Mike Caird

Director at Turakirae Investments Limited

📍 Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2020
VC🌍 New Zealand
9
Total investments
2
Early stage
2
Mid stage
2
Late stage
12y
Years active

Portfolio

8 investments · sorted by recency
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Board Member
Oct 2020
Our club of dedicated angel investors are champions of Kiwi innovation. Based in Wellington, our club is dedicated to supporting early stage companies and founders, who have the potential for rapid global expansion. We connect ambitious founders with the funding, resources, and mentorship they need to give their business wings. Our members are seasoned investors who are passionate about making a difference, not just a return. With a track record of backing over 150 impressive New Zealand companies, we’re committed to driving growth and fostering success across the startup ecosystem. Whether youre an investor eager to support the next wave of innovation or a founder looking for the right partner to fuel your journey, Angel HQ is your gateway to opportunity. Let’s build the future of New Zealand business together.
Investor
Oct 2016
Make CX improvement easy. Smarter feedback, simpler change. AskNicely uses AI to capture richer, specific customer feedback and convert it into simple, daily actions your team can take. No overthinking, just clear next steps that drive retention, referrals, and revenue. Focus on business growth through customer feedback. AskNicely helps you: 💜 Stay on top of individual and team CSAT and NPS performance daily. 💜 Act on feedback fast with templates, workflows, and AI-enabled dynamic surveys. 💜 Set focus areas for your team to help them determine what to work on first, highlight areas for improvement, and provide coaching tips based on customer feedback. Ranked #1 in Usability for Experience Management by G2
Investor
Jul 2016
Kia ora, we're Flick – a Kiwi power company with a conscience, here to shake up the electricity industry and fight for fairly priced power. We're here to help Kiwis take back power and we've got the tools to do just that. Our Off Peak plan gives our customers access cheaper off-peak power, our Flickin' Best Plan Promise checks that our customers are on the best plan every 90 days, and our Carbon Tracker provides personal electricity emissions. You might not be with Flick. But Flick is still with you. It’s time to take back power. For more info on what we're all about and the pricing plans on offer: www.flickelectric.co.nz FB: www.facebook.com/FlickElectricCo Blog: http://news.flickelectric.co.nz/ TW: @FlickElectricCo IG: @FlickElectricCo
mid stageRetail
Investor
Feb 2016
Regen is an AgTech SaaS company focussed on providing science based irrigation recommendations for farmers via a simple mobile app. Regen's leading software service uses predictive models based on farm data collected via the cloud combined with weather forecasts to produce irrigation prescriptions for up to 5 days ahead. Farmers using Regen's services will use significantly less water, while maximising plant growth, and minimising nitrogen leaching. Regen also offers an Effluent recommendation service and a Nitrogen use guidance calculator based on the same data being gathered. Regen's mission is to improve the environmental, economic and sustainability outcomes of farming. Regen's vision is a world where farming is synonymous with environmental sustainability (Kaitiakitanga)
late stageFarming
Investor
Jul 2015
Publons enables researchers to track and demonstrate a more complete record of their impact as a cited author, journal editor, and peer reviewer, in one place Join over 530,000 experts and create a free Publons profile to get: - All your publications, easily imported from Web of Science, ORCID, or your bibliographic reference managers (e.g. EndNote or Mendeley) - Trusted citation metrics, automatically imported from the Web of Science - Your verified peer review and journal editing history, powered by partnerships with thousands of scholarly journals - Downloadable record summarising your scholarly impact as an author, editor and peer reviewer - Choose to display or hide your h-index Populating your profile is as simple as a few clicks. We then verify your work and update your profile for you. Publons also provides: - Tools for publishers to find, screen, contact, and motivate peer reviewers; - Data and publications about global peer review behaviour; - Peer review training for early-career researchers; and - Features for academics to discuss and evaluate published research. Official partners include: Springer Nature, Wiley, Sage, Cambridge University Press, The Royal Society, Victoria University of Wellington, The University of Queensland and many more. For more info, see: https://publons.com/in/researcher
Investor
Jun 2015
Wipster is a video collaboration and publishing platform that enables companies to create and deliver better video, faster. With Wipster, marketing and creative content teams can efficiently collaborate on video revisions, store them in a shared multimedia asset library, publish videos across a variety of tools and easily understand the results—all in one platform.
Investor
Jun 2014
Our vision is a world where hunters can enjoy the freedom and thrill of the hunt without risk of being mistakenly shot by another hunter. Our goal is to eliminate hunting accidents by providing smart, simple, technology that can prevent a once in a lifetime mistake from becoming a life time of regret, ensuring hunters get home safely to their families, every time.
Investor
Jun 2014
Times-7 are leaders in reader antenna development, pushing the boundaries of RFID technology for the industry worldwide. Our patented RAIN (UHF) antennas meet industry specific needs, helping organisations to transform processes and reduce costs. Times-7 products and solutions are making RFID more affordable for a greater number of industries, enabling more and more businesses to benefit from automated identification technologies. Established in 2006, Times-7 is recognised as the market leader for high performance SlimLine UHF RFID antennas. Our patented designs are successfully deployed in diverse industries from aviation to horticulture to sports timing. With a proven track record of innovation, Times-7 has deep knowledge in all things RFID. We are delighted to represent to the market our own unique antenna technology and a range of world class readers and tags from leaders in their field.
Experience · 11 entries
All (11)
Investments (9)
Board (1)
2020
Board Member
Oct 2020
Our club of dedicated angel investors are champions of Kiwi innovation. Based in Wellington, our club is dedicated to supporting early stage companies and founders, who have the potential for rapid global expansion. We connect ambitious founders with the funding, resources, and mentorship they need to give their business wings. Our members are seasoned investors who are passionate about making a difference, not just a return. With a track record of backing over 150 impressive New Zealand companies, we’re committed to driving growth and fostering success across the startup ecosystem. Whether youre an investor eager to support the next wave of innovation or a founder looking for the right partner to fuel your journey, Angel HQ is your gateway to opportunity. Let’s build the future of New Zealand business together.
2016
Investor
Oct 2016
Enabling travel specialists and destination marketing professionals to craft chic, cutting-edge itineraries that stand out from the competition, Tourwriter is an end-to-end tour operator software solution designed by tour operators, for tour operators. Complete with beautiful mobile optimised, digital itineraries, automatic bookings functionality, complex pricing management, CRM, traveller collaboration and more. All starting from as little as $59 per month. To start a 21 day free trial visit www.tourwriter.com
Investor
Oct 2016
Make CX improvement easy. Smarter feedback, simpler change. AskNicely uses AI to capture richer, specific customer feedback and convert it into simple, daily actions your team can take. No overthinking, just clear next steps that drive retention, referrals, and revenue. Focus on business growth through customer feedback. AskNicely helps you: 💜 Stay on top of individual and team CSAT and NPS performance daily. 💜 Act on feedback fast with templates, workflows, and AI-enabled dynamic surveys. 💜 Set focus areas for your team to help them determine what to work on first, highlight areas for improvement, and provide coaching tips based on customer feedback. Ranked #1 in Usability for Experience Management by G2
Investor
Jul 2016
Kia ora, we're Flick – a Kiwi power company with a conscience, here to shake up the electricity industry and fight for fairly priced power. We're here to help Kiwis take back power and we've got the tools to do just that. Our Off Peak plan gives our customers access cheaper off-peak power, our Flickin' Best Plan Promise checks that our customers are on the best plan every 90 days, and our Carbon Tracker provides personal electricity emissions. You might not be with Flick. But Flick is still with you. It’s time to take back power. For more info on what we're all about and the pricing plans on offer: www.flickelectric.co.nz FB: www.facebook.com/FlickElectricCo Blog: http://news.flickelectric.co.nz/ TW: @FlickElectricCo IG: @FlickElectricCo
mid stageRetail
Investor
Feb 2016
Regen is an AgTech SaaS company focussed on providing science based irrigation recommendations for farmers via a simple mobile app. Regen's leading software service uses predictive models based on farm data collected via the cloud combined with weather forecasts to produce irrigation prescriptions for up to 5 days ahead. Farmers using Regen's services will use significantly less water, while maximising plant growth, and minimising nitrogen leaching. Regen also offers an Effluent recommendation service and a Nitrogen use guidance calculator based on the same data being gathered. Regen's mission is to improve the environmental, economic and sustainability outcomes of farming. Regen's vision is a world where farming is synonymous with environmental sustainability (Kaitiakitanga)
late stageFarming
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