Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in New Zealand in January 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 — The first personal software platform is arriving soon. Join the waitlist.
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, Information Technology
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.
APFusion — APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace helping salvage yards increase sales.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com

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Dylan Field is the CEO and co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams that build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA, Evan Wallace. They built Figma on the web in the hopes of breaking down the barriers around the siloed design process.Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tools must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Huxe — Huxe enables users to explore subjects in depth by automatically generating podcasts featuring multiple AI hosts who discuss, analyze, and clarify key points on any chosen topic.
PlayerZero — PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data.
Revel — Software for our most daring hardware endeavours.

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George Gong - Managing Partner @ Jubilee Capital Management

Investment focus

E-Commerce, SaaS, Blockchain
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
United States, Vietnam, New Zealand

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