Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
Auckland, New Zealand
Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-up and early stage companies.
- Total investments:
- 279
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 16%
- Fund size:
- $318k
- Last fund:
Last updated:
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Industries Icehouse Ventures invests in
Stages Icehouse Ventures invests in
Countries Icehouse Ventures invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
| Name | Phone | Socials | |
|---|---|---|---|
| See all 6 contacts → | |||
Round size
- Seed
- $643k–$4.9M
- Series A
- $2.5M–$20M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $485k–$19M
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 60 (22%)
- Information Technology 25 (9%)
- Artificial Intelligence 25 (9%)
- SaaS 22 (8%)
- Manufacturing 20 (7%)
Stage
- Seed 130 (47%)
- Series A 43 (15%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 22 (8%)
- Pre-Seed 18 (6%)
- Series B 10 (4%)
Country
- New Zealand 166 (59%)
- United States 19 (7%)
- Australia 7 (3%)
- United Kingdom 3 (1%)
- Canada 1 (0%)
Team
| Name | Title | Investments | Links | |
|---|---|---|---|---|
Jack McQuire
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 4 | Find email | |
Barnaby Marshall
Partner
|
Partner | Total investments: 21 | Find email | |
Bex Gidall
Principal
|
Principal | Total investments: 5 | Find email | |
Brooke Roberts
Founder Representative on the Board
|
Founder Representative on the Board | Total investments: 2 | Find email | |
Peter Thomson
Chief Technology Officer
|
Chief Technology Officer | Total investments: 0 | Find email | |
| See all 6 team members → | ||||
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| First Table is a restaurant discovery platform and marketing company. | $7.2M / Series B / Sep 10, 2026 | ||
| Antioch transforms robotics development and validation workflows from hardware-in-the-loop to pure software, seamlessly integrating with existing CI/CD and development workflows. | $32M / Series A / Sep 08, 2026 | ||
| Drumbeat is an online PR and advertising platform that helps startups in building persistent brand awareness. | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 01, 2026 | ||
| Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water. | $19M / Series A / Aug 20, 2026 | ||
| Neocrete is a concrete manufacturing company that is involved in the manufacture of resilient and carbon-neutral concrete. | $3.5M / Venture - Series Unknown / Aug 19, 2026 | ||
| Outlier Space is an aerospace startup that builds a scalable, uncrewed, and reusable satellite platform designed to unlock access to microgravity. The company provides breakthrough infrastructure to safely return orbital payloads back to Earth. This technology allows sectors like pharmaceuticals, biotechnology, and advanced materials to manufactureand research products beyond Earth's atmospheric limits. | $10.5M / Pre-Seed / Jul 29, 2026 | ||
| Hyades is an AI-powered hyperspectral intelligence platform that offers soil and land insights. | $634K / Pre-Seed / Jul 13, 2026 | ||
| Linca is a critical mineral recovery company that focuses on extracting lithium, nickel and cobalt from end-of-life lithium-ion batteries. The company develops and commercialises a proprietary hydrometallurgical process to refine battery black mass into battery-grade metal salts. Linca designs modular, capital-efficient refining facilities intendedfor regional deployment alongside recyclers and industrial partners. Its technology targets onshore refining to support circular supply chains for electric vehicle and energy storage manufacturers. Linca works with automotive and recycling partners to demonstrate closed-loop battery material flows and to increase domestic availability of critical minerals. The company focuses on scaling its refining platform to match the growth of lithium-ion battery waste streams. | $2.9M / Seed / Jul 09, 2026 | ||
| Partly develops digital infrastructure for the automotive parts industry, providing software, APIs, and AI models that support parts identification, procurement, and supply chain operations. Its platform standardizes communication and data exchange among participants in the parts ecosystem, helping businesses integrate parts information into theirexisting systems and workflows. The company offers both developer tools and pre-built applications that can be embedded into enterprise platforms or deployed as standalone solutions. Its products are used by automotive groups, repair businesses, dismantlers, and other organizations to manage inventory, pricing, ordering, and cataloging processes. Partly also develops industry-specific AI models designed to improve the accuracy and efficiency of parts-related operations. | $50M / Series B / Jun 23, 2026 | ||
| Based in New Zealand and the Netherlands, Dawn Aerospace is building same-day reusable launch vehicles and non-toxic satellite propulsion systems.Same-day Reusable Launch Vehicles that do not require specialised space-launch infrastructure, integrate with everyday aircraft in nearby airspace and launch as often and routinely as commercialaviation.Non-toxic high performance propulsion systems for satellites of all sizes. For small satellites, they simplify systems and replace the poisonous and highly-regulated fuel, hydrazine. For CubeSats, they increase capabilities by supplying 1,000x higher performance than electric-based propulsion systems.By building these technologies in tandem, Dawn is creating the end-to-end architecture required for delivering, positioning and returning spacecraft in a highly scalable and environmentally conscious way. | $25M / Series B / Jun 16, 2026 | ||
| See all 279 investments → | |||
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FAQ
What does Icehouse Ventures invest in?
Icehouse Ventures invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 279 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What is Icehouse Ventures's check size?
Icehouse Ventures typically joins rounds of $643k–$4.9M at Seed, $2.5M–$20M at Series A and $485k–$19M at Venture - Series Unknown. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Icehouse Ventures participates in.
How do I contact Icehouse Ventures?
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Who are the partners at Icehouse Ventures?
The team at Icehouse Ventures includes Jack McQuire (Partner), Barnaby Marshall (Partner) and Bex Gidall (Principal), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.
Is Shizune's investor data accurate?
Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Oct 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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