# Top 30 Cryptocurrency Startup Investors in New Zealand in June 2026

## Digital Asset Capital Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.

## Blockchain Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

## Altered State Machine
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Computer

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.

## Nuance Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: AgTech, Security, Software

Nuance Capital is a venture capital fund.

## Quandefi
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Computer, Software, Blockchain

Quandefi

## Vendetta Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Private Equity
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency

Vendetta Capital has brought together a multi-disciplinary team that has immense experience spanning from investing, portfolio management, and capital markets to marketing and blockchain technology.Vendetta invests in, leads, and helps projects to accelerate developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, andinteroperability for decentralized protocols and applications.

## Airtree Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

## Primal Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Primal is a global venture capital fund manager that specialises in early-stage and growth investments into Web3 and emerging technology companies.

## Coinbase Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States.

## Wave Digital Assets
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

## Dialectic
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Dialectic combines machine intelligence with crypto-native primitives to build superior financial compounding machines. Agentic DeFi, AI-driven automated yield, and deep-tech venture.

## Wavemaker Genesis
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem.

## Phil Quist
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Hotel, Travel, Content

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.

## Seven Peaks Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Bend, Oregon, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions.
Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013.

## Delphi Digital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming

Delphi Digital is a leading cryptocurrency research firm, providing cutting-edge insights and updates to a community of over 30,000 investors and venture firms.

## Muse Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce

Muse Capital is a seed stage fund that focuses on investing in entrepreneurs who are disrupting the consumer space. Since 2016, Muse Capital has operated as a bridge for entrepreneurs between Silicon Valley, the entertainment industry, and the corporate F500 ecosystem. 

## Flamingo DAO
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sacramento, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology

Flamingo DAO is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for ownable, blockchain-based assets.

## Polygon Studios
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software

Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem.

## Pathfinder Asset Management
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Debt
- Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical

Pathfinder Asset Management Limited was formed in 2010 and is the evolution of a family office that began 30 years ago. Their focus has always been the stewardship of investment portfolios for high net worth investors who seek strong performance and risk-managed results.

## Chris Adelsbach
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

## Raised In Space Enterprises
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Santa Monica, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Music, Mobile, Digital Entertainment

A music/tech investment group focused on raising the value of music through technology

## Warner Music Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Corporate Round, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Music, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment

Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services

## GD1 (Global From Day One)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.

## Enjin
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Online Games

Enjin offers a suite of integrated products that make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) easy for individuals, businesses, and developers.

## True Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets. With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operationsprofessionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem. The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide. True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com.

## TCG
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Los Angeles, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care

TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms.

## 6th Man Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States.

## Enjinstarter
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering
- Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software

Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility

## G1 Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Investing in a decentralized world

## GDP Venture
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software

GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on commerce, consumer product, media & entertainment and solution companies
