Affiliates

Endeavour Capital has forged strong relationships within the New Zealand technology and investment community. These relationships provide a flow of quality investment opportunities as well as potential partnerships for co-investment.

Endeavour Capital will continue to develop partnerships in NZ and internationally to strengthen our deal flow and increase our resource pool for our portfolio companies.

A selection of our key affiliations are;

Industrial Research Limited

EIP has a signed Memorandum of Understanding with Industrial Research, a CRI that leads the development of New Zealand’s Advanced Technology sector. Its vision is designed to develop a technological innovation engine, which creates technology platforms fuelled by world-class science.

Its scientists, technologists, engineers and entrepreneurs develop technology that is exploited in New Zealand and overseas, with its staff covering the following disciplines:

• Biochemistry
• Chemical and biological engineering
• Physics
• Organic and inorganic chemistry
• Mathematics
• Electrical and electronic engineering
• Mechanical engineering science
• Metrology
• Information science and technology

It has a revenue base of $50 million, almost $20 million of which is sourced from the private sector. Its EBITDA exceeded $8.7 million in 2001. It is very supportive of EIP and keen to begin working on commercialising opportunities within its portfolio.

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University of Waikato
Endeavour Capital has a signed Memorandum of Understanding with the University of Waikato, one of New Zealand’s most innovative Universities. It is attracting rates of commercial and government research funding well above its more illustrious competing institutions. The University has made significant advances in developing new technologies in industries including Chemistry, Information Technology, Biological Sciences, Telecommunications, Earth Sciences and Education.

From these areas, and others, there is already a strong base of technologies and knowledge that requires further investment. In the past two years a large number of patents have been registered and many of these are ready for commercial development.

The University has a revenue base of approximately $150 million, $18 million relates to externally generated research revenue in 2001 (33% from industry).

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New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
The NZVIF, established in 2001, is a programme of equity investment designed to accelerate the development of the venture capital market in New Zealand. Through VIF the Government is investing NZ$100 million in innovative New Zealand businesses.

VIF will invest its NZ$100 million in individual funds called VIF Seed Funds. VIF has appointed selected professional venture capital fund managers to operate individual VIF Seed funds. Each VIF Seed Fund will operate for seven to ten years, investing in a number of New Zealand enterprises before terminating and distributing profits among investors.

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The HiGrowth Project
The HiGrowth Project is an industry led, Government backed project that works as a catalyst, providing focussed and specialised knowledge to help self-driven New Zealand ICT companies to attain high growth. Its visionary goal is to achieve 100 ICT Companies turning over $100 million, representing 10% of GDP.

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