Venture

We build companies. We’re expert at taking new business ideas from opportunity to launch: validating demand, developing product and brand, and getting ventures to market fast. 

Sometimes that's through joint ventures with partners who have an opportunity but need the capability to make it real. Increasingly, it's through venture studios: dedicated entities that explore, prototype, and launch new businesses at a pace. New+Improved Ventures, our martech-focused studio, is the first of these, with more in the pipeline.
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Capabilities

Venture Strategy & Validation

We work with teams to define opportunities, test assumptions, and explore commercial viability.

Venture Studio Development

We partner with larger organisations to design and run venture studios that accelerate innovation, provide the structure, team, and pace to build and launch new businesses.

Joint-Ventures

We collaborate with big companies to build companies together; combining their domain expertise with our strategy, product, and execution capability.

Our Own Venture Studios

We put all of this into practice ourselves, building and operating venture studios that take new businesses from concept to market.

Workshops

Opportunity Identification Workshop

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For when there's something worth pursuing, but it's not yet clear what it is or how to tackle it. A condensed engagement where we work with your team to get sharp on the problem, surface the opportunity inside it, and shape it into a clear, practical articulation: what the opportunity is, why it matters, and how to go after it. You’ll leave aligned, with a concrete basis for deciding what to do next. This is often where working with us starts.
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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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Roles

We're Hiring

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We are looking for Senior and Intermediate Brand designers to join our team. People who love brand, design, variety, and working collaboratively.

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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
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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