Top 5 CleanTech Startup Investors in New Zealand in January 2026
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 January 2026
| Investor | CleanTech New Zealand investments |
|---|---|
| Icehouse Ventures | 4 |
| K1W1 | 3 |
| Seeds Capital | 1 |
| Wavemaker Partners | 1 |
| Lewis Holdings | 1 |
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Foxglove — Foxglove is visualization and management for temporal and multimodal data. It's used by robotics companies to scale and accelerate development.
- Antioch — Antioch is the development and simulation platform for autonomy teams to accelerate timelines, rigorously evaluate autonomous systems, and deploy with confidence.
- HealthNow — HealthNow provides accessible healthcare services that give you control of your health. Manage how you access care, when you need it.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
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- Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
- Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Catalysing smart monies into Singapore-based, early-stage technology startups.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, Health Care
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, Hong Kong
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- Nuevocor — Nuevocor is a preclinical-stage biopharmaceutical company focused on developing gene therapy‑based treatments that have the potential to restore cardiac function in diseased hearts.
- Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
- Callio Therapeutics — Callio Therapeutics focuses on developing next-generation, multi-payload antibody-drug conjugates to maximize therapeutic benefits.
Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.
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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.
- Atomionics — Atomionics is building atomic sensors for navigation and resource exploration. Sensing technology is severely inadequate for a lot of applications navigation and positioning, pinpointing oil and gas reserves, tunnel detection etc. Atomionics builds atomic sensors harnessing quantum mechanical properties of the atoms. This enables measurement ofparameters like gravity, acceleration and rotation with 1000x higher precision and accuracy than the current state of the art, leading to a completely new way of global positioning, and resource exploration.
- 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.
Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Computer
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand
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- 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 — Supply, production, inventory and sales software with exceptional product and customer focus
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