Top 10 EdTech Angel Investors in New Zealand

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Edtech startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Edtech companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 EdTech Angel Investors in New Zealand

Investor	EdTech New Zealand investments
Chris Sang	2
Chintaka Ranatunga	2
Kirsti Grant	1
Scobie Ward	1
Andrew R. H. Preston	1
Scott Nolan	1
Chase Coleman	1
Emlyn Scott	1
Sam Altman	1
Danny Chan	1

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Investor list

Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

Chintaka Ranatunga

Investment focus

Apps, Software, EdTech
Seed, Series B
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kami — Your classroom PDF annotator. Students stay engaged with accessible annotation tools. Teachers save time with streamlined instruction and assessment.
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.

Kirsti Grant - CEO & Co-founder @ Populate

Investment focus

Software, EdTech, Consumer Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Komodo — Komodo is the complete wellbeing solution for schools to measure and improve the effectiveness of their wellbeing strategies.
Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.

Scobie Ward is the Chairman & CEO of Ward Ferry Management.

Investment focus

Software, E-Learning, Language Learning
Series A
New Zealand

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.

Andrew R. H. Preston

Investment focus

EdTech, Education, E-Learning
Seed
New Zealand

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!

Partner at Founders Fund.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, 3D Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, New Zealand, Brazil

Portfolio highlights

Kami — Your classroom PDF annotator. Students stay engaged with accessible annotation tools. Teachers save time with streamlined instruction and assessment.
StyleRow — StyleRow is a design company that focuses on streamlining the design process for designers and creating an experience for brands and showrooms to work together, all in one place. It features an online-based portal that allows design professionals to scale their businesses.The company was founded in 2018 and headquartered in California, UnitedStates.
9amHealth — 9am.health redesigns all care elements into one digital service individualized around today’s reality of people’s life - always available and convenient, at prices anyone can afford even without insurance. 9am.health focuses on chronic conditions such as diabetes, hypertension, and hyperlipidemia for customers in the United States.

Chase Coleman is the partner of Tiger Global Management LLC (previously known as Tiger Technology Management LLC) in 2001.

Investment focus

Software, CRM, Health Care
Series B, Series C, Seed
United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Brex — Brex is all-in-one finance for growing businesses. It helps companies spend, save, and earn smarter—and take every dollar further—by doing more than a bank, bookkeeping, or reward program could ever do alone. After completing the Y Combinator accelerator program in 2017, Brex has grown to over 600 employees and raised over US$940 million in venturecapital.
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.

Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest 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), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).