# Top 25 Sustainability Startup Investors in New Zealand in June 2026

## Icehouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 6
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## K1W1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Biotechnology

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

## Finistere Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Agriculture, Biotechnology, AgTech

Finistere Ventures is an agricultural technology and life sciences venture capital investor. Founded in 2005, the company partners with other entrepreneurs and creative thinkers to build innovative companies that have the potential to transform modern agriculture, increase food security, improve nutrition, and enhance sustainability. Their appliedexperience as operators, and pioneering role in Ag Tech, is actively utilized to benefit its portfolio companies and Partners. Finistere has global access to the best new technologies from centers of Ag Tech excellence in the U.S., Australia, Israel, New Zealand, and Canada through its venture partner networks. Finistere’s locations in San Diego and Palo Alto, California keeps them connected to the centers of mainstream venture investment and the world’s leading innovation ecosystem.

## Enterprise Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Information Technology

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

## Ngāi Tahu Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Organic, Agriculture, Information Technology

Ngāi Tahu

## Outset Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Parnell, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: CleanTech, Biotechnology, Product Research

Outset, Empowering NZ's deep tech startups: investment, space, support. Join our community of innovators for global impact.

## Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming

Rabobank emerged from several small agricultural cooperative banks, founded by Dutch farmers in the late nineteenth century. Food & Agriculture (F&A) is in our DNA, from which we built a unique position in the F&A sector as a key financier and international player, attributes which we leverage for the benefit of our stakeholders andportfolio companies. We recognise and understand the food security challenges lying ahead of us and how Innovation in F&A supply chains is key to the solution, which is why we are dedicated to committing capital to the space.

## New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

New Zealand Venture Investment Fund, a New Zealand-based private equity fund, manages fund of funds investments and direct co-investments.

## Callaghan Innovation
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Grant
- Focus: Biotechnology, Agriculture, Construction

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.

## Khosla Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Khosla Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in early- to late-stage companies across sectors like AI, healthcare, sustainability, and consumer technology. It manages multiple funds, focusing on startups with innovative technologies or business models. The firm primarily targets sectors like AI, climate tech, digital health, and medtech,offering strategic support to help build long-lasting companies.

## Black Kite Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, EdTech, Retail

Black Kite Capital is a single-family investment office based in Singapore.

## AngelHQ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Analytics

Learn about Angel HQ, Wellington's Angel Investing Network - the meeting place for ambitious startups and passionate investors.

## ACC
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Organic, Agriculture

ACC is an investment firm.

## RIV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, AgTech, SaaS

RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.

## GD1 (Global From Day One)
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, SaaS

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.

## Radar Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, Mobile, E-Commerce

Radar Partners is a principal investment firm. The firm invests in early stage technology companies.

## Wavemaker Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology

Wavemaker Group is a cross-border venture capital firm founded in 2003 and one of the most active early-stage investors across multiple funds.

## Lewis Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Computer

Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.

## Seeds Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, Health Care

Catalysing smart monies into Singapore-based, early-stage technology startups.

## Steven Adams
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Organic, Agriculture

Steven Adams

## Fonterra Co-operative Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series B, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Food and Beverage, Wellness, Biotechnology

We're a global dairy nutrition company owned by 10,000 farmers and their families, united by a fundamental belief in the power of dairy to make a difference.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

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.

## OurCrowd
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Jerusalem, Yerushalayim, Israel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Health Care

Invest in exclusive and pre-vetted startups, late-stage companies, and top tier funds - private market access made simple, transparent, and institutional-grade.

## Aspire Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Lancaster, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Messaging, Real Time, Advertising

Aspire Ventures is an investment firm that focuses on transforming healthcare with breakthrough technologies. It leverages their capital, intellectual property, and domain expertise in the Internet of Things (IoT) to help solve today’s biggest problems.

The firm was founded in 2014 and headquartered in Pennsylvania, United States.

## Global from Day One
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Video

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.
