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WNT Ventures

Founders Beppie Holm Carl Jones Ian MaCrae Peter Wren-Hilton Steve Saunders

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Total investments 23
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$1M
Portfolio companies 20
Rounds per year 2.30
Lead investments 11
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.13
Exits 1
Key employees 4
Stages of investment
Early Stage Venture
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Areas of investment

  • Information Technology
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Medical Device
  • Computer
  • Software
Summary

In 2014 was created WNT Ventures, which is appeared as VC. The fund was located in Australia. The main department of described VC is located in the Tauranga.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1-2 partakers. Despite the WNT Ventures, startups are often financed by K1W1, Lewis Holdings, Ice Angels. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, K1W1. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Enterprise Angels, Prelude Ventures, LLC, New Zealand Venture Investment Fund.

The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. Comparing to the other companies, this WNT Ventures performs on 21 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Speaking about the real fund results, this VC is 49 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. The usual things for fund are deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The important activity for fund was in 2016.

Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Agriculture, Software. Besides, a startup requires to be at the age of 1 and less years to receive the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - New Zealand. The fund has no exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Nyriad, Avertana.

The fund was created by Beppie Holm, Carl Jones, Ian MaCrae, Peter Wren-Hilton, Steve Saunders. The overall number of key employees were 4.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bspkl

Clean Energy
Energy
$1M06 Apr 2023 -

CarbonCrop

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
$1M20 Apr 2022 Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand

Foundry Lab

$8M29 Nov 2021 Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Periomedic

Medical Device
$690K05 Oct 2021 Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand

Hairsense

$690K22 Apr 2021 -

CarbonCrop

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
$1M16 Apr 2021 Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand

OPUM Technologies

Medical Device
$552K01 Oct 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Argo Navis Aerospace

Aerospace
$690K03 Mar 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Sortify.tm

Legal Tech
$552K01 Mar 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

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Total investments 23
Average round size 1M
Rounds per year 2.30
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 11
Follow on index 0.13
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.22

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Bspkl

Clean Energy
Energy
$1M06 Apr 2023 -

CarbonCrop

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
$1M20 Apr 2022 Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand

Foundry Lab

$8M29 Nov 2021 Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand

Periomedic

Medical Device
$690K05 Oct 2021 Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand

Hairsense

$690K22 Apr 2021 -

CarbonCrop

Artificial Intelligence
Blockchain
Cryptocurrency
Finance
$1M16 Apr 2021 Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand

OPUM Technologies

Medical Device
$552K01 Oct 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Argo Navis Aerospace

Aerospace
$690K03 Mar 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand

Sortify.tm

Legal Tech
$552K01 Mar 2020 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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