Motion Capital
motioncapital.co.nz Direct investor
Motion Capital is a New Zealand-based venture capital fund that invests in climate-tech founders working on decarbonisation across energy, critical materials, food and transport. It leads rounds and describes itself as a hands-on venture firm.
Motion Capital is a venture capital firm headquartered in Auckland, New Zealand. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in climate tech, energy, critical materials and food. 14 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Our core thesis is to invest in companies making it cheaper to save the world, than to destroy it .”
— Motion Capital, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- Auckland, New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand
- Sectors
- climate tech, energy, critical materials, food, transport
- Portfolio
- 14 companies
Team, as Motion Capital publishes it
- Lachlan Nixon founder
- Chris Harris team
- Ralph Chang team
- Monique Cooper team
- Luca Harris team
Names and roles exactly as listed on motioncapital.co.nz. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Motion Capital publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.motioncapital.co.nz/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_max, status
- https://www.motioncapital.co.nz/aboutinvests_in_geographies, sectors, thesis_quote, description
- https://www.motioncapital.co.nz/media/kura-dynamics---investment-notesstage_min
- https://www.motioncapital.co.nz/portfolioportfolio_count
- https://www.motioncapital.co.nz/teampeople
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Record 17134 · added 2026-10-26 · link last verified 2026-10-26 · confidence high
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