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Top 50 Angel Investors in New Zealand in February 2025

Last updated: Feb 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 February 2025

Investor	New Zealand investments
Chris Sang	4
Phil McCaw	4
Rich Chetwynd	3
Peter Beck	3
Mark Hurley	3
Emlyn Scott	3
Chris Heaslip	3
William Zeqiri	3
Chintaka Ranatunga	3
Stephen Tindall	2
Craig Donaldson	2
Sam Morgan	2
Geoffrey Woo	2
Harald McPike	2
Rowan Simpson	2
Alex Rigopulos	2
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON	2
Dylan Field	2
Nick Beale	2
Nicole Fougere	2
Jonathan Hendriksen	2
Richard Collier Keywood	2
Craig Winkler	2
Akshay Kothari	2
Maurice Eng	2
Justin Hamilton	1
Hamish Edwards	1
Rod Drury	1
Brooke Roberts	1
Aaron Patzer	1
Connor Theilmann	1
Steven Adams	1
Khloé Kardashian	1
Mark Ritson	1
Serge van Dam	1
Konstantin Koos	1
Tim Ringel	1
Melanie Melanie	1
Yoshihiro Kawamura	1
Justine Smyth CNZM CNZM	1
Mark Clayton	1
Benny Kleist	1
Scott Nolan	1
Chris Adelsbach	1
Lenny Rachitsky	1
Paul Davidson	1
Wolfgang Leitner	1
Hezi Leibovich	1
Rob Hayes	1
Phil Quist	1

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Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
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.

Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

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!

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).

Investment focus

Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, New Zealand

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

Chris Heaslip

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 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.

William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.

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.

Chintaka Ranatunga

Investment focus

Software, Apps, EdTech
Seed, Series B
New Zealand, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kami — Kami gives superpowers to teachers by giving them fast and easy tools for classroom management, grading, planning and more. Visit us 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.

Stephen Tindall is the founder of K1W1.

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.
Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.

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.

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.

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.

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.

Geoffrey Woo is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Anti Fund.He attended to the Stanford University.

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 — Boost energy, build muscle mass, and feel like your younger self.
Pack Digital — Pack Digital is a platform that consolidates product and content updates in a central system to manage your PWA builds and deployments.

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

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 — HDAI specializes in transformative healthcare data analytics and predictive tools designed for hospital systems and ACOs to enhance patient care and optimize resource allocation.

Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group

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.

Alex Rigopulos Co-Founded Harmonix in 1995 with the mission of inventing new ways for non-musicians to experience the joy of making music. He was CEO until 2014. Now, as CCO, Alex is responsible for ensuring the creative excellence of all Harmonix products. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Alex studied computer music at the MIT Media Laboratory andmusic composition at MIT.

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

Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON

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.

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

HeyGen — HeyGen is an innovative video platform that harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline your video creation process. Unleash your creativity with HeyGen - the future of video production.
Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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.

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.

Nicole Fougere - Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData

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.

Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock

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.

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.

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

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.

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 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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Nile — Postgres re-engineered for multi-tenant apps. Build secure, scalable and AI-native multi-tenant applications with world-class developer experience.
Cartwheel — Cartwheel is a powerful text-to-animation platform. Animate characters for your video, game, movie, ad, Social or VR project simply by typing.
Mainframe — Mainframe is a technology company pioneering the future of human-computer interaction through AI-driven tools. The company’s mission is to redefine productivity and workflow automation by creating intuitive platforms that bridge the gap between humans and intelligent agents.Mainframe’s debut product, Cobot, is a generative AI assistant thatanticipates user needs, streamlines tasks, and transforms the way individuals and teams interact with technology. Designed to feel more like collaborating with a human than using an app, Cobot empowers users to focus on impactful work while AI handles the rest.Founded in 2024, Mainframe is supported by top-tier investors and built by a distributed team of industry-leading talent from across the U.S., Canada, and Europe. Mainframe’s vision is to create seamless, intelligent software that reshapes how people work and interact with computers in the 21st century.

Maurice Eng

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.

Justin Hamilton is Founder, CEO at Clutterbot.

Investment focus

Environmental Engineering, Aerospace, CleanTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Canada

Portfolio highlights

AirMyne — AirMyne is building a machine to remove carbon dioxide from atmospheric air at industrial scale. Based in Berkeley, California and backed by Y Combinator and investors from around the world, our team is on a mission to make Direct Air Capture a reality.
Spaceium — Spaceium develops a spacecraft docking system to support interplanetary missions. Its docking mechanism aims to offer solutions in the fields of In-space refueling with sustainable fueling stations can be an essential part of space exploration. The company's service hubs efficiently store and transfer cryogenic (extremely cold) andnon-cryogenic fuels with zero loss during storage and transfer.
Legistify — Discover unparalleled legal management with our AI-powered platform, all-in-one solution for enterprise-level matter management, IPR, notices, and contracts

Hamish Edwards is a co-founder and the CEO of Edwards holds a bachelor’s degreein accounting and marketing from Otago University.

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.

Rod Drury is the founder and director at Xero.He attended Victoria University of Wellington.

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.

Brooke Roberts - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Sharesies

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.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

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

Steven Adams

Investment focus

Organic, Agriculture
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.

Khloé Kardashian

Investment focus

Water, Farming, Wellness
Angel, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Dose & Co — Premium, award-winning collagen peptide supplements with science-based ingredients for visible improvements to hair, skin and nails. Dose & Co is founded by a nutritionist and backed by doctors, dermatologists and aestheticians. Shop our range of high-dose Collagen Peptides, Creamers, Protein Powders and Beauty Blends.
HempNFibers — Growing hemp. Making a bio fuel to start. Than also an insulation out of it as well. Will look at doing more as company grows. I also know a way to power a whole warehouse by just the plants it’s self but I need funding to get this started. I’m building the transportation side just so I can gain an income to try and get this started.
ZenWTR — Zen Beverage offers Zenwtr, a vapor distilled alkaline water bottled in recyclable ocean-bound plastic.ZenWTR is on a mission to help reduce the amount of plastic polluting the world’s coastal environments. Each ZenWTR bottle is made from up to five plastic bottles rescued from coastal environments.It was launched in 2019 and is headquarteredin Irvine, California.

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.

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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Product Research
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand

Konstantin Koos is a VC/DLT Investor ✦ Strategy Consultant ✦ Best Selling Author ✦ Researcher ✦ Health and Happiness enthusiast ✦ Family Man.

Investment focus

Software, Other, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed
Slovenia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Authtrail — Apillon is a Web3 development platform empowering developers to build in the Polkadot ecosystem.
CONICAL — We are a team of game developers that produces Virtual Reality, Augmented Reality and Mobile Apps to provide agencies with the best service in New Zealand.

CEO @ Meet The People Global CEO @ Spring Studios

Investment focus

Commerce/Shopping, Software, Financial
Seed, Series A, Series E

Investor

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Product Research
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand

Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED

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.

chair

Investment focus

Software, Human Resources, Employee Benefits
Pre-Seed
New Zealand

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Excellent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.

Mark Clayton

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.

Benny Kleist is a Founder & COO of Eucalyptus.He attended The University of Queensland.

Investment focus

Education, E-Learning, Life Science
Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Proto Axiom — Early-stage funding to growth capital, we guide scientific breakthroughs from proof-of-concept to commercial success. Our hands-on approach to support Australian research is a first-in-country model.
NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!

Partner at Founders Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, 3D Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, New Zealand, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kami — Your classroom PDF annotator. Students stay engaged with accessible annotation tools. Teachers save time with streamlined instruction and assessment.
StyleRow — StyleRow is a design company that focuses on streamlining the design process for designers and creating an experience for brands and showrooms to work together, all in one place. It features an online-based portal that allows design professionals to scale their businesses.The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in California, UnitedStates.
Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Portfolio highlights

WealthOS — WealthOS is an cloud-native, enterprise, core wealth management platform. Launch and run superior digital wealth management value propositions faster and cheaper.
Renew Risk — Renew Risk is a software development firm that offers B2B SaaS solutions based on deep science for optimizing the financial lifetime of major renewable energy assets.
Camion — Empowering real estate to lead the energy transition with data and insights.

Lenny Rachitsky served as Co-Founder and CEO at Localmind.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, India

Portfolio highlights

Basis — Basis operates as an AI platform built specifically for accounting firms.
TrueFoundry — TrueFoundry provides Data Scientists and ML Engineers with the fastest framework for Post Model Pipeline. Using best DevOps practices, we enable instant monitored endpoints for models in 15 minutes!
Outsmart Education — Join the waitlist and see why higher education will never again be the same.

Paul Davidson joined private equity group, West Coast Capital in 2005 following a successful career in corporate law in the UK, the US and Commonwealth of Independent States. As an active partner in West Coast Capital as well as providing legal counsel, Paul focusses on deal sourcing and transacting.Since joining the group, Paul has successfulyled the acquisition and delisting from the LSE of the UK's largest garden centre business, Wyevale as well as a series of acquisitions and disposals.Prior to joining West Coast Capital headed the corporate team of UK lawyers, McGrigors.In late 1994 Paul was seconded to an oil and gas company called JKX whose focus was on the former Soviet Union, primarily in Ukraine, Georgia and the Russian Federation. JKX listed on the London Stock Exchange in mid 1995 and at that time Paul joined the company as its Legal Director on a full time basis. During his time as Legal Director, Paul gained wide commercial experience as the company concluded a number of transactions throughout the former Soviet Union.

Investment focus

SaaS, FinTech, Privacy
Seed, Series A, Series B
Finland, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
TVSquared — With trusted, independent attribution and partnerships with DSPs, publishers, advertisers and MVPDs, TVSquared measures the effectiveness of TV advertising through an infinitely scalable platform for linear, addressable and OTT/CTV.
Ubisecure — Ubisecure B2B IAM, Legal Entity Identifiers LEI, IDaaS and hybrid identity management. European SSO, MFA, LEI made easy.

Wolfgang Leitner is CEO of Andritz.

Investment focus

Nutrition, Sustainability, Food Processing
Seed, Series B
Israel, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Innovopro — Bringing a unique chickpea protein platform to the global food & beverage market, for creating nutritious, tasty, and sustainable food products.
Zincovery — Zincovery is a decarbonizing zinc recycling plant.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.

Investment focus

Internet, Apps, Marketplace
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Ark Biotech — Ark Biotech builds fit-for-purpose, affordable bioreactors for the industrial production of cultivated meat
Mad Realities — Reality is Mad. Join ours instead. New age entertainment platform, powered by you.
ShareWell — Struggling with mental health issues? ShareWell provides online peer support, a proven mental health alternative for therapy. Get group support when you need it.

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.

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.

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