Icehouse Ventures is a New Zealand venture investor that backs Kiwi-founded technology companies from angel and pre-seed stage through to late stage. Its own site states that since 2003 it has invested over $800m into 390+ Kiwi-founded companies, that it operates a co-investor network of more than 3,000 investors, and that it runs a suite of funds rather than a single vehicle. It describes itself as New Zealand's most active venture investor. It does not publish a list of target sectors, so the sectors array is left empty rather than being inferred from its portfolio.
NZ$454M (total funds under management, January 2025, per RNZ; New Zealand dollars, no conversion applied) AUM66/100 Power Score™2019 FoundedAuckland, New Zealand
Ice Angels, described by the firm as New Zealand's first angel network, is formed; the firm's About page dates its own origins to this event.
2013
The firm raises its first fund.
2019
Icehouse Ventures is launched as the investment arm of The Icehouse, bringing together the Ice Angels and ArcAngels investor networks, Tuhua Ventures, Eden Ventures, First Cut Ventures, a variety of passive funds and the Flux Accelerator, with $3m of investment from Simplicity KiwiSaver, FNZC and Sir Stephen Tindall's K1W1 and a further $1m from angel investors in its community.
2025
Growth Fund II closes at NZ$122M, which RNZ reports on 30 January 2025 brings total funds under management at Icehouse Ventures to NZ$454M.