Top 50 Transportation Angel Investors in New Zealand in October 2023

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Data and Analytics
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A

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

Venture Partner @ Sparkbox Ventures Director @ APIMatic

Investment focus

Software, Apps, Mobile
Seed, Series B

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

Investment focus

Commerce/Shopping, Gaming, Food/Beverage
Seed, Funding Round, Equity Crowdfunding

Managing Partner @ Movac

Investment focus

Internet, Design, Energy
Funding Round, Seed

Founder @ QuantRes

Investment focus

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

Investment focus

Apps, Video, Mobile
Seed, Series A

Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group Director @ Vend

Investment focus

Transportation
Seed, Series A, Funding Round

Investment focus

Real Estate, Financial
Seed, Convertible Note

Co-Founder & CCO @ ThisData

Investment focus

Software, Privacy/Security, IT
Seed, Angel

Major Shareholder @ vWork Director @ Sonar6 non-exec director @ Xero

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Design
Seed, Series D, Funding Round

Investment focus

Real Estate, Financial
Seed, Convertible Note

Vice Chairman @ PwC

Investment focus

IT, Software, Other
Funding Round

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

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

Co-Founder @ Letterboxd

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Hardware
Seed

Investment focus

Software, Education
Seed

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

APFusion — APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace helping salvage yards increase sales.
Pulley — Pulley is the first dedicated platform for construction permitting. Our purpose-built workflows, localized requirements and embedded expertise help developers, contractors, and architects get permits faster, removing a costly bottleneck to construction. Across dozens of markets, leading builders trust Pulley to permit everything from single-familyhomes to complex commercial projects.
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 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

Investment focus

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

Portfolio highlights

Resend — Build, test, and send transactional emails at scale.
Socket — Socket fights vulnerabilities and provides visibility, defense-in-depth, and proactive supply chain protection for JavaScript, Python, and Go dependencies.
Rain Industries — Every wildfire starts small. Rain contains wildfires within 10 minutes of ignition with autonomous drones.

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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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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 — 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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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, Series B
United States, India, New Zealand

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.
Hatica — Hatica aggregates activity from all your work apps to power software engineering dashboards and gen AI-driven insights to help teams drive velocity, alignment and well-being.
Chroma — the AI-native open-source embedding database

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Investment focus

Software, Other, Gaming
Seed, Pre-Seed

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