Joining the ranks of Callaghan Innovation to fund your big idea.

We're excited to announce a partnership with Callaghan Innovation, giving you and your deep tech ideas the chance to come to life. 

Since 2014, Callaghan Innovation has funded incubators helping founders turn deep tech ideas into successful New Zealand businesses. We've been selected as one of their partners to execute their Technology Incubator Programme from April 2020, which means we get to open our incubator doors to you. 

Bridgewest Ventures was born from our parent company, Bridgewest Group, which has an established track record of turning start-ups into multinational companies. We intend to bring the same tried-and-true incubator approach from the USA to New Zealand, combining expertise in deep tech with mentorship and access to our international network. 

"As a company with significant global scale and wide-ranging deep tech experience, including everything from biotech and pharmaceuticals to UAV and AI technologies, we provide access to not just additional investment capital but our extensive advisor network and global contacts."
- John Robson, our New Zealand General Manager

Robson couldn't be more proud of the partnership with Callaghan Innovation, happy that it allows us to further our commitment to the local New Zealand entrepreneurial ecosystem. 

"Bridgewest has been in New Zealand for four years already because we believe there is tremendous potential in the local innovation sector and because we're absolutely confident in the ability of our team to help New Zealand ventures take their ideas to a global marketplace. 

We know we have value to add as a strategic partner having successfully incubated US start-ups to be successful multinational companies, and we're excited to have this opportunity to apply our proven model here under the Technology Incubator programme to help unleash New Zealand's potential,"

- John Robson, our New Zealand General Manager

Applications are now open, and we're on the lookout for founders who are ready to make a social, economical, or environmental impact on the way we live. The ideas accepted into our incubator will bring significant advances over what is already out there and can fall within different deep tech disciplines. 

So if you're ready to bring your idea to the world, apply now.