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Top 35 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in New Zealand in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 35 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds 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 35 Mobile Apps Startup Investors in New Zealand in May 2025

Investor	Mobile Apps New Zealand investments
K1W1	5
Ice Angels	3
Enterprise Angels	3
Maurice Eng	2
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON	2
Jonathan Hendriksen	2
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund	2
Icehouse Ventures	2
Tuhua Fund	2
Flying Kiwi Angels	2
Alex Rigopulos	2
Marbruck	1
Alfonso Villanueva	1
We Founder Circle	1
Yoshihiro Kawamura	1
Ableton	1
GD1	1
Punakaiki Fund	1
Karl von Randow	1
Kindrick Partners	1
AngelHQ	1
Woodward Partners	1
Paul Reeve	1
Ross Veitch	1
TJK NZ LIMITED	1
John Greenslade	1
Hillfarrance Venture Capital	1
Hatcher+	1
Rowan Simpson	1
MDI Ventures	1
Trade Me	1
Paul Bingham	1
Gunung Sewu Group	1
Boon Hwee Koh	1
Rich Chetwynd	1

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K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.

Investment focus

Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
Seed, Angel, Series A
New Zealand, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
beany.biz — Beany provides expert online accounting services to New Zealand businesses. Comprehensive compliance and advisory services, expert support, transparent pricing, and smarter financial insights for your business.
Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)

Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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.

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.

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.

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
New Zealand, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
Crimson Education — Crimson Education is the world's leading higher educational consultancy helping students around the world gain admission into leading US and UK universities by up to 400%!

Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups

Investment focus

Software, Internet, B2B
Seed, Series A, Angel
New Zealand, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Apps
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

FileInvite — The simplest, most secure, document collection platform for professionals. Request files, forms, data and e-signatures all through a secure client portal.
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.
Kara Technologies — Content accessibility using a signing avatar. Accessible solutions are at the core of all that we do here at Kara. One of our main goals is finding smarter ways of using technology that will help build a better future for everyone, in all areas of life.

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

Marbruck is an open-ended venture capital group. Marbruck sources, invests, and provides ongoing guidance to early / growth stage technology companies. With no outside capital, Marbruck actively manages a diverse global portfolio of 30+ companies spanning Seed through to pre-listing. Marbruck leverages its intellectual capital, its network ofpartner investors, and its deep operational experience, to successfully navigate the highest-risk, highest-reward spectrum of investing.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Funding Round, Series A, Series B
United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Mutinex — Discover how Mutinex helps businesses optimize marketing decisions with data-driven insights and AI-powered solutions.
Sitemate — Sitemate builds user friendly software which thousands of industrial companies use every day to streamline their paperwork and processes.
Sidecar Health — Get flexible, affordable health insurance with Sidecar Health. Choose your provider, see costs upfront, and save on care with our innovative approach.

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

WeFounderCircle - Seed Fund by founders, for founders. Backed by a community of successful founders & strategic angels, we help raise seed funding of $100K-$150K to early-stage founders

Investment focus

Education, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
India, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Oben Electric — Oben EV is an electric vehicle company developing new electric 2-wheelers in-house with indigenously developed components to deliver high quality products for the Indian market & founded by IIT Kharagpur & IIM Bangalore Alumni.Oben’s vision is to use technology as a tool to become the market leader by developing reliable, performanceoriented, and connected electric 2-wheelers with world class designs for the customers.
Crib — Crib is building India's first digital ecosystem aimed at redefining how landlords operate, tenants stay and market sells.
Supplynote — End-to-end supply chain management tool to track inventory, orders, payments and suppliers online

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.

Ableton makes software and hardware for creating, producing, and performing music. Ableton's flagship product, Live, has introduced a new approach to making music with computers on stage and in the studio that has attracted several hundred thousand Live worldwide.

Investment focus

Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.

GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
New Zealand, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

EarnOS — EarnOS is the fully remote company that provides Global Ad & Payments Platform powered by Web3.
Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
Ivo — Ivo reduces the time, effort, and cost of negotiating agreements.

Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

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.
Whip Around — Whip Around develops and builds solutions that tackle the paper-based compliance burden for a wide variety of transport companies in the United States and around the world. Effortlessly manage your fleet inspections, compliance, preventative maintenance, work orders, reporting & more! Create powerful checklists for your assets. Have yourdrivers conduct inspections anywhere, anytime via the Whip Around mobile app. Get alerts sent to you immediately, view the reports from the management dashboard and manage faults with ease. Come see why more than 85,000 users globally love Whip Around. Trial Whip Around free for 7 days!
projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.

Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd

Investment focus

Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

ReciMe — The #1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, YouTube, Facebook & more!
Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.

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Investment focus

Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments, Financial Services
Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Dosh — Pay and get paid instantly, anytime, anywhere. Dosh is the app for paying & getting paid back by friends, shopping in stores and earning rewards.

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Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
New Zealand, United States, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.

Woodward Partners is an independent, New Zealand owned, Institutional Sharebroking and Corporate Advisory firm based in Wellington.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
Funding Round
New Zealand

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.

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.

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.

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.

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.

We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.

Investment focus

Animation, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio

Hatcher+ is a data-driven venture capital firm that uses AI and machine learning-based technologies to identify early-stage opportunities in partnership with leading accelerators and investors, worldwide.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
United States, Italy, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Cropify — Eliminating subjective testing from the classification process using AI and machine learning. Cropify.io
Flint — Introducing a new battery technology designed for sustainable energy solutions. Explore our innovation and its impact on the future of energy.
Cellivate Technology — Startup, with proprietary platform technologies and products that enable cellular meat companies to accelerate the growth of cells

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.

MDI is a corporate venture capital initiative by Telkom Indonesia and is set as an independent entity with its own funding processes. MDI uniquely combines a VC model with service in providing companies with access to operational help after making a financial investment.MDI works closely with global accelerators and venture firms to bringproprietary technology from other mature markets into various businesses of Telkom Indonesia.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Financial Services
Series B, Seed, Series A
Indonesia, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Deskera — All In One Business Software with Accounting, Inventory, CRM, Payroll and HRMS.
DayaTani — DayaTani supplies farmers with comprehensive services to increase their productivity.
Good Doctor Technology Indonesia — Layanan kesehatan dalam satu genggaman. Tanya dokter dengan konsultasi lewat chat, beli obat online, dan baca info kesehatan terbaru.

Trade Me Group is an online marketplace and classified advertising platform in New Zealand.This includes auctions and fixed-priced sales for new and used goods, with automotive, real estate and employment businesses.They also have web businesses specialising in accommodation and online dating. On top of that, we sell advertising across ourportfolio of websites.

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Mobile Apps
Funding Round
New Zealand

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.

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.

Over the years Gunung Sewu Group has thrived through visionary leadership recognizing unique growth opportunities, forecasting the evolution of new markets and consistently investing in and strengthening our core businesses.

Investment focus

Internet, Information Technology, E-Commerce
Series A, Seed, Series B
Indonesia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Segari — Segari operates as an online grocery company that offers fresh food products. The company was founded in 2020 and is headquartered in Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia.
PrivyID — Privy for Personal provides secure, fast, and easy digital identity and signature solutions for all individuals.
HarukaEdu — PT Haruka Edukasi Utama or HarukaEdu is a company that provides a turn-key solution to enable universities to offer quality online education with minimum investments and risk. Our vision is to provide a brighter future for Indonesians through affordable, quality online degrees and education

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.

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.

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