Top 15 Media (Entertainment) Angel Investors in New Zealand (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Jonathan Hendriksen
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Maurice Eng
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Jake Paul
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Web3, Internet, Artificial Intelligence | $3.6M–$35M |
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Alex Rigopulos
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Angel | Mobile, Communities, Mobile Apps | $550k–$49M |
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Geoffrey Woo
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series C | Software, Health Care, Wellness | $2.1M–$8.3M |
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Ben Kepes
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $50k–$3M |
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Danny Chan
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Convertible Note | EdTech, SaaS, Events | $918k–$1.7M |
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Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Paul Reeve
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Brendon Burchard
Angel
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1 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | iOS, Internet, Analytics | |
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Yoshihiro Kawamura
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Karl von Randow
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed | Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices | |
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John Greenslade
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Rich Chetwynd
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps | $360k–$1.2M |
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Paul Bingham
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Maurice Eng
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Jake Paul is based out of Puerto Rico and is the Co-Founder of Most Valuable Promotions.
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- Industry: Web3, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $3.6M–$15M; Series A $30M–$35M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- The Interaction Company of California — The proactive AI assistant on Apple Messages, WhatsApp, Telegram, and more. Texts like a human, really knows you, and integrates with your life in dozens of ways.
- Natural — Natural powers agentic payments
- Teleport — Teleport is ridesharing reimagined as a protocol. By distributing ownership and governance of the network, riders get cars cheaper and faster, drivers earn more, and entrepreneurs can innovate on top.
Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.
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- Industry: Mobile, Communities, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Series A $3.2M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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
Geoffrey Woo is the Co-Founder & General Partner of Anti Fund.He attended to the Stanford University.
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- Industry: Software, Health Care, Wellness
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series C
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Round size: Seed $2.1M–$8.3M
- Lead/follow: 14% lead, 86% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Skio — We help Shopify merchants sell subscriptions without ripping their hair out.
- Maximus — Consumer health startup that maximizes masculinity using science and psychology.
- Pack Digital — Pack Digital is a developer tool that helps build e-commerce storefronts. Their front and backend infrastructure consolidates product information and content updates in a central system to manage PWA builds and deployments. Their services include technical consulting and strategic services.
Ben Kepes is a technology evangelist, an investor, a commentator and a business adviser. His business interests include a diverse range of industries from manufacturing to property to technology. As a technology commentator he has a broad presence both in the traditional media and extensively online. Ben covers the convergence of technology,mobile, ubiquity and agility, all enabled by the Cloud. His areas of interest extend to aviation technology, enterprise software, software integration, financial/accounting software, platforms and infrastructure as well as articulating technology simply for everyday users.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $50k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Raygun — Raygun gives you a window into how users are really experiencing your software applications. Detect, diagnose and resolve issues that are affecting end users.
- Cloud 66 — Deploy your applications to any cloud provider or your own servers. No lock-in, full control. From 1 to 1000 servers with Cloud 66's DevOps platform.
- Common Ledger — Common Ledger was born in April 2013 when Drew saw an opportunity arise for a 'common ledger' after developing a solution to translate Point of Sale data into one format. Drew discovered the same data needed to be sent to accounting systems that varied as much as the diverse Point of Sale software. For years Vince was a client responsiblefor campaigns created by the digital media agency where Drew was the technical lead. In this chaotic environment of media agencies and campaigns Drew and Vince managed to build a solid relationship which flourished beyond employment. Thus began the founding Common Ledger team.Later, Brendan a chartered accountant joined Drew and Vince to bring his industry knowledge, number crunching and strategy.Finaly, Carlos Chambers then came aboard wearing the Operations, Legals and Commercials hats and completing the team's fundamental skill-set.The team have since created something many businesses and accountants desperately need, solving a problem they are unable to find a solution to.
Danny Chan
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- Industry: EdTech, SaaS, Events
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $918k–$1.7M
- 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!
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Paul Reeve
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Brendon Burchard is an individual investor at Circle's latest funding round.
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- Industry: iOS, Internet, Analytics
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Circle — Circle is a community platform that brings together the creators' discussions, memberships, and content. The company was founded by Sid Yadav, Rudy Santino, and Andrew Guttormsen.
- VidApp — VidApp makes it easy to build, design and launch your own mobile and tv apps. Connect your current website or channel and build your audience today.
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd
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- Industry: Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- ReciMe — ReciMe is the ultimate cooking app that helps you save, share, and discover new recipes. It was founded in 2020 and is located in Melbourne, Victoria, Australia.
- Melodics — Melodics is an app that adapts to your abilities and musical tastes to help you get better at playing keyboards, pad controllers, and drums
John Greenslade
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
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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- Industry: SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $360k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
Paul Bingham - Chairman @ Shuttlerock
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- Industry: Apps, Video, Facebook
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.
Media (Entertainment) Angel investor funding in New Zealand at a glance
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