Top 15 Artificial Intelligence Angel Investors in New Zealand (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Emlyn Scott
Angel
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2 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software | $417k–$3.4M |
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Chris Sang
Angel
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2 | United States, Australia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, SaaS | $337k–$21M |
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Philip Fierlinger
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed, Series B | Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital | |
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Josh Hannah
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, Norway | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Information Technology | $1.9M–$50M |
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Dylan Field
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $2.1M–$140M |
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Aaron Patzer
Angel
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1 | United States, Estonia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Health Care, SaaS | $150k–$6.1M |
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Mark Clayton
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed | Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology | |
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Henrik Bohman
Angel
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1 | United Kingdom, Estonia, New Zealand | Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed | Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Energy | $1.4M–$28M |
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Kirsti Grant
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, EdTech, Consumer Software | $653k–$1.1M |
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Vivek Garipalli
Angel
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1 | United States, India, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Health Care, Medical, Machine Learning | $2.5M–$100M |
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Phil Quist
Angel
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1 | United States, Germany, New Zealand | Seed, Equity Crowdfunding | Hotel, Travel, Content | $1.1M–$11M |
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Nasir Jones
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile | $650k–$60M |
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Hykeem Jamaal Carter
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed | Computer, Software, Blockchain | |
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Warren Hogarth
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, Pakistan | Seed, Series B, Series C | FinTech, Financial Services, Finance | $2.5M–$55M |
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Thomas Kelly
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence | |
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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: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 43
- Round size: Seed $417k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% 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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 119
- Round size: Seed $337k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $350k–$900k; Series A $2.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% 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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Philip Fierlingeris a Co-founder and CXO of Upstock.
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- Industry: Financial Services, FinTech, Venture Capital
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- 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.
- Icehouse Ventures — Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
Josh Hannah
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.2M; Series A $3.2M–$30M; Series B $7.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
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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: 123
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$12M; Series A $13M–$29M; Series B $23M–$140M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Netic — Netic provides an AI-driven platform designed to automate and optimize customer engagement and operational workflows for essential service industries, including HVAC, plumbing, electrical, and appliance services. The platform autonomously handles inbound communications across various channels—such as calls, texts, and web chats—by bookingappointments and managing inquiries directly within existing CRM or field service management systems . Utilizing generative AI models, Netic's system assesses customer interactions to prioritize urgent requests, predict maintenance needs, and initiate targeted outreach campaigns based on factors like weather patterns and service history . This approach aims to enhance technician utilization and reduce missed revenue opportunities during periods of fluctuating demand . Additionally, Netic offers analytics tools that provide insights into customer interactions and operational performance, supporting data-informed decision-making .
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- Panthalassa — Panthalassa is a technology company focused on developing renewable energy systems in the ocean, particularly to power computing and artificial intelligence infrastructure. The company works on harnessing wave energy to generate electricity at sea, which can then be used to run offshore data centers or converted into fuels that are transported backto land.
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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- Industry: Software, Health Care, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Estonia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $150k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $500k–$1M
- Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shen.AI — Discover how Shen AI turns your smartphone into a health companion - no wearables, just powerful, camera-based health insights.
- 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 Clayton
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- Industry: Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
I invest in great teams and help them perfect GTM and PMF over time. Investing since 2020 — 90%+ survival rate; >3x TVPI.
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- Industry: Artificial Intelligence, Financial Services, Energy
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A, Seed
- Geography: United Kingdom, Estonia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.4M–$2.7M; Series A $18M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Handhold — Handhold is an AI platform that creates multimodal agents to automate the sales and onboarding process for inbound leads.
- Wexler AI — Wexler offers advanced AI-driven solutions for eDiscovery, document review, and litigation support services. Streamline your legal processes and enhance dispute resolution with AI technology, saving time and improving accuracy.
- Lightyear — Lightyear is a simple and approachable way to invest your money globally without unnecessary barriers and fees.
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–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Komodo — 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.
Vivek Garipalli was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Clover Health. He attended Emory University.
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- Industry: Health Care, Medical, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, India, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.9M; Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $35M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 16% lead, 84% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Justpoint — Justpoint is a venture-backed AI-first company redesigning the medical malpractice industry. Our first product allows for a faster and better understanding of the legal merits of a claim as well as an instant understanding of its likely settlement amount.We have previously created companies that effectively changed their industries, fromhealthcare insurance to clinical trial recruitment. To advance the medical malpractice industry, we have put together a team with extensive achievements in healthcare technology, medical malpractice litigation, and artificial intelligence.
- Thyme Care — Thyme Care is a dedicated team of nurses and care experts offering value-based cancer care to help you through all phases of the cancer experience.
- Uplift — Rebuilding mental healthcare to work for everyone
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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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- Industry: Hotel, Travel, Content
- Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Geography: United States, Germany, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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- 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.
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 64
- Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Series A $4M–$60M; Series B $7M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow
Portfolio highlights
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- Industry: Computer, Software, Blockchain
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
Warren Hogarth is a venture capitalist at Prior to joining Sequoia Capital in 2008, Warren completed his PhD in Chemical Engineering, where he developed fuel cell technology. During this time, he was a visiting Fulbright Scholar toPrinceton University and a Guest Scientist at Germany's Fraunhofer Institute for Solar Energy Systems. Warren has an MBA from Harvard Business School and a PhD in Chemical Engineering from the University of Queensland.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Series C
- Geography: United States, Australia, Pakistan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 24
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$13M; Series B $11M–$30M; Series C $13M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Marloo — Marloo is an AI-assistant that empowers financial advisers to focus on building client relationships, instead of paperwork.
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- Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- 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.
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