The Auckland startup is developing an AI-enabled intelligence platform for online-crime investigations. Azonic did not disclose the financing amount, while Startup Daily reports a NZ$1 million round at a NZ$6.1 million valuation.
Azonic, an Auckland-based startup developing intelligence software for law-enforcement and intelligence agencies, announced a pre-seed financing round backed by Blackbird and Antler on August 25, 2026.
The round also included angel investors Jamie Beaton, founder and CEO of Crimson Education; Eliot Crowther, co-founder of Pushpay; and Jovan Pavlicevic, founder of Emerge. Azonic did not disclose the size or financing instrument in its announcement.
Startup Daily reported that Azonic raised NZ$1 million and was valued at NZ$6.1 million, with Blackbird leading the round. SmartCompany subsequently reported the same figures. Because Azonic’s announcement does not publish those financial terms or identify a lead investor, the amount, valuation and Blackbird’s lead role remain attributed reporting rather than company-confirmed terms.
Azonic was co-founded by CEO Caden Scott and CTO Thomas Holdom. The company is building a unified intelligence platform designed to bring together the data, tools and workflows used in investigations into online crime.
Its software uses agents to pursue investigative leads in parallel and surface relevant information for human analysts. Azonic says analysts remain responsible for decisions and can review the material generated by the system before acting on it. The platform can also be deployed on-premise or in an agency-controlled cloud environment.
The company says investigators in New Zealand, Australia and the United States are already working with the platform. The agencies have not been publicly identified in the sources reviewed, so Bipsiq could not independently verify the scale or specific nature of those deployments.
Scott previously founded the International Online Crime Coordination Center, a non-profit focused on connecting law-enforcement agencies and online platforms working on online crime. A University of Auckland profile published in March 2026 documented Scott’s development of Azonic and linked the product concept to information fragmentation he encountered through that work.
Azonic said the new financing will support the next stage of platform development and its work with agencies investigating online crime.
The company also announced an advisory group that includes Michael Hurley, formerly of the CIA and Palantir, and Brad Brekke, founding director of the FBI’s Office of the Private Sector.
