Bridgewest Ventures

Bridgewest Ventures NZ is a globally connected partner, ready to bring even the biggest ideas to life. As an approved partner under Callaghan Innovation’s 2020 Technology Incubator Programme, we are proud to announce applications are open for local ventures ready to commercialise on a global scale. Start-ups or potential start-ups accepted into our incubator programme can access funding in the form of a repayable grant from Callaghan Innovation and significant equity seed and follow-on funding investment from Bridgewest Ventures. We’re on the lookout for founders aiming to have a profound social, environmental, or economic impact on our world. If your deep technology idea is going to bring significant advances over what is already out there, then we want to hear from you.

Bridgewest Ventures is part of the Bridgewest Group, a United States-based investment company with operations in China, Europe, Australia and New Zealand. They have an established track record of growing early-stage ventures and generating new IP, and operate a deep tech incubator out of their headquarters in San Diego, California. Bridgewest have successfully guided a large number of US start-ups from seed to multinational status and the NZ based Bridgewest Ventures team aim to leverage this global experience and large experienced advisor base to replicate the same successful model in New Zealand. The Bridgewest Group has wide-ranging deep tech portfolio covering biotech and pharmaceuticals through to UAV, IOT and AI technologies.