Cure Kids Ventures
curekidsventures.co.nz Direct investor
Cure Kids Ventures is a New Zealand seed and early stage healthcare investment fund owned by Cure Kids Foundation. It invests in companies commercialising innovations with the potential to benefit child health.
Cure Kids Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in New Zealand, founded in 2008. It invests directly in companies, from seed to Series A, in medical devices, medications, diagnostics and health information.
“Cure Kids Ventures is a seed and early stage investment fund that invests in the commercialisation of innovations in products and services with a potential to benefit child health.”
— Cure Kids Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand
- Sectors
- medical devices, medications, diagnostics, health information, healthcare delivery systems, biotech, healthtech
- Founded
- 2008
- How to reach it
- Its contact page on its own site
Team, as Cure Kids Ventures publishes it
- Matthew McMahon Chief Investment Manager
- Molly Yang Investment principal
- Franceska Banga Chair of the Board
- Howard Moore Director
- Matthew Payton Director
- Merryn Tawhai Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on curekidsventures.co.nz. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 11 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- NZGCP 5 shared companies: avasa.io, formuslabs.com, nzeno.nz, adherium.com…
- Pacific Channel 3 shared companies: marsbioimaging.com, formuslabs.com, nzeno.nz
- Bridgewest Ventures 2 shared companies: avasa.io, bioora.com
- Enterprise Angels 2 shared companies: marsbioimaging.com, chnnl.app
- Auckland UniServices Limited 2 shared companies: formuslabs.com, ispynits.co.nz
- Movac 1 shared company: avasa.io
- Punakaiki Fund 1 shared company: formuslabs.com
- Ampersand Capital Partners 1 shared company: syft.com
- Icehouse Ventures 1 shared company: adherium.com
- Massey Ventures Ltd 1 shared company: pictordx.com
and 1 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Cure Kids Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://curekidsventures.co.nz/name, is_investor, layer, type, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, founded, confidence, approach_url
- https://curekidsventures.co.nz/about/hq_country, invests_in_geographies, status
- https://curekidsventures.co.nz/our-team/people
Record 8710 · added 2026-09-29 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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