Top 35 FinTech Startup Investors in New Zealand in October 2023

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• DataMasque — Simply mask your sensitive data while maintaining its function for testing, development, training and analytics. DataMasque makes it safe to explore, implement and harness the opportunities that data provides, free from privacy concerns or compromise.
• Aquila — We're powering the future by building and operating an infinitely scalable energy network.
• Scentian Bio — Scentian Bio operates as a platform that provides ultimate sensing solution.

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• Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
• Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.
• Zenno Astronautics — At Zenno Astronautics, our hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• Cove — Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.
• beany.biz — Online Accountants for Small Businesses. Online, fast, connected and clever, meet Beany accountants.
• Spoke Phone — Break free. Configure the exact customer experience you want with VoIP business phone calls, SMS, and WhatsApp conversations that integrate anywhere.

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• Nexl — Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential.
• ClearCalcs — Online structural design software. Calculation tools for shear force, bending moment, cantilever deflection, steel beam calculations, wood, concrete and more.
• Clipboard — Clipboard is a provider of software for managing extracurricular school activities. Clipboard is an Extracurricular Management System (EMS). An EMS is a purpose-built platform designed to help schools manage the administration of their extracurricular activities.

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• Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.

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• Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.

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• Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.
• Sharesies — Sharesies allows you to get started investing from just $5.
• Whip Around — Providing fleet maintenance software that automates preventive maintenance tasks, improves inspections, tracks work orders, and manages your fleet health.

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• Hnry — Hnry automatically pays and files all taxes for contractors, freelancers, and sole traders, so they never have to think about tax again.
• Cropsy Technologies — Cropsy's mission is to deliver disruptive, scalable technology to every fruit grower to unlock the full potential of their land with insights that were impossible before. Our proprietary AI-enabled hardware allows growers to monitor every plant, understand the whole crop, and track how it changes over time. These insights help growers optimiseall their decision making. The system is a simple tractor add-on, so growers do all their daily operations while Cropsy looks out for problems. Cropsy is poised to set the new gold standard for growing, with recommendations, forecasts, and providing certainty to every grower, every season.
• Cetogenix — Cetogenix is a clean technology business dedicated to creating long-term solutions to global climate change.

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• LifeQ — We empower everyone to delay aging, optimize your health, harness more energy, reduce the probability of disease, and understand why and how your body is changing, right now! It is in your power to be your biologically younger self.
• Bobidi — Start your next 10 min side hustle! Your effort will help removing bias in AI. Record, earn, make a better world.
• AsiaVerify — AsiaVerify is plugged into Asia's most authoritative and compliant government and regulatory sources. Our unprecedented coverage and intelligent platform opens the way for businesses to engage in Asian markets with greater confidence and ease.

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• Datch — Built on top of a powerful connected platform, the Datch Voice Assistant allows you to use the most natural form of communication - your voice - to converse with your site, allowing you to connect and interact with your existing in-house systems through simple integrations.
• Dawn Aerospace — Delivering hardware to space. Positioning satellites on orbit. Returning products to Earth.
• Surgical Design Studios — The Insides Company is the leading provider of chyme reinfusion solutions for intestinal failure

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• Excelent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.

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• APLYiD — APLYiD is a trusted & accredited digital ID solution designed to streamline your customer onboarding with a first-class user experience.

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• Summer — Summer International is a next generation Beauty, Health & Wellness Lifestyle company, headquarted in Los Angeles and South Korea.
• AAG Ventures — AAG Ventures is the IT business behind AAG, one of the fastest-growing Play-To-Earn guilds in the industry.
• Ion Mobility — Ion Mobility is a tech-driven all-electric mobility company tackling a challenging and complex space.

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• Excelent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.

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• Animaj — Explore the future of storytelling where AI meets creativity at Animaj Lab. Join us on a journey to revolutionize kids' entertainment, crafting captivating content that keeps the digital-first generation engaged and inspired.
• HOLY Energy — Energy drink for gamers
• League One Volleyball — One League. For Youth. For Pro. For Life.

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• Daisy Lab — Daisy Lab pioneers precision fermentation technology in New Zealand
• Aquafortus — Aquafortus specializes in providing enviornmental services and commercializes proprietary zero liquid discharge technology.
• Mint Innovation — Founded in 2016, members of the Mint Innovation team have a strong background in chemistry, biotechnology, and leveraging IP in the industrial sector. They are scaling their technology in their Auckland plant and labs to demonstrate the commercial application of their biometallurgy processes for metal recovery.

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• LatiPay — Latipay is a first to market, fully compliant financial technology (FinTech) New Zealand business. Our platform provides an online solution that focuses on New Zealand enterprise level merchants. The Latipay platform allows for Chinese payers to pay for goods and services with CNY (Chinese Yuan) whilst our New Zealand/Australian merchantreceives full payment for goods or service direct to their NZD/AUD bank account in NZD/AUD, at no cost to the merchant. Chinese payers can make payment through their preferred bank payment channels or their Alipay, WeChat, Baidu, Jd Pay wallets, whilst paying in their preferred currency of CNY. Our bi-lingual platform solves the significant Chinese and New Zealand/Australia payer and merchant dissatisfaction within the education, export, insurance, software and travel verticals.

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• Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
• Magnet Capital — Magnet Capital provides asset management, investment management, financial services, crypto asset investments, consulting, investment structure, blockchain technology, single asset, and multi-asset services.
• Ordermentum Pty Ltd — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

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• TradeWindow — TradeWindow provides the tools and support for exporters, importers, freight forwarders, and customs brokers to begin the journey to digital transformation.
• VerifyUnion — VerifyUnion is a decentralized Digital Identification and Trust Verification platform. VerifyUnion provides total ownership of the data being shared through the network to the customer/end user, protecting user privacy and securing their identity.

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• GoPeer — Book a top personalized tutor for online tutoring and test prep. GoPeer connects K-12 students with qualified college students for affordable private tutoring.
• Minitable — Minitable offers a stable AI-powered solution that helps local businesses build their own platforms and manage their traffic. It is an on-demand and fully functional SaaS platform for front-of-house and customer engagement without having to replace the current POS machine.
• 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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• IAND — The IAND platform unlocks the value of your supplier ecosystem. Full transparency of your project portfolio & supplier relationships. Real-time insights on risks and opportunities.
• Kamma — Kamma is a world-leading geospatial technology company, building data and SaaS products for the property and financial sectors.
• Unissu — Unissu is your number one source for PropTech data, content and research. It is a place for Property Professionals, PropTechs and Investors to come and gain new information and insights into the ever-growing world of PropTech.At its heart, Unissu's community represents the leading thinkers and influencers in global PropTech. From the verybeginning it was their desire to bring together a thriving community under one virtual roof; a place where they can share interesting updates, ideas and industry knowledge so that they can all benefit and realise the full potential of PropTech.Their range of global partners, all of whom are PropTech leaders in their local regions, ensure they have presence around the world. Please contact us to find out more.

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• 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.

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• Neara — Neara electric utility software is a physics-enabled platform that builds 3D interactive models of critical infrastructure networks and assets. Request a demo.
• SPIRITT — Spirit enables the development of complex applications by describing the concept to a computer without the need to write code, It is an artificial intelligence-based platform that allows you to develop complex applications such as Tinder, Instagram, or Wolt.
• Tomorrow.io — Predict, automate, and solve your biggest weather challenges with Tomorrow.io.

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• Marqo — A tensor-based search and analytics engine that seamlessly integrates with your applications, websites, and workflows.
• BioticsAI — Advancing Fetal Ultrasound Screenings Using AI
• Kiki — Kiki is a subletting startup that matches listers with people looking to rent for up to six months.

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• Garentii — Garentii is an insurtech & proptech rethinking the traditional cash deposit system, a practice that is expensive and inefficient for both renters and landlords with a digital rent deposit management platform.
• Safely — Let us help you protect your home with Short Term Rental Insurance & Comprehensive Guest Screening for your Airbnb. Contact us today!
• Vertical Insure — Vertical Insure is an insurance company built for vertical SaaS platforms.

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• Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
• Airwallex — Grow your business faster with global business accounts, high speed transfers, multi-currency cards, online payments, embedded finance, and more.
• Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.

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• Jasper — Build a portfolio of high-quality commercial real estate assets sourced and managed by an experienced team.

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• Javln — JAVLN is the creator of innovative business software applications that deliver powerful software solutions to a variety of industry sectors. As a company – and like their namesake – they target their customers' goals and then move with speed and purpose to exceed them. Their solutions are invariably well-executed, powerful tools that aresimple to use while delivering incredibly effective solutions that really make a difference to their clients' businesses. JAVLN's leadership team collectively bring together impressive experience in IT and related industries. They aim to create differentiated industry software solutions that empower users with more meaningful information about their operations.
• Autism 360™ — #1 Autism app to help parents improve their child's social, cognitive & learning skills using our iOS or Android App - get started today!.
• Fenn Foods — Paving the way toward a healthy plant-based future for Australians since 2015, family business Fënn Foods puts sustainability at the heart of every decision it makes. With celebrated chef Alejandro Cancino at the helm of Fënn Foods’ recipe development, customers can expect to enjoy natural, high-quality and seriously delicious vegan fare that willappeal to (and surprise) everyone. Based on Queensland’s serene Sunshine Coast, the passionate plant-powered family behind these delectable products is excited to share its expanding range of umami-rich plant-based meats with food-loving people seeking sustainable and appetising alternatives.

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• Klarna — Einkaufen, was du willst. Bezahlen, wie du willst. Klarna bietet dir verschiedene Zahlungsarten an. Du entscheidest, welche am besten zu dir passt.
• yamuntu — yamuntu is the social commerce platform that democratizes the influencer market by making everyone a brand ambassador
• SpaceX — SpaceX designs, manufactures and launches advanced rockets and spacecraft.

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• SCI Ecommerce — SCI Ecommerce Pte Ltd is the No. 1 E-commerce solution provider in Southeast Asia for local and overseas brands.
• Spark Systems — Spark Systems is an exciting new Fin-Tech startup funded by industry veterans, we are the first high tech solution provider for institutional forex trading that is originated in Asia. We aim to build world class FX trading platform to serve a growing Asia financial hub. As early member of the firm you will be involved from the very beginning ofbuilding something truly special, and will be duly rewarded with a fast-track career.
• Wanfengting Banmian — Wanfengting Banmian produces Taihe beef pan noodles with Anhui features in the Shanghai noodle restaurant market.

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• Dosh — Pay and get paid instantly, anytime, anywhere. Dosh is the app for paying & getting paid back by friends, shopping in stores and earning rewards.

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• Excelent — Add Employee Experience Design capability to your organization with Excellent's learning and professional membership platform.

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• Ubco — UBCO is a New Zealand and US-based tech company that designs, develops, and distributes Utility Electric Vehicles and Portable Power Supplies for on-and off-road adventures, leisure and recreation, and commercial use where vehicle utility is required. UBCO have a desire to Power Your Purpose, through it's Utility Electric Vehicles (UEVs) thatcan change the way people ride, work, and play. UBCO currently has a digitally connected UEV platform which includes on- and off-road transport (2×2), portable power, accessories, and software. They provide a complete solution, from users to managers across a wide range of applications.
• Easy Crypto — The world's favourite place to buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Delivery in less than 2 minutes, easiest order process, and we're open 24/7.
• Zenno Astronautics — At Zenno Astronautics, our hardware and software products ensure satellite missions are effectively managed, guaranteeing maximum economic returns and responsible use of space.

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• Automata — Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.
• Awell Health — Ollie is a vast library of over 100 interface blocks with complete Webflow CMS integration. Build beautiful websites in less time than ever.
• Pencil Biosciences — Next Generation Genome Editing Tool

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• Easy Crypto — The world's favourite place to buy and sell Bitcoin and other cryptocurrencies. Delivery in less than 2 minutes, easiest order process, and we're open 24/7.
• Perimeter Medical Imaging — Perimeter Medical Imaging is a medical device company driven to transform cancer surgery with advanced OCT technology for surgeons as they strive for clean margins to avoid re-excisions.