{"id":29157,"date":"2025-01-15T17:23:10","date_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:23:10","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/peraltafinancing.com\/angel-investor\/susan-iorns-named-new-zealands-2024-arch-angel\/"},"modified":"2025-01-15T17:23:10","modified_gmt":"2025-01-15T17:23:10","slug":"susan-iorns-named-new-zealands-2024-arch-angel","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=29157","title":{"rendered":"Susan Iorns named New Zealand\u2019s 2024 Arch Angel"},"content":{"rendered":"


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Susan Iorns has been awarded Angel Association New Zealand\u2019s 2024 Arch Angel Award today at the 16<\/span>th<\/span>\u00a0New Zealand Angel Summit in Auckland.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Arch Angel Award is the highest honour in New Zealand\u2019s angel investment community,\u00a0given to those who exemplify the quintessential angel\u00a0and who advocate for the endeavour and make a significant difference to New Zealand\u2019s start-up ecosystem.\u00a0As well as their personal capital,\u00a0Arch Angel recipients\u00a0share their time, insights, deeply relevant skills, and their networks with high growth startup companies.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan was first exposed to startup investment when she responded to an advertisement promoting the establishment of a new angel network in Wellington in 2007 and she attended the launch of AngelHQ at the NZX. Susan has been an active member ever since, serving two separate terms on the AngelHQ board and leading work to update the club\u2019s founding documents.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

She has backed nearly 50 startups and taken on governance roles with at least half a dozen of these companies. Susan is currently on the board of Eight360, a Wellington based startup building a motion simulator which has raised several rounds of venture capital.\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

One of the first supporters of New Zealand\u2019s accelerator programmes, Susan was an early investor in Lightning Lab and an active mentor of a number of the startups that took part.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

A hands-on approach to angel investing is Susan\u2019s modus operandi. She is a lynch pin of AngelHQ\u2019s team who provide practical advice to founders through Flying Kiwi Angels ADI (Angel Drop In) clinic which operates across the country including in Wellington. Susan is especially supportive of women investors and works closely with others in the club to champion AngelHQ events advancing diversity and inclusion.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Each year, the Arch Angel award recipient is chosen by the previous years\u2019 winners.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Fellow Arch Angel and Chair of AngelHQ, Trevor Dickinson says \u201cSusan and I have invested in a number of ventures together and I have been very grateful for her clear-eyed approach. Her experience enables her to add real value to the operations side of businesses.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan also has a unique ability to focus on what\u2019s practically needed, and she has special affinity for founders who do not fit conventional norms. Both characteristics make her a really effective angel investor.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Susan received her award at the 2024 annual Angel Summit being held Kauri Bay Boomrock south of Auckland today.\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Former Arch Angel winners include The Warehouse founder and K1W1 founder Stephen Tindall; Andy Hamilton, former chief executive of The Icehouse and IceAngels founder; US super angel Bill Payne; Movac Ventures founder Phil McCaw; veteran angel investor the late Dr Ray Thomson; prolific AngelHQ member Trevor Dickinson, former AANZ Chair Marcel van den Assum; ardent angel investor Debra Hall, champion for kiwi start-ups Dave Moskovitz and long-time Ice Angels member Scott Gilmour, SaaS champion, Serge van Dam, a member of AngelHQ, Rudi Bublitz, founder and CEO of Flying Kiwi Angels and most recently Dana McKenzie.<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

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For more information, please contact:<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

Suse Reynolds, AANZ Executive Chair<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

mob: 021 490 974 or email:\u00a0<\/span>[email\u00a0protected]<\/span><\/span><\/a>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<\/span>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Angel Association of New Zealand (AANZ)<\/span><\/b>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n

The Angel Association is an organisation that aims to increase the quantity, quality, and success of angel investments in New Zealand and in doing so create a greater pool of capital for innovative start-up companies. It was established in 2008 to bring together New Zealand angels and early-stage funds. AANZ currently has over 50 members representing over 900 individual angels associated with New Zealand\u2019s key angel networks and funds.\u00a0AANZ works closely with NZTE and Callaghan Innovation and a number of private sector partners including Jarden, PWC, Avid Legal, KiwiNet, Uniservices, Amazon Web Services, BNZ and NZX.\u00a0For more, please visit:\u00a0<\/span>www.angelassociation.co.nz<\/span><\/a>\u00a0<\/span><\/p>\n<\/p><\/div>\n\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

Susan Iorns has been awarded Angel Association New Zealand\u2019s 2024 Arch Angel Award today at the 16th\u00a0New Zealand Angel Summit in Auckland.\u00a0\u00a0 The Arch Angel Award is the highest honour in New Zealand\u2019s angel investment community,\u00a0given to those who exemplify the quintessential angel\u00a0and who advocate for the endeavour and make a significant difference to New […]<\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":1,"featured_media":29158,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[12034],"tags":[1219,10723,19776,4367,4784,19777],"dealstore":[],"offerexpiration":[],"class_list":["post-29157","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","has-post-thumbnail","hentry","category-angel-investor","tag-angel","tag-arch","tag-iorns","tag-named","tag-susan","tag-zealands"],"yoast_head":"\nSusan Iorns named New Zealand\u2019s 2024 Arch Angel - Som2ny Network<\/title>\n<meta name=\"robots\" content=\"index, follow, max-snippet:-1, max-image-preview:large, max-video-preview:-1\" \/>\n<link rel=\"canonical\" href=\"https:\/\/fivemor.com\/?p=29157\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:locale\" content=\"en_US\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:type\" content=\"article\" \/>\n<meta property=\"og:title\" content=\"Susan Iorns named New Zealand\u2019s 2024 Arch Angel - 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