Aera VC
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Aera VC is an early-stage venture capital fund based in New Zealand with global reach, investing in companies that aim to create a more resilient future. The firm focuses on sectors such as climate tech, deep tech, and frontier technology, with a portfolio spanning space, AI, and sustainable industries.
Aera VC is a venture capital firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand, founded in 2017. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in climate tech, deep tech, frontier tech and space. 25 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Aera VC is an early-stage VC fund investing to create a more resilient future.”
— Aera VC, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Invests in
- USA, APAC
- Sectors
- climate tech, deep tech, frontier tech, space, AI, biotech, sustainability
- Founded
- 2017
- Portfolio
- 25 companies
Team, as Aera VC publishes it
- Nick Winstone Founder, Partner
- Josh Thompson Partner
- Daniel Tan Fund Director, Principal
- Jiore Craig Insight Partner
- Derek Handley Founder, Insight Partner
- Alex André de La Porte Insight Partner
- Jui Jhala Fund Director, Finance & Compliance
- Roz Turner Operations & Support
Names and roles exactly as listed on aera.vc. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 56 co-investors found.
- Blackbird Ventures 3 shared companies: aquila.earth, carbonchain.com, fablefood.co
- Global Brain 2 shared companies: dawnaerospace.com, twelve.co
- Carbon Direct Capital Management, L.L.C. 2 shared companies: twelve.co, solugen.com
- Lowercarbon Capital 2 shared companies: twelve.co, solugen.com
- Cento Ventures 1 shared company: aquila.earth
- Outset Ventures 1 shared company: aquila.earth
- Pacific Channel 1 shared company: aquila.earth
- Amasia 1 shared company: carbonchain.com
- Union Square Ventures 1 shared company: carbonchain.com
- FPV Ventures 1 shared company: fablefood.co
and 46 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Aera VC publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.aera.vc/name, is_investor, layer, type, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, stage_max, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, status, confidence
- https://www.aera.vc/our-team/hq_country, hq_city, people
- https://www.aera.vc/our-portfolio/sectors, portfolio_count
- https://www.aera.vc/invest-with-us/founded
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