Partners

Mark Pavlyukovskyy

Mark exited his first company, Piper after raising $15m in VC funding from top investors in silicon valley and the world. He came to New Zealand as an Edmund Hilary Fellow a day before the border closed in March 2020. He saw an opportunity to partner and support top Kiwi founders as they built world-changing companies from Aotearoa New Zealand.

Glen Anderson

Glen led the Applied Machine Intelligence team at Google Brain for close to a decade. Since then he has invested into over 50 early-stage companies focusing on everything from deep-tech to B2B Saas, to consumer. He is excited to bring his expertise in AI as well as broader investing experience from Monta Vista Capital to companies in New Zealand.

Ajay Gupta

Ajay spent 22 years in the financial industry across Asia, Europe and North America and ran equity trading business for Bank of America Merrill Lynch in Hong Kong and Tokyo. Today he is an investor based in the Bay Area where he has invested into many dozen of top early-stage startups across deep tech, healthcare, and other AI-enabled technologies.

Vishal Chaddha

Early stage investor & advisor in the Asia-Pacific startup ecosystem for a decade. Edmund Hillary Fellow.

Co-founded Xelp, a technology services company that successfully went ipo in India in 2019. Previous to that was a consumer tech ceo. Has two decades of cross sector global operating experience in companies like Coca-Cola and RBS.

Rich Bodo

A linux geek who discovered crypto after 2 decades of technical roles at Singularity University and Kiva.org and a founding member of SpaceBase.

Andre Rowell

Andre Rowell, editor and owner of M2 magazines new Zealand, connected to entrepreneurs, and leaders in New Zealand. Along with the great team at M2, Andre leads this high-profile men's magazine, staying ahead of the game with technology and innovation.