Top 10 EdTech Angel Investors in New Zealand (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Chintaka Ranatunga
Angel
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2 | New Zealand, India, United States | Seed, Series B | Apps, Software, EdTech | $400k–$10M |
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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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Emlyn Scott
Angel
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2 | Australia, United States, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $417k–$3.4M |
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Alexey Mitko
Angel
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2 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Analytics | $1.3M–$4.5M |
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Chase Coleman
Angel
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1 | United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom | Series B, Series C, Series F | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | |
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Scobie Ward
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Software, E-Learning, Language Learning | |
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Scott Nolan
Angel
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1 | United States, New Zealand, Brazil | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Medical, Health Care | $620k–$150M |
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Andrew R. H. Preston
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | |
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Sam Altman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet | $1.2M–$100M |
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Danny Chan
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, Education, E-Learning | $918k–$1.7M |
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Chintaka Ranatunga
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- Industry: Apps, Software, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series B $795k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kami — Kami's all-in-one platform turns any resource into interactive, accessible learning experiences. Save teacher time, improve outcomes. Try it free now.
- APIMatic — The Trusted Developer Experience platform for APIs. Achieve faster API onboarding via automatic SDKs, docs, code samples, and guided walkthroughs.
- QuiverVision — Experience the immersive wonder of 3D Augmented Reality with engaging coloring experiences that let your creativity run wild.
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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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.
- Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth
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: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 41
- Round size: Seed $417k–$3.4M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% 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.
- Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
- Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth
Alexey Mitko is a Co-Founder of Eucalyptus.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$4.5M; Pre-Seed $1.3M–$2.3M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Keeyu — keeyu. is a B2B SaaS platform that continuously monitors e-commerce transactions from payment to delivery. Should any issue emerge, our system immediately notifies the customer service team, enabling proactive issue resolution before it impacts the customer, saving them from opening a support ticket. The result is an enhanced post-purchaseexperience, ensuring sales retention and reducing customer complaints.Founded in 2023, the company is headquartered in Sydney, Australia, and is dedicated to empowering businesses to deliver exceptional post-purchase experiences.
- PREVE — Supporting back-to-back physios with their daily caseload, simplifying admin whilst making the patient experience more enjoyable. Preve does the admin work for practitioners. One click clinical notes, treatment plans, home rehab and documents.
- Mutiny — Mutiny is an analytics platform for marketing investments with a sizable customer base.
Chase Coleman is the Founder of Tiger Global
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Series F
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Brex — Simplify expense management with Brex's finance platform. From company cards to banking, Brex helps you drive growth, automate processes, & earn more.
- Capitol AI — Capitol uses the power of AI & Design to make better, faster decisions with data.
- Daring Foods — Craveable delicious plant chicken made from non-GMO plants and a short list of wholesome ingredients.
Scobie Ward is the Chairman & CEO of Ward Ferry Management.
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- Industry: Software, E-Learning, Language Learning
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Straker Translations — Straker Translations is revolutionizing the translation industry by offering fast, efficient and cost effective translations with their unique pay-per-hour translation model, it enables clients to significantly reduce their ongoing translation costs as well as simplifying the translation process.Founded in 1999 by Grant Straker, as a softwarecompany specializing in multi-lingual content management for websites, they morphed in 2010 into Straker Translations, a global translation agency with offices in the USA, Canada, Europe, Australia and New Zealand building a global client base that includes: Sun Life Financial, Glaxo Smith Kline, Caterpillar, Creative, Exxon Mobile, Fuji Xerox, Mailchimp and BP.
Partner at Founders Fund.
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- Industry: Software, Medical, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, Brazil
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $620k–$17M; Series A $4M–$45M; Series B $32M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 38% lead, 62% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kami — Kami's all-in-one platform turns any resource into interactive, accessible learning experiences. Save teacher time, improve outcomes. Try it free now.
- Radiant — Clean. Portable. Safe. Energy
- StyleRow — Streamline your interior design projects with StyleRow's management tools for organization, budgeting, and collaboration. Start your free trial today.
Andrew R. H. Preston
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- LearnCoach — Learn from 2500+ video tutorials and practice questions for 80 NCEA standards. LearnCoach covers everything you need to master NCEA and get your best results ever!
Sam Altman is the CEO and co-founder of OpenAI. He is a Partner of Apollo Projects. Altman was the president of Y Combinator. Sam attended Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 177
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $6M–$70M; Series B $17M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 21% lead, 79% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
- BRINC Drones — BRINC is a US company developing tech in the service of public safety. Known for Drone as First Responder, indoor tactical drones and more.
- NOYACK — NOYACK builds agentic AI technology for wealth management, starting with NOYACK.ai—the first AI agent for financial literacy - and Prophit.ai , the first opensource AI agent for portfolio optimizations of ALL asset classes. The fintech platform uses autonomous AI to deliver personalized financial guidance and construct tax-optimized portfolioscombining traditional accounts (IRAs, 401(k)s, HSAs) with private market investments in venture capital, fine art, and real estate for Millennials and Gen Z investors
Danny Chan
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- Industry: EdTech, Education, E-Learning
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $918k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Blerter —
- LearnCoach — Learn from 2500+ video tutorials and practice questions for 80 NCEA standards. LearnCoach covers everything you need to master NCEA and get your best results ever!
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