Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in New Zealand in May 2026

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Data and Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A

Chief Executive Officer @ Fresha Founder & CEO @ Shedul.com Advisor @ ArchiPro

Investment focus

Commerce/Shopping, Gaming, Food/Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding

Venture Partner @ Sparkbox Ventures Director @ APIMatic

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series B

CEO @ Jasper Director @ The Icehouse

Investment focus

Financial, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series A

Founder / CEO @ ThisData Director @ Lupchoo Director of Product Management @ OneLogin

Investment focus

Software, Privacy/Security, IT
Seed, Angel

Managing Partner @ Movac

Investment focus

Internet, Design, Energy
Funding Round, Seed

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, Internet
Seed, Series A, Angel

Founder | CEO @ Shuttlerock Founder & Chairman @ Photowonder

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Seed, Series A, Series B

Founder @ QuantRes

Investment focus

Software, Data and Analytics, IT
Seed, Series A, Series B

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Seed, Series A

Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
Wabi — Create, discover, and remix any mini-app in minutes. The era of personal software is here.
Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.

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Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group Director @ Vend

Investment focus

Transportation
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Vice Chairman @ PwC

Investment focus

IT, Software, Other
Funding Round

Major Shareholder @ vWork Director @ Sonar6 non-exec director @ Xero

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Design
Seed, Series D, Funding Round

Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData

Investment focus

Software, Privacy/Security, IT
Seed, Angel

Investment focus

Real Estate, Financial
Seed, Convertible Note

Investment focus

Real Estate, Financial
Seed, Convertible Note

Managing Partner @ CP Ventures

Investment focus

Software, Science/Engineering, Data and Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A

Investment focus

Software, IT
Series A, Seed

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Seed, Series A

RANSFORMATIONAL LEADERSHIP FELLOW @ Blavatnik School of Government, University of Oxford Co-Founder and Partner @ 53° Capital

Investment focus

Software, Data and Analytics, AI
Seed, Series A, Series B

Partner @ First Round Capital

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Data and Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B

Director @ Tachyus Partner @ Founders Fund

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Science/Engineering
Seed, Series A, Series E

Founder & CEO @ Vital

Investment focus

Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A

CEO @ Clover Health Co-Founder @ CarePoint Health

Investment focus

Health Care, Software, Data and Analytics
Seed, Series A, Series B

CEO & Co-founder @ Populate

Investment focus

Software, Design, Education
Seed

Owner @ K1W1

Investment focus

Software, Design, Consumer Goods
Seed, Convertible Note

Connor Theilmann is the Chief Business Officer at ServiceTitan. Previously he was an investor at Accel in Palo Alto. He attended The Wharton School for Accounting and Finance & the Penn Engineering School for Computer Science.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Albiware — Award-winning platform loved by our customers and trusted by 1000s of restorers Worldwide. See how our restorers scale their business.
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.
Sumer — Sumer builds technology for micro small businesses. We enable businesses to grow sales and improve their management with simple features.Our first goal is to enable businesses go digital with our “15 second store”: Via Sumer App, any business can create a digital store rapidly, upload a catalogue of the products and share it with clients. Thus,we leverage on the mobile penetration in LatAm and simplify the cumbersome experience of having an online store. We have a Digital Ledger and an Ads tool to allow business reach new audiences. From there we are working on adding features (centered in Customer Service, Payments, Financing) that will complement the operating system we will put on every entrepreneur’s hand.SUMER was founded in June 2021. The company is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia with offices in Mexico City, Mexico

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Dylan Field is based out of San Francisco, California and is the Co-Founder, Chief Executive Officer, President and Chair of our Board of Directors of Figma. Dylan Field attended the Brown University.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Ambrook — Ambrook offers specialized accounting software for family-run farms, ranches, and agribusinesses. The platform includes bookkeeping, invoicing, bill payment, and analytics tools. Ambrook aims to help these businesses manage finances, track profitability, and prepare for the future.
Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
Senra Systems — Senra Systems operates in the manufacturing industry, focusing on software configuration to improve manufacturing processes. The company works to transform skilled assembly tasks into production lines, enhancing production efficiency. It also has involvement in the Aerospace and Defense industry. It collects anonymous data through Google Analyticsto analyze user behavior and use the insights to improve its services.

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George Gong - Managing Partner @ Jubilee Capital Management

Investment focus

Education, E-Commerce, E-Learning
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, New Zealand, Vietnam

Portfolio highlights

GoPeer — GoPeer is a platform that connects K-12 students with vetted college undergraduates for in-person and online tutoring lessons. The company develops a personalized tutoring platform designed to provide convenient, affordable, and highly effective education to all students.It aims to improve the quality and lower the cost of education. This is whyGoPeer offers high-quality 1-to-1 tutoring at 1/3 the national average cost of professional tutoring.GoPeer was established in 2017 and is headquartered in Boston, Massachusetts.
Minitable — Streamline your restaurant waitlist with customizable SMS notifications, 5-minute support response, and real-time guest feedback. Get started in 15 minutes, no hardware needed.
Spark Blockchain Incubator — Spark Blockchain is a Blockchain consulting and incubation service provider in North America with developer relations at its core. Headquartered in Boston, it radiates its influence through NY, LA, SF, and the Bay Area, China, ASEAN, etc. Since its establishment, it has quickly established a leading position in North America's Blockchaincommunity and has established great cooperative relations with top-tier projects and investment funds in China, and the United States.The current clients of Spark Blockchain include not only the top 100 well-known public chains, but also DApps, quantitative teams, media, and Blockchain investment funds.

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Investment focus

Software, Other, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed

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.

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Partner and Co-Founder @ QueensBridge Venture Partners Partner @ Emagen Investment Group Inc. Partner @ Uncle Sam Loves Me, LLC

Investment focus

Software, Commerce/Shopping, Internet
Seed, Series A, Series B

Director @ TJK NZ LIMITED

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A

Investment focus

Software, IT
Funding Round

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, Community/Lifestyle
Funding Round

Chairman & CEO @ Ward Ferry Management

Investment focus

Software, Education
Series A

Investment focus

Biotechnology, Manufacturing, Science/Engineering
Funding Round

Founder @ Scoopon

Investment focus

Software, Advertising, Internet
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Investment focus

Real Estate, Internet, Community/Lifestyle
Funding Round

Founder and CEO @ Kogan

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Investment focus

Sustainability, Agriculture/Farming
Series A

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A

Managing Director & Group Chief Executive Officer @ National Australia Bank (NAB)

Investment focus

Software, IT
Funding Round

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Data and Analytics
Seed

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Series A

EVP, Corporate Development @ Medallia

Investment focus

IT, Events, Software
Seed

President and Chief Executive Officer @ Medallia

Investment focus

IT, Software, Events
Seed, Series B