Technical conviction
We back founders whose advantage is built on real engineering — AI systems, hardware, software infrastructure, and products where the underlying technology is the moat.
Venture capital — Auckland, New Zealand
Trakka Ventures
A New Zealand investment group backing technical founders building deep-tech and AI businesses — with capital, operating context, and access to founder infrastructure through the Future House partnership with Outset Ventures.
- Headquarters
- Auckland, NZ
- Focus
- Deep-tech & AI
- Portfolio
- 5 companies
- Partnership
- Outset / Future House
Dec 2024 · Investment
Trakka Ventures invested in Everyday AI as part of the company's seed round via a SAFE agreement.
Read announcementAbout Trakka
Capital for technical founders.
Trakka Ventures partners with early-stage companies where technical depth, commercial discipline, and the right operating environment matter. We work closely with a small number of founders, bringing capital and credible ecosystem relationships into companies building genuinely hard technology.
Through the Future House partnership with Outset Ventures, Trakka connects portfolio companies to the physical and community infrastructure that deep-tech needs: founder space, technical facilities, and proximity to other science and engineering ventures.
Our thesis
What we invest in
Commercial discipline
We invest in companies pairing technical ambition with a clear path to durable revenue, where engineering choices and commercial strategy are designed together.
Operator-led teams
We look for founding teams with the depth and judgment to take a product from prototype to market — and the patience to build a long-term company.
How we support
Beyond the cheque
Capital with context
Trakka backs companies where the technical challenge is core to the business and the path from prototype to market benefits from specialist investor support.
Space to operate
Future House gives portfolio founders a practical base for building, testing, recruiting, and collaborating alongside other deep-tech companies.
Long-term partnership
Trakka invests with patience. We stay close to portfolio companies across multiple stages of company building rather than rotating in and out of positions.
Founder
Terry Gould
Founder, Trakka Ventures
Terry Gould is an Auckland-based entrepreneur and real estate investor. He founded Trakka Ventures to back technically ambitious New Zealand and international founders building deep-tech and AI businesses, drawing on a long operating background across property, private investment, and early-stage company building.
Portfolio
Companies backed by Trakka Ventures.
Trakka has invested in companies across consumer products, procurement intelligence, immersive fitness, workplace learning, and brand measurement — each backed for the strength of the founding team and the durability of the underlying technology.
Part Time Rangers
New Zealand ready-to-drink beverage company founded in 2018 and known for low-calorie, spirit-based RTDs connected to wildlife conservation. Brown-Forman announced an agreement to acquire the company in 2020.
Cotiss
Procurement intelligence platform that turns procurement activity across emails, meetings, contracts, invoices, and systems into structured, queryable context for defensible vendor and commercial decisions.
FitXR
VR fitness platform offering immersive workouts across formats such as boxing, HIIT, combat, sculpt, and dance. FitXR positions itself as a fitness app for people who prefer workouts that feel like play.
MakeShapes
Group-learning platform for businesses that helps large organisations deliver discussion-led learning at scale across in-person, remote, and hybrid teams without relying on traditional facilitator-heavy delivery.
Tracksuit
New Zealand-founded brand tracking platform that gives marketers always-on brand health measurement, dashboards, category context, and evidence for marketing ROI. Blackbird describes Tracksuit as a Kiwi-founded startup delivering affordable, always-on brand tracking.
Future House partnership
A bridge between boutique capital and New Zealand's deep-tech campus.
Future House is the operating environment behind Trakka's deep-tech support model. The partnership with Outset Ventures gives portfolio founders a route into a purpose-built community for hard technology — from laboratories and workshops to event, office, and meeting spaces.
Outset Ventures describes Future House as part of New Zealand's home of deep technology, with facilities including laboratories, hardware workshops, office space, meeting rooms, event areas, and specialist equipment.
Investment announcement
Trakka Ventures invests in Everyday AI.
December 10, 2024 · New Zealand and United States
Trakka Ventures has invested in Everyday AI, the company developing Digital Employees for everyday businesses. The investment was made via a Simple Agreement for Future Equity (SAFE) as part of Everyday AI's seed round.
Everyday AI designs, develops, and deploys Digital Employees: systems that operate behind the scenes to complete tasks or support teams in existing workflows. The funding supports continued product development and commercial expansion.
The investment aligns with Trakka's focus on technically ambitious companies that benefit from patient capital, founder infrastructure, and access to New Zealand's deep-tech ecosystem through the Future House partnership with Outset Ventures.
Financial terms of the investment are not being disclosed.
Contact
Get in touch.
Trakka Ventures reviews opportunities from technical founders building deep-tech and AI companies, and welcomes introductions from operators, co-investors, and ecosystem partners across New Zealand and abroad.
- Location
- Auckland, New Zealand