Top 20 Real Estate Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025
A list of 20 angel investors and VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Real estate startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Real estate companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.Top 20 Real Estate Startup Investors in New Zealand in July 2025
Investor | Real Estate New Zealand investments |
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Icehouse Ventures | 8 |
Craig Donaldson | 2 |
Nick Beale | 2 |
Sparkbox Ventures | 2 |
Punakaiki Fund | 2 |
Phil McCaw | 1 |
Callaghan Innovation | 1 |
James McGee | 1 |
Ice Angels | 1 |
Richard Abbott | 1 |
James Property Group | 1 |
Shadow Ventures | 1 |
K1W1 | 1 |
Sam Morgan | 1 |
Pacific Channel | 1 |
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund | 1 |
M7 Real Estate | 1 |
Angel Association New Zealand | 1 |
Global from Day One | 1 |
Mark Hurley | 1 |
Icehouse Ventures is an early-stage venture capital firm. We exist to back the world's bravest Kiwi founders, launching global companies from New Zealand.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
- Marama Labs — Marama Labs provides an integrated chemical analysis platform that empowers customers to optimize their production processes and match their products and brands to customer needs, with ease.
- Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
Craig has more than 25 years of Financial Market experience in New Zealand and the United States, encompassing business building, restructuring and running a number of market-leading financial businesses, including Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank & RBS. Craig holds a numbers of NZ Board & Advisory Board positions & is the current CEO ofKea NZ. Craig owns an extensive commercial property portfolio.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
- Seed, Convertible Note
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
Nick has more than 25 years commercial property experience. Nick is the Founder and MD of RCP, New Zealand's leading commercial property project management company. RCP have been responsible for managing some of New Zealand's most iconic commercial property developments including Auckland's Sky Tower, Queens Wharf and Vero centre aswell as Christchurch's AMI stadium. Nick owns an strong commercial property portfolio personally and is the Chairman of the Child Cancer Foundation.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
- Seed, Convertible Note
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor
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Investment focus
- Software, Manufacturing, EdTech
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
Portfolio highlights
- Mohiomap — Visualize and navigate your Evernote, Google Drive, and Dropbox content. Mohiomap allows you to explore relationships in a dynamic Mind Map, get valuable insights, and visually organize your Cloud data!
- Booktrack — Booktrack is an A.I Soundtrack company. Booktrack's Artificial Intelligence automatically creates soundtracks for any text or any voice. Backed by investors including Peter Thiel, Booktrack is a disruptive force in the publishing and audio world; equivalent to the introduction of sound transforming the experience of film forever. For moreinformation, visit booktrack.com.
- Aroa Biosurgery Ltd — Aroa Biosurgery is a soft-tissue regeneration company that develops, manufactures, sells and distributes medical and surgical products to improve healing in complex wounds and soft tissue reconstruction. Committed to ‘unlocking regenerative healing for everybody’, Aroa’s products are developed from the Company’s proprietary Endoform® technologyplatform, a novel extracellular matrix biomaterial derived from ovine (sheep) forestomach. The company was founded in February 2008 based on intellectual property relating to the use of a novel form of ECM isolated from forestomach extracellular matrix for use in tissue regeneration applications. Aroa’s focus is delivering better healing, every day, everywhere for everybody. Aroa’s products make a meaningful impact for patients, surgeons and clinicians. Aroa delivers high quality, simple to use products that significantly improve outcomes. Aroa also believes its products should be widely accessible, affordable and change the standard of care for many patients.Maori for ‘understanding’, Aroa is at the forefront of understanding how biology, structural form and human factors can unlock the body’s intrinsic power to heal.
Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Funding Round, Seed, Series B
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Astute Access — Astute is using smart locks and cloud software, our enterprise solutions deliver a robust, scalable access control solution.
- Projectworks — Project Works is a cloud based workforce management platform designed to help professional & creative services businesses better manage their organisations in the areas of project management, project financials, and people management. Our mission is to provide a platform that enables world class services businesses to get the most out of theirexisting workforce, and enable them to grow.
- Quantifi Photonics — The world evolves, and so do we. As optical communication technologies find new applications, our...
Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac
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Investment focus
- Energy, Retail, Internet
- Funding Round, Seed, Pre-Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
- CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
- Flick Electric — Flick Electric Co. is the only power company that gives New Zealanders access to the wholesale price of electricity direct from the spot market. In fact we pass on all of the costs of getting power to your place, without any mark-up – that’s generation, distribution, transmission and metering – so you can relax knowing that you’re not paying a centmore than you need to.And in your personalised online portal we’ll show you exactly how much power you’re using every half hour of every day, and what you’re paying for it, so you are empowered to change how you use electricity to save even more.
Callaghan Innovation is a stand-alone Crown Entity established on 1 February, 2013. Their role hasn’t previously existed in New Zealand.When they succeed, all New Zealanders will benefit from a stronger economy, higher value exports, more productive and sustainable resource use, more jobs and higher incomes.International evidence showsadvanced technology institutes like Callaghan Innovation have been successful at helping businesses build innovation capability that contributes to their growth and the broader economy.
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- AgTech, Construction, Horticulture
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- DNAiTECH — At DNAiTECH we develop innovative portable isothermal amplification instruments for point of care diagnostics, in-field applications, and rapid DNA testing.
- Metrovate — Metrovate is a biotechnology company which enhance global health and sustainability via sophisticated research and development.
- Bontia Bio — Bontia Bio is dedicated to creating natural parasiticides for crop protection and animal health.
James McGee
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Investment focus
- Internet, Lifestyle, Home Services
- Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
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Investment focus
- Software, Mobile Apps, Internet
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- New Zealand, United States, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
- beany.biz — Beany provides online accounting services to New Zealand businesses. Compliance and advisory services, expert support, transparent pricing, and smarter financial insights for your business.
- Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)
Richard Abbott
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Investment focus
- Internet, Lifestyle, Home Services
- Funding Round
- New Zealand
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- Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
James Group is a family owned and operated commercial real estate company.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services
- Convertible Note
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
Shadow Ventures is a thematic venture capital firm that invests in seed stage ConstructionTech and PropTech companies disrupting the built world.
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Investment focus
- Software, Real Estate, Property Management
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, Canada, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Occuspace — Occuspace sensors scan for bluetooth and WiFi signal activity in an area. Scans pick up laptops, cell phones, wearables, and other connected devices.
- Local Logic — Local Logic provides precise location insights that drive decisions for real estate professionals, developers, investors, and governments.
- Spaces — Reinventing concept design for architects with iPad + Pencil. Combining sketching with computational design, and space planning to provide a fast, fluid and flexible approach to conceptual design.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Auror — The platform for retailers focused on improving safety, productivity, and profitability. Auror is used by leading Loss Prevention teams in thousands of stores.
- Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
- Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.
Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which, in 2006, sold for $NZ750 million. Sam also built a successful online dating and friend reuniting businesses in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.Sam is an active investor and philanthropist. Sam's holdings include a number ofother successful web businesses including Visfleet and Sonar6.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Web Hosting
- Seed, Series D, Funding Round
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Goodnest — Goodnest's mission is to make your life easier, starting in your home. We use technology to improve the quality and lower the price of consumer services throughout the APAC region.
- CloudCannon — CloudCannon gives your team an exceptional website editing interface with a robust a flexible developer experience.
Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.
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Investment focus
- Medical Device, Medical, Information Technology
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- PHNXX — PHNXX provides containerised clean and reliable energy solutions for business operations.
- Conry Tech — Conry Tech is a climate tech company, reinventing air-conditioning to decarbonise and improve comfort, founded by renowned HVAC industry revolutionising experts.
- Green Gravity — Green Gravity is an electric power generation company that enables renewable energy transition using energy storage technology.
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Investment focus
- Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- New Zealand, United States, Japan
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- Insite AI — The chosen partner by executives in RGM, insights, and I.T. to grow revenue and market share. Learn how CPGs win in pricing, assortment, trade and more.
- Invert Robotics — Invert Robotics develops robotic NDT inspection technologies for the maintenance of industrial equipment in the food and beverage, pharmaceutical, and oil and gas industries. Invert Robotics highly skilled team of engineers have developed a world leading modular inspection platform suitable for use across a range of industries and applications.
- Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure
Discover more about M7 - one of the leading specialists in the pan-European, regional, multi-tenanted real estate market.
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Investment focus
- Real Estate, Software, Commercial Real Estate
- Seed, Convertible Note, Series A
- United Kingdom, New Zealand
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- IAND — The IAND platform unlocks the value of your supplier ecosystem. Full transparency of your project portfolio & supplier relationships. Real-time insights on risks and opportunities.
- Kamma — Kamma is a world-leading geospatial technology company, building data and SaaS products for the property and financial sectors.
- Unissu — Unissu is your number one source for PropTech data, content and research. It is a place for Property Professionals, PropTechs and Investors to come and gain new information and insights into the ever-growing world of PropTech.At its heart, Unissu's community represents the leading thinkers and influencers in global PropTech. From the verybeginning it was their desire to bring together a thriving community under one virtual roof; a place where they can share interesting updates, ideas and industry knowledge so that they can all benefit and realise the full potential of PropTech.Their range of global partners, all of whom are PropTech leaders in their local regions, ensure they have presence around the world. Please contact us to find out more.
The Angel Association was established in 2008 to bring together the business angel networks and early stage funds to work towards an agreed national vision and to deliver the activities required to achieve this.The Association aims to increase the quantity, quality and success of angel investments in New Zealand and in doing so create a greaterpool of capital for innovative start-up companies.
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Investment focus
- Software, Real Estate, Building Maintenance
- Seed
- New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Frankie — Frankie. The property operations control centre you need for a job done right. Book a free demo.
GD1 is a Venture Capital firm that invests with high conviction in exciting technology companies originating from New Zealand. Our team is passionate about creating and growing global businesses, and our goal is to transform NZ made into the next generation of globally disruptive tech solutions.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Medical Device
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- New Zealand, United States, China
Portfolio highlights
- eVouch — eVouch is the most powerful marketing tool we've used to build an organic community. We've experienced elevated brand trust while reaching an audience we never thought possible. Using customers to market to their friends is simply genius.
- Flowingly — Unlock Team Productivity. Streamline Approvals. Increase Compliance. Easy To Use, No-Code Process Mapping & Workflow Automation Platform.
- Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
Mark Jude Hurley is a New Zealand born entrepreneur, investor and advisor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Jasper, a startup which is democratising access to wealth generating opportunities, starting with commercial real estate. He was previously the Founder and CEO of Little Giant which was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in August 2017 for anundisclosed sum. Hurley is also an active angel investor in companies such as Sharesies and First AML.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, SaaS, Software
- Seed, Series A
- New Zealand, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
- Sharesies — Sharesies allows you to get started investing from just $5.
- Whip Around — Whip Around develops and builds solutions that tackle the paper-based compliance burden for a wide variety of transport companies in the United States and around the world. Effortlessly manage your fleet inspections, compliance, preventative maintenance, work orders, reporting & more! Create powerful checklists for your assets. Have yourdrivers conduct inspections anywhere, anytime via the Whip Around mobile app. Get alerts sent to you immediately, view the reports from the management dashboard and manage faults with ease. Come see why more than 85,000 users globally love Whip Around. Trial Whip Around free for 7 days!
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