Top 10 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Oceania

Last updated: Aug 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Agriculture (agtech) startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Agriculture (agtech) companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Agriculture (agtech) Angel Investors in Oceania

Investor	Agriculture (agtech) Oceania investments
Damian George	6
Antonio Palanca	4
Peter Beck	2
Didier Elzinga	2
Simon Griffiths	1
John Murray	1
Steven Adams	1
Greta Bradman	1
Alireza TayebNama	1
David Paradice	1

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Damian George

Investment focus

B2B, AgTech, E-Commerce
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HiveXchange — Designed and built in Australia for the fresh produce industry. Find opportunities, create private offers, make product requests, get notified of deals in real time. Trade easy.

Antonio has previously co-founded successful e-commerce and supply chain companies both here and in Asia with China Direct Partners. He is also an experienced commercial executive having held senior management roles in IBM, Sun, and Optus communications. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics and a degree in Psychology and is a member of ESA, APS& GKHS.

Investment focus

B2B, AgTech, E-Commerce
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

HiveXchange — Designed and built in Australia for the fresh produce industry. Find opportunities, create private offers, make product requests, get notified of deals in real time. Trade easy.

Peter Beck is the founder and chief executive of Rocket Lab, a space systems company and the world’s leading dedicated small satellite launch provider. Rocket Lab provides end-to-end mission services, including complete satellite build and launch solutions, that provide rapid, frequent and reliable access to space. Rocket Lab has been launchingsince May 2017, delivering satellites to orbit for commercial and government customers, including DARPA, NASA, the NRO, the United States Air Force and more. Since founding the business in 2006, Peter has grown Rocket Lab to become a globally recognized industry leader in space and a billion-dollar company employing hundreds of world-class engineers. In addition to creating Electron, the world’s first fully carbon-fibre orbital launch vehicle, Peter also oversaw the development of the world’s first and only private orbital launch range, located on New Zealand's Māhia Peninsula. He played a crucial role in establishing international treaties and legislation to enable orbital launch capability from New Zealand.

Investment focus

Software, AgTech, Hardware
Series A, Series B
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Halter — Halter creates GPS enabled, solar powered collars for cows. The collar hardware allows farmers to use simple tablet app software to remotely set geographic boundaries for cattle, virtual fences. Farmers use Halter's system to avoid physically herding cows, maximizing farmer time and productivity.
Partly — Auto parts distributors, manufacturers, dismantlers, marketplaces and software providers use Partly's software and API to add fitment and manage parts online.

Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!).

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Music
Series A, Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bardee — Transforming food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.

Simon Griffiths is the co-founder and CEO of Who Gives a Crap.

Investment focus

AgTech, Funerals, Marketing
Series A, Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bardee — Transforming food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
Heaps Normal — Heaps Normal is an independent, alcohol-free beer company supporting everyday legends to dial the good times up to 11 and still perform at their best the next day.
Bare — Bare provides a quality cremation service and a dedicated care team that helps you each step of the way. Arrange online or via phone. Call us on 1800 071 176

John Murray - Managing Director,Founder @ Perennial Partners

Investment focus

SaaS, Software, Livestock
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

AgriWebb — Livestock management software for farmers and ranchers ready to move forward. Run your most profitable, efficient and sustainable business.

Steven Adams

Investment focus

Organic, Agriculture
Series A
New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Leaft Foods — Leaft Protein exists to reduce the environmental impact of food production & is made from the most plentiful protein on the planet, Rubisco.

Greta Bradman

Investment focus

SaaS, AgTech, Software
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Bardee — Transforming food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.

Entrepreneur with unique background across tech and ag/food. Worked as BDM lead for large corporations building complex tech solutions across multiple industries and also worked in the ag/food sectors from on-farms to developing industry transformation roadmaps.