Hillfarrance Ventures
125 Queen Street Level 9, Suite 4, Auckland, 1010, New Zealand
Overview
We believe that the greatest challenges facing our world will be solved by audacious Kiwi entrepreneurs, and we are here to help their bold vision to become a reality. With passion, humility and transparency, we exist to serve entrepreneurs with honest advice, an open door to our international network, and investment capital that is fair to Founders. We invest in diverse entrepreneurs who are building sustainable and defensive business models, that democratize new technology, extract unique value from proprietary data and create an unfair market advantage as a result. Hillfarrance is named after the British ancestral village of our Founder - Rob. His family’s door was always open to good people and when they entered, they were treated as family - sitting around the fire for a chat and a cuppa. We may have moved hemispheres, but the values remain the same. Welcome to our whānau.
- Total investments
- 2
- Lead investments
- 0
- Investments · 12mo
- 0
- Active investors
- 2
Investment portfolio
- Partly
Participated · Series A · Dec 2022
Partly develops frontier AI infrastructure for the automotive parts and repair industry, centered on its Interpreter foundation model. Interpreter was trained over five years using human feedback and synthetic data, incorporates continuous training on live data, and reflects more than fifty manufacturer agreements. Since 2020 the company has combined automotive expertise with AI engineering talent to build models tailored to complex parts systems, logistics, and workflows. Partly announced a U.S. launch and has anchored operations in Austin, Texas, relocating its executive team there. The company plans to use recent funding to expand its U.S. footprint and to recruit engineering, business development, and product management staff. Partly frames its model as the industry's AI infrastructure layer for collision repair.