Performance & Learning
We help businesses and people achieve exceptional things. We do this through consulting, coaching, facilitation and professional development in the following areas:
Portfolio
Our experience covers a diverse range of industries, situations and capital structures.
Better Drinks Company, Charlies & Phoenix
Realised Investment
Charlie’s make and market a whole range of premium, not from concentrate and organic drinks. They’re based in New Zealand, with production sites in NZ and Australia, and sell drinks all over the world.
ihug
Realised Investment
Ihug was a leading NZ Internet Service Provider, offering internet services and landline telephone/phone services across NZ an Australia. The business was successfully sold to iinet.
Maia Financial
Realised Investment
Maia Financial (previously Alleasing) is a leading independent provider of asset finance and leasing solutions.
WilliamsWarn
Realised Investment
WilliamsWarn have created the technology to allow you to brew the perfect beer at home, for your licensed premise or at your workplace.
Konnect Net
Realised Investment
Konnect NET helps businesses that need to exchange data in a quick and secure way in order to deliver more value to their customers. Their particular specialty is in enabling the insurance and health sectors to work more collaboratively and ultimately offer greater experiences for their shared customers.
EL&F
Partially Realised
Equipment Leasing and Finance provides asset management and finance of vehicles and capital equipment to New Zealand industry. The group trades under the brands AB Equipment (materials handling, forestry and construction equipment sales and service), NZ Trucks (truck servicing), Speirs Finance (asset financing) and Yoogo (vehicle and equipment leasing).
www.abequipment.co.nz
www.speirsfinance.co.nz
www.yoogo.co.nz
Retirement Income Group Limited
Current Investment
Retirement Income Group is regulated by the Financial Markets Authority as the Fund Manager and Issuer of the Lifetime Income Fund. An insurance company turning your savings into an income that’s guaranteed to last the rest of your life.
Earth Group Income and Growth Fund
Current Investment
Earth Group Income and Growth is a boutique industrial property fund. A high-quality industrial property portfolio with sustainable positive cashflow and long-term capital growth attributes. The Fund protects and grows capital whilst providing stable cashflows back to our LP holders over the long term. This vehicle is underpinned by an acquisition program that includes securing longer term leases and undergoing further development programs that generate and enhance yield and capital growth over time.
ModuSense
Realised Investment
ModuSense is a reliable, scalable and secure Internet of Things (IoT) device platform that enables industries to deploy data gathering solutions for productivity.
Fresh Office
Current Investment
Fresh Office is a wholesale distributor of stationery products into the New Zealand market, working with some of New Zealand’s most recognised retail brands.
Otiwhiti Westoe Farming Group
Current Investment
A multi-faceted farming business offering diversity and scale, with a priority of the maintenance and continuation of the Otiwhiti Station Land Based Training School, an agricultural training school that brings young skilled New Zealanders into the agricultural sector. The group scales across livestock breeding, finishing, apiculture, forestry, and arable cropping activities. It oversees the management of a forestry and carbon investment partnership under a forestry right with MPI, and an aggregate extraction ‘take and pay’ contract in conjunction with Rangitikei Aggregates Limited.
TradeWindow
Current Investment
TradeWindow is an NZX-listed software company that provides digital solutions for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to drive productivity, increase connectivity, and enhance visibility. TradeWindow’s software solutions integrate to form a cohesive digital trade platform that enables customers to more efficiently run their back-end operations, share information and securely collaborate with a global supply chain made up of customers, ports, terminals, shipping lines, banks, insurance companies, and government authorities
Pioneer Finance
Current Investment
Established in 1995, Pioneer Finance has been providing financial services to New Zealanders for over 27 years. Pioneer specialises in finding a flexible solution to your needs whether it be for debt consolidation, home renovations, personal loans, car loans, and business loans. The business has undergone a complete transformation, to position itself as a market leading mobile first digital originator, with straight through processing, enabling the best customer service package in the consumer and business lending space.
Matrixx Software
Current Investment
MATRIXX Software delivers a modern converged charging and commerce solution proven at scale. Its cloud native Digital Commerce Platform provides network-grade, mission critical software that unlocks new network monetization opportunities. With its no-code configuration capabilities, MATRIXX empowers service providers with the agility necessary to easily develop, deploy and monetize new products and services. MATRIXX is the platform of choice powering many of the world’s leading communications companies, IoT players and emerging network infrastructure providers.
Portfolio
Our experience covers a diverse range of industries, situations and capital structures.
Better Drinks Company – Charlies & Phoenix
Realised Investment
Charlie’s make and market a whole range of premium, not from concentrate and organic drinks. They’re based in New Zealand, with production sites in NZ and Australia, and sell drinks all over the world.
ihug
Realised Investment
Ihug was a leading NZ Internet Service Provider, offering internet services and landline telephone/phone services across NZ an Australia. The business was successfully sold to iinet.
Maia Financial
Realised Investment
Maia Financial (previously Alleasing) is a leading independent provider of asset finance and leasing solutions.
Konnect Net
Realised Investment
Konnect NET helps businesses that need to exchange data in a quick and secure way in order to deliver more value to their customers. Their particular specialty is in enabling the insurance and health sectors to work more collaboratively and ultimately offer greater experiences for their shared customers.
William Warn
Realised Investment
WilliamsWarn have created the technology to allow you to brew the perfect beer at home, for your licensed premise or at your workplace.
EL&F
Partially Realised
Equipment Leasing and Finance provides asset management and finance of vehicles and capital equipment to New Zealand industry. The group trades under the brands AB Equipment (materials handling, forestry and construction equipment sales and service), NZ Trucks (truck servicing), Speirs Finance (asset financing) and Yoogo (vehicle and equipment leasing).
Fresh Office
Current Investment
Fresh Office is a wholesale distributor of stationery products into the New Zealand market, working with some of New Zealand’s most recognised retail brands.
Matrixx Software
Current Investment
MATRIXX Software delivers an innovative digital commerce solution that enables always-on customer engagement. Their patented approach makes it possible for Digital Service Providers to simultaneously serve millions of customers, and process billions of customer interactions, precisely and instantly.
Retirement Income Group Limited
Current Investment
Retirement Income Group is regulated by the Financial Markets Authority as the Fund Manager and Issuer of the Lifetime Income Fund. An insurance company turning your savings into an income that’s guaranteed to last the rest of your life.
Earth Group
Current Investment
Earth Group is a property development and investment company, bringing resources and capability to develop fresh property ideas.
ModuSense
Current Investment
ModuSense is a reliable, scalable and secure Internet of Things (IoT) device platform that enables industries to deploy data gathering solutions for productivity.
TradeWindow
Current Investment
TradeWindow, via its Blockchain platform enables Supply Chain Management and decentralized Digital Identification and Trust Verification
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About us
We are a family owned business, who invest our money in building great businesses and developing talent through transformational capital.
JAPAD invest in great New Zealand businesses using Equity and Debt Funding, and increase performance through consulting, coaching, facilitation and professional development of leadership and management.
Andrea Duncan
Performance & Learning
andrea@japad.co.nz
021 884 365
Joe Duncan
Equity & Debt Funding
joe@japad.co.nz
021 572 256