Our investments
Invest South has over 20 years of experience investing in growth businesses in southern New Zealand.
We have a deep understanding of the unique challenges and opportunities that companies face in this region. At the heart of our approach is building strong relationships with our investee companies, and we take pride in the success stories that have emerged from these partnerships.
The expertise, knowledge, and networks we possess have empowered these businesses to realise their visions and expedite their growth.
We currently have investments in the following companies:
Bison Group Limited
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Bison provides container lifting and container weighing solutions to exporters, forwarders, military and logistics companies in over 30 countries. With an impressive client base including the US Army, US Navy, NASA, Virgin Orbital and Emirates Team New Zealand, they enable companies to handle heavy freight safely, efficiently and with accurate weights anywhere, anytime and for less.
Energia Potior Limited
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Energia Potior Limited is a Southland based company which is majority-owned by Invercargill family company Yunca Engineering. EnPot, is a green-tech solution for a real-world problem, allowing aluminium smelters to modulate their energy consumption, making them more compatible with variable electricity supply from renewable generation. Smelters can now be re-imagined as “Demand Response Providers” or “Virtual Grid Storage Batteries” while continuing to be productive aluminium smelters. With Enpot, smelters can release large amounts of electricity back to the grid in times of high energy demand or lower than normal generation, at a much lower cost than other storage options.
Fiordland Lobster Company Limited
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The Fiordland Lobster Company is New Zealand’s largest exporter of live Fiordland rock lobster. The company contracts fishermen suppliers in Fiordland and other parts of New Zealand to provide catches of the premium New Zealand red lobster for export to China and other key markets.
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First Table is a New Zealand-founded, global hospitality technology platform that revolutionises the dining experience by connecting its community of diners with restaurants around the world. With its innovative model, First Table not only helps restaurants optimise revenue during off-peak hours but also rewards diners for dining early. Through First Table's unique API and integration with major restaurant reservation systems, the platform is also the one place diners can check for real-time regular table availability at partner restaurants across New Zealand.
First Table Limited
Izon Science Limited
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Izon Science is a nanotechnology company that develops and sells nano-scale particle analysis and isolation tools. The company’s instruments are in use in a wide range of research institutes and universities around the world.
LILO Desserts
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LILO Desserts was established with a mission to craft fruit-forward, allergen-friendly desserts by upcycling orchard waste. Marketed as New Zealand’s first dairy-free, no-added-gluten cheesecake to be scaled for supermarkets, the product was designed for export, targeting demand for fruit-based, lighter desserts in urban APAC cities. Over the years, the company has scaled its operations across New Zealand and is now expanding internationally, with a focus on exporting to key markets including Australia, the USA, and Asia.
Loaded Reports
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Loaded Reports is a hospitality Software as a Service platform that enables a hospitality business to manage their revenue, labour and cost of goods, in real time from one software hub. The platform streamlines business processes, providing enhanced cost management practices that drive cost efficiencies to improve the operational and financial performance of a hospitality business (bar, restaurant or café).
New Zealand Beeswax Limited
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New Zealand Beeswax is a specialist beeswax processing and manufacturing company and a pre-eminent supplier of bee health, feed, protein and hive maintenance products, as well as a range of woodware and other consumables to NZ honey producers.
Starboard Marine Intelligence
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Starboard supports governments, border security teams, NGOs and fisheries organisations to navigate vast amounts of maritime data, enabling them to make better decisions about which vessels to focus on and inspect. Over 4000 vessel positions a second are processed with proprietary algorithms and machine learning models to flag significant maritime activity, like when vessels meet at sea to move fish, behave abnormally, or are fishing. This on-water behaviour is blended with off-water ownership and licensing information to enable analysts to identify high risk vessels.
Waikaia Gold Limited
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Waikaia Gold Limited was formed specifically to mine the Waikaia Gold Project and has specialist expertise in New Zealand alluvial mining operations. Mining has taken place in 4 stages over 8 years using a standard floating gold recovery plant.
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