About Us: We love to help makers make
Our purpose
Our purpose is working with passionate founders in purpose- driven companies, growing and helping them from their very first external capital raise.
Between Maker’s four general partners, we’ve founded or co- founded over 20 companies, including a substantial number within corporate New Zealand. We are entrepreneurs at heart, and love to get our hands dirty. We carry this ethos forward to our portfolio companies, where we are deeply operationally involved with the companies we partner with, fostering connections with founders that last years.
We get in at the ground floor, leading rounds and working with entrepreneurs as they grow their businesses and move from their first cheques, to seed rounds, to later investments. It’s a partnership that leads to enduring relationships.
Since 2018, our principals have collaborated and invested together. The positive results we have seen have led us to create Maker Capital Fund I. This document outlines our unique approach to purpose-driven early stage investing, our passions, and our investment principles.
Our Investment philosophy
There are enough funds out there that aim to invest in all the best start-ups, and do so well. Instead, drawing on our team’s unique blend of skills and experience, we are a high-conviction investor, encapsulated by our four core investment tenets.
01
Invest early
We tend to invest at the pre-seed or seed stage, where we are usually the first institutional investor. While we will follow our investment with businesses we have been in since the early days, we won’t typically invest first in a business at its Series A round or later.
02
Lead only
We are a lead only investor, and will usually take a board seat. We want to work directly with founders and businesses we are passionate about, and will sit alongside and support them on their journey as an active growth partner.
03
Quality over quantity
We spend a lot of time with the businesses we invest in, so we prefer a quality over quantity approach, investing in around 4-6 companies a year.
04
Value-add investing
We prefer to work with founders and businesses that we’re best suited to, where we can use our experience, networks and relationships to add a lot of value. We will pass on good businesses where we don’t believe we are the best investor.
Maker Capital and Partners Investments
