Cultivate Ventures
cultivateventures.co.nz Direct investor
Cultivate Ventures is a New Zealand venture fund investing in early-stage agri-tech and food innovation companies, supporting them from early stage through to scale. It manages the Cultivate Fund, open to wholesale investors, and is an Active Investor Plus Growth Category approved fund.
Cultivate Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It invests directly in companies, in Robotics, Food Processing & Automation, logistics & Storage, next Generation Farms and high Growth Food & Beverage. 8 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We invest in bold and impactful companies transforming the food and fibre sector”
— Cultivate Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Stage
- Not stated
- Headquarters
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand
- Sectors
- Robotics, Food Processing & Automation, Logistics & Storage, Next Generation Farms, High Growth Food & Beverage, Sustainable Agriculture, Fertiliser Management, Energy Solutions, AI & Predicative Analytics
- Portfolio
- 8 companies
Team, as Cultivate Ventures publishes it
- Richard Green IC Chair
- Pratibha Vuppuluri IC Member
- Anthony Edmonds IC Member
- Greg Anderson, PhD Fund Principal
- Marcus Henderson, CA Investment Director
- Jonathan Burke Investment Director
- Mathew Rooza, CPA Investment Associate
- Joshua Russell, CA Investment Associate
- Sheryl Tan, PhD Investment Analyst
- Maia Trevelyan Investment Analyst
- Lee Matheson Managing Director of Perrin Ag (Advisory Panel)
- Maury Leyland Co-Founder of Leaft Foods (Advisory Panel)
Names and roles exactly as listed on cultivateventures.co.nz. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cultivate Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://cultivateventures.co.nz/name, is_investor, hq_country, hq_city, sectors, thesis_quote
- https://cultivateventures.co.nz/portfoliolayer, invests_in_geographies, portfolio_count
- https://cultivateventures.co.nz/investorstype, status
- https://cultivateventures.co.nz/teampeople
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