Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Oceania (June 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Akshay Kothari
Angel
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2 | United States, India, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Information Technology, Internet | $850k–$25M |
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Peter Beck
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Series A, Series B | Software, AgTech, Hardware | |
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Cameron Adams
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | Farming, Software, Recycling | $1.1M–$4.4M |
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Laurence Escalante
Angel
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1 | Australia, Singapore | Seed, Convertible Note | Dairy, Retail, CleanTech | |
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Nikki Warburton
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Retail, Automotive, Publishing | |
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Connor Theilmann
Angel
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1 | United States, Canada, Israel | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, E-Commerce | $790k–$28M |
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Quentin Wallace
Angel
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1 | Australia | Pre-Seed, Seed | SaaS, Finance, Internet | $539k–$1.3M |
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Joshua Payne
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Finance, Internet, Automotive | |
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Matthew Browne
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand, Philippines | Seed, Pre-Seed | Software, Construction, Information Technology | $155k–$3M |
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Lisa Kate Miller
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Software, Automotive, Electric Vehicle | $1.1M–$4.4M |
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Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.
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- Industry: Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, India, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 53
- Round size: Seed $2M–$15M; Pre-Seed $850k–$20M; Series A $12M–$25M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Eigen — Eigen is an AI-driven platform designed to enrich real-world social connectivity.
- Maxed — The AI-Native Operating System for CPA Firms: Maxed replaces the expensive, fragmented software stack CPA firms are locked into today with a single, flexible platform powered by AI agents. Maxed provides best-in-class infrastructure at a fraction of the cost - automating the manual work that buries firms every tax season, allowing them to leverageAI to outpace competitors and serve more clients without increasing headcount.
- Quanta — Quanta provides software companies with real-time financial clarity and empowerment. Quanta envision a world in which all business accounting tasks that are not creative in nature are automated, leaving finance teams and business owners to focus solely on strategic and creative work.
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.
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- Industry: Software, AgTech, Hardware
- Stage:Series A, Series B
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 5
- Lead/follow: no public data
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.
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, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 8
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.4M
- 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
- Marlee (Fingerprint For Success) — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.
Laurence Escalante is the Founder & CEO at VGW
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- Industry: Dairy, Retail, CleanTech
- Stage:Seed, Convertible Note
- 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.
Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.
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- Industry: Retail, Automotive, Publishing
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
Connor Theilmann is the Chief Business Officer at ServiceTitan. Previously he was an investor at Accel in Palo Alto. He attended The Wharton School for Accounting and Finance & the Penn Engineering School for Computer Science.
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- Industry: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Canada, Israel
Investor stats
- Total investments: 37
- Round size: Seed $1.4M–$8.2M; Pre-Seed $790k–$1M; Series A $6.5M–$28M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Albiware — Award-winning platform loved by our customers and trusted by 1000s of restorers Worldwide. See how our restorers scale their business.
- Coast — Coast is the simple, all-in-one fleet and fuel card that helps businesses easily pay for and track vehicle expenses. It's quick to set up, easy-to-use, and full of rewards.
- Sumer — Sumer builds technology for micro small businesses. We enable businesses to grow sales and improve their management with simple features.Our first goal is to enable businesses go digital with our “15 second store”: Via Sumer App, any business can create a digital store rapidly, upload a catalogue of the products and share it with clients. Thus,we leverage on the mobile penetration in LatAm and simplify the cumbersome experience of having an online store. We have a Digital Ledger and an Ads tool to allow business reach new audiences. From there we are working on adding features (centered in Customer Service, Payments, Financing) that will complement the operating system we will put on every entrepreneur’s hand.SUMER was founded in June 2021. The company is headquartered in Bogotá, Colombia with offices in Mexico City, Mexico
Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.
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- Industry: SaaS, Finance, Internet
- Stage:Pre-Seed, Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Pre-Seed $539k–$1.3M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
- Minke — Send, save and invest crypto with zero fees and an experience as intutive as your bank.
- Modo — Declutter your mind with our app to boost your mental wellbeing and productivity. modo helps you be present in the moment and focus on what matters most.
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.
Matthew Browne is a Co-Founder and CIO at Upflowy.
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- Industry: Software, Construction, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand, Philippines
Investor stats
- Total investments: 10
- Round size: Seed $155k–$3M
- Lead/follow: 40% lead, 60% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
- Portainer — Portainer is a self-service container service delivery platform. It is the definitive container management GUI for Kubernetes, Docker and Swarm.
- iNSPIRETEK — More Than (Just) An Athlete Management System We go further by empowering young athletes, coaches, parents, teams and sporting organisations to gain insight into mental health and wellbeing through tracking, evidence-based content, support and interventions through our Prevention-via-Prediction platform. Our accessible and affordable WMS focuses on the whole athlete, not just their
head of product
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- Industry: Software, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 4
- Round size: Seed $1.1M–$4.4M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Good Car Company — We provide high-quality and affordable electric cars and vans across Australia to assist in an equitable transition to low emissions transport.
- Marlee (Fingerprint For Success) — AI technology to bring out the best in your team. Start now for free. Trust in more than 1 million coaching minutes, rated 4.4 out of 5 with a 90% success rate.
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