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EVEN CAPITAL ANNOUNCES FIRST SUCCESSFUL EXIT
Our portfolio company Easy Crypto has been acquired by Australian-based Swyftx. Congratulations to founder and CEO Janine Grainger and her team! Since our initial investment in 2021, we have been...
20.03.25FOUR WAYS TO TURN THE TIDE FOR FEMALE FOUNDERS IN 2025
Last year presented a sobering reality for the startup ecosystem: venture capital (VC) funding for female-founded businesses hit a five-year low. This recent data from Pitchbook is a stark reminder...
03.02.25EVEN CAPITAL X CREATIVE HQ
https://youtu.be/8Lgkz0hL_08?si=TbMQnb0KRFTk4kYn Raising capital as a startup founder, especially as a female founder, can be a daunting challenge. In a recent webinar collaboration with Creative HQ, Even Capital founder and Managing...
17.12.24EVEN TEAM IMPRESSED BY BAYMATOB VISIT
During a visit to Sydney last month for the SXSW event, Even Capital Co-founder Sarah Park and Investment Manager Dr Kathleen Lucere visited portfolio company Baymatob, the creators of the...
12.11.24EVEN CAPITAL AND NZGCP BACK PAM FOLLOWING ELECTRIFY ACCELERATOR PROGRAMME
Even Capital and New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (NZGCP) have announced an early-stage trailblazer investment in PAM, an innovative personal admin manager app. PAM, created by Wellington-based Nicole Retter, was...
05.07.24HIGH PROFILE INVESTORS JOIN EVEN IN SHOWING AN APPETITE FOR COOKING APP
The extraordinary growth of an app designed to help home cooks organise, share and shop their recipes has attracted some of America’s leading investors, as app ReciMe takes home cooking...
03.07.24EVEN CAPITAL BACKS FEMMI APP
Growing up as elite female athletes, Kiwi-born Femmi founders Lydia and Esther faced pressure to train in a way that was right for men, but not for them. Ultimately their...
08.12.23GoFIGR JOINS EVEN CAPITAL PORTFOLIO
After watching so many of their colleagues quit because they couldn't achieve their career goals where they worked, GoFIGR co-founders Helena Turpin and Nic Lindholm decided to leave their corporate...
26.09.23DR KATHLEEN LUCERE JOINS SLUSH'D WELLINGTON EVENT
Dr Kathleen Lucere, Investment Associate at Even Capital, joined a lively panel speaking - “Startup Investors Unleashed” - at the recent Slush'D Wellington event. Slush'D is a global community and...
14.09.23ELECTRIFY AOTEAROA FIRES UP FEMALE FOUNDERS
Even Capital co-founder and Managing Partner Sarah Park joined the 'Meet the VC's' panel alongside speakers from Blackbird Ventures, GD1 and Movac at the annual Electrify Aotearoa conference yesterday. Held...
02.08.23EVEN CAPITAL LEADS BETTER PACKAGING SERIES A INVESTMENT ROUND
Better Packaging Co. has secured an impressive $5 million in a Series A investment round, with Even Capital leading the round alongside a selection of investors ranging from Even’s sister...
30.06.23BETTER PACKAGING KICKS UP A STINK FOR WORLD ENVIRONMENT DAY
Bondi residents were greeted with a powerful message after a four-metre-high plastic poop representing the amount of waste that enters the world’s oceans every 30 seconds was installed on Bondi...
06.06.23EVEN CAPITAL EXPANDS TO WELCOME INVESTMENT ASSOCIATE
Even Capital today announced the appointment of Dr Kathleen Lucere as investment associate, in a reflection of the exceptional growth of New Zealand’s only female-founded, female-focused and female-funded growth stage...
20.04.23EVEN CAPITAL BACKS DENNISSION TECHNOLOGIES TO CREATE ARTIFICIAL MUSCLE
Kiwi startup Dennisson Technologies has raised $1.6m to grow and build its new ‘artificial muscle’, with Even Capital joining some of New Zealand's savviest investors to help Dennisson meet the...
06.04.23EVEN CAPITAL BACKS DAISY LAB IN SEED FUNDING ROUND
Daisy Lab, a New Zealand precision fermentation start-up, has successfully closed their seed funding round with high-profile investors, including Even Capital, getting behind their ambitions to accelerate the development of...
06.03.23EVEN CAPITAL PROUDLY LEADS WOOLCHEMY FUNDING ROUND
Material technology company Woolchemy is set to revolutionise the global personal care materials industry, having raised 1.5 million NZD in venture funding, proudly led by Even Capital. The investment will...
03.03.23EVEN CAPITAL JOINS GROUNDSWELL BEHIND RECIME
ReciMe, a social cooking platform to share & discover recipes from around the world, has secured a total of $500,000 in pre-seed funding from the Alice Anderson Fund, NZ VC...
28.10.22EVEN CAPITAL INVESTS IN HEALTH-TECH SET TO TRANSFORM OUTCOMES FOR MOTHERS AND BABIES
Global Bio Fund, supported by Even Capital and other high net worth investors, has announced an investment in the Australian women-led med-tech company Baymatob as part of their Series A...
31.08.22EVEN CAPITAL JOINS 2X COLLABORATIVE AS FIRST NEW ZEALAND MEMBER
Even Capital was today announced as the first New Zealand member of 2X Collaborative, a global industry body bringing together a broad range of investors deploying capital with a gender...
10.08.22ORBIS DIAGNOSTICS WELCOMES SARAH PARK TO BOARD
We’re delighted to announce that Even Capital Co-founder and Managing Partner Sarah Park has been appointed to the Orbis Diagnostics board of directors! Orbis CEO, Damian Camp said “This is...
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