Jack Mcquire

Partner at Icehouse Ventures

📍 Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand🔄 Updated September 2026💼 29 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2022𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 New Zealand20+ investments
29
Total investments
15
Early stage
7
Mid stage
3
Late stage
12y
Years active

Portfolio

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Board Observer
Oct 2022
Get into your first home in ½ the time, with ½ the deposit, and a $10k head-start. www.aera.nz
Board Observer & Investor
Sep 2021
Say hello to Komodo the school-wide wellbeing solution. With a mission to make school a place where all students thrive, we are revolutionizing the educational landscape by prioritizing the holistic development of students and educators alike. At the core of Komodo lies evidence-based, comprehensive software designed to address the diverse needs of school communities around the world. Our solution seamlessly integrates wellbeing measurement, mental health initiatives, social-emotional learning, and mindfulness practices into the daily fabric of school life. Created with input from psychologists Komodo is designed to empower students and enable schools to make positive and effective interventions.
Investor
Apr 2020
Sharesies is an empowering wealth app on a mission to give someone with $5 and someone with $5 million the same money opportunities. Since launching in 2017, we’ve grown to provide access to Invest, Save, and KiwiSaver all in one place. Now, over half a million people use Sharesies to invest in the share market—and their financial future. No one knows retail investors quite like us. We partner with companies to offer capital raises, and engage and reward their employees through Staff Shares. Find out more on our website—go to About > For companies. We’re a proudly certified B Corp and Living Wage Employer. Our goal is to help as many people as possible to grow their wealth, and together we plan to impact generations to come. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? Head to About > Careers on our website to see if there’s a role suited to you. 💁
Investor
Dec 2019
LawVu is the legal workspace that helps in-house legal teams do their best work, faster. With everything in one place, teams can see exactly what needs to be done, collaborate with stakeholders as needed, and get time back to take on a more strategic role in their business. Connecting in-house legal teams to the rest of the business – and each other – LawVu lets them focus on the work that matters most.
Investor
Oct 2019
Ethique is a purpose driven, beauty innovator with a mission to regenerate our planet. We believe business is the catalyst for social and environmental change to benefit people and the planet. Join our revolution and #giveupthebottle. 1 Ethique bar is sold worldwide every 9 seconds. Over 18 million plastic bottles saved so far from being made or disposed of in landfills around the world and our next goal is half a billion plastic bottles by 2030. Be part of the solution to the global climate crisis. We’re sharing all we know about regenerative business. Learn more here: ethique.com
Investor
Oct 2018
Empowering Airports, Airlines and ATC to move aircraft without fog interruptions.
Investor
Aug 2018
Montoux’s actuarial automation platform empowers actuaries to become more effective in their roles and return to being strategic decision makers. By automating low level handle turning tasks, actuaries can generate results faster and incorporate more scenarios into their calculations to increase the quality of their decisions. We’re passionate about helping our customers to revolutionize the insurance industry, creating beautiful products, and building an awesome team and work environment. Our customers include several of the world’s leading insurance providers and we currently have offices in NYC, USA; Edinburgh, Scotland; and Wellington, New Zealand.
Investor
May 2018
We’re on a mission to unlock more productive and sustainable agriculture. Farmers are using Halter to break free from the time-intensive constraints of conventional farming. They’re growing more grass, increasing milk production and improving the health and well-being of their cows. We bridge deep tech into real-world farming by enabling farmers to remotely shift, virtually fence and proactively monitor their cows’ health and behaviour. We’re backed to deliver on a mission that matters by Tier 1 investors including DCVC, Blackbird, Promus Ventures, Rocket Lab’s Peter Beck and Icehouse ventures. Halters headquarters are in Auckland, New Zealand.
Board Observer & Investor
Feb 2018
From ideas to impact: Unify people and decision makers. Make the best decisions using the best data. Joyous builds human relationships, and aligns people around common challenges, leveraging their ideas to make an impact. Human Conversations and AI Analytics in one Joyous helps people talk about a specific topic that impacts them every day - right at the time decision makers are planning to do something about it. Joyous starts conversations and a real person responds. Joyous identifies actionable phrases, groups them in real-time and delivers a prioritized action plan. Joyous accelerates operational excellence, strategic program execution, transformation, tools adoption, customer experience and more.
Investor
Dec 2017
The Social Club are experts in creating powerful results-driven social, content, and influencer marketing campaigns. We help consumers fall in love with your brands.
Investor
Nov 2017
Freight Sourcing Hub optimizes your freight procurement process, covering all your sourcing needs so you can create the right mix of contracted, seasonal and ad-hoc carriers.
Board Observer & Investor
Aug 2017
Genoapay gives your customers the ability to get what they need and pay over 10 weekly instalments paying no fees or interest. We provide merchants with a powerful tool to convert more sales and increase average order values while taking no risk. Genoapay funds merchants the purchase price of the sale less a services fee. When a consumer is choosing between an organisation that offers payment plans and one that tells them to go and apply for a short term loan 94% of those consumers will choose a payment plan option directly with the organisation. As well as a competitive advantage payment plans lower the barrier to entry and drive customer acquisition. Genoapay offers a world class mobile friendly digital interface that establishes 10-week payment plans with customers quickly in both an in-store and ecommerce environment. Get Genoapay for your store today !
Board Observer
Apr 2017
Mint Innovation, a New Zealand cleantech company, has scaled biological processes that recover valuable metals from waste. Our first process is a unique biometallurgical approach to recover metals from electronic scrap. A key aspect of the Mint process is the use of proprietary microbes that are selective for specific metals. Combined with the advantages of low-cost green chemistry, we aim to make it viable, both economically and environmentally, to capture value from e-waste near its point of collection.
Investor
Mar 2017
Mish Guru is a full service storytelling suite for Snapchat and Instagram Stories that scales a brand’s content team, quickly. Over one billion Stories are created on Snapchat and Instagram every single day. Mish Guru has been helping brands like Coca-Cola, McDonald’s, and Spotify for the past four years tap into real Stories, on the channels where their audience are paying attention. Ephemeral storytelling channels are content hungry and chaotic, and the people who work as marketers in this industry deserve a freakin’ medal. So, we made this software instead.
Investor
Nov 2016
Avertana is a process technology business that has developed a novel, proprietary pathway to refine steelmaking waste into raw materials used to make everyday products. The products of our process have global markets are used in everyday items such as paints, plastics, packaging, building materials and fertilisers. Avertana incorporates a combination of inorganic chemistry, advanced materials and novel design approaches that enhance process efficiency and reduce capital and operating costs.
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Experience · 33 entries
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Board (7)
2022
Board Observer
Oct 2022
Get into your first home in ½ the time, with ½ the deposit, and a $10k head-start. www.aera.nz
2021
Board Observer & Investor
Sep 2021
Say hello to Komodo the school-wide wellbeing solution. With a mission to make school a place where all students thrive, we are revolutionizing the educational landscape by prioritizing the holistic development of students and educators alike. At the core of Komodo lies evidence-based, comprehensive software designed to address the diverse needs of school communities around the world. Our solution seamlessly integrates wellbeing measurement, mental health initiatives, social-emotional learning, and mindfulness practices into the daily fabric of school life. Created with input from psychologists Komodo is designed to empower students and enable schools to make positive and effective interventions.
2020
Investor
Apr 2020
Sharesies is an empowering wealth app on a mission to give someone with $5 and someone with $5 million the same money opportunities. Since launching in 2017, we’ve grown to provide access to Invest, Save, and KiwiSaver all in one place. Now, over half a million people use Sharesies to invest in the share market—and their financial future. No one knows retail investors quite like us. We partner with companies to offer capital raises, and engage and reward their employees through Staff Shares. Find out more on our website—go to About > For companies. We’re a proudly certified B Corp and Living Wage Employer. Our goal is to help as many people as possible to grow their wealth, and together we plan to impact generations to come. Sound like something you’d like to be a part of? Head to About > Careers on our website to see if there’s a role suited to you. 💁
2019
Investor
Dec 2019
LawVu is the legal workspace that helps in-house legal teams do their best work, faster. With everything in one place, teams can see exactly what needs to be done, collaborate with stakeholders as needed, and get time back to take on a more strategic role in their business. Connecting in-house legal teams to the rest of the business – and each other – LawVu lets them focus on the work that matters most.
Investor
Oct 2019
Ethique is a purpose driven, beauty innovator with a mission to regenerate our planet. We believe business is the catalyst for social and environmental change to benefit people and the planet. Join our revolution and #giveupthebottle. 1 Ethique bar is sold worldwide every 9 seconds. Over 18 million plastic bottles saved so far from being made or disposed of in landfills around the world and our next goal is half a billion plastic bottles by 2030. Be part of the solution to the global climate crisis. We’re sharing all we know about regenerative business. Learn more here: ethique.com
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