# Icehouse Ventures

> Icehouse Ventures is a VC fund in Auckland backing Software and SaaS. See 254 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 254
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 17%
- Fund size: $69M
- Last fund: Oct 2021
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/icehouse-ventures/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/IcehouseVenture
- Website: https://www.icehouseventures.co.nz/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/IcehouseVentures

Icehouse Ventures is a venture capital firm specializing in investments in start-up and early stage companies.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $650k–$4.9M |
| Series A | $2.5M–$19M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 44 | 17% |
| SaaS | 16 | 6% |
| Information Technology | 16 | 6% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 13 | 5% |
| Internet | 11 | 4% |

155 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 85 | 33% |
| Series A | 19 | 7% |
| Funding Round | 15 | 6% |
| Pre-Seed | 9 | 4% |
| Angel | 6 | 2% |

9 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 104 | 41% |
| United States | 13 | 5% |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 1% |
| Australia | 2 | 1% |
| Canada | 1 | 0% |

7 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Jack McQuire | Partner | 3 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-mcquire |
| Barnaby Marshall | Partner | 15 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barnaby-marshall |
| Bex Gidall | Principal | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bex-gidall |
| Brooke Roberts | Founder Representative on the Board | 2 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brooke-roberts |
| Peter Thomson | Chief Technology Officer | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peter-thomson-3 |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Outlier Space | 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 | Hyades is an AI-powered hyperspectral intelligence platform that offers soil and land insights. | $634K | Pre-Seed | Jul 13, 2026 |  |
| Linca | 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 | 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 |  |
| Dawn Aerospace | 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 |  |
| DataMasque | Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| DataMasque | Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise. | $4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| DataMasque | Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise. | $4M | Series A | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| DataMasque | Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise. | $4M | Series A | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Manifest | Shutterspeed is the first fully automated AI powered business management tool designed specifically for creative professionals. It accurately measures time spent on each stage of production without interrupting your flow. Shutterspeed not only enhances productivity but also provides real-time insights into profit margins and performance metrics,empowering you to run a financially successful creative business effortlessly. | $1.4M | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2026 |  |

10 of 254 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Icehouse Ventures invest in?

Icehouse Ventures invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 254 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 $650k–$4.9M at Seed and $2.5M–$19M at Series A. 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 Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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