Top 10 Fitness Angel Investors in Australia (June 2026)

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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, Fitness
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Australia, United States, New Zealand

Investor stats

Total investments: 21
Round size: Seed $172k–$457k; Pre-Seed $110k–$680k; Series A $1.3M–$15M
Lead/follow: 48% lead, 52% follow

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.
Reactory — Game-changing maturation technology that transforms the spirit-aging process from decades to days without compromising on flavor or quality.
Aussie Angels — A platform for investors to launch & lead syndicated investments into startups. Apply to join syndicates and invest on a deal-by-deal basis.

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David Shuman

Investment focus

Industry: Wellness, Fitness, Wearables
Stage:Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Finland, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 2
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Alyte — Alyte Social Fitness App is a new way to hang out online. Think yoga and pilates, on demand, on your schedule with your mates. Get launch notification.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Construction
Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
Geography: Australia, India, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 15
Lead/follow: no public data

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.

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Zhen is a partner at Republic.co, an Angelist spin-off, with 1M users globally, the mission is democratizing private market investing. Republic is one of the most trusted online startup ecosystems in the world, along with AngelList, Product Hunt and CoinList family. Our funding portal and broker-dealer are SEC-registered and members of FINRA. Shewas the partner of JLAB, the crypto fund of JD Capital. It is the only public PE fund in China with a $9B AUM. Her portco included The Graph, Flow, Star Atlas, StepN, Oasis, Thunder, MobileCoin, Ontology, Ankr, etc. Zhen was on the content strategy team in HTC Vive, Where she was working on Skyrim, Doom, Star War, Star Trek, Ready Player One, Fallout, etc.

Investment focus

Industry: Blockchain, Gaming, Apps
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 11
Round size: Seed $4M–$6M
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Ancient8 — Ancient8 is building an ETH gaming Layer 2 with OP Stack. Ancient8 offers a suite of Web3 gaming infrastructure tools that serve as the distribution and marketing channel for games globally.
Karmaverse — Karmaverse is a GameFi multiverse with various metaverses, such as the Old West, cyberpunk, fantasy world, zombie world, etc.
Subspace Labs (now, Autonomys Network) — Web3 @ Internet Scale. Subspace is a fourth generation blockchain built for the next wave of crypto creators

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Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, Video
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 26
Round size: Seed $548k–$5.5M; Angel $250k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$3M
Lead/follow: 8% lead, 92% follow

Portfolio highlights

Protio — Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate.
Neptyne — Neptyne is making spreadsheets programmable
Robyn — Robyn provides an AI-powered marketing mix modeling platform that helps brands optimize media spend and measure performance.

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Nathan brings a unique entrepreneurial business and organizational development background developed during years of hands-on, active leadership and operational experience. As one of the Northwest’s leading organizers of entrepreneurial and investor relations-focused media and funding events, he has facilitated scores of engagements and successfullypromoted hundreds of privately financed high-growth companies.In June 2014, Nathan became CEO of Keiretsu Capital with the mission of fostering closer ties between Keiretsu Forum angels, the institutional investor community and Keiretsu Forum portfolio companies. Keiretsu Capital provides access to proprietary deal flow by investing alongside the angels, providing additional capital to complete rounds and acting to source follow on capital where appropriate.Nathan co-founded and currently serves as Chairman of the Northwest Region of the Keiretsu Forum global angel investment group. He wrote the business plan and designed the organizational structure, which led to the initial license agreement with global Keiretsu Forum. He recruited the team, implemented policies and procedures, designed, and coordinated multi-faceted events. As part of his overall regional growth strategy, he created and implemented controlled expansion activities in Seattle, Bellevue, Boise, Portland, Spokane, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Nathan’s leadership and personal networking skills combined to quickly build the region into the fastest growing angel investment group in the nation, adding over 650 investor members and facilitating over $164 million in funding for over 240 companies.In 2004, Nathan became Managing Director of Venture Velocity, a business growth consulting organization. He recruited a talent pool of executive-level consultants from among the most successful and fastest growing companies in the region. Nathan has been a moving force in building and shaping investor networks for two emerging fund managers including The University Funds and Pacific West Land.Nathan has dedicated much of his career to stimulating growth-stage capital investment including as lead organizer for the Northwest’s most successful venture funding conference, raising over $30 million for 15 growth companies. As Co-founder and Managing Director of the Investment Forum, he produced the highest quality educational programs, social events, and investment forums in the region in collaboration with more than thirty-five industry groups and hundreds of different sponsors. Nathan co-founded an industry leading showcase event and media piece, which attracted over 500 of the region’s most influential investors and CEO’s to recognize and celebrate their accomplishments.Nathan is a graduate of University of Washington Michael G. Foster Business School with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration & Finance with an emphasis in entrepreneurial leadership and venture finance. He has been a consistent supporter and volunteer for his alma mater, serving as a sponsor and judge for the UW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition for many years. Nathan and his wife Brianna live in the Wedgwood neighborhood in Seattle with their three young children Evan and Wyatt and Ana Leigh.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: United States, Canada, Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 84
Round size: Seed $400k–$2.2M; Series A $778k–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Alyte — Alyte Social Fitness App is a new way to hang out online. Think yoga and pilates, on demand, on your schedule with your mates. Get launch notification.
LumiThera — LumiThera is a medical device company focused on LED and laser treatments for acute and chronic ocular disease. The company is developing solutions to prevent vision loss and blindness, improve visual function, and stop or slow the progression of blinding diseases of the eye. They delivering photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment for ocular disordersand diseases.LumiThera also focused on treating patients affected by dry age-related macular degeneration. The company’s expertise is in the application of photobiomodulation (PBM), using non-invasive light-emitting diodes (LED) for acute and chronic ocular diseases and disorders.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Poulsbo, Washington, United States.
We Are Social — We Are Social delivers businesses and brands with marketing campaigns and strategies that are based on social insights. The company has provided its services for brands such as Adidas, Audi, Google, and Netflix.We Are Social has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Milan, Munich, Berlin, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, and Sao Paulo.It was founded in 2008.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Information Technology, Construction
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Australia, United States, India

Investor stats

Total investments: 33
Lead/follow: no public data

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.

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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.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, Restaurants
Stage:Seed, Series A
Geography: Australia, Finland, United States

Investor stats

Total investments: 9
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Restoplus — Checkout our point of sale, website, online ordering, qr code table ordering, and table booking. Contact our experts to learn more.
Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
Factory.app — Software for fabricators to create orders, collaborate on work, track jobs and communicate with customers from one location.

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Chris Hadley - Managing Director @ Quadrant Private Equity

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, SaaS, Fitness
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: no public data

Portfolio highlights

Alyte — Alyte Social Fitness App is a new way to hang out online. Think yoga and pilates, on demand, on your schedule with your mates. Get launch notification.
Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.
Sunfed Meats — Sunfed meats are made from pea protein, they cook, feel and taste just like animal meat but are healthier, both for you and the planet. Simply sub with Chicken Free Chicken, Bull Free Beef or Boar Free Bacon (aka Chickenless Chicken, Vegan Chicken, Chicken NOT Chicken, Vegan Bacon, Vegan Beef, No Bull Beef).

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