to solve the world's most pressing problems. The company is founded by successful tech executive and entrepreneur Mark Bregman and has been involved in multiple investments in the fields of aerospace, robotics, fermentation analysis, and more. Quidnet also focuses on building tools to raise awareness of gender bias and social media perceptions with the help of Natural Language Processing.