Investors / New Zealand / AgriZeroNZ
AgriZeroNZ
Investor · New Zealand · Asia Pacific
AgriZeroNZ is a public-private partnership, half owned by the New Zealand government through the Ministry for Primary Industries and half by major agribusinesses and banks, established on 1 February 2023. It makes targeted investments and provides venture support to accelerate the development, commercialisation and deployment of tools that help farmers reduce biogenic methane and nitrous oxide emissions.
Invests inAI & Machine Learning
In its own wordsagricultureemissions reductionmethanenitrous oxideagtechclimate
Your fit with AgriZeroNZ
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Or find every investor that fitsAgriZeroNZ lists 8 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 5 funding rounds, 2 of them as lead. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 50% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (93%) and Healthcare & Biotech (7%). 33% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside Anterra Capital, Breakthrough Energy Ventures and Cultiv8 Funds Management.
Counts come from funding rounds that name AgriZeroNZ, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Entry stage
share of companies by the stage of its first roundAgriZeroNZ does not state its stages on its site, so only what it does is shown.
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| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 50% |
| Series A | 25% |
| Series B | 25% |
| Growth | 0% |
Activity by year
rounds it joined, last 10 yearsShow as a table
| Total | Rounds it led | |
|---|---|---|
| '17 | 0 | 0 |
| '18 | 0 | 0 |
| '19 | 0 | 0 |
| '20 | 0 | 0 |
| '21 | 0 | 0 |
| '22 | 0 | 0 |
| '23 | 0 | 0 |
| '24 | 0 | 0 |
| '25 | 3 | 0 |
| '26 | 2 | 2 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 15th | 8 companies |
| Recent activity | 69th | 2 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 73th | 50% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 100th | 50% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 96th | 93% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Anterra Capital | 1 |
| Breakthrough Energy Ventures | 1 |
| Cultiv8 Funds Management | 1 |
| Elevator Ventures | 1 |
| Mandalay Venture Partners | 1 |
| Melt Ventures | 1 |
| NYA Ventures | 1 |
| Pantera Capital | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers8100%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company00%
- Parked or sold domain00%
A site that stops answering three checks in a row is counted as no longer answering; that is not proof of closure. A site that points to another company is often an acquisition.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 93% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 7% | 15% |
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherCompare AgriZeroNZ head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Recent portfolio activity
when companies last raised with AgriZeroNZ| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 30 Sept 2026 | Series A Led | |
| 1 Mar 2026 | Seed Led | |
| 31 Oct 2025 | Seed | |
| 23 Sept 2025 | Series A | |
| 16 Jul 2025 | Series B |
Round details for AgriZeroNZ
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in AgriZeroNZ's rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
In the news
2 headlines naming AgriZeroNZEach headline is matched with evidence and opens on its outlet. Some come through the GDELT Project.
Portfolio
8 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Āmua supports farmers to increase pasture growth at half the fertiliser cost by recycling nitrogen from livestock | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| ArkeaBio is a global agricultural bioscience company developing a safe, cost-effective methane reducing vaccine to lower emissions from cattle worldwide. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Sept 2025Series A · 2 rounds | Page + round | |
| BiomEdit engineers bacteria to deliver precise, targeted biologic activity to improve animal health. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2025Series B | Page + round | |
| Bovotica develops novel technology to modulate the rumen microbiome of cattle to reduce methane emissions and increase production efficiency | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Lucidome Bio is developing a vaccine that cuts methane emissions from livestock while boosting productivity. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Nbryo develops and commercialises a platform of technologies for genetic improvement in cattle breeding through in vitro production of embryos | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Oct 2025Seed | Page + round | |
| Rumin8 creates cost-effective additives to reduce methane emissions from livestock | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Mar 2026Seed | Page + round | |
| Ruminant Biotech is addressing methane emissions from livestock through innovation, including a proprietary slow-release bolus that reduces methane emissions in cattle. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 7 Nov 2026- Site
- agrizero.nz
- Last read
- 7 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 7 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 16 Jul 2025
- Companies checked
- 8
Rates come from what VCinfo has observed since observation_start. Firms tend to remove companies that closed, so early rates understate reality. A company leaving a portfolio page does not mean it closed or exited. An unreachable site means our checks failed, nothing more.
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