Companies that stay. Not valuations that leave.
Anamata - the Māori word for “the future,” and the horizon we build companies to reach. An AI venture lab and the best from downunder - Aotearoa New Zealand & Australia: operators who build, scale and back companies that stay. AI-native companies with hard ROI, real revenue, and customers who'd miss them if they vanished. Sovereign by design.
Agentic AI has made starting a company easy. The hard part - the part that creates value - is turning intent into revenue, customers, and companies that last. That is what we have done before, and what we build for now. We are operators and funders, not orators.
We have built, scaled and exited companies before - more than once, out of Aotearoa. We know how to turn intent into real value, because we have done it. And we do not just back founders; we build and fund alongside them.
Foundations, not flips. We build companies with hard ROI and real revenue - the kind of customers who would miss them if they vanished. Companies that stay, not valuations that leave.
Intent without scale is just a neat idea. We build for big customers and the global stage - value designed, owned and exported from Aotearoa to the world.
As AI makes building infinite, trust becomes the scarce asset. Data sovereignty and stewardship - kaitiakitanga - are engineered into the architecture from day one: a moat in regulated, trust-sensitive markets.
Australia's settings are doing our marketing. To Aussie capital with nowhere good to sit: across the Tasman there's no capital gains tax, a visa built for active investment, and a sovereign AI lab turning it into companies that stay - not valuations that leave. We saved you a seat.
A single architecture turns conviction into companies - and companies into enduring, sovereign value.
Co-founds, builds and operates the ventures from day one, on deep operator expertise.
Backs the portfolio. The Anamata Day 1 Fund is its first vehicle.
The shared sovereign AI stack - data, guardrails, governance - that makes building repeatable and a moat.
“The horizon ahead” - a sovereign-capital pathway into the fund, open to iwi (tribes and nations), Indigenous and aligned investors.
Each sovereign by design, each in a regulated, trust-sensitive domain, each built on the Keel.
The AI layer on top of existing CRM and ERP. Perennova reads the signals revenue teams miss - accounts quietly disengaging, and latent expansion - and surfaces them while there is still time to act. Built on the Keel, so it ships in weeks: the clearest proof of the lab's repeatable-build model.
Runs within the customer's data boundary under the Keel's governance - no extractive use of customer data.
SOC 2-aligned controls with least-privilege, read-only access to CRM and ERP, encrypted in transit and at rest - and no customer data is ever used to train models.
An on-premises edge appliance, AmbientOS, that reads a site's electricity and orchestrates flexible load - HVAC, storage, EV and distributed energy - as part of a virtual power plant. The intelligence runs locally; data never leaves the site. Distribution is channel-led, so it scales capital-efficiently. Live today across Australia and Aotearoa New Zealand.
On-premises edge compute with no data egress - procurement-grade for buyers who require data residency.
A hardened appliance with secure boot and signed firmware, segmented from operational technology and built to critical-infrastructure standards - it defends the site as well as reads it.
A movement-intelligence platform for athletes, coaches, teams and clinicians. Forma pairs wireless motion and body sensors, 4K video and AI to capture lab-grade movement data - gait, cadence, asymmetries, take-off and landing forces, and more - anywhere, not just in a lab. Developed with leading UK, Australian and New Zealand sports scientists, and delivered today across NZ and Australia through a national network of assessors.
Personal movement data handled under the NZ Privacy Act - built to be a trustworthy custodian of the athlete's data, not to harvest it.
Personal and biometric movement data encrypted end to end, with role-based clinician access and consent-gated sharing - independently penetration-tested to health-grade standards.
An outcomes ledger governed by iwi (tribes and nations), paired with funding rails that move money to community-led delivery against real results. Aligned to Te Whare Tapa Whā - the holistic Māori model of wellbeing - and built to ride the Crown social-investment rails now opening. Success is measured for the mokopuna (future generations), not the quarter.
On-premises and iwi-controlled, no data egress - the community is the accountable owner of its own data.
A tamper-evident ledger with iwi-held encryption keys and community-controlled access - hardened on-premises and independently audited.
In her first address as Māori Queen, Te Arikinui Kuīni Nga wai hono i te po called for kotahitanga - unity - “not just Māori”, and launched the Kotahitanga Fund, a Māori investment platform inviting global partners to build alongside iwi (tribes and nations) and whānau (families). Anamata answers that karanga, that call - and widens it: a kaupapa (shared purpose) for Indigenous peoples across the world, to unify, build and grow together. Capital that builds, rather than extracts.
We build and back founders taking on globally relevant problems at scale - the kind where commercial return and social impact compound, rather than compete. If you are building something that could matter to millions and stand on its own commercially, we want to meet you.
A problem that matters well beyond one market - big enough to build a category around, from Aotearoa and Australia to the world.
A wedge that can reach millions, not a feature that tops out. Scale is the lane - and we have walked it before.
Hard revenue and real-world good, engineered to reinforce each other - returns that last because the company is worth something.
Our typical first cheque into a qualifying venture joining the funnel - pre-seed to seed.
Anamata is raising the Anamata Day 1 Fund - the first vehicle under the Horizon Fund - to build the foundation portfolio and seed toward a concentrated set of seven to ten ventures. We back them with capital, a shared AI platform, and operators who have built and sold companies before. Hard ROI, real revenue, real customers - and the staying power to scale globally. Open to exceptional founders and investors of every background.
A catalyst on-ramp: a first allocation of about NZD $0.3-0.8M, deployed in 90-120 days, with a quarterly impact dashboard - proof before scale.
If you are exploring an allocation, or simply want to understand the thesis, the full data room is available on request.