Better together.
MAI’s purpose is to facilitate the introduction of potential investors to local founders seeking investment.
Our members are often angel investors looking to diversify their investment portfolios by investing in regional businesses with significant growth opportunities. A large portion of our members are focused on elevating regional businesses and want to see our region thrive. Their investment accelerates start up growth and enables them a platform to ‘give back’ by providing start-ups with invaluable knowledge, experience and networks.
MAI covers the Otago & Southland region and currently holds events in Dunedin, Invercargill, Queenstown & Wanaka. We are a regionally focused investment network that manages the overall investment process to bring together investors and increase the scale of the investment.
By forming a collective supported by Startup Dunedin Trust, COIN South and Startup Queenstown Lakes, we offer a greater pipeline of companies to our investors, allow smaller minimum investments, and make angel investing more accessible to a new generation of investors.
Canterbury Angels is becoming part of the broader Mainland Angel Investors (MAI) to help make it easier for founders in the lower South Island to raise early-stage capital.
Prominent Queenstown hospitality software business Loaded is launching its global campaign, following the raising of $3.25 million via a combination of equity and debt, with an initial entry into Australia planned for early 2023.
Raising capital for scaling startups in the lower South Island has traditionally been challenging, but with recent collaborative developments making headway in the region, the future is looking bright for entrepreneurs on their journey to growth.
At its 2022 summit in Queenstown today, Angel Association New Zealand announced the winners of the Puawaitanga Award –
Prue Halstead was recently named as Otago-Southland’s representative on the Institute of Directors’ 2022 Mentoring for Diversity programme. The proud Southlander talks to business editor Sally Rae about life in the South.
Peter Ramsay knows how hard it is to find investment for start-up businesses. In his new role as network manager for the Mainland Angel Investor Collective, he has set out to make it easier for businesses to find capital in the South.
In an early victory for the newly reformatted Startup Queenstown Lakes (SQL) an investment network with both Dunedin and Invercargill has been put in place to increase the chances of creating local Southern Lakes business success stories.
Angel investors in Dunedin, Queenstown and Invercargill are joining forces to make it easier for founders of new companies to get investment. Jacob McSweeny talks to Scott Mason, who launched Mainland Angel Investors, about the group’s roots and aspirations.