Ice Angels

Ice Angels is a prominent angel investment group based in Auckland, New Zealand, established in 2004. With a membership exceeding 200 individuals, the organization represents both local and international investors. Ice Angels is recognized as New Zealand's most active angel investor network, having invested over $90 million into 148 companies across various sectors. The group's mission is to support and nurture early-stage businesses, facilitating growth and development within the entrepreneurial ecosystem.

Rudi Bublitz

Member of Advisory Board

Scott Gilmour

Investment Professional

15 past transactions

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Venture Round in 2019
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Cove

Seed Round in 2018
Cove is a New Zealand company bringing a touch of innovation and simplicity to the insurance industry.

Spoke Phone

Seed Round in 2018
Spoke Network, Inc., based in Parnell, New Zealand, offers an innovative communication platform that enhances real-time voice interactions in business settings. Recognizing the limitations of traditional communication methods, Spoke enables employees to resolve issues more effectively through voice conversations rather than lengthy email exchanges. The company’s flagship application transforms employee mobile phones into a smart phone system in under three minutes, providing features such as an auto-attendant for call routing, an updated employee directory, and tools to reduce phone tag. This approach eliminates the need for desk phones and complex IT setups, making communication more efficient and fostering stronger workplace relationships. By reintroducing the effectiveness of voice communication, Spoke aims to improve organizational culture and overall performance.

Nyriad

Series A in 2018
Nyriad Limited is a technology company that specializes in advanced storage solutions tailored for big data and high-performance computing. Established in 2015 and based in Cambridge, New Zealand, Nyriad develops innovative products such as NSULATE, an ultra-fast erasure coding solution; NPAC, which offers parallel accelerated compression for real-time storage and network traffic; and NAPPA, a framework that integrates various compression and encoding codecs into server and client applications. The company’s compression technology platform leverages graphics processing units (GPUs) to deliver resilient data storage, addressing the scale, security, efficiency, and performance requirements of demanding IT projects. Nyriad's offerings support both storage and computing performance, catering to the needs of systems integrators and organizations engaged in high-performance data-driven initiatives.

Parcelport

Angel Round in 2017
Parcelport Limited is a leading courier service provider in New Zealand, catering primarily to small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs). Established in 2007 and headquartered in Auckland, the company specializes in logistics software that simplifies the shipping process by calculating freight costs, printing shipping labels, and providing tracking services. Parcelport distinguishes itself by being the largest courier company in New Zealand by vehicle number without owning any vehicles, effectively acting as an aggregator for various sales and delivery channels. This integration allows e-commerce businesses to manage dispatching and tracking from a single platform, significantly reducing manual processing time, minimizing errors, and cutting costs. Additionally, Parcelport leverages data analytics to assist businesses in making informed decisions. The company is also expanding its reach by rolling out post shops nationwide, enhancing service availability and creating additional revenue opportunities for local store owners while increasing foot traffic.

Upside Biotechnologies

Series A in 2017
Upside is developing the most advanced and best treatment for severe burns. The Upside product is a regenerative medicine solution to current shortcomings in the current treatment of severe burns patients. Upside will take a small sample of unburnt patient skin and grow it into differentiated, graftable skin in order to cover the patient’s own burns. Product advantages are that Upside's engineered skin is produced faster than any competitive pipeline product, it is supplied in bigger sheets and has good handling characteristics. Upside has intellectual property covering the processes conferring these specific advantages.

Shuttlerock

Series B in 2016
Shuttlerock Ltd. develops a crowd-sourced content platform for Websites. It enables users to collect, curate, and share the user generated content from audience; aggregate social content into Websites; and engage and convert leads into sales. The company serves clients in brands, E-commerce and hobbies, entertainment, media and publishing, sports, and travel and tourism sectors in New Zealand, the United States, and Japan. Shuttlerock Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Rangiora, New Zealand.

Spoke Phone

Seed Round in 2016
Spoke Network, Inc., based in Parnell, New Zealand, offers an innovative communication platform that enhances real-time voice interactions in business settings. Recognizing the limitations of traditional communication methods, Spoke enables employees to resolve issues more effectively through voice conversations rather than lengthy email exchanges. The company’s flagship application transforms employee mobile phones into a smart phone system in under three minutes, providing features such as an auto-attendant for call routing, an updated employee directory, and tools to reduce phone tag. This approach eliminates the need for desk phones and complex IT setups, making communication more efficient and fostering stronger workplace relationships. By reintroducing the effectiveness of voice communication, Spoke aims to improve organizational culture and overall performance.

Designer Wardrobe

Angel Round in 2015
Designer Wardrobe Limited operates a peer-to-peer marketplace that lets people buy, sell, and rent women's pre-loved designer clothing and accessories. The company sells dresses, tees and tops, footwear, playsuits, shorts, jumpers, jacket and coats, skirts, pants, active wear, lingerie, jeans, shirts, and swim wear; and jewelry, eyewear, other accessories, and bags. It also rents dresses, playsuits, tops, bottoms, footwear, and bags through its stores in Auckland and Christchurch, New Zealand. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand.

Parrot Analytics

Seed Round in 2014
Parrot Analytics is a data science company that specializes in measuring and predicting audience demand for media content across various platforms worldwide. The company collaborates with studios, networks, broadcasters, brands, agencies, and OTT platforms by providing data-driven insights that inform decisions related to content investment, distribution, acquisition, licensing, partnerships, and advertising. Utilizing extensive audience behavior datasets, Parrot Analytics has developed AI-powered solutions, including a global Demand Measurement system recognized as the television industry's standard for assessing content demand. Additionally, the company offers the Content Genome™ system to facilitate detailed content decisions and has created a context-aware discovery and recommendations engine aimed at enhancing content monetization and improving the consumer experience on OTT platforms. Parrot Analytics is committed to connecting content creators with audiences through data-driven strategies that span the entire value chain of media production and distribution.

Shuttlerock

Series A in 2014
Shuttlerock Ltd. develops a crowd-sourced content platform for Websites. It enables users to collect, curate, and share the user generated content from audience; aggregate social content into Websites; and engage and convert leads into sales. The company serves clients in brands, E-commerce and hobbies, entertainment, media and publishing, sports, and travel and tourism sectors in New Zealand, the United States, and Japan. Shuttlerock Ltd. was founded in 2011 and is based in Rangiora, New Zealand.

QuiverVision

Seed Round in 2014
QuiverVision Limited, founded in 2012 and based in Auckland, New Zealand, specializes in the development of a 3D coloring mobile application that utilizes augmented reality technology. Formerly known as Puteko Limited, the company pioneered the colorable augmented reality market and continues to innovate by creating a suite of tools and features designed to provide engaging user experiences for all ages. QuiverVision has two active products in the market and is actively working on additional offerings as part of its research and development pipeline. The company collaborates with major global brands to enhance customer engagement through memorable augmented reality experiences.

Mobotech

Angel Round in 2013
Mobotech designs and manufactures robotic handling solutions for commercial applications. Its first product, Mobot, fills the gap between hand barrow and forklift. Due to health and safety constraints trucks doing deliveries of FMCG products are only running with 60% capacity. Its customers are large FMCG distributors/logistics companies. This disruptive technology gives logistics companies a ROI in less than 3 months. The Mobot is a patented small robotic forklift: offering more cost effective & safer distribution logistics for the fast moving consumer goods (FMCG), light industry, container de-stuffing and military industries. They are a New Zealand registered (2519891) Limited Company exporting to Australia, North America and Europe.

Wipster

Angel Round in 2013
Wipster Inc operates a digital media review and approval platform designed for content creators and media teams. Established in 2015 and headquartered in Portland, Oregon, Wipster facilitates collaboration on work-in-progress videos, images, and PDFs. The platform enables users to encode videos, set up multiple teams, and manage user permissions, while also supporting real-time review cycles. Additionally, Wipster provides integration options with other software commonly used by content creators, allowing for streamlined workflows. The platform stores video revisions in a shared multimedia asset library and assists in publishing content across various tools, helping teams efficiently create, review, and approve media projects. Wipster Inc functions as a subsidiary of WIP APP Limited.
Datawire Communication Networks, Inc. develops and provides Internet based transaction delivery networks to payment processors and merchant acquirers in North America and Europe. The company offers Datawire VXN, a distributed transaction transport network that provides Internet money transfer and credit-card-processing services for the payment processing industry. It also provides Datawire NAM, which offers an Internet protocol connectivity solution to Windows-based point of sale applications.