Founder of Biogold

Carl Meyer

Founder of Biogold, a New Zealand pine pollen company built from field work, manufacturing, public R&D, and customer use.

Biology and environmental science background. Former Ministry for Primary Industries. Edmund Hillary Fellow. Based in Ohope.

Carl Meyer with a Biogold banner and product stand at GovTech 2022 Demo Day
GovTech 2022 Demo Day. Biogold product stand with MPI, Callaghan Innovation, Scion, Sprout, and other support signals visible.
Biogold Founder / Pine Pollen NZ
$288,500 MPI SFF Futures funding
EHF Edmund Hillary Fellow
VUW Biology and environmental science

Associated signals

Associated work.

Work

Science, product, customers, category.

01

Science and primary-sector base

Biology and environmental science at Victoria University of Wellington, followed by Ministry for Primary Industries experience.

02

Government-backed R&D

Biogold received MPI SFF Futures funding for pine pollen research and industry-development work, with public coverage by MPI, RNZ, and NZ Herald.

03

Product work

Built the company around sourcing, species research, extraction, testing, manufacturing, product education, ecommerce, and customer feedback.

04

Founder history

Built and sold Vic Deals before Biogold. Current work includes founder-led ecommerce, product strategy, and team handoff.

Founder record

The record.

A dated trail of the company, customers, public moments, and production work behind Biogold.

A mountain bike on a pine forest trail near Ohope

Ohope base.

Biogold now sits alongside advisory work and the private Ohope workshop. Direct founder judgement, grounded in a physical business and a physical place.

Product in customers' hands.

Customer-shared clips show Biogold outside its own channels: people holding, using, and talking about the product in their own environments.

Biogold pine pollen tincture bottles among pine cones and cut wood

A physical product.

A bottle with sourcing, formulation, production, labelling, customer education, and repeatable operations behind it.

Carl Meyer presenting Biogold at GovTech 2022 Demo Day

GovTech Demo Day.

Biogold in a public room, with the product, pitch, and support network visible at the same time.

Biogold bottles displayed on a wooden product stand

Product stand.

Trade and demo settings force clarity: what the product is, how it looks, and what it is made from.

Carl Meyer in a lab coat with Biogold bottles and filling equipment

The production layer.

Before the media and public validation: bottles, filling equipment, testing decisions, and the practical work of making a product repeatably.

Sources

Public sources.

The important biographical and company details are linked to the public record.

Science background and MPI experience

BSc in Biology and Environmental Science from Victoria University of Wellington, followed by Ministry for Primary Industries work.

$288,500 MPI SFF Futures funding

Publicly announced New Zealand government funding for Biogold pine pollen research and industry-development work.

EHF Fellow

Edmund Hillary Fellowship feature on Carl, Biogold, the founder path, and pine pollen category work.

Vic Deals founder, built and sold

Founder history before Biogold.

Public category explanation

Pine pollen discussed through government, media, agritech, entrepreneurship, forestry, and founder-community channels.

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Public articles and media

Public record.

NZ Entrepreneur, Dec 2023

Founder Focus: Bio Gold

Founder profile covering Biogold, the origin story, Victoria science background, MPI, and the shift from export idea to customer-led mission.

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Sprout Agritech, Apr 2022

Meet the Founders: BioGold

Founder profile on the pine pollen market, Carl's MPI background, and the ambition to build a new New Zealand export category.

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MPI, Jun 2022

Plant-based testosterone in pine pollen could be a goldmine

Government release announcing $288,500 SFF Futures funding for Pine Pollen New Zealand Limited, trading as Bio Gold.

Read release

RNZ, Jul 2022

Pine pollen, a potential high export earner

Radio interview with Jesse Mulligan on discovering pine pollen, testing New Zealand species, and building the category.

Listen

NZ Herald / The Country, Jul 2022

Plant-based testosterone in pine pollen

Coverage of Biogold's MPI-backed R&D, sourcing, safety priorities, and pine pollen's potential for New Zealand forestry.

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Edmund Hillary Fellowship

Harnessing Pine Pollen's Power to Transform Wellbeing

EHF Fellow feature on science background, Biogold, customer feedback, public mission, and Fellowship support.

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Timberbiz, Jul 2022

Bio Gold a new goldmine for NZ's forestry sector

Forestry-sector coverage of the MPI funding, species work, harvesting window, and high-value export opportunity.

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Ways to Wealth, Nov 2025

Building Million Dollar Businesses Without Venture Capital

Podcast profile on Biogold, Vic Deals, bootstrapping, founder ownership, and the path from first company to revenue-funded brand.

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BROS Men's Wellbeing, 2025

Masculine Vitality Experience

Public community mention naming Bio Gold as a keystone sponsor and Carl Meyer / Biogold in the event write-up.

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Contact

Media, partnerships, research, operators, and advisory requests.

Best fit: health companies, forestry partners, researchers, journalists, exceptional operators, and people building useful physical-world businesses.

Consulting

Paid advisory.

For founders, operators, researchers, health companies, and forestry partners with a defined problem.

Question and answer

15 minutes

$499

One precise question. Best when the context is already clear.

Pay $499

Get my help

30 minutes

$999

Pressure-test the options and leave with the next move.

Pay $999

Solve your issue

60 minutes

$1,499

One defined problem. Root-cause read, practical next actions, and founder judgement.

Pay $1,499
Carl Meyer in front of a pine tree

Payments run through Biogold's Shopify checkout. Remote sessions are by video. Ohope workshop date and final address are confirmed after checkout. Prices are NZD. Consulting is strategic, category, product, and founder advice, not medical diagnosis or treatment advice.