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Top 50 Angel Investors in New Zealand in July 2025

A list of 50 angel investors that invest in startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Angel Investors in New Zealand in July 2025

Investor New Zealand investments
Chris Sang 4
Phil McCaw 4
Emlyn Scott 4
William Zeqiri 3
Chris Heaslip 3
Chintaka Ranatunga 3
Rich Chetwynd 3
Mark Hurley 3
Peter Beck 3
Geoffrey Woo 2
Richard Collier Keywood 2
Harald McPike 2
Liam Don 2
Dylan Field 2
Craig Winkler 2
Akshay Kothari 2
Sam Morgan 2
Craig Donaldson 2
Rowan Simpson 2
Nick Beale 2
Jonathan Hendriksen 2
Alex Rigopulos 2
Stephen Tindall 2
Nicole Fougere 2
Maurice Eng 2
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON 2
Andrew Thorburn 1
Scobie Ward 1
Aaron Patzer 1
Mark Ritson 1
Phil Quist 1
Justine Smyth CNZM CNZM 1
Mark Clayton 1
Rod Drury 1
Yoshihiro Kawamura 1
Chris Adelsbach 1
Alistair Grigg 1
Latesha Randall 1
Leighton Roberts 1
Hamish Edwards 1
Melanie Melanie 1
Tim Doyle 1
Sarah Green 1
George Gong 1
John Key 1
Chase Coleman 1
Carl Bass 1
Anna Mowbray 1
Paul Reeve 1
Mark Clayton 1
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Chris Sang Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia · 4 investments in the past 12 months
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Australia, India
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.
  • Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth
Phil McCaw Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
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.
Emlyn Scott Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest 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), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
  • REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
  • 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
William Zeqiri Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.
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Investment focus
  • E-Commerce, Marketplace, Wine And Spirits
  • Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding
  • New Zealand, United Arab Emirates
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.
Chris Heaslip Angel · Redmond, Washington, United States
Chris Heaslip
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Investment focus
  • Software, CRM, Enterprise Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States
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 — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
Chintaka Ranatunga Angel · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Chintaka Ranatunga
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Investment focus
  • Software, Apps, EdTech
  • Seed, Series B
  • New Zealand, India, United States
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.
Rich Chetwynd Angel
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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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
  • Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
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.
Mark Hurley Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Mark Jude Hurley is a New Zealand born entrepreneur, investor and advisor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Jasper, a startup which is democratising access to wealth generating opportunities, starting with commercial real estate. He was previously the Founder and CEO of Little Giant which was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in August 2017 for anundisclosed sum. Hurley is also an active angel investor in companies such as Sharesies and First AML.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
  • Sharesies — Sharesies allows you to get started investing from just $5.
  • Whip Around — Whip Around develops and builds solutions that tackle the paper-based compliance burden for a wide variety of transport companies in the United States and around the world. Effortlessly manage your fleet inspections, compliance, preventative maintenance, work orders, reporting & more! Create powerful checklists for your assets. Have yourdrivers conduct inspections anywhere, anytime via the Whip Around mobile app. Get alerts sent to you immediately, view the reports from the management dashboard and manage faults with ease. Come see why more than 85,000 users globally love Whip Around. Trial Whip Around free for 7 days!
Peter Beck Angel · Huntington Beach, California, United States
Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the world’s leading dedicated small satellite launch provider. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services, including complete satellite build and launch solutions, that provide rapid, frequent and reliable access to space. Rocket Lab has been launchingsince May 2017, delivering satellites to orbit for commercial and government customers, including DARPA, NASA, the NRO, the United States Air Force and more. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognized industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers. In addition to creating Electron, the world’s first fully carbon-fibre orbital launch vehicle, Peter also oversaw the development of the world’s first and only private orbital launch range, located on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula. He played a crucial role in establishing international treaties and legislation to enable orbital launch capability from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
  • Software, AgTech, Hardware
  • Series A, Series B
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
  • Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
Geoffrey Woo Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Geoffrey Woo is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Anti Fund.He attended to the Stanford University.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Information Technology
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Skio — Skio helps brands on Shopify sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out. Easily migrate from ReCharge. Increase conversions by 72% with 1-click checkout (Shop Pay). Reduce customer tickets by 25% with passwordless login.
  • Maximus — Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology.
  • Pack Digital — Pack Digital is a platform that consolidates product and content updates in a central system to manage your PWA builds and deployments.
Richard Collier Keywood Angel
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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Investment focus
  • Information Services, Software, Information Technology
  • Funding Round
  • New Zealand
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
Harald McPike Angel · Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas
Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Analytics, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Series D
  • United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
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 — Transformative healthcare data analytics and predictive tools designed to enhance patient care and optimize resource allocation.
Liam Don Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
Liam Don is the Co-founder and President at ClassDojo.
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Investment focus
  • Children, Software
  • Angel, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Polymath — Personalised learning and fun means you can be confident that your child is getting the learning experience they want and deserve.
Dylan Field Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
Dylan Field is the CEO and co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams that build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA, Evan Wallace. They built Figma on the web in the hopes of breaking down the barriers around the siloed design process.Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tools must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Ambrook — Manage your finances, improve your margins, and stay independent.
  • Revel — Software for our most daring hardware endeavours
  • 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.
Craig Winkler Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Apps
  • Series A, Funding Round, Seed
  • Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
  • Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
  • Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.
Akshay Kothari Angel · San Francisco, California, United States · 5 investments in the past 12 months
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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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Internet
  • Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
  • United States, India, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
  • Campus — Live courses with top professors.
  • Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.
Sam Morgan Angel · Nelson, Nelson, New Zealand
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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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Web Hosting
  • Seed, Series D, Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
  • 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.
Craig Donaldson Angel · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
Rowan Simpson Angel
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Music, Parking
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
  • Parkable — Parkable is award winning software for managing employee and tenant parking, finding short-term or monthly public parking and sharing space to earn money.
  • 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.
Nick Beale Angel
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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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
  • Seed, Convertible Note
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
Jonathan Hendriksen Angel · Tasman, Nelson, New Zealand
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Seed, Series A, Series B
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Alex Rigopulos Angel · Boston, Massachusetts, United States
Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • United States, New Zealand
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
Stephen Tindall Angel · Usak, Usak, Turkey
Stephen Tindall is the founder of K1W1.
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Retail, Security
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series E
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
  • Upstock — Manage wholesale orders with a simple app.
  • CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
Nicole Fougere Angel
Nicole Fougere - Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData
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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
  • Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand
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.
Maurice Eng Angel
Maurice Eng
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON Angel · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Andrew Thorburn Angel · Docklands, Victoria, Australia
Andrew Thorburn became Managing Director & Group Chief Executive Officer of National Australia Bank Limited (NAB) in August 2014, one of Australia's largest financial services groups. The majority of NAB's businesses operate in Australia and New Zealand, with other businesses located in Asia, the UK and the US.A career banker,Andrew joined NAB in 2005 as head of retail banking. In October 2008, he became Managing Director & CEO of Bank of New Zealand and was responsible for its strategic positioning and performance, before moving into his current role.Beginning his career as an economist at Marac Holdings in Auckland, Andrew has held senior management positions at ASB Bank, Commonwealth Bank of Australia and St George Bank.Andrew holds a Bachelor of Commerce (Economics) from University of Auckland, a Diploma in Marketing from Chartered Institute of Marketing UK, and an MBA from the University of Durham UK. He has also completed The Executive Programme (TEP) at Darden Business School, University of Virginia.Andrew served as Chairman of the Australian Bankers’ Association from December 2015 to December 2017.Born in Melbourne, Australia, Andrew is married with three children.
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Investment focus
  • Software, IT
  • Funding Round
  • New Zealand
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.
Scobie Ward Angel
Scobie Ward is the Chairman & CEO of Ward Ferry Management.
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Investment focus
  • Software, E-Learning, Language Learning
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Straker Translations — Straker Translations is revolutionizing the translation industry by offering fast, efficient and cost effective translations with their unique pay-per-hour translation model, it enables clients to significantly reduce their ongoing translation costs as well as simplifying the translation process.Founded in 1999 by Grant Straker, as a softwarecompany specializing in multi-lingual content management for websites, they morphed in 2010 into Straker Translations, a global translation agency with offices in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand building a global client base that includes: Sun Life Financial, Glaxo Smith Kline, Caterpillar, Creative, Exxon Mobile, Fuji Xerox, Mailchimp and BP.
Aaron Patzer Angel · San Francisco, California, United States
In January, I started another company, Vital Software, with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University. Vital makes software for hospital emergency rooms. This includes a mobile patient check-in for patients, and the fastest, most usable electronic medical records you've seen for doctors and nurses. We use extensive machine learning and naturallanguage processing to determine patient severity and anticipated actions. Our longer term goal is to cut ER wait times in half, as they are often 4-5 hours long. You might not know it, but there are 140M ER visits in the US alone each year.Medical / sales are in the US, while development is all in Auckland New Zealand. My long-time partner Rebecca, an architect, is a Kiwi and I am now a resident of New Zealand as well.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, SaaS
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United States, Estonia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • MX Labs — Allow your user to comprehensively monitor their vital signs. Check wellbeing, prevent misdiagnosis, and motivate lifestyle changes thanks to Shen.AI.
  • Vital — Intuitive, user friendly, smart hospital software that leverages AI for an optimized patient and clinician experience.
  • Carbon Health — Carbon Health Provides Smart, hassle-free Primary & Urgent Care. Book same day Adult & Pediatric appointments instantly.
Mark Ritson Angel · Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
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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Investment focus
  • SaaS, Software, Brand Marketing
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
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.
Phil Quist Angel · Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
Phil Quist is currently working at Creative Artists Agency and is the Founder of PQ Selects. He is also an Investor at Connect Ventures and a Board Member at Forbes. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Phil attended Southern Methodist University.
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Investment focus
  • Hotel, Hospitality, Information Technology
  • Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
  • United States, Germany, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Gumroad — Gumroad is a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform. We make it easy to earn your first dollar online by selling digital products, memberships and more.
  • The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
  • Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
Justine Smyth CNZM CNZM Angel · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Investment focus
  • Software, Human Resources, Employee Benefits
  • Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Excellent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.
Mark Clayton Angel
Mark Clayton
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Investment focus
  • Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
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.
Rod Drury Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Rod Drury is the founder and director at Xero.He attended Victoria University of Wellington.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
Yoshihiro Kawamura Angel · Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Mobile
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Chris Adelsbach Angel · London, England, United Kingdom · 2 investments in the past 12 months
Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Financial Services, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
  • United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
  • Alfa AI — Alfa AI is a recruitment technology company specializing in AI-driven hiring solutions.
  • WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
  • Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.
Alistair Grigg Angel
Alistair Grigg
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
Latesha Randall Angel
Latesha Randall is the Co- Founder at Raglan Coconut Yoghurt. Latesha attended Homeschooled.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Leighton Roberts Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Leighton Roberts - Co-founder and Chief of Operations and Opportunities @ Sharesies
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Investment focus
  • Software, Human Resources, Employee Benefits
  • Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Excellent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.
Hamish Edwards Angel
Hamish Edwards is a co-founder and the CEO of Edwards holds a bachelor’s degreein accounting and marketing from Otago University.
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Investment focus
  • Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
Melanie Melanie Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Investor
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Tim Doyle Angel · Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Tim Doyle is a Founder at Eucalyptus.
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Investment focus
  • Apps, SaaS, Software
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • Australia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
  • NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
Sarah Green Angel
Sarah Green
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Investment focus
  • Education
  • Pre-Seed
  • Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Outread — Outread uses AI to summarize key academic publications. (Blinkist is useful for academic study.
  • Polymath — Personalised learning and fun means you can be confident that your child is getting the learning experience they want and deserve.
George Gong Angel · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
George Gong - Managing Partner @ Jubilee Capital Management
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Investment focus
  • Financial, Software, Other
  • Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
  • United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • GoPeer — Book a top personalized tutor for online tutoring and test prep. GoPeer connects K-12 students with qualified college students for affordable private tutoring.
  • Minitable — Minitable offers a stable AI-powered solution that helps local businesses build their own platforms and manage their traffic. It is an on-demand and fully functional SaaS platform for front-of-house and customer engagement without having to replace the current POS machine.
  • Spark Blockchain Incubator — Spark Blockchain is a Blockchain consulting and incubation service provider in North America with developer relations at its core. Headquartered in Boston, it radiates its influence through NY, LA, SF, and the Bay Area, China, ASEAN, etc. Since its establishment, it has quickly established a leading position in North America's Blockchaincommunity and has established great cooperative relations with top-tier projects and investment funds in China, and the United States.The current clients of Spark Blockchain include not only the top 100 well-known public chains, but also DApps, quantitative teams, media, and Blockchain investment funds.
John Key Angel
John Key, Board Partner at Amplo.
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Investment focus
  • EdTech, Tutoring, Education
  • Funding Round
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Crimson Education — Crimson Education is the world's leading higher educational consultancy helping students around the world gain admission into leading US and UK universities by up to 400%!
Chase Coleman Angel
Chase Coleman is the Founder of Tiger Global
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Investment focus
  • Artificial Intelligence, Software, SaaS
  • Series B, Series C, Series F
  • United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Brex — Simplify expense management with Brex's finance platform. From company cards to banking, Brex helps you drive growth, automate processes, & earn more.
  • Capitol AI — Capitol uses the power of AI & Design to make better, faster decisions with data.
  • Daring Foods — Craveable delicious plant chicken made from non-GMO plants and a short list of wholesome ingredients.
Carl Bass Angel · Berkeley, California, United States
Carl Bass was president and CEO of Autodesk from 2006-2017. He spent 24 years at Autodesk where he held a series of executive positions including chief technology officer and chief operations officer. Carl co-founded Ithaca Software, which was acquired by Autodesk in 1993. Bass serves on the boards of directors of Autodesk, Zendesk Inc., Formlabs,Built Robotics, Zoox, Planet Labs, and Autolabs AI; on the board of trustees of the Smithsonian’s Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design, and California College of the Arts; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University.Bass serves on the boards of directors of Autodesk and HP Inc.; on the board of trustees of the Smithsonian's Cooper-Hewitt National Design Museum, Art Center College of Design, and California College of the Arts; and on the advisory boards of Cornell Computing and Information Science, UC Berkeley School of Information, and UC Berkeley College of Engineering. He holds a bachelor’s degree in mathematics from Cornell University. Bass is a maker and spends his spare time building things—from chairs and tables to boats, and most recently, an electric go-kart.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, Computer
  • Series A, Seed, Funding Round
  • United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Pirros — Pirros is a first real Detail Management System for Architects and Engineers. Store all your details easily. Manage your team's library and continuously improve your details from project to project. Directly integrated with Autodesk Revit
  • Toolpath — Toolpath accelerates the production of precision CNC machined components with AI-powered part analysis, machining strategies, and CAM automation.
  • Foundry Lab — Foundry Lab is pioneering Digital Metal Casting. This new form of additive manufacturing allows users to cast metal parts - without pouring molten metal - in the safety of their own office. This fully automated system is incredibly fast - CAD file to 50+ metal parts in just 8 hours.
Anna Mowbray Angel
Anna Mowbray Co-Founder & C.E.O at ZURU Group.
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Investment focus
  • FinTech, Software, Health Care
  • Pre-Seed, Series B
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • TradeWindow — TradeWindow provides the tools and support for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to begin the journey to digital transformation.
  • HealthNow — HealthNow provides accessible healthcare services that give you control of your health. Manage how you access care, when you need it.
Paul Reeve Angel · London, England, United Kingdom
Paul Reeve
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Investment focus
  • Apps, Video, Facebook
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Mark Clayton Angel
Mark Clayton
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Investment focus
  • Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology
  • Seed
  • New Zealand
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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