# Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Australia in June 2026

## Stani Kulechov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 6
- 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.

## Kain Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

## Larry Diamond
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Larry Diamond is the founder of ZipMoney, a company that provides shoppers with online credit facilities. He was previously a director at Diamond Capital Partners.

Diamond holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and a master’s degree from UNSW Australia.

## DCF GOD
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed, Angel
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Decentralized Finance (DeFi)

DCF GOD

## Craig Winkler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps

Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.

## Bosco Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Bosco Tan

## Guy Pearson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Accounting, SaaS

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.

## Vitalik Buterin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Toronto, Ontario, Canada
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Software, Blockchain, 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.

## Leigh Jasper
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Construction

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.

## Patrick Tuttle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Payments

Patrick Tuttle

## Mark Harbottle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech

Matt Harbottle co-founded Melbourne-based SitePoint.com 10 years ago with Matt Mickiewicz, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. The company has been profitable every single month since its inception and is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals.In 2008, Mark spun off 99designs out of SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has become the market leader in crowdsourced graphic design and currently sees a new graphic uploaded to the site every 7 seconds and pays out over $1,000,000 to designers every month. In April 2011 99designs received $35m in a Round A led by Accel Partners.99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo, Dish Networks, and bestselling authors like Tim Ferriss and Rick Warren (author of â€œThe Purpose Driven Lifeâ€).In June of 2009, Mark and Matt launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling small websites via auction. Flippa currently sells over $2 million worth of website assets per month, with its biggest sale ever being ReTweet.com which sold for $250,000.In January of 2011, Learnable.com was launched, again as a spin off from SitePoint. Learnable is a peer to peer education platform where anyone can create an online course and sell access to it online.

## Bevan Clark
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B

Board Member at YourGrocer.

## Evan Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

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

## 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.

## 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.

## David Gordon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: B2B, Mobile, FinTech

David Gordon - Chairman @ Ordermentum Pty Ltd

## Daniel Johnson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

Daniel Johnson is the Founding Partner at We Scale Startups. He attended New Entrepreneurs Foundation.

## Rayn Ong
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Angel
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Marketing

Rayn Ong - Partner @ Archangel Ventures

## 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.

## Darren Patterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, Travel, Banking

Mr Patterson has more than 20 years’ experience working with both start-up and blue-chip technology companies spanning Australia, Europe, US and Asia. As a leading senior executive, his experience includes telecoms, IT, digital media and venture capital. Mr Patterson is Managing Partner and Co-Founder of Alchemy Ventures, an ESVCLP venturecapital fund established to invest in teams and ideas which changes lives and industries, whilst having a positive impact on human and environmental wellness.Mr Patterson's international experience has seen him hold senior business development roles with Yahoo, ECI Telecom, Energis Communications / Cable and Wireless PLC and Cisco Systems. He has been an investor in technology ventures Abyss Solutions, Persollo, Republic Capital Management, Firstwave Cloud Technology, Lumific and Datasift where he secured investment from US venture funds.Most recently he was the CEO and Co-Founder of Australia’s only regulated property investment platform, BrickX, and was CEO and executive director of Property Connect Holdings (ASX:PCH).Mr Patterson holds an MBA from the University of Chicago, Booth School of Business and a Bachelor of Computer Science from the University of Technology, Sydney and is a graduate member of the Australian Institute of Directors.

## Raffael Johnen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Software

Raffael Johnen  is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

## Gabby Leibovich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Internet

Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.

## 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

## Kurt Alexander
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mining, Retail, Medical

Kurt Alexander

## Anthony Warren
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

Anthony Warren, Dealer Principal at Peter warren Toyota.

## Ben Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Ben Taylor is the Managing Director at Oxygen Home Loans. Ben attended AGSM @ UNSW Business School.

## Adrian Di Marco
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Mr Di Marco founded TechnologyOne in 1987, after extensive software industry experience in the area of large scale fixed time and fixed price software development projects to meet client-specific requirements. Mr Di Marco has more than 30 years' experience in the software industry. He is responsible for all operational aspects of TechnologyOneand its strategic direction.

## Sam Kazemian
- Type: Angel
- Location: Las Vegas, Nevada, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Sam Kazemian is the Founder of Frax Finance.

## Glenn Butcher
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Energy, FinTech, Medical

Glenn Butcher

## Ken Cheung Cheung
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Internet

Mr Ken Cheung is a CEO of MCC International.

## Jon Soberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Software

Jon Soberg joined MS&AD Ventures as Managing Partner in 2018.

## 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.

## Chris Hitchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- 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.

## Robert Phillpot
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Construction

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.

## Tom Richardson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Tom Richardson is a Head of Startups & SMB, APAC & Japan at Stripe. He attended the University of Cambridge.

## Alex Vynokur
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Alex Vynokur - Principal & Co-Founder @ Apex Capital Partners

## Anthony Nantes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Venture Capital, Information Technology

Anthony is a former CEO and Senior Executive specialising in Strategy, Innovation and the delivery of transformation projects. His general management experience includes exposure across multiple sectors as a Senior Leader, Investor, Board Member and Strategic Adviser.Anthony is also Chairman of the Board for the WEAVE, a Sydney based NGOoperating for almost 30 years.

## Raf Uy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

Raf Uy is the Global Chief Financial Officer at etika. He was a Non Executive Director at Challenger Pay Enterprises. Raf attended Macquarie University.

## 0xMaki ..
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Software, Web3

0xMaki is a SushiSwap's co-founder.

## Daniel Stefanic
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Equity Crowdfunding
- Focus: Software, Media and Entertainment, Artificial Intelligence

Dan spent over 18 years leading go-to-market strategies at IBM, Lenovo, Symantec, Atlassian, and Easy Agile.He has been involved in private equity and angel investing since 2018. This experience culminated in the founding of the Atlassian Alumni Angel Syndicate - Atlumni.Mr. Stefanic received a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing & E-Commerceat the University of Wollongong and a Graduate Diploma in Management from Macquarie Graduate School of Management (MGSM). He lives in Croatia.

## Andrew Hamilton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Advice, Retirement, Financial Services

Andrew Hamilton is a managing Director of Hamilton & Associates.

## Ben Lamb
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Ben Lamb - Chief Commercial Officer @ Prospa

## Quentin Wallace
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Finance, Internet, Automotive

Quentin Wallace is the Partner and Co-Founder of Archangel Ventures.

## Santiago Roel Santos
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.

## Stephen Dash
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Financial Services

Stephen is the Founder and CEO of Credible. He founded Credible because of sheer disbelief at the burden student debt placed on young Americans (a problem that does not exist in his native Australia).Stephen is still recovering from his many years as an investment banker at J.P. Morgan - where he spent his days (and nights) analyzing andadvising major international banks on operations, M&A, capital adequacy and funding. More recently he founded QC Media and was an Investment Director at MHC & Co.

## Mark Carnegie
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum

Mark has more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor and corporate advisor in New York, London and Sydney. From 1990 to 2000 Mark was the Australian and Asian representative of Hellman & Friedman following his training on Wall Street with James D. Wolfensohn and in London at Hudson Conway with Lloyd Williams.In 2000 Mark co-founded leading Australian boutique corporate advisory and private equity firm Carnegie, Wylie & Co Pty Limited with John Wylie. Carnegie Wylie was acquired by leading Wall Street bank, Lazard Inc in 2007, and following the sale, Mark was appointed the CEO of Lazard Australia Private Equity. Throughout his career, Mark has been involved in a range of diverse Australian and Asian investments and has participated in groups that have acquired major stakes in the Courage Pub Estate, John Fairfax Holdings, Hoyts Cinemas, Formula One Holdings, SCTV, Macquarie Radio Network, Lonely Planet Publications and London Sumatra Plantations. As a corporate advisor, Mark has advised Qantas and Coles Myer on general strategic matters, Westfield on its $22 billion merger and Qantas on its JetStarAsia start-up in Singapore. Mark holds a BA from Oxford University and a BSc (Hons) from Melbourne University. He is a former Treasurer of the Oxford Union.

## Benjamin Harrison
- Type: Angel
- Location: South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Payments

Benjamin Harrison - Director @ ChimpChange Mobile Banking

## Emrin Nurovic
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Ethereum, Internet

Emrin Nurovic

## Sahin Boydas
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Sahin Boydas is the founder of Stealth AI Startup. He previously served as the Head of Turkiye, Distributed Teams, Bootcamp, and App Ecosystem at Gusto. He attended Koç University.
