What does Icehouse Ventures invest in?
Icehouse Ventures invests most often at Seed and Grant (54% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML), Big Data & Analytics and CloudTech.

New Zealand · Investor
Last cheque observed Sep 2026; 178 cheques on record.
Deploying nowNew fund $68M, Jan 2025VC firm
35 cheques in the last 12 months
Mostly Seed and Grant: 54% of its rounds
Sole investor in 13 rounds, median $1.4M
We are a venture capital firm that invests in exceptional Kiwi founders building global companies.From their own website
Every round we can evidence, newest first178 appearances
30 rounds
28 rounds
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The latest companies Icehouse Ventures put money into.
Icehouse Ventures invests most often at Seed and Grant (54% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Artificial Intelligence & Machine Learning (AI/ML), Big Data & Analytics and CloudTech.
178 investments on record, 35 of them in the last 12 months, and it led 6. The most recent was in Sept 2026.
Its most recent investments on record: Drumbeat (Seed, Sept 2026), First Table (Series B, Sept 2026) and Antioch (Series A, Sept 2026).
The median round it joins is $2.3M.
Sometimes: it led 6 of its 178 investments on record (3%).
Most of the companies it backs are in New Zealand (70%), Australia (15%) and the United States (13%).
Yes: it is actively investing, with 35 investments in the last 12 months.
Most often Callaghan Innovation (79 rounds together), New Zealand Growth Capital Partners (39 rounds together) and K1W1 (34 rounds together).
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