# Top 50 Artificial intelligence Angel Investors in Oceania in June 2026 ## Emlyn Scott - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence, Software Emlyn has spent more than 30 years navigating the complex landscapes of finance, financial markets and technology as a founder, public company CEO, angel investor, VC investor and fund manager. He's had the opportunity to make over 70 venture capital investments in innovative companies like Nutromics, DataRobot, Calm App, Cerebras Systems,Skylark Labs, Zainar, and Kami, and a similar number personally as an angel. He is a founder of OpenMarkets Group, one of Australia's largest online brokers. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s second largest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: - Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) - Masters Business Administration (MBA) - Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI) - Bachelor of Economics (BEc) ## Chris Sang - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 6 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, E-Commerce, SaaS Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer ## Greta Bradman - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: SaaS, AgTech, Software Greta Bradman ## Didier Elzinga - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Music 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!). ## Brendan Hill - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps I’m an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth marketer.I started angel investing after my ecommerce startup was acquired in 2016. I love investing because it’s one of the most intellectually stimulating things you can do. You’re constantly learning about new ideas, technologies and gaining a surface level education in many areas. I’ve investedin awesome startups from Fintech, Blockchain, Data, Sharing Economy, Renewable Energy, Health, Podcasting and Computer Vision.As an angel investor, I provide a combination of capital, time, network, and expertise to the startups I invest in. ## Vu Tran - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Vu Tran is based out of Brisbane, Queensland and is the Co-Founder of OneMRI. Vu previously worked at Sporting Wheelies and Disabled Association as a Member Board Of Directors. Vu Tran attended Bond University. ## Gabby Leibovich - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Internet Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au. ## Kurt Alexander - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Retail, Medical Kurt Alexander ## Hezi Leibovich - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Apps, FinTech Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years. ## Jill Preotle - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Big Data, Catering, Hospitality Jill Preotle is a private equity investor who works with entrepreneurs seeking access to capital and growth markets. She serves on the boards of Zipcar, Red Tail Solutions, iTeam, Dancing Deer Baking Company, TaskRabbit and Daily Grommet. She holds a J.D. degree from New York University Law School. ## Matt Berriman - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Advertising, Financial Services Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia. ## Vijay Shekhar Sharma - Type: Angel - Location: New Delhi, Delhi, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Internet, News, Software Vijay Shekhar Sharma is the Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Paytm. He previously worked at India Today Group Online as a Tech head. Vijay Shekhar attended Delhi College of Engineering. ## Larry Summers - Type: Angel - Location: Boston, Massachusetts, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Big Data, Internet, Hospitality Larry Summers ## Bosco Tan - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Bosco Tan ## Mark Clayton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Intelligent Systems, Information Technology Mark Clayton ## Mark Steinert - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Software, Analytics, Commercial Mark Steinert ## Alex Zaccaria - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Events, Event Management, Professional Services Alex Zaccaria is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Linktree. He previously worked at Bolster Music as a Director. Alex Zaccaria attended RMIT University. ## Mark De Ambrosis - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Private Equity - Focus: Information Technology MD ## Anthony Musumeci - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Logistics, Media and Entertainment, Art Anthony has an extensive experience in cutting edge research and commercialisation, particularly across the University sector. Over the last 10 years Anthony has worked with a wide range of new innovations predominantly in the science, engineering and information technology fields. Anthony has experience in commercialisation strategy, intellectualproperty, due diligence, marketing and promotion, negotiation, grant and capital raising from his roles at UniQuest Pty Ltd and QUT Bluebox Pty Ltd. Anthony has a scientific background having completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemistry) – Hons(First Class) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Materials Science / Nanomaterials at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland (UQ). Anthony has also completed a Graduate Certificate (Research Commercialisation at UQ and an Executive Masters of Business Administration at QUT.Anthony currently holds the position of Investment Manager at Uniseed Ventures. In this role Anthony is responsible for- Provision of on-going guidance and direction to investee companies, including the role of Director and / or project manager where appropriate;- Development of financial and commercial strategy, including identification of finance requirements, and investment and divestment strategies for investee companies;- Management of the process of assessment and due diligence on potential ICT and physical sciences investments- Uniseed Investment Committee Member- Management of the relationship between UniSeed and its partner universities including, where necessary, working with partners to identify potential investments for Uniseed- Development and maintenance of Uniseed's relationships with the QLD and NSWGovernment, Australian VC and commercialisation sector ## Andrius Slimas - Type: Angel - Location: Vilnius, Vilniaus Apskritis, Lithuania - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Information Technology, Cooking, Jewelry Andrius Slimas - CEO and co-founder @ Oberlo, formerly head of web agency Studio4, over ten years experience in ecommerce, dropshipping and software development.Oberlo is a dropshipping solution for ecommerce store-owners. It provides a number of dropshipping automation tools and instant access to millions of products available fordropshipping. ## Ashok Jacob - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 Ashok Jacob has over 32 years investment experience and has served as a Director and as Chief Investment Officer of Ellerston since inception4. Ashok has held prominent positions including Chief Executive Officer of the Consolidated Press Holdings group and Managing Director of Thorney Holdings, then the investment arm for the Pratt Group. Ashokis an experienced board member and current appointments include: MRF Ltd, Thorney Opportunities Ltd, Ellerston Global Investments and Ellerston Asian Investments. Previous directorships include Crown Ltd, Publishing and Broadcasting Ltd, Challenger Financial Group Ltd, Fleetwood Holdings Ltd, Ecorp Ltd, CPH Investment Group Ltd, Folkestone Ltd and Snack Foods Ltd. Ashok was also the Chairman of Hoyts Cinemas from 1999 until 2004. Ashok holds an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania (1984). ## Matt Williams - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Communication Hardware, Artificial Intelligence Matt Williams is a individual investor. ## Kunal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: Bengaluru, Karnataka, India - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Internet Kunal Shah ## Craig Bingham - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Craig Bingham ## Johnny Kahlbetzer - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Farming, Agriculture, Big Data Johnny Kahlbetzer is the COO and CEO of Twynam Agricultural Group. Johnny Kahlbetzer attended the University of New England. ## Ken Cheung Cheung - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Internet Mr Ken Cheung is a CEO of MCC International. ## Nikolas Majola - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Health Care, Gaming, Big Data Nikolas Majola is an entrepreneur, founder and investor. ## Gillian Findlay - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 Gillian Findlay is the Chief Operating Officer at Immutable. ## Dominic Pym - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cooking, Hospitality, Marketplace Dominic Pym is Co-Founder at Pin Payments. ## Tara Seshan - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence Tara Seshan ## Kenneth Auchenberg - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Customer Service, Artificial Intelligence Kenneth Auchenberg is an individual investor ## Simon Mawhinney - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Focus: Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Simon Mawhinney is a managing director of Allan Gray. ## Mark D’Alessandro - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Online Games, Artificial Intelligence Mark D’Alessandro ## Mark Livings - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Education, Communities Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands. ## Ruslan Kogan - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Apps, SaaS, FinTech Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets. ## Catherine Lacavera - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Medical, Health Care, Biotechnology Catherine Lacavera is the Chief Legal Officer of ShipBob. She previously worked at Color Health as a Chief Legal Officer. Catherine Lacavera attended the University of Toronto. ## Harald McPike - Type: Angel - Location: Nassau, New Providence, Bahamas - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series D - Focus: Software, FinTech, Analytics Harald McPike is a successful quantitative trader and global private investor. ## Quinn Quinn - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed - Focus: Software, Transportation, Apps Adrian became a serial entrepreneur who had multiple exits across the USA, Australia and NZ. Adrian is co-founder and lead investor at AngelCube, Melbourne’s first venture accelerator, which provides seed investment and mentoring for technology start-ups and recently won StartupSmart magazine’s “Best Start-up Investor” award. Adrian is alsofounding chairman of Investors' Organisation, whose mission is to grow the pool of investors willing to support Australia’s next generation of entrepreneurs, through collaboration and idea exchange. Adrian has invested in more than 40 Australian and US startups. ## Aaron Patzer - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Health Care, SaaS In January, I started another company, Vital Software, with Dr. Justin Schrager of Emory University. Vital makes software for hospital emergency rooms. This includes a mobile patient check-in for patients, and the fastest, most usable electronic medical records you've seen for doctors and nurses. We use extensive machine learning and naturallanguage processing to determine patient severity and anticipated actions. Our longer term goal is to cut ER wait times in half, as they are often 4-5 hours long. You might not know it, but there are 140M ER visits in the US alone each year.Medical / sales are in the US, while development is all in Auckland New Zealand. My long-time partner Rebecca, an architect, is a Kiwi and I am now a resident of New Zealand as well. ## Chadd Ciccarelli - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology Chadd Ciccarelli ## Ben Armstrong - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Legal Ben Armstrong is the Founder at Archangel Ventures. He attended Australian Institute of Company Directors. ## Julian Sarokin - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Futurist • Crypto • Founder @ The Automation Fund ## Artesian Investment - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A - Focus: Agriculture, Artificial Intelligence, SaaS Artesian Investment ## Kirsti Grant - Type: Angel - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, EdTech, Consumer Software Kirsti Grant - CEO & Co-founder @ Populate ## James McKinnon - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Enterprise Software James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL ## Nicholas Gruen - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Enterprise Software Nicholas Gruen is a prominent Australian economist and commentator on innovation and the CEO of Lateral Economics and Chairman of the Open Knowledge Foundation (Australia). He was formerly Chairman of the Australian Centre for Social Innovation, the Australian Government's Innovation Australia and founding chairman of Kaggle. Lindsay Tannerhas described him as "Australia's foremost public intellectual". ## Roger Allen - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry. ## Justin Liberman - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Health Care, Information Technology, Dental Justin thrives on working with dedicated entrepreneurs focussed on building innovative businesses.In addition to Square Peg Capital, Justin is Principal and Chief Executive at Jagen, a Family Office with investments across all major sectors. With origins in manufacturing and real estate the family is active in all stages of Venture, Growth andPE investing.Justin holds a Bachelor of Laws and a Bachelor of Economics from Monash University. ## Jutech Pty Ltd - Type: Angel - Location: Toowoomba, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mining, Retail, Medical Jutech Pty Ltd ## Darren Patterson - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Sports, Travel, Banking Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors. # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co