{"id":140696,"date":"2025-09-08T02:38:07","date_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:38:07","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140696\/"},"modified":"2025-09-08T02:38:07","modified_gmt":"2025-09-08T02:38:07","slug":"oif-ventures-and-king-river-capital-join-21-million-raising-for-nz-defence-tech-start-up-starboard","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/140696\/","title":{"rendered":"OIF Ventures and King River Capital join $21 million raising for NZ defence tech start-up Starboard"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>Local venture capital funds OIF Ventures and King River Capital have backed a $NZ23 million ($21 million) funding round by a tech start-up that uses artificial intelligence to analyse shipping data to detect illegal activity ranging from drug-trafficking to espionage.<\/p>\n<p>The New Zealand-based company, Starboard Maritime Intelligence, is valued at $NZ53 million on the back of the fresh capital raising, which also included Auckland-based firm Altered Capital as a lead investor.<\/p>\n<p>Loading&#8230;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"Local venture capital funds OIF Ventures and King River Capital have backed a $NZ23 million ($21 million) funding&hellip;\n","protected":false},"author":2,"featured_media":140697,"comment_status":"","ping_status":"","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[40],"tags":[28,158],"class_list":{"0":"post-140696","1":"post","2":"type-post","3":"status-publish","4":"format-standard","5":"has-post-thumbnail","7":"category-entrepreneurship","8":"tag-business","9":"tag-entrepreneurship"},"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140696","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/2"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=140696"}],"version-history":[{"count":0,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/140696\/revisions"}],"wp:featuredmedia":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media\/140697"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=140696"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=140696"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/www.newsbeep.com\/us\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=140696"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}