Brand Fund 2

Investing in companies and helping them become the leading brand in their industry. We’re always interested in meeting, partnering and investing in great founders.

Brand Fund is Previously Unavailable’s venture fund, administered in partnership with Icehouse Ventures. We back companies with brand at the heart of their story, growth and business.

Brand Fund 2 is now closed to new investors.

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.
Accelerating first-home buyers to their deposit, faster Aera uses developer commissions and new builds to help first-home buyers reach a deposit and homeownership faster.
Activating marketing knowledge Aether built tools to activate enterprise marketing knowledge and was acquired by Ideally in 2026.
Meal planning that powers FMCG insights Appetise turns meal-planning community behaviour into FMCG insights, while helping consumers plan meals and shop.
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Research-backed IP and ingredient company Ārepa combines brand, science and research around Sarmentosin, with an evolving strategy focused on valuable ingredient IP.
Making travel brands discoverable in an LLM future Aurascope helps travel brands become easier to discover and convert as customer search shifts toward LLMs.
The natural GLP-1 option Calocurb is building practitioner and direct-to-consumer channels around its natural, clinically researched appetite-management product.
The platform for resource consenting Comply Copilot connects councils, developers and planners to solve a manual, disconnected consenting process.
AI-powered creative platform for ecommerce brands Cuttable is building an AI ad agency and conversion engine for ecommerce brands that care about creative quality.
The PR and comms growth platform Drumbeat is building a growth platform for PR, created through New+Improved by experienced SaaS specialists.
The employee benefits platform Extraordinary makes employee benefits, rewards and transport simple, serving more than 50,000 people across leading businesses.
Dining discovery where everyone wins First Table is a dining discovery platform with a strong opportunity to create more value for everyone.
Rapid research for the creative process Ideally brings customers into creative development through fast, affordable research, and is expanding rapidly in the US.
The future of marketing performance Lumos combines OOH and digital media planning and buying, and has more than doubled revenue since our first investment.
Tracking work in the AI age Manifest tracks time, tools and tokens for creative businesses, helping agencies understand how work gets made.
AI for financial advisers Marloo uses AI for financial advisers and has been growing more than 40% month-on-month.
Marketing journey maps for modern teams Nevam helps multi-channel marketing teams coordinate and improve activity through living marketing journey maps.
Design software for real-world structures Prove helps civil engineers create compliant, efficient real-world structures in an industry dominated by ageing software.
Regulated industry communications Spoke uses AI to help large international businesses improve communications, compliance and performance.
Orchestrating modern insurance operations Simfuni is building a platform to change how customers and businesses deliver and experience insurance.
Radically affordable, beautiful, always on brand-tracking Tracksuit is defining brand tracking globally, with 1,000+ customers and more than $50M ARR.

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
Tracksuit
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Phoebe Devine Chief of Design
Previously Unavailable

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$500m+

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40+

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4

Venture Funds

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Ko te pae tawhiti whāia kia tata, ko te pae tata whakamaua kia tīna
Seek to bring distant horizons closer, and sustain and maintain those that have been arrived at

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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