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Top 20 Mobile Angel Investors in New Zealand in January 2026

Last updated: Jan 2026 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Mobile startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Mobile Angel Investors in New Zealand in January 2026

Investor	Mobile New Zealand investments
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON	2
Alex Rigopulos	2
Jonathan Hendriksen	2
Maurice Eng	2
John Greenslade	1
Ben Styles	1
Paul Reeve	1
Rich Chetwynd	1
Hamish Edwards	1
Rowan Simpson	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Karl von Randow	1
Rod Drury	1
Thomas Larthe	1
Alfonso Villanueva	1
Paul Williams	1
Paul Bingham	1
Paula Jackson	1
Yoshihiro Kawamura	1
Ross Veitch	1

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Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.

Investment focus

Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
Seed, Series A, Angel
United States, New Zealand

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

Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Maurice Eng

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

John Greenslade

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.

Paul Reeve

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

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.

Investment focus

SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel
New Zealand

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.

Hamish Edwards is a co-founder and the CEO of Edwards holds a bachelor’s degreein accounting and marketing from Otago University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.

Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group

Investment focus

SaaS, Music, Parking
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
Parkable — Parkable is award winning software for managing employee and tenant parking, finding short-term or monthly public parking and sharing space to earn money.
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.

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.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Singapore, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Faarms — FAARMS is a new age digital platform catering to the needs of farmers.
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.

Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd

Investment focus

Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
Seed
New Zealand

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.

Rod Drury is the founder and director at Xero.He attended Victoria University of Wellington.

Investment focus

Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.

Thomas Larthe

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Energy
Initial Coin Offering, Seed
India, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Emrod — EMROD is pioneering commercially viable long-range wireless power transfer technology. Our system transmits large amounts of energy safely and without wires.
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.

Biography: Currently... * Business Angel * PayPal Executive * Board Member Europ-Assistance * Founder Peranakan S.L. Formerly... * McKinsey Director (Senior Partner) * Chief innovation Officer (SingTel) * Chairman Innoventures (JV SoftBank / SingTel)

Investment focus

Apps, Health Care, Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Spain, Australia

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

Paul Williams

Investment focus

Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
Series A
New Zealand

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

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Paula Jackson

Investment focus

Mobile, Web Design, Product Design
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.

Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

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.

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, E-Commerce
Seed
Singapore, Thailand, United States

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.

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