Top 15 Construction Angel Investors in Australia in January 2025
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Construction startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Construction companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Construction Angel Investors in Australia in January 2025
Investor | Construction Australia investments |
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Leigh Jasper | 4 |
Robert Phillpot | 3 |
Kurt Alexander | 2 |
Andrew Sypkes | 2 |
Luke & Janelle Roberts | 1 |
Josh Slattery | 1 |
Lucky Ariyasena | 1 |
William Welty | 1 |
Donald Kirk | 1 |
Jutech Pty Ltd | 1 |
James McKinnon | 1 |
Andrew Larsen | 1 |
Chris Sang | 1 |
Murray Bleach | 1 |
Simon Murdoch | 1 |
Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- Propeller Aero — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.
Co-founder Rob Phillpot is senior vice president of product and engineering, responsible for product vision, strategy and management. He has been instrumental in developing the company’s business on a global scale and ensuring that Aconex solutions deliver a superior customer experience to buyers and users. Before founding Aconex in 2000 with CEOand director Leigh Jasper, he managed document control, quality and trades on a site team at Brookfield Multiplex. Prior to Brookfield Multiplex, Mr. Phillpot was an auditor at Deloitte & Touche in Australia. He holds Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Planning and Design degrees with Honors and a Master of Building degree from the University of Melbourne.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Australia, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Kurt Alexander
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Andrew Sypkes
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Investment focus
- Construction, Management Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Fresho — The #1 order management platform for fresh food wholesale suppliers & their customers. Free demo on how to simplify ordering, picking, invoicing & payments.
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
Luke & Janelle Roberts
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Josh Slattery, Slattery Building chair.
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Investment focus
- Construction, Management Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
Lucky Ariyasena
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Investment focus
- Construction
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Maiden Ventures — With decades of experience in advanced engineering solutions, building services design, and infrastructure planning, Maiden Ventures is the go-to expert for innovative strategies. Trusted by top-tier clientele, our team of engineers collaborates globally to bring your visions to life.
William Welty
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Donald Kirk
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
Jutech Pty Ltd
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Investment focus
- Mining, Retail, Medical
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- QuickSafety — Now you can quickly and easily complete Certificate of Compliance in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane & New Zealand using the Quicksafety mobile app.
James McKinnon - Managing Partner @ MIRIN CAPITAL
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Investment focus
- Cyber Security, Software, Information Technology
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia
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- Spacelli —
- Expert360 — Hire elite consultants, project managers, data analysts, designers, and developers for your most important local & remote work
- StorReduce — StorReduce designs and develops deduplication software for its clients.The software features inline deduplication, backups, data replication, big data, and cloud-based support. The application assists its clients with migrating on-premises backups to cloud and backing up on-cloud data using deduplication.StorReduce was founded in 2014 and isbased in California.
Andrew is a Venture Partner with Tempus Partners, and an experienced founder and investor. He is a Director of HealthEngine a leading Australian healthtech company, a Director of UK EdTech stand-out Wonde, and an active investor in software and internet companies. Andrew is a Board Member of StartupAUS an industry body committed to developing theAustralian startup ecosystem and Founded Perth’s first tech co-working space.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Construction
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- nyfty.ai — We make little robot helpers to automate workflows, from Site Attendance & Manpower Logging, COVID-19 Prescreening & Emergency Messaging on Construction sites. Integrated to Procore (with more to come), our software bots do tasks on your behallf. It does the work you hate.
- Functionly — Functionly is the org chart builder for modern leaders. Automatically generate your chart, optimize resources, and plan change.
- Vitruvian Form — Vitruvian manufactures a connected fitness hardware, develops software and fitness class content.
Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer
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Investment focus
- Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Australia, India
Portfolio highlights
- Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
- Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.
- Tokenise — Tokenise acts as a data layer for web3 projects and their tokens. We help founders build their tokens simply, mint/launch their tokens on-chain and then manage their tokens in one place. Tokenise enables founders to curate rich data rooms that make it easier for investors to get onboard. We empower community with unprecedented insights andaccessibility into their favourite projects and their tokens.
Murray Bleach is the Non-Executive Director of Zanbato. He was with the Macquarie Group for over ten years from 1999 to 2009. During this time, he led the North American infrastructure business in pioneering success in the infrastructure sector.He played a leading role in a broad range of successful investments in toll roads, property, airservices, water, energy, utilities, aged care and telecommunications, including landmark transactions such as the privatization of the Chicago Skyway and the acquisitions of Atlantic Aviation and Duquesne Light.Murray was also appointed head Head of North America and Director and Co-CEO of Macquarie Capital (USA) Inc. and President of Macquarie Holdings (USA) Inc. In 2008, Murray returned to Australia as Global Head of Private Placements until his retirement from Macquarie in 2009.Murray has taken up a Non-executive Director role with Industry Funds Management as Chairman of its Board Investment Committee and serves on the Board of Directors for several infrastructure and energy companies.
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Investment focus
- Construction, Management Consulting, Information Technology
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 byAmazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman).Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online salesand profits.
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Investment focus
- E-Commerce, Software, Analytics
- Series A, Funding Round, Seed
- United Kingdom, United States, Ireland
Portfolio highlights
- Peek Home — Peek Home provides sketch plans, prices and planning advice for people who are puzzled by the process of creating their perfect home. All we need is your house number & postcode - no home visit needed.
- Patch — Patch is your new neighbourhood space for work, community, and events.
- Round Treasury — Put your startup cash on autopilot. Maximise your runway with smart deposits and withdrawals from your account, safeguarded and administered by regulated brokers.
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