Top 5 Machine Learning Angel Investors in New Zealand in January 2026
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Machine learning startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Machine learning companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Machine Learning Angel Investors in New Zealand in January 2026
| Investor | Machine Learning New Zealand investments |
|---|---|
| Emlyn Scott | 2 |
| Chris Sang | 2 |
| Harald McPike | 1 |
| Dylan Field | 1 |
| Josh Hannah | 1 |
Emlyn has spent more than 30 years navigating the complex landscapes of finance, financial markets and technology as a founder, public company CEO, angel investor, VC investor and fund manager. He's had the opportunity to make over 70 venture capital investments in innovative companies like Nutromics, DataRobot, Calm App, Cerebras Systems,Skylark Labs, Zainar, and Kami, and a similar number personally as an angel. He is a founder of OpenMarkets Group, one of Australia's largest online brokers. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s second largest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees:
- Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA)
- Masters Business Administration (MBA)
- Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI)
- Bachelor of Economics (BEc)
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
- Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
- Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, SaaS
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
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- Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
- Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
- Bloodstock Advantage — Stealth
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
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- 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.
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- Health Data Analytics Institute — Transformative healthcare data analytics and predictive tools designed to enhance patient care and optimize resource allocation.
Dylan Field is the CEO and co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams that build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA, Evan Wallace. They built Figma on the web in the hopes of breaking down the barriers around the siloed design process.Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tools must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Huxe — Huxe enables users to explore subjects in depth by automatically generating podcasts featuring multiple AI hosts who discuss, analyze, and clarify key points on any chosen topic.
- PlayerZero — PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data.
- Revel — Software for our most daring hardware endeavours.
Josh Hannah
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- United States, Singapore, Norway
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- Formus — 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.
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