Top 10 Health Care Angel Investors in New Zealand (September 2026)

Marko retired as CEO of Morrison & Co in 2021 after 13 years of leading the business. He continues to provide guidance for investments in telecommunications and digital infrastructure. His 30 year career has been in the infrastructure and technology sectors in a variety of senior finance, operational and sales roles in the United States and NewZealand. Prior to joining Morrison & Co in 2008, Marko was CFO of Telecom NZ, responsible for corporate finance, M&A and group strategy. Marko is Chair of Vodafone New Zealand.

Investment focus

Industry: Veterinary, Health Care, Biotechnology
Stage:Convertible Note
Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 100% lead, 0% follow

Portfolio highlights

Pictor — PictorDx offers a flexible multiplex proteomics platform that delivers multiple biomarker insights simultaneously and cost-effectively for multiple sample types

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Danny Chan

Investment focus

Industry: EdTech, SaaS, Events
Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 4
Round size: Seed $1M–$2.9M
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!

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Vivek Garipalli was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Clover Health. He attended Emory University.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Medical, Artificial Intelligence
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, India, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 27
Round size: Seed $2.5M–$8.9M; Series A $3M–$22M; Series B $35M–$100M
Lead/follow: 15% lead, 85% follow

Portfolio highlights

Emm — Emm is developing the next generation of consumer health tools to manage your health on your terms. We want to empower everyone to change the quality of their life by inherently understanding their health though technology and specialist knowledge.
Uplift — UpLift wants to create a future in which a main mental health practitioner is the new standard by providing everyone with access to affordable care.
World Class Health — Access top 1% global healthcare with World Class Health. Superior patient experience & reduced employer spend. Explore our Global Benefits today.

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In January, I started another company, Vital Software, with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University. Vital makes software for hospital emergency rooms. This includes a mobile patient check-in for patients, and the fastest, most usable electronic medical records you've seen for doctors and nurses. We use extensive machine learning and naturallanguage processing to determine patient severity and anticipated actions. Our longer term goal is to cut ER wait times in half, as they are often 4-5 hours long. You might not know it, but there are 140M ER visits in the US alone each year.Medical / sales are in the US, while development is all in Auckland New Zealand. My long-time partner Rebecca, an architect, is a Kiwi and I am now a resident of New Zealand as well.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, Estonia, New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 13
Round size: Seed $150k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $520k–$1M; Series A $2M–$4M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

Shen.AI — Discover how Shen AI turns your smartphone into a health companion - no wearables, just powerful, camera-based health insights.
Vital — Intuitive, user friendly, smart hospital software that leverages AI for an optimized patient and clinician experience.
Carbon Health — Carbon Health Provides Smart, hassle-free Primary & Urgent Care. Book same day Adult & Pediatric appointments instantly.

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Rob joined First Round as a Partner in 2006, opening up the firm's San Francisco office. Over the past eight years, he has led investments in companies such as Mint.com (acquired by Intuit), Gnip (acquired by Twitter), Square, Uber, and Planet Labs.Rob invests across categories, with his interests spanning financial tech, the sharingeconomy, meal delivery, and consumer hardware. He is constantly exploring new areas, and enjoys working with founders who push the boundaries of existing markets.Prior to joining First Round, Rob became the first venture investor at Omidyar Network, the investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. While there, he led most of the initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group.Before that, Rob worked at Palm, where he product managed Palm OS during the heyday of Palm products (Palm III, Palm V, Handspring Treo). He also started the company's corporate venture fund and managed the strategic spinoff of PalmSource.Rob lives with his wife and two daughters in San Francisco. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking at home and traveling up and down the California coast with his family and two dogs. He has an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 54
Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Series A $1.6M–$20M; Series B $3.5M–$90M
Lead/follow: 20% lead, 80% follow

Portfolio highlights

Scorbit — Scorbit develops a platform for pinball players and pinball machine owners and operators.
Barndoor AI — Barndoor AI offers a centralized governance layer to manage granular access, policy enforcement, and visibility across agentic AI workforce.
ShareWell — Discover a supportive mental health community with peer-led sessions, expert insights, and helpful resources to guide your healing journey.

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David Ross

Investment focus

Industry: Biopharma, Biotechnology
Stage:Seed
Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Helico — Helico is developing a proprietary computational platform for synthetic biology research using modelling tools and AI-based prediction algorithms. The long-term aim is to develop a seed bank of different drugs able to be licensed to grow medical supplies in confined greenhouses anywhere in the world.

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Anna Mowbray Co-Founder & C.E.O at ZURU Group.

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Software, Health Care
Stage:Pre-Seed, Series B
Geography: New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow

Portfolio highlights

TradeWindow — TradeWindow provides the tools and support for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to begin the journey to digital transformation.
HealthNow — HealthNow provides accessible healthcare services that give you control of your health. Manage how you access care, when you need it.

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Leighton Roberts - Co-founder, Co-CEO and Director @ Sharesies

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Software, Human Resources
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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Human Resources, Venture Capital
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.

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