Angel HQ
Angel networkWellington · Pre-Seed–Seed · 10 people tracked
Investment thesis
Angel HQ is a Wellington community of angel investors focused on backing ambitious early-stage New Zealand startups. Members provide capital in exchange for equity or convertible debt, alongside mentorship, industry connections, and strategic guidance to help founders build and scale their businesses. The club emphasizes hands-on involvement, professional development for its members, and driving innovation and economic growth within the Kiwi startup ecosystem. It positions itself as a bridge between promising ideas and thriving companies, aiming for both meaningful impact and financial return while supporting entrepreneurs across New Zealand.
Source: firm website, verified Aug 3, 2026.
Team · 10 people
from the firm's websiteWhat they invest in
from 37 of 51 portfolio companiesSaaS ×22AI & Machine Learning ×8Fintech ×7Hardware ×7Healthtech ×6Cleantech ×5Climate Tech ×5Deep Tech ×4
HQs:New Zealand×11United States×3
Investments · 51 tracked
founders shown can be your intro pathCo-investorsBooster Innovation FundNZ Growth Capital Partners
AskNicely provides a customer experience management platform that helps service businesses capture customer feedback and motivate teams to take action on insights.
AI & Machine LearningEnterprise SoftwareMarketing TechSaaSPortland, US
Aaron Ward(Executive Officer, Director)Tony Ward(Chief Executive Officer)Reagan Nickl(Chief Commercial Officer)Sharon Babkes(Chief Financial Officer)Brian Fravel(VP of Marketing)Jolene Smith(VP of People and Culture)
Co-investorsArc AngelsBlackbird VenturesIcehouse VenturesNZ Growth Capital PartnersFive Elms Capital
Uses UV light signals to boost seed and seedling genetic potential; domiciled in the USA.
Palmerston North
Jason Wargent(Executive Officer)Steven Sibulkin(Executive Officer, Director)Mark Brown(Director)Mary Dimou(Director)John Bedbrook(Director)Kirsty Bellringer(Director)
Co-investorsArc AngelsAzolla VenturesBooster Innovation FundIcehouse VenturesiSelect FundNelson Angels+2 more
Based on customer reviews, the site appears to sell cleaning products and household items such as foams, powders, and bathroom accessories online.
ConsumerE-commerce
Co-investorsBooster Innovation FundClimate Venture Capital FundCreative HQ — The IncubatorSoul Capital
Cogo provides carbon insights and electrification platforms to help home and car owners transition to clean energy and reduce costs, partnering with financial institutions to deliver climate technology solutions.
B2B MarketplacesCleantechClimate TechEnergyFintechSaaSWellington, NZ
Ben Gleisner(Founder)
Co-investorsArc AngelsGandel InvestIcehouse VenturesNZ Growth Capital PartnersSoul Capital
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital Partners
Eightwire provides products for exchanging and sharing data between systems.
Data & InfrastructureEnterprise SoftwareSaaS
FileInvite provides an automation layer for document collection in commercial lending, helping banks, credit unions, and other lenders reduce document turnaround times and improve borrower experiences.
Enterprise SoftwareFintechSaaSBroomfield, US
James Sampson(Founder and CEO)
Co-investorsAfterWork VenturesArc AngelsEnterprise AngelsForefront VentureIcehouse VenturesNZ Growth Capital Partners+1 more
FTN Motion builds the Streetdog, a handcrafted electric motorcycle designed for urban commuting, sold to city riders in New Zealand and Australia.
CleantechHardwareMobility & Transportation
Hello Cashflow is a financial planning and cash flow management platform that connects to accounting software to give business owners up-to-date, visual views of their finances and lets them model the cash flow impact of decisions like hiring, pricing, and purchases before committing.
FintechSaaS
Co-investorsCreative HQ — The Incubator
Hot Lime Labs develops patented limestone-based CO2 capture technology that captures and releases CO2 and heat on demand for the decarbonization of hard-to-abate industries such as horticulture, hydrogen production, and gas cleaning.
CleantechClimate TechDeep Tech
Tijs Robinson(Co-founder, CEO & Director)Vlatko Materic(Co-founder & CTO)
Co-investorsPacific Channel
HT Systems designs assistive hoist and transfer devices, including the Kera Home with sit2sit technology, that let a single caregiver transfer non-weight-bearing patients.
HardwareHealthtechMedical Devices
Immersve provides payment infrastructure that lets decentralized applications and crypto wallets enable users to spend digital assets anywhere Mastercard is accepted, through non-custodial APIs and smart contracts.
Crypto & Web3Fintech
Co-investorsGD1Red Beard Ventures
Inhibit Coatings develops antimicrobial coatings and additives that use silver permanently bound to polymer resin to inhibit bacterial growth without leaching.
CleantechHealthtechNew MaterialsWellington, NZ
Dr Tate(Co-founder / Scientist)Prof. Johnston(Co-founder / Scientist)
Co-investorsArc AngelsBooster Innovation FundIcehouse VenturesMatūNZ Growth Capital Partners
Co-investorsAfterWork VenturesNZ Growth Capital PartnersWNT Ventures
Co-investorsBooster Innovation FundNZ Growth Capital PartnersSoul Capital
Kitea Health is a medical device company spun out of the Auckland University Bioengineering Institute, developing the Kitea System, a microscale wireless sensor technology with applications in hydrocephalus and cerebrospinal fluid monitoring.
HardwareHealthtechMedical Devices
Simon Malpas(Director, Chief Executive Officer)inNatalia Jones(Director, Chief Operations Officer)inBryon Wright(Chief Technical Officer)in
Co-investorsCure Kids VenturesIcehouse VenturesPacific ChannelSoul Capital
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital Partners
Landlord Studio is property management software for landlords that combines rental accounting, online rent collection, tenant screening, listing syndication, maintenance tracking, and Schedule E tax reporting in a single desktop and mobile app.
FintechPropTechSaaS
Luminoma is developing the LumAssure, a portable diagnostic-aid that uses Raman spectroscopy to non-invasively assess whether a skin lesion is likely malignant or benign within seconds.
AI & Machine LearningDeep TechHealthtechMedical DevicesAuckland, NZ
Cather Simpson(Co-founder & Founder Director)Michel Nieuwoudt(Chief Scientific Officer)
Co-investorsBridgewest VenturesPacific Channel
Mindhive Global provides AI-based leather grading and a cloud platform that produces verified hide quality data for leather manufacturers and tanners.
Advanced ManufacturingAI & Machine LearningSaaS
Dion Bettjeman(Founder & CTO)James Bayly(CEO)Blaine Ah-Yuk Winters(CCO)
Nanophage Technologies develops nanorod-based scaffold technology designed to amplify the signal of detection molecules for improved diagnostic or sensing applications.
BiotechDeep TechNew Materials
Co-investorsBridgewest Ventures
Narrative Muse offers a recommendation engine that matches individuals with books, films, and TV shows based on their preferences, identity, and emotional taste, and provides an analytics suite that uses anonymized audience data.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerMedia & Entertainment
Orchestra is a platform for managing company equity and investor relations, including maintaining a compliant share register, creating and allocating share schemes with vesting, and automating dividend calculations and distributions.
FintechSaaS
Co-investorsEven Capital
PAM is a family management app that turns forwarded emails, screenshots, voice notes, and chat messages into a shared smart family calendar with tasks and reminders.
AI & Machine LearningConsumerSaaS
Nicole Retter(Founder)Diogo(Co-founder)
PressPatron provides no-code fundraising tools that let publishers collect donations, memberships, and subscriptions from readers, with quick installation for publishers and fast one-step payments for supporters.
FintechMedia & EntertainmentSaaS
Pyper Vision develops FogCasting technology that provides real-time, hyper-local fog forecasts, alerting operators to when and where fog will form and lift so they can resume operations faster.
Climate TechDeep TechSaaS
Emily Blythe(Founder)
Co-investorsArc AngelsIcehouse VenturesNZVCOutset VenturesMainland Angel Investors
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital Partners
Seismic Shift develops affordable seismic protection systems — including the FrontFoot foundation and plinth systems and Quake Defender — for commercial and industrial buildings, residential homes, and critical facilities such as hospitals and data centres.
Climate TechConstruction TechHardware
Ben Exton
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital Partners
Zappy provides shipping software that lets online sellers and small businesses import orders from e-commerce platforms, compare quotes from domestic and international couriers and freighters, and print labels and manage tracking and returns.
E-commerceLogistics & Supply ChainSaaS
Jimmy Wu(Founder/CEO)
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital Partners
Tapi is a maintenance coordination platform for property managers, helping them handle repairs and maintenance across landlords, tenants, and tradespeople.
PropTechSaaS
Co-investorsCreative HQ — The Incubator
Tectonus designs and manufactures seismic resilience devices and structural systems that protect buildings from earthquake damage, working directly with structural engineers on projects across education, healthcare, commercial, and transport buildings.
Climate TechConstruction TechHardwareNew MaterialsAuckland, NZ
Co-investorsBooster Innovation FundPacific Channel
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital Partners
Co-investorsNZ Growth Capital Partners
Upstock is a B2B ordering platform that connects wholesale buyers such as restaurants, cafes and supermarkets with their suppliers, letting buyers order from up-to-date catalogues at negotiated prices while suppliers manage products, orders and invoicing.
B2B MarketplacesFoodTechSaaS
Philip Fierlinger(Founder)in
Co-investorsArc AngelsIcehouse VenturesNZVC
Volition is an accessible app and cloud platform for supported decision-making, letting disabled people (Decision Makers) capture their preferences and care needs through voice, text, images, video, and documents and share them with a Circle of Support.
HealthtechImpact & Social GoodSaaS
Yabble (The Thinking Studio Limited) operates a market research platform that collects consumer feedback, surveys, and ideas from panel participants ("Yabblers") and analyses the results on behalf of its business customers.
Data & InfrastructureMarketing TechSaaS
Portfolio news
latest coverage across their companiesCogo · micromobility.substack.com · Aug 17, 2026
Pyper Vision · mainlandangels.nz · Apr 30, 2025
Frequently asked questions
- How many investments has Angel HQ made?
- Angel HQ has 51 tracked investments.
- What stage does Angel HQ invest at?
- Angel HQ invests at the Pre-Seed, Seed stages.
- What is Angel HQ's typical check size?
- Angel HQ typically writes checks of $5K – $600K.
- What sectors does Angel HQ focus on?
- Angel HQ focuses on Sector Agnostic.
- Where is Angel HQ located?
- Angel HQ is headquartered in Wellington, NZ.
- Does Angel HQ lead rounds?
- Yes, Angel HQ leads investment rounds.
- Who does Angel HQ co-invest with?
- Angel HQ most often shares deals with NZ Growth Capital Partners, Icehouse Ventures, Arc Angels, among 27 tracked co-investors.
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