Hoku Ventures
hoku.nz Direct investor
Hoku Ventures is the investment arm of Hoku Group, a family office investing its own capital in early-stage high-growth technology companies with hands-on support. It also invests in other funds and financing providers such as Tractor Ventures.
Hoku Ventures is a family office headquartered in Wellington, New Zealand. It invests directly in companies, from seed to growth, in technology, AI, fintech and music technology.
“We invest in people, not in business models or inventions. We partner with founders and operators who have a deep understanding of the problems they are tackling and conviction about how to solve them.”
— Hoku Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Family office
- Headquarters
- Wellington, New Zealand
- Invests in
- New Zealand, Australia, UK, US
- Sectors
- technology, AI, fintech, music technology, consumer feedback, compliance software, solar energy, recycling, parking software
Team, as Hoku Ventures publishes it
- Rowan Simpson Chairman
- Sam White Finance & Ops Director
- Andrea Travers-Jones Finance & Ops Manager
Names and roles exactly as listed on hoku.nz. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 3 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Icehouse Ventures 1 shared company: melodics.com
- NZGCP 1 shared company: melodics.com
- Tractor Ventures 1 shared company: melodics.com
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Hoku Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://hoku.nz/ventures/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, description, people, status, confidence
- https://hoku.nz/ventures/portfolio/tractor-ventures/invests_in_geographies
Record 21260 · added 2026-11-10 · link last verified 2026-11-10 · confidence high
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