Lachlan Nixon

A sustainable liquid energy source that can be stored, pumped, and shipped

Calculate the price of energy with ease. Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.

Aplenty provides greenhouse growers with a pathway to profitable decarbonisation by supplying renewable Heat & CO2 from biomass. We’ve packaged our world leading, patented Hot Lime™ carbon capture technology into a rapidly deployable biomass burner with CO2 capture that is suitable for any multi-hectare greenhouse globally. Get in touch to find out how you can decarbonise and increase your yields at the same time!

Over 10 million tonnes of hazardous dust waste are generated from the steel recycling industry every year. This contains around $10 Billion USD of zinc. Yet at least half is still landfilled, and the remainder is recycled in an expensive and carbon intensive process. This produces zinc with twice the CO2 footprint as mined zinc. Zincovery, is a New Zealand based startup which is developing an efficient and environmentally friendly technology to revolutionize the zinc recycling industry.

Our future dairy will help reduce negative impacts of animal agriculture, aid climate, improve human health and make mouths water. Deep farming traditions and computational biology meet in Miruku’s fields of the future. The result: a set of animal-free milky ingredients of nutritional, environmental and functional superiority. Our upstart dairy artists look forward to surprising you with delicious cheeses, icecreams and yogurts. Stay close.

We're on a mission to become a growers digital intuition. Fruitminder lets you create GPS mapped digital twins of your orchard, to give you the data to make the right decisions for your business.

Beautiful, affordable & always-on brand tracking. Tracksuit is the common language for companies to measure and communicate the value of brand. We’re on a mission to get brand data in every boardroom. Join us on the track 👇

Quantifi Photonics is on a mission to transform the world of photonics test and measurement. From our New Zealand headquarters, we develop and manufacture a wide range of benchtop and modular instruments and customized test solutions and supply multinational technology companies and world-leading research organizations. With deep expertise in harnessing, manipulating and measuring the physical properties of light, Quantifi Photonics solves complex challenges with innovation and experience.

Formus Labs provides a cloud-platform that brings together surgeons and engineers with cutting edge computational biomechanics to streamline the custom prosthesis design process.

Cetogenix is a clean technology company focussed on developing sustainable solutions to tackle climate change at a global scale. Our first technology targets the 1.5 billion tonnes of organic waste generated world-wide and addresses the growing demand for renewable natural gas. By retrofitting existing waste-to-biogas plants, we can increase renewable natural gas production by up to 40% and recover other components as added-value products, such as bio-fertilizers. Cetogenix ‘s technologies eliminate the need for organic wastes to be landfilled or incinerated, lowering their environmental impacts, and generating novel added-value market opportunities.

Hot Lime Labs has developed a system to produce clean, renewable CO2 from the combustion of wood and agri-waste for large high-tech commercial greenhouses, improving crop yields by 15-20%. The Pilot system underwent a successful trial at a commercial greenhouse in 2019, and the first commercial system is set to be installed in late 2022. The Hot Lime system enables growers enrich the greenhouse atmosphere in CO2, allowing them to boost yields in a sustainable and more cost-effective way than existing methods. This will help growers to operate at optimal yields, which can be up to 20 times greater than those achievable in an open field.​

Engender technology is a next-generation livestock gender-sorting technology. Engender was formed to solve the high value problem of gender selection in the dairy industry. Initially formed as a spin-out from University of Auckland, Engenders technology uses photonics to orient and sort livestock spermatozoa by gender at lower cost and lower impact than presently possible.

Sphere is building a globally competitive sector of New Zealand-developed climate and cleantech. We exist to accelerate the scaling of technologies that reduce emissions, improve resource efficiency, and strengthen environmental resilience, while delivering real economic growth. New Zealand produces world-class innovation. But too often, companies struggle to scale. Sphere connects the system around them; aligning capital, corporates, public agencies and markets to unlock faster commercialisation and global expansion. We are a founder-led, independent charitable trust focused on one thing: turning New Zealand innovation into globally scaled impact. We work with founders, investors, corporates and public sector partners to: • unlock capital pathways • enable real-world deployment • open international markets This is not an accelerator. This is not a fund. This is coordination that drives outcomes.

✚ WELCOME NZ PRIVATE CAPITAL MEMBERS ► ✚ NZ PRIVATE CAPITAL MISSION We foster the opportunities of growth capital for Owners, Founders and Investors in New Zealand. Our activity nurtures the venture capital and private equity ecosystem through advocacy, networking and professionalism in investment. ✚ MEMBER LEAD AGENDA My role is to lead the industry momentum and to realise the goals of the association and its members who want a vibrant and sustainable industry. LinkedIn provides a great opportunity to connect with our members and respond to their appetite for more targeted communications. I publish articles, opinions and stories that our members can share with their clients to build enthusiasm about the benefits of growth capital investment. ✚ OUR MEMBERS INCLUDE: ● Private equity and venture capital fund managers ● Investors (superannuation funds, pensions, community trusts, iwi, family offices) ● Angel investors, accelerators and incubators ● Professional services firms and advisors (accounting and law) ● Banks and investment banks ✚ OUR SERVICES: ● Advocacy – research, regulatory and tax policy ● Networking – events and communications ● Professional development – workshops ✚ I INVITE OUR MEMBERS TO: ►Connect with me here on LinkedIn and to contribute your expert knowledge ►Join me at NZ Private Capital events – CLICK THROUGH to our website below for more information

A sustainable liquid energy source that can be stored, pumped, and shipped

Calculate the price of energy with ease. Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.

Aplenty provides greenhouse growers with a pathway to profitable decarbonisation by supplying renewable Heat & CO2 from biomass. We’ve packaged our world leading, patented Hot Lime™ carbon capture technology into a rapidly deployable biomass burner with CO2 capture that is suitable for any multi-hectare greenhouse globally. Get in touch to find out how you can decarbonise and increase your yields at the same time!