Top 25 Mobile Angel Investors in New Zealand (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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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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Rodney Drury
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | Solar, Energy, Mobile | |
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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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Maurice Eng
Angel
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2 | New Zealand | Seed, Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Rowan Simpson
Angel
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2 | New Zealand, Australia | Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel | SaaS, Mobile Apps, Music | $360k–$6M |
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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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Liz Greive
Angel
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1 | Seed | |||
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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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Boon Hwee Koh
Angel
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1 | Singapore, United States, China | Seed, Series A, Series B | FinTech, Software, Financial Services | $399k–$40M |
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Paula Jackson
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Mobile, Web Design, Product Design | |
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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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Thomas Larthe
Angel
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1 | India, Canada, Australia | Initial Coin Offering, Seed | Blockchain, Energy, Internet | $1.8M–$40M |
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Ben Styles
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Mobile, Web Design, Product Design | |
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Ross Veitch
Angel
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1 | Singapore, Thailand, United States | Seed | Internet, Real Estate, Rental | $500k–$1.1M |
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John Greenslade
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | 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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Paul Williams
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Mobile, Web Design, Product Design | |
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Paul Bingham
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Hamish Edwards
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Mobile, Web Design, Product Design | |
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Alistair Grigg
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Mobile, Web Design, Product Design | |
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Alfonso Villanueva
Angel
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1 | United States, Spain, Australia | Seed, Series A | Apps, E-Commerce, Health Care | $658k–$14M |
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J. Stein
Angel
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1 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS | $1.1M–$110M |
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Yoshihiro Kawamura
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A | Apps, Video, Facebook | |
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Ben Kepes
Angel
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1 | United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom | Seed, Angel | Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software | $50k–$3M |
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Karl von Randow
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed | Mobile Apps, B2C, Music | $1M–$1.2M |
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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
Rodney Kenneth Drury is based out of Queenstown, Canterbury and is the Founder of Xero. Rodney previously worked at NZX as a Director. Rodney Kenneth Drury attended the Victoria University of Wellington. Rodney Kenneth Drury has received New Zealander or the Year, New Zealand Business Hall of Fame 2025 award in their career.
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- Industry: Solar, Energy, Mobile
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
- Pacific Fibre — Fibre optic cable between Australia, NZ and USA
- Lodestone Energy — Lodestone Energy builds and develops sustainable power production farms through solar energy market. It is based in Auckland, New Zealand.
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.
Maurice Eng
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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.
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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- Industry: SaaS, Mobile Apps, Music
- Stage:Seed, Venture - Series Unknown, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $360k–$1.2M; Venture - Series Unknown $3.2M–$6M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Parkable — Car park management software that runs staff, tenant and visitor parking for you - from a single workplace to an entire property portfolio.
- Stickybeak — Stickybeak is a consumer testing company that operates in the education industry. It offers a solution built by market researchers, marketing and comms experts, and tech leaders. The company's services are designed to provide market research and insights. Stickybeak's team is composed of professionals from various fields, includingresearch, marketing, and technology. The businesses use the company's solution to gain insights into their market and make informed decisions. It specializes in influencer, message, and packaging testing services.
- Huckleberry — Build your professional reputation with AI-powered 360 feedback from colleagues. Huckleberry helps people develop their career and businesses to develop their teams.
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.
Liz Greive is the Founder of Share My Super. She is a social worker in England.
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- Stage:Seed
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Stickybeak — Stickybeak is a consumer testing company that operates in the education industry. It offers a solution built by market researchers, marketing and comms experts, and tech leaders. The company's services are designed to provide market research and insights. Stickybeak's team is composed of professionals from various fields, includingresearch, marketing, and technology. The businesses use the company's solution to gain insights into their market and make informed decisions. It specializes in influencer, message, and packaging testing services.
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.
Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.
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- Industry: FinTech, Software, Financial Services
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Singapore, United States, China
Investor stats
- Total investments: 47
- Round size: Seed $399k–$5M; Series A $704k–$20M; Series B $8.8M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 13% lead, 87% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Yolk.fm — Yolk.fm is a social platform that allows users to chat rather than send text messages.
- Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
- Lyte Ventures — Built for creators, designed for the future of work. We do the hustling so that you can focus more on what matters to you.
Paula Jackson is a Non-Executive Director at Mercer NZ Limited.
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- Industry: Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
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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.
Thomas Larthe
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- Industry: Blockchain, Energy, Internet
- Stage:Initial Coin Offering, Seed
- Geography: India, Canada, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Initial Coin Offering $1.8M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emrod — Emrod is opening up the world’s access to power by using tele-energy technology to transmit energy wirelessly over many kilometres/miles.
- 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.
Ben leads a regional team at Xero that has established new digital customer experiences by working with the financial services industry on customer controlled two-way data share. In the process Xero has established new commercial standards for the industry globally.Driven by a desire to make new ideas a commercial reality, Ben has held leadershiproles in digital innovation, product management, and customer strategy across wholesale banking, business banking, and retail financial services.
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- Industry: Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
Ross is CEO & Co-Founder at Wego, an online travel marketplace (aka travel metasearch) operating across APAC and MENA backed by top-tier investors including Tiger Global, Crescent Group, Square Peg Capital, MNC Group and MEVP. Ross is a veteran of the Asian internet industry having established Yahoo!s Southeast Asian operations in Singaporeback in 1998 and leading product development efforts across the region for 6+ years. He is also Singapore Co-Chair of H2, the premier global leadership network for the digital industry. Ross has been an active angel investor in the technology sector for a decade and enjoys working with other passionate entrepreneurs. He has worked in Sydney, Melbourne, London, Kuala Lumpur and is now splits his time between Singapore and Dubai. He travels frequently for business but not nearly enough for leisure.
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- Industry: Internet, Real Estate, Rental
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Singapore, Thailand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $500k–$1.1M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is a proptech startup that builds an end-to-end rental and sale platform for owners, agents, buyers, and tenants. The startup is connecting over 1,800 agents and agencies with buyers, renters, and owners, servicing thousands of satisfied customers every month. PropertyScout leverages its database of more than 200,000 properties, itstechnology platform, and its centralized operations to digitize and automate 90% of the real estate transaction. This frees up agents’ time to professionally and efficiently communicate with buyers, renters, owners and co-agents to deliver outstanding service and close transactions faster. Providing a transparent and trusted experience, PropertyScout has quickly become the favorite go-to place for buying, selling, and renting real estate in Thailand, as proven by hundreds of five-star reviews.
- Light — Light is a radically different technology company. We design beautiful tools that respect and empower our users and our first product is The Light Phone.
- PropertyScout — PropertyScout is building a real estate transaction platform enabling a trusted renting, buying, and selling experience. Our mission is to enable consumers (tenants or buyers) to find the most suitable home at the best available price and help owners to earn more, effortlessly by employing the latest technologies and eliminating hassles involvedin renting processes.Founded in 2019, we are venture-funded and now expanding quickly in Bangkok with plans to further expand across South East Asia.
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.
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.
Paul Williams
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- Industry: Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
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.
Hamish Edwards is based out of Wellington and is the Co-Founder and Executive Chairman of Firmcheck. He attended the University of Otago.
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- Industry: Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
Alistair Grigg
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- Industry: Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
- Stage:Series A
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
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- Industry: Apps, E-Commerce, Health Care
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: United States, Spain, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 16
- Round size: Seed $658k–$2.7M; Series A $6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- agentero — Agentero is the agency network that gives independent insurance agents carrier access and easy to use technology to modernize their agencies.
- Postr — Postr is an Android app that brings personalised and rewarding content to users. The app brings customised content feeds (including NZ Herald, GrabOne and MetService) and personalised advertisement with engagement mechanisms to user's lock screens and rewards users with Pocket Money (for hosting ads), which can be cashed out to their bankaccount, exchanged for deals or donated to charity.
- Peranakan S.L. — Development and management of Luxury Real Estate
J Zac Stein is based out of San Francisco, California and is the co-founder of Span. J Zac Stein attended the Harvard University.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 7
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$3.8M; Series B $24M–$110M
- Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow
Portfolio highlights
- VXT — Automate, integrate, and accelerate. Get more from your phone calls for less. VXT Call is a simple, mobile and powerful system.
- Parabola — Parabola is your toolkit for faster, smarter work. Automate any manual task you usually do in a spreadsheet.
- Outset — Get the depth of qualitative interviews at the speed and scale of a survey with the power of AI-moderated research. Make better, faster decisions for your business.
Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED
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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.
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.
Karl von Randow is a Co-Founder at Letterboxd. He attended The University of Auckland.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, B2C, Music
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ReciMe — ReciMe is the #1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest & more. Its free to use and easy to try.
- Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
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