Investment
Capital meets engineering.
We invest selectively in technologies and digital products capable of reshaping how industries operate.
How we invest
01
Equity investment
Direct investment into technology ventures where we understand the operating problem and can add product judgement, not only capital.
02
Co-founding
Building a venture from the beginning with a founding team, taking product and engineering ownership alongside them.
03
Capital + technology
A combined commitment: investment plus the product, engineering and automation capability required to reach a working product.
Initial areas of interest
These describe where we look. They are investment and research interests — not services NAIT sells, and not laboratories NAIT operates.
Applied AI
AI applied to a specific operating problem with measurable effect.
Enterprise & SME SaaS
Subscription software for businesses that must run on it daily.
Vertical Software
Products shaped around one industry's real workflow and records.
Business Automation
Removing repetitive operational work at the process level.
Future of Work
How teams coordinate, decide and record work.
Frontier Technologies
AI infrastructure, quantum computing and emerging computing paradigms — followed as investment and research interests.
NAIT does not operate a quantum computing laboratory. Frontier technologies are tracked as areas of investment and research interest.
What we look for
- A business problem we can describe in one sentence
- An operating environment we can reach and understand
- A product that changes how work is performed, not only how it is reported
- A team that wants an engineering partner, not only a cheque
Submit a venture
Tell us what you are building.
Send the business problem, the product and where you are today. We read every submission and reply to the ones we can genuinely help.