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In short, the NBR story says that Handley's Iliad fund is doing well and Handley wants to make it easier for NZers to invest in pre-IPO tech companies that are in their early stages, eg Twitter pre-IPO. The fund is small (7 figures with less than 20 investors) and he is looking at "some new market the NZX is talking about" (not sure what that is exactly - perhaps someone can enlighten me) and perhaps crowd-funding for more funds.
The Iliad fund has had a stake in Facebook; currently has Twitter; is looking at SpaceX, Dropbox, Square and Fab.