# Top 40 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Australia in June 2026 ## Stani Kulechov - Type: Angel - Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy - Relevant deals: 5 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts. ## Sandeep Nailwal - Type: Angel - Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services Sandeep Nailwal is based out of United States and is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer of Polygon. Sandeep previously worked at Scopeweaver as a Co-Founder and CEO. Sandeep Nailwal attended the Indian Institute of Management. ## DCF GOD - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 4 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) DCF GOD ## Vitalik Buterin - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Grant - Focus: Blockchain, Software, Ethereum Vitalik Buterin is the Founder & Developer of TOKENEO. He previously worked at NextThought, LLC as a Developer Intern. Vitalik Buterin attended the University of Waterloo. ## Joyce Yang - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, FinTech Joyce Yang - Founder @ Global Coin Research ## Scott Moore - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet Scott Moore is the Founder of Public Works. He previously worked at Ethereum as an Ecosystem Grants. Scott Moore attended the University of Toronto. ## Ashwin Ramachandran - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, Software, FinTech Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University. ## Evan Cheng - Type: Angel - Location: Burlingame, California, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University. ## Radek Ostrowski - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency 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. ## Sam Kazemian - Type: Angel - Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi) Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance. ## Trung Nguyen - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Shoes, Gaming Trung Nguyen CEO at Axie Infinity. He attended FPT University during 2010-2017. ## Kevin O'Hara - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 Kevin O'Hara ## Marc Woodward - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Blockchain Marc joined Neo Technology Ventures in 2004 and has more than a decade of commercial experience with top-tier firms in the venture capital, investment banking, and consulting industries in the US and Australia. Throughout his career, Marc has been involved in early-stage and growth investment transactions and as a Director and Board Observer, hehas helped guide numerous start-up and emerging technology companies.Marc led Neo's investments in and is a Director of SigNav, Genbook, and Open Kernel Labs. Marc also led Neo's investment in RPO and is an Observer on the company's Board of Directors. Marc travels extensively in the United States and more recently China in support of the Neo portfolio, and has built an extensive fundraising, service provider, and business development network. Prior to Neo, Marc was an Associate Director with the Australasian Media & Communications Fund (AMCF), a $120M growth stage venture capital fund in Sydney. While at AMCF, Marc led the firm's investment in Peregrine Semiconductor Corp and subsequently served on the company's Board of Directors. Previously, Marc was a Senior Associate at Battery Ventures, a US$2B venture capital fund in Silicon Valley, where he helped direct investments in the communications industry. Marc co-led Battery's wireless industry investment strategy and helped direct the firm's investment in Airespace, a leading provider of enterprise wireless infrastructure. Airespace was acquired by Cisco Systems (NASDAQ: CSCO) for approximately US$450 million in 2005. Marc also led Battery's investment in E*Offering, which was acquired by Wit Capital Group for approximately US$330 million in 2000. Marc also contributed to Battery’s investment in Aurora Networks and subsequently served as an observer on the Board of Directors.Previously, he was a Technology Research Analyst with Wells Fargo Van Kasper, an investment banking firm in San Francisco, where he analyzed public and private companies in the communications industry. Prior to that, he was a Consultant in the Telecommunications Group of Accenture. Marc graduated from Georgetown University (Washington DC) with a Bachelor of Science degree with major concentrations in Finance and International Business. ## 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. ## SMOKEY ‎‏‏‎ - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency SMOKEY is an individual investor. ## Rohen Sood - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 Rohen Sood,General Partner at Reinventure Group. ## Chris Hitchen - Type: Angel - Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT. ## Matt Rockman - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Mobile, Apps, B2B 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. ## Mariano Conti - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, FinTech Mariano Conti is a Head of Smart Contracts at Maker Foundation. ## Henrik Andersson - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Ethereum Henrik Andersson ## Emrin Nurovic - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Ethereum, Internet Emrin Nurovic ## 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. ## 0xMaki ‏‏‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ ‎‏‏‎ ‎ - Type: Angel - Location: Seoul, Seoul-t'ukpyolsi, South Korea - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech 0xMaki is the co-founder of SushiSwap which is one of the largest DEXes. 0xMaki is also a frequent speaker at DeFi conferences. ## Alireza TayebNama - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: AgTech, FinTech, Blockchain 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. ## Sid Powell - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Initial Coin Offering - Focus: Blockchain, FinTech, Finance Sid Powell ## Darren Smorgon - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Ethereum, Internet Darren Smorgon ## Simon Cant - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Software, Blockchain Simon Cant is Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Reinventure. Founded in 2013, Reinventure is a corporate venture fund with $100m under management bringing together the best of independent venture capital and corporate venturing with Westpac as the primary investor. To date, the portfolio has 16 ventures which are focused on Fintech and adjacentareas. Simon is also the founding President of FinTech Australia, the industry’s peak representative body, and a member of the Australian Treasurer’s FinTech Advisory Group.Simon has built his career in venture and innovation including advising leadership and innovation teams at Westpac, NAB, Suncorp, Fairfax, News, APN and Tennis Australia as well as being a founding team member at Social Ventures Australia, Tinshed Angel Group, ninemsn and Austlii, where he was involved in pioneering legal expert systems. Prior to joining Austii, Simon was a solicitor with Allens. ## Guy King - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit. After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites. ## Kain Warwick - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft ## Danny Gilligan - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series C - Focus: FinTech, Software, Security Danny Gilligan is based out of Sydney, New South Wales and is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Reinventure. Danny previously worked at Flare HR as a Director and Investor. Danny Gilligan attended the University of New South Wales. ## Charles St.Louis - Type: Angel - Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, FinTech Charles St.Louis - CEO @ DELV ## Philippe Perzi - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Trading Platform, Financial Services Philippe Perzi,Managing Director at Goldman Sachs, Head of FIG Australia and New Zealand. ## Bevan Clark - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A - Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B Board Member at YourGrocer. ## Victor Tran - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 Victor Tran is a senior backend engineer and Linux system administrator. He is experienced in building high performance multi-platform applications. Victor has been involved in blockchain and cryptocurrency development since early 2016 and is a lead engineer at the SmartPool project. ## Ivangbi ‎‏‏‎ ‎ - Type: Angel - Location: Amsterdam, Noord-Holland, The Netherlands - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Cryptocurrency, Financial Services, Finance Ivangbi is an angel investor in DeFi projects and a contributor to the Gearbox DAO. ## Juan David Mendieta - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 Juan David Mendieta ## Joe Flanagan - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 Joe Flanagan is the Co-Founder at Maple. He attended Saint Louis University. ## sassal. eth - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Ethereum, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency sassal.eth is an individual investor. ## Kevin de Patoul - Type: Angel - Location: Brussels, Brussels Hoofdstedelijk Gewest, Belgium - Relevant deals: 1 Kevin de Patoul is the COO and CO-Founder at Keyrock. Attended CEMS - The Global Alliance in Management Education. ## James Simpson - Type: Angel - Location: Zug, Zug, Switzerland - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Blockchain, Financial Services James Simpson is the CEO of mStable. # 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