Apply for Funding

If you are a New Zealand company seeking angel investment, you’ve come to the right place.   Before you start our application process, please be sure that you meet our basic criteria:

• You are looking for between $50,000 and $1,000,000 investment
• Your product or service can achieve rapid adoption in large markets
• Market:  a compelling, well articulated strategy for capturing and defending a significant market share
• Barriers to entry: ideally some patents, proprietary technology or smarts
• Team: a strong (not necessarily complete) team
• Exit strategy:  Some idea of who will eventually acquire your company
• How we fit:  a desire for advice, coaching and connections
• Valuation: you must fit within our risk/reward expectations

We only accept online applications via Gust, which go through the following process:

• A preliminary review by club manager – desktop due diligence, completed within 5 days of your application being received by us.
• Phone/Skype/Face2Face interview with club manager – an informal conversation where we’ll explain more about our criteria and ask you questions about your venture’s potential to meet them.
• Pre-screening meeting(s) with several selected club members – no PowerPoint required!  just the opportunity to describe your venture and opportunity to interested club members, who are confirming whether we have sufficient interest within our club to lead this deal to completion.  You’ll know the next day what our answer is.
• Full screening by club manager and team – at our monthly meeting, the lead investor will present your company back to the group to inspire interest and gather questions for the due diligence process.  At this stage we may invite angels from other networks, or outside networks, to participate.
• Invitation to present at a club meeting, held quarterly – bring on the PowerPoint! 10 minutes to present to 40-50 interested individuals, followed by QA and a follow up meeting to confirm the due diligence process.
• Due diligence – can take up to two months.  We’ll  support you during this time.

Note that only a small percentage of applications are successful in making it through the full process to presentation, and finally to investment – BUT we commit to our entrepreneurs to make the experience as painless as possible, empowering and valuable – even if investment is not forthcoming.

Our fees: 6% of capital raised.  There are no fees for application, coaching, presentations.

Are you ready?

You can now start an online application.