We invest in great NZ tech

SHAREHOLDING
53.9%

FIRST INVESTMENT
June 2014

Devoli is a wholesale telecommunications company that empowers customers to launch, innovate and scale connectivity services for residential and business end users. With its very large telecommunications network, Devoli has the ability to provide products to business customers at compelling price points and enable a low cost of services for its customers.

In 2024, the company placed first in the Deloitte Masters of Growth. Based in Auckland, Devoli’s platform is currently servicing over 150,000 broadband connections to their customers across Australia and New Zealand.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Devoli ups the ante with 400Gbit/s Hawaiki Cable boost – 2025
• Devoli takes first place in Deloitte’s Masters of Growth awards – 2024
• How Devoli is shaking up the Telco industry – 2024

SHAREHOLDING
20.5%

FIRST INVESTMENT
February 2017

CONQA (QA Tech Limited) is construction software that makes quality assurance simple and easy for contractors, enabling them to deliver projects with confidence and track live progress.

Founded in 2015, CONQA makes it easy to inspect and capture evidence of compliant work. With 10 years of progress, billions of dollars’ worth of projects completed, and strong annualized recurring revenue, the company can be proud of its journey to date.

RECENT ARTICLES

• The future is now with CONQA – 2023
• Tantalising tech: Subcontractors lead construction industry reform – 2022
• CONQA saddles up for post-Covid ride and sets an eye on the USA – 2021

SHAREHOLDING
28.9%

FIRST INVESTMENT
February 2015

Orah is transforming how schools manage student safety and wellbeing. Founded by Paul Organ and Kurt Meyer, Orah’s platform connects attendance, pastoral care, and real-time student location tracking in one intuitive system. With deep integrations into leading student information systems like Blackbaud, Veracross, and FACTS, Orah gives schools a unified view of every student’s journey, helping staff respond faster in emergencies and support wellbeing more proactively.

With close to 400 schools already onboarded and strong traction across North America, Orah is redefining duty of care in education and shaping the next generation of connected school technology.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Kiwi startup Orah signs Mark Zuckerberg’s school, raises millions – 2022
• The story of Orah – 2021

SHAREHOLDING
21.8%

FIRST INVESTMENT
March 2022

With a proven team, two growing SaaS products, and increasing adoption across key markets, Couchdrop Limited is well-positioned for continued global expansion and strategic scale. The company operates two complementary cloud-native platforms – Couchdrop and Movebot.

Both products deliver significant value while outperforming less agile incumbents. Couchdrop is a secure file transfer platform build for the cloud. Simple to deploy, it integrates natively with cloud storage platforms like Amazon S3, Dropbox, and SharePoint. Movebot is a powerful data transfer and migration platform used by thousands of MSPs and enterprises to move petabytes of data between cloud platforms.

Couchdrop Limited has experienced remarkable early growth and is currently the fastest growing company in our portfolio. Punakaiki Fund first invested in Couchdrop in 2022 and remains the only fund invested in the company, with a 21.8% stake. Couchdrop is our second partnership with Michael Lawson, whose first venture, Linewize, was acquired by Family Zone in 2017.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Kiwi Dropbox partner Couchdrop targets MSPs – 2022
• Data migration business intent on expansion after funding boost – 2022
• Why Couchdrop is taking the road less travelled – 2022

SHAREHOLDING
3.0%

FIRST INVESTMENT
October, 2021

Whip Around improves asset utilisation of fleet and fixed equipment by keeping inspections, work orders, and fleet health data in easy to use preventative maintenance software.

Whip Around assists over 150,000 fleet professionals and numerous fleet operators in managing recurring vehicle and equipment inspections, ensuring legal compliance, and identifying and completing critical maintenance.

Focused on the US market but bringing a high amount of NZ values along with them, Whip Around works hard to understand their customers’ needs and build success for their clients.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Whip Around appoints new directors as global expansion accelerates – 2025
• Why WhipAround is poised for a big year ahead – 2023
• ‘The next Xero’: Whip Around – 2021

SHAREHOLDING
25.6%

FIRST INVESTMENT
February 2015

Onceit is an e-commerce online retailer offering top brands in fashion, beauty and homewares at great prices – predominantly in New Zealand, but it also ships to Australia. Launched in May 2010 and founded by Jay Goodey, Onceit has become a one-stop destination for more than 500 local and international brands, serving over 200,000 members.

Onceit has benefited from the efforts of investor, director and highly regarded e-commerce leader Simon West, spending time in the business.

RECENT ARTICLES

• The story behind Onceit – 2023
• One in a Million: Q&A with Onceit – 2019
• Online shopping to reach tipping point this Christmas – 2019

SHAREHOLDING
48.5%

FIRST INVESTMENT
March 2015

RedSeed delivers coaching learning for retail and B2B sales clients, helping businesses coach their own team to deliver better performance outcomes. Its online learning ecosystem was primarily developed for large retailers, helping tens of thousands of front-line staff and entire organisations.

RedSeed’s difference is integrating a coach-led approach into its platform, which enables leaders to help change behaviour, improve sales and other business outcomes. In the New Zealand retail business market, clients include Farmers, Foodstuffs, Icebreaker, 2degrees, Kathmandu and Torpedo7. In 2021, the company acquired KiwiHost, which was one of New Zealand’s longest-running training companies.

The last investment by Punakaiki Fund was the purchase of shares from a RedSeed co-founder in 2020. As a result of buy-outs of passive and active founders Punakaiki Fund’s shareholding is 48.5%.

RECENT ARTICLES

• The RedSeed Story – 2023
• How to get the most out of your sales people – 2021

SHAREHOLDING
11.4%

FIRST INVESTMENT
March, 2022

Projectworks is a project intelligence platform that engineering, architecture, software, and management consulting firms use to run and scale their business profitably. Its cloud-based software automates consulting firms’ project processes – getting them out of the resourcing, forecasting, and reporting ‘weeds’ so they can focus on delivering outcomes for their clients.

It has received recognition including ‘Emerging Company of the Year’ at the 2025 NZ Hi-Tech Awards, 19th on the 2024 Deloitte Fast 50, and #557 on the Inc. 5000 list of fastest-growing private companies in the United States.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Emerging Company of the Year Projectworks raises US$12m – 2025
• NZ Tech Podcast: Projectworks Growth and Global Insights with CEO Mark Orttung – 2025
• Projectworks’ journey to global recognition – 2024

SHAREHOLDING
15.1%*

FIRST INVESTMENT
October 2015

MOBI merged with HungryHungry (HHM Global) in May 2024. The companies help food service businesses sell more by offering online and table-based ordering products, as well as merchant solution services.

Under the leadership of HungryHungry’s founders, the unified company combines MOBI’s robust, enterprise-grade capabilities with HungryHungry’s consumer-first innovation. This powerful synergy now enables the Group to serve over 2,800 venues across more than 15 countries with a market-leading digital ordering and guest engagement solution.

_{*39% of Punakaiki Fund’s shareholding of MOBI HQ has minor economic value.}

RECENT ARTICLES

• MOBI merges with HungryHungry – 2024
• Online retail growth created 13,000+ jobs in NZ during pandemic-hit year – 2021

SHAREHOLDING
6.3%

FIRST INVESTMENT
April 2014

Raygun provides a software intelligence platform that enables customers to ensure that their software is being experienced the way they intended. The platform offers features including software crash and error reporting, real user monitoring, user and deployment tracking.

In 2025, Raygun launched Autohive, which allows any team to find, use, and create AI agents, regardless of their technical expertise. Autohive’s no-code platform enables SMEs to deploy custom AI agents in minutes. In their first 10 weeks since launch, Autohive amassed over 1,000 users, 4,285 daily messages and 75,000+ automated tasks.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Autohive aims to put AI agents in every Kiwi business – 2025
• Raygun spin-off goes all-in on AI agents – 2025
• The Business of Tech Podcast: John-Daniel Trask unveils his bold new venture, Autohive – 2025

SHAREHOLDING
3.0%

FIRST INVESTMENT
December, 2021

Formus Labs is a New Zealand company which has created the first automated 3D planner for joint replacement surgeries – a tool that provides unprecedented insight into the pre-operative planning process.

Traditionally, 1 in 5 knee replacement operations are unsatisfactory and 1 in 10 hip replacements require revision surgery within 10 years.  This costs the orthapedic industry billions of dollars annually.

Using cutting edge biomechanics and machine learning, these tools empower surgeons and produce better results for patients worldwide while offering significant cost savings to the industry as a whole.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Medtech Formus Labs nears commercial launch in the US – 2025
• Orthopaedic surgery software start-up wins big at the Hi-Tech Awards – 2023
• Formus Labs Hip Platform Receives FDA Clearance – 2023

SHAREHOLDING
17.5%

FIRST INVESTMENT
June 2020

Core Schedule was established in 2016 to continue to develop efficient, easy to use, transparent, and accessible scheduling software to allow hospitals and other medical service providers to develop and administer staffing rosters. Since its creation in 2009, Core Schedule has been adopted by major hospitals and small clinics in the United States, New Zealand and Australia.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Core Schedule Takes on Health’s Ancient Rostering Systems – 2023
• Podcast: How automated software solutions can build effective business strategy at General Practice & Enterprise levels within the Medical sector – 2021

SHAREHOLDING
13.0%

FIRST INVESTMENT
August 2025

Sea-Flux is a New Zealand maritime SaaS company transforming how commercial vessels are managed worldwide. Its cloud-based platform streamlines compliance, maintenance, and daily operations across all devices, accessible anywhere, even offline.

Built by seafarers for seafarers, founder Tai Ellis created Sea-Flux to bring clarity, confidence, and efficiency to vessel operations. The award-winning company supports nearly 10,000 users across more 1,300 vessels globally, empowering them to stay compliant, safe, and audit-ready.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Tai Ellis raises millions for his vessel-management start-up Sea-Flux – 2025
• Sea-Flux secures nearly NZ$3 million investment to accelerate global expansion – 2025
• Maritime tech firm gets $2.7m boost – 2025

SHAREHOLDING
3.2%

FIRST INVESTMENT
December 2023

FOUNDER
Nick Mooyman

RECENT ARTICLES

• Unlocking the value: the Astute Access story – 2022

SHAREHOLDING
21.0%

FIRST INVESTMENT
Dec 2020

GetHomeSafe offers a people-first safety solution to help enterprises protect workers, team, and organisations. With a focus on ease-of-use and engagement, Get home Safe provides safety applications and hardware for field workers, team scheduling and monitoring for supervisors, along with reporting and compliance for organisations.

The platform tracks and assists “people home safely” at an annualised rate of almost 500,000 trips a year and enjoys high customer satisfaction. It is increasingly dominant in New Zealand, and serves clients across the world, including a Fortune 500 company.

Punakaiki Fund invested into GetHomeSafe Limited in December 2020.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Lone-worker safety app GetHomeSafe bags investment – 2021
• The GetHomeSafe story – 2021

SHAREHOLDING
26.5%

FIRST INVESTMENT
Dec 2015

QUBEdocs is one subsidiary of Mindful Group, which sold Mindfull Limited, an advanced analytics practice to Fusion 5.

QUBEdocs is an auto-documentation tool for IBM’s TM1 software and for cloud-based Planning Analytics, which gives Chief Financial Officers comfort in being able to track integrity and changes in their financial models. The company is also developing a version for Oracle’s Hyperion. QUBEdocs has offices in Auckland, Wellington and the United States.

Punakaiki Fund invested into Mindfull Group in December 2015, and Mindfull Limited was sold to Fusion 5 in late 2020.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Managing Planning Analytics Documentation
• What happens if my Senior TM1 Developer Leaves?

SHAREHOLDING
3.7%

FIRST INVESTMENT
October 2022

SHAREHOLDING
(former) 13.1%

FIRST INVESTMENT
November 2017

The acquisition of Quantifi Photonics by Teradyne Inc (NASDAQ:TER) in May 2025 marked Punakaiki Fund’s fourth and largest major exit in four years. With an economic interest of 13%, Punakaiki Fund was the largest local investor in Quantifi Photonics, second overall behind US-based Intel Capital. 

Quantifi Photonics is a New Zealand-based company specialising in photonics test and measurement solutions. Teradyne Inc is a global leader in automated test equipment and robotics systems.

RECENT ARTICLES

• Quantifi Photonics: Punakaiki Fund’s largest investment leads to its largest exit – 2025
• Quantifi Photonics scores Intel investment, valuing company at $90 million – 2022
• Quantifi Photonics seeks $12m in funding round – 2020

SHAREHOLDING
(former) 3.8%

FIRST INVESTMENT
June 2014

Timely was acquired by EverCommerce for more than $100 million in June 2021

Founded in 2011, Timely exists to grow the value of the beauty industry by offering simple, affordable and reliable appointment software for small businesses. Customers get innovative business management software, award-winning customer support, education from the biggest industry names globally and peer support. Today, Timely serves more than 50,000 service professionals in 90 countries that use the cloud-based platform to book over 30 million appointments a year.

SHAREHOLDING
(former) 1.7%

FIRST INVESTMENT
August 2015

FOUNDER
Vaughan Rowsell

Vend was sold to Lightspeed for US $350 Million in March 2020.

Vend is cloud-based point-of-sale and retail management software company based in Auckland, New Zealand. The company was founded in 2010 by Vaughan Rowsell. 

SHAREHOLDING

FIRST INVESTMENT
$1.6 million

Autodesk (NASDAQ: ADSK) acquired Moxion in January 2022.

Moxion’s beautiful platform is focused on helping you weave all the threads of filmmaking together, simply, seamlessly and securely.

Moxion was created in 2015 by founders experienced in film and TV. We were built and designed from the ground up for the challenging New Zealand conditions, and today are based in Los Angeles with a team across the world, ensuring our customers benefit from 24/7 support, no matter where they are producing content.

SHAREHOLDING
(former) 20%

FIRST INVESTMENT

Family Zone acquired Punakaiki Fund’s 20% shareholdings in Linewize in November 2017.

Punakaiki Fund subsequently sold all its Family Zone ordinary shares on the ASX in June 2018, for A$0.54 per share, realising a net amount of NZ$1.109 million. Punakaiki Fund retains its Family Zone performance shares, which are released if certain milestones are met.