| Date | Title | Description |
| 30.07.2021 | Geo40 working to combat environmental impact of Lithium mining for EV batteries | Geo40 has successfully recovered lithium from groundwaters sourced from Europe, South America and New Zealand at laboratory scale.
Geo40 CEO and Managing Director John Worth said, “We’ve been working hard on our lithium technology for the ... |
| 30.07.2021 | Orbis Diagnostics launches its Covid-19 quantitative immunity testing product ‘Arca’ | Orbis continues to progress positively in the development and productisation of the Orbis Arca and its QIC Test (Quantitative Immunity COVID-19 Test). The Orbis Arca successfully brings the highly accurate testing available in a medical lab... |
| 26.07.2021 | Quantifi Photonics raises $15m from kiwi investors | We’ve just announced our $2m investment into Quantifi Photonics’ $15m capital raise alongside Punakaiki Fund, Simplicity, Nuance Connected Capital, Aspire and K1W1. Quantifi is an Auckland-based company that develops complex test and measur... |
| 23.03.2021 | Pacific Channel leads fully oversubscribed $2m seed round into Vortex Power Systems | Vortex Power Systems is a venture formed out of the University of Auckland that is developing technology to generate electricity from waste heat emitted by thermal and industrial processes. Vortex is able to harness wasted heat to create a ... |
| 23.03.2021 | Roles within Orbis Diagnostics |
Orbis has outgrown its part time jumpstart team and requires a full-time commercial team. Orbis is currently recruiting for an experienced high-growth CEO, Chief Operations Officer, and an Immunologist.
CEO – Orbis’ technology has develo... |
| 23.03.2021 | Jobs within Pacific Channel |
About us:
Pacific Channel invests in smart people solving hard problems to create a better future. We aim to provide capital, capability and connections to NZ-based ‘deep-tech’ companies based on breakthrough science and advanced enginee... |
| 23.03.2021 | Pacific Channel Fund II closes fully oversubscribed with $55 million | - |
| 23.03.2021 | Orbis Diagnostics secures partnership deal with French multinational IDEMIA | - |
| 15.10.2020 | InsituGen spins out from the University of Otago and secures $2m | InsituGen is developing a novel test which we believe will revolutionise steroid testing. The test can measure the anabolic effect of steroid use, meaning it enables detection of previously uncharacterised substances used to enhance perform... |
| 15.10.2020 | Vortex Power Systems achieves key milestone | Vortex Power Systems – a spin out from the University of Auckland’s Wind Engineering lab, is developing a novel method of generating electricity from wasted heat, has achieved a key milestone in validating its technology. Vortex’s technolog... |
| 15.10.2020 | Orbis Diagnostics works to re-open borders | COVID-19 has significantly impacted our ability to move about safely – within our own communities, countries and internationally. The social and economic implications of this continue to be devastating. While people want assurance that life... |
| 12.10.2020 | Announcing Pacific Channel Fund II | We are proud to announce that $45m has now been committed to Pacific Channel Fund II; an NZ$50m early-stage investment fund focused on science and advanced engineering ‘deep-tech’ companies in New Zealand. The $45m includes a NZ$20m commitm... |
| 12.12.2019 | Pacific Channel releases internal analysis of Living Cell Technologies (ASX:LCT) | Pacific Channel has released its updated internal analysis of Living Cell Technologies (ASX:LCT).
LCT is an Australasian biotechnology company that is focused on developing a cell-based therapy for Parkinson’s Disease. The company announce... |
| 05.12.2018 | Mastaplex raises $720k for mastitis diagnosis and treatment recommendation product | Mastaplex’s product provides dairy farmers with mastitis diagnosis and antibiotic treatment recommendations and is currently being sold to farmers in New Zealand and Australia via vets.
Bovine Mastitis is an inflammation of the udder cause... |
| 05.12.2018 | Hot Lime Labs works to increase crop yields | Hot Lime Labs is developing clean CO2 technology for commercial green-houses to increase crop yields using low carbon renewable energy sources.
Hi-tech greenhouses currently produce $35B of crops per annum and are growing at 4x four times ... |
| 05.12.2018 | An update on Upstream Medical Technologies | Currently, a large number of patients present to emergency departments each year with chest pain. Only one in eight actually has a life-threatening condition. Causes for this pain are many; heart, lung, gastrointestinal, bone, muscle and ne... |
| 21.11.2018 | Engender acquired by a global livestock corporate | Pacific Channel portfolio company Engender Technologies has been acquired by a global corporate with significant existing operations in New Zealand.
Engender was co-founded by the University of Auckland and Pacific Channel in 2011. Engende... |
| 23.10.2018 | CertusBio Features on Newshub | Earlier in the week, Pacific Channel portfolio company CertusBio was recognised by TV3’s Newshub.
CertusBio’s lead product, Milk-Guard, is the first real-time interference-free biosensor monitoring device aimed at the dairy processing indu... |
| 25.05.2018 | NZeno – Hitting the sweet spot in xenotransplantation | NZeno is a kiwi company aiming to supply pig kidneys suitable for human transplantation. The company is applying novel gene editing technology to unique high-health status New Zealand pigs whose kidneys would be more acceptable by the human... |
| 25.05.2018 | Pacific Channel participates in Techlaw Program | Technology law firm Simmonds Stewart has just launched a technology focused internship programme for law students in conjunction with Auckland University Law School. The programme offers law students paid intern positions at companies invol... |
| 25.05.2018 | Living Green Group hires a new CEO and secures cornerstone investor | Living Green is a New Zealand formulator, manufacturer and marketer of ‘next generation’ eco-friendly home products. These products, which are fully natural and effective, range from baby care and hygiene to personal care including skin, bo... |
| 04.12.2017 | Regen Raises Over $1m | Regen is a Agtech start-up that provides specialist software services to farmers for daily, accurate nitrogen, water and effluent irrigation recommendations. The company has just secured ~$1.1m of investment, which was underwritten and led ... |
| 04.12.2017 | Engender proves its technology’s ability to sort sperm by sex | Engender Technologies is developing a revolutionary laser-based method for sexing livestock sperm, targeting the US$2 billion dairy artificial insemination industry. The Company has successfully concluded laboratory trials and is preparing ... |
| 22.09.2017 | Lasers, Cows and the Twelve Million Dollar Woman |
Congratulations to Professor Cather Simpson, scientific founder of Engender Technologies and Orbis Diagnostics, for securing over $12.8 million of new science funding announced this week by Prime Minister Bill English and Science and Inno... |
| 16.06.2016 | Engender Chief Scientist named primary industry champion | Engender’s Chief Scientist, Associate Professor Cather Simpson, has been named a primary industry champion. This appointment confirms that Engender’s technology addresses a significant market need. Please click here for further details
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| 03.06.2016 | Engender Closes a $4.5m Capital Raise and Wins the Ag-tech Sector of the Silicon Valley Tech World Cup | Pacific Channel portfolio company Engender Technologies is moving at light speed from local success to the global stage. Engender has just closed a $4.5 million capital raise led by Pacific Channel. With an original target of $2.5 million, ... |
| 26.06.2015 | 2015 Grant Report now avaliable | The 2015 iteration of Pacific Channel’s grant report is now available for purchase. The grant report is an annual guide to securing international grant funding for Australasian life sciences research. The 2015 version contains a review of g... |
| 16.06.2015 | Feeding the fabric of growth – Footfalls featured on Backbone | Footfalls and Heartbeats have been featured on “Capital Raising” issue of the Minter Ellison Rudd Watts’ “Backbone” magazine.
Click here to read about Footfall’s journey in New Zealand from finding investment, securing our licensing deal a... |
| 07.05.2015 | Kiwi tech start-up spearheads global smart textile market with major licensing deal |
After raising initial equity capital and providing its interim management team, Pacific Channel was delighted to assist New Zealand smart fabric technology start-up, Footfalls & Heartbeats secure a significant licensing deal... |
| 07.05.2015 | Breathe Easy poised to take Citramel into trial as investors build through crowdfunding and new appointments bolster Board |
Breathe Easy Therapeutics is funded to start cystic fibrosis trials, which is evidence that investors are once again developing an appetite for higher risk investments with higher return.
The medicine development company has ju... |
| 07.05.2015 | Vote of confidence for Engender as leading global livestock artificial inseminator inks deal |
New Zealand based Engender has patented and developed a physics solution to a biological problem in which technology housed in a microfluidic chip forms a process that is expected to be faster, gentler and less expensive and less la... |
| 07.05.2015 | Demand for Living Green accelerates with growth in local and offshore markets |
Living Green has proven itself in a short period of time, as a commercial scale manufacturer and marketer of green products sold through both industrial and consumer channels.
The company which develops, manufactures and markets whol... |
| 17.12.2013 | Painting its way to success | Great to see D’Arcy Polychrome beating nine other international finalists and 389 entrants to win one of the Grand Awards at the 2013 StartmeupHK awards in Hong Kong.
The company, which has developed drikolor – an innovative process to del... |
| 17.12.2013 | The difference between good and great – Commentary from Brent Ogilvie | As I help build the capability that will take Footfalls & Heartbeats forward, I’ve been reflecting on what it is that makes a team great.
Of the 20-odd rugby teams that I played in, two were great teams. Both had good coaches and good ... |
| 17.12.2013 | The Chinese connection | Pacific Channel continues to strengthen its connections with China, recently creating a joint venture with the China Technology Exchange (CTEX), the technology transfer arm of the Chinese Government.
This is a significant achievement for P... |
| 17.12.2013 | New Offices | Have you visited Pacific Channel’s new offices? The business is now conveniently located at Ground Floor, Shed 20, 139 Quay Street, Princes Wharf Auckland near both Auckland Tourism Events and Economic Development (ATEED) and New Zealand Tr... |
| 17.12.2013 | Training in commercialisation and entrepreneurship | The University of Auckland Business School is offering a Masters course in commercialisation and entrepreneurship through a programme tailor made for business professionals.
The programme’s business friendly timetable makes it ideal for th... |
| 17.12.2013 | Footfalls & Heartbeats closes successful investment round | Footfalls & Heartbeats Limited (FHL) has closed oversubscribed – at $1.5 million – with investors from New Zealand, Australia and the United States for what has become one of the most successful capital raising rounds of 2013 for early ... |
| 17.12.2013 | New partner appointed | Pacific Channel is delighted to announce that Blair Pritchard is joining the company in the role of partner, working alongside Brent Ogilvie.
Blair’s appointment brings significant additional executive capacity and reflects Pacific Channel... |
| 17.12.2013 | Season’s Greetings | As the end of the year fast approaches, Pacific Channel would like to thank you for your engagement during the year and extend season’s greetings. There is much to anticipate in 2014 but, before then, please enjoy the festive season.
Warm ... |
| 16.12.2013 | Footfalls & Heartbeats Ltd seeks a Senior Product Development Manager | “Do not go where the path may lead, go instead where there is no path and leave a trail”
Ralph “Waldo” Emerson
Footfalls & Heartbeats Limited (FHL) seeks a senior staff member who can drive product development for this exciting, early... |
| 11.01.2013 | Pacific Channel becomes a cornerstone shareholder in Footfalls and Heartbeats Limited. | FHL has developed a process for designing & manufacturing textiles where the textile itself can perform a sensory function. FHL is developing intelligent textiles to allow remote physiological monitoring,capturing heart rate,respiration... |
| 07.05.2012 | Pacific Channel works with ICE Angels to form new Chinese investor group | 3 May 2012
A new group of Chinese investors will come together for the first time…Read more. |
| 28.07.2011 | EcoGene Landcare Research director wins Women in Science Entrepreneurship award | 28 July 2011
A director of Landcare Research’s DNA diagnostic facility, EcoGene®, has won the inaugural Women in Science Entrepreneurship Award sponsored by Pacific Channel, New Zealand’s leading venture development and investment firm and... |
| 06.07.2011 | Re:Gen helps farmers improve farm productivity and environmental performance – Pacific Channel leads $350k investment | July 2011
Pacific Channel Limited, New Zealand’s leading venture development and investment firm focused on early-stage life science and clean-tech innovation, announced today the closing of $350,000 new equity investment into Regen which ... |
| 06.07.2011 | Caldera Health secures $1 million to develop prostate cancer diagnostic | July 2011
Pacific Channel Limited, New Zealand’s leading venture development and investment firm focused on early-stage life science and clean-tech innovation led $1 million of new equity investment for Caldera Health Ltd, enabling the com... |
| 18.05.2011 | $1.8m cash injection has Kiwi business urging others to get investment ready | MEDIA RELEASE: 18 May 2011
Pacific Channel managing director Brent Ogilvie has gained more than $1.8 million in capital for two companies he took through the Unlimited Investment Challenge.
The national programme helps companies fine-tune... |
| 09.12.2010 | Pacific Channel start-up company sold to New Image Group | 9 December 2010
Auckland: The business assets of a Pacific Channel Ltd start-up company that has successfully commercialised a sleep-enhancing milk product in Asia has been sold to New Image Group (NZX:NEW) for an undisclosed sum.
Somnace... |
| 03.09.2010 | Re:Gen by Harmonic, wins TUANZ Innovation Rural Award. | 3 September 2010
Pacific Channel congratulates Ms Bridgit Hawkins and Re:Gen Limited for winning the TUANZ Innovation Rural award with Re:Gen, a dairy-effluent management system.
The award recognises the most innovative product, service o... |
| 28.05.2010 | Somnaceutics, co-founded by Pacific Channel, announces positive market trial results | Press Release by New Image Group Limited at 9:09 am, 28 May 2010
NZ sleep-enhancing milk popular in Taiwan
Taiwanese trials of a New Zealand sleep-enhancing milk product proved there was interest. But joint venture partners New Image Grou... |
| 23.12.2009 | Somnaceutics and New Image Group Limited agree to trial sales of Somnaceutics sleep enhancing beverage in Taiwan | 23 December 2009 – Somnaceutics and NZX listed New Image Group Limited agree to trial sales of Somnaceutics sleep-enhancing beverage in Taiwan.
New Image Group is a large seller of branded New Zealand colostrum in Taiwan. The market trial ... |
| 05.08.2009 | Pacific Channel raises capital for Living Cell Technologies | 5 August 2009 – Pacific Channel Ltd has supported Living Cell Technologies, a New Zealand global leader in cell therapy, in raising A$4.2 million through the issue of new shares.
Pacific Channel managed the New Zealand side of the trans-Ta... |
| 06.04.2009 | Somnaceutics wins Science Innovation Award | Somnaceutics, co-founded by Pacific Channel, won the Science Innovation Award at the NZ Natural Products Industry Summit for its natural sleep enhancing milk product. Somnaceutics’ marketing partner, New Image Group Limited (NZX:NEW) won th... |
| 06.03.2009 | Pacific Channel leads $350k SciTOX funding | Pacific Channel led investment of $350k in April 2011 to fund the development of SciTOX Ltd’s waste toxicity measurement device.
The funds will be used to evolve the existing toxicity device so it can meet the operational needs of wastewat... |
| 06.02.2009 | Pacific Channel Aids British Company Indigix | Pacific Channel has provided business planning and product development support to a British company, Indigix, which raised seed capital of £930,000 (NZ$1.926 million).
The seed investment was led by London-based Imperial Innovations Group ... |
| 06.01.2009 | Nova Eco Tech Limited secures 50 free hours of investment advice. | Pacific Channel Limited’s offer of 100 free hours of investment advice to New Zealand life-science and engineering-technology entities with the potential to create jobs has now closed. Pacific Channel made the offer in response to ASB Bank’... |
