# Top 45 Payments Startup Investors in New Zealand in June 2026 ## Blockchain Founders Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications. ## Digital Asset Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies. ## Kindrick Partners - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile Apps, Mobile Payments, Financial Services We're a Singapore-based law firm that help startups and tech companies do business and raise capital in Southeast Asia. Explore our free legal templates. ## Cameron Priest - Type: Angel - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Payments, Software Build and investing in technology companies. Currently building Neu & thecommerce.co Exited TradeGecko.com to Intuit ## We Founder Circle - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Education, Software, Health Care 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 ## Wavemaker Genesis - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem. ## Dovetail Investment Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: Phoenix, Arizona, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: SaaS, Payments, Software DOVETAIL is a private investment firm that makes principle investments using its own capital and capital raised from outside sophisticated investors primarily into commercial real estate assets.We align with seasoned operating partners to strategically place capital, and leverage our expertise to structure the risk away from ourselves and ourinvestors.We invest in exceptional real estate assets, by combining our expertise with the track record of our best-in-class partners, to insulate and grow the wealth of our investor consortium. ## GDP Venture - Type: VC Fund - Location: Jakarta, Jakarta Raya, Indonesia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology, Software GDP Venture is a venture builder focusing on commerce, consumer product, media & entertainment and solution companies ## Blackbird Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions. ## Paloma Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Darlinghurst, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Men's, Billing, Fashion We partner with exceptional founders to transform novel ideas into high-growth companies. ## Muse Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Software, E-Commerce Muse Capital is a seed stage fund that focuses on investing in entrepreneurs who are disrupting the consumer space. Since 2016, Muse Capital has operated as a bridge for entrepreneurs between Silicon Valley, the entertainment industry, and the corporate F500 ecosystem. ## George Gong - Type: Angel - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning George Gong - Managing Partner @ Jubilee Capital Management ## Raised In Space Enterprises - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Music, Mobile, Digital Entertainment A music/tech investment group focused on raising the value of music through technology ## Tuhua Fund - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Internet, B2B Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups ## Altered State Machine - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Computer 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. ## Jubilee Capital Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: FinTech, E-Commerce, Financial Services Jie Yi capital (JubileeTech Fund, referred to JTF) is a former Chinese founder million net Xiangdong founder of a early investment funds."Yi Jie" were taken from the word "CJ" and "Yi", the former parent of the mythology of coinage, which is shot at the legendary hero, both a text of a force, representing the richculture and brave and fierce . Jie Yi as a venture capital investment organization dedicated to finding ambitious entrepreneur with a strong creativity and execution, to explore with the "disruptive" innovation and originality of the technology and business model start-ups, by Jie Yi nationality its advantages of capital, investment and help grow startups, incubators future of the industry, "unicorn", and ultimately benefit the society. ## Zino Fund - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: FinTech, Finance, Payments Zino Fund ## Hykeem Jamaal Carter - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Computer, Software, Blockchain Hykeem Jamaal Carter ## Dialectic - Type: VC Fund - Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Gaming Dialectic combines machine intelligence with crypto-native primitives to build superior financial compounding machines. Agentic DeFi, AI-driven automated yield, and deep-tech venture. ## Tribe Global Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: SaaS, Software, Biometrics A venture capital fund for ambitious Australian & New Zealand B2B technology ventures seeking to expand to the UK or USA. Tribe Global Ventures. ## TCG - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Internet, Health Care TCG is an independent media company. Their focus is on majority and minority investments in growing consumer businesses. Our portfolio includes digital media, commerce, marketplaces, sports, gaming, consumer finance, and health and wellness brands and platforms. ## Primal Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Primal is a global venture capital fund manager that specialises in early-stage and growth investments into Web3 and emerging technology companies. ## AngelHQ - Type: VC Fund - Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics Learn about Angel HQ, Wellington's Angel Investing Network - the meeting place for ambitious startups and passionate investors. ## Phil Quist - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Equity Crowdfunding - Focus: Hotel, Travel, Content 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. ## True Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Founded in 2005, True Ventures is a Silicon Valley-based venture capital firm that invests in early-stage technology startups. With more than $3.8 billion under management, True provides seed and Series A financing to entrepreneurs in some of today's growing markets. With more than 40 team members including special advisors, operationsprofessionals, and founders-turned-investors, True represents one of the largest and most experienced teams dedicated to the ecosystem. The True team believes creativity flourishes when founders are supported fully and empowered to pursue brave ideas. To that end, the True Platform offers programs that inspire professional and personal growth. To date, True has helped more than 350 companies launch and scale their businesses, creating over 85,000 jobs worldwide. True was awarded Venture Firm of the Year by the National Venture Capital Association in 2018. To learn more, visit www.trueventures.com. ## Warner Music Group - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Corporate Round, Pre-Seed - Focus: Music, Digital Entertainment, Media and Entertainment Warner Music Group is a major music company with interests in recorded music, music publishing and artist services ## GD1 (Global From Day One) - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS 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. ## Chris Adelsbach - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures ## Polygon Studios - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software Polygon is the most proven way to build and scale your decentralized application and projects on Ethereum, the world's largest blockchain ecosystem. ## Enjinstarter - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Software Web 3.0 Entertainment, Sports, Fashion, Metaverse, Social, Gamefi & Gamified Utility ## Fourth Revolution Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Santa Monica, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency 4RC is a crypto-native investment platform focused exclusively on digital assets and blockchain technology. Our thesis is centered on the belief that web3 networks will become the digital infrastructure of the Fourth Industrial Revolution. We invest in tokens & equity with asymmetric upside, provide hands-on support to incubate investments, andgenerate yield on liquid assets to compound appreciation. We’re focused on long-term product-market fit and outsized risk-adjusted return across DeFi, NFTs, Gaming, Media, Metaverse, DAO Tooling, and Blockchain Infrastructure. ## Wave Digital Assets - Type: VC Fund - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Wave Digital Assets offers early-stage investment, asset management, treasury management, and strategy consulting to further the growth of the crypto and digital asset ecosystem. ## 6th Man Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software 6th Man Ventures is an early stage crypto VC firm investing in web3 applications & infrastructure6MV was born from a love of web3 in practice and principle, founded and run by a group who both see the potential and actively work to bring projects to life every day. That makes us incredible partners to have on your journey.6th Man Ventureswas established in March 2021 in New York, United States. ## Octopus Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back. ## G1 Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Investing in a decentralized world ## Quandefi - Type: VC Fund - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Computer, Software, Blockchain Quandefi ## Enjin - Type: VC Fund - Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Online Games Enjin offers a suite of integrated products that make non-fungible tokens (NFTs) easy for individuals, businesses, and developers. ## Justin Hamilton - Type: Angel - Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Aerospace, CleanTech, Environmental Engineering Justin Hamilton is Founder, CEO at Clutterbot. ## Seven Peaks Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Bend, Oregon, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions. Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013. ## Flamingo DAO - Type: VC Fund - Location: Sacramento, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Information Technology Flamingo DAO is an NFT-focused DAO that aims to explore emerging investment opportunities for ownable, blockchain-based assets. ## Pathfinder Asset Management - Type: VC Fund - Location: Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Post-IPO Debt - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Medical Pathfinder Asset Management Limited was formed in 2010 and is the evolution of a family office that began 30 years ago. Their focus has always been the stewardship of investment portfolios for high net worth investors who seek strong performance and risk-managed results. ## Vendetta Capital - Type: VC Fund - Location: Mahé, Beau Vallon, Seychelles - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Private Equity - Focus: Blockchain, Gaming, Cryptocurrency Vendetta Capital has brought together a multi-disciplinary team that has immense experience spanning from investing, portfolio management, and capital markets to marketing and blockchain technology.Vendetta invests in, leads, and helps projects to accelerate developing novel solutions to address the core issues of scalability, privacy, andinteroperability for decentralized protocols and applications. ## Icehouse Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology 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. ## Coinbase Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Coinbase Ventures is an investment arm of Coinbase that aims to invest in seed-stage cryptocurrency and blockchain startups. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in San Francisco, California, United States. ## Airtree Ventures - Type: VC Fund - Location: Paddington, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.