Top 20 EdTech Angel Investors in New Zealand (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Danny Chan
Angel
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4 | New Zealand | Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, SaaS, Events | $918k–$1.7M |
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Chintaka Ranatunga
Angel
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3 | New Zealand, India, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Apps, EdTech | $400k–$10M |
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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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Chris Sang
Angel
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2 | United States, Australia, India | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, E-Commerce, FinTech | $343k–$21M |
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Emlyn Scott
Angel
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2 | Australia, United States, Singapore | Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $350k–$12M |
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Tim Doyle
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Apps, SaaS, Software | |
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Leighton Roberts
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed | FinTech, Software, Education | $1.2M–$2.7M |
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Justine Smyth CNZM CNZM
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed | Software, Education, Career Planning | |
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Sam Altman
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Ghana | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology | $1.2M–$100M |
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John Key
Angel
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1 | New Zealand, United States | Series B, Venture - Series Unknown | SaaS, EdTech, Software | |
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Ben Kepes
Angel
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1 | United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $50k–$3M |
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Brooke Roberts
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Pre-Seed, Series B | Software, Education, Career Planning | |
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Brendon Burchard
Angel
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1 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | iOS, Internet, Analytics | |
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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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Benny Kleist
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Pre-Seed, Series A | Education, E-Learning, Life Science | |
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Chase Coleman
Angel
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1 | United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom | Series B, Series C, Seed | SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence | $5.8M–$400M |
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Kirsti Grant
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, EdTech, Consumer Software | $653k–$1.3M |
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Scobie Ward
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Series A, Post-IPO Equity | Software, E-Learning, Biotechnology | |
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Charlie Gearside
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Software, Analytics | $2.2M–$2.4M |
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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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Danny Chan
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- Industry: EdTech, SaaS, Events
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $918k–$1.7M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Cloud M — Cloud M pioneered mobile-first, B2B applications for leading organizations in education, healthcare and public safety. Clients include both private and public sector. Notable product innovations include the Alerter Platform for New Zealand's Civil Defence and Emergency Management agency and the initial development of the Blerter product.
- 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!
Chintaka Ranatunga
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- Industry: Software, Apps, EdTech
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand, India, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $400k–$1.6M; Series B $795k–$10M
- Lead/follow: 10% lead, 90% 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.
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.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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- Industry: Software, E-Commerce, FinTech
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Australia, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 120
- Round size: Seed $343k–$3.4M; Pre-Seed $350k–$900k; Series A $2.5M–$21M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% 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, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 62
- Round size: Seed $417k–$4.2M; Pre-Seed $350k–$900k; Series A $5.9M–$12M
- Lead/follow: 27% lead, 73% 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
Tim Doyle is based out of Sydney, New South Wales, and is the Co-Founder and CEO of Eucalyptus and SVP of International of Hims & Hers. Tim previously worked at Koala as a Head of Marketing. Tim Doyle attended the University of Sydney.
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- Industry: Apps, SaaS, Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
Leighton Roberts - Co-founder, Co-CEO and Director @ Sharesies
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Education
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Pre-Seed $1.2M–$2.7M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Marloo — Marloo is an AI-assistant that empowers financial advisers to focus on building client relationships, instead of paperwork.
- Excellent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.
chair
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- Industry: Software, Education, Career Planning
- Stage:Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Excellent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.
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, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Canada, Ghana
Investor stats
- Total investments: 186
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$10M; Series A $10M–$50M; Series B $17M–$100M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Exowatt — Modular full-stack renewable energy solutions for commercial and industrial customers.
- Preventive — Preventive mission is to determine whether the newest generation of gene editing technologies can be used safely and responsibly to correct devastating genetic conditions for future children.
- Red Queen Bio — Red Queen Bio is an AI biosecurity company. Think of us as the cybersecurity layer for biology. AI is making it dramatically easier to design powerful new drugs and therapies, which is extraordinary news for medicine. But the same tools are also lowering the barrier for bad actors to engineer dangerous pathogens, and opening up an entirely new category of threats, including viruses designed to evade human immunity.Defense has to keep pace with offense.
John Key, Board Partner at Amplo.
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- Industry: SaaS, EdTech, Software
- Stage:Series B, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Whip Around — Count on Whip Around's integrated platform to make your fleet operations safer and more efficient, with simplified DVIRs, inspections, and real-time data in a single place.
- Crimson Education — Crimson Education is the world's leading higher educational consultancy helping students around the world gain admission into leading US and UK universities by up to 400%!
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Browse database — It's Free!Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergence of technology,mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to aviation technology, enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raygun — Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users.
- Cloud 66 — Deploy your applications to any cloud provider or your own servers. No lock-in, full control. From 1 to 1000 servers with Cloud 66's DevOps platform.
- Common Ledger — Common Ledger was born in April 2013 when Drew saw an opportunity arise for a 'common ledger' after developing a solution to translate Point of Sale data into one format. Drew discovered the same data needed to be sent to accounting systems that varied as much as the diverse Point of Sale software. For years Vince was a client responsiblefor campaigns created by the digital media agency where Drew was the technical lead. In this chaotic environment of media agencies and campaigns Drew and Vince managed to build a solid relationship which flourished beyond employment. Thus began the founding Common Ledger team.Later, Brendan a chartered accountant joined Drew and Vince to bring his industry knowledge, number crunching and strategy.Finaly, Carlos Chambers then came aboard wearing the Operations, Legals and Commercials hats and completing the team's fundamental skill-set.The team have since created something many businesses and accountants desperately need, solving a problem they are unable to find a solution to.
Brooke Roberts is based out of Wellington, Wellington and is the Co-Founder and Director of Sharesies. Brooke previously worked at Indigo & Iris as a Mentor. Brooke Roberts attended the Victoria University of Wellington. Brooke Roberts has been awarded the EY Entrepreneur of the Year- Services Entrepreneur issued by EY Entrepreneur of the Year.
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- Industry: Software, Education, Career Planning
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Excellent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.
- Icehouse Ventures — 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.
Brendon Burchard is an individual investor at Circle's latest funding round.
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- Industry: iOS, Internet, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Circle — Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. The company was founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen.
- VidApp — VidApp makes it easy to build, design and launch your own mobile and tv apps. Connect your current website or channel and build your audience today.
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: 38
- Round size: Seed $620k–$17M; Series A $4M–$45M; Series B $32M–$150M
- Lead/follow: 37% lead, 63% 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.
- StyleRow — Streamline your interior design projects with StyleRow's management tools for organization, budgeting, and collaboration. Start your free trial today.
- Impulse Space — Economical and nimble last-mile space payload delivery
Benny Kleist is a Founder & COO of Eucalyptus.He attended The University of Queensland.
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- Industry: Education, E-Learning, Life Science
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Proto Axiom — Early-stage funding to growth capital, we guide scientific breakthroughs from proof-of-concept to commercial success. Our hands-on approach to support Australian research is a first-in-country model.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
Chase Coleman is based out of New York, New York, and is the Founder and Head of Private Equity Investment of Tiger Global Management. Chase Coleman attended the Williams College.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Series B, Series C, Seed
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 15
- Round size: Seed $5.8M–$10M; Series B $50M–$125M; Series C $65M–$400M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tako — Tako is an AI search engine that embed intelligence.
- 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.
Kirsti Grant - CEO & Co-founder @ Populate
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- Industry: Software, EdTech, Consumer Software
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $653k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Komodo Wellbeing — 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.
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- Industry: Software, E-Learning, Biotechnology
- Stage:Series A, Post-IPO Equity
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Terragen Biotech — Terragen is agricultural biological company helping farmers increase productivity for livestock, dairy, viticulture, horticulture and cropping.
- 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.
Charlie Gearside is a Founder of Eucalyptus.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2.2M–$2.4M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
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!
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