James (Jimmy) Wu

Serial Entrepreneur, Property and Angel Investor

📍 New Zealand, New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 11 investments📅 14 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2018
VC🌍 New Zealand
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Investor
2017
Parrot Analytics is the leading global audience demand analytics company for the attention economy. With the world’s largest audience attention datasets, the company currently tracks more than a trillion expressions of demand in over 100 languages from 200+ countries to reveal what consumers engage with and watch the most across platforms. Parrot Analytics is a trusted partner to some of the biggest media companies and content creators in the world, helping them optimize content workflows in real time. Partnering with companies across the entire content supply chain, from agencies to global direct-to-consumer platforms, Parrot Analytics helps drive better production, distribution, acquisition and marketing decisions, as well as increased subscriber growth and retention. The company has offices in Los Angeles, New York, London, Mexico City, Sao Paulo, Singapore, Sydney and Auckland. For more information visit www.parrotanalytics.com.
Investor
2016
We help the world’s leading sports properties tell their stories to the world. We do this by building powerful software, partnering with leading commentators and using our unique commercial insight to allow sports leagues & broadcasters to drive fan engagement & achieve their goals. Our Virtual Commentary Studio and Media Gateway are used to produce and distribute hundreds of sporting events into TVs and mobile phones around the world every week. Our Talent Marketplace supports thousands of professional sports commentators in 50 languages to find work. And sports organizations from World Rugby to DAZN trust us to deliver their content with multi-lingual or influencer commentary.
Founder / CEO / Board Member
Jan 2013
Formerly Parcelport, now rebranded as Zappy. Zappy is a FREE shipping software for small businesses
Founder / CEO / Board Member
Jan 2013
Find out how 1000s of SME businesses are SAVING TIME & MONEY with our courier and freight management platform. Parcelport is an online (cloud-based) courier booking platform. Shippers can get quotes, book couriers, print courier tickets and track & trace parcels under one account. You can access the services of a number of NZ Couriers and International Couriers with only one bill to pay. Parcelport can easily be integrated with your existing sales channels, eCommerce platforms, shopping carts, inventory system and business software, streamlining your incoming orders for fast dispatch. - NO set-up fee - NO monthly fee - NO minimum spend - NO need to buy pre-paid courier tickets
Investor
2013
Footfalls & Heartbeats have developed a series of proprietary processes for manufacturing smart knitted fabrics to measure, in real-time, compressive and tensile force. The technology combines mathematically determined textile structures using electrically conductive yarn to form a repeatable and robust sensor network. The technology uses the three-dimensional complexity of a textile structure, including interactions of fibres within the yarn itself, to control the electrical resistance characteristics of the sensor structure. These textile sensor structures are capable of registering external environmental stimuli in the form of electrical signals. Therefore, unlike its competitors’ products, in which solid state sensing systems are embedded within their fabrics, FHL offers a solution whereby “the textile is the sensor”. The signals obtained from the textile can be filtered, amplified, analysed or stored in real-time to produce multiple data sets relating to physiological output. This heralds the emergence of the next generation of smart textiles where sensor functionality is integrated into the fabric structure for real-time monitoring whilst ensuring comfort, personal privacy, wearability and durability. There is an increasing demand in sports, medical and automobile industries for intelligent fabrics to sense and monitor changes in their environments. Applications within each of these fields are diverse and may include, but are not restricted to, wound care, compression garment systems, monitoring of athlete performance and remote monitoring of health and physiological symptoms for those in high risk environments, such as first responders and defence personnel. The Footfalls knitted textile sensors allows ease of manufacture and allows customisation of design to meet the needs of each commercial partner’s end use.
Angel Investor
2012
Ice Angels was formed in 2004 by five founding members and The Icehouse to enable members to invest collaboratively into Kiwi startups. Ice Angels grew to be among the most active angel investment networks globally comprising over 200 entrepreneurs, executives, and professional investors investing >$10m per year. Ice Angels operation as an independent club was discontinued in 2020 with many of the members becoming active investors in the Icehouse Ventures community.
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2023
Co-Founder
Jan 2023
Welcome to firstpick - the future of hiring. Were revolutionizing the recruitment process by simplifying the connection between employers and candidates. Our innovative mobile app leverages advanced technology to provide a seamless, efficient, and cost-effective recruitment solution. firstpick makes it easy for employers to find qualified candidates, communicate directly with them, schedule interviews, and hire the best talent. There is no charge to list a job opening, and employers only pay when they interview a candidate. firstpick also makes it easy for candidates to create profiles, search for exciting opportunities, connect with potential employers, and get hired. Sign up today and start hiring better! Stay connected with us here on LinkedIn for updates, news, and insights into the world of recruitment and job hunting. Together, lets make hiring better!
2018
Limpidity Limited
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2018
2017
Cirrus Materials Science
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May 2017
Flux Fund
Founding Investor
2017
Joiy Sparkling Wine
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2017
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