Partner, Icehouse Ventures

Barnaby Marshall

Role	Organisation	Sources
Partner	Icehouse Ventures	Startup Daily (22 Aug 2025), Startup Daily (27 Oct 2021)

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Seed $3.4m

Former Kiwi TikTok boss gives PowerPoint an AI makeover with NZ$3.8 million Seed round

Aether, a New Zealand AI presentation startup co-founded by a former TikTok NZ manager, raised NZ$3.8 million in seed backing from Icehouse Ventures and Brand Fund 2 after spinning out of studio New+Improved.

Startup Daily 22 Aug 2025 Aether Ideally New+Improved Ventures TikTok Timely Tracksuit Xero Brand Fund 2 Icehouse Ventures Barnaby Marshall Carsten Grueber Simon Pound Ursula von Keisenberg

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Pre-seed NZ$1.2m

Kiwi biofuels startup Vertus Energy raises NZ$1.2 million in a pre-seed round

Vertus Energy, a New Zealand green-fuel startup, has closed a NZ$1.2 million pre-seed round with Icehouse Ventures leading, to advance its BRIO waste-to-fuel technology; its four founders are Startmate accelerator alumni.

Startup Daily 27 Oct 2021 Vertus Energy Icehouse Ventures NOAB Ventures Outset Startmate Barnaby Marshall Benjamin Howard John Wood

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Barnaby Marshall

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Former Kiwi TikTok boss gives PowerPoint an AI makeover with NZ$3.8 million Seed round

Kiwi biofuels startup Vertus Energy raises NZ$1.2 million in a pre-seed round