Top 10 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Finance startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Finance VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in May 2025

Investor	Finance New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures	2
Altered Capital	1
Zino Fund	1
Jubilee Capital Management	1
K1W1	1
NZVC	1
Tuhua Fund	1
Enterprise Angels	1
Hard Yaka	1
NZ Fintech Fund	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
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%!

We're a New Zealand based venture capital and private equity fund manager, empowering companies to be the best in the world.

Investment focus

Software, Predictive Analytics, Information Technology
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Starboard Maritime Intelligence — Monitor and protect your maritime domain

Zino Fund

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Payments
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

LatiPay — Latipay is a first to market, fully compliant financial technology (FinTech) New Zealand business. Our platform provides an online solution that focuses on New Zealand enterprise level merchants. The Latipay platform allows for Chinese payers to pay for goods and services with CNY (Chinese Yuan) whilst our New Zealand/Australian merchantreceives full payment for goods or service direct to their NZD/AUD bank account in NZD/AUD, at no cost to the merchant. Chinese payers can make payment through their preferred bank payment channels or their Alipay, WeChat, Baidu, Jd Pay wallets, whilst paying in their preferred currency of CNY. Our bi-lingual platform solves the significant Chinese and New Zealand/Australia payer and merchant dissatisfaction within the education, export, insurance, software and travel verticals.

Jie Yi capital (JubileeTech Fund, referred to JTF) is a former Chinese founder million net Xiangdong founder of a early investment funds."Yi Jie" were taken from the word "CJ" and "Yi", the former parent of the mythology of coinage, which is shot at the legendary hero, both a text of a force, representing the richculture and brave and fierce . Jie Yi as a venture capital investment organization dedicated to finding ambitious entrepreneur with a strong creativity and execution, to explore with the "disruptive" innovation and originality of the technology and business model start-ups, by Jie Yi nationality its advantages of capital, investment and help grow startups, incubators future of the industry, "unicorn", and ultimately benefit the society.

Investment focus

FinTech, E-Commerce Platforms, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Singapore, China, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

SCI Ecommerce — SCI Ecommerce Pte Ltd is the No. 1 E-commerce solution provider in Southeast Asia for local and overseas brands.
Spark Systems — Spark Systems is an exciting new Fin-Tech startup funded by industry veterans, we are the first high tech solution provider for institutional forex trading that is originated in Asia. We aim to build world class FX trading platform to serve a growing Asia financial hub. As early member of the firm you will be involved from the very beginning ofbuilding something truly special, and will be duly rewarded with a fast-track career.
Wanfengting Banmian — Wanfengting Banmian produces Taihe beef pan noodles with Anhui features in the Shanghai noodle restaurant market.

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

The NZVCA’s mission is to develop a world-best private equity (“PE”) and venture capital (“VC”) environment for the benefit of investors and entrepreneurs in New Zealand.Their activities cover the whole spectrum of investment in New Zealand private capital including Angel investment, seed and early-stage venture capital through to developmentcapital and private equity (including management buy-outs and buy-ins).