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Top 50 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in December 2024

Last updated: Dec 2024 A list of 50 VC (Venture Capital) funds that invest in Transportation startups based in New zealand. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Transportation companies from New zealand. We update this investor list every month.

Top 50 Transportation VC (Venture Capital) Funds in New Zealand in December 2024

Investor	Transportation New Zealand investments
K1W1	32
New Zealand Venture Investment Fund	23
Sparkbox Ventures	10
Global from Day One	9
Flying Kiwi Angels	8
Punakaiki Fund	7
Matū Fund	6
AirTree Ventures	6
Equity Venture Partners	5
Founders Fund	5
Blackbird Ventures	5
Icehouse Ventures	5
Quidnet Ventures	4
Promus Ventures	4
New Zealand Growth Capital Partners	4
Enterprise Angels	4
CP Ventures	4
Pacific Channel	3
Reinventure	3
Finistere Ventures	3
Hypersphere Ventures	3
Lewis Holdings	3
Snowball Effect	3
Melbourne Angels	3
Altonomy	3
Digital Finance Group	3
Digital Asset Capital Management	2
Callaghan Innovation	2
CMS Holdings	2
Blockchain Founders Fund	2
Yamaha Motor	2
IP Group	2
Outset Ventures	2
Jelix Ventures	2
Insight Partners	2
Direct Capital Private Equity	2
Uniservices	2
Right Click Capital	2
University of Auckland Inventors Fund	2
Advent International	2
Impact Enterprise Fund	2
Folklore Ventures	2
Hillfarrance Venture Capital	2
Movac	2
GD1	2
I2BF Global Ventures	2
TEN13	1
InnovationQuarter	1
Seven Peaks Ventures	1
Octopus Ventures	1

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

Investment focus

Software, Science/Engineering, Hardware
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

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Investment focus

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

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

Investment focus

Mobile, Software, Sales/Marketing
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

Software, Manufacturing, Health Care
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups

Investment focus

Apps, Software, Other
Angel, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note

New Zealand Venture Capital

Investment focus

Software, IT, Apps
Seed, Funding Round, Angel

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

Science/Engineering, Biotechnology, Hardware
Seed

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

Investment focus

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

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

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

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

Investment focus

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

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

Portfolio highlights

Build Club — Build Club is a home for big dreams and top builders where the world's top AI builders gather. The company is a team of a global network of engineers, researchers, and founders building at the frontier of AI.
SafetyCulture — SafetyCulture is the operational heartbeat of working teams around the world. Its mobile-first operations platform leverages the power of human observation to identify issues and opportunities for businesses to improve everyday. More than 28,000 organisations use its flagship products, iAuditor and EdApp, to perform checks, train staff, reportissues, automate tasks and communicate fluidly. SafetyCulture powers over 600 million checks per year, approximately 50,000 lessons per day and millions of corrective actions, giving leaders visibility and workers a voice, in driving safety, quality and efficiency improvements.
Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.

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, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Alimetry — Alimetry is a health technology startup based in Auckland, New Zealand, developing breakthrough solutions for diagnosing disorders of gastrointestinal (GI) function.
Watchful — Watchful operates as an AI security company.
Crimson Education — Crimson Education is the world's leading higher educational consultancy helping students around the world gain admission into leading US and UK universities by up to 400%!

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

Investment focus

Design, Software, Health Care
Seed, Pre-Seed

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

Investment focus

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

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, IT, Other
Seed

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

Emerge — Emerge is a financial management tool for businesses. It is a digital-only banking option designed to help Kiwi businesses operate more quickly, economically, and efficiently.
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.

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

Investment focus

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

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

Investment focus

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

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

Financial, Software, IT
Series A, Seed, Series B

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

Science/Engineering, Agriculture/Farming, Health Care
Series B, Series C, 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

Other, Financial, Software
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Lewis Holdings was added in 2013.

Investment focus

Hardware, Software, Data and Analytics
Seed

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

Investment focus

Design, Clothing/Apparel, Commerce/Shopping
Equity Crowdfunding

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

Science/Engineering, Software, Commerce/Shopping
Angel, Seed, Funding Round

Altonomy - market leading cryptocurrencies trading specialist

Investment focus

Other, Software, Financial
Seed, Funding Round, 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

Software, Financial, Other
Seed, Funding Round, Series A

Digital Asset Capital Management is a specialist, global investment manager in the digital asset, or cryptocurrency sector. The Company's first fund, Digital Asset Fund, provides sophisticated and institutional investors with access to this exciting, yet very specialised sector. DACM also manages DAF Liquid Venture Fund, a specialist fundinvesting in seed or initial round financing opportunities in the digital asset sector as well as DAF Greeks, a market-neutral fund delivering returns from monetising volatility and market inefficiencies.

Investment focus

Software, Other, Financial
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering

New Zealand's Innovation Agency

Investment focus

Seed

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

Financial, Other, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Series A

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

Investment focus

Financial, Software, Payments
Pre-Seed, Seed, Funding Round

Corporate profile and facts about Yamaha Motor.

Investment focus

Transportation, Hardware, Software
Corporate Round, Series A, Series B

IP Group's core business is the creation of value for its shareholders and partners through the commercialisation of intellectual property originating from research intensive institutions. Their strength lies in managing this process from finding suitable intellectual property to commercialise to either helping develop businesses and createvalue out of them, or identifying and establishing appropriate commercial partnerships to do so. IP Group's extensive expertise in this area combined with its inside knowledge of both industry and finance have enabled the group to create a formidable track record of consistently delivering excellent results for their companies, for their partners and for their shareholders.

Investment focus

Science/Engineering, Health Care, Biotechnology
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Outset Ventures provides investment, facilities, and support for technology on the forefront of new industries to thrive.

Investment focus

Sustainability, Science/Engineering
Seed, Pre-Seed

Jelix Ventures invests in world class Australian and New Zealand tech startups with sector insiders. Jelix invest in visionary young technology companies to accelerate growth and focus on globally scalable businesses positioned to disrupt traditional markets with innovative technology, led by tenacious entrepreneurs. Jelix is led by startup sectorinsiders, both experienced investors and entrepreneurs.

Investment focus

Software, IT, Science/Engineering
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A

Insight Partners is a leading global private equity and venture capital firm founded in 1995. Click to learn more.

Investment focus

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

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

Software, Sales/Marketing, IT
Funding Round

Auckland University's commercialisation arm

Investment focus

Hardware, Consumer Goods, Music and Audio
Seed

Right Click Capital - Australian Venture Capital Firm

Investment focus

Software, IT, Data and Analytics
Seed, Funding Round, Series A

University of Auckland Inventors Fund

Investment focus

Health Care, Biotechnology, Science/Engineering
Series A

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

Investment focus

Software, Financial, Health Care
Private Equity, Series C, Funding Round

The Fund provides growth capital to businesses who deliver social and/or environmental impact, alongside attractive financial returns. This Fund has two primary objectives: delivering market-rate financial returns, and delivering tangible societal and environmental outcomes.

Investment focus

Agriculture/Farming
Seed

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, Financial, IT
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

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

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.
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.
Re-Leased Software Company Limited — Commercial property management software that makes life easier for property managers, landlords and owners.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Rilla — Demonstrating 90% reduction in cost-to-serve for live-streaming, Rilla is rewiring the content economy, directing the value generated back to creators and their communities.By leveraging audience bandwidth and rewarding them with ownership in the network, the savings are equivalent to a free month subscription every year for a moderate level ofviewership.Founded by the technical founders behind Altered State Machine, acquired for 214m. Together for 5+ ventures, collectively raising 130m+ and valued at 1b+.
NextWork — Building the best online learning experience to switch careers and upskill. Join the waitlist today, we are waiting for you!
Type One Energy — At Type One Energy, we are mission-driven to provide sustainable, affordable fusion power to the world over the coming decade.

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

Software, Information Technology, SaaS
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Canada

Portfolio highlights

Roofr — The complete sales toolbox for roofers. From roof measurement reports to project-winning proposals.
SquareDash — Claim funding, online invoicing, and collections process automation to help roofers get paid faster.
FuseBase (formerly Nimbus) — FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) - Free Online Collaboration Software for Remote Teams. Build your wikis, client portals and more with the FuseBase (formerly Nimbus Platform) collaboration tool ? A perfect space for online work

TEN13 is Australia's leading Venture Capital Syndicate.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States, Kenya

Portfolio highlights

iion — iion the only unified game advertising platform that unites brands and game publishers. Engage gamers, monetize effectively, and unlock infinite opportunities across gaming environments.
MiLaboratories — Top-notch solutions for adaptive immunity studies
Switchboard — Switchboard is the fastest, easiest, most affordable way to integrate your supply chain and connect to all of your customers and suppliers. We can connect any supply chain system, including managing EDI.

InnovationQuarter is the regional development agency for the Dutch province of South Holland. InnovationQuarter funds innovative and fast growing companies, assists foreign companies to settle in South Holland and organizes cooperation between innovative entrepreneurs, knowledge institutes and government. InnovationQuarter Capital provides alltypes of financing including equity investments, subordinated and convertible loans for seed, early stage and growth companies.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Health Care
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
The Netherlands, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Pan Cancer — Pan Cancer T is an immunotherapy company developing next-generation TCR-T cell therapies for solid cancer.
Q*Bird B.V. — building a scalable quantum infrastructure
AquaBattery — AQUABATTERY is a sustainable long duration energy storage for solar, wind and other renewables generation. Discover our climate tech for decarbonisation and achieving net-zero power system.

Seven Peaks Ventures is an early-stage venture capital fund focused on data-driven enterprise software, digital health technologies, ML/AI, IoT, and cloud-based solutions. Seven Peaks Ventures is located in Oregon and was founded by Dino Vendetti in 2013.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Xembly — Make every day meaningful with Xembly, an automated chief of staff to handle the tasks that slow you down.
CrowdStreet — Diversify your portfolio with commercial real estate investments on the CrowdStreet platform. Start building wealth today.
Prime Trust — Prime Trust powers innovation in the digital economy by providing fintech and digital asset innovators with financial infrastructure. Our API is customizable whether you're building a crypto exchange or expanding your business with digital assets.

We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world. Learn about what we do and the kind of founders we back.

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Cogna — Cogna offers an AI-powered SaaS platform that streamlines the integration of data across several business domains.
Cambri — Cambri is concept testing software that helps global brands accelerate their innovation process.
Forefront RF — Forefront RF tunable duplexer aims to expand the accessibility and global market reach of all mobile devices by simplifying RFFE design.

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