The New Zealand Venture Investment Fund has recorded its first annual surplus amid its busiest investment year. In its 2009 annual report, NZVIF posted a net surplus of $3 million and completed 50 investment transactions totalling $18.7 million- a...

Bridget Liddell was one of the featured overseas speakers at the Angel Association Summit held earlier this month. She is the Chairperson of New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s US Beachheads Programme, a director of the Kiwi Expat Association, and a...

As part of Global Entrepreneurship Week, the DomPost published an interview with me headlined “Passion a crucial ingredient for success” on the relationship between angel investors and wannabe entrepreneurs, which is available online. They haven’t...

New Zealand and Singapore angel investors have signed a land-mark partnership between the Angel Association of New Zealand and the Business Angel Network (South East Asia) which will assist both countries in the development of globally successful...

Shout it from the rooftops – there’s going to be an IPO!  It would appear that rumours of the death of the IPO have been greatly exaggerated. The last start-up IPOs in New Zealand were in the class of 2007 – Xero, Burgerfuel, and NZ Farming Systems...