Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Oceania in January 2026
Top 10 Automotive Angel Investors in Oceania in January 2026
| Investor | Automotive Oceania investments |
|---|---|
| Akshay Kothari | 2 |
| Connor Theilmann | 1 |
| Laurence Escalante | 1 |
| Lisa Kate Miller | 1 |
| Joshua Payne | 1 |
| Nikki Warburton | 1 |
| Quentin Wallace | 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.
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- Software, Information Technology, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, India, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Julius AI — Julius is a powerful AI data analyst that helps you analyze and visualize your data. Chat with your data, create graphs, build forecasting models, and more.
- Wabi — The first personal software platform is arriving soon. Join the waitlist.
- Gimlet Labs — Gimlet Labs is an applied research lab focused on building high performance AI systems.
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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- 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
Laurence Escalante is the Founder and CEO at Virtual Gaming Worlds.
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- Dairy, Retail, Automotive
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Bae Juice — 100% Korean pear juice
- CarExpert.com.au — Australia's most reputable and independent motoring experts bring you the latest car reviews, comparisons, news and auto content.
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- 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.
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- Finance, Internet, Automotive
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director.
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- 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.
Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.
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- 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.
Stephen Baxter - Founder @ River City Labs
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- 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 that build products together. With the support of the Thiel Fellowship, Dylan dropped out of Brown University to start Figma with his TA, Evan Wallace. They built Figma on the web in the hopes of breaking down the barriers around the siloed design process.Dylan champions open, accessible design and believes such tools must evolve for a cloud-based, collaborative world.
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- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, United Kingdom, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Huxe — Huxe enables users to explore subjects in depth by automatically generating podcasts featuring multiple AI hosts who discuss, analyze, and clarify key points on any chosen topic.
- PlayerZero — PlayerZero delivers an AI-powered platform that helps engineering teams resolve software defects, predict future issues, and accelerate overall development quality. The platform integrates telemetry, user sessions, support tickets, and code repositories to trace problems directly to specific lines of code. It supports proactive detection ofregressions, anomaly monitoring, and context-aware documentation using natural language queries. PlayerZero enables automated defect resolution agents and predictive analysis engines grounded in live user behavior and historical commit data. The system emphasizes data privacy by masking sensitive information in the browser and allowing clients to use their own secure storage for session data.
- Revel — Software for our most daring hardware endeavours.
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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- 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.
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