| Date | Title | Description |
| 28.02.2024 | Movac Sales Jam | Building on the momentum of our successful Movac Disruptive Marketing Jam held in November 2023, thi... |
| 12.12.2023 | Movac Camp 2023 |
Earlier last month, we hosted our second Movac Camp as part of the Leadership Chapter of our Commu... |
| 11.12.2023 | Movac Disruptive Marketing Jam | On Wednesday the 1st of November, Movac hosted the inaugural Movac Disruptive Marketing Jam. The eve... |
| 05.10.2023 | Investment notes - Wellumio and B.Spkl | We are excited to announce Movac Emerge Fund 4’s first two investments – Wellumio and B.Spkl.
What ... |
| 22.09.2023 | Investment notes - LawVu | We are excited to announce Movac Growth Fund 6’s first investment – LawVu.
Movac is leading the com... |
| 21.03.2023 | The 2023 Customer Success Chapter
Meet Kirsty
The li... | Throughout 2023, we at Movac will be hosting the Movac Operating Chapters. These programs have been ... |
| 16.03.2023 | Resource: SaaS Metrics 101 and 102 slides | These sessions form part of our Movac Execution Chapter 2023 curriculum. For more on the purpose of ... |
| 09.03.2023 | Introducing...the Execution Chapter
EXECUTION MATTERS, es... | Throughout 2023, we at Movac will be hosting the Movac Operating Chapters. These programs have been ... |
| 08.03.2023 | Introducing...the Engineering Chapter
The Engineering Cha... | Throughout 2023, we at Movac will be hosting the Movac Operating Chapters. These programs have been ... |
| 14.02.2023 | The 2023 Sales & Marketing Chapter
Meet Serge
The li... | Throughout 2023, we at Movac will be hosting the Movac Operating Chapters. These programs have been ... |
| 30.11.2022 | Movac Camp |
Last month we launched “Movac Camp”, an annual getaway for portfolio CEOs to reflect and connect... |
| 17.08.2022 | Investment notes - Kry10 | Movac is pleased to announce it has led the seed investment in Kry10 along with NZGCP and K1W1. Kry1... |
| 13.07.2022 | Introducing...the Sales & Marketing Chapter
The line-... | Workshop #1: A crash course in PR – Sian Church and the team at Sling & Stone
The Chapter is of... |
| 13.07.2022 | Introducing...the Customer Success Chapter
Meet Kirst... | Throughout 2023, we at Movac will be hosting the Movac Operating Chapters. These programs have been ... |
| 13.07.2022 | Introducing...the Sales & Marketing Chapter
Meet Serg... | Throughout 2023, we at Movac will be hosting the Movac Operating Chapters. These programs have been ... |
| 13.07.2022 | Introducing...the Customer Success Chapter
The line-up: | Workshop 1: Critical Stages of the Customer Experience – Kirsty Traill
Agenda: Practical guidance o... |
| 07.07.2022 | Investment notes - ZeroJet | We are delighted to announce our lead investment in ZeroJet’s Series A round.
Late last year we wer... |
| 24.03.2022 | Investment notes - Miruku | Movac is excited to announce our lead deep-tech investment in Miruku, an alternative protein company... |
| 15.03.2022 | Investment notes - Tectrax | Movac is excited to announce our investment in Tectrax. Tectrax has developed an electronic amphibio... |
| 10.03.2022 | Introducing a Paid Parental Leave Policy | Given the widespread introduction of paid parental leave policies across large NZ employers, now is ... |
| 02.03.2022 | Investment notes - Alimetry | We are excited to announce Movac Fund 5’s investment in Alimetry. Movac led the company’s heavily ov... |
| 20.12.2021 | The Upside-Down Year | 2020 was pretty exceptional. We were confronted by a global pandemic that we were unprepared for. Af... |
| 09.12.2021 | Investment Notes - Auror | We are excited to announce Movac Fund 5’s investment in Auror. Movac led the company’s $30m Series B... |
| 30.09.2021 | Five in Five - Ian White | It’s always a tough question to answer, but I prefer to start with who I am, rather than how I got t... |
| 27.09.2021 | Investment Notes #9 - Evnex | We are excited to announce Evnex as Movac’s 9th investment for Fund 5. Evnex has developed an intell... |
| 21.09.2021 | Investment Notes #8 - Open | We are excited to announce Movac Fund 5’s eighth investment – Open Insurance. Movac is leading the c... |
| 26.08.2021 | Dawn Aerospace - Spaceplane Flight Testing Commences | Movac Fund 5 portfolio company Dawn Aerospace has conducted five flights of the company’s Mk-II Auro... |
| 03.08.2021 | Investment Notes #7 - Dawn Aerospace | At Movac one of our values is “Open and Curious”. We needed this in our first meetings with James an... |
| 30.07.2021 | Exit Notes - Timely | Ryan Baker and Andrew Schofield (Scoff) were third-time founders when they started Timely in 2012. B... |
| 27.07.2021 | Exit Notes - Vend | Shortly after the first iPad came out, Vaughan Fergusson recognised the opportunity to leverage the ... |
| 17.06.2021 | Five in Five - Kirsty Traill | We are going to spend five minutes extracting five interesting pieces of information from a founder,... |
| 02.06.2021 | Techweek 2021 - Movac Interview Series |
Join Movac’s conversation with Mohan Nair. Mohan was the Chief Innovation Officer for Cambia Healt... |
| 28.04.2021 | FIVE IN FIVE - Serge van Dam | We are going to spend five minutes extracting five interesting pieces of information from a founder,... |
| 07.04.2021 | Investment Notes #6 - Tradify | We are excited to announce Movac Fund 5’s sixth investment – Tradify. Movac is leading the $10m Seri... |
| 29.01.2021 | Five in Five - Jeremy Ginsburg | Each month we grab five interesting pieces of information for a five minute read from a founder, tho... |
| 29.01.2021 | Five in Five - Jeremy Ginsberg | Each month we grab five interesting pieces of information for a five minute read from a founder, tho... |
| 26.01.2021 | Investment Notes #5 - Myia Health | We are excited to announce Movac has led the Series A bridge investment in Myia Health. Myia Health ... |
| 21.12.2020 | 2020: That was tough | How do you even start to describe 2020?
We’re deeply conscious of the privilege that we have to liv... |
| 10.12.2020 | Investment Notes #4 - Mint Innovation | We are excited to announce Movac Fund 5’s fourth investment – Mint Innovation. Movac led the $20m Se... |
| 04.12.2020 | The Movac Digest #1
The Movac Digest #1 | Hey there!
Welcome to the first edition of the Movac Digest – a regular newsletter to fill you in o... |
| 04.12.2020 | Exit Notes - Unleashed | Exit Notes – Unleashed
Our journey with Gareth and Unleashed began some years before we invested. A... |
| 03.12.2020 | Five in Five - Andrew (Tokes) Tokeley | Each month we spend five minutes extracting five interesting pieces of information from a founder, t... |
| 29.10.2020 | Investment Notes #3 - Solve | We are excited to announce our seed investment in Solve. Solve provides enterprises with a real-time... |
| 22.10.2020 | Investment Notes #2 - Portainer | We are excited to announce our seed investment in Portainer.io. Portainer provides an operational to... |
| 20.10.2020 | Investment Notes #1 - Yabble | Welcome to Movac Fund 5.
We are particularly excited about this fund – it’s got a broader mandate t... |
| 25.06.2020 | Stepping up | Excited to share the news today that we’re super-charging the Movac team for Fund 5. We’re adding ca... |
| 19.05.2020 | Building Back, Bigger and Better | This week we start our contribution to the rebuild of the Aotearoa New Zealand economy. Movac’s part... |
| 06.05.2020 | Movac invests $5m into TracPlus to fund expansion and an acq... | Movac has successfully closed a significant funding round, investing $5m into TracPlus.
TracPlus of... |
| 15.04.2020 | Humbled and Inspired | Like many, I have been truly humbled and inspired by the way that New Zealanders, across the country... |
| 08.04.2020 | Movac invests in Revolution Fibres to scale global growth | 8th April 2020
Pictured: Chair Andrew Turnbull
Auckland-based Revolution Fibres has raised $6m in ... |
| 25.03.2020 | In the trenches | Jeez these are challenging times. I don’t know about you but my anxiety levels have been through the... |
| 28.01.2020 | Step Change – being bold to achieve success | Movac Operating Partner Serge van Dam
28th January 2020
There’s a classic Kiwi cookbook – Edmonds ... |
| 06.12.2019 | Innovation Moats. What are they & why are they important... | Movac Partner David Beard
10th December 2019
New Zealand tech businesses are sailing against three... |
| 31.10.2019 | Olympic rower to Venture Capital Investment Analyst | Movac Investment Analyst Peter Taylor
31st October 2019
My desk at Movac overlooking Courtenay Pla... |
| 16.10.2019 | Movac submission to the "Policy Statement on the Ventur... | Below is our submission to MBIE on the “Policy Statement on the Venture Capital Fund Act”. We electe... |
| 30.09.2019 | It's not a pitch, it's a conversation: The Art of Raising Ca... | Movac Partner – Mark Vivian
30th September 2019
Seeking out capital can be a lonely and frustratin... |
| 27.08.2019 | When is your business ready for Series A funding? | Movac Investment Director – Jason Graham
30 August 2019
Series A is the lingo we use to describe c... |
| 31.07.2019 | What drives Movac and founding partner Phil McCaw | 31 July 2019
It was an exciting time back in 1998. No one quite knew what a force the internet woul... |
| 31.12.2017 | 2017, a break-out year | As I reflect on the close to 2017 it’s certainly been a big year for Movac, our investors and the ea... |
| 26.05.2017 | FUNdraising | Every 4-5 years, professional fund managers like us get the opportunity to raise a new fund, assumin... |
| 16.05.2017 | Is future of NZVIF...NZVIF2.0? | The NZVIF programme was set-up to catalyse a venture capital industry in New Zealand. It’s had some ... |
| 05.04.2017 | TechWeek'17 Event: Demystifying the Series A & B Investm... | Have you ever wondered how venture and growth capital investors come to the decision on whether to i... |
| 16.03.2017 | NZ Innovation Inc - Are we there yet?
Innovation (A+)
Exec... | I get asked fairly frequently for my thoughts on the New Zealand innovation ecosystem. Given the big... |
| 02.02.2017 | Learn the rules first | I was recently quoted as saying, I don’t care if Instagram has more users than Twitter. If you read ... |
| 23.01.2017 | Fund 4 - 7 things we're looking for | Late last year we announced that we had completed a first close on Movac Fund 4 with $105m in commit... |
| 08.07.2016 | Make it rain - spending your VC money | This post is the second of three where Movac Fund 4 Operating Partner, Ed Robinson, discusses how VC... |
| 31.05.2016 | How VC Works - An Operating Partner's Perspective | Over the last couple months, we’ve been meeting with early stage entrepreneurs and companies as part... |
| 31.03.2016 | Ask Me Anything | Phil recently took part in an Ask Me Anything for the NBR. You can see the questions posed, and Phil... |
| 29.03.2016 | Movac announces launch of Movac Fund 4 | Last week we announced the launch of our new growth capital fund, Movac Fund 4!
Movac Fund 4 will c... |
| 15.03.2016 | Movac Q&A Sessions with BizDojo & GridAKL | While we are committed to being Series A (and beyond) investors, we often find that our best investm... |
| 27.02.2016 | New look | Welcome to the new Movac website! After a ‘rebrand by stealth’ last year, we thought it was time we ... |
| 01.02.2016 | 2015 - That's a wrap | The ramblings of an over active investor and frustrated entrepreneur.
2015 has been a roller coaste... |
| 20.02.2015 | PowerbyProxi Advances Wireless Power Industry With Resonant ... | AUSTIN, Texas, February 2015 – PowerbyProxi, developer of the world’s most advanced and safest wirel... |
| 13.08.2014 | PowerbyProxi announces availability of evaluation kits for c... | PLEASANTON, Calif. Aug. 12, 2014 PowerbyProxi, developer of the world’s most advanced and safest wir... |
| 21.05.2014 | Silicon Valley veteran joins PowerbyProxi’s Board of Directo... | The New Zealand based developer of the world’s most advanced and safest wireless power systems, Powe... |
| 20.05.2014 | Are you an Office Guru? Located in Wellington? Apply now @ K... | Kaynemaile transforms and beautifies space with its award winning architectural mesh. We’re a small ... |
| 02.05.2014 | Wellington cloud computing company GreenButton acquired by M... | Wellington Cloud Computing Company and MOVAC Fund 2 Investee GreenButton has been acquired by Micros... |
| 07.01.2014 | PowerbyProxi Announces Licensing Agreement with Texas Instru... | PLEASANTON, Calif., January 6, 2014 – PowerbyProxi, (www.powerbyproxi. com) developer of the world’s... |
| 24.12.2013 | Merry Christmas | Oh no he didn’t! Wishing you all a very Merry Christmas, a restful break and a prosperous 2014. The ... |
| 21.11.2013 | Online Independent Film Marketplace IndieReign Partners with... | IndieReign has today announced a partnership with Indiegogo, the world’s largest global crowdfunding... |
| 19.11.2013 | RIP Startups | Brilliant, nothing more needs to be said…. |
| 18.11.2013 | BIMStop closes funding round with MOVAC 3, establishes globa... | “We solve a growing problem in a massive market helping architects and building specifiers stay up t... |
| 13.11.2013 | The unfortunate reality of business...and investment | Unfortunately this Doghouse Diaries image really resonates! Enjoy. |
| 30.09.2013 | PowerbyProxi Announces $4 Million in Strategic Funding From ... | Michael Pachos from Samsung Ventures joins PowerbyProxi’s board
PowerbyProxi, (www.powerbyproxi. co... |
| 30.09.2013 | Samsung Electro-Mechanics and PowerbyProxi Announce Strategi... | Marks first wireless power partnership for Samsung Electro-Mechanics
Samsung Electro- Mechanics, a ... |
| 26.08.2013 | Five essential tips for networking in Silicon Valley | By Catherine Robinson – Director of Kiwi Landing Pad,San Francisco
Silicon Valley technology from F... |
| 18.04.2013 | PowerByProxi closes $5m in Series C funding | TE Connectivity (NYSE: TEL), a world industry leader in connectivity solutions, and PowerbyProxi, (w... |
| 11.04.2013 | Great work opportunity @ Ponoko - Head of Technology | Ponoko is looking for a web developer to lead our technology road map.
This is a great opportunity ... |
| 05.04.2013 | Minimonos launches first mobile app | OK, a shameless plug here; if you have kids, grandchildren, nieces or nephews get them to download t... |
| 02.04.2013 | Callaghan Innovation co-funding enables large herd trials fo... | - |
| 28.11.2012 | MOVAC 3 invests in Kiwi agri-tech business | Wellington investment firm MOVAC has announced its investment in Kahne Animal Health. This is MOVAC’... |
| 27.11.2012 | Telecom Foundation acquires Givealittle | Movac is pleased to report that the Telecom Foundation has agreed to acquire Givealittle.co.nz. Give... |
| 12.10.2012 | Disrupting Hollywood from Hamilton & Wellington | - |
| 19.09.2012 | I'm a VC | Yes this is real with a few too many one line truisms! From the rockstars of the US VC industry.
[y... |
| 11.07.2012 | Fund 3 Finalised at NZ$42million. | We’ve officially closed our capital raising activity for Fund 3 having raised $42 million to invest ... |
| 05.07.2012 | eBus - Senior Developer role - Singapore | MOVAC Fund 2 investee company and ICEHOUSE alumni eBus is looking for a talented senior developer to... |
| 16.05.2012 | Research and Financial Analyst needed | - |
| 10.05.2012 | PowerByProxi's wireless battery recharging world first | PowerbyProxi has recently announced a world first in wirelessly recharging. The video demonstrates a... |
| 05.04.2012 | Little Monkeys take on the world | April 1, 2012
Just one year after coming out of beta, and six months since its UK launch, MiniMonos... |
| 22.02.2012 | Another $7m raised for high growth New Zealand businesses | We’re pleased to report that at the end of last year we were successful in raising an additional NZ$... |
