Top 25 Finance Angel Investors in Australia in December 2024
A list of 25 angel investors that invest in Finance startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Finance companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 25 Finance Angel Investors in Australia in December 2024
Investor | Finance Australia investments |
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Leigh Jasper | 2 |
Robert Phillpot | 2 |
Chris Hitchen | 1 |
Mike Zimmerman | 1 |
Bevan Clark | 1 |
Ben Taylor | 1 |
Mateusz (Mati) Szeszkowski | 1 |
Matt Rockman | 1 |
Bob Hennessy | 1 |
Christian Faes | 1 |
Alex Vynokur | 1 |
Matthew Browne | 1 |
Quentin Wallace | 1 |
Raj Bhat | 1 |
James Goodwin | 1 |
Joshua Payne | 1 |
Martin Lam | 1 |
Sam Nickless | 1 |
Damien Waller | 1 |
Guy Pearson | 1 |
Greg Waldorf | 1 |
Thomas Rice | 1 |
Guy King | 1 |
Lachlan McKnight | 1 |
Tom Richardson | 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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Germany, Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Holidu — Holidu is one of the fastest-growing travel tech companies worldwide that aims to finally make the search and booking of vacation rentals easy. Its search engine uses proprietary image recognition technology to compare the prices of millions of rental properties across hundred of websites including Airbnb, Booking.com, and Homeaway. This enablesusers to quickly find the ideal accommodation and to save up to 55% on their bookings. It was founded in 2014 by brothers Johannes and Michael Siebers and is headquartered in Munich, Bayern, Germany.
- Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
- Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Birch — A credit card rewards app that helps you get the most out of your reward programs.
- 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.
- 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.
Board Member at YourGrocer.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
- Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.
Ben Taylor is the Managing Director at Oxygen Home Loans. Ben attended AGSM @ UNSW Business School.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- WeMoney — WeMoney is focused on obtaining an Open Banking license so that the Fintech firm can gain access to customer banking data, which may be used to improve the quality of services offered to them.WeMoney’s platform lets users keep track of their pending utility bills and other recurring payments. The platform also aims to help customers with managingtheir savings and monitoring their monthly income. Joveski revealed that his company is also developing features that will use behavioral science and AI to help users make better or more informed financial decisions.
- CarClarity — Find low rate car finance in just 60 seconds. CarClarity compares 30+ lenders to find your best car loan rates based on your circumstances. Save time and money with fast car loan approval.
Mateusz (Mati) Szeszkowski - Founder & CEO @ Norland Capital
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Software
- Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Siftery — Siftery is a database of sorts where companies list their software stacks. Siftery compares companies with similar stacks and looks for differences to make some recommendations.
- Marketlend — Marketlend is a securitized lender platform that delivers short-term credit facilities for small and medium-sized enterprises (SMEs) in Australia and Asia by enabling the matching of investors to the underlying SME facilities.
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.
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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 — 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.
Bob Hennessy was appointed Group CIO of Lendlease in June 2015 and is based in Sydney, Australia. Bob has close to 40 years experience in technology across a range of industries, including steel manufacturing, transport, financial services, telecommunications and consulting. Prior to joining Lendlease, Bob was CEO of Pacteras Australian and NZbusiness having sold his privately owned consulting firm to them in 2012. Pactera was a NASDAQ listed entity at the time of the sale but was subsequently acquired by Blackstone International in 2014. Previous roles include leading the technology stream supporting the integration of BT, Rothschild and Westpac Financial Services, which saw him appointed CIO of the integrated company. Bob was also CIO of TNT Asia Pacific driving the integration of the Australian business from 1996 to 1998 following the acquisition of TNT by the Dutch PTT. As a consultant, Bob conducted reviews of transformation programs in telecommunications, health and retail fuel. He has sat on client steering committees for major transformation programs in banking, manufacturing & distribution and transport. Bobs experience as an executive in industrial sectors and volatile business conditions lends him a rare combination of experiences invaluable for companies on the cusp of significant change. His combination of client-side and sell-side roles, coupled with his entrepreneurial experience brings an appreciation of a range of business perspectives.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Software, Construction
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mastt — Better Capital Works Portfolio Management - Make better, quicker business decisions with real time transparency over your capital works program.
Christian Faes was previously co-founder and CEO of LendInvest, which is a technology driven mortgage lender and a leading Fintech company. The company has over £3.5 billion of Funds Under Management, and is one of the largest non-bank mortgage lenders in the UK.
Now building Faes & Co.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Finance
- Seed, Funding Round, Angel
- United Kingdom, Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Knoma — Search hundreds of courses from leading schools and bootcamps. Learn now and pay later with Knoma and spread the cost with ethical finance
- Volume — Payment Infrastructure for the Internet
- Finclusion Group — Enhancing financial inclusion in Sub-Saharan Africa through data driven lending.
Alex Vynokur - Principal & Co-Founder @ Apex Capital Partners
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
- Archa — Archa, a smart business credit card and spend management solution. Zero interest, higher limits with no personal guarantee.
Matthew Browne is a Co-Founder and CIO at Upflowy.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Automotive
- Seed
- Australia
Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Automotive
- Seed, Pre-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.
Raj Bhat
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Investment focus
- Finance, Financial Services
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- CarClarity — Find low rate car finance in just 60 seconds. CarClarity compares 30+ lenders to find your best car loan rates based on your circumstances. Save time and money with fast car loan approval.
James Goodwin - Board of directors @ Macrovue
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Investment focus
- Finance, Big Data, Accounting
- Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Macrovue — HALO Technologies is dedicated to building world-leading investment technology accessible for all types of investors.
Joshua Payne is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Battery Future Acquisition Corp.
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Investment focus
- Finance, Internet, Automotive
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Vyro — Browse, compare and finance an electric car, with instant trade in and personalised loans.
Martin Lam - Co-Founder @ Lendi
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Investment focus
- Legal, Finance, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Sam Nickless
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Investment focus
- Legal, Finance, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Damien Waller is a Chairman at Point Hacks. He attended Monash University.
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Investment focus
- Credit, FinTech, Finance
- Funding Round
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Nimble — Nimble provides a fast solution to short-term financial hurdles. A Nimble loan is paid back over weeks, not months or years. Their world-leading profiling technology allows customers to receive an instant decision upon completing an application.You'll know if you've been approved straight away - not hours or days later. Their freshapproach to lending means there's no waiting around for someone to assess your application. No sitting around anxiously wondering whether you're approved or not.You'll have an answer within a minute and cash can be in your bank account within 60 minutes. Nimble re-branded from Cash Doctors in October 2012.
Guy has more then a decade's experience in professional practice and is a Chartered Accountant.
Before Practice Ignition he founded and grew Interactive Accounting and Your Modern Practice.
Guy's extremely passionate about providing small business owners with better information and better advice.
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Investment focus
- Software, Accounting, SaaS
- Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Weel — With smart corporate cards and easy-to-use expense management software, Weel helps move your business forward. Try Weel for free today.
- AuditCover — AuditCover provides accountants a simpler, smarter and faster way to insure their clients. With our digital onboarding, secure data sharing and direct-to-taxpayer programs.
- Cake — Here at Cake Equity we make equity easier to use. Grow your company, reward your team, eliminate the hassle. Sign up for FREE today!
Greg Waldorf is a Lecturer at Stanford Graduate School of Business and the former CEO of Invoice2go, the mobile app that helps small businesses manage their cash flow through easy-to-use invoicing, expense tracking and simple reporting tools. He has a long history of involvement with leading technology businesses. Prior to joining Invoice2go, Gregwas affiliated with Accel Partners as CEO-in-residence. Greg also served as CEO of eHarmony for five years from 2006-2010 where he drove significant global growth through an expansion to 15 countries worldwide.He holds a BA from University of California, Los Angeles and an MBA from Stanford University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Real Estate, Internet
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Brazil, Nigeria
Portfolio highlights
- Plateaumed — Level up your medical practice with our world-class EHR
- Rubik — Rubik is a data platform for Real Estate investors. We leverage Machine Learning to provide financial data on all single family homes. Real Estate investors use Rubik to instantly find properties that match their investment criteria.
- Backflip — With fast analysis, tailored loans, and a smoother funding process, Backflip gives you the confidence and the cash to close your next great property deal.
Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO).
Angel investor in Australia.
Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Internet of Things
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Alta — Alta is a virtual reality company developing A Township Tale, a social VR multiplayer experience!
- WORK180 — WORK180 is a global jobs network that operates at the forefront of a new workplace revolution. Our function is twofold.As an advocate for working women, we provide job applicants with a transparent directory of endorsed employers who support diversity, inclusion and equality.We share information around pay equity, flexible working, paidparental leave, equal opportunities and a range of other important criteria. Before an employer comes on board, we put them through a pre-screening process and on average, about 80% of companies who apply to work with us, pass our criteria.
- Remote Social — Remote Social is the ultimate destination for remote and hybrid teams to build connection and culture through play and shared experiences.
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.
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Investment focus
- Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
- Seed, Angel, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
- YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne
Lachlan is the CEO of LegalVision. He co-founded LegalVision in 2012 with the goal of providing high quality, cost effective legal services at scale to both SMEs and large corporates.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
Tom Richardson is a Head of Startups & SMB, APAC & Japan at Stripe. He attended the University of Cambridge.
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Investment focus
- Banking, FinTech, Finance
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Cape — Scale faster. Eliminate overspend. A corporate card that helps you save money, simplify expense reports, manage virtual cards & access a line of credit. No personal guarantee, no paperwork, no account fees.
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