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Top 5 CleanTech Startup Investors in New Zealand in April 2025

Last updated: Apr 2025 A list of 5 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Cleantech startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Cleantech companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 5 CleanTech Startup Investors in New Zealand in April 2025

Investor	CleanTech New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures	4
K1W1	3
Wavemaker Partners	1
Outset Ventures	1
Lewis Holdings	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
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%!

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Philippines

Portfolio highlights

Pi-xcels — Eco-friendly NFC digital receipts solution for actionable shopper data and enhanced customer journeys. No App, Just Tap. With one-tap convenience, Pi-xcels unlocks omni-channel marketing opportunities and boosts performance for retailers with our customer intelligence platform.
Oneteam — We acquire small to medium businesses and help next-gen hardworking employees grow into capable owners of these businesses. Using digital-first solutions to drive growth, synergies and innovation, we collaborate with your employees to transform your business into global enterprises.
Soul Parking — Soul Parking is a parking management service company, which has successfully developed motorcycle storage equipment as a solution for traffic and parking problems that are cluttered using 100% designs and raw materials. Soul Parking provides solutions by developing a modern, safe and comfortable vehicle parking system that takes into accountlimited land area.

Outset, Empowering NZ's deep tech startups: investment, space, support. Join our community of innovators for global impact.

Investment focus

CleanTech, Biotechnology, Product Research
Seed, Pre-Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.
OpenStar Technologies — OpenStar Technologies is a renewable energy company that develops fusion reactors for baseload power to the grid.

Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Computer
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Avertana — Avertana is a process technology company that has developed a proprietary platform to refine solid industrial waste streams into valuable mineral and chemical raw materials used to make everyday products. Products of Avertana's process are used in products such as paint, building materials, paper and fertilisers. The process is costcompetitive with existing approaches but offers a much lower environmental footprint than traditional methods. Avertana helps its customers to build more sustainable supply chains by making mineral and chemical ingredients for widely-used products from sources that support optimal environmental outcomes. Avertana’s waste to value process helps industry to reduce its environmental footprint competitively.
Ambit — From natural language processing to machine learning, our conversational AI platform empowers organisations. Business focused and aligned, Ambit chatbots carve a direct path to meeting your strategic objectives. Ultimately, Ambit enables you to deliver to your customers and internal stakeholders better.
Unleashed Software — With an extraordinary 4.9/5 rating from 800+ users on Trustpilot, Unleashed is the highest rated, most recommended inventory management software in the world

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