Contented: Ledger

Stories naming Contented. Where several outlets covered the same round, they are bundled under whichever ran the fullest account.

Investor	Rounds	Invested
Altered Capital	Seed	-
Exhort Ventures	Seed	-
Icehouse Ventures	Seed	-
NZ Growth Capital Partners	Seed	-
Phase One Ventures	Seed	-
Shearwater Capital	Seed	-

Company	Kind	Announced	Price	Sources
Contented is not recorded as having acquired anything.

Name	Role	Sources
Lucy Pink	Founder	Startup Daily, Capital Brief
Hannah Hardy-Jones	Founder	Startup Daily, Capital Brief

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Cheque-in: 10 ANZ startups raised nearly $193 million this week

Weekly roundup of ten Australian and New Zealand startup raises totalling nearly $194 million, topped by Neara's $90 million round at a $1.1 billion valuation, with Splose, Operata, HAMR Energy and Adora also covered.

Startup Daily Fri 13 Feb 2026 Adora Contented eGuarantee Fluency HAMR Energy Neara Operata splose Wellumio Artesian VC Atlassian Canva Chess.com Deel Employment Hero Facebook Gemini Granola Netflix New Zealand government Notion Replit Revolut Siteminder Snowball Effect Spotify Startmate Swinburne Innovation Studio Xero Accel Airbus Altered Capital Archangel Ventures Athletic Ventures Blackbird Ventures Black Nova Venture Capital Booster Carya Venture Partners Correlation Co Ventures Cure Kids Ventures Designer Fund DST Global Partners Enterprise Angels EQT EVP Exhort Ventures Flying Fox Ventures Flying Kiwi Garuda Ventures Ghost VC Glitch Capital Hort Innovation Icehouse Ventures Mixture of Experts NextGen Ventures Nuance Connected Capital NZ Growth Capital Partners Pacific Channel Partners Group Qantas Shearwater Capital Skip Capital Spectrum Equity Square Peg Capital TCV Tenacious Ventures Thyssenkrupp Uhde Tidal Ventures David Stribley Finnlay Morcombe Hannah Hardy-Jones Lucy Pink Nathan Scully Nicholas Sanderson Oliver Farnill Omar Salem Richard Beaumont Simon Carroll Stephen Ellis

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Contented - $4.1M Seed | Startup Intros

Contented has raised a $4.1 million seed round with Altered Capital leading six other investors; the page's funding history also lists a prior $25 million seed round.

startupintros.com Mon 9 Feb 2026 Contented NZ Growth Capital Partners Altered Capital Exhort Ventures Icehouse Ventures Phase One Ventures Shearwater Capital

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Cheque-in: 10 ANZ startups raised nearly $193 million this week

Contented - $4.1M Seed | Startup Intros