Brand Fund 1
Previously Unavailable and Icehouse Ventures partnership lockup

Investing in companies where building brand will be a defining part of their success. Brand Fund 1 is closed to new investors. We are always interested in meeting, partnering and investing in great founders.

Brand Fund is led by Previously Unavailable in partnership with Icehouse Ventures who handle administration and compliance. We back companies with brand at the heart of their story, growth and business. So far the fund has an industry-leading return profile, a top decile fund for its vintage per Carta data.

Current Investments

Making the drink for when you aren’t drinking ‍AF Drinks are leading the non-alcoholic cocktail in a can movement, with incredible ranging in Walmart, Target and across Australasia.
Leading the beauty membership movement Aglow are helping beauty owners have better businesses by turning their clients into members.
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Creating the new category of ‘The Brain Drink’ Arepa are a leader in brand and science, with an IP and clinical research portfolio supporting their mission to help more people look after their brains.
Accelerating first-home buyers to their deposit, faster Aera offer a range of headstarts and incentives to get people to their deposit and homeownership at life-changing pace.
Dairy alternatives without compromise ‍Andfoods commercialise world-leading science from Massey’s Riddet Institute and have what we think are the best non-dairy options in a number of massive categories.
World-leading home compostable kitchen convenience ‍The world’s first home compostable cling-wrap and now full range of kitchen non-plastic fantastic options. Leading their category in Wholefoods and Target, US wide.
The natural GLP-1 activator that helps you feel full, faster ‍The pre-meal appetite management pills that help your body release its natural signal you’re feeling full. Taking American practitioners by storm as the natural, clinically proven option that works.
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The biggest change in sound recording since the shotgun mic The team who led the UAV sound recording market have patented technology allowing every surveilled space to become a site of two-way communication and audio monitoring.
The benefits platform helping leading businesses provide world-class rewards and recognition. Until now it’s been too hard and expensive to offer true choice in employee benefits and public transport access. Extraordinary’s simple Mastercard payment platform makes it simple for everyone to have a dedicated account.
The rapid research platform that helps you grow great ideas ‍Ideally are changing the way people who make products, software and marketing bring the voice of customer into their development process through fast, affordable and robust insights.
Delivering behaviour-based food brand insights through an engaged community Appetise helps food-lovers choose recipes to plan their meals and simply shop online or in-store. From this community innovative food brands gain trends, understanding and insights to grow brands shoppers love.
Radically affordable, beautiful, always on brand-tracking Tracksuit are changing how consumer brands work worldwide. They’re creating a new common language for measuring, reporting and making the case for more great brand work.

Investment Committee

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James Hurman Chair & Founder
Previously Unavailable
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Simon Pound GP Brand Fund.
Co-CEO Previously Unavailable
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Connor Archbold Co-CEO & Founder
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We take on select projects, working with companies who are inventing or reinventing. If there’s a project you’d like to talk to us about, please get in touch.

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By The Numbers

$500m+

Launched
Companies

40+

Equity
Companies

4

Venture Funds

Weekly Whakatauki

He iti te mokoroa, nāna i kati te kahikatea
Something much larger can be overcome by something much smaller.

Where in the world is James Hurman?

Auckland
36.8485° S, 174.7633° E

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Consumer.ology – Philip Graves

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Paris City Jazz – Bellaire

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“Walking is actually good for you”

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Clients & Partners

Icehouse Ventures
Westpac
AF Drinks
Ārepa
Fonterra
Emma Lewisham
MedWorld
DB Breweries
Education Perfect
Torrens University Australia
OnBoard
Shuttlerock
Pylot
Lion
Mānuka Health
Ideally
Tracksuit
Breast Cancer Foundation NZ
Helius
Brothers Beer
ASB
BNZ
Melodics
Sunfeld
Contact Energy
Simplicity
Futurity
PieFunds
WOOP!
Hawker & Roll
Stolen Rum
21C Skills Lab
Ascential
Heineken
Clearhead
Stuff
Spark
The Comfort Group
NZ Trade & Enterprise
Serious Food Co.
Toothcrush
Timely
Compostic
Growbright
Sanford
Goodman Fielder
TVNZ
PĀMU
New & Improved
Kiwibank
Humankind
Blunt
Deloitte
Hancocks
Genesis
Cannes Lions
Jade Software
Bankwest
Dentons
NeuAudio
Nibblish
Media Design School
Skyline
ZURU
ECC
Caffeine
Jade
Blackbird
NZME
Outset Ventures
Private Wealth Network
Special Group
TRA
The Tuesday Club
Lume
Aera
Abroad
Sharesies
KPMG
Constellation
Tika
Soul Capital
Scholarship
Rev.Social
Friends That Invest
Hiraya Ventures
Appetise
Icehouse
Manifest
Lumos
Simfuni
Levno
Kamal
Re-Leased
Extraordinary
Yarken
Nevam
Aglow
Abodo
Spoke
Andfoods
Marloo
Anthony Harper
Aplenty
Bustle