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Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in New Zealand

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 50 angel investors and VC funds that invest in Saas startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Saas companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 SaaS Startup Investors in New Zealand

Investor	SaaS New Zealand investments
Icehouse Ventures	59
Enterprise Angels	31
K1W1	28
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund	14
GD1	11
Movac	10
Flying Kiwi Angels	10
Blackbird Ventures	10
Hillfarrance Venture Capital	8
Punakaiki Fund	7
AfterWork Ventures	6
Sparkbox Ventures	6
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners	6
Airtree Ventures	6
Global from Day One	6
Pacific Channel	5
CP Ventures	5
Ice Angels	5
Founders Fund	4
Chris Sang	4
Phil McCaw	4
Shasta Ventures	4
Tuhua Fund	4
AngelHQ	3
Peter Beck	3
Reinventure	3
Square Peg Capital	3
Rich Chetwynd	3
Melbourne Angels	3
Flying Fox Ventures	3
Chintaka Ranatunga	3
EVP	3
Endeavour Capital Limited	3
Nicole Fougere	2
Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON	2
Carthona Capital	2
Bessemer Venture Partners	2
Dylan Field	2
Tidal Ventures	2
Harald McPike	2
Jelix Ventures	2
Insight Partners	2
Maurice Eng	2
Emlyn Scott	2
NAB Ventures	2
Five V Capital	2
Valar Ventures	2
Threshold	2
Advent International	2
Folklore Ventures	2

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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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

ANDFOODS — ANDFOODS is a supplier of dairy substitutes to make sure each item is delicious and environmentally friendly.
Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
Ideally — Remarkably affordable, fast, robust and accessible research to inform and develop your ideas, concepts and products. Join us on our mission to make consumer testing a place ideas go to grow.

Connecting startup business owners with angel investors to raise capital . Access a network of expertise and investment opportunities.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Funding Round, Seed, Angel
New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
Zenno Astronautics — Zenno Astronautics hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

K1W1 provides startups and businesses in New Zealand with early and later-stage venture investments.

Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Akahu — Akahu provides open banking and open finance infrastructure. We make it simple for people to connect their financial accounts to trusted third parties.
Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.

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Investment focus

Software, Biotechnology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Angel
New Zealand, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
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

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand, United States, China

Portfolio highlights

Caruso — We're helping fund managers break free from expensive, clunky, legacy systems and empowering them with modern tools to help them grow and thrive. With Caruso, you can manage all your fund operations effortlessly in one place - onboard investors, complete AML / KYC, raise capital, issue distributions, complete secondary sales, andeverything in between.
StretchSense — The StretchSense hand motion capture solution brings together accurate and comfortable gloves, and machine learning to detect and render perfect hand poses. - StretchSense
Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.

Movac is New Zealand's most experienced technology investor and is deeply integrated into the Kiwi tech sector. We've been actively investing since 1998.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Enterprise Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kry10 — Kry10 is a safe operating system for SDMs.It makes the transition to an intelligent, cloud-connected, and adaptively driven future possible for automobiles, electricity grids, satellites, and medical equipment.
LawVu — Our all-in-one connected platform enables your legal team to manage all matters, contracts and legal operations. Book your free demo now.
Miruku — Miruku is a molecular farming dairy startup developing advanced dairy proteins through plant technologies that hold the potential to produce animal-free milk proteins cost-effectively.

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Internet
Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

FileInvite — The simplest, most secure, document collection platform for professionals. Request files, forms, data and e-signatures all through a secure client portal.
Formus Labs — 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.
Well Revolution — Online doctors, prescriptions, advice & treatment in NZ. Chat privately with a GP at the touch of a button for same-day consults & pharmacy prescriptions.

Blackbird is a venture capital fund based in Australia and New Zealand. We invest in every type of technology from software to space, unified by the biggest of ambitions.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
Tracksuit — Tracksuit has created beautiful, always-on, and radically affordable brand tracking for modern consumer brands. Brand marketers and leaders at consumer brands have access to enterprise-tier brand tracking, specifically built for them, at a price point that works. Teams can easily track awareness, consideration, preference and brand associationsfrom real humans within the wider market, and compare results against competitors.
Gilmour Space Technologies — Gilmour Space is a rocket company in Australia that is developing and launching low-cost small satellite launch vehicles. All orbits, all planets: https://www.gspacetech.com

We exist to serve great entrepreneurs with honest advice and education, investment capital that is fair, and an open door to our international network and connections.

Investment focus

Animation, Information Technology, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed, Funding Round
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Yabble — Yabble provides a platform that uses machine learning and natural language processing to help brands connect with more than 62 million consumers globally, and collect data in real-time. Using the solution, clients can build their own surveys and manage their own customer research communities.
Space Rock Games — Space Rock Games is the developer behind Criminals Within - a cooperative-only action game set in a medieval fantasy kingdom. Sign up to receive exclusive development updates!
Floating Rock Studio — Floating Rock Studio

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps
Seed, Series A, Series B
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Formus Labs — 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.
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!
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.

We are a community-powered VC fund making pre-seed / seed stage investments in Australian and New Zealand startups. Our community is rallied around a shared goal: to invest in the next generation of Australia and New Zealand startups at the very earliest stage, and then support them on their long a

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, FinTech
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Avarni — Smart carbon emissions management tool designed for complex supply chains. Turn your raw data into meaningful emissions insights and bolster your carbon strategy.
tikpay — tikpay is building a modern ticketing and payment solution for transport operators & authorities. We grow revenues, lower costs, enable operator collaboration and delight travellers by reducing friction in transport payments. Our mission is to enable travellers to pay for transport however, whenever, wherever ... easily.
SearchEye — Get tech-driven SEO at scale, speed and a fraction of the cost compared to traditional agencies. Acquire PR Mentions, Digital PR and Content.

Sparkbox Ventures was founded in 2001 and is New Zealand's most active seed stage investor

Investment focus

Software, Manufacturing, EdTech
Seed, Angel, Series A
New Zealand, United States, Japan

Portfolio highlights

Mohiomap — I found a great domain name for sale on Dan.com. Check it out!
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.

The New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (formerly New Zealand Venture Investment Fund) was established to support early-stage technology companies and to stimulate private investment into this space.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.

AirTree is a venture capital firm investing in Australian and New Zealand technology founders from seed stage or earlier.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Firmable — Firmable is the definitive B2B database in Australia helping businesses drive smarter decisions by knowing more about their leads, customers, and candidates than ever before.
ProcurePro — Unlock procurement, Enable performance.
Constantinople — Constantinople manages all infrastructure and operational aspects of your bank: from Customer experience, Banking products to Features, Risks, and Operations.

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 Labs — 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.

Investing in great people solving hard problems to create a better future.

Investment focus

Medical Device, Medical, Health Care
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Orbica — Orbica develops innovative, cross-industry location data solutions, services and products.
Avasa — Avasa is a medical device company. It helps to improve surgical procedures by developing novel implantable devices.
Kitea Health — Kitea Health creates pressure monitoring implantable medical devices.

CP Ventures is a VC fund that invests internationally in early stage, highly scalable, breakthrough technology companies driven by the 4IR

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Ahura AI — Ahura AI, an EdTech startup using artificial intelligence to create personalized learning tools that replicate a 1-to-1 learning experience
Ensuredit — ENSUREDIT enables and empowers end customers and Insurance Intermediaries with AI-based product platforms for transformational customer experience.

iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors.

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 — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
Spoke Phone — Next-generation mobile VoIP platform for service providers (ISPs, MVNOs, Cable operators, Telcos)

Founders Fund is a San Francisco based venture capital firm investing in companies building revolutionary technologies.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, FinTech
Series A, Seed, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Avail — Avail is the essential modular blockchain base layer for next-generation, trust-minimized applications.
Varda — Expanding the economic bounds of humankind with the world's first orbital manufacturing & reentry platform.
Cognition — Cognition is an applied artificial intelligence lab that focuses on reasoning and code.

Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer, Venture Advisor, Global Investor

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Mobile
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac

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 — Join Flick for Fairer Electricity Prices. We're not flicking around, we're here to shake up the electricity industry and fight for fair priced power in Aotearoa.

Shasta is an early-stage venture capital firm focused on enterprise technology like SaaS, cybersecurity, infrastructure, data intelligence & camera vision.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Enterprise Software
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Canada, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

anecdotes — anecdotes is the first enterprise-grade compliance management platform. Compatible with SOC 2, PCI, ISO, ITGC, HIPAA & more. Get started for free!
Interlune — Interlune is a lunar resource startup that extracts resources from space to benefit Earth and build an in-space economy. The company is a provider of space resources intended for a clean and sustainable economy on Earth and in space.
LeakSignal — Sensitive data and attack observability/mitigation across service mesh architecture. WAF, Data Exfiltration, Data protection, Real time mitigation.

Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups

Investment focus

Software, Internet, B2B
Seed, Series A, Angel
New Zealand, Singapore, United States

Portfolio highlights

Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

Angel HQ is Wellington region's angel investment network - follow us for angel investing info, and a way to connect to local, national and international angels.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Angel, Series A
New Zealand, United States, Canada

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.
Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.

Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the world’s leading dedicated small satellite launch provider. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services, including complete satellite build and launch solutions, that provide rapid, frequent and reliable access to space. Rocket Lab has been launchingsince May 2017, delivering satellites to orbit for commercial and government customers, including DARPA, NASA, the NRO, the United States Air Force and more. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognized industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers. In addition to creating Electron, the world’s first fully carbon-fibre orbital launch vehicle, Peter also oversaw the development of the world’s first and only private orbital launch range, located on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula. He played a crucial role in establishing international treaties and legislation to enable orbital launch capability from New Zealand.

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Hardware
Series A, Series B
New Zealand

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.
Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.

Reinventure is pioneering Founder-First Corporate Venture Capital. They champion founders who have the vision, ambition and hustle to transform an industry across Asia-Pacific and beyond, propelling them with the support of a top 20 bank globally.With $150 million under management and Westpac Banking Corporation as its largest limited partner,Reinventure is focused on uncovering, investing in and nurturing scalable early businesses in FinTech and adjacent areas that will be the future of the industry.

Investment focus

FinTech, Software, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, Indonesia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Curious Thing AI — Curious Thing is a conversational AI startup for mass information discovery. The technology enables businesses to proactively discover deeper insights from humans. The AI has applications including candidate assessments, customer engagement, stakeholder check-in, and more.
Kepler Analytics — Kepler uses retail in-store analytics to provide retail managers with unprecedented insight into shopper behaviour and create amazing customer experiences.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, United States, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Neara — Neara electric utility software is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets. Request a demo.
Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.
Amber Electric — Join the smart energy revolution. Amber Electric is a new way to buy electricity. Unlike traditional retailers, we pass through the real-time wholesale price, helping you save money and use more renewable power.

Founder/CEO of ThisData, a login intelligence and contextual authentication platform. Founder/CEO of Litmos.com, a leading SaaS Learning Management System that was acquired by CallidusCloud (NASDAQ: CALD) in 2011.

Investment focus

SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
Seed, Angel
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Melodics — Melodics is an app that adapts to your abilities and musical tastes to help you get better at playing keyboards, pad controllers, and drums
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.

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.

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Information Technology, Manufacturing
Angel, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Insite AI — We create predictability for consumer brands in the unpredictable world of retail. Game-changing technology that attacks consumer brands' hardest problems.
Apop Imaging — Apop Imaging develops and commercialises novel imaging, diagnostic and therapeutic tools to improve patient outcomes based on our proprietary calcitonin receptor antibody technology.
Alkira Software — Deliver interactive content and answer customer queries at scale using conversational AI. TalkVia offers quick and easy NO CODE voice and chat solutions for Amazon Alexa, Google Assistant, Siri and web based chatbots.

Flying Fox Ventures is an early stage investment firm that invests across industry and across the micro-stages of pre-seed and seed.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

CLT Toolbox — CLT Tool Box: CLT Design Software and Structural design software for CLT to simplify mass timber calculations for Europe, Australia, & New Zealand
Mayday — Streamline your finance team's multi-entity accounting adjustments with Mayday
Citadel — A cloud platform for AWS compliant with CDR, PCI, SOC 2, ISO 27001, or HIPAA standards, providing security for your application, data, and customers.

Chintaka Ranatunga

Investment focus

Apps, Software, EdTech
Seed, Series B
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Kami — Your classroom PDF annotator. Students stay engaged with accessible annotation tools. Teachers save time with streamlined instruction and assessment.
APIMatic — The Trusted Developer Experience platform for APIs. Achieve faster API onboarding via automatic SDKs, docs, code samples, and guided walkthroughs.
QuiverVision — Experience the immersive wonder of 3D Augmented Reality with engaging coloring experiences that let your creativity run wild.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
Servicely — Servicely is your AI-Powered Service Management Platform. Request a Demo
Programa — Programa is an all-in-one platform for professional designers, brands, renovators, and homeowners.Programa’s project management software seeks to solve workflow problems for the A&D industry to help them run projects more efficiently, and to seamlessly integrate with brands to make quoting and procurement far easier.

Trading, Capital, Trusted Advisory, Proven Stewardship

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Mobile
Funding Round, Series B, Private Equity
New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

SMX — SMX offers a cloud-based email security solution for SEG, archiving and added Microsoft 365 defence. Trusted by enterprises, governments and ISPs across ANZ.
GFG Group — GFG Group is a supplier of consumer electronic payments software and card payment solutions. GFG has provided applications, systems integration and IT managed services to customers in 40 countries.
Grasshopper Bank — Secure business accounts, flexible lending solutions and powerful digital tools to support your business at every stage.

Nicole Fougere - Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData

Investment focus

SaaS, Cloud Security, Cyber Security
Seed, Angel
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

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.

Shane And Vanessa JOHNSTON

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Carthona Capital is a hands-on, proactive, and thematic venture capital investor based in Sydney, Australia that invests globally.

Investment focus

Software, Financial Services, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Series B
Australia, United States, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

CNaught — CNaught is an online platform that helps companies to purchase a diversified portfolio of carbon offsets.
NayaOne — Revolutionise your financial institution with NayaOne's Sandbox as a Service platform. Accelerate innovation, reduce risks, and partner with top-tier fintechs.
Lounge — Use Lounge to organise events and groups in seconds, without a newsfeed. Stop scrolling, start living.

For the entrepreneurs who want to create revolutions of their own.

Investment focus

Software, IT, Internet
Series B, Series A, Series C

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Nile — Serverless Postgres build with multi-tenacy at it's core. Fault tolerant, globally distributed, with user and tenant management built in.
Orchid — Orchid is a reproductive technology startup that is capable of detecting rare genetic disorders. Orchid’s preconception system analyzes both partners’ genomes and assesses genetic predispositions to common diseases, including heart disease, stroke, schizophrenia, Alzheimer’s disease, breast cancer, and diabetes. Orchid results are developed withworld-class experts in reproductive medicine and genetics to give its clients the most accurate results.Orchid offers a “Couple Report” that utilizes an at-home saliva test to analyze each person’s genomes to detect the probability of genetic risks, then models how their DNA together will combine in a future child. If elevated risk is detected, Orchid provides insights to help couples monitor biomarkers, adapt their diet or elect for procedures, such as in vitro fertilization. It was founded by Noor Siddiqui in 2019 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.
Software Applications Incorporated — Rethinking the personal computing experience

We are a highly experienced Australian-US venture capital firm ready to back seed phase startups with brilliant ideas & global potential.

Investment focus

Software, IT, Other
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed

Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor.

Investment focus

Software, Data and Analytics, IT
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Imagr — We have built the first vision-only, white-label autonomous checkout solution that retailers can own, operate and scale themselves. Imagr is designed to layer into any supermarket, with no store fit-outs required.The Imagr system is an end-to-end autonomous checkout solution that enables retailers to automate the checkout in their supermarket.The system consists of a mobile Imaging Station - this utilizes our machine learning platform to image products and load them into our system so they are ready to be recognised when put into the trolley. Shopping trolleys fitted with the Halo (home to the lights and cameras that drive our AI platform) recognise items as they go in and out of the trolley without the need for barcodes. A retailers app, retailers can track shopping sessions and manage trolleys. And a shoppers app, for customers to pair with the trolleys, track shopping sessions and checkout. All parts of the Imagr system are designed and built in house by Imagr.
Starling Bank — Transform the way you manage your money with Starling Bank. Enjoy personal and business banking online and at your fingertips, always. Apply in minutes.
Health Data Analytics Institute — Health Data Analytics Institute is created a predictive platform that transcends the understanding of healthcare data and connects it to quantifiable, actionable information that benefits patients, providers, and society. But we don’t just translate data, we transform it into a continuum of insights — applicable across all touch points in anindividual’s dynamic health journey. It’s deep knowledge that quantifies longevity, health status, health risks, and health costs. But that’s just the start.

Jelix is an early-stage venture capital firm backing daring founders in Australia and New Zealand. We invest from pre-seed to Series A, and partner with ambitious and daring founders building a better future.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Tability — Automate the boring parts of OKRs to cut the waste and spend more time doing what really matters.
Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
Hatch — Find roles and teams where you can make an impact. Match with intern, entry-level, junior and mid-level jobs based on your skills and values, not your CV.

Insight Partners is a global software investor partnering with high-growth technology, software, and Internet startup and ScaleUp companies.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, Germany

Portfolio highlights

Overjet — Overjet supports DSOs and insurance companies on their quest to improve oral health by creating a future that is clinically precise, efficient & patient-centric through AI.
Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
Profluent Bio — We are fluent in the language of protein design.

Maurice Eng

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Facebook
Seed, Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Shuttlerock — Create attention-worthy video ads from any asset for every screen, at scale.

Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, United States, India

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service

NAB Ventures is an Australian Venture Capital fund backed by National Australia Bank (one of the largest 20 banks globally).

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Software
Series A, Seed, Series B
Australia, India, United States

Portfolio highlights

Banked — Banked : Real time payments for consumers, businesses and banks.
SafeStack — Secure the software you design and build and meet compliance requirements with ease supported by the leading secure development training platform.
DataMesh Group — DataMesh Group offers data processing solutions, financial payment systems software, infrastructure and data analytics products.

Five V Capital is a leading, growth-focused private equity & venture capital firm in Australia and New Zealand

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

BioPak — Award-winning plant-based compostable packaging that puts the planet first. Our focus is on innovation and customer service excellence. We design for the circular economy. Our products are carbon neutral and made from sustainably sourced, rapidly renewabl
Cyclotek — Cyclotek helps patients achieve better health through better diagnosis. They are reliable, cost-efficient suppliers of Positron Emission Tomography (PET) empowering radiopharmaceuticals. PET scanning provides unique insights into many serious diseases, translating directly to more personalized healthcare and better patient outcomes.
Fingerprint For Success — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.

Valar Ventures is a venture capital firm backed by Peter Thiel. Valar partners with entrepreneurs globally and believes that an increasing number of transformative technology companies will be started outside of Silicon Valley, and that the founders of those companies will benefit from having a partner that understands their unique challenges andopportunities.

Investment focus

FinTech, Financial Services, Banking
Series A, Series B, Seed
United States, Germany, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

albo — albo is the leading mexican challenger bank which helps you manage your money, and it can adapt to your lifestyle bringing you an honest service that cares about you. albo offers you a mobile banking app, a banking account, and a Mastercard card, allowing you to easily spend, save and invest your money. You can open your account in 60 secondsfrom your phone, having at your disposal personalized financing tools to help assist you in making better financial decisions. You can also be able to make free money transfers to whichever bank 24/7. albo includes many other innovating functions besides the ones mentioned above.
Ivy — We are building a global API for instant bank payments
Panacea Financial — Whether you're transitioning to residency, refinancing your student loans, or funding a new practice - Panacea Financial can help.

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies. Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, IT
Series B, Series A, Series C
United States, Israel, India

Portfolio highlights

Front — Front is the customer communication platform that seamlessly combines emails, apps, and teammates into a single view. Stop being busy. Start making an impact.
Elation Health — Elation Health is the most trusted technology platform for independent primary care. Since 2010, the company has delivered clinical-first solutions - built on an award-winning collaborative electronic health record - that help practices start, grow, communicate, and succeed in delivering the highest-quality personalized primary care to patients.Elation Health is empowering primary care clinicians to uphold the craft of medicine while thriving in an evolving healthcare landscape. Today, Elation Health serves 14,000 clinicians caring for 7 million Americans.
Salvo Health — Salvo Health is a digital care team for Irritable Bowel Syndrome (IBS), GERD, SIBO, and other chronic gut health conditions. Sign up today!

Advent is one of the largest and most experienced global private equity firms, with deep sector expertise.

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Financial Services
Private Equity, Series B, Series C
United States, Brazil, India

Portfolio highlights

Cyware — Threats to your company's intelligence seemingly grow daily. You need a threat intelligence solution capable of protecting your data. You need Cyware.
Tredence — Tredence as a data science company offer industry specific data analytics solutions that bridge the gap between insights delivery and value realization by enabling last-mile adoption of data analytics
KreditBee — KreditBee is a personal loan platform for young professionals, where they can apply for Salary Advance up to ₹ 1 Lac as per their requirement. The documentation is very minimal, and the entire process starting from registration to disbursement does not take more than 15 minutes. The application process is completely online, and on approval, thecash is immediately transferred to the bank account of the user.KreditBee facilitates the loan transactions between the borrowers and the NBFCs/Banks. All loan applications are approved and sanctioned by NBFCs/Banks registered with RBI and communicated upfront during Loan application.

Folklore is a team of investors, founders, and builders committed to supporting Australian and New Zealand tech founders. We are a first cheque to forever investment firm, and we believe in the power of founder vision and the potential of teams, right from the start.

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Swoop Aero — Transforming how the world moves by making access to the skies seamless.
HealthMatch — HealthMatch is a medical technology company that applies machine learning and artificial intelligence to clinical data to save lives.We aim to dramatically accelerate patient recruitment to clinical trials, and progress life-saving cures onto the market faster than existing practices allow.For clinicians and patients, there is a real struggleto identify and find appropriate trials, particularly where the criteria relating to each trial is inconsistently articulated. HealthMatch encodes qualifying questions relating to each patients condition. The platform matches responses to its trial dataset, and confirms only the correct-match trials for that patient — thereby streamlining the identification of suitable trials and facilitating a patient’s application to those trials.With Ai and software at the core, HealthMatch delivers a radically simple product to match patients with drug trials, backed by an execution approach to data that is deceptively complex to achieve and replicate. In doing so, HealthMatch is dramatically changing an industry that has essentially not moved beyond telephones and excel spreadsheets.
SimConverse — SimConverse is a simulation platform that uses generative AI to play the role of any patient, colleague or casualty.

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