# Rich Chetwynd

> Rich Chetwynd is a seed investor at Lupchoo backing SaaS, Music and Mobile Apps. See 3 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Lupchoo](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lupchoo)
- Total investments: 3
- Last investment: Sep 2015
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://nz.linkedin.com/in/richchetwynd
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/richchetwynd

Rich Chetwynd is a seed investor at Lupchoo focused on SaaS and Music. 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.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $360k–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 1 | 33% |
| Music | 1 | 33% |
| Mobile Apps | 1 | 33% |
| Cloud Security | 1 | 33% |
| Cyber Security | 1 | 33% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 2 | 67% |
| Angel | 1 | 33% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Melodics | Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches. | $1.2M | Seed | Sep 17, 2015 |  |
| 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. | $1.2M | Angel | Apr 16, 2015 |  |
| 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. | $360K | Seed | Apr 13, 2014 |  |

3 of 3 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Ableton](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ableton) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [K1W1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/k1w1) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Punakaiki Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/punakaiki-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Tuhua Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tuhua-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Lupchoo

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Lupchoo.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rich Chetwynd | Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rich-chetwynd |

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## FAQ

### What does Rich Chetwynd invest in?

Rich Chetwynd invests primarily in SaaS, Music and Mobile Apps startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 3 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 Rich Chetwynd's check size?

Rich Chetwynd typically joins rounds of $360k–$1.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Rich Chetwynd participates in.

### When did Rich Chetwynd last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rich Chetwynd closed in Sep 2015. Shizune tracks 3 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### 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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