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Top 20 Energy Startup Investors in New Zealand

A list of 20 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Energy startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Energy companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Energy Startup Investors in New Zealand

Investor Energy New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures 4
K1W1 3
Enterprise Angels 2
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund 2
Finistere Ventures 2
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund 2
Khosla Ventures 1
Sparkbox Ventures 1
Pacific Channel 1
Lewis Holdings 1
Global from Day One 1
AngelHQ 1
RIV Capital 1
Steven Adams 1
Phil McCaw 1
ACC 1
Ngāi Tahu 1
Outset Ventures 1
Thomas Larthe 1
Radicle Growth 1
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Icehouse Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand · 7 investments in the past 12 months
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
  • Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.
  • Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
K1W1 VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
  • Akahu — Akahu provides open banking and open finance infrastructure. We make it simple for people to connect their financial accounts to trusted third parties.
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
  • Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.
Enterprise Angels VC Fund · Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand
Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Information Technology, Health Care
  • Funding Round, Seed, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
  • Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
  • Zenno Astronautics — At Zenno Astronautics, our hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund VC Fund · Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Farming
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, The Netherlands, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • 30MHz — The data platform for horticulture | Sense. Act. Impact.
  • BeeHero — BeeHero - Your precision pollination provider for almonds, berries, apples and more We raise and keep exceptional bees by combining generations of commercial beekeeping experience with cutting-edge technology. Get premium bees & pollinate your crops with precision.
  • EarthOptics — EarthOptics is building the cloud-based machine learning platform for soil and ground management.
Finistere Ventures VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States
Finistere Ventures is an agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor. Founded in 2005, the company partners with other entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to build innovative companies that have the potential to transform modern agriculture, increase food security, improve nutrition, and enhance sustainability. Their appliedexperience as operators, and pioneering role in Ag Tech, is actively utilized to benefit its portfolio companies and Partners. Finistere has global access to the best new technologies from centers of Ag Tech excellence in the U.S., Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada through its venture partner networks. Finistere’s locations in San Diego and Palo Alto, California keeps them connected to the centers of mainstream venture investment and the world’s leading innovation ecosystem.
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Investment focus
  • Biotechnology, Agriculture, Farming
  • Series B, Series C, Series A
  • United States, New Zealand, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.
  • Animol Discovery — Animol is building its own pipeline of break-through proprietary veterinary small molecules led by a team of animal health industry experts with vast experience in bringing drugs to market. With our unique and powerful technology platform we deliver innovative medicines that are specifically designed for the needs of veterinary patients.
  • Growers Edge — Growers Edge leverages data science to build grower-relevant risk management solutions to meet ever-changing agricultural demands.
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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Investment focus
  • Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
  • Seed, Series A, Angel
  • New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
  • Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
  • Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Khosla Ventures VC Fund · Menlo Park, California, United States · 69 investments in the past 12 months
Khosla Ventures invests in companies that are bold, early and impactful. The firm was started in 2004 by Vinod Khosla, co-founder of Sun Microsystems, to provide venture assistance to entrepreneurs. Headquartered in Menlo Park, Calif., Khosla Ventures invests in a range of areas including AI, climate, sustainability, enterprise, consumer, fintech,digital health, medtech and diagnostics, therapeutics and frontier technology.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Health Care, Artificial Intelligence
  • Series A, Series B, Seed
  • United States, India, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
  • Aktiia — Founded in Switzerland in May 2018 out of a passion to turn insights into action in the fight against hypertension, Aktiia’s groundbreaking medical technology provides people and their physicians comprehensive insights into blood pressure patterns that will inform the diagnosis and management of hypertension. Now available in the United Kingdom,Aktiia has received its CE Mark as a Class IIa medical device - signifying that the device has been assessed to meet high safety, health and environmental protection requirements in Europe. To learn more, visit Aktiia.com.
  • Metaplane — Metaplane is a data observability platform that helps data teams know when things break, what went wrong, and how to fix it.
  • Raspberry AI — Raspberry AI employs artificial intelligence technology to design styles that are in high demand. The platform offers the convenience of instantly generating technical packs and CADs for any product image, providing a comprehensive solution for product design requirements. It also features automated, high-conversion product descriptions andphotography, along with the capability to create new high-fidelity designs from a sketch or reference image.
Sparkbox Ventures VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
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Investment focus
  • Software, Manufacturing, EdTech
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
  • Mohiomap — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
  • Booktrack — Booktrack is an A.I Soundtrack company. Booktrack's Artificial Intelligence automatically creates soundtracks for any text or any voice. Backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Booktrack is a disruptive force in the publishing and audio world; equivalent to the introduction of sound transforming the experience of film forever. For moreinformation, visit booktrack.com.
  • Aroa Biosurgery Ltd — Aroa Biosurgery is a soft-tissue regeneration company that develops, manufactures, sells and distributes medical and surgical products to improve healing in complex wounds and soft tissue reconstruction. Committed to ‘unlocking regenerative healing for everybody’, Aroa’s products are developed from the Company’s proprietary Endoform® technologyplatform, a novel extracellular matrix biomaterial derived from ovine (sheep) forestomach. The company was founded in February 2008 based on intellectual property relating to the use of a novel form of ECM isolated from forestomach extracellular matrix for use in tissue regeneration applications. Aroa’s focus is delivering better healing, every day, everywhere for everybody. Aroa’s products make a meaningful impact for patients, surgeons and clinicians. Aroa delivers high quality, simple to use products that significantly improve outcomes. Aroa also believes its products should be widely accessible, affordable and change the standard of care for many patients.Maori for ‘understanding’, Aroa is at the forefront of understanding how biology, structural form and human factors can unlock the body’s intrinsic power to heal.
Pacific Channel VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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Investment focus
  • Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Orbica — Orbica develops innovative, cross-industry location data solutions, services and products.
  • Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
  • Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.
Lewis Holdings VC Fund
Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Computer
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Avertana — Avertana is a process technology company that has developed a proprietary platform to refine solid industrial waste streams into valuable mineral and chemical raw materials used to make everyday products. Products of Avertana's process are used in products such as paint, building materials, paper and fertilisers. The process is costcompetitive with existing approaches but offers a much lower environmental footprint than traditional methods. Avertana helps its customers to build more sustainable supply chains by making mineral and chemical ingredients for widely-used products from sources that support optimal environmental outcomes. Avertana’s waste to value process helps industry to reduce its environmental footprint competitively.
  • Ambit — Automate and scale customer service to reduce support costs and drive revenue with Ambit's GPT conversational AI chatbot software.
  • Unleashed Software — A powerful tool for business growth, Unleashed delivers streamlined purchasing, accurate stock costs, easy sales management & smart manufacturing stock control
Global from Day One VC Fund · Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
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.
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Investment focus
  • Software, SaaS, Medical Device
  • Seed, Series A, Funding Round
  • New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
  • eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
  • Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
  • Formus Labs — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
AngelHQ VC Fund · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Angel HQ is Wellington region's angel investment network - follow us for angel investing info, and a way to connect to local, national and international angels.
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Investment focus
  • Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
  • Seed, Angel, Series A
  • New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
  • Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
  • Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
  • Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
RIV Capital VC Fund · Toronto, Ontario, Canada
RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.
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Investment focus
  • Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care
  • Seed, Funding Round, Series A
  • Canada, United States, Italy
Portfolio highlights
  • Dynaleo — At Dynaleo, we produce the highest quality cannabis-infused Edible Gummies. Learn more about our innovative CBD and THC gummies on our website.
  • Headset — Retail & market insights for cannabis retailers, product manufacturers, CPGs, processors, growers & all ancillary services.
  • TerrAscend — A Leading Vertically-Integrated North American OperatorTerrAscend is a leading North American cannabis operator with vertically integrated operations in
Steven Adams Angel
Steven Adams
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Investment focus
  • Organic, Agriculture
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
Phil McCaw Angel · Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac
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Investment focus
  • Energy, Retail, Internet
  • Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
  • CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
  • Flick Electric — Join Flick for Fairer Electricity Prices. We're not flicking around, we're here to shake up the electricity industry and fight for fair priced power in Aotearoa.
ACC VC Fund
ACC is an investment firm.
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Investment focus
  • Organic, Agriculture
  • Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
Ngāi Tahu VC Fund
Ngāi Tahu
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Investment focus
  • Organic, Agriculture, Information Technology
  • Seed, Series A
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Orbica — Orbica develops innovative, cross-industry location data solutions, services and products.
  • Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.
Outset Ventures VC Fund · Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
Outset Ventures: Leading NZ's deep tech innovation with strategic investments, state-of-the-art facilities, and a vibrant startup community.
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Investment focus
  • CleanTech, Biotechnology, Product Research
  • Seed, Pre-Seed
  • New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
  • Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
  • Vertus Energy — We innovate to make fossil natural gas extinct.
  • Aspiring Materials — Aspiring Materials. Civil Engineering and Geoengineering Research for the Future and Mars
Thomas Larthe Angel · Dubai, Dubai, United Arab Emirates
Thomas Larthe
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Investment focus
  • Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Energy
  • Initial Coin Offering, Seed
  • India, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
  • Emrod — EMROD is pioneering commercially viable long-range wireless power transfer technology. Our system transmits large amounts of energy safely and without wires.
  • Chingari — Chingari is a short-video entertaining platform connecting talented Indians. It allows users to share the videos on third-party social platforms as well. The application is available for Android users. It monetizes through in-app advertisements.
  • Flow Blockchain — Flow is a fast, secure, and developer-friendly blockchain built to support the next generation of games, apps, and the digital assets that power them.
Radicle Growth VC Fund · San Diego, California, United States · 3 investments in the past 12 months
Radicle Growth is a San Diego, California based venture capital firm focused sustainable, early-stage ag and food tech startups.
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Investment focus
  • Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology
  • Seed, Series A, Grant
  • United States, Canada, Israel
Portfolio highlights
  • PheroSyn — PheroSyn develops and produces novel pest pheromones. PheroSyn is a spin-out from Rothamsted Research, the world-leading, non-profit research centre that focuses on strategic agricultural science to the benefit of farmers and society worldwide.
  • FarmSense — FarmSense provides commercial farmers and agricultural operators the ability to monitor, count, and identify insect pests in real time.
  • Pluton Biosciences — The miniscule organisms Pluton Biosciences discover possess the power to create global change. Pluton quickly and inexpensively taps into the diverse world of bacteria, fungi and viruses to discover next-generation products for carbon sequestration, agriculture, pharmaceutical, biomaterials and bioremediation.Pluton Bioscience's discoveryprocess generates diverse commercialization options, including: Organisms (biological products), Small Molecule Chemistries (fermentable and non-fermentable) and New Traits (scale dependent).
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