ICEHOUSE VENTURES

About Icehouse Ventures

Venture capital investment firm

Recent News about Icehouse Ventures

• Hyades AI gains NZ$1.5m to grow spatial intelligence mapping

  On July 13, 2026, Auckland startup Hyades AI announced NZ$910,000 in pre‑seed funding plus a NZ$400,000 New Zealand government Catalyst grant, for about NZ$1.5 million in total support. The company is building an AI‑powered geospatial data platform to help organisations manage and prepare location data for machine learning.

  Source: Inspirepreneur Magazine2026-07-13T11:38:00.000Z

• DataMasque raises $4M to power privacy-first data for enterprise AI

  On June 6, 2026, Creationsforu reported that Wavemaker Ventures led a US$4 million investment in DataMasque, a New Zealand startup focused on data de‑identification and synthetic data infrastructure for enterprise AI. Existing backers OIF Ventures and Icehouse Ventures also joined the round, as DataMasque expands tools that let organisations use sensitive data for AI without moving it off their own infrastructure.

  Source: Creationsforu2026-06-06T21:05:21.554Z