# Rowan Simpson

> Rowan Simpson is a seed investor at Hoku Group backing SaaS, Mobile Apps and Music. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Hoku Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoku-group)
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 22%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/rowansimpson
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/rowansimpson
- Website: https://rowansimpson.com/
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/nzrhan

Rowan Simpson is a seed investor at Hoku Group focused on SaaS and Mobile Apps. Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $360k–$1.2M |
| Venture - Series Unknown | $3.2M–$6M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 22% |
| Mobile Apps | 2 | 22% |
| Music | 1 | 11% |
| Retail | 1 | 11% |
| Parking | 1 | 11% |

17 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 33% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 22% |
| Angel | 1 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series A | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| New Zealand | 5 | 56% |
| Australia | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Huckleberry | 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 | 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 |  |
| Lightyears Solar |  | $6M | Venture - Series Unknown | Mar 22, 2024 |  |
| Parkable | 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 |  |
| Parkable | 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 | 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 | 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. | $7.3M | Series C | Jul 31, 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 |  |
| Stickybeak | 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. |  | Angel |  |  |

9 of 9 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
- [Archangel Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/archangel-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Brisbane Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/brisbane-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hoku Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hoku-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Icehouse Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/icehouse-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Hoku Group

VC Fund



1 contacts available at Hoku Group.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Rowan Simpson | Chairman & Trustee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/rowan-simpson |

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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 9 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 Rowan Simpson's check size?

Rowan Simpson typically joins rounds of $360k–$1.2M at Seed and $3.2M–$6M 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 Rowan Simpson participates in.

### When did Rowan Simpson last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Rowan Simpson closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 9 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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