# Top 50 Health Care Startup Investors in New Zealand in May 2026

## Icehouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 14
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Enterprise Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Tauranga, Gisborne, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 7
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Health Care

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

## New Zealand Venture Investment Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

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## K1W1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Biotechnology, SaaS

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

## Pacific Channel
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 5
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical Device, Medical, Health Care

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

## Cure Kids Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Medical Device, SaaS, Medical

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Cure Kids Ventures is a seed and early stage investment fund that invests in the commercialisation of innovations in products and services with a potential to

## New Zealand Growth Capital Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Manufacturing

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.

## Blackbird Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology

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.

## Punakaiki Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile Apps

Punakaiki Fund Limited makes long-term investments into high-growth, revenue-generating New Zealand companies. The company holds 20 investments, $32.3 million in assets, and is raising money in December 2017 for further investment.

## Global from Day One
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Medical Device

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.

## Uniservices
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical Device, SaaS, Audio

Auckland University's commercialisation arm

## Flying Kiwis
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, 3D Technology, Medical Device

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## Threshold
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Menlo Park, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series A, Series C
- Focus: Software, Internet, Mobile

Threshold is an early-stage venture capital firm that focuses on a high-conviction investment strategy. The firm partners with entrepreneurs building innovative consumer, enterprise, and healthcare technology companies.
Threshold was founded in 2019 and is based in Menlo Park, California.

## Tuhua Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Internet, B2B

Micro-Venture Fund investing in 25 Kiwi Startups

## Matū Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Biotechnology, Robotics, Nanotechnology

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.

## Movac
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS

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.

## IP Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Therapeutics

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.

## Finistere Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series B, Series C, Series A
- Focus: Agriculture, Biotechnology, Farming

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.

## First Round Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, E-Commerce, Health Care

First Round is a seed-stage venture firm focused on building a vibrant community of technology entrepreneurs and companies.

## Flying Kiwi Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet

Flying Kiwi Angels ? Helping Kiwi Startups

## Founders Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Internet

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

## Rabobank Food & Agri Innovation Fund
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Utrecht, Utrecht, The Netherlands
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Farming

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.

## Transformation Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series C, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Software

Transformation Capital is the successor management company to Leerink Transformation Partners LLC (“LTP”).11 LTP was founded in 2016 by Todd Cozzens and Jared Kesselheim, MD together with SVB Leerink Capital LLC (formerly Leerink Capital Partners LLC) (“Leerink Capital”), an affiliate of SVB Leerink LLC (“Leerink”), a leading healthcare investmentbank. Leerink Capital provided seed capital to Fund I (approximately 3% of capital commitments) and operational support. In January 2019, SVB Financial Group (“SVB”), the holding company of Silicon Valley Bank, a U.S.-based high-tech commercial bank, acquired the Leerink businesses including Leerink Capital. Todd Cozzens, Jared Kesselheim, MD, and SVB expect to agree to a mutually beneficial ongoing relationship in which Transformation Capital (as an independent management company owned by Todd Cozzens, Jared Kesselheim, MD, and Michael Dixon and not affiliated with SVB or Leerink Capital) shall manage Fund II and whereby Transformation Capital shall manage Fund I’s investment portfolio pursuant to a sub-advisory agreement with SVB (or an affiliate). Transformation Capital has the same operational leader, Kevin Brown, formerly CFO of Leerink Capital, and Transformation Capital expects to continue to derive benefits from its ongoing relationship with Leerink and SVB.

## Powerhouse Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Christchurch, Canterbury, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Solar, FinTech, Big Data

powerHouse is a New Zealand intellectual property commercialisation company investing to develop new spin-out ventures

## Quidnet Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Hospital, Health Care

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

## Auckland UniServices
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Medical, Marketing, Health Care

Auckland UniServices are experts in commercialisation, intellectual property and early stage investing,Supporting and investing in world-class research, technology as well.

## Aaron Patzer
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS

In January, I started another company, Vital Software, with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University. Vital makes software for hospital emergency rooms. This includes a mobile patient check-in for patients, and the fastest, most usable electronic medical records you've seen for doctors and nurses. We use extensive machine learning and naturallanguage processing to determine patient severity and anticipated actions. Our longer term goal is to cut ER wait times in half, as they are often 4-5 hours long. You might not know it, but there are 140M ER visits in the US alone each year.Medical / sales are in the US, while development is all in Auckland New Zealand. My long-time partner Rebecca, an architect, is a Kiwi and I am now a resident of New Zealand as well.

## Vivek Garipalli
- Type: Angel
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Medical, Machine Learning

Vivek Garipalli was the Co-Founder, CEO, and Board Member of Clover Health. He attended Emory University.

## Dylan Field
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

## GD1
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS

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.

## Catamount Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Manufacturing, Education

Founded in 2000 by Jed Smith, Catamount Ventures works with passionate entrepreneurs to help them build companies in the education, healthy living, and sustainability markets. Our common goal? To generate enduring value and produce outstanding returns for our investors.

## Brooke Roberts
- Type: Angel
- Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Human Resources, Employee Benefits

Brooke Roberts - Co-founder and Chief Executive Officer @ Sharesies

## RIV Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cannabis, AgTech, Health Care

RIV Capital is a cannabis acquisition and investment firm building a leading multistate platform of brands in key strategic U.S. markets.

## Bragiel Brothers
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, FinTech, Information Technology

Bragiel Brothers is an early-stage venture capital fund that invests in seed and Series A rounds.
Dan Bragiel launched the firm in San Francisco, California in 2016.

## AngelHQ
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Wellington, Wellington, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS

Angel HQ is Wellington region's angel investment network - follow us for angel investing info, and a way to connect to local, national and international angels.

## Radicle Growth
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Grant
- Focus: Agriculture, AgTech, Biotechnology

Radicle Growth is a San Diego, California based accelerator and venture capital firm focused early-stage ag and food tech startups.

## SVA
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, IT

SV Angel is a San Francisco-based venture fund. Our experience spans from helping companies like Airbnb, Coinbase, Databricks, DoorDash, Faire, Flexport, GitHub, Notion, Pinterest, Snap, Square, and Stripe scale. Over the last 30 years of early-stage investing, our core values of trust, loyalty, and integrity along with our founder-first approachhave driven our strategy. We are a service organization, investing in founders who share these values. We support entrepreneurs in building lasting companies by assisting at key inflection points and leveraging our network to help them propel their businesses forward.

## Quayside Holdings
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Hardware, Software

Quayside Holdings is the investment arm of the Bay of Plenty Regional Council which responsibly manages the commercial, property and horticulture investments.

## ArcAngels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Biotechnology

At ArcAngels Funding, we connect female entrepreneurs across New Zealand to venture capital and investment to help their businesses grow.

## Rob Hayes
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Enterprise Software, Information Technology

Rob joined First Round as a Partner in 2006, opening up the firm's San Francisco office. Over the past eight years, he has led investments in companies such as Mint.com (acquired by Intuit), Gnip (acquired by Twitter), Square, Uber, and Planet Labs.Rob invests across categories, with his interests spanning financial tech, the sharingeconomy, meal delivery, and consumer hardware. He is constantly exploring new areas, and enjoys working with founders who push the boundaries of existing markets.Prior to joining First Round, Rob became the first venture investor at Omidyar Network, the investment firm started by eBay founder Pierre Omidyar. While there, he led most of the initial venture capital deals and later built and ran the technology investing group.Before that, Rob worked at Palm, where he product managed Palm OS during the heyday of Palm products (Palm III, Palm V, Handspring Treo). He also started the company's corporate venture fund and managed the strategic spinoff of PalmSource.Rob lives with his wife and two daughters in San Francisco. In his spare time, he enjoys cooking at home and traveling up and down the California coast with his family and two dogs. He has an MBA from Columbia University and a B.A. from the University of California, Berkeley.

## Meridian Street Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Health Care, Wellness, Information Technology

Equity capital provider focused on early stage healthcare opportunities

## Ice Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Hardware, Apps

iceangels.co.nz - New Zealand most active Angel Network. A network for New Zealand's leading entrepreneurs, corporate executives, and professional investors. 

## Refactor Capital
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Refactor Capital is an early-stage venture capital firm that invests in founders solving fundamental human problems.

## Sante Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Austin, Texas, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical

Santé Ventures is a life sciences venture capital firm that invests exclusively in early-stage companies developing innovative new medical technologies or healthcare delivery models. The firm was founded in 2006 and has $281 million in capital under management in two funds.

## Anna Mowbray
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Health Care

Anna Mowbray Co-Founder & C.E.O at ZURU Group.

## Bridgewest Group
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: San Diego, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Hardware, Internet

Bridgewest Group is a closely held investment company with global assets in the biotech, wireless communications, infrastructure for "internet of things," semiconductor, real estate, and financial services industries.

## TQ Ventures
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: New York, New York, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Health Care, Software, Internet

Led by Schuster Tanger, Andrew Marks, and Scooter Braun, TQ Ventures is a leading venture capital firm based in New York City and Los Angeles.

## Brisbane Angels
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Formed in late 2006, the Brisbane Angels Pty Ltd is a large group of private investors who actively invest in early stage technology companies, usually in South East Queensland, Australia. The members are typically active or semi-retired former senior business executives, who apart from financial input can provide much needed value adding toinvestee companies through hands-on management experience and high level business networks.

## Quaker Partners
- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Philadelphia, Pennsylvania, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Series C
- Focus: Biotechnology, Health Care, Medical Device

Quaker Partners is a healthcare investment firm focused on companies based on the U.S. East Coast.

## Custos Privatstiftung
- Type: VC Fund
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series B, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Software, Biopharma, Nutrition

Custos Privatstiftung is a private company.

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