# Top 50 Consumer Angel Investors in Australia in June 2026 ## Adam Schwab - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series C - Focus: Software, Wellness, Art Adam Schwab, 36, studied Law/Commerce at Monash University before becoming a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers & acquisitions at Freehills (now HerbertSmithFreehills). At 25, Adam co-founded corporate accommodation and services group, Living Corporate Apartments. In 2010, Adam co-founded what would soon become the Lux Group. In2011, Adam co-founded of MyTable, which eventually formed part of Menulog (which was sold to JustEat in 2015). Adam is currently an investor and non-executive director of online art marketplace, BlueThumb.com.au.In 2015, Adam was named the Australian Young Executive of the Year by CEO Magazine, and Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia since 2010. ## Les Szekely - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Software, Customer Service, Travel Les Szekely B.A. LL.M. FAICD, is an active business angel, mentor, and M&A consultant. He started GPC in 2010 after a career of almost 30 years as a tax consulting partner and director with Horwaths Chartered Accountants and then Deloitte. He is the author of over a dozen books on taxation law, has been an active angel investor since 1999 andis currently a director of several early stage and maturing companies. ## Gabby Leibovich - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Apps, FinTech, Internet Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au. ## Rob Chapman - Type: Angel - Location: Birmingham, Birmingham, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Fashion, Consumer Goods Rob joined BGF in July 2013 to head up Direct Origination across the firm. He is based in Birmingham, but with a national remit to increase the volume of off-market investments made through establishing direct channels of contact with attractive organisations. Prior to joining BGF, Rob was Managing Director of Cadenza Partners, an independentDeal Origination boutique which sourced investment opportunities for High Net Worth Individuals and Private Equity firms across the UK. He began his career in Deal Origination after designing and building the highly successful MBI Programme at Leeds-based recruiter Ellis Fairbank, before transferring to global headhunting firm Odgers Berndtson. He brings with him a track record of sourcing more than two dozen investments since his first deal completed in October 2006. ## Julian Tobias - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Electronics, Information Technology Julian Tobias is the Early investor and founder of Whizz Technologies. ## Justus Hammer - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Retail, Fashion, FinTech Justus is a seasoned entrepreneur who has been working in the technology space for over a decade. First as a founder of Spreets and later as an investor and advisor to other startups such as Airtasker. His latest venture is Sellable with which he plans to revolutionise the real estate landscape in Australia. ## Didier Elzinga - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Music Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!). ## Jeremy Same - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Art, Beauty, Internet Jeremy Same co-founded AussieCommerce in 2010. Jeremy Same began his career as a credit trader at ANZ Investment Bank in 2002, then departed in late 2003. He co-founded Living Corporate Apartments and serves as its Director. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of BigThanks.com.au and Sames.com.au. He was Founder and Managing Director ofMyTable, an online takeaway ordering platform, before exiting the business in 2012 in a sale to EatNow, to create Australia’s fastest growing food ordering website. He is also a dedicated amateur guitarist - much to the delight of his neighbours. He serves as Executive Director of AussieCommerce. ## Mike Zimmerman - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Michael brings over 20 years experience in strategy, business development and general management of technology startups and other high growth companies. Michael founded BuildingIQ in 2009 and served as its CEO until 2013. Prior to founding the company, Michael was a General Partner at Technology Venture Partners (TVP), a leading Australian venturecapital firm. Prior to TVP, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Altos Ventures, and a senior executive at iOwn Holdings, a leading Internet mortgage company (sold to Citigroup in 2001). Previously, Michael worked with Bain & Company and Goldman Sachs. He holds a BA with Honors from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford Business School. ## Andrew Larsen - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Fitness I'm passionate about technology entrepreneurship and value creation.My primary role is the Investment Director at Larsen Ventures; an active investor in early-stage technology companies.I'm also a Partner & IC member @ Folklore Ventures, Board member at a number of growth stage startups, and feel incredibly privileged to bebacking some incredibly smart and driven Founders.I love supporting the local innovation ecosystem, and showcasing Australian technology on the world stage. I'm sometime lucky enough to be a judge, mentor, and adviser within the Australian ecosystem. ## Paul Greenberg - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Consumer Goods Paul Greenberg ## Hezi Leibovich - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Apps, FinTech Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years. ## Cyan Ta'eed - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Food and Beverage, Consumer, CleanTech Cyan Ta'eed was born in Sydney, Australia. She worked as a graphic designer before co-founding Envato in 2006 with her husband, Collis Ta'eed, and his best friend, Jun Rung. She now serves on Envato's Board of Directors. Cyan Ta'eed is also the co-creator of New Day Box, a charity focusing on women in crisis. ## Andrew Hagger - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Fashion, Shopping, E-Commerce Andrew Hagger is the CEO Tattarang. ## Dany Milham - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer Goods Mitch Taylor is the Co-Founder and CEO at Koala. He attended Murdoch University. ## Hemal Shah - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 Hemal Shah is a VP of Product at Atlassian. He previously led product at Root, Facebook, Instagram, and Twitter. ## Brian O’Farrell - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Banking, Computer, Software Brian O’Farrell is the Co-Founder & CRO at Furthr. He attended University College Dublin. ## Christopher Mapp - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Consumer, Loyalty Programs Christopher Mapp ## Brian Sugar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Fashion Brian Sugar is the Managing Partner of Sugar Capital. He is a Founder at POPSUGAR. ## Mitch Taylor - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Consumer Goods Mitch Taylor ## Sina Afra - Type: Angel - Location: Istanbul, Istanbul, Turkey - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: E-Commerce, Fashion, Internet Sina Afra is the CEO and Founder of Tiko. He previously worked at Markafoni as a CEO and Founder. Sina Afra attended the University of Münster. ## Jeff Yew - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Marketing, Electronics, Marketplace Jeff Yew is a Founder & CEO of Monochrome. ## Roger Allen - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry. ## Craig Barratt - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, Computer, Database 20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications. ## George Burke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing. ## Garry Visontay - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Information Technology Garry Visontay is an entrepreneur and investor who has started and grown five businesses in a variety of industries. He is a General Partner at Right Click Capital, an investment firm that specialises in identifying and investing in high-growth, early-stage Internet-based businesses; cofounder and Chairman of RecruitLoop; Chairman of Oneflare;Chairman of Generation Entrepreneur and past Chairman of DesignCrowd. ## Josh Hannah - Type: Angel - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Josh Hannah ## Andrew R Banks - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Grocery, Medical, Health Care Andrew R Banks ## Cameron Adams - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Farming, Software, Recycling 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. ## Sean Parker - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Music, Internet Sean Parker is the Founder and Chairman of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. He previously worked at Spotify as a Board Member and Investor. Sean Parker attended Oakton High School. ## Matt Berriman - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Internet, Advertising, Financial Services Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia. ## Karl von Randow - Type: Angel - Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Music, Mobile Apps, Mobile Devices Karl von Randow - Co-Founder @ Letterboxd ## James Height - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Recycling, Consumer Goods James Height Co-Founder at Adore Beauty ## Alice Wells - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Beauty, Manufacturing Alice has extensive experience in private equity and corporate advisory services including business sales, acquisitions, capital raising, and recapitalisations with exposure to Asia, North American, and European corporate finance markets. She has a strong track record in identifying, assessing, and executing a range of transactions across fashion,healthcare, FMCG agriculture, and technology / software sectors. Alice has expertise in business valuation, due diligence, negotiation, deal structuring, and deal execution. ## Sam Nickless - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Legal, Finance, Health Care Sam Nickless ## Eric Ries - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University. ## Chadd Ciccarelli - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology Chadd Ciccarelli ## Michael Stoppelman - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003. ## Rolf Krecklenberg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Retail, Fashion, Lifestyle Rolf Krecklenberg - Chairman @ Robar Investments ## Sandy Kory - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Analytics, FinTech Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University. ## Dimiter Tschawow - Type: Angel - Location: Zürich, Zurich, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: E-Commerce, Retail, Internet Dimiter Tschawow ## Bosco Tan - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Bosco Tan ## Anthony Musumeci - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Logistics, Media and Entertainment, Art Anthony has an extensive experience in cutting edge research and commercialisation, particularly across the University sector. Over the last 10 years Anthony has worked with a wide range of new innovations predominantly in the science, engineering and information technology fields. Anthony has experience in commercialisation strategy, intellectualproperty, due diligence, marketing and promotion, negotiation, grant and capital raising from his roles at UniQuest Pty Ltd and QUT Bluebox Pty Ltd. Anthony has a scientific background having completed a Bachelor of Applied Science (Chemistry) – Hons(First Class) at the Queensland University of Technology (QUT) and a Doctorate of Philosophy in Materials Science / Nanomaterials at the Australian Institute for Bioengineering and Nanotechnology at the University of Queensland (UQ). Anthony has also completed a Graduate Certificate (Research Commercialisation at UQ and an Executive Masters of Business Administration at QUT.Anthony currently holds the position of Investment Manager at Uniseed Ventures. In this role Anthony is responsible for- Provision of on-going guidance and direction to investee companies, including the role of Director and / or project manager where appropriate;- Development of financial and commercial strategy, including identification of finance requirements, and investment and divestment strategies for investee companies;- Management of the process of assessment and due diligence on potential ICT and physical sciences investments- Uniseed Investment Committee Member- Management of the relationship between UniSeed and its partner universities including, where necessary, working with partners to identify potential investments for Uniseed- Development and maintenance of Uniseed's relationships with the QLD and NSWGovernment, Australian VC and commercialisation sector ## Arun Nair - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Consumer, Marketplace, Customer Service Arun Nair ## Collis Ta'eed - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: E-Commerce, Food and Beverage, Email Collis Ta'eed grew up in Papua New Guinea. He moved to Australia to attend university and later worked as a web designer, selling Flash stock on the side. His experience selling stock inspired him to co-found Envato with his wife, Cyan Ta'eed, and best friend, Jun Rung. Collis has served as Envato's CEO since the company'sfounding in 2006. ## Michael Gonski - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Legal, Drones, Software Michael Gonski ## Saar Gillai - Type: Angel - Location: Los Altos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing Saar Gillai is an Independent board director at Xilinx, Semtech, and Liquid Instruments as well as a CEO advisor to multiple companies. Saar is also an executive mentor at Merryck. Previously, Saar was the CEO of Teridion, a SaaS startup focused on cloud networking, where he grew recurring revenue 50% YoY, and expanded the product line to go afterthe SD-WAN market.Before Teridion, Saar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE’s Communications Solutions Business (CSB), a global billion-dollar division with over 4000 employees. In this role, Saar integrated multiple units and acquisitions into one cohesive division focused on the Telco space. He established HPE as a key player in the software-defined next-generation service provider market and grew network virtualization revenue by over 10x within two years.Before running CSB, Saar spent two years as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP Cloud where he played a vital role in aggressively driving and consolidating HP's disparate cloud efforts into a full business unit with the number one market position in private cloud while working closely with F50 enterprises on their cloud adoption and digital transformation journey.Prior to HPE, Saar was SVP of Products and Solutions at 3com, where he played a key role in rebuilding 3coms enterprise offerings, driving the collaboration with H3C, a Chinese subsidiary, and ultimate sale to HP for ~$3B, achieving a 350% valuation increase in 18 months. In addition, Saar has held C level positions at Tropos Networks and Enfora; two startups focused on Wireless Mesh and M2M / IoT, and spent seven years at Cisco Systems in a variety of leadership positions, including VP of Engineering for the Wireless Networking business undevelopment and operations with Enfora, Inc., a wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) company. In addition, Mr. Gillai served for seven years in a variety of leadership positions with Cisco Systems, Inc., including as Vice President of Engineering for Cisco’s Wireless Networking business unit. ## Thomas Jones - Type: Angel - Location: London, England, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: CRM, SaaS, Retail Thomas Jones is a entrepreneur and founder of Charlotte Street Capital. Previously he worked with SMARTS Group International as a Founder & Executive Director. He attended the University of Sydney and Birkbeck, University of London. ## Hugh Robertson - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Consumer, Loyalty Programs Hugh Robertson - Principal @ Bell Potter ## Kate Morris - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Marketing, Recycling, Craft Beer Kate Morris Founder at Adore Beauty # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features: - 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others) - Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data - Updated daily from public funding news - CSV and Excel export The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co