Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Oceania in May 2025

Last updated: May 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Automotive startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Automotive companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Oceania in May 2025

Investor	Automotive Oceania investments
Akshay Kothari	2
Lisa Kate Miller	1
Joshua Payne	1
Connor Theilmann	1
Quentin Wallace	1
Cameron Adams	1
Nikki Warburton	1
Stephen Baxter	1
Dylan Field	1
Peter Beck	1

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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.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, India, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

Duna — Meet the modern platform that accelerates business onboarding, automates manual work and grows revenue.
Campus — Live courses with top professors.
Yutori — Yutori is part of a slew of AI startups creating autonomous agents, or systems that use AI to perform actions on their own.

head of product

Investment focus

Software, Automotive, Electric Vehicle
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

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.

Joshua Payne is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Battery Future Acquisition Corp.

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Automotive
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.

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.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Israel

Portfolio highlights

Albiware — Award-winning platform loved by our customers and trusted by 1000s of restorers Worldwide. See how our restorers scale their business.
APFusion — APFusion is a B2B automotive marketplace helping salvage yards increase sales.
Albert Invent — 1000’s of scientists, technicians, and engineers across 30+ countries rely on Albert’s end-to-end Cloud Platform to accelerate the innovation of new materials. With Albert, R&D organizations get the data insights and tools needed to increase speed to market, automate regulatory compliance, and heighten the impact of new products.Built fromthe ground up for the chemical and material science industry, the Albert Platform connects R&D processes and creates a single data source of truth across the R&D organization. Augmented with AI, machine learning and a comprehensive materials database, key platform functionality includes inventory, worksheets, workflows, tasks, and more. www.albertinvent.com

Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.

Investment focus

Finance, Internet, Software
Pre-Seed, Seed
Australia

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.

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.

Investment focus

Farming, Software, Recycling
Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
Australia

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.

Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.

Investment focus

Retail, Automotive, Publishing
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.

Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs

Investment focus

Transportation, SaaS, Photography
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia

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.

Dylan Field is the CEO and Co-founder of Figma, a design and prototyping platform for teams who build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA Evan Wallace (who became Figma’s CTO). They built Figma on the web in the hopes of tearing down the walls around thesiloed design process. Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tooling must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world. He tweets @zoink

Investment focus

Software, Internet, Artificial Intelligence
Seed, Series A, Series B
United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand

Portfolio highlights

HeyGen — HeyGen is an innovative video platform that harnesses the power of generative AI to streamline your video creation process. Unleash your creativity with HeyGen - the future of video production.
Roam — Roam is the platform for affordable home ownership. Roam helps homebuyers purchase their next home with a low-interest rate mortgage included.
Perplexity — Perplexity is a search engine platform that uses artificial intelligence to provide large language models and search engines. The company's platform enables the development of beneficial artificial general intelligence, as well as an open-source environment that is accessible to the public, allowing clients to develop skills and knowledge inartificial intelligence.

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.