The Angels Association of New Zealand held its annual summit last week. Matū was well represented with Greg Sitters, Ken Erskine, and Andrew Chen from the staff team attending, as…
This is the third article in a series by our Research Intern, Odette Lees. The second article, "Increasing the Available Capital in New Zealand", is available here: https://matu.co.nz/2019/09/increasing-the-available-capital-in-new-zealand/ New Zealand…
Congratulations to the five winning teams from the Velocity $100k challenge - Greenshell Spat Co, SpinPoi, Pacific Med Tech, Luxor Astronautics, and RAVE. Matū staff have seen most of these…
Blackbird Ventures, a venture capital fund based primarily in Australia, has just opened their Auckland offices last week. This was alongside a successful Sunrise event that attracted hundreds of founders,…
Simon Yarrow has written an opinion article at the New Zealand Herald highlighting the opportunity to target the UK and Ireland with our unique agritech capabilities. Read more here: https://www.nzherald.co.nz/business/news/article.cfm?c_id=3&objectid=12278350
An interesting article on Entrepreneur magazine about the rise of revenue-based VCs, who are making a larger number of smaller bets based on the current revenue of the companies. They're…
Congratulations to the winners of the University of Canterbury Entré challenge, with $85k worth of prizes awarded to a range of students and companies. Really interestingly, there are three joint…