Grow tomorrow’s exporters

A unique investment model

powerHouse combines the activities of an angel syndicate, a venture capital firm and business incubation. Our approach to early stage investment, we believe, will offer substantial returns to investors and being locally focused, will offer major benefits to the Canterbury region.

Excellent, unmatched deal flow

• Partnerships with universities, a polytechnic and leading research institutes, ensuring high quality investment opportunities
• Dedicated and experienced management team for sourcing and screening deals

Investment opportunities

• Early stage, high growth companies offering investors the potential to make substantial returns over the long term
• Opportunities selected, analysed and structured by a professional team
• Co-investment opportunities alongside dedicated funds

Value add

• Hands-on involvement by a team with a strong track record working with early stage companies
• Leverage expertise of our investor network to achieve full potential of our investee companies
• In depth industry specific knowledge sourced by leveraging well-connected investor base
• Investor network includes influential business leaders and successful entrepreneurs

Capital

• Pools of complementary capital — managed funds and syndicated capital
• Seed Co-investment Fund accredited partner
• Access to follow-on funding rounds

Powerhouse Ventures' investment criteria

Typically, opportunities are sought with:

• a clearly defined niche within a fast-growing, international market
• a sufficiently large market opportunity
• potential to become market leader
• a compelling, well-articulated strategy for capturing a significant market share
• proprietary technology or other strong barriers to market entry
• the basis for a high quality technical and management team
• a pathway to profitability that can be achieved with capital accessible to powerHouse
• an exit strategy for the investors
• a fitting company valuation with respect to risk/reward