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Alt Ventures
Venture capital · New Zealand · Asia Pacific
Alt Ventures is a New Zealand venture firm that runs a Gaming Venture Fund for game studios and technology businesses, and a separate fund for pre-Seed and Seed stage tech startups. It uses a model of shorter investment window funds and has raised two funds since 2019.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsgamingcreative mediatechnologypre-seedseed
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Or find every investor that fitsAlt Ventures lists 9 checked portfolio companies on its own site and is named in 1 funding round. Its most frequent entry is Seed, 100% of the companies with a known first round. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (31%), Healthcare & Biotech (19%) and Media & Entertainment (13%). 50% of its companies are based in United States. It invests most often alongside New Zealand Growth Capital Partners, Bessemer Venture Partners and WNT Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Alt Ventures, 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 roundShow as a table
| Value | |
|---|---|
| Pre-seed | 0% |
| Seed | 100% |
| Series A | 0% |
| Series B | 0% |
| 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 | 0 | 0 |
| '26 | 1 | 0 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 19th | 9 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 56th | 31% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 42th | 2 countries |
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 31% | 18% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 19% | 15% |
| Media & Entertainment | 13% | 4% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 6% | 7% |
| Real Estate & Construction | 6% | 3% |
| Enterprise Software | 6% | 8% |
| Cybersecurity | 6% | 4% |
| Consumer | 6% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| New Zealand Growth Capital Partners | 4 |
| Bessemer Venture Partners | 2 |
| WNT Ventures | 2 |
| 33N Ventures | 1 |
| AIX Ventures | 1 |
| Black Nova Venture Capital | 1 |
| Bright Pixel Capital | 1 |
| GD1 | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers9100%
- 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.
Co-investor network
who it backs companies with, and who they back togetherAll co-investors or Compare portfolios with New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
Compare Alt Ventures 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 Alt Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 6 May 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Alt Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Alt Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
9 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Arcanum provides an AI operating system for small and medium-sized businesses in various industries, including construction, manufacturing, and professional services, to automate administrative tasks and connect existing tools. | AI & Machine LearningEnterprise Software | Portfolio page | ||
| Goodair Nosebuds produces nasal decongestion devices that use gentle humming to stimulate nasal passages and clear mucus. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Hemisphere Digital provides a location intelligence platform to help businesses make better decisions with location data | Media & EntertainmentConsumer | Portfolio page | ||
| Illoca brings agentic AI to 3D design, transforming sketches, images, and prompts into editable, parametric models. | AI & Machine LearningMedia & Entertainment | May 2026Seed | Funding round | |
| Koordinates provides a platform for storing, browsing, and sharing spatial data | Healthcare & BiotechReal Estate & Construction | Portfolio page | ||
| Portainer provides a centralized multi-cluster management platform for Kubernetes | Industrial & ManufacturingAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Sandfly Security provides an agentless Linux endpoint detection and response solution for critical systems | Cybersecurity | Portfolio page | ||
| Storbie provides a pharmacy operating cloud with solutions for bookings, retail, and AI | Healthcare & BiotechE-commerce & Marketplaces | Portfolio page | ||
| The company develops superconducting systems for space, including magnetic technologies for spacecraft positioning, radiation shielding, and electromagnetic acceleration systems. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- altventures.nz
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 6 May 2026
- Companies checked
- 9
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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