Massey Ventures Ltd
masseyventures.co.nz Direct investor
Massey Ventures is a wholly owned subsidiary of Massey University that commercialises university research and intellectual property. It provides early-stage funding and holds equity in spin-out companies, and runs a Student Investment Fund.
Massey Ventures Ltd is an investor headquartered in Palmerston North, New Zealand. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in food and beverage, animal welfare, life sciences and agritech. Its stated cheque size is up to $25,000. 16 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“We also provide access to early stage investment to support the development of commercially promising ideas. Massey Ventures also holds equity in a range of companies that have been spun out of the University.”
— Massey Ventures Ltd, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Other
- Headquarters
- Palmerston North, New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand
- Sectors
- food and beverage, animal welfare, life sciences, agritech
- Cheque size
- up to $25,000
- Portfolio
- 16 companies
Team, as Massey Ventures Ltd publishes it
- Mark Cleaver Chief Executive Officer
- Ella Moffat Commercialisation Manager
- Grace Capizzi Commercialisation Consultant
- Dr Sean Mackay Senior Commercialisation Manager
- Dr Ximenita Trejo Araya IP & Commercialisation Manager
- Dr Dan Carlisle Director, Commercialisation & Intellectual Property
- Brad Booysen Student Enterprise Lead
- Terry Allen Chairman
- Andrew Lewis Director
- Giselle Byrnes Director
- Matt Roskruge Director
- Carolyn Dimond Director
Names and roles exactly as listed on masseyventures.co.nz. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Massey Ventures Ltd publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.masseyventures.co.nz/name, hq_country, hq_city, invests_in_geographies, stage_min, sectors, portfolio_count, status, confidence
- https://www.masseyventures.co.nz/about-massey-venturesis_investor, layer, type, thesis_quote, description, people
- https://www.masseyventures.co.nz/sifstage_max, cheque_size
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