Rowan Simpson
Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
New Zealand
Rowan Simpson is a seed investor at Hoku Group in New Zealand focused on SaaS and Mobile Apps. Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
- Total investments:
- 10
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 20%
Last updated:
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Industries Rowan Simpson invests in
Stages Rowan Simpson invests in
Countries Rowan Simpson invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $360k–$2.2M
- Venture - Series Unknown
- $3.2M–$6M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 2 (20%)
- Mobile Apps 2 (20%)
- Music 1 (10%)
- Retail 1 (10%)
- Finance 1 (10%)
Stage
- Seed 4 (40%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (20%)
- Angel 1 (10%)
- Pre-Seed 1 (10%)
- Series A 1 (10%)
Country
- New Zealand 6 (60%)
- Australia 1 (10%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Sterling operates an artificial intelligence platform designed to automate back-office operations for financial and accounting teams. The software deploys deterministic AI agents that execute repetitive tasks like accounts payable, accounts receivable, compliance checks, and bank reconciliations directly inside existing enterprise applications. Byfunctioning as a background virtual assistant, its value proposition centers on eliminating administrative bottlenecks while maintaining strict human-in-the-loop oversight and enterprise-grade audit standards. | $2.2M / Seed / Aug 13, 2026 | ||
| Huckleberry uses AI to package and deliver feedback directly to people in a way that's only helpful. | $1.2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 30, 2025 | ||
| Stickybeak is a consumer testing company that operates in the education industry. It offers a solution built by market researchers, marketing and comms experts, and tech leaders. The company's services are designed to provide market research and insights. Stickybeak's team is composed of professionals from various fields, includingresearch, marketing, and technology. The businesses use the company's solution to gain insights into their market and make informed decisions. It specializes in influencer, message, and packaging testing services. | $1.2M / Seed / Sep 20, 2024 | ||
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Lightyears Solar
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$6M / Venture - Series Unknown / Mar 22, 2024 | ||
| Parkable is a sharing economy platform for car parking that allows companies and individuals to rent out their empty parking bays and provides staff parking management solutions for enterprises and small businesses. | $3.2M / Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 06, 2021 | ||
| Stickybeak is a consumer testing company that operates in the education industry. It offers a solution built by market researchers, marketing and comms experts, and tech leaders. The company's services are designed to provide market research and insights. Stickybeak's team is composed of professionals from various fields, includingresearch, marketing, and technology. The businesses use the company's solution to gain insights into their market and make informed decisions. It specializes in influencer, message, and packaging testing services. | $555K / Angel / Oct 13, 2020 | ||
| Parkable is a sharing economy platform for car parking that allows companies and individuals to rent out their empty parking bays and provides staff parking management solutions for enterprises and small businesses. | $2.9M / Series A / Aug 30, 2019 | ||
| 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 | ||
| Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure. | $8M / Series C / Jul 31, 2015 | ||
| 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 |
Co-Investors
About Hoku Group
Hoku Group Contacts
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Rowan Simpson
Chairman & Trustee
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Sacha Judd
Managing Director
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FAQ
What does Rowan Simpson invest in?
Rowan Simpson invests primarily in SaaS, Mobile Apps and Music startups, most often at Seed and Venture - Series Unknown stage. Most of the 10 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in New Zealand. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Rowan Simpson invest in?
Rowan Simpson typically joins rounds of $360k–$2.2M at Seed and $3.2M–$6M at Venture - Series Unknown. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Rowan Simpson's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Rowan Simpson took part in.
How do I contact Rowan Simpson?
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When did Rowan Simpson last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Rowan Simpson closed in Aug 2026. Shizune tracks 10 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 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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