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    WE BUILD CLIMATE AND FOOD TECHNOLOGY VENTURES

    addressing growing global need

    for high quality, safe nutrition.

  • ABOUT HIGHGROUND VENTURES (HGV)

    Venture building from the Pacific

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    Our climate and food technology ventures are built to make life better around the world

     

    Since 2013, we've operated a growth agency across Asia Pacific working with food companies from Fonterra to Starbucks to Pāmu to Impossible Foods. We've expertise in scaling up fast growing FMCG, foodservice, agriculture and foodtech companies across a variety of cities, channels and markets.

     

    During Covid, we realised new climate, ag and food technologies can enable enormous opportunity across traditional food value chains. A key theme for growing systems change emerged -- how do we feed more people better nutrition without detrimentally impacting our lands, oceans and planetary resources?

     

    Our answer is to selectively build technologies and ventures that have remarkable opportunity to feed another 2 billion people better nutrition across Asia Pacific.

    Today HGV is headquartered in Queenstown, New Zealand helping build a portfolio of scalable climate and food technology ventures.

  • HOW WE LIKE TO WORK & PARTNER

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    Connect

    Reach out to our HGV team and let us know how we can help you build. From startups to scale-ups to MNCs, we have decades of commercial experience across the value chain and we are open to different ways of working - from advisory to venture building to funding scaleups to building new markets.

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    Advisory

    Founding, governance and exec teams going through scaleup often need people they can trust around them for different stages of growth for different periods of time. We offer growth advisory services to help companies growth and overcome scaling challenges.

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    Builder

    If we are excited about a venture trajectory, we jump in and help the founding/exec teams build. We don't do this lightly and usually only proceed down this path once we've worked together to build trust and validate scaleup pathways. As a venture builder we like to keep close to our companies - advising, sometimes taking a governance seat, and supporting with patient equity.

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    Capital

    A core component to growth is the right type of capital injection at the right stages of business growth from the right partners. We've raised millions of dollars for our ventures. Scaling climate and food technologies requires a distinctive funding model and we help investors (sometimes our own capital) find the right businesses to back.

  • VeNTURE PORTFOLIO

    Current ventures our team is helping grow

    NEWFISH - Seed Round biotechnology nutrition company

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    LILO DESSERTS LTD - Seed Round modern desserts company

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    FUTURE FOOD AOTEAROA (FFA) - non profit New Zealand foodtech founders collective

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    WAWATA CABIN - regenerative cabin retreat near the Routeburn, Glenorchy

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  • CONTACT

    Want to explore how to partner? We'd love to chat.