Top 10 Blockchain Angel Investors in Australia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Blockchain startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Blockchain companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Blockchain Angel Investors in Australia

Investor	Blockchain Australia investments
Jason Lenga	1
Evan Cheng	1
Ashwin Ramachandran	1
Santiago Roel Santos	1
Zhen Cao	1
Matt Rockman	1
Radek Ostrowski	1
Alireza TayebNama	1
Mark D’Alessandro	1
Jordan Elpern-Waxman	1

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Jason has overall stewardship of SEEK’s international investments and international corporate strategy including new investment opportunities. Jason also leads the Strategy and Business Development team for SEEK's Australian and New Zealand online employment businesses.Jason has been with SEEK since 1999 in a variety of senior roles andhas been instrumental in developing SEEK's strategic direction as well as establishing and driving key parts of the business, including the development of the Group’s significant international assets.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Blockchain
Series B, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Shippit — Shippit is the multi-carrier shipping software helping you become the store every customer loves. Powering delivery for thousands of Australian sellers, stop dreading fulfilment and knock it out in minutes. Try it free today.
Behaviol — Behaviol is a tech company building a new virtual sporting world on the metaverse, where sports people are virtual characters, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.

Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

PARSIQ — Explore the future of blockchain with PARSIQ - Your gateway to advanced blockchain monitoring, smart triggers, and real-time intelligence. Empower your crypto journey with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled insights. Join us in revolutionizing the way you interact with the blockchain ecosystem
Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
Kernal Biologics — Kernal biologics is an onco-selective mRNA therapeutics company located in Cambridge, MA

Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

ZKX — ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook

Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tower Pop — Tower Pop is a mobile gaming industry that focuses on tower defense. Tower Pop was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Finland.
Clique — Clique is building identity oracles that connect web2 user behavior data with web3 applications.
Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.

Zhen is a partner at Republic.co, an Angelist spin-off, with 1M users globally, the mission is democratizing private market investing. Republic is one of the most trusted online startup ecosystems in the world, along with AngelList, Product Hunt and CoinList family. Our funding portal and broker-dealer are SEC-registered and members of FINRA. Shewas the partner of JLAB, the crypto fund of JD Capital. It is the only public PE fund in China with a $9B AUM. Her portco included The Graph, Flow, Star Atlas, StepN, Oasis, Thunder, MobileCoin, Ontology, Ankr, etc. Zhen was on the content strategy team in HTC Vive, Where she was working on Skyrim, Doom, Star War, Star Trek, Ready Player One, Fallout, etc.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

STEPN — STEPN ioffers a blockchain-based fitness app. It works by letting users buy NFTs that last for a certain amount of time.
Ancient8 — Expedite Ancient8 Ecosystem of unique onchain experience with Games, Growth Tools and dApps.
Karmaverse — Karmaverse is a gamefi multiverse,it is created by the team behind two of the top 10 SLG games in the mobile gaming history.

Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, B2B
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
Magnet Capital — Launched in 2017, Magnet Capital is an Australian investment fund focused solely on crypto and digital assets
Ordermentum Pty Ltd — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

A talented developer and an architect able to hit the ground running. With his broad skill set, he has contributed to the success of many small local and big international projects. Effective in taking applications from inception to completion and in improving the existing solutions. Motivated by challenges and driven by ambition agileproblem-solver.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Funding Round, Seed
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

prePO — The decentralized Pre-IPO & Pre-Token trading platform
Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.

Entrepreneur with unique background across tech and ag/food. Worked as BDM lead for large corporations building complex tech solutions across multiple industries and also worked in the ag/food sectors from on-farms to developing industry transformation roadmaps.

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Marli Technology Solutions — Marli uses decentralised finance and crypto technologies to enable the cross-border exchange of standardized carbon units. Every Marli token either absorbs or saves 1 tonne of CO2. Using blockchain and smart contracts we ensure that no credit is spent twice and prices are predictable. The annual market for carbon credit is expected to reach $50B by2030.Existing solutions to offset emissions are fragmented marketplaces. Low liquidity, transparency and the lack of automation are major barriers preventing wide-spread adoption. Marli is addressing these challenges.We’re a team of dedicated experts with background ranging across environmental sciences, technology, agriculture, sales, marketing and economics.After securing pre-seed funding from Borderless Capital and the Algorand Foundation for building our MVP, we’re currently raising funds for our seed round to build dedicated sales and development teams.

Mark D’Alessandro

Investment focus

Blockchain, Online Games, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Behaviol — Behaviol is a tech company building a new virtual sporting world on the metaverse, where sports people are virtual characters, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Jordan Elpern-Waxman is the founder of Olive Branch Ventures, where he invests in and advises early stage technology startups, typically before they have raised any institutional financing, including ClassPass, ConvertMedia (acquired by Taboola), Fitocracy (acquired, stealth), OneSpot, WiredScore, and CTY. Jordan is an advisor for WiredScore,the owner and operator of the international Wired Certification standard for rating the internet connectivity of commercial office buildings, as well as a mentor for MetaProp NYC, the first real estate technology accelerator, and URBANX, a joint venture between BMW/Mini and HAX to accelerate startups focused on making cities better. He previously helped WiredScore launch the WiredConcierge business to help bring broadband to SMBs in the city. Prior to WiredScore, Jordan was the Founder and CEO of Beer Dreamer, a startup that elevated drinkers' craft beer experience through curated commerce and content. Prior to Beer Dreamer Jordan was a Senior Associate at Genacast Ventures, where he represented the firm in New York City and was responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities across a wide range of information technology sectors. His prior experience in tech companies includes software engineering, business development and partnerships, corporate development. Jordan holds a BA in Computer Science and International Relations from Brown University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the Dean’s List. He is the cofounder and coorganizer of alumni groups in the tech and digital media industries for both of his alma maters, Digital Brown and Penn Digital, respectively.