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Outset Ventures
Venture capital · New Zealand · Asia Pacific
Outset Ventures operates a deep tech venture fund alongside a purpose-built R&D and incubator campus with laboratory and engineering space in New Zealand. It also runs Momentum, an opportunity fund investing in established, revenue-generating New Zealand deep tech companies.
Invests inAI & Machine LearningIndustrial & ManufacturingHealthcare & Biotech
In its own wordsdeep techresource recoverycircular economyenergyadvanced manufacturingautonomy
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Or find every investor that fitsOutset Ventures lists 29 checked portfolio companies on its own site. Its largest themes are AI & Machine Learning (37%), Industrial & Manufacturing (20%) and Healthcare & Biotech (15%). 57% of its companies are based in New Zealand. It invests most often alongside Icehouse Ventures, Blackbird and Startmate.
No funding round on record names Outset Ventures yet, so the figures come from its portfolio page.
Round figures show recent activity, not Outset Ventures' whole history. Rounds on record name 0 companies; its own site lists 29. 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.
Investment themes
share of its checked companiesThis firmAll checked companies
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| This firm | All checked companies | |
|---|---|---|
| AI & Machine Learning | 37% | 18% |
| Industrial & Manufacturing | 20% | 7% |
| Healthcare & Biotech | 15% | 15% |
| Education | 9% | 7% |
| Food & Agriculture | 7% | 3% |
| Climate & Energy | 4% | 1% |
| E-commerce & Marketplaces | 4% | 6% |
| Consumer | 2% | 3% |
Invests most often with
firms sharing its portfolio companiesShow as a table
| Share | |
|---|---|
| Icehouse Ventures | 11 |
| Blackbird | 5 |
| Startmate | 5 |
| GD1 | 4 |
| Motion Capital | 4 |
| NZVC | 4 |
| Even Capital | 3 |
| New Zealand Growth Capital Partners | 3 |
Investor profile
percentile among all firmsShow as a table
| Measure | Percentile of all firms | Value |
|---|---|---|
| Portfolio size | 66th | 29 companies |
| Recent activity | 46th | 0 rounds in 12 months |
| Early stage | 54th | 0% of entries at pre-seed or seed |
| Evidence | 52th | 0% of companies confirmed by a round |
| Sector focus | 68th | 37% in its largest sector |
| Reach | 78th | 5 countries |
Its portfolio companies
where they are based, and what their own sites showSite status
- Site answers29100%
- 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 Icehouse Ventures
Compare Outset Ventures head to head
portfolio size, rounds, entry stages, themes and the companies both backThree or more firms at once: portfolio overlap.
Portfolio
29 companies checked against their own sites| Company | What it does | Themes | First round with it | Evidence |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Aplenty converts wood waste into clean CO2 and heat for commercial greenhouses | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aquila develops wireless energy transfer technology using lasers to power drones, robots, and satellites | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company produces critical minerals and essential materials locally, including magnesium, nickel hydroxide, and silica, for various industries | Industrial & ManufacturingClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Astrix Astronautics produces inflatable deployable components for spacecraft of all sizes | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| The company discovers alternatives to critical minerals and develops new materials through simulation and lab synthesis. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| Aurogenic has developed technology to recover high-value metals from waste geothermal power station brine. | EducationEducation | Portfolio page | ||
| Ceryx Medical develops an implantable pacemaker for people with heart failure who have no device therapy today | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| CullBeck is developing breakthrough low-carbon iron making technology for the steel industry. | Industrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Daisy Lab is developing precision fermentation food technology in New Zealand. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page | ||
| Dennisson Technologies develops and commercializes a platform actuator technology called AURAFLEX for various markets including humanoid robotics, wearables, and medical devices. | Robotics & HardwareHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| EnergyBank is developing the next generation of energy storage technology to transform the offshore wind market. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| FoundryLab delivers operational advantage for critical industries by deploying automated foundries for manufacturing metal components. | AI & Machine LearningAI & Machine Learning | Portfolio page | ||
| HeartLab provides a cloud-native PACS platform for cardiac imaging, reporting, and sharing | Healthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
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| Kwetta provides electric vehicle charging solutions for fleet operators, including charging hardware and infrastructure for bus depots and truck fleets. | E-commerce & MarketplacesIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| The company uses wild-type unicellular organisms from aquatic environments to make protein-dense nutrition | Food & AgricultureHealthcare & Biotech | Portfolio page | ||
| OpenStar Technologies creates a baseload energy source of the future using the levitated dipole concept, inspired by nature and based on the stable plasmas of Earth's magnetosphere. | EducationIndustrial & Manufacturing | Portfolio page | ||
| Pyper Vision develops and provides fog forecasting solutions to help industries overcome weather disruptions. | AI & Machine LearningClimate & Energy | Portfolio page | ||
| Reactory transforms the spirit-aging process from decades to days without compromising on flavor or quality. | Food & Agriculture | Portfolio page |
About this data
site last read 5 Nov 2026- Site
- outset.ventures
- Last read
- 5 Nov 2026
- Watching since
- 6 Nov 2026
- Companies checked
- 29
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