Nimbus is developing self-balancing electric pod vehicles with the goal of changing how people move inside cities. We are at the intersection of electrification, micromobility, mobility as a service, and autonomy.
Location: Ann Arbor, Michigan
Stage: Pre-seed, Seed
Investment: 2021
Press: Inside EVs (March, 2021)
Press: Fortune
As sea levels rise, we’ll need to build more seawalls to protect existing infrastructure. Core to those sea walls is armor stones.
For armor stone extraction, the Terminator is miles ahead of anything else on the market. Up to 75% usable rock, compared to 20-30% with blasting (a 2-4x improvement). Dollar-for-dollar, the XT model Terminator out-produces all other non-blasting methods and has the lowest cost per tonne of production.
Stage: Seed
Investment: 2018
Located: Matamata (aka Hobbiton), Aotearoa/New Zealand
Press: Bay of Plenty Business News (November, 2021)
The EV-B is a modern electric vehicle in bicycle form. A vehicle defined by its software: safety, security, and performance improve with each over-the-air update.
Motors, wires, and sensors replace chains, gears, and hydraulics. Regen-pedals and electronic braking ensure a smooth ride with no need for maintenance, saving you hundreds of $ per year.
360° vision, radar, and lidar see and anticipate danger. Rider and wheel sensors ensure you never skid a tire or flip over the handlebars.
No cables or wires to visually complicate the EV-B, and with a single brake lever, you never worry about changing gears or choosing which brake to pull.
Website: https://weel.bike/beta
Location: Seattle, USA
Stage: Seed
Investment: 2019
Helium builds new wireless networks from the ground up by incentivizing the creation of decentralized, public wireless networks with crypto-economics.
Location: San Francisco, CA, USA
Stage: Token
Investment: 2020
Press: New York Times
Press: Critical Path Podcast
Construction of the world’s first fully electric hydro foiling ropax is underway in SeaChange’s Auckland shipyard. The Foil 24 will operate completely emission-free from 2023 across the Cook Straight in New Zealand.
The Seachange Foil 40 is an all-electric solution for RoPax movements up to 110 nautical miles. Cruising at a speed of 45 knots, the Foil 40 can take up to 84 vehicles and 300+ passengers across oceans with zero emissions. Foiling at a height of 5 meters, seakeeping is unmatched even by vessels of much larger scale, as the Foil 40 platforms and contours above waves.
Seachange allows operators to decouple running costs from the volatility of the oil market and eliminate their carbon footprint by deploying flexible electric ferries on RoPax routes.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Stage: Seed
Investment: 2021
Press: NZ Herald
Vortex Power Systems is developing a system to convert low grade waste heat into clean electricity by generating and harnessing the power of an atmospheric vortex (ie. an artificial sea-spout).
Using low grade waste heat recovered from thermal processes in industry, Vortex Power Systems technology generates and controls a freestanding atmospheric buoyancy vortex, and harnesses its power using a vortex turbine to create clean electricity.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Stage: Seed
Investment: 2021
Press: Joyce Howse
Ion Storage System creates batteries that are safer, lighter, and enable form factors with tighter packing density that enhance system performance.
Location: Beltswille, Maryland, US
Stage: Series A
Investment: 2022
Press: Crunchbase
Producing beautiful, performant e scooters, Bo Mobility are bringing style to a traditionally utilitarian vehicle market.
Location: Bristol, United Kingdom
Stage: Pre Seed, Seed
Investment: 2021
Press: Tech Crunch
Press: Micromobility Industries
Carbon Crop reduce the friction for landholders to access carbon credits via AI-powered assessments.
Location: Nelson, New Zealand
Stage: Pre Seed, CLA
Investment: 2022
Press: Nelson AI Institute
Turntide Technologies utilises software to improve electric motor control in switched reluctance motors, substantially improving motor efficiencies possible in linear power applications.
Location: Sunnyvale, CA, USA
Stage: Series C
Investment: 2022
Press: Cruchbase
Mevo is helping create beautiful & more livable cities by offering a better alternative to private car ownership, with shared vehicles.
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Stage: Seed
Investment: 2019
Press: Meridian Energy
Magrathea is unlocking centuries of growth in human civilization by radically reducing the socioenvironmental impacts of structural metal production.
Location: San Francisco, USA
Stage: Pre-Seed
Investment: 2022
Press: Crunchbase
A transparent, decentralized marketplace that allows participants to buy and share data and contribute to an open ecosystem of data-driven climate resilience applications.
Website: https://www.dclimate.net/
Location: New York, USA
Stage: Seed+
Investment: 2021
Press: PR Newswire
Foundry Lab have developed digital metal casting (DMC).
A hardware + software product that delivers same-day production of metal parts directly from a CAD file. DMC leapfrogs 3D metal printing to rapidly produce fully dense metal parts with the same physical properties as traditional cast metal.
Location: Wellington, New Zealand
Stage: Series A
Investment: 2021
Press: Stuff.co.nz
CarbonScape produces bio-graphite from renewable feedstocks, with a carbon-negative footprint.
Their unique engineered graphite morphology provides superior lithium-ion battery performance compared to fossil-derived graphite and offers geo-agnostic production.
Location: Blenehim, New Zealand
Stage: Seed
Investment: 2018
Press: NZ Entrepreneur
Solana is a decentralized blockchain built to enable scalable, user-friendly apps for the world.
Solana is the fastest blockchain in the world and the fastest-growing developer ecosystem in crypto, with thousands of projects spanning DeFi, NFTs, Web3 and more.
Location: Online
Stage: Token
Investment: 2021
The most advanced electric propulsion systems in the world - 12kw/kg continuous - enabling sustainable transport such as Seachange, EVTOLS and more.
Website: https://www.h3x.tech/
Location: Denver, Colorado, USA
Stage: Seed
Investment: 2021
Press: Ycombinator
Skyryse wants to empower anyone, to fly anywhere, in any aircraft, safely and as a highly experienced pilot would.
FlightOS brings advanced automation to flight controls and flight management systems to achieve unmatched safety and greatly reduce opportunities for human error.
Location: Los Angeles, California, USA
Stage: Series A+
Investment: 2020
Press: New York Times
Press: Tech Crunch
VeVe has pioneered the world of licensed digital collectibles with partnerships with Disney, Mattel, Warner Brothers, DC, CBS and more.
Location: Auckland, New Zealand
Stage: Public Token
Investment: 2021
Press: Edmund Hilary Fellowship
Press: Medium.com
