Top 5 Automotive Angel Investors in Australia (August 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Darcy Naunton
Angel
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2 | Australia | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $375k–$2.5M |
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Cameron Adams
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Series A, Angel | Farming, Software, Recycling | $1.1M–$42M |
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Donald Morrison
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Finance, Internet, Automotive | |
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Stephen Baxter
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Angel, Series A | Transportation, SaaS, Photography | |
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Laurence Escalante
Angel
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1 | Australia, Singapore | Seed, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown | Dairy, Retail, CleanTech | |
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Darcy Naunton, CFA is a co-founder and Partner with the Fund, providing analytical expertise and a deep knowledge of capital markets and economics. He is also Managing Director of the York Butter Factory coworking/incubator space where he works closely with seed-stage tech startups. Darcy was previously an Investment Analyst at a major assetconsultancy firm, where he provided portfolio construction and asset selection advice to large institutional investors. He first began working in the financial services industry in 2004 as a paraplanner at a private financial planning firm.Darcy received his undergraduate degree from the University of Western Australia with a combined Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Science, holds a Master of Applied Finance from Monash University in Melbourne and is a member of the Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA) Institute.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $375k–$2.5M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Axiflux — Axiflux® is the creator of the Adaptive Magnetic Flux Array™ (AMFA™), the world’s first modular, real-time, software-reconfigurable electric motor and generator. Relative to a traditional electrical motor, the innovative configuration and control of the AMFA™ yields significant size, weight and price reductions, while increasing power output,efficiency and reliability.
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- Zabidou — Zabidou develops laser-based sensing systems that give machines real-time perception to separate materials and improve sorting efficiency.
Prior to Fluent, Cameron spent almost 4 years at Google, first working as lead designer on Wave and then creating future concepts for browsing social content. Prior to that he ran his own successful design consultancy, has authored four books on web design and regularly speaks at conferences around the world.
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- Industry: Farming, Software, Recycling
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.4M; Series A $3.5M–$42M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Agronomeye — Agronomeye uses the power of 3D farm modelling to transform your decision-making process.
- Sumday — Non - financial accounting software. Start carbon accounting, properly, with the support of your existing advisors
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Joshua Payne is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Battery Future Acquisition Corp.
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- Industry: Finance, Internet, Automotive
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs
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- Industry: Transportation, SaaS, Photography
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Series A
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Lead/follow: no public data
Portfolio highlights
- Go1 — Go1 offers training content from 250+ industry-leading providers, delivered seamlessly through any HR tech stack.
- Travelshoot — Your holidays are really important to us to create good memories and we are offering Worldwide Photographer Services. Get the best vacation photographer NYC & across the globe. Visit us now!
- Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
Laurence Escalante is the Founder & CEO at VGW
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- Industry: Dairy, Retail, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note, Venture - Series Unknown
- Geography: Australia, Singapore
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Bae Juice — 100% Korean pear juice
- Green Li-ion — Green Li-ion is a deep clean technology that solves the existential risk to the precious metals industry and the environment. Its patented deep technology is Cleaner, Faster, and 4x more profitable than current Lithium-Ion Battery recycling and the only technology to fully Rejuvenate the battery cathode. It was founded in 2020 and is based inSingapore.
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Automotive Angel investor funding in Australia at a glance
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