Andrew Hamilton

Sence is an AI‑powered Conversational Intelligence platform that leverages advanced AI to analyze online conversations in real time, transforming overwhelming volumes of comments into clear, precise, actionable insights.

2120 creates and invests in ambitious ideas that have the potential to produce significant long-term value for Aotearoa New Zealand.

From ideas to impact: Unify people and decision makers. Make the best decisions using the best data. Joyous builds human relationships, and aligns people around common challenges, leveraging their ideas to make an impact. Human Conversations and AI Analytics in one Joyous helps people talk about a specific topic that impacts them every day - right at the time decision makers are planning to do something about it. Joyous starts conversations and a real person responds. Joyous identifies actionable phrases, groups them in real-time and delivers a prioritized action plan. Joyous accelerates operational excellence, strategic program execution, transformation, tools adoption, customer experience and more.

Sharesies is an empowering wealth app on a mission to give someone with $5 and someone with $5 million the same money opportunities. Since launching in 2017, we’ve grown to provide access to Invest, Save, and KiwiSaver all in one place. Now, over half a million people use Sharesies to invest in the share market—and their financial future. No one knows retail investors quite like us. We partner with companies to offer capital raises, and engage and reward their employees through Staff Shares. Find out more on our website—go to About > For companies. We’re a proudly certified B Corp and Living Wage Employer. Our goal is to help as many people as possible to grow their wealth, and together we plan to impact generations to come. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? Head to About > Careers on our website to see if there’s a role suited to you. 💁

Genoapay gives your customers the ability to get what they need and pay over 10 weekly instalments paying no fees or interest. We provide merchants with a powerful tool to convert more sales and increase average order values while taking no risk. Genoapay funds merchants the purchase price of the sale less a services fee. When a consumer is choosing between an organisation that offers payment plans and one that tells them to go and apply for a short term loan 94% of those consumers will choose a payment plan option directly with the organisation. As well as a competitive advantage payment plans lower the barrier to entry and drive customer acquisition. Genoapay offers a world class mobile friendly digital interface that establishes 10-week payment plans with customers quickly in both an in-store and ecommerce environment. Get Genoapay for your store today !

Melodics is a fun and effective way to learn the keyboard, finger-drumming and electronic drum-kit. Our app makes practice fun and makes the habit stick in a way that suits you and your needs.

Cirrus is innovative web based software that enables engineers, geologists and managers to perform mineral reserves sensitivity analysis in a dynamic, scalable, secure and collaborative environment. Cirrus Mining Innovation Limited (Brand name ‘Cirrus’) is a software London-based company proving cloud-based risk analysis tools to the mining segment. The company has Research & Development (R&D) offices located in the United States and United Kingdom. Corporate headquarters is located at Enterprise House, Beeson's Yard, Bury Lane, Rickmansworth, Hertfordshire, England, WD3 1DS and it is responsible for the product commercialization and distribution to all regions around the world.

Mint Innovation, a New Zealand cleantech company, has scaled biological processes that recover valuable metals from waste. Our first process is a unique biometallurgical approach to recover metals from electronic scrap. A key aspect of the Mint process is the use of proprietary microbes that are selective for specific metals. Combined with the advantages of low-cost green chemistry, we aim to make it viable, both economically and environmentally, to capture value from e-waste near its point of collection.

Founded on the simple premise that if something is good for you it should taste good, and ifit tastes good it should be good for you. Blue Frog Breakfasts are a blend of carefullysourced, all natural ingredients, put together in ways that will knock your socks off.

We’re on a mission to unlock more productive and sustainable agriculture. Farmers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional farming. They’re growing more grass, increasing milk production and improving the health and well-being of their cows. We bridge deep tech into real-world farming by enabling farmers to remotely shift, virtually fence and proactively monitor their cows’ health and behaviour. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures. Halters headquarters are in Auckland, New Zealand.

IMeasureU (IMU) is a wearable, multi-limb, movement measurement platform that provides actionable data for coaches, practitioners, and researchers in the lab and on the field.

Spoke Phone provides tailored business calls, SMS, and WhatsApp conversations to fit your unique way of operating—because your business is one of a kind. Companies turn to Spoke Phone when traditional platforms like Teams and Zoom fall short of meeting their unique customer journeys, business processes, or specialized use cases.

Nyriad, Inc. is developing the industry’s first storage solutions based on a new architecture that redefines how data is stored. The architecture combines the power of GPUs and CPUs to deliver an unprecedented combination of performance, resilience, and efficiency, enabling massive amounts of data and multiple data types to be managed in a single storage system that is simple to deploy, operate, scale, and maintain. With Nyriad, businesses are empowered to grow, adapt, and stay competitive in a data-driven world.

Avertana is a process technology business that has developed a novel, proprietary pathway to refine steelmaking waste into raw materials used to make everyday products. The products of our process have global markets are used in everyday items such as paints, plastics, packaging, building materials and fertilisers. Avertana incorporates a combination of inorganic chemistry, advanced materials and novel design approaches that enhance process efficiency and reduce capital and operating costs.

Established in 2010, 90 Seconds is a global video creation platform trusted by the world’s biggest brands, like Amazon Unilever and Deloitte, to create high-quality videos such as Customer Stories, Event videos and Company News anywhere in the world. 90 Seconds has revolutionised and built a creative community of 13,800+ Creators, equipping Brands with global or regional presence to create fully global or hyper-localised video campaigns. 90 Seconds has proprietary technology that supports an end-to-end suite of collaboration tools, helping Brands seamlessly connect and track every component of video production to an automated and simplified workflow.

Sence is an AI‑powered Conversational Intelligence platform that leverages advanced AI to analyze online conversations in real time, transforming overwhelming volumes of comments into clear, precise, actionable insights.

We are a new breed of creative company designed for the experience age. Experience is everything. D&Co is an experience design consultancy that leverages the power of brand, CX, innovation, human centred design, technology and expert management to create connected experiences that enhance the lives of real people. We are a new breed of creative company designed for the experience age. We recognised the need to reinvent the traditional model so we created D&Co, a networked collective of specialists that come together to solve today’s ‘wicked’ problems. We passionately believe that our pursuit of customer experience excellence for our clients is a critical component to delivering business growth as we enter an era where experience innovation will drive successful business transformation.

2120 creates and invests in ambitious ideas that have the potential to produce significant long-term value for Aotearoa New Zealand.

We’re empowering Aotearoa’s small businesses and skill seekers to level up – by connecting them with the best resources in the game, for free!

Our mission is to be transformative investors in transformative Kiwi companies. We have invested >$500m into >350 companies, including Halter, Crimson, Education, Sharesies, Partly, Hnry, Dawn Aerospace, Tracksuit, Mint Innovation, Tradify, OpenStar, Shuttlerock, Ethique, Basis, Fuel50, Spalk, Substack, Nuro, and PowerbyProxi.