Top 15 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in New Zealand in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Mobile apps startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Mobile apps companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Mobile Apps Angel Investors in New Zealand in January 2026
| Investor | Mobile Apps New Zealand investments |
|---|---|
| Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
| Maurice Eng | 2 |
| Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON | 2 |
| Jonathan Hendriksen | 2 |
| Boon Hwee Koh | 1 |
| Yoshihiro Kawamura | 1 |
| Paul Bingham | 1 |
| Rich Chetwynd | 1 |
| John Greenslade | 1 |
| Rowan Simpson | 1 |
| Karl von Randow | 1 |
| Alfonso Villanueva | 1 |
| Ben Kepes | 1 |
| Ross Veitch | 1 |
| Paul Reeve | 1 |
Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.
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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
Maurice Eng
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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.
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON
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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.
Jonathan Hendriksen - Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock
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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.
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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Investment focus
- Software, Financial Services, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Singapore, United States, China
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- 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.
Yoshihiro Kawamura - Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED
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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.
Paul Bingham - Chairman @ Shuttlerock
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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.
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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.
John Greenslade
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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.
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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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.
Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd
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Investment focus
- Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
- Seed
- New Zealand
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)
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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
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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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
- Seed, Angel, Funding Round
- United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom
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- 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 —
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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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.
Paul Reeve
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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.
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