Top 15 Retail Startup Investors in New Zealand (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Trestle Partners
VC Fund
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2 | United States, Singapore, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Series B | SaaS, Software, Retail | $2M–$55M |
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K1W1
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Biotechnology | $419k–$17M |
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New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
VC Fund
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2 | New Zealand, United States, Japan | Seed, Series A, Angel | Software, Biotechnology, SaaS | $400k–$8.8M |
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NewRoad Capital Partners
VC Fund
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1 | United States, New Zealand | Series B, Series A | Software, SaaS, Logistics | $1.7M–$54M |
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EVP
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $942k–$5.4M |
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Melbourne Angels
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, New Zealand | Angel, Seed | Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy | $34k–$1.3M |
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Icehouse Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom | Seed, Series A | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | $593k–$16M |
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Tim Ringel
Angel
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1 | Germany, United States, Sweden | Seed, Series A, Series E | E-Commerce, FinTech, Finance | |
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Savannah Fund
VC Fund
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1 | Kenya, United States, South Africa | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | E-Commerce, FinTech, Software | $25k–$8M |
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Philip McCaw
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed, Pre-Seed | Energy, Retail, Internet | |
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M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund
VC Fund
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1 | United States, Israel, United Kingdom | Series A, Series B, Seed | Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning | $3M–$75M |
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Goat Ventures
VC Fund
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1 | United States, India, Spain | Seed, Pre-Seed | Health Care, Cryptocurrency, Apps | $2.5M–$6.5M |
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Craig Winkler
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | SaaS, Software, Apps | |
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Square Peg Capital
VC Fund
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1 | Australia, United States, Israel | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, SaaS, Information Technology | |
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Matt Rockman
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, United States | Series A, Seed | Mobile, Apps, B2B | |
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We believe the SaaS business model is the most efficient in history. Our team has experience successfully founding, growing and exiting SaaS businesses.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $2M–$5.6M; Series A $10M–$22M; Series B $15M–$55M
- Lead/follow: 50% lead, 50% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $30M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Boostly — Boost your restaurant's outreach with Boostly SMS marketing tool. Drive engagement and increase sales! Click to learn more.
- Marsello — Marsello's customer marketing platform combines marketing automation, email, loyalty programs SMS, customer feedback & more.
- Cargobase — Cargobase TMS is a transportation and freight management system that increases control and visibility & maintains compliance to industry standards. Learn more.
K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 80
- Round size: Seed $437k–$3.5M; Series A $419k–$17M
- Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Appetise — MenuAid is a cheaper, flexible and more sustainable alternative to meal-kit delivery providers. We provide Kiwis with a weekly meal plan, complete with recipes and a list of ingredients that can either be self-shopped or collected/delivered from your favourite supermarkets.
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- Quantifi Photonics — Quantifi Photonics is a critical supplier of photonics test and measurement instruments to the world's leading photonics manufacturers, universities and research organizations.
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, a New Zealand-based private equity fund, manages fund of funds investments and direct co-investments.
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- Industry: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, Japan
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Seed $428k–$1.2M; Angel $400k–$4.3M; Series A $1.4M–$8.8M
- Lead/follow: 6% lead, 94% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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
NewRoad Capital Partners is a growth equity capital firm based in Rogers, AR, that invests in proven and innovative technologies, products, and services that serve existing, unmet needs in the marketplace. NewRoad focuses on investing in and acquiring demand-driven businesses in the Retail and CPG and Business Services industries with an emphasison Supply Chain and Logistics, Consumer Goods, Outdoor Goods, Healthcare Technology, Media and Retail Technology.It was founded in 2013 and headquartered in Rogers, Arkansas.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Logistics
- Stage:Series B, Series A
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 35
- Round size: Series A $1.7M–$20M; Series B $10M–$54M
- Lead/follow: 80% lead, 20% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $90M in 2016
Portfolio highlights
- Shiftboard — Explore shift scheduling software that streamlines workforce & team scheduling, reduces costs, enhances efficiency and boosts employee engagement.
- Platform Science — Experience the power to choose what drives your fleet. Platform Science delivers telematics and fleet management tools on a platform built for transportation.
- Bardavon Health Innovations — We treat people right. Bardavon is on a mission to improve the Workers' Compensation experience and ensure that America's workforce is work ready. I'm a Therapy Provider I'm an Employer I'm a Carrier / TPA I'm an Adjuster / NCM
EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 105
- Round size: Seed $942k–$3M; Series A $1.2M–$5.4M
- Lead/follow: 71% lead, 29% follow
Portfolio highlights
- AutoGrab — Australia's Automotive Intelligence Platform
- Practifi — The leading wealth management CRM purpose-built for advisors, Practifi transforms how financial professionals connect with and grow their client base.
- Smartabase — Centralize your health, medical, and performance data in Teamworks' AMS to gain a holistic view of your athletes and optimize performance.
Melbourne Angels was formed in Melbourne, Australia in early 2007. Melbourne Angels is the leading group of private investors in Victoria who actively invest in early stage and growth technology companies.The group has a strong and experienced core of members that generate deal flow, are experienced in evaluation of business propositions and actas mentors for the other members and the entrepreneurs. The members vary in age, gender, ethnicity, profession and type of experience. All members have experience of success at being entrepreneurial.This award winning group is consistently one of the most active startup investors in the country.
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- Industry: Biotechnology, Information Technology, Energy
- Stage:Angel, Seed
- Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 42
- Round size: Seed $34k–$1.3M; Angel $219k–$918k
- Lead/follow: 52% lead, 48% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Emanda — Emanda App helps business advisory firms and companies determine business value, auto-generate data rooms, set goals, and track progress daily via AI-driven tools.
- Auric Essentials — Auric - The Power of Scent. Revolutionise your well-being with Auric. Discover our state-of-the-art AI-powered AromaSphere diffuser and app, designed to personalise your aromatherapy experience.
- Bitwise Agronomy — Bitwise Agronomy uses AI to analyze crop video footage and provide growers with insights into crop health, growth, and yield potential.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 184
- Round size: Seed $593k–$5M; Series A $2.5M–$16M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
- Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $69M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
- Caruso — AI-native fund administration for private markets. Trusted by 900+ real estate, private credit, and private equity funds to save time, impress investors, and grow AUM.
- OpenStar Technologies — OpenStar Technologies is a renewable energy company that develops fusion reactors for baseload power to the grid.
Tim Ringel is a Global CEO at Meet The People. He attended the University of Duisburg-Essen from 1996 to 2001.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Finance
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series E
- Geography: Germany, United States, Sweden
Investor stats
- Total investments: 14
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
- yamuntu — Get sponsored by brands, save money with your Instagram story and inspire your friends!
- SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.
Savannah Fund is a seed capital fund specializing in US$25,000-US$500,000 investments in early stage high growth technology (web and mobile) startups in sub-Saharan Africa. Initially focused on East Africa, the fund aims to bridge the early stage/angel and venture capital investment gap that currently exists in Africa. The Fund expects toachieve this objective by combining capital with mentor networks both in the region and from Silicon Valley via an accelerator program and a follow-on independent seed fund.The fund is managed by an experienced and technology savvy team that have founded companies or are actively involved in angel investing or having run successful accelerator programs in past but also understand the unique Subsaharan African environment. They are backed and supported by both local, regional and international networks of angels,venture capitalists whose expertise we can draw on to help startups succeed and scale to fully fledged regional or global companies.They believe in the potential for Africa to become a global technology innovator by creating sustainable for profit companies that create jobs and make an impact.
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- Industry: E-Commerce, FinTech, Software
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Kenya, United States, South Africa
Investor stats
- Total investments: 38
- Round size: Seed $25k–$3M; Pre-Seed $200k–$2.1M; Series A $750k–$8M
- Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow
- Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $25M in 2021
Portfolio highlights
- Oze — OZÉ brings African small businesses into the digital era. It is an app that makes it easy for businesses to track sales, expenses, and customer information. The data is analyzed to provide tailored recommendations, reports, and business education. If the entrepreneur needs a little extra support, an OZÉ Coach is just a click away. As they are usingOZÉ to manage their business and learn how to run it better, we are learning about them. Using this data and machine learning, we can predict their credit risk and provide them with affordable capital from our banking partners. With over 20,000 registered users, OZÉ is the largest online community of SMEs in Ghana. The most exciting thing is that OZÉ works; 97% of businesses that have used OZE for at least 9 months are growing or profitable or both!
- Root — Launch digital and embedded insurance solutions with omni-channel distribution.
- Afropolitan — Afropolitan is building a Network State to unleash the maximum potential of Africans around the world. Are you interested? Join us with your email.
Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac
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- Industry: Energy, Retail, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
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.
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Browse database — It's Free!M12 is Microsoft's venture capital fund. We invest in early-stage technology companies disrupting the enterprise.
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- Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed
- Geography: United States, Israel, United Kingdom
Investor stats
- Total investments: 167
- Round size: Seed $3M–$34M; Series A $9M–$50M; Series B $17M–$75M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Kooply — Kooply is a team of proven entrepreneurs building a nextgen gaming platform.
- NeuBird — Hawkeye's agentic AI SRE delivers autonomous incident resolution with 90% faster MTTR. Real-time root cause analysis (RCA) across hybrid and multi-cloud environments.
- Mermaid Chart — Building the next generation of smart diagramming for enterprise teams. Easily create and collaborate on complex diagrams from text.
Goat Ventures is VC firm that invests in technology companies in the USA, New Zealand, and Australia.Goat Ventures' founding partners are exited entrepreneurs turned investors. They have dozens of active (seed, VC stage) and acquired portfolio companies across a variety of industries.
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- Industry: Health Care, Cryptocurrency, Apps
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, Spain
Investor stats
- Total investments: 6
- Round size: Seed $2.5M–$5.5M; Pre-Seed $6.5M–$6.5M
- Lead/follow: 17% lead, 83% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Nestcoin — Nestcoin is a web3 application company that builds, operates, and invests in crypto-native products.
- Defy — Defy : India's first social crypto exchange - Buy, Sell & Trade Crypto instantly and easily with INR at the best prices
- Doorbell Health — Your front door to home health.
Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.
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- Industry: SaaS, Software, Apps
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 18
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Chaser — Automate invoice reminders, get paid faster and maintain great customer relationships. Our users get paid 16+ days sooner and save 15+ hours a week on A/R.
- Myprosperity — An all-in-one client portal with innovative digital tools to increase practice efficiencies, scale client engagement and grow revenue.
- Ignition — Engage clients, get paid and run your business on autopilot with Ignition. Create online proposals & automate client payments, all from one place. Learn more.
Square Peg is a global investment firm on a mission to empower exceptional founders. With investing teams in Sydney, Melbourne, Tel Aviv, and Singapore, Square Peg invests in emerging technology companies across the internet economy.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 148
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Neara — Predictive modeling software for proactive network governance. Quantify and prove network needs in any scenario. Run precise analyses in hours and days instead of months or years in the field.
- Lorikeet — Lorikeet provides AI customer support. Lorikeet offer its customers responsive, personalized, and effective support as table stakes.
- GoodWork.ai — The most powerful analytics AI ever created for the retail sector_
Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.
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- Industry: Mobile, Apps, B2B
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
- Magnet Capital — Launched in 2017, Magnet Capital is an Australian investment fund focused solely on crypto and digital assets
- Ordermentum — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.
Retail Investor funding in New Zealand at a glance
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