# Top 50 Hardware Startup Investors in New Zealand in June 2026 ## K1W1 - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 14 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments. ## Enterprise Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 11 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities. ## Icehouse Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 10 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## Tuhua Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, B2B Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups ## GD1 (Global From Day One) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Punakaiki Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment. ## New Zealand Venture Investment Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, a New Zealand-based private equity fund, manages fund of funds investments and direct co-investments. ## Flying Kiwi Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Apps Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups ## Pacific Channel - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Medical Device, Biotechnology Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future. ## New Zealand Growth Capital Partners - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Medical Device, SaaS The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space. ## Ice Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Video iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors. ## Global from Day One - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Video 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. ## Matū Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Biotechnology, Robotics, Nanotechnology Investing in scalable science and deep tech start-ups in Aotearoa NZ. We operate venture capital funds that invest in science and deep tech through a hands-on, active approach. ## Harald McPike - Type: Angel - Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D - Focus: Software, FinTech, Analytics Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor. ## Digital Asset Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies. ## Peter Beck - Type: Angel - Location: Huntington Beach, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, AgTech, Hardware 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. ## Yamaha Motor - Type: VC Fund - Location: Iwata, Shizuoka, Japan - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Series A, Corporate Round - Focus: Transportation, Software, Robotics Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor. ## Promus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams. ## Movac - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998. ## Endeavour Capital Limited - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series B, Private Equity - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Mobile Trading, Capital, Trusted Advisory, Proven Stewardship ## Flying Kiwis - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device Super-seeded by new entry: Flying Kiwi Angels ## AngelHQ - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS Learn about Angel HQ, Wellington's Angel Investing Network - the meeting place for ambitious startups and passionate investors. ## Blockchain Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications. ## Uniservices - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical Device, SaaS, Audio Auckland University's commercialisation arm ## Alex Rigopulos - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Mobile, Communities, Mobile Apps Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games. ## Jelix Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand. ## University of Auckland Inventors Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Convertible Note - Focus: Therapeutics, Biotechnology, Audio University of Auckland Inventors Fund ## Josh Hannah - Type: Angel - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Josh Hannah ## IP Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Information Technology IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders. ## Booster - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Medical Device Booster is an investment manager, superannuation and default KiwiSaver scheme provider. We offer ethical, New Zealand and specialist investment options. ## Airtree Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier. ## Obayashi Corporation - Type: VC Fund - Location: Burlingame, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Manufacturing, Internet, Artificial Intelligence Obayashi Corporation is a construction contractor that offers building construction, heavy civil construction, engineering, urban development, and real estate management services. The company offers services necessary to build and maintain office buildings, residences, tunnels, highways, rail systems, bridges, artificial islands, airports, andnuclear power plants.The company’s portfolio of services includes contracting of construction works; regional, urban, oceanic, and environmental development of businesses related to construction; engineering and management related to research, surveying, planning, devising, designing, and supervising; housing business; sale, purchase, exchange, lease, brokerage, ownership, caretaking, and utilization of real estate; operation of type II financial instruments and exchange business, investment advisory, and agency business under Financial Instruments and Exchange Law; planning, construction, retention, maintenance, and management of infrastructures such as road, port, water supply and drainage, municipal building, educational and cultural facility, waste treatment facility, medical facility, and others; recovering environmental pollutions such as purification of soil, sediment of river and lake, water-quality of lake and sea; and collection, transportation, treatment, and recycling of municipal and industrial wastes; power generation and supply of electricity and heat; manufacture, supply, sale, and lease of construction machinery and equipment, and materials and equipment for temporary works; manufacture and sale of concrete products for construction, fireproof or nonflammable building materials, materials for interior and exterior of buildings, furniture and wooden products for buildings, and sale of civil engineering and building materials; undertaking of maintenance and care of buildings, related facilities, and security and guard services; acquisition, development, licensing for use, and sale of software, industrial properties, and know-how related to utilization of computers; operation of information processing service, business of information furnishing service, and supply of telecommunication circuits; sale, lease, and maintenance service of electronic office machinery and equipment, including computers; management of health, medical, sport and leisure facilities, hotels and restaurants, and travel agencies; manufacture and sale of medical machinery and tools; operation of temporary personnel placement agency businesses under the Temporary Personnel Placement Agency Act; undertaking of services related to general affairs, personnel affairs, and accounting matters; operation of insurance agencies; production, processing, and sale of agricultural products, and acquisition, development, licensing for use and sale of agriculture-related technologies; money-lending and suretyship on obligations and other financial services; consulting serviced relates; and more.Obayashi Corporation has presence in Japan, North America, Asia, Middle East, Europe, and Oceania. ## Quandefi - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Computer, Software, Artificial Intelligence Quandefi ## Muse Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce Muse Capital is a seed stage fund that focuses on investing in entrepreneurs who are disrupting the consumer space. Since 2016, Muse Capital has operated as a bridge for entrepreneurs between Silicon Valley, the entertainment industry, and the corporate F500 ecosystem. ## Vendetta Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Vendetta Capital has brought together a multi-disciplinary team that has immense experience spanning from investing, portfolio management, and capital markets to marketing and blockchain technology.Vendetta invests in, leads, and helps projects to accelerate developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, andinteroperability for decentralized protocols and applications. ## Wave Digital Assets - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem. ## Raised In Space Enterprises - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Media and Entertainment, Software, Internet A music/tech investment group focused on raising the value of music through technology ## Phil Quist - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Hotel, Hospitality, Information Technology Phil Quist is currently working at Creative Artists Agency and is the Founder of PQ Selects. He is also an Investor at Connect Ventures and a Board Member at Forbes. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Phil attended Southern Methodist University. ## Kiwi II Venture Capital - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Telecommunications, Security, Wireless Kiwi II Venture Capital is a financial organization. ## Horizon Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Altos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series C, Series B - Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Electronics Horizon Ventures is a California based venture capital firm specialized in early- and late-stage investments. ## Delphi Digital - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Delphi Digital is a leading cryptocurrency research firm, providing cutting-edge insights and updates to a community of over 30,000 investors and venture firms. ## Fourth Revolution Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency 4RC is a crypto-native investment platform focused exclusively on digital assets and blockchain technology. Our thesis is centered on the belief that web3 networks will become the digital infrastructure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We invest in tokens & equity with asymmetric upside, provide hands-on support to incubate investments, andgenerate yield on liquid assets to compound appreciation. We’re focused on long-term product-market fit and outsized risk-adjusted return across DeFi, NFTs, Gaming, Media, Metaverse, DAO Tooling, and Blockchain Infrastructure. ## Nasir Jones - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: E-Commerce, Internet, Software 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. ## Sante Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Austin, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C - Focus: Health Care, Medical, Biotechnology Privately Held Companies ## G1 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Investing in a decentralized world ## Brisbane Angels - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Machine Learning Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks. ## Sage Technologies - Type: VC Fund - Location: Kwun Tong, Kowloon, Hong Kong - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Banking, Computer, Internet Founded in 1999, SAGE Technologies (SAGE) is an expert provider of Business Intelligence (BI) solutions who is trusted by clients across various industries. They are the first Asia Pacific GOLD Partner for the BI market leader SAP® BusinessObjects™. They pride ourselves on being our clients' long-term partner. Their value lies in ourcapability of helping clients achieve their specific goals with powerful Business Intelligence (BI) solutions. ## Rowan Simpson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Music, Retail Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group ## Rich Chetwynd - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps 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. ## Chintaka Ranatunga - Type: Angel - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B - Focus: Apps, Software, EdTech Chintaka Ranatunga # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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