Craig Cotton

Father | Connector | Collaborator

📍 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 15 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2022
Operator-angel🌍 New Zealand
15
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7
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0
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2
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10y
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Portfolio

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Investor
Aug 2022
Safe365 is cloud-based software that guides your business to best practice and compliance with health & safety legislation and globally recognised standards. Safe365 provides your business with the tools to continually improve your health & safety practices and the visibility to monitor your progress from health & safety novice to advanced. Your customised Safe365 dashboard enables you to quickly and clearly see your strengths and areas for improvement, mapping your journey from point A to D, with a step-by-step plan of incremental actions and the tools and resources to support you to achieve them. Build your business’ customised health & safety maturity assessment and continuous improvement program, including the ability to access benchmarking insights so you can see how you compare to others in your industry. With us you get: • Safety Index: Complete an assessment to plot your health & safety maturity status & understand what needs to be done. • Reporting & insights, incl. benchmarking: Provide visibility to the Board, management and employees on health & safety performance. • Map an improvement path: Understand what will drive the biggest impact and build a plan on what to improve next. • Risk reporting, management & staff engagement: Use our smartphone app to engage and implement health & safety practices across your business. • Performance dashboard: Get a centralised view and monitor all health & safety risks and reports from one place. • Knowledge suite & expert support: Access a centralised suite of health & safety guidance, tools and support within the Safe365 University. With over 300 tools, templates, resources & online support included in your subscription, Safe365 will save your business time and money, improving employee engagement, workforce safety and legal defensibility. TRY SAFE365 FOR FREE at safe365global.com. Take our health & safety assessment to get your Safety Index and see where you sit on the road to health & safety excellence.
Investor
Aug 2022
According to the U.N we need to double food production to feed the growing population by 2050. 
Currently, over 45% of all produce is lost or wasted. This is larger due to over-ripping and Estimated to be over $700 Billion USD in losses. That rooting produce is through into landfill (1/3 of all landfill is produce) and creates a larger carbon footprint than the entire airline industry.

How do we produce more while wasting less? 
 Postharvest has created a micro-sensor that measure produce health & ripeness stages within storage. This allow operators to exactly health 24/7 & exactly when to send it out to ensure it reaches its final destination. 
Our sensors have already been proven to reduce waste up to 33% within the supply chain. 

To further help PH has created Free online courses & certifications to the public and employees of the food industry to ensure they are best practices and how to waste less. Go to Postharvest.com to start a cause and receive your Sustainability Sticker today. 

Founding Investor
Apr 2022
Govn365 is the governance tool to review, assess and improve your organisation.
Investor | Advisor
Oct 2021
Coming Soon 🔜 Watch this space🔥 EST - 2019
early stageRestaurants
Investor
Apr 2021
SkillsVR helps employees, teams, and corporations enable their potential through skill-based, immersive learning experiences with demonstrated impact and micro-credentials. Why SkillsVR? Engaging and immersive, real-life learning experiences, that build an individual’s confidence, competence, and resilience in safer, smarter, and faster ways. As leaders of people, we are seeking new and better approaches for developing essential skills that support individuals in and out of the workplace. From OSHA safety training to conflict management to diversity and belonging skills to specific on-the-job training, we empower people to learn when and how they want. And, our Verify-enabled proof-of-impact analytics give individuals and organizations the assurance that attitudes, behaviors and skills will be measured to demonstrate and communicate positive change. Our greatest customer advocates are the LEARNERS, their outcomes and new skills are our true measure of success. Our promise ensures that our LEARNERS are playing, learning, and growing together, in partnerships with the government, industry, global organizations, and corporations they serve. So if playing, learning and growing together sounds like you, come and join us at www.SkillsVR.com
Founding Investor | Advisor
Oct 2020
TaxGift: the gift that goes on giving. TaxGift offers charities and schools in New Zealand organisations a simple service for their donors to gift their donation tax credits back. With TaxGift, donations are boosted by up to 48% at no cost to the donor: it's the easiest ask ever. Let TaxGift show you a straightforward, powerful way to increase the impact of donors' gifts!
Investor I Co Founder
Mar 2018
We work to create technology solutions for our clients that grow with their ever-changing needs. That means working with clients to understand the constraints they have today, so that we can plan on working towards an optimal solution tomorrow.
Founding Investor | Advisory Board
Oct 2017
Say NO to ugly ingredients, beliefs & behaviors & YES to feeling gorgeous. Wellness Made in New Zealand 🇳🇿 #nougly #yesgorgeous nougly.nz, nougly.com.au
Investor
Jun 2016
Miro means berry in Māori, and our mission is to be a world-leading Māori-owned berryfruit company, growing and delivering high quality, great tasting, premium berries around the world. We’re passionate about growing berries on Māori-owned land and creating work and career opportunities in horticulture for our people.
Founding Investor
Jun 2016
Miro means berry in Māori, and our mission is to be a world-leading Māori-owned berryfruit company, growing and delivering high quality, great tasting, premium berries around the world. We’re passionate about growing berries on Māori-owned land and creating work and career opportunities in horticulture for our people.
Investor | Advisory Board
Mar 2016
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.
Investor & Advisor
Mar 2016
2022 Innovation Category Winner -- The easiest way to manage employee and tenant parking. Trusted by global companies including Meta, CBRE, Siemens, KPMG, Dentsu Aegis, JLL and LaSalle. Parkable improves parking experiences, reduces time spent on admin, increases car park occupancy, promotes a fairer work culture and generates extra revenue. Parkers use the app to share, reserve and pay for parking. Administrators use the web panel to easily manage parking and EV chargers across multiple locations. Who Uses Parkable? Organisations looking for a simple, user-friendly platform to manage their car parks. Features include EV charger management, gate access, ANPR, visitor parking, park sharing and occupancy tracking.
Investor | Advisor
Mar 2016
2022 Innovation Category Winner -- The easiest way to manage employee and tenant parking. Trusted by global companies including Meta, CBRE, Siemens, KPMG, Dentsu Aegis, JLL and LaSalle. Parkable improves parking experiences, reduces time spent on admin, increases car park occupancy, promotes a fairer work culture and generates extra revenue. Parkers use the app to share, reserve and pay for parking. Administrators use the web panel to easily manage parking and EV chargers across multiple locations. Who Uses Parkable? Organisations looking for a simple, user-friendly platform to manage their car parks. Features include EV charger management, gate access, ANPR, visitor parking, park sharing and occupancy tracking.
Investor & Advisory Board
Mar 2016
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.
Experience · 17 entries
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Investments (14)
Founder (3)
2022
Investor
Aug 2022
Safe365 is cloud-based software that guides your business to best practice and compliance with health & safety legislation and globally recognised standards. Safe365 provides your business with the tools to continually improve your health & safety practices and the visibility to monitor your progress from health & safety novice to advanced. Your customised Safe365 dashboard enables you to quickly and clearly see your strengths and areas for improvement, mapping your journey from point A to D, with a step-by-step plan of incremental actions and the tools and resources to support you to achieve them. Build your business’ customised health & safety maturity assessment and continuous improvement program, including the ability to access benchmarking insights so you can see how you compare to others in your industry. With us you get: • Safety Index: Complete an assessment to plot your health & safety maturity status & understand what needs to be done. • Reporting & insights, incl. benchmarking: Provide visibility to the Board, management and employees on health & safety performance. • Map an improvement path: Understand what will drive the biggest impact and build a plan on what to improve next. • Risk reporting, management & staff engagement: Use our smartphone app to engage and implement health & safety practices across your business. • Performance dashboard: Get a centralised view and monitor all health & safety risks and reports from one place. • Knowledge suite & expert support: Access a centralised suite of health & safety guidance, tools and support within the Safe365 University. With over 300 tools, templates, resources & online support included in your subscription, Safe365 will save your business time and money, improving employee engagement, workforce safety and legal defensibility. TRY SAFE365 FOR FREE at safe365global.com. Take our health & safety assessment to get your Safety Index and see where you sit on the road to health & safety excellence.
Investor
Aug 2022
According to the U.N we need to double food production to feed the growing population by 2050. 
Currently, over 45% of all produce is lost or wasted. This is larger due to over-ripping and Estimated to be over $700 Billion USD in losses. That rooting produce is through into landfill (1/3 of all landfill is produce) and creates a larger carbon footprint than the entire airline industry.

How do we produce more while wasting less? 
 Postharvest has created a micro-sensor that measure produce health & ripeness stages within storage. This allow operators to exactly health 24/7 & exactly when to send it out to ensure it reaches its final destination. 
Our sensors have already been proven to reduce waste up to 33% within the supply chain. 

To further help PH has created Free online courses & certifications to the public and employees of the food industry to ensure they are best practices and how to waste less. Go to Postharvest.com to start a cause and receive your Sustainability Sticker today. 

Founding Investor
Apr 2022
Govn365 is the governance tool to review, assess and improve your organisation.
Investor | Advisor
Apr 2022
Leftbrain is disrupting the world of ice creams! It’s a smart business intelligence platform using IoT technology to help large scale manufacturers of novelty ice blocks and ice creams improve customer experience, lift brand presence, and monitor freezers vital to maintaining product integrity. It solves your blind spots: * What’s moving, what’s not? * Which products need to be re-stocked? * Are new products stocked in the freezer ready for your marketing campaign? * Are your planograms being implemented? * Are your freezers starting to fail? Ideal for fleets of chest freezers located in independent distribution channels where sales information is delayed and costly to obtain. Leftbrain is comprised of AI-enabled smart camera and sensors fitted to your chest freezer, merchandising and technician apps, and a configurable management dashboard. The event-based workflow engine is powerful and automates actions and escalations. And the data you collect today will be invaluable for data analytics in the future.
2021
Investor | Advisor
Oct 2021
Coming Soon 🔜 Watch this space🔥 EST - 2019
early stageRestaurants
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