Top 5 Payments Angel Investors in New Zealand (June 2026)

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Investment focus

Industry: FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: United Kingdom, United States, Ireland

Investor stats

Total investments: 226
Round size: Seed $120k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $120k–$2M; Series A $4.3M–$20M
Lead/follow: 9% lead, 91% follow

Portfolio highlights

Capsa AI — Providing next-generation investors with a competitive edge.
FinCrime Dynamics — Our mission is to help make the world’s financial system safer through rapid deployment of effective AI for financial crime analytics, enabled by enriched synthetic data that captures the dynamics of fraud and money laundering and loads them into tailor-made scenarios that explore diverse threats that financial organisations are exposed to.Thisgoal has taken us to the forefront of Synthetic Data and Fincrime Analytics, and we are proud to have in our team people that have helped shape the state-of-the-art of these fields.Keywords: Finacial services, AML, Synthetic Data, Fintech, Machine learning, Big data, Simulation, Fraud Analytics, Compliance
Applied Computing — Applied Computing delivers industrial AI to the energy industry including oil and gas, refineries, and petrochemical plants, helping critical operations harness 100% of their data and optimise in real time for safer, faster, higher-performing decisions

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George Gong - Managing Partner @ Jubilee Capital Management

Investment focus

Industry: Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning
Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, New Zealand, Vietnam

Investor stats

Total investments: 7
Lead/follow: 29% lead, 71% follow

Portfolio highlights

GoPeer — GoPeer is a platform that connects K-12 students with vetted college undergraduates for in-person and online tutoring lessons. The company develops a personalized tutoring platform designed to provide convenient, affordable, and highly effective education to all students.It aims to improve the quality and lower the cost of education. This is whyGoPeer offers high-quality 1-to-1 tutoring at 1/3 the national average cost of professional tutoring.GoPeer was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Minitable — Streamline your restaurant waitlist with customizable SMS notifications, 5-minute support response, and real-time guest feedback. Get started in 15 minutes, no hardware needed.
Spark Blockchain Incubator — Spark Blockchain is a Blockchain consulting and incubation service provider in North America with developer relations at its core. Headquartered in Boston, it radiates its influence through NY, LA, SF, and the Bay Area, China, ASEAN, etc. Since its establishment, it has quickly established a leading position in North America's Blockchaincommunity and has established great cooperative relations with top-tier projects and investment funds in China, and the United States.The current clients of Spark Blockchain include not only the top 100 well-known public chains, but also DApps, quantitative teams, media, and Blockchain investment funds.

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Phil Quist is currently working at Creative Artists Agency and is the Founder of PQ Selects. He is also an Investor at Connect Ventures and a Board Member at Forbes. Prior to that, he was an Investment Banking Analyst at Morgan Stanley. Phil attended Southern Methodist University.

Investment focus

Industry: Hotel, Travel, Content
Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
Geography: United States, Germany, New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 5
Round size: Seed $1.1M–$11M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Gumroad — Gumroad is a powerful, but simple, e-commerce platform. We make it easy to earn your first dollar online by selling digital products, memberships and more.
The Plug Drink — The Plug Drink is made with 100% natural ingredients. Bounce-back faster than ever.
Altered State Machine — Altered State Machine, aims to be a platform and protocol which any developer can build on it; can create, own, and compete with AI-based agents (bots) and upgrade and train their AI, buy, and sell them as NFTs. This will bring an evolution for NFTS.

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Nas, byname of Nasir bin Olu Dara Jones, also called Nasty Nas, (born September 14, 1973, Brooklyn, New York, U.S.), American rapper and songwriter who became a dominant voice in 1990s East Coast hip-hop. Nas built a reputation as an expressive chronicler of inner-city street life.Nasir Jones, the son of a jazz musician, grew up in public housingin Queens, New York. He dropped out of school in the eighth grade and searched for a creative outlet, finally settling on hip-hop. His breakthrough came in 1992, when his song “Half Time” (credited to Nasty Nas) appeared on the sound track to the film Zebrahead. Columbia Records soon signed him to a contract. His debut recording as Nas, Illmatic (1994), drew widespread acclaim for its poetic narration of hard-edged inner-city life.The more pop-oriented approach of It Was Written (1996) helped that album reach an even wider audience than its predecessor but ignited a recurring tension in Nas’s career between the appetite of the pop audience and the demands of hip-hop purists. He maintained his commercial appeal with I Am... (1999), although by that time he had also become embroiled in a public feud with fellow rapper Jay-Z over which of the two was the preeminent voice in East Coast hip-hop. The schism inspired Stillmatic (2001), which many fans considered a return to form. The two rappers publicly settled their differences in 2005, and shortly thereafter Nas signed with Def Jam, of which Jay-Z was president at the time.Nas’s penchant for provocation marked Hip Hop Is Dead (2006) and an untitled follow-up (2008), while Life Is Good (2012) struck an introspective tone. He also notably collaborated with reggae musician Damian Marley (the youngest son of Bob Marley) on the album Distant Relatives (2010).Nas also made occasional film appearances, notably in Belly (1998), a crime drama in which he starred opposite rapper DMX, and Black Nativity (2013), an adaptation of Langston Hughes’s gospel play.

Investment focus

Industry: E-Commerce, Internet, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
Geography: United States, Canada, Brazil

Investor stats

Total investments: 64
Round size: Seed $650k–$5.6M; Series A $4M–$60M; Series B $7M–$40M
Lead/follow: 2% lead, 98% follow

Portfolio highlights

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