Best HealthTech Companies in New Zealand
The 203 best HealthTech companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: Alimetry.
New Zealand's HealthTech sector has 203 companies on our radar, and if you want to know where the real capital is concentrated, this directory ranks them by disclosed equity funding and recent funding momentum. Total disclosed funding sits at $115M across the tracked cohort, with Alimetry out front at $29M, followed by Orion Health at $26M, then Pictor and Adherium both at $11M. No unicorns yet. But the funding distribution tells you the sector is maturing fast, not just accumulating early-stage bets.
The global market context makes that maturation feel urgent. HealthTech worldwide was valued at roughly $908.5B in 2023 and is projected to reach $3140.9B by 2033, a 13.1% CAGR according to Coherent Market Insights, driven by rising healthcare spending and accelerating adoption of digital health solutions. Hot themes this quarter include digital health consultation and innovation agency funding, which I'd argue explains why investors like New Zealand Growth Capital Partners and Icehouse Ventures keep appearing across multiple portfolio tables. Data privacy compliance remains a structural pressure point the whole sector's managing. And as recent governance scrutiny of HealthTech startups shows globally, investor discipline around financials is tightening, something New Zealand founders are watching closely.
- Allied Market Research
Our analysis of 864 HealthTech companies
$73.2b in tracked funding; 89% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best HealthTech companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Employees | Founder | Tech stack | Web popularity | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | Alimetry Provider of a non-invasive device for detecting gastric disorders | $29M | 19 mo ago | 43 | Armen Gharibans Co-Founder / CTO | Cart FunctionalitySquarespace CommerceSquarespace+15 | Top 10M | 25 patents Non‑invasive gastrointestinal monitoring and surface colonic mapping using electrode patch systems | 1 award |
| 2 | Orion Health End to End population health and precision medicine solutions for the healthcare community | $26M | 145 mo ago | 1,001 | Niraj Jain Founder | WordPressApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+29 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 3 | Pictor Developer of immunodiagnostic products based on multiplexed assays | $11M | 8 mo ago | 51 | Wanda Mathias Co-Founder | WebflowreCAPTCHAHSTS+10 | Top 50M | 27 patents Multiplex serological immunoassays for detecting antibodies against viruses and bacterial pathogens | 1 award |
| 4 | Adherium Smart inhaler for checking medication adherence | $11M | 67 mo ago | 54 | Paul Mastoridis CEO | Microsoft ASP.NETAzure Front DoorAmazon ALB+9 | Top 50M | 74 patents Inhaler compliance monitoring and dose-counting technology for respiratory drug delivery devices | — |
| 5 | Jupl Cloud based risk management solutions for enterprises | $8M | 137 mo ago | 8 | Alan Brannigan Co-Founder and CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 6 | Carepatron Provider of practice management software for clinics | $5M | 33 mo ago | 14 | — | GSAPEmotionAstro+23 | Top 500k | — | — |
| 7 | InsituGen Developer of bioassays for the detection of androgens in sports supplements and race horses | $5M | 51 mo ago | 9 | Aaron Venables CEO | — | — | 32 patents Ligand assay technologies for detecting steroid hormones and related biomarkers | 1 launch |
| 8 | Mycare Marketplace for booking caregivers | $4M | 114 mo ago | 28 | — | TypeScriptFacebook LoginD3+31 | Top 5M | — | — |
| 9 | Konnect Net Provider of information exchange platform for insurers | $4M | 164 mo ago | 16 | — | WordPressMySQLPHP+24 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 10 | Kahu AI-based skin cancer diagnosis solutions for dermatologists | $3M | 59 mo ago | 7 | Stuart Dalrymple CEO | — | — | 4 patents Patents concentrated in computing, sensing & instrumentation | — |
| 11 | HeartLab Cloud-based echocardiography data analysis tool for providers | $2M | 57 mo ago | 20 | — | HubSpot CMS HubApple iCloud MailMicrosoft 365+19 | Top 50M | — | 1 partnership |
| 12 | Sahha Provider of API for health, wearable, fitness, and longevity data | $2M | 10 mo ago | 23 | Aleksander Dahlberg Co-Founder & CEO | — | — | — | — |
| 13 | SaferMe Offers contact tracing solutions to help businesses keep their employees safe from disease outbreaks | $2M | 110 mo ago | 21 | Clint Marrewijk Co-Founder & CEO | DatoCMSChakra UIEmotion+20 | Top 1M | — | — |
| 14 | Core Schedule Provider if software solutions for hospital staff scheduling and management | $786K | 71 mo ago | 10 | Stephen Pool Founder & CEO | WordPressMarkerMySQL+26 | Top 5M | — | 1 partnership |
| 15 | Kara Technologies Developer of AI-powered translation technology for sign languages and English | $770K | 43 mo ago | 10 | Arash Tayebi Founder & CEO | WixSentryBootstrap+17 | Top 50M | — | 1 launch · 2 awards |
| 16 | Junofem Developer of a smart device for screening urinary incontinence | $694K | 56 mo ago | 9 | — | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+19 | Top 50M | — | — |
| 17 | Noted Provider of an online client and practice management platform for health and social care professionals | $500K | 105 mo ago | 19 | Scott Pearson Founder | CSO at Noted | — | — | — | — |
| 18 | Techion Provider of an image-based diagnostic platform for animal disease analysis | $339K | 138 mo ago | 26 | Greg Mirams Founder & Managing Director | SilverstripePHPLeaflet+22 | Top 50M | — | 1 job opening · 1 award |
| 19 | RosterLab AI-based healthcare staff scheduling and rostering platform | $337K | 54 mo ago | 4 | Isaac Cleland Co-Founder | Node.jsTailwind CSSReact+20 | Top 10M | — | — |
| 20 | Publons Platform for evaluating academic research | $291K | 152 mo ago | 11 | — | — | — | — | — |
Top 12 HealthTech companies in New Zealand
#1
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2005 · 51 employees$11.1Mraised▾
Developer of immunodiagnostic products based on multiplexed assays. The proprietary PixArray technology has an array of dots that contain the required reagents, with each panel also containing control dots. The assay panel requires only 20 microliters of blood for accurate diagnosis. In addition, the company has also developed an imaging software called Pictimager and analysis software called Pictorial to enable automated immunoassays.
- Sep 2025Series A—
- Dec 2022Series A$5M
- Apr 2022Series A$6.1M
- May 2020Grant (prize money)$300K
#2
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2019 · 43 employees$29Mraised▾
Provider of a non-invasive device for detecting gastric disorders. The company has developed "Gastric Alimetry" a non-invasive device placed on the patient’s skin overlying the stomach to track the upper intestinal gastric symptoms.
- Oct 2024Series A$18M
- Mar 2022Series A$11M
#3
Seed · Dunedin, Otago · founded 2021 · 23 employees$2.3Mraised▾
Provider of API for health, wearable, fitness, and longevity data. It offers tools to collect and analyze user health and behavior. The API integrates data from smartphones and wearables. It standardizes data collection, deduplicates information, and provides historical analysis. The platform delivers insights into user lifestyle and wellness. It enables personalized user experiences through data integration.
- Jul 2025Seed$1.2M
- Oct 2023Seed$1.1M
#4
Seed · Tauranga, Bay Of Plenty · founded 2019 · 14 employees$5Mraised▾
Provider of practice management software for clinics. The company has developed a platform that allows medical providers to manage all of their visits, notes, invoicing, and payments in one location. Additionally, it provides a patient portal where clients can make appointments, do intake paperwork, attend telehealth appointments, and send payments.
- Aug 2023Seed$4M
- Jul 2022Seed$1M
#5
Public · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2001 · 54 employees$10.7Mraised▾
Adherium is a medical device company that manufactures and commercializes smart inhalers to check medication adherence in Asthma, COPD, and other chronic disease patients. Adherium’s proprietary platform, Smartinhaler, comprising medical devices, apps, and cloud-based management software. Sends data on when the medication was taken to mobile devices and desktop computers via Bluetooth. Also, transmits audio and visual reminders to the patient when they miss a critical dose of preventative medication. The platform is designed to help patients, caregivers, and physicians remotely monitor and manage patients’ adherence to their medication. The devices have both a CE Mark and FDA 510(k) clearance. Adherium has partnered with AstraZeneca to incorporate digital health offerings into AstraZeneca’s patient support programs for people with COPD and asthma. Collaborates with research groups and pharmaceutical companies.
- Oct 2020Post IPO$3M
- Aug 2019Conventional Debt$1.8M
- Jul 2016Post IPO$5.9M
#6
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 1993 · 1001 employees$25.5Mraised▾
Orion Health offers open technology platform that seamlessly integrates all forms of health and relevant personal data to deliver population health and precision medicine solutions across the entire health community. Makes healthcare information available anywhere by providing healthcare IT connectivity in every U.S. state and in over 30 countries worldwide –facilitating care for tens of millions of patients every day. With an inherent ability to interconnect a wide variety of healthcare information systems, Orion Health’s Amadeus, with Rhapsody Integration Engine, facilitates data acquisition and aggregation within and among payer and provider organizations, accountable care organizations, governments and health information exchanges. Amadeus stands alone as the foundation for population health management initiatives or can be combined with Orion Health’s own seamlessly integrated applications for analytics, care coordination, and patient engagement to enable end to end population health management, improve care coordination, enhance quality of care and help reduce costs.
- May 2014Series B$25.5M
#7
Series A · Dunedin, Otago · founded 2017 · 9 employees$5Mraised▾
InsituGen is a developer of bioassays for the detection of androgens in sports supplements and race horses. It has developed transcriptional activation bioassays or reporter gene bioassays that are mainly based in yeast cells or mammalian cells. It can detect all compounds that are able to activate the androgen receptor and therefore have hormonal action. It also used to test biological samples such as plasma, serum and urine, supplement extracts, and other matrices such as feed.
- Mar 2022Series A$5M
#8
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2012 · 8 employees$8.3Mraised▾
Cloud based risk management solutions for enterprises. It offers a range of tools and connected devices for professionals and individuals to support users suffering from abuse or in need of emergency assistance. It integrates with various systems and services to provide solutions.
- Dec 2014Series A$3.8M
- Nov 2013Series A$3M
- 2012Seed$1.5M
#9
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2021 · 7 employees$3Mraised▾
AI-based skin cancer diagnosis solutions for dermatologists. The platform provides decision-support solutions for doctors using the skin image database that provides diagnoses for a broad range of skin cancers. The technology assists primary care physicians in screening programs and clinical tests.
- Jul 2021Seed$3M
#10
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2018 · 20 employees$2.5Mraised▾
Cloud-based echocardiography data analysis tool for providers. The company has developed software that assists with data analysis and reporting. It comes with features for AI-based data prediction, image storage, heart scanning, and more.
- Sep 2021Seed$2.5M
#11
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2017 · 10 employees$770.4Kraised▾
Developer of AI-powered translation technology for sign languages and English. The company provides tools for translating between English and sign languages using artificial intelligence. Certified Deaf Interpreters review, edit, and enhance translations using a hybrid application. The technology aims to improve accuracy, clarity, and usability of sign language translation.
- Nov 2022Seed$770.4K
#12
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015 · 28 employees$3.5Mraised▾
MyCare is an online marketplace that connects caregivers and care providers. The platform allows users to care seekers to search for suitable care provider and book appointment with them. The platform provides a detailed profile of caregivers for users to make suitability of caregiver and make a selection. The platform allows caregivers to register themselves and claims to check the background of the listed caregivers. The payment transaction takes place through the platform.
- Dec 2016Series A$3.5M
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How research on Digital Health is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around Digital Health — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 548 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Ministry of Health313
- University of Auckland80
- University of Otago42
- Auckland University of Technology40
- Ministry of Education14
- Health care6
- Public health6
- Health administration5
- Context (archaeology)4
- Stakeholder4
- Health care2→62
- Health informatics9→36
- Public health6→25
- Health administration4→22
- Psychological intervention1→18
- Health care6→86
- Health informatics17→82
- Public health12→66
- Health administration16→56
- Nursing research10→40
Where digital health 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
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