Top 50 Angel Investors in New Zealand (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Mark Hurley
Angel
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7 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, FinTech, Financial Services | $578k–$5.4M |
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Peter Beck
Angel
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6 | New Zealand | Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Automotive, Manufacturing | $4.9M–$21M |
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Philip McCaw
Angel
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4 | New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Energy, Retail | |
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Rowan Simpson
Angel
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4 | New Zealand, Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | SaaS, Mobile Apps, Music | $360k–$6M |
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Chris Sang
Angel
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4 | United States, Australia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $337k–$21M |
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Danny Chan
Angel
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4 | New Zealand | Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, SaaS, Events | $918k–$1.7M |
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Chintaka Ranatunga
Angel
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4 | New Zealand, India, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Apps, EdTech | $400k–$10M |
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Emlyn Scott
Angel
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4 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $350k–$12M |
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Stephen Tindall
Angel
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3 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Security, Aerospace | $385k–$5.1M |
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Dylan Field
Angel
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3 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $2.2M–$100M |
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Ben Kepes
Angel
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3 | United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $50k–$3M |
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William Zeqiri
Angel
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3 | New Zealand, United Arab Emirates | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine and Spirits | $734k–$1.2M |
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Rodney Drury
Angel
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3 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Solar, Energy, Mobile | |
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Chris Heaslip
Angel
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3 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, CRM, SaaS | $2.5M–$11M |
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Sam Morgan
Angel
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3 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Apps | |
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Rich Chetwynd
Angel
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3 | New Zealand | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps | $360k–$1.2M |
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Geoffrey Woo
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series C | Software, Health Care, Wellness | $2.1M–$8.3M |
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Craig Donaldson
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Convertible Note | FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services | |
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Mark Ritson
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | SaaS, Software, Brand Marketing | |
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Mark Clayton
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology | |
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Maurice Eng
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Alex Rigopulos
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Angel | Mobile, Communities, Mobile Apps | $550k–$49M |
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Harald McPike
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A, Series D | Software, FinTech, Analytics | $1.7M–$164M |
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Akshay Kothari
Angel
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2 | United States, India, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $850k–$25M |
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Serge van Dam
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Biotechnology, Product Research | |
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Ruslan Kogan
Angel
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2 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS | $593k–$64M |
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Nicole Fougere
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Cloud Security, Cyber Security | |
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Jake Paul
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Web3, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $3.6M–$35M |
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Alexey Mitko
Angel
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2 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1.3M–$4.5M |
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Leighton Roberts
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Education | $1.2M–$2.7M |
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Liam Don
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Angel, Pre-Seed | Children, Software | |
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Nick Beale
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Convertible Note | FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services | |
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Jason Stockwood
Angel
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2 | United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS | |
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Brian Cartmell
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand, Canada | Seed, Pre-Seed | Bitcoin, FinTech, Aerospace | $100k–$11M |
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Timothy Brown
Angel
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2 | New Zealand, United States | Pre-Seed, Series A | SaaS, Retail, Fashion | $634k–$1.3M |
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Marko Bogoievski
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Convertible Note | Veterinary, Health Care, Biotechnology | |
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Richard Collier Keywood
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Software, Information Services, Information Technology | ||
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Hezi Leibovich
Angel
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2 | Australia, United Kingdom, Cyprus | Series A, Seed | Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce | $593k–$25M |
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Jonathan Hendriksen
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Kate Dinon
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed | Children, Software | |
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Spencer Rascoff
Angel
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1 | United States, Sweden, Canada | Seed, Series A, Series C | Real Estate, Software, Internet | |
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Chadd Ciccarelli
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology | $605k–$1.5M |
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Julien Machot
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding | Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food | $261k–$2.3M |
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Kirsti Grant
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, EdTech, Consumer Software | $653k–$1.3M |
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Robert Hayes
Angel
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1 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $1M–$90M |
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Alfonso Villanueva
Angel
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1 | United States, Spain, Australia | Seed, Series A | Apps, E-Commerce, Health Care | $658k–$14M |
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Sam Altman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1.2M–$100M |
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Ross Veitch
Angel
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1 | Singapore, Thailand, United States | Seed | Internet, Real Estate, Rental | $500k–$1.1M |
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Connor Theilmann
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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Mark Jude Hurley is based out of Dallas, Texas and is the CEO, Co-Founder & Director of Caruso. Mark previously worked at Little Giant as a CEO & Founder. Mark Jude Hurley attended the Victoria University of Wellington. Mark Jude Hurley has received recognition as an EY Entrepreneur Of The Year – New Zealand Finalist (2017) and a Startup ofthe Year Finalist at the NZ Hi-Tech Awards (2024).
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $578k–$2.6M; Series A $4.8M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- First AML — Get AML/CTF compliant and solve your toughest AML challenges with First AML. It's the only AML & KYC software solution you need.
- Joyous — FROM IDEAS TO IMPACT: UNIFY PEOPLE AND DECISION MAKERSMake the best decisions using the best data. Joyous builds human relationships, and aligns people around common challenges, leveraging their ideas to make an impact.Joyous helps people talk about a specific topic that impacts them every day - right at the time decision makers are planning todo something about it. Joyous starts conversations and a real person from the organization responds.Joyous identifies actionable phrases, groups them in real-time and delivers a prioritized action plan. Joyous accelerates operational excellence, strategic program execution, transformation, tools adoption, customer experience and more.Everyone deserves to be Joyous!
- Narrative — Narrative empowers photographers to spend more time doing what they love.
Peter Beck is based out of Huntington Beach, California, and is the founder, president, and chief executive officer of Rocket Lab. Peter has received the New Zealand EY Entrepreneur of the Year award.
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, Manufacturing
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Series A $4.9M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Halter — Halter provides GPS-enabled collars and software that help farmers monitor and control cattle movement. Its system uses virtual fencing to guide animals without physical barriers, allowing users to manage grazing patterns and land use through a mobile interface. The platform collects data on animal location, behavior, and health indicators,supporting day-to-day farm operations and decision-making. Halter also enables remote shifting of herds, reducing the need for manual labor in moving livestock. Its services are used in agricultural settings to improve pasture utilization and streamline herd management processes.
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
- Dotterel Technologies — Dotterel develops noise reduction and audio recording technology for UAVs. Our Aerial Audio Microphone is a payload for UAVs and is a unique world first capability. Throughout the development we have worked closely with customers to deliver for high value use cases in Emergency Services, Defence and TV/Film. Hearing audio from your UAV provides an important addition to the video. Now you can have live conversations one-to-one and one-to-many with people remotely via the UAV when there is no other communication methods available. We look forward to working with our customers and partners to deliver a new range of UAV solutions.
Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac
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- Industry: Software, Energy, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
- CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
- Flick Electric — Flick Electric Co. is the only power company that gives New Zealanders access to the wholesale price of electricity direct from the spot market. In fact we pass on all of the costs of getting power to your place, without any mark-up – that’s generation, distribution, transmission and metering – so you can relax knowing that you’re not paying a centmore than you need to.And in your personalised online portal we’ll show you exactly how much power you’re using every half hour of every day, and what you’re paying for it, so you are empowered to change how you use electricity to save even more.
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Music
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $360k–$1.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Parkable — Car park management software that runs staff, tenant and visitor parking for you - from a single workplace to an entire property portfolio.
- Stickybeak — Stickybeak is a consumer testing company that operates in the education industry. It offers a solution built by market researchers, marketing and comms experts, and tech leaders. The company's services are designed to provide market research and insights. Stickybeak's team is composed of professionals from various fields, includingresearch, marketing, and technology. The businesses use the company's solution to gain insights into their market and make informed decisions. It specializes in influencer, message, and packaging testing services.
- Huckleberry — Build your professional reputation with AI-powered 360 feedback from colleagues. Huckleberry helps people develop their career and businesses to develop their teams.
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $337k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $350k–$900k; Series A $2.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
- Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
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Danny Chan
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- Industry: EdTech, SaaS, Events
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $918k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloud M — Cloud M pioneered mobile-first, B2B applications for leading organizations in education, healthcare and public safety. Clients include both private and public sector. Notable product innovations include the Alerter Platform for New Zealand's Civil Defence and Emergency Management agency and the initial development of the Blerter product.
- LearnCoach — Learn from 2500+ video tutorials and practice questions for 80 NCEA standards. LearnCoach covers everything you need to master NCEA and get your best results ever!
Chintaka Ranatunga
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- Industry: Software, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series B $795k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kami — Kami's all-in-one platform turns any resource into interactive, accessible learning experiences. Save teacher time, improve outcomes. Try it free now.
- APIMatic — The Trusted Developer Experience platform for APIs. Achieve faster API onboarding via automatic SDKs, docs, code samples, and guided walkthroughs.
- QuiverVision — Experience the immersive wonder of 3D Augmented Reality with engaging coloring experiences that let your creativity run wild.
Emlyn has spent more than 30 years navigating the complex landscapes of finance, financial markets and technology as a founder, public company CEO, angel investor, VC investor and fund manager. He's had the opportunity to make over 70 venture capital investments in innovative companies like Nutromics, DataRobot, Calm App, Cerebras Systems,Skylark Labs, Zainar, and Kami, and a similar number personally as an angel. He is a founder of OpenMarkets Group, one of Australia's largest online brokers. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s second largest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: - Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) - Masters Business Administration (MBA) - Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI) - Bachelor of Economics (BEc)
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $675k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $350k–$900k; Series A $5.9M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 26% lead, 74% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
- Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
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Stephen Tindall is the founder of K1W1.
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- Industry: Software, Security, Aerospace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $385k–$5.1M; Pre-Seed $398k–$500k
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
- Pacific Fibre — Fibre optic cable between Australia, NZ and USA
- Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 133
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$12M; Series A $13M–$29M; Series B $23M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ambrook — Ambrook offers specialized accounting software for family-run farms, ranches, and agribusinesses. The platform includes bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment, and analytics tools. Ambrook aims to help these businesses manage finances, track profitability, and prepare for the future.
- Netic — The AI revenue engine for essential service industries that keep America running.
- Senra Systems — Senra Systems operates in the manufacturing industry, focusing on software configuration to improve manufacturing processes. The company works to transform skilled assembly tasks into production lines, enhancing production efficiency. It also has involvement in the Aerospace and Defense industry. It collects anonymous data through Google Analyticsto analyze user behavior and use the insights to improve its services.
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Browse database — It's Free!Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergence of technology,mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to aviation technology, enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raygun — Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users.
- Cloud 66 — Deploy your applications to any cloud provider or your own servers. No lock-in, full control. From 1 to 1000 servers with Cloud 66's DevOps platform.
- Common Ledger — Common Ledger was born in April 2013 when Drew saw an opportunity arise for a 'common ledger' after developing a solution to translate Point of Sale data into one format. Drew discovered the same data needed to be sent to accounting systems that varied as much as the diverse Point of Sale software. For years Vince was a client responsiblefor campaigns created by the digital media agency where Drew was the technical lead. In this chaotic environment of media agencies and campaigns Drew and Vince managed to build a solid relationship which flourished beyond employment. Thus began the founding Common Ledger team.Later, Brendan a chartered accountant joined Drew and Vince to bring his industry knowledge, number crunching and strategy.Finaly, Carlos Chambers then came aboard wearing the Operations, Legals and Commercials hats and completing the team's fundamental skill-set.The team have since created something many businesses and accountants desperately need, solving a problem they are unable to find a solution to.
William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine and Spirits
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: New Zealand, United Arab Emirates
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $734k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- invygo — Invygo is MENA's first & largest car subscription service creating accessible mobility options through an all-inclusive monthly subscription, all in a seamless app-based experience.For consumers: we provide them access to passenger cars without any financial burdens through a customizable month-to-month subscription through a mobile appFor Dealers: through our technology, they get access to a new business model that helps them generate revenue and reduce their depreciation and operational cost The company was founded in 2018 by Eslam Hussein and Pulkit Ganjoo in Dubai, UAE.
- ArchiPro — Browse projects, find products, connect with professionals and learn about building, all in one place. Find everything you need to build your dream right here.
- Invivo Wines — Invivo Wines is a premium new zealand winery producing world class wines from both the marlboroughand central otafgo regions.
Rodney Kenneth Drury is based out of Queenstown, Canterbury and is the Founder of Xero. Rodney previously worked at NZX as a Director. Rodney Kenneth Drury attended the Victoria University of Wellington. Rodney Kenneth Drury has received New Zealander or the Year, New Zealand Business Hall of Fame 2025 award in their career.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
- Pacific Fibre — Fibre optic cable between Australia, NZ and USA
- Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Chris Heaslip
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- Industry: Software, CRM, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$3.2M; Series A $5.4M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- First AML — Get AML/CTF compliant and solve your toughest AML challenges with First AML. It's the only AML & KYC software solution you need.
- Leadr — Leadr is a people development software that helps you lead better through leadership development, Core HR, and health plans.
- Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and PE funds to save time and grow AUM.
Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which, in 2006, sold for $NZ750 million. Sam also built a successful online dating and friend reuniting businesses in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.Sam is an active investor and philanthropist. Sam's holdings include a number ofother successful web businesses including Visfleet and Sonar6.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
- Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
Founder/CEO of ThisData, a login intelligence and contextual authentication platform. Founder/CEO of Litmos.com, a leading SaaS Learning Management System that was acquired by CallidusCloud (NASDAQ: CALD) in 2011.
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- Industry: SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $360k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
- ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
Geoffrey Woo is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Anti Fund.He attended to the Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skio — We help Shopify merchants sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out.
- Maximus — Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology.
- Pack Digital — Pack Digital is a developer tool that helps build e-commerce storefronts. Their front and backend infrastructure consolidates product information and content updates in a central system to manage PWA builds and deployments. Their services include technical consulting and strategic services.
Craig has more than 25 years of Financial Market experience in New Zealand and the United States, encompassing business building, restructuring and running a number of market-leading financial businesses, including Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank & RBS. Craig holds a numbers of NZ Board & Advisory Board positions & is the current CEO ofKea NZ. Craig owns an extensive commercial property portfolio.
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- Industry: FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
Mark Ritson is Adjunct Professor of Marketing at Melbourne Business School and Visiting Professor of Marketing at Singapore Management University. He has a PhD in Marketing from Lancaster University and has been a faculty member at some of the world's leading business schools teaching on the MBA programs at London Business School, MIT Sloan,and the University of Minnesota. He is widely acknowledged as one of the world's best marketing instructors and has been the recipient of awards for his teaching at LBS, MIT, SMU and MBS.Mark has worked globally on projects ranging from brand strategy, market research, segmentation, CRM, marketing communications, brand acquisition, brand valuation and brand extension. For thirteen years - from 2002 to 2015 - he served as in-house professor for LVMH - the world's largest luxury group - working with senior executives from brands like Louis Vuitton, Dom Perignon, Fendi, Tag Heuer, Dior and Hennessy.Mark has written a weekly column on branding for Marketing Week for over a decade. On three occasions he has been judged the Business Columnist of the Year at the PPA Press Awards, the highest award for magazine journalism in the UK. He is also a columnist for The Australian newspaper. His more scholarly publications include articles published in Sloan Management Review, Harvard Business Review, the Journal of Advertising, and the Journal of Consumer Research. He was the recipient of the Ferber Award in 2000, one of the most prestigious prizes in Marketing, for his doctoral thesis.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Brand Marketing
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
Mark Clayton
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- Industry: Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mooven — Mooven is a technology platform that enables the infrastructure and transport industry to deliver roading projects faster and with fewer complaints by managing disruption and understanding traffic conditions with real-time visibility.
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.
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- Industry: Mobile, Communities, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Series A $3.2M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. their hardware and software platform gives creators and listeners the power to engage with, explore, and share sound in transformative new ways.
- GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.
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- Industry: Software, FinTech, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series D
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $1.7M–$9.5M; Series A $3.7M–$61M; Series D $140M–$164M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
- Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
- Health Data Analytics Institute — Health Data Analytics Institute is created a predictive platform that transcends the understanding of healthcare data and connects it to quantifiable, actionable information that benefits patients, providers, and society. But we don’t just translate data, we transform it into a continuum of insights — applicable across all touch points in anindividual’s dynamic health journey. It’s deep knowledge that quantifies longevity, health status, health risks, and health costs. But that’s just the start.
Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $850k–$20M; Series A $12M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Ambrook — Ambrook offers specialized accounting software for family-run farms, ranches, and agribusinesses. The platform includes bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment, and analytics tools. Ambrook aims to help these businesses manage finances, track profitability, and prepare for the future.
- Eigen — Eigen is building the world's mutual friend
- Maxed — Maxed is the AI-native platform that runs your entire CPA firm. One platform replaces your disconnected tools, and a team of AI agents automates the manual work, so you serve more clients and protect your margin without growing the team. It works inside your email, and every client-facing output stays behind a CPA approval gate.
Serge has a depth of experience in technology startups that is difficult to rival. As CMO of M-Com, Serge led the growth of M-Com from a four person mobile commerce development company to the world's most successful provider of mobile banking and payment solutions (in both licensed and SaaS categories). He has since held executive levelpositions and Directorships, including as Chair on four boards, of many successful B2B SaaS companies. He is also an avid investor.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Product Research
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
- Huckleberry — Build your professional reputation with AI-powered 360 feedback from colleagues. Huckleberry helps people develop their career and businesses to develop their teams.
Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $593k–$3.5M; Series A $3.5M–$64M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
Nicole Fougere - Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData
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- Industry: SaaS, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
Jake Paul is based out of Puerto Rico and is the Co-Founder of Most Valuable Promotions.
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- Industry: Web3, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$15M; Series A $30M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The Interaction Company of California — The proactive AI assistant on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram, and more. Texts like a human, really knows you, and integrates with your life in dozens of ways.
- Natural — Natural powers agentic payments
- Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Alexey Mitko is a Co-Founder of Eucalyptus.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
- PREVE — Supporting back-to-back physios with their daily caseload, simplifying admin whilst making the patient experience more enjoyable. Preve does the admin work for practitioners. One click clinical notes, treatment plans, home rehab and documents.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Marloo — Marloo is an AI-assistant that empowers financial advisers to focus on building client relationships, instead of paperwork.
- Excellent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.
Liam Don is the Co-founder and President at ClassDojo.
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- Industry: Children, Software
- Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Polymath — Personalised learning and fun means you can be confident that your child is getting the learning experience they want and deserve.
Nick has more than 25 years commercial property experience. Nick is the Founder and MD of RCP, New Zealand's leading commercial property project management company. RCP have been responsible for managing some of New Zealand's most iconic commercial property developments including Auckland's Sky Tower, Queens Wharf and Vero centre aswell as Christchurch's AMI stadium. Nick owns an strong commercial property portfolio personally and is the Chairman of the Child Cancer Foundation.
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- Industry: FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
Jason Stockwood is a Transformational Leaders Fellowship at Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Apps, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- OLIO — Let's not waste our wonderful world. Connect with your neighbours to give away food & other household items, plus lend & borrow, for free.
- WILD.AI — Train with your female physiology - not against it! Track your menstrual cycle to sync workouts, nutrition, and recovery with your body's unique needs.
- Cogo — At Cogo we are on a mission to empower hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses world-wide to become conscious consumers by taking action to measure, reduce and compensate for their impact on the world. Cogo enables everyone to join together to create a fairer and more sustainable world. Talk to us now or see our website for details.
Brian Cartmell has over 20 years of experience in information technology systems, working as a programmer to CEO of eNIC, the second largest domain registry company in the United States before it was acquired by Verisign in 2001. Cartmell was invited to testify before the United States senate in regards to Internet Governance by ICANN, is theinventor of five issued U.S. patents, led the successful battle against Hormel for the right to include the word "Spam" in trademarks that relate to email services, and is a major shareholder and board member of companies ranging from identity authentication services to all-natural zero calorie sodas.
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- Industry: Bitcoin, FinTech, Aerospace
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $400k–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $100k–$11M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Approve.com — Simple, Customizable Procurement Processes For Your Organization.
- Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.
- Seagate Space — Seagate Space is an aerospace company that provides offshore rocket launch solutions for the space industry.
Timothy Brown is based out of San Francisco, California, and is the co-founder of Allbirds. Timothy previously worked at Redscout as an innovation strategy & business development specialist. Timothy Brown attended the Finance Department at the Kellogg School of Management.
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- Industry: SaaS, Retail, Fashion
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Pre-Seed $634k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Hyades — Hyades is an AI-powered hyperspectral intelligence platform that offers soil and land insights.
- Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
- Archive — We help brands launch their own secondhand resale marketplace.
Marko retired as CEO of Morrison & Co in 2021 after 13 years of leading the business. He continues to provide guidance for investments in telecommunications and digital infrastructure. His 30 year career has been in the infrastructure and technology sectors in a variety of senior finance, operational and sales roles in the United States and NewZealand. Prior to joining Morrison & Co in 2008, Marko was CFO of Telecom NZ, responsible for corporate finance, M&A and group strategy. Marko is Chair of Vodafone New Zealand.
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- Industry: Veterinary, Health Care, Biotechnology
- Stage:Convertible Note
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Pictor — PictorDx offers a flexible multiplex proteomics platform that delivers multiple biomarker insights simultaneously and cost-effectively for multiple sample types
Richard Collier-Keywood was named as Network Vice Chairman on 1 November 2011. In this role, Richard will be responsible for the coordination of PwC's global strategy across the network leading PwC's Network Executive Team (NET).Prior to this appointment Richard was the Global Leader, Tax, an appointment he took up on 1 July 2008.He previously led the UK firm's tax practice for five years.
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- Industry: Software, Information Services, Information Technology
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cogo — At Cogo we are on a mission to empower hundreds of millions of consumers and businesses world-wide to become conscious consumers by taking action to measure, reduce and compensate for their impact on the world. Cogo enables everyone to join together to create a fairer and more sustainable world. Talk to us now or see our website for details.
- Conscious Consumers — Our accreditation programme and Good Spend Counter make it easier for you to support businesses that align with your values and track our collective impact
Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.
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- Industry: Internet, FinTech, E-Commerce
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United Kingdom, Cyprus
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $593k–$4M; Series A $2.7M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Subble — Make smarter SaaS and AI decisions with detailed usage analytics to reduce waste, manage spend, and plan renewals with confidence.
- Bookwell — Book your haircut, waxing, nail and other appointments online. Browse venues, make a selection then book and pay online.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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- Industry: Children, Software
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Polymath — Personalised learning and fun means you can be confident that your child is getting the learning experience they want and deserve.
Spencer Rascoff is based out of Dallas, Texas and serves as the Chief Executive Officer of Match Group. Spencer previously served as Co-Founder, Executive Chairman at dot.LA. Spencer Rascoff attended Harvard University.
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- Industry: Real Estate, Software, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, Sweden, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 85
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- HostGPO — A members-only buying group for vacation rental hosts, owners, and managers.
- Ohana — New York City Largest Sublet and Sublease Community. NYC short term rentals, furnished apartments, monthly rentals, and rooms for rent.
- Madrona Venture Labs — Founders like you. Madrona Venture Labs is a startup studio based in Seattle. We partner with founders from day one to build meaningful companies from scratch.
Chadd Ciccarelli
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $605k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Triggr — Own Triggr.ai today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- AMASS Botanics — AMASS believes in the power of plants. From botanical beverages like Riverine Non-Alcoholic Spirit, Hard Seltzer, Dry Gin, and Vodka to cruelty-free Hand Sanitizer, Soap, Bath Salts, and natural soy wax Candles, we make clean botanics for social and self-care rituals. Free shipping on all orders over $50.
Partner at Verso Capital. Dedicated independent UHNW Advisor, former Swiss Private Banker. Exclusively working with international UHNW and Institutional Clients on transactions of at least USD 100mio. Verso Capital selects its UHNW clients following compliance checks and definition of the scope of the engagement. Our main Capabilities include UHNWPrivate Banking Solutions, Transactional Advisory, Equity & Debt Financing & Structuring, Complex Situations.
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- Industry: Food and Beverage, Food Processing, Organic Food
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 26
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$2.3M; Equity Crowdfunding $261k–$695k
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow
Portfolio highlights
- TurtleTree — TurtleTree produces the world's first sustainable lactoferrin LF+ using precision fermentation. Animal-free, vegan-certified for food, beverages & supplements.
- Carbon Click — Become a part of a global movement towards minimizing carbon emissions. Your business can do its part in saving our planet. Offset your footprint now.
- TurtleTree — TurtleTree produces the world's first sustainable lactoferrin LF+ using precision fermentation. Animal-free, vegan-certified for food, beverages & supplements.
Kirsti Grant - CEO & Co-founder @ Populate
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- Industry: Software, EdTech, Consumer Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $653k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Komodo Wellbeing — Komodo is the complete wellbeing solution for schools to measure and improve the effectiveness of their wellbeing strategies.
- Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.
Rob joined First Round as a Partner in 2006, opening up the firm's San Francisco office. Over the past eight years, he has led investments in companies such as Mint.com (acquired by Intuit), Gnip (acquired by Twitter), Square, Uber, and Planet Labs.Rob invests across categories, with his interests spanning financial tech, the sharingeconomy, meal delivery, and consumer hardware. He is constantly exploring new areas, and enjoys working with founders who push the boundaries of existing markets.Prior to joining First Round, Rob became the first venture investor at Omidyar Network, the investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. While there, he led most of the initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group.Before that, Rob worked at Palm, where he product managed Palm OS during the heyday of Palm products (Palm III, Palm V, Handspring Treo). He also started the company's corporate venture fund and managed the strategic spinoff of PalmSource.Rob lives with his wife and two daughters in San Francisco. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking at home and traveling up and down the California coast with his family and two dogs. He has an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $3.5M–$90M
- Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
- Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
- ShareWell — Discover a supportive mental health community with peer-led sessions, expert insights, and helpful resources to guide your healing journey.
Biography: Currently... * Business Angel * PayPal Executive * Board Member Europ-Assistance * Founder Peranakan S.L. Formerly... * McKinsey Director (Senior Partner) * Chief innovation Officer (SingTel) * Chairman Innoventures (JV SoftBank / SingTel)
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- Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Spain, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $658k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- agentero — Agentero is the agency network that gives independent insurance agents carrier access and easy to use technology to modernize their agencies.
- Postr — Postr is an Android app that brings personalised and rewarding content to users. The app brings customised content feeds (including NZ Herald, GrabOne and MetService) and personalised advertisement with engagement mechanisms to user's lock screens and rewards users with Pocket Money (for hosting ads), which can be cashed out to their bankaccount, exchanged for deals or donated to charity.
- Peranakan S.L. — Development and management of Luxury Real Estate
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 178
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6M–$70M; Series B $17M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- GALY — GALY biocrafts premium cocoa and cotton with quality, traceability, and scalable supply for modern brands.
- BRINC Drones — BRINC is a US company developing tech in the service of public safety. Known for Drone as First Responder, indoor tactical drones and more.
- NOYACK — NOYACK builds agentic AI technology for wealth management, starting with NOYACK.ai—the first AI agent for financial literacy - and Prophit.ai , the first opensource AI agent for portfolio optimizations of ALL asset classes. The fintech platform uses autonomous AI to deliver personalized financial guidance and construct tax-optimized portfolioscombining traditional accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, HSAs) with private market investments in venture capital, fine art, and real estate for Millennials and Gen Z investors
Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.
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- Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Rental
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
Connor Theilmann is the Chief Business Officer at ServiceTitan. Previously he was an investor at Accel in Palo Alto. He attended The Wharton School for Accounting and Finance & the Penn Engineering School for Computer Science.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Albiware — Award-winning platform loved by our customers and trusted by 1000s of restorers Worldwide. See how our restorers scale their business.
- APFusion — APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace helping salvage yards increase sales.
- Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com
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To access all 195 angel investors investing in New Zealand startups and 48,091+ more investors, create a Shizune account.
Shizune has a database of 48,091 investors. Our investor database is fresh and updated daily.
The Shizune investor database has information on investor investment focus, investor contact data, and full investor portfolio since 2020.
You can enrich with email and download the data.
Does Shizune have investor emails and contacts?
Shizune enriches investors with contact data that includes: email, phones, LinkedIn, socials, website, and others.
To guarantee the highest discovery rate, we search across 20+ contact search tools.
To maximize delivery rate and reduce bounce rate, we validate emails.
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What is Shizune?
Shizune is a 48,091 investor database updated daily.
With Shizune you can:
- browse the database
- use smart matching
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All you need to find investors for your startup.
Who is Shizune for?
Shizune is built for startup founders by startup founders.
If you are looking for funding for your startup, try the Shizune database — we have investors for every stage, industry, and country.
Is Shizune free?
Shizune is free forever. You can search and browse investors for free.
Email search and export are paid features.
For full info, visit our pricing.
Who built Shizune?
Shizune is built by founders with the goal of helping all founders raise funding no matter where they are.
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