Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications Companies in New Zealand
The 71 best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in New Zealand in 2026, ranked by funding and momentum. Funding, investors, founders, valuation, tech stack and live signals. Top: StretchSense.
Our analysis of 184 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies
$13.9b in tracked funding; 91% of the stack-profiled cohort runs cloud-native; funding activity peaked in 2025.
Ranked: Best Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in New Zealand
| # | Company | Disclosed funding | Last round | Stage | Founder | Founded | Tech stack | Patents & IP focus | Recent signals |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| 1 | StretchSense Manufacturer of sensors to measure stretch, pressure, shear, and bend | $8M | 6 mo ago | Acquired | — | 2012 | WordPressMySQLPHP+35 | 23 patents Flexible stretchable sensors and interconnects for wearable and soft electronic devices | — |
| 2 | Jupl Cloud based risk management solutions for enterprises | $8M | 138 mo ago | Series A | Alan Brannigan Co-Founder and CEO | 2012 | — | — | — |
| 3 | Mooven AI & SaaS-driven traffic congestion management solution for the transport industry | $4M | 60 mo ago | Series A | Micah Gabriels Chief Executive Officer | 2018 | Framer SitesInstatusReact+19 | — | 1 job opening |
| 4 | RipeTime Analytics technology for ripeness detection in fruits and vegetables | $2M | 116 mo ago | Deadpooled | John Shannon CEO | 2015 | — | 4 patents Gas sensing and measurement devices for detecting specific gas concentrations | — |
| 5 | Tether Provider of CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk and building performance | $2M | 23 mo ago | Seed | Jordan Clist Co-Founder & CTO | 2017 | Wix eCommerceWixSentry+24 | — | — |
| 6 | Junofem Developer of a smart device for screening urinary incontinence | $694K | 56 mo ago | Seed | — | 2018 | Cart FunctionalityShopifySentry+19 | — | — |
| 7 | AgriTrack Online farm management software for agriculture industry | $394K | 119 mo ago | Deadpooled | — | 2013 | — | — | — |
| 8 | Reyedr Heads up display for motorcyclists | $100K | 87 mo ago | Deadpooled | Kal Gwalani Co-Founder & CEO | 2015 | — | — | — |
Top 12 Internet of Things - Industry Applications companies in New Zealand
#1
Acquired · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2012 · 60 employees$8.4Mraised▾
Manufacturer of sensors to measure stretch, pressure, shear, and bends. It develops flexible sensors with Bluetooth that can be placed on the body to measure parameters like stretch, pressure, shear, and bend. Its sensors move with the body changing its shape, this data about how the sensors deform can be sent to a mobile phone or any other gadget to analyze the motion and give real-time feedback. Its sensors can be used in wearable, sports, and healthcare markets.
- Dec 2025Series A$2.3M
- Nov 2022Series A$7.9M
- Jun 2016Series A—
- Apr 2015Seed—
#2
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2017 · 3 employees$1.9Mraised▾
Provider of CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk and building performance. It offers IoT interfaced CO2 monitoring solutions for managing virus transmission risk within alert level or protection framework. It also provide building performance solutions by modeling, measuring, and interpreting how a building is constructed and performs. It offers a referral program for new business and has various products for energy consumption monitoring.
- Jul 2024Seed$1.9M
#3
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
#4
Series A · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2018 · 23 employees$3.6Mraised▾
AI & SaaS-driven traffic congestion management solution for the transport industry. It allows them to manage traffic disruption with real-time visibility of road congestion, including travel times & queue lengths. It also provides traffic insights & SMS alerts when traffic congestion increases beyond KPIs.
- Jun 2021Series A$3.6M
#5
Deadpooled · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015$2Mraised▾
RipeTime is a company developed an analytics technology to detect the ripeness of fruits and vegetables to reduce wastage across the value chain. The company uses sensors to detect different gases present in the stored fruits sample to predict the ripeness. It has conducted successful trials for Kiwi fruits and others.
- Oct 2016Seed$2M
#6
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2018 · 9 employees$694.1Kraised▾
Developer of a smart device for screening urinary incontinence. The device femfit measures the pressure profile of the vagina. This is used to assist women to perform pelvic floor exercises, improve pelvic floor health and reduce the symptoms of urinary incontinence.
- Oct 2021Seed$694.1K
#7
Deadpooled · Dunedin, Otago · founded 2013 · 3 employees$393.9Kraised▾
Agritrack provides an online farm management software especially for fleet management with some other value adds for the agriculture industry of Austalia and New Zealand. The software is accessible on Android and IOS devices. It has modules for farm mapping using satellite imagery and zonal classification of different paddocks. Information can be tagged for a specific paddock. The vehicular fleet can be integrated into the platform through which data can be automatically uploaded to the software. Tasks can be Geotagged and can be tracked by the software platform. Furthermore, the company has partnered with "WeatherZone" to provide hyper-local weather information on the software. The platform also provides notifications for speed limit overlap by any machine of the fleet.
- Jul 2016Angel$393.9K
#8
Funding Raised · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2005 · 13 employees$77.3Kraised▾
Blackhawk provides a SaaS (Software as a Service) platform for IoT solutions. Provides asset management capabilities, remote monitoring, analytics and IoT technology stack consisting of devices and sensors, network connectivity, device management platforms & service platforms. Outcomes can be achieved based on the location or state of assets and configurable triggers through their workflow engine.
- Aug 2021Grant (prize money)$26.5K
- Oct 2020Grant (prize money)$25.4K
- Sep 2019Grant (prize money)$25.4K
- Aug 2014Grant (prize money)—
#9
Deadpooled · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015$100Kraised▾
Reyedr, from mango teQ, is a heads up display for motorcyclists. Has a universal helmet mount to fit on any full face helmet. HUD connects wirelessly to smartphone app to improve safety by delivering relevant data such as speed, navigation, etc. Can detect emergency situation, automatically sending SOS message to ICE contacts with the location in case of crash detection. App can also be used for social features and performance analytics. Selected for Lightning Lab acceleration program in 2016.
- Mar 2019Seed$100K
#10
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2014 · 14 employees—raised▾
Developer of a smart home hub. The hub developed by the company runs on the company's OS and is capable of communicating using different protocols. The company has developed one more product that can be used by enterprise companies to enable their end customers to monitor and control their devices remotely.
- Mar 2022Seed—
- Sep 2019Angel—
#11
Seed · Dunedin, Otago · founded 2012 · 24 employees—raised▾
Provider of cloud-based personal safety systems. It offers lone worker devices, web-based software for employee safety, and a mobile application for personal safety. Its features include an administrator dashboard, panic alerts, GPS tracking, live locations, and check-in and out alerts. It caters to lone workers, persons, corporate employees, and event managers.
- Dec 2020Seed—
#12
Seed · Auckland, Auckland · founded 2015—raised▾
Wireless Guard is developing Hach, a sensor system that is attached to doors and windows throughout the home. Once installed device notifies user about state of their doors and windows through a companion app.
- Jul 2016Seed—
- Feb 2016Seed—
Funding & investor landscape
Notable founders
Market landscape — 10 sub-themes by coverage
Share of Internet of Things - Industry Applications coverage by sub-theme.
Regulatory-risk over time rising
Funding & growth over time
funding rising · growth rising
How research on Internet of Things is moving in New Zealand
A read on the academic research around Internet of Things — which themes are gaining ground, the institutions and researchers driving them, and how the tone is shifting. Based on 108 New Zealand-affiliated papers.
- Auckland University of Technology27
- Ministry of Education19
- University of Auckland18
- Ministry of Health11
- Massey University10
- Wireless sensor network1→7
- Computer network1→5
- Wireless sensor network3→7
- Agriculture4
- Interoperability3
- Computer security3
- Internet privacy3
- Resource (disambiguation)2
Where iot 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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