Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early-stage startups in New Zealand. The company provides capital, resources, and support to founders and their teams.

Icehouse Ventures

Our mission is to be transformative investors in transformative Kiwi technology companies. We have invested >$400m into >300 companies including Hnry, Halter, Crimson Education, Sharesies, Partly, Dawn Aerospace, Tracksuit, Mint Innovation, LawVu, Tradify, Open Star, Shuttlerock, Ethique, Rocos, Basis, Ask Nicely, Fuel50, Joyous, Spalk, Parrot Analytics, ArchiPro, and PowerbyProxi. 

Adherium

TNX Logistics

Unimarket

Biomatters

PowerbyProxi

GreenButton

IMeasureU

INRO

Relay

Right Hemisphere

Rocos

Snakk Media

Last night, in collaboration with Powrsuit, we hosted a leaders’ edition of Careers of the Future, with a panel discussion for aspiring and current leaders of high-performance startup teams.

Thanks to Joshua Nu’u-Steele (Ideally), Aimee Crooks (Mint Innovation), Asantha Wijeyeratne QSM (PaySauce), and Laura Weir (Tracksuit) for sharing their invaluable insights with the crowd!

Here’s a snippet:
▪️ Follow the thing that makes you light up when you speak about it. That’s the career path you should follow!
▪️ Hire the person, not the experience or qualification. It’s the person that matters more than anything else.
▪️ It is important to create a vulnerability based space to drive a high-performing culture. People will open up more to you and it enables you to build a positive environment.
▪️ If you look around your office, and everyone looks like you and thinks like you, it’s a sign that your hiring strategy is wrong.
▪️ Key traits to look for when hiring are empathy, a growth mindset, innate curiosity, and energy.

Thanks Kristen Lunman and Natalie Ferguson, and all who attended!

Christchurch turned up in full swing last Friday for the Startup Block Party!

A massive thank you to the community for bringing the energy, and to Levi Fawcett for sharing his journey from high school ventures to learning the power of huge ambition at Rocket Lab, and now leading the world-class team at Partly.

Also, thank you to Levi, Nathan, Eileen, and the team at Partly for letting us take over their beautiful new space in the CBD.

What a community - we might have to make this a regular thing… 🥳

In this month’s Startup Blueprint, hear from the co-founders of Ideally, James Donald, Brendan Cervin, and Joshua Nu’u-Steele.

Ideally are an on-demand insights platform that allows clients to rapidly test concepts, ideas and messages with their target audience and receive robust answers overnight, all at a fraction of the usual cost of conventional methods.

Last year they went from launch to raise within two months, and have since kept up the pace, scaling impressively fast. They’ve brought on over 100 clients, expanded across the ditch, and landed some of Australasia’s leading consumer brands, such as Asahi Beverages and Goodman Fielder, and they’re just warming up.

In this interview, they delve into:
▪️ The power of a clearly defined value proposition and distinctive brand from day dot
▪️ Leveraging lessons and experiences from successful careers in tech
▪️ Their philosophy on attracting exceptional talent whilst scaling rapidly
▪️ How they’re using AI to further fuel their point of difference, and
▪️ The breadth of ideas being tested through their platform, from exploratory generational research, and their own brand positioning, to Tegal’s new chicken nuggets.

Read more through the link in the comments 👇

They are also hiring! Check them out on our job platform: https://lnkd.in/e3JgTpsU

💡 Come along to the next Careers of the Future event in collaboration with Powrsuit!

A special leaders edition, this one is for those who lead or aspire to grow high-performance startup teams. 

Hear first-hand from Joshua Nu’u-Steele (Ideally), Aimee Crooks (Mint Innovation), Asantha Wijeyeratne QSM (PaySauce), and Laura Weir (Tracksuit) about building environments that foster growth for all. 

📆 Tuesday 30th July, 5-7pm
📍 Icehouse Ventures, Parnell, Auckland
🍷 Drinks and nibbles provided

RSVP now to secure your spot: https://lnkd.in/g2ExVyTk

Check out just some of the 240+ open roles in Kiwi startups on our job platform. 

From opportunities in marketing and sales, to engineering and science, located in NZ and across the globe 🌏

Here’s a snippet:
▪️ Neocrete are hiring a Strategy Analyst & Research Coordinator, based in Auckland, NZ
▪️ Dawn Aerospace are hiring a Head of Product Delivery, In Space Propulsion, based in Delfgauw, Netherlands
▪️ DroneDeploy are hiring a Business Development Representative, APAC, based in Sydney, AUS
▪️ LawVu are hiring a Senior Software Engineer , based in Welly/Tauranga or remote
▪️ Halter are hiring an Executive Assistant to CEO, based in Auckland, NZ
▪️ Audience Republic are hiring a Customer Success Manager , based in Scottsdale, Arizona, USA

Link to platform in comments 🚀

Interested in gaining practical advice on launching an idea? Join us this Thursday for our second Brainwaves to Breakthrough session on Deep Tech with Emily McIsaac, co-founder of Daisy Lab.

Hear about the early stages of Daisy Labs, including how they identified their key problem, developed their MVP, secured IP, and navigated funding.

The Brainwaves to Breakthroughs virtual series is brought to you by First Cut, Icehouse Ventures' community for young founders and operators. Each session features a different founder sharing their insights on the early stages of their startup journey.

Don’t miss this session packed with candid and practical advice on launching an idea.

🗓️ When: Thursday 25th of July, 1-2pm.
📍 Where: Virtual. Make sure to RSVP here: https://lnkd.in/gx9Wxe8i

Our last session will be on Wednesday the 28th of August on consumer products with Angus Brown, co-founder of Ārepa. To attend, RSVP through the same link above 👆

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