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Miruku - Investment Notes

We’re delighted to announce our $1.5m investment into Miruku, leading an $8m ‘pre-A’ capital raise with participation from our friends at Movac, Icehouse Ventures, Aspire, Cultivate Ventures and NZVC.

Aspiring Materials - Investment Notes

We're delighted to have led Aspiring Material's $4m pre-seed capital raise to fund the design of NZ’s first industrial carbon capture pilot plant facility.

The ordinary rock we drive on holds a planet-saving secret

It’s used as cheap gravel on roads, but the unassuming rock olivine could also clean up factories and suck a greenhouse gas from the air.

Aspiring Materials: one of 13 chosen out of around 2,500 applicants

The Kiwi startup has won the backing of Bill Gates’ Breakthrough Energy programme, gaining a significant non-dilutive grant in the process.

Ninja Kiwi co-founder Chris Harris joins new VC firm

Chris Harris, co-founder of the Kiwi gaming success story Ninja Kiwi, has invested an undisclosed amount in new Auckland venture capital fund Motion Capital.

Bill Gates' Breakthrough Energy backs Aspiring Materials

The founders of a Christchurch startup Aspiring Materials have been named as fellows of Breakthrough Energy, an initiative started by Microsoft founder Bill Gates.