# Rob Vickery

> Rob Vickery is a seed investor at Hillfarrance Venture Capital backing Software and Analytics. See 29 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hillfarrance Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hillfarrance-venture-capital)
- Location: Auckland, New Zealand
- Total investments: 29
- Last investment: Oct 2023
- Lead investor: 41%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rob-vickery-a68a4221

Rob Vickery is a seed investor at Hillfarrance Venture Capital in Auckland focused on Software and Analytics. Rob Vickery is the Founder and Managing Partner of Hillfarrance Venture Capital. He attended the University of Gloucestershire.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 24% |
| Analytics | 7 | 24% |
| Information Technology | 4 | 14% |
| Animation | 3 | 10% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 10% |

51 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 17 | 59% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 10% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 10% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 3% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 10 | 34% |
| United States | 10 | 34% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Space Rock Games | Space Rock Games is a fully-remote game development firm that presently working on debut game and Criminals Within. | $900K | Venture - Series Unknown | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Space Rock Games | Space Rock Games is a fully-remote game development firm that presently working on debut game and Criminals Within. | $900K | Seed | Oct 11, 2023 |  |
| Naut | Naut is an electric propulsion technology company focused on designing and making electric motors for the marine industry. | $917.1K | Seed | Mar 08, 2023 |  |
| Scannable | Safety Equipment Management System | $1.3M | Seed | Dec 16, 2022 |  |
| Octana.io | Octana is a comprehensive solution for Headless Content Management Systems, featuring a world-class headless design system, frontend capabilities, an integration layer, and a robust content authoring experience. It enables the efficient and rapid delivery of high-quality websites on platforms like Contentful. | $902.6K | Pre-Seed | Nov 10, 2022 |  |
| Floating Rock Studio | Floating Rock Studio is an animation platform. They offer services for film, game cinematics, and commercials. Their customers' inquiries are addressed through phone, email, and online applications. | $617.6K | Seed | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Hashbane Interactive | Hashbane Interactive is an entertainment provider that provides services in video games, design, and animation. | $1.2M | Seed | Aug 22, 2022 |  |
| Space Rock Games | Space Rock Games is a fully-remote game development firm that presently working on debut game and Criminals Within. | $650K | Seed | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Space Rock Games | Space Rock Games is a fully-remote game development firm that presently working on debut game and Criminals Within. | $650K | Pre-Seed | Feb 23, 2022 |  |
| Segna | Segna is a platform that aggregates and cleans multiple data sources in under a minute, powered by machine learning. We do the heavy lifting with automated column matching, unit conversions, imputation, duplication handling, and fully managed containerized deployment. Connect, wrangle and monitor data streams with pipelines that don’t break whendata changes.Get analysis-ready data up to 1600 times faster with Segna. | $675.2K | Seed | Nov 26, 2021 |  |

10 of 29 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [New Zealand Growth Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/new-zealand-growth-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 6 deals together
- [Okapi Venture Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/okapi-venture-capital) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Angel Investors Marlborough](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-investors-marlborough) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Array Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/array-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [ATX Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atx-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Hillfarrance Venture Capital

VC Fund

We believe that the greatest challenges facing our world will be solved by audacious Kiwi entrepreneurs, and we are here to help their bold vision to become a reality.With passion, humility and transparency, we exist to serve entrepreneurs with honest advice, an open door to our international network, and investment capital that is fair toFounders.We invest in diverse entrepreneurs who are building sustainable and defensive business models, that democratize new technology, extract unique value from proprietary data and create an unfair market advantage as a result.Hillfarrance is named after the British ancestral village of our Founder - Rob. His family’s door was always open to good people and when they entered, they were treated as family - sitting around the fire for a chat and a cuppa. We may have moved hemispheres, but the values remain the same. Welcome to our whānau.

1 contacts available at Hillfarrance Venture Capital.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rob Vickery | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rob-vickery-2 |

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## FAQ

### What does Rob Vickery invest in?

Rob Vickery invests primarily in Software, Analytics and Information Technology startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 29 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Rob Vickery last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rob Vickery closed in Oct 2023. Shizune tracks 29 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?

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