Top 50 Transportation Startup Investors in New Zealand (June 2026)

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Science/Engineering, Hardware
Stage:Seed, Series A

Your guide to finding and using government services.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel

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

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Software, Sales/Marketing
Stage:Angel

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

Industry: Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Series A

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups

Investment focus

Industry: Apps, Software, Other
Stage:Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note

New Zealand Venture Capital

Investment focus

Industry: Software, IT, Apps
Stage:Seed, Angel

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

Industry: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 311
Round size: Seed $34k–$7.1M; Pre-Seed $50k–$3M; Series A $3.4M–$35M
Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Last fund: Likely actively investing — fund raised in 2025

Portfolio highlights

Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
Fleet Space Technologies — Fleet is an agile, next generation connectivity company. Our mission is to Connect Everything using cutting-edge communications and space technologies to maximise the resource efficiency of human civilisation and enable the next industrial revolution with our free, ubiquitous connectivity platform.
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

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, IT, Commerce/Shopping
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B

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

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.

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Investing in scalable science and deep tech start-ups in Aotearoa NZ. We operate venture capital funds that invest in science and deep tech through a hands-on, active approach.

Investment focus

Industry: Science/Engineering, Biotechnology, Hardware
Stage:Seed

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EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia. The fund targets early Series-A investments in the range $0.5 – $5.0 million. The fund is sector agnostic but has a focus on Australian based B2B or Enterprise SaaS businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Commerce/Shopping, IT
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Science/Engineering, Health Care
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: New Zealand, United States, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 106
Round size: Seed $153k–$2.4M; Angel $229k–$651k
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — raised $12M in 2019

Portfolio highlights

Scanabull — Scanabull is a 3D vision to measure cattle live weight quickly and accurately, reducing handling stress and giving farmers, agents, and processors clear, real‑time weight data. It makes weighing easy, analysis simple, and sharing seamless for everyone who relies on live weight or carcass weight decisions.
HealthNow — HealthNow provides accessible healthcare services that give you control of your health. Manage how you access care, when you need it.
Kai's Education — Kai's Education is an innovative force in the EdTech sector, pioneering the integration of coding, STEM, and robotics into engaging learning experiences for children. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, our mission is to ignite young minds through our award-winning educational products, including the all-in-one STEAM toolbox, Kai's Clan, andthe hybrid robot, KaiBot.Our flagship product, Kai's Clan, breaks new ground by allowing children aged seven to fifteen to learn to code with state-of-the-art technologies such as AR, VR, AI, IoT, Tinkercad, and Minecraft. KaiBot, designed for hands-on learning, uses screen-free coding cards to instill the fundamentals of coding, providing immediate feedback to enhance learning.Complemented by the Kainundrum Lite app, Kai's Education facilitates a seamless transition from tactile to advanced text-based coding, nurturing problem-solving skills and creativity. Recipient of the Smart AI Toy Award and the Common Sense Top Pick for Learning Award, Kai's Education is dedicated to equipping the next generation with the skills for tomorrow's challenges. We're not just teaching coding; we're inspiring creators.

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Quidnet Ventures invests in scalable and capital-efficient businesses created by founding teams.

Investment focus

Industry: Design, Software, Health Care
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed

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

Investment focus

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Internet, Data and Analytics
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A

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

Industry: Software, IT, Other
Stage:Seed

Investing in early-stage deep-tech software/hardware companies run by visionary and tenacious founding teams.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Hardware, Data and Analytics
Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Privacy/Security, IT
Stage:Seed, Angel

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

Industry: Financial, Software, IT
Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B

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CEO @ Jasper Director @ The Icehouse

Investment focus

Industry: Financial, Apps, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series A

Venture Partner @ Sparkbox Ventures Director @ APIMatic

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, Mobile
Stage:Seed, Series B

Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.

Investment focus

Industry: Hardware, Software, Data and Analytics
Stage:Seed

Managing Partner @ Movac

Investment focus

Industry: Internet, Design, Energy
Stage:Seed

Altonomy - market leading cryptocurrencies trading specialist

Investment focus

Industry: Other, Software, Financial
Stage:Seed, Series A

Founded in Silicon Valley (2015), Digital Finance Group is headquartered in Singapore and focuses on cryptocurrencies, digital assets and blockchain technology, with a preference for first-class blockchain projects in the United States. Since 2017, DFG accelerated its internationalization by executing its Singapore-centered global market strategyand has successfully become a globally operated company with over 200 employees. DFG is managing over $550M A.U.M. to date, among which, the size of primary market assets is over 300 million USD, and secondary market assets is over 250 million USD. DFG’s portfolio includes early investments such as Bloq, Brave Browser, Ledger X and Circle among others. This group has grown to become part of the world's top blockchain projects, representing the latest developments in blockchain infrastructures, regulated exchanges, ecosystem development and other branch areas. DFG's forward-looking venture vision has enabled significant returns on investment for DFG and its partners.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Financial, Other
Stage:Seed, Series A

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: Science/Engineering, Software, Commerce/Shopping
Stage:Angel, Seed

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

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Health Care, Data and Analytics
Stage:Seed, Series A

Hypersphere Ventures is a venture capital firm that invests in and develops blockchain technology. It is founded by Robert Habermeier and Jack Platts and is headquartered in Austin, Texas.

Investment focus

Industry: Other, Financial, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A

New Zealand's leading equity investment marketplace. We simplify investment into high growth Kiwi companies.

Investment focus

Industry: Design, Clothing/Apparel, Commerce/Shopping
Stage:Equity Crowdfunding

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Science/Engineering, Agriculture/Farming, Health Care
Stage:Series B, Series C, Series A

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

Investment focus

Industry: Commerce/Shopping, Gaming, Food/Beverage
Stage:Seed, Equity Crowdfunding

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

Industry: Software, Animation, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: New Zealand, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 17
Round size: Seed $606k–$2M; Pre-Seed $473k–$1.2M
Lead/follow: 59% lead, 41% follow

Portfolio highlights

Segna — Extract trends across your users. Build products that they love.
Mobli — At Mobli we provide everything you need to build a great customer experience and optimise your mobility services with no long term commitments.
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!

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CMS is a principal investment company that focuses on investing in the crypto-asset ecosystem. The firm plans to invest in both liquid and illiquid crypto tokens, as well as equity interests in select businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial, Other, Software
Stage:Seed, Series A

Investment focus

Industry: Real Estate, Financial
Stage:Seed, Convertible Note

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

Industry: Software, Financial, IT
Stage:Seed, Series A

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.

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Industry: Agriculture/Farming, Science/Engineering, Software
Stage:Series A, Series B, Seed

New Zealand's Innovation Agency

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Stage:Seed

Investment focus

Industry: Mobile, Apps, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel

Investment focus

Industry: Real Estate, Financial
Stage:Seed, Convertible Note

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Direct Capital is a private equity manager established in 1994. Today Direct Capital remains owned and managed by three of its founding directors, Ross George, Mark Hutton and Bill Kermode. The team has grown to 13 investment professionals, who together have 110 years of private equity experience.Direct Capital seeks to be a pre-eminentprovider of equity capital to Australasian businesses lacking ready access to the stock market, with a focus on increasing shareholder wealth in private companies, and assisting shareholders to release value.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Sales/Marketing, IT

We Focus Exclusively On Adding Value To Blockchain & Emerging Technology Projects With Real World Applications.

Investment focus

Industry: Financial, Software, Payments
Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed

Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.

Investment focus

Industry: Transportation, Hardware, Software
Stage:Corporate Round, Series A, Series B

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: New Zealand, United States, China

Investor stats

Total investments: 56
Round size: Seed $600k–$7.3M; Pre-Seed $860k–$2.3M; Series A $1.2M–$15M
Lead/follow: 36% lead, 64% follow

Portfolio highlights

Vessev — Vessev is a maritime trasportantion company that offers hydrofoiling electric vessels for travelling through water.
Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
Type One Energy — At Type One Energy, we are mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world over the coming decade.

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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

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, India, New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 53
Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $850k–$20M; Series A $12M–$25M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Eigen — Eigen is an AI-driven platform designed to enrich real-world social connectivity.
Maxed — The AI-Native Operating System for CPA Firms: Maxed replaces the expensive, fragmented software stack CPA firms are locked into today with a single, flexible platform powered by AI agents. Maxed provides best-in-class infrastructure at a fraction of the cost - automating the manual work that buries firms every tax season, allowing them to leverageAI to outpace competitors and serve more clients without increasing headcount.
Quanta — Quanta provides software companies with real-time financial clarity and empowerment. Quanta envision a world in which all business accounting tasks that are not creative in nature are automated, leaving finance teams and business owners to focus solely on strategic and creative work.

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I2BF Global Ventures is an international venture capital firm with a global investment mandate. Established in 2005, I2BF Global Ventures has $400M+ under managment and it is currently investing from its fifth fund.The mission of I2BF Global Ventures is to seek out innovative and competitive companies across SaaS, Hardware Enabled B2B solutions(AI, IoT, AR, VR, robotics, RPA & automation), Digital Healthcare, and New Media, which it believes can lead the path to a brighter future. Since the first investment in 2006, I2BF Global Ventures has successfully backed 60+ startups and exited 12 companies.In keeping with its worldwide investment focus, I2BF Global Ventures retains a team of technology and sector experts in New York, London, and Los Angeles. This impressive team ensures a truly global venture capital strategy and a hands-on management approach.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Investor stats

Total investments: 150
Round size: Seed $750k–$7.2M; Series A $4M–$23M
Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Last fund: May invest from a new fund soon — last raise in 2012

Portfolio highlights

VenueBook — VenueBook is a marketplace to create a seamless, transactional digital event planning experience. It allows event planners and venue managers to work together in a digitized, collaborative environment. The company also assists with streamlining every step of your event planning process, from inquiry to the actual event, by allowing alltransactions to occur within one comprehensive online space making the communication process simple and the event management process easy.VenueBook is dedicated to making the event process simple, quick, and most importantly painless. The company provides comprehensive cloud-based SaaS support for venues looking to optimize their events business and support people looking to book events by creating a one-stop-shop where they can research, communicate, book, and pay for their events, all online.VeneuBook was founded in 2010 and is headquartered in New York, NY, USA.
ACAL Energy — ACAL Energy is a developer of Fuel Cell systems, modules and consumable chemicals for a range of uses including stationary, residential and automotive applications requiring larger than 1 kW of power. Its innovative designs will deliver substantial cost savings in Fuel Cell systems and performance improvements in PEM ('Proton ExchangeMembrane') that will accelerate the adoption of PEM Fuel Cell technologies in key markets.
Seren Photonics — Seren Photonics Ltd has developed a manufacturing procedure that greatly increases the intensity of light generated at the heart of a HBLED at negligable cost to the manufacturer. The technology has been applied to standard HBLED structures and so far has demonstrated between 100% to 900% increase in light generation compared to unprocessed diodes.The technology is based on the work of Dr Tao Wang and the EPSRC National III-V Centre attached to the School of Engineering, University of Sheffield.

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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

Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: New Zealand, United States, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 49
Round size: Seed $1.5M–$4.9M; Series A $795k–$16M
Lead/follow: 47% lead, 53% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $125M in 2022

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1Above — 1Above is designed with Vitamins, Electrolytes and Super Antioxidant to help you recover faster on Travel, Work, Party occasions. Well known to help combat jet lag since 2010.
Atomic — Atomic's in-app messaging platform helps you reach your customers in your most impactful channel - your app.
Open — Open is on a mission is to provide the fastest insurance, at the best price, for the world. Providing embedded insurance to businesses of all sizes.

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TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, SaaS, Financial Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: Australia, United States, Kenya

Investor stats

Total investments: 81
Round size: Seed $1M–$8M; Pre-Seed $808k–$2.2M; Series A $3.7M–$46M
Lead/follow: 23% lead, 77% follow

Portfolio highlights

Drawboard — Remarkable markup tools for WIndows 10, iOS and your web browser. Download for free today.
Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
Clipchamp — Create videos with royalty-free music and stock footage, use video templates, and export in up to 4K video resolution. Get started in-browser or download the Windows app.

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InnovationQuarter helpt ondernemers in Zuid-Holland bij het ontwikkelen en vermarkten van technologische innovaties.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: The Netherlands, India, Germany

Investor stats

Total investments: 84
Round size: Seed $549k–$6.6M; Series A $1.6M–$27M
Lead/follow: 18% lead, 82% follow
Last fund: Likely still investing — raised $164M in 2021

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Villari — Villari delivers wireless structural health monitoring technology. Our crack detection system monitors critical locations of the structure: identified cracks, crack indications, or high stress locations. With Villari you can monitor fatigue cracks in steel welds continuously.
NewCompliance — NewCompliance helps clinical staff simplify communication, workflows, and elevate operational excellence.
BIMINI Biotech — BIMINI Biotech is a startup that develops innovative therapeutic strategies for oncology. It is developing therapeutic strategies that target the growth hormone receptor (GHR) and its interaction with insulin-like growth factor 1 (IGF-1) for oncology, metabolic diseases, and aging.The company was founded in 2019 and is based in Leiden, TheNetherlands.

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