Best Enterprise Infrastructure Companies in New Zealand
The 131 best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Mako Networks.
New Zealand's Enterprise Infrastructure sector has 131 tracked companies and $116M in total disclosed funding — not bad for a market most global analysts treat as a footnote. Mako Networks leads the pack at $60M raised, with RedShield Security ($13M) and Projectworks and Portainer (both at $7M) rounding out the top tier. No unicorns yet, but the funding is concentrated enough that you can see where conviction is sitting. Median app install growth is running at roughly +15% YoY across enterprise software and related infrastructure categories, which tells you adoption isn't stalling. And with AI and identity security converging fast, as this recent read on AI becoming core infrastructure lays out, the compliance and resilience pressure on local vendors is only climbing.
So what's driving the momentum here? Enterprise spending on private data center equipment is picking up globally, and New Zealand operators aren't sitting it out. The swing away from on-premise collaboration tools is pushing buyers toward cloud and network-layer solutions, which is exactly where players like Mako Networks and Kry10 are positioned. I'd also watch the wake-up-call effect: the October 2025 AWS outage sharpened boardroom appetite for resilience, and that's a direct tailwind for local infrastructure specialists. Active backers including New Zealand Growth Capital Partners and Punakaiki Fund signal institutional patience in the space.
Our analysis of 459 Enterprise Infrastructure companies
$69.2b in tracked funding; 97% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Enterprise Infrastructure companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Last round | Disclosed funding | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | 2Shakes Cloud-based solutions for onboarding & AML | — | — | — | Mike Kelly Co-Founder | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+22 | Top 5M | 1 launch · 1 partnership |
| 2 | 6sync VPS and cloud virtualization services | — | — | — | Mario Danic Co-Founder | — | — | — |
| 3 | Active Mobile Security Mobile data security and control solution | — | — | — | Giovanni Russello Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 4 | AML Solutions AML solutions for financial institutions & other sectors | — | — | — | Richard Manthel Co-Founder & Director | WordPressMySQLPHP+28 | Top 50M | — |
| 5 | AMLU Online solution to manage AML & CFT compliance | — | — | — | Tracey Kellett CEO & MD | — | — | — |
| 6 | Anvil Provider of cybersecurity solutions, cloud services, and general IT support | — | — | — | — | — | — | — |
| 7 | APPACTIV Low code business application development platform | — | — | — | Sean Hywood Founder & CEO | — | — | — |
| 8 | Appsecute Collaborative Platform for Developers and IT Operations | — | — | — | Mark Cox Founder and CEO | — | — | — |
Top 12 Enterprise Infrastructure companies in New Zealand
#1
Series A · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2015 · 36 employees$7.4Mraised▾
Developer of a business management platform designed to track and record time spent on projects and manage project invoicing. The company's platform allows schedule decisions, project tracking, budget reconciliation, accurately forecast of revenue, understanding of recoverability and seamlessly managing invoices, also offers to manage timesheets, time-off requests and performance reviews, enabling clients to operate the business and manage resources in an effective manner.
#2
Series B · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2000 · 64 employees$60Mraised▾
UTM appliance and cloud-based control for network security and PCI-DSS compliance. The platform integrates and delivers capabilities for remote management, security, updates and reporting as a hosted central management platform. Security features include data security, PCI DSS Compliance, content filtering, VPN, and a firewall. Solutions are delivered via a cloud-based system comprising of Central Management System accessed through web GUI and network appliances installed at enterprise locations. Claims to be the first network management company in the world to be PCI DSS-certified Level 1 service provider.
- Oct 2022Series B$60M
#3
Seed · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2020 · 15 employees$6Mraised▾
Provider of an OS for machine and device network connectivity. Its OS and support service is built on seL4 microkernel, as well as Elixir and Erlang. It includes a remote UI combined with low language programming and secure hardware. It arrests deliberately injected and accidental errors, as well as reduces downtime and recovery in microseconds. The processor is housed locally within the machine to improve asset control, device lifecycle and minimise costs.
- Jan 2024Seed$6M
#4
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2016 · 1 employees$7.2Mraised▾
Cloud based platform offering container management solution. It provides an open source management UI for the Docker host or Swarm cluster. It provides a detailed overview of Docker and helps manage containers, images, networks, and volumes. It enables developers to deploy applications, centralizes identity and audit controls, etc. It supports Windows, Mac, and Linux platforms.
- Jun 2022Series A—
- May 2021Series A$6M
- Aug 2020Seed$1.2M
#5
Series A · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2008 · 40 employees$13.3Mraised▾
RedShield provides cloud-based web application firewall for the web security to the organizations. The platform leverages it proprietary shield library to protect websites, web app, API, portals, intranets, and extranets. Claims to cover framework flaws, failed pentesting, and business logic flaws by securing the web service as per compliance mandates by PCI & HIPAA. Winner of the 2017 NZ HiTech Awards for the most innovative software product & the most innovative service and 2016 NZ CIO 100 Innovation Award.
- Sep 2019Series A$9M
- Dec 2016Series A$4.3M
- May 2010Grant (prize money)$10.4M
#6
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 34 employees$5Mraised▾
Identity verification solution for anti money laundering and KYC solutions. The company offers a biometric solution based on face match and liveness detection, and an EIDV solution to digitally verify ID documents and the identity of the customers.
- Oct 2021Series A$5M
#7
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 12 employees$886.9Kraised▾
Platform offering software library for web application development. It offers a framework for the development of websites. The platform allows developers to choose react or angular frameworks for front-end development. It provides custom features and integrations to customize the website as per user needs.
- Nov 2022Seed$886.9K
#8
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 9 employees$904.9Kraised▾
Offering passwordless authentication solutions. Multi factor authentication anywhere technology, built specifically for developers and Fraud Ops teams. Implementation in hours, protection for a lifetime. Features they offer are passwordless authentication, No code rules engine, and a single view of the customer.
- Sep 2022Seed$904.9K
#9
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2016 · 22 employees$2.7Mraised▾
Provider of SSH client for secure communication over networks. It also provides a solution to securely sync data across multiple devices. It allows the user to organize hosts into groups and share settings and each host can have its own separate preferences. It is available for Android, iOS, Windows, Linux, and macOS. The clients include Nasa, Comcast, HP, Cisco, and Cern.
- Jun 2019Seed$2.7M
#10
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2000 · 15 employees$3.7Mraised▾
Esphion provided network anomaly detection systems (ADS) for the enterprise. Solution was deployed by large service providers to mitigate unknown threats to critical network infrastructure like DDoS, Zero-Day Worms and SPAM bots. Product Esphion ADS detected threats to critical networks and created mitigation strategies for immediate deployment before the network is impacted. Acquired by IP service optimization solution provider, Allot in 2008. Allot planned to integrate Esphion's products & technology into its entire product portfolio, including the recently announced Allot Service Gateway.
- 2006Series A$1.4M
- Aug 2002Seed$2.3M
#11
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2020 · 6 employees$675.1Kraised▾
Cloud based security analytics and vulnerability assessment solutions. It provides a cyber security platform that gives users confidence in security work and it also automates the process of winning security deals. The platform is available on the subscription based pricing model.
- Dec 2021Seed$675.1K
#12
Seed · Wellington, Wellington · founded 2007 · 35 employees$2Mraised▾
Platform offering application performance monitoring software. It provides visibility into the performance of web and mobile apps. Crash reporting provides notification of errors and crashes that are affecting customers. It presents issues on the crash reporting dashboard along with diagnostic reports about errors and crashes that occurred. It works with web and mobile programming languages and integrates with team chat, project management tools, and issue trackers.
- Jan 2019Angel$582K
- May 2014Seed$1.4M
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Enterprise Infrastructure coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Cloud Computing is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around Cloud Computing — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 109 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Education29
- University of Auckland27
- Auckland University of Technology16
- Victoria University of Wellington9
- University of Canterbury9
- Scalability8
- Edge computing5
- Enhanced Data Rates for GSM Evolution5
- Satellite5
- Point cloud4
- Industry 4.04
- Cloud manufacturing3
- Authentication (law)3
- Sustainability3
- Operating system3
- Agriculture3
- Service (business)3
- Precision agriculture2
- Industry 4.02
- Big data2
Where cloud computing is researched across New Zealand
Location clusters by institution affiliation — each city's volume, stance tone, and a quick read on its hot topic, what's advancing, the opening opportunity, and the main concern.
Common questions
Rohit lives in the feed. He covers what's moving right now — the funding rounds, launches and shifts breaking across the trade press — and ties them back to where the sector is heading.