Podcasts about punakaiki fund

Lance Wiggs has over 10 years of experience as a venture capitalist and considerable experience helping to start, grow, turn around, and exit companies as a consultant, investor, co-founder, and director. He is a principal with Punakaiki Fund and Climate VC Fund, and has invested in well over 40 companies. In this episode, we discuss the importance of making good decisions in business and how Lance helps CEOs and founders make better decisions. We talk about the Government and whether they should invest in our ecosystem and many more topics including Lance's Aphantasia. Follow Lance: Follow Punakaiki Fund: Thanks to our sponsor - Talent Army

On this special NZ Hi-Tech Award Winners episode host Paul Spain is joined by Bex Rempel, co-founder and CEO of ZeroJet - winner of this year's Punakaiki Fund Hi-Tech Startup Company of the year award. Bex shares fascinating insights into the development of their electric jet propulsion systems, the challenges they have faced, and the exciting potential of electric engines in the boating industry.

The TIN200 Report, Punakaiki Fund, Sharesies and Hatch all feature in this discussion about technology investment in New Zealand in 2020 – and it’s importance in NZ’s future as an alternative to other investments such as property.NZ Tech PodcastPaul SpainSpecial thanks to organisations who support innovation and tech leadership in New Zealand by partnering with NZ Tech Podcast:Umbrellar ConnectSumo LogicVodafone NZHPSpark NZVocusGorilla Technology

Last week Prime Minister Jacinda Adern declared a Climate Emergency. In Parliament she said: “This declaration is an acknowledgement of the next generation … of the burden that they will carry if we do not get this right and do not take action now.” The declaration has been a long time coming and follows the example of many other countries and cities, including some in NZ. So what is a climate emergency? What difference will it make? And what other ‘emergencies’ get bumped off the agenda as a result? With me to discuss this move are two climate campaigners and rational optimists:  Melissa Clark-Reynolds, a professional director and futurist who was the first New Zealander to train with Al Gore, when he was still a thing and Rohan MacMahon, a technology investor and adviser with the Punakaiki Fund.

Episode 7 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 12th December 2019 My guest for this episode is Lance Wiggs, Manager of the Punakaiki Fund, a Venture Capital fund. We discuss the New Zealand venture capital landscape and how a venture capital firm operates. Lance takes a different approach to most VCs in how he has structured the LP side of the Punakaiki Fund  with capital raising from wholesale and retail investors over time rather than a smaller number of instituional investors up front. This is partly due to the shortage of NZ venture capital investors something we also discuss. We finish off with his career path including assisting TradeMe with valuation and his time at Yale. Show Notes About Lance Wiggs is a Principal of Lance Wiggs Capital Management, the Manager of the Punakaiki Fund. In 2013 he co-founded this $50M VC fund for investing in high growth technology companies in NZ. It is an innovative approach to the venture capital gap in New Zealand. He is a director of many companies, most/all of which are fund investments. He has launched Pacific Fibre, advised TradeMe on valuation on the Fairfax sale, and has worked at McKinsey in Washington DC  amongst a wide range of roles he has undertaken overseas. Links Lance Wiggs Punakaiki Fund Episode Show Notes Transcript: Venture Capital with Lance Wiggs Coming in January 2020.

Episode 7 of the Curious Kiwi Capitalist Podcast 12th December 2019 My guest for this episode is Lance Wiggs, Manager of the Punakaiki Fund, a Venture Capital fund. We discuss the New Zealand venture capital landscape and how a venture capital firm operates. Lance takes a different approach to most VCs in how he has structured […] The post Venture Capital with Lance Wiggs appeared first on .

After last weeks episode through the grapevine I got put in touch with John Berry, the founder and CEO of Pathfinder Asset Management, you can check out their website by going to www.path.co.nz. Pathfinder are an investment fund, setup in 2009 to focus on investing responsibly and ethically in the global markets. They believe that investors should consider the environmental, social and governance impact of their investments and believe that accounting for these factors is an edge in the market and can improve returns. So I thought who better to talk to than John Berry, who probably knows more about ethical investing than anyone else in New Zealand. The conversation is unscripted, wide ranging and we also diverge into other topics such as the big macro, globalisation, fund management and we find time to dive into companies such as Facebook and VW. John Berry bio John is an advocate for responsible investment and for greater transparency around investment products. He is CEO (and co-founder) of Pathfinder Asset Management, a boutique fund manager specialising in ethical investment. Pathfinder’s funds include global water and global equity strategies with an environmental, social and governance focus. John is a trustee of the Men’s Health Trust NZ. He is also an independent director of Punakaiki Fund (an investor in NZ growth and tech businesses) and a member of the Government’s working group designing a new code of conduct for financial advice in New Zealand. A reminder that nothing that John and I talk about today should be considered financial advice, if you are looking for financial advice I recommend that you speak to an authorised financial adviser. Listen in by searching Stock Market Movers on Apple or wherever you get your podcasts. If you are looking to get in touch or would like more information go to www.stockmarketmovers.co.nz

He rides an e-bike, he made money out of Bitcoin but wouldn't touch it now, and he's been involved in some pretty big deals behind the scenes with some iconic Kiwi businesses, but you may have never heard of Lance Wiggs. Lance, like many players in the venture capitalism space are smart cookies who know their stuff - but are busy behind the scenes making it all happen. Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. They currently hold $41 million in assets (September 2018) and have investments in 20 Portfolio Companies. One of the reasons we had Lance on the show is that Punakaiki Fund is making a retail offer to the public, and everyday investors can access something within a short window of time. For as little as $215 you can also own a slice of the action but before you do anything, please read this and ideally seek out your own independent investment advice. (The following is an excerpt from the PDS) Lance Wiggs is the primary contact for most of the existing and new investments, and is a director of 11 of Punakaiki Fund’s Portfolio Companies. He was formerly a director of Linewize until his resignation following its acquisition by Family Zone in late 2017, and of Devoli until early 2017, when he was replaced by Chris Humphreys. Lance and Chris commenced working on what would become LWCM and Punakaiki Fund in late 2012, and together they have made 80 different investment placements in the four and a half years since the formal launch of Punakaiki Fund in April 2014. Lance combines a wide variety of global experience with helping high-growth companies in New Zealand. Lance completed three years of contracting to New Zealand Trade and Enterprise’s (NZTE) Better by Capital programme in early 2017, where he helped over 100 companies of all stages become more 'invest-able' through intensive workshops. He now occasionally assists clients of NZTE Investments, with Lance holding a contract with NZTE to be retained on an ad-hoc basis. Lance was also formerly a practitioner with the NZTE Better by Design programme. Lance is a member of two Return on Science Investment Committees, ICT where he was the Chair for several years, and Physical Science. These committees, convened by Auckland University’s UniServices, make investment recommendations and provide advice to pre-commercial stage researchers and companies. Lance was the investment-banking advisor for Trade Me on its sale to Fairfax Media, and has advised a large number of local early-stage companies over many years. He was an Engagement Manager with McKinsey & Company in Washington DC, contracted to the European Bank for Reconstruction and Development in London and consulted to BHP Billiton plants in South Africa, Australia and Mozambique. Lance was also an elected Councillor for InternetNZ, where he was a member of the Audit Committee. Lance has an MBA from Yale University (Strategy, Finance) and a Bachelor of Technology (Hons, Product Development) from Massey University. He has been a regular judge for the Hi-Tech Awards, BNZ Start-up Alley and other events. Lance has a number of active and inactive private investments, made before Punakaiki Fund was founded. The Manager Punakaiki Fund’s manager is Lance Wiggs Capital Management Limited (“LWCM”), owned by Lance Wiggs and Chris Humphreys. Lance and Chris provide a combination of finance and business experience in the technology, internet and design-led sectors, and are joined by two staff in their Auckland office.

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You might have heard of the PayPal mafia, a term given to people that came through PayPal and then went on to invest in, found, and help grow other tech companies. People like Elon Musk, Peter Theil, Reid Hoffman; companies like Tesla, LinkedIn, Yelp, all trace back to PayPal. Well, in New Zealand I think we have our own version of that, the Trade Me mafia. The people who helped that company start, scale, grow and sell have gone on to use the capital they built up - both in terms of money they made and the social proof of their skill and judgement - to go on and foster a lot of the local industry. It's a theme of this podcast, and one of the key members of what I'd call that mafia is Lance Wiggs.You can draw one of those detective show style photo boards with the lines and there'd be lines all over Business is Boring for today's guest. Lance has been a director, investor or advisor to many of our guests. Wierdly, Onceit, Vend, Populate and Timely to name a few of our guests. Lance has taken his experience and created a vehicle to help fund and propel high-growth companies forward, with Punakaiki Fund, and is a prominent commentator on local hi-tech companies. We get him on today to find out about his career, his fund and why he keeps doing it when he has probably done well enough to go for a long bike adventure and not be busy as an active director on a number of companies. Disclosure statement: I work at Vend, hold a tiny number of shares in the Punakaiki Fund and Lance is a semi-distant cousin. #NZ See acast.com/privacy for privacy and opt-out information.

This week we discuss Microsoft’s Nokia acquisition, Gather, IFA in Berlin, Punakaiki Fund, Kickstarter NZ, Xero hitting 200,000 subscribers, Office 365 storage increase, Tom Tom Multisport GPS watch, Samsung Ativ Book 9 Lite, and Trigger Happy’s Toon Hero. Running time : 0:46:04

A fascinating discussion where host Paul Spain talks with Lance Wiggs – entrepreneur, investor, advisor behind TradeMe’s $750-million sale to Fairfax in 2006, and now co-founder of the Punakaiki Fund which will invest in growth stage New Zealand businesses. Please connect and send feedback via Twitter @NZ_Business, Facebook.com/NZBusinessPodcast and the official website http://NZBusinessPodcast.com Host and Guests: Paul Spain, Lance Wiggs Running time: 0:41:57