Top 10 Hardware Angel Investors in New Zealand in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Hardware startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hardware companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Hardware Angel Investors in New Zealand in May 2025
Investor | Hardware New Zealand investments |
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Peter Beck | 2 |
Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
Harald McPike | 2 |
Rowan Simpson | 1 |
Thomas Larthe | 1 |
Karl von Randow | 1 |
Tim Ringel | 1 |
Nasir Jones | 1 |
Matt Rockman | 1 |
Rich Chetwynd | 1 |
Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the world’s leading dedicated small satellite launch provider. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services, including complete satellite build and launch solutions, that provide rapid, frequent and reliable access to space. Rocket Lab has been launchingsince May 2017, delivering satellites to orbit for commercial and government customers, including DARPA, NASA, the NRO, the United States Air Force and more. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognized industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers. In addition to creating Electron, the world’s first fully carbon-fibre orbital launch vehicle, Peter also oversaw the development of the world’s first and only private orbital launch range, located on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula. He played a crucial role in establishing international treaties and legislation to enable orbital launch capability from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, AgTech, Hardware
- Series A, Series B
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
- Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.
Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. their hardware and software platform gives creators and listeners the power to engage with, explore, and share sound in transformative new ways.
- GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Series D
- United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
- Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
- Health Data Analytics Institute — Transformative healthcare data analytics and predictive tools designed to enhance patient care and optimize resource allocation.
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Music, Parking
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
- Parkable — Parkable is award winning software for managing employee and tenant parking, finding short-term or monthly public parking and sharing space to earn money.
- ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
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.
Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd
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Investment focus
- Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed
- New Zealand
Tim Ringel is a Global CEO at Meet The People. He attended the University of Duisburg-Essen from 1996 to 2001.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, FinTech, Big Data
- Seed, Series A, Series E
- Germany, United States, Sweden
Portfolio highlights
- Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
- yamuntu — yamuntu is the social commerce platform that democratizes the influencer market by making everyone a brand ambassador
- SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Internet, Software
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Brazil
Portfolio highlights
- Magic Spoon — Magic Spoon cereal is high-protein, low-sugar, keto-friendly, and gluten-free. Available in Cocoa, Frosted, Fruity, Blueberry, Peanut Butter, and Cinnamon.
- Everyrealm — Leaders in metaverse innovation and development.
- Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.
Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Apps, B2B
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
- Magnet Capital — Launched in 2017, Magnet Capital is an Australian investment fund focused solely on crypto and digital assets
- Ordermentum — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.
Founder/CEO of ThisData, a login intelligence and contextual authentication platform.
Founder/CEO of Litmos.com, a leading SaaS Learning Management System that was acquired by CallidusCloud (NASDAQ: CALD) in 2011.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
- Seed, Angel
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
- ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
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