Top 35 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in New Zealand (October 2026)

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• Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
• Osmo — Osmo is a payment company that helps people to send and receive money immediately.
• Uniblock — Uniblock helps connect developers with Web3 using our APIs and services. Our developers use Uniblock because of how easy it is to integrate into exciting applications. Try it for free today!

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• RISE Chain — RISE is a high-performance Ethereum L2 where orderbooks are a native primitive. Purpose-built for onchain financial markets. Secured by Ethereum.
• Macropod —
• Inference Labs — AI hyperscale on decentralized networks - We provide certainty for on-chain AI

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• Hectre — Award winning, simple to use orchard apps for performance and cost management optimization.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• Cheelcare — Cheelcare is creating striking assistive devices that facilitate independence for people with limited abilities. Their flagship product, the Cheelcare Companion, is a motorized attachment for powering and steering manual wheelchairs.
• LibertyStream Infrastructure Partners — AmericanMineralIndependence Unlocking critical resources from oil & gas infrastructure Learn More Mission We transform oilfield brine into sustainable revenue stream opportunities Our technology integrates with existing oil and gas infrastructure to unlock critical minerals, cut capital costs, and fast-track deployment. A solution for rapid, domestic mineral supply that strengthens national security and powers the economy. ... Read more
• INEO Solutions — INEO Tech Corp. builds connected retail entrance infrastructure combining loss prevention, retail media, operational intelligence and store analytics.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 950+ real estate, private credit, and PE funds to save time and grow AUM.
• Outlier Space — Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits.

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• Flint — Flint helps marketers drive breakthroughs in conversion and CAC, by creating one closed loop of learning between ads and pages.
• Smarterer — Individuals and Fortune 500 companies use Smarterer to help close the gap between the skills they have and the skills they need. Their dynamic assessment engine leverages the freshest crowdsourced tests around, to rapidly pinpoint skill level with a credible score. In November 2014, Pluralsight, the global leader in online learning for serioussoftware developers, IT specialists and creative technologists, acquired Smarterer. As the world's largest curated e-learning library for professionals, the company offers instant access to more than 3,500 courses authored by top experts. Smarterer will continue to power crowdsourced assessments for freelancer marketplaces, e-learning providers and enterprise companies anywhere people need to prove their skills to connect with professional opportunities. The Smarterer community has answered over 56 million during 1.7 million test sessions, across hundreds of tests.
• Diligent Robotics — We build robots like Moxi that assist hospital staff with routine activities so they can focus on caring for patients.

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• First Table — Book the first table of the night and you'll get 50% off the food bill for two to four people!

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• HIFI — HIFI is a next-generation payments infrastructure platform. The company powers a suite of modern payment APIs to enable businesses to move money faster on a global scale for the next chapter of the internet. Our payment rails powers businesses to move money instantly with near-zero cost to enhance cash flow, reduce inefficiencies, increasevisibility, and combat fraud.Zach Walsh and Mohamed Afifi founded the company in New York City in 2022.
• Maestro — Advanced UTxO-indexing data layer to supercharge Defi on Bitcoin, Cardano & Dogecoin.
• Crypto Valley Exchange — The first portfolio risk capable platform for Options & Futures trading in DeFi, offering 1000x+ leverage based on margin offset.

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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.

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• Linca — Domestic refining of lithium, nickel & cobalt for the energy transition.
• Wellumio — Wellumio is a medical technology company redefining the boundaries of clinical imaging. We’re fusing technology, design innovation, and medical expertise to create new diagnostic pathways that support the timely delivery of urgent stroke care.
• Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.

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• Luminoma — Luminoma will enable easy access to objective and precise skin cancer screening. With Luminoma, clinicians can confidently discern malignant from benign, reducing unnecessary referrals and biopsies.
• Upstock — Easily manage all your hospitality, foodservice and FMCG grocery orders. Automate invoicing, pricing, payments and logistics with powerful AI tools.
• Factor — Plug and play forecasting and pricing tools for modern energy utilities.

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• Sophiie — Sophiie is an AI receptionist and office management platform designed for trades and service businesses. It handles phone calls, customer inquiries, job bookings, scheduling, quotes, invoices, payment reminders, follow-ups, and customer records. The platform integrates with tools such as ServiceM8, Xero, QuickBooks, and Google Calendar and supportsbusinesses including electricians, plumbers, HVAC contractors, builders, painters, landscapers, and cleaners.
• Elita — Store your dog's stem cells with Elita. One-time opportunity to protect their future health and avoid costly surgeries later in life.
• Swan AI — Turn any GTM idea into an agentic workflow in seconds. Swan builds AI agents for outbound, intent signals, meeting prep & pipeline health. No code required

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• AuDIGENT — AuDIGENT is an audience intelligence platform that provides brands with actionable data, analytics and insights that optimize the targeting, engagement and ROI of online, mobile and social video ads while opening up new revenue streams for artists and other social influencers. AuDIGENT's platform allows brands to discover, monitor and targetaudiences that drive media performance. AuDIGENT's platform empowers artists and influencers to tap into the tools and technology needed to monetize their social influence and fan engagement. AuDIGENT's executives, data scientists, developers and operations team are in New York, Philadelphia and London. For more information visit AuDIGENT.com
• Songclip (Audiobyte) — Songclip™ is a new licensed music format built specifically for texting, social posts, and quick communication. Songclip’s multi-patented networked product solution, the Songclip API, integrates seamlessly into social platforms, mobile apps, and virtual marketplaces to drive expression, monetization, and music streaming. Songclip operates theworld’s foremost searchable library of 5-30 second meta-tagged music clips, in partnership with the music industry. For more information, visit songclip.com
• 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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• Jia — Small businesses drive the economy. They deserve to own a piece of it. Jia gives entrepreneurs anywhere in the world power to control their financial destiny. We provide blockchain-based financing to businesses in emerging markets and reward them with ownership, enabling them to create wealth and prosperity for themselves and their communities.
• Better Place Forests — Better Place Forests protects and maintains memorial forests where families can spread the ashes of loved ones, sustainably honoring their memories. Choose your memorial tree today for a forever legacy.
• Entangled Publishing — Entangled Publishing publishes books for both adult and young adult audiences. Their books are available in both print and digital at major retailers around the world.

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• GolfN — GolfN is the web3 digital caddie. Play at more than 30,000+ courses worldwide and get rewarded for completing on-course activities. Collect and equip unique NFTs to multiply your rewards on and off the course.
• Rivalz Network — Join the connectivity infrastructure between AI Agents, DeFAI and Markets.
• InfiniFi — backup infiniFi account. Main infiniFi account - @infiniFi

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• HEO — HEO delivers on-demand, high-frequency images on satellites and actionable insights using the world's largest non-Earth imaging dataset and sensor network.
• Gridsight — Gridsight helps electrical utilities transition to a decentralised grid by creating 90%-accurate, AI-powered load flow models. These models enable utilities to safely and efficiently support more residential solar, batteries and electric vehicles. Based on CEO Brendan Banfield's PhD research, Gridsight was founded in 2020 to accelerate the transition to renewables.
• Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.

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• Evvy — Evvy is a developer of at-home vaginal microbiome tests to close the gender health gap and improve female health. It uses metagenomic sequencing to understand symptoms and risks for critical health challenges, and get personalized reports.
• BeSound — BeSound provides mammograms, screening and biopsy services to help the women to detect cancers earlier.
• CollectiveX — Collective X is a Women's Health Intelligence platform designed to bridge the historical research and data gap in women's health. It provides evidence-backed, female-specific insights built around female physiology to power the smart health ecosystem, ensuring that digital health products and clinical workflows don't rely on biased data.

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• Polemos — Enter the Polemos Forge - the first decentralized GameFi platform for asset lending, Play and Earn Blockchain Game University, scholarships, staking, & more!
• 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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• NFTfi — NFTfi allows borrowers to use the NFTs they own to access the liquidity they need - in a safe, secure and anonymous way. Lenders can earn attractive yields efficiently and have the chance to obtain rare assets at a steep discount in case of loan defaults.
• Namcon — Namcon provides blockchain infrastructure services that rely on numerous devices and trusted execution environments for secure computing.
• mmERCH — mmERCH is a blockchain-enabled Web3 fashion startup.

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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.

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• Yumi — YUMI is a leader in stage-based nutrition for baby and kids. Organic, nutrient dense, dairy free, gluten free, Clean Label Project approved.
• PINTAR — Tingkatkan karir Anda dengan kursus bersertifikat, program Kartu Prakerja, dan kuliah online dari universitas terbaik di PINTAR. Daftar sekarang!
• Indonesia Creators Economy — Indonesia Creators Economy is a content creator platform, enabling brand-creator collaborations to drive business growth through technology.

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• Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
• Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
• 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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• Laylo — Laylo is a boxed wine brand.
• Badili — Badili is a one-stop shop for buying and selling used and refurbished phones. Founded in 2021 and is based in Nairobi.
• Incredible — Pay off credit cards faster, reduce your interest payments and reclaim your financial freedom.

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• Fincom — OFAC Sanctions Screening and Entity Resolution: Payments screening, ACH transactions screening, Instant Payments, pKYC, Verification of Payee
• Entravel — Enjoy premium & luxury hotels at insider prices and save up to 60%. Entravel is the leading luxury hotel booking platform offering non-public, exclusive prices to its members.
• Azuro — Powerful tooling, oracle & liquidity solutions for any EVM predictions & gaming ecosystem

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• Squid — Buy, swap, and bridge crypto across 100+ chains and 20k tokens. Fast, cheap, reliable. Used by 1M+ users and 1K+ integrators.
• Alliance Games — Build Beyond Limits. Multiplayer for the Next, Decentralized Era.
• Hotstuff Labs — DeFi Layer 1. Handeln Sie alles.

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• Raven — Raven is a proprietary high-frequency algorithmic trading firm specializing in CeFi market making and DeFi liquidity provision.
• Jeeves — Pay for anything, anywhere, in your local currency. No fees. No interest. No personal guarantees. Mobile-first, built with your team in mind.
• Catalyst — Catalyst develops a platform that converts plain-English trading ideas into automated workflows that track real-time market data and execute financial trades within user-defined parameters.

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• BetHog — BetHog is a new crypto sports book that brings home the bacon.
• Trove — Rip packs of trading cards online and get the real cards shipped to your door.
• Kairos Labs — Which way are rates going? Call Up or Down on DeFi borrowing rates and see the most you can lose before you trade. Fixed-rate loans and carry trades on Aave too.

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• RepubliK GG — News & Opinions on Bitcoin, Cryptocurrency and Trading
• Quest Gamers — Quest Gamers is an application that is building the largest alliance of play-to-earn clan managers.
• 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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• Fineqia — Explore secure and innovative investment products with Fineqia. Access diversified portfolios, real-time insights, and compliance-backed financial solutions.
• Fluree — Fluree is the enterprise AI context layer: governed context for every agent and model, with answers traced to the source under the policy that applies.
• Quadrata — Quadrata is a Passport Network that brings the identity and compliance layer to DeFi across existing public blockchains. The company was founded in 2021 by Lisa Fridman and Fabrice Cheng and is headquartered in Marina Del Rey, California.

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• Curvance — Curvance lets you click less and earn more. Deposit your crypto, borrow against it, and keep earning the whole time.
• Macropod —
• Asgard Finance — Institutional-grade decentralized exchange on Solana. Designed to drop world-class traders in flow state.

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• TuStreams — TuStreams allows artists to maintain complete ownership of their intellectual property while delivering music to all major streaming providers. TuStreams streamlines the financial side of music and helps artists at every stage with its clear royalties tracking, real-time statistics, and automated collaborator payouts.
• Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
• SKILLBOXES (INDIA) PVT. LTD — SkillBox is an Art Community Platform that is constantly evolving – always conscious of the needs of artists and arts-related businesses.

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• Vessev — Electric hydrofoiling vessels built for commercial use. Quiet, efficient, and better for the world.
• SYOS — SYOS designs and manufactures a multi-domain portfolio of advanced uncrewed autonomous systems across air, land, sea, and subsurface.
• Andromeda Surgical — Empowering surgeons with autonomous precision

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• Edu3Labs — Edu3Labs combines education and blockchain technology to create a platform where content creators, learners, and NFE token holders can all benefit. Edu3Labs is a new and innovative way to make learning more engaging and rewarding for everyone.Also, Edu3Labs is a brand-new blockchain ecosystem aimed at the education sector, with the mission ofboth giving ownership and rewarding all parties in the ecosystem. The Edu3Labs ecosystem, which currently has an education and publishing-focused NFT marketplace and metaverse platform, is also planning to provide blockchain solutions to educational institutions.A short description of Edu3Labs; A new learning experience created by the integration of the online education sector and the blockchain technology.
• BornTodie — Born To Die Game is a 3D shooter game in the metaverse. Will Heroes rise to save Humanity from the verge of extinction? Or will we be defeated by a Virus?
• AlterVerse — Discover AlterVerse, an immersive free-to-play game coming to the Epic Store. Explore endless possibilities in our boundless sandbox environment where survival skills are key. Join the adventure today!

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• Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
• Crowd Street — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.

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• 375ai — 375ai is an edge data intelligence network on Solana that provides advanced real-time data collection and analysis to power a smarter, more connected world.
• Power Protocol — The ecosystem for blockchain entertainment. Fueled by $POWER. Launch Partner: @Fableborne Power Up Your Play
• Hyperdrive — Hyperdrive delivers investment growth strategies utilizing a portfolio-centered approach.