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Cure Kids Ventures
Venture capital · Auckland, New Zealand · Asia Pacific
Cure Kids Ventures is a New Zealand seed and early stage healthcare investment fund owned by the Cure Kids Foundation. It invests in companies commercialising medical devices, medications, diagnostics, health information and healthcare delivery systems that can benefit child health, and provides investee companies with healthcare industry expertise and networks.
Invests inHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordshealthcarebiotechmedical devicesdiagnosticschild healthimpact investing
Your fit with Cure Kids Ventures
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Or find every investor that fitsCure Kids Ventures lists 20 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 Healthcare & Biotech (82%), Education (9%) and Food & Agriculture (5%). 80% of its companies are based in New Zealand. It invests most often alongside New Zealand Growth Capital Partners, Pacific Channel and Icehouse Ventures.
Counts come from funding rounds that name Cure Kids Ventures, complete from mid-2025: earlier rounds appear only when they were reported later. Round amounts and full round histories are on Fundup AI.
Round figures show recent activity, not Cure Kids Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 1 company; its own site lists 20. Funding rounds are complete from mid-2025, so counts and the yearly trend undercount a firm that invested before then. The portfolio, themes and places come from its own site and are not affected.
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 | 51th | 20 companies |
| Recent activity | 59th | 1 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 100th | 100% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 64th | 5% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 94th | 82% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 58th | 3 countries |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| New Zealand Growth Capital Partners | 9 |
| Pacific Channel | 5 |
| Icehouse Ventures | 3 |
| Bridgewest Ventures | 2 |
| Outset Ventures | 2 |
| Startmate | 2 |
| BioScience Managers | 1 |
| Bioshore Ventures | 1 |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers1995%
- No longer answers00%
- Points to another company15%
- 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
Show as a table
| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| Healthcare & Biotech | 82% | 15% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 5% | 3% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 5% | 7% |
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 Cure Kids 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 Cure Kids Ventures| Date | Company | Stage |
|---|---|---|
| 24 Jul 2026 | Seed |
Round details for Cure Kids Ventures
Amounts, full round histories and every co-investor in Cure Kids Ventures' rounds are on Fundup AI. VCinfo covers investors and their portfolios.
Portfolio
20 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Portfolio page | ||||
| Amaroq Therapeutics develops first-in-class therapies to precisely target disease-driving long non-coding RNAs in oncology and beyond | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Aroa Biosurgery develops and sells products for soft tissue repair based on its ECM platform technology. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Avasa simplifies microsurgery by providing an alternative to manual hand sewing for microvascular connection. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| BioOra develops and manufactures next-generation CAR-T therapies | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Chnnl provides a digital tool for managing and measuring employee wellbeing strategies in the workplace. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Formus Labs develops AI-automated 3D planning software for joint replacement surgeries | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| ISpyNits sells products to help remove head lice, including a two-step system of spotting and treating lice. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Kitea Health is designing a new system for hydrocephalus care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Komodo provides a data-driven wellbeing platform for schools to make positive and effective interventions for their students | EducationHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Mars Bioimaging Ltd develops and provides ultra-high resolution medical imaging technology using photon-counting CT scanners. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Noted provides online case management for health and social care | Healthcare & BiotechEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| NZeno supplies pigs suitable as a source of kidneys for humans who need a kidney transplant. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | |||
| RespirAq develops and manufactures a compact active humidifier system for respiratory care | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Syft provides real-time trace gas analysis solutions using SIFT-MS technology | Industrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company pioneers the future of dairy for good and produces dairy nutritional products | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| The Clinician captures patient-reported outcomes and turns them into outcomes data for clinicians and health systems to act on. | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| The company provides products and services for intestinal failure, rehabilitation, and function testing and maintenance | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| Wellumio develops a portable brain imaging solution for acute stroke care. | Healthcare & Biotech | Jul 2026Seed | Page + round |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- curekidsventures.co.nz
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Rounds since
- 24 Jul 2026
- Companies checked
- 20
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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