# Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Australia in June 2026 ## Thomas Rice - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 3 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Apps, Developer Platform Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO). Angel investor in Australia. Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator. ## 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. ## 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. ## Brendan Hill - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Apps I’m an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth marketer.I started angel investing after my ecommerce startup was acquired in 2016. I love investing because it’s one of the most intellectually stimulating things you can do. You’re constantly learning about new ideas, technologies and gaining a surface level education in many areas. I’ve investedin awesome startups from Fintech, Blockchain, Data, Sharing Economy, Renewable Energy, Health, Podcasting and Computer Vision.As an angel investor, I provide a combination of capital, time, network, and expertise to the startups I invest in. ## 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. ## Leigh Jasper - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - 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. ## 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. ## Campbell Taylor - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Campbell Taylor is an investment advisor at Taylor Collison Ltd. Sharebrokers and has over 17 years experience in financial markets. ## Nathan Young - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Nathan is an investment consultant & fund manager. Nathan is a director at Bora Bora Resources Ltd & Ability Living ## Ray Stata - Type: Angel - Location: Oxford, Pennsylvania, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Internet Ray Stata is based out of Oxford, Pennsylvania and is the Founder of Stata Capital. Ray previously worked at Analog Devices as a CEO, President and Chairman. Ray Stata attended Massachusetts Institute of Technology. ## Andrew Barnes - Type: Angel - Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Education, E-Learning, Information Technology Andrew Barnes is co-founder and CEO at GO1 and a board of directors at Libromat. Andrew has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Business Management and completed an MSc in Education at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar. ## 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. ## Bashar Hamood - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Information Technology, Software, E-Commerce Bashar Hamood is a Venture Partner at FasterCapital. He previously worked as an Associate Director at Logica. He attended Heriot-Watt University. ## Didier Elzinga - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - 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!). ## Larry Lopez - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators In 2006, Larry Lopez moved from Silicon Valley to Perth, bringing with him his wisdom of technology investment, global venture capital, entrepreneurship and financing for start-up companies.For eighteen years, Larry held senior and executive positions at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), playing a key role in the growth of the SVB Financial Groupfrom a community bank to a global financial leader. In his role at SVB he sponsored the Bank’s investment in numerous European, Israeli and Australian venture capital funds. Over the years, Larry worked with hundreds of offshore companies launching products in Silicon Valley, and served on boards in Stockholm, London and Australia. ## 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. ## Jim Johnson - Type: Angel - Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce Jim is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the Lateral Concepts Group. Jim is Chairman of Booodl, Director of Carbon Planet Ltd, Chairman of Mirador Investments and Chairman of Grazer Pty Ltd. ## 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 ## George Burke - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Internet 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. ## Michael Cannon-Brookes - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, Renewable Energy, FinTech Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organize, discuss and complete shared work. More than 160,000 large and small organisations across the world, including companies like Spotify, NASA, Mercy Ships, Sotheby's and Visa use Atlassian’s collaboration products to helptheir teams work better together.Outside Atlassian, Mike is a technology investor in the areas of software, fintech, agriculture and energy and sits on the board of Zoox. He also cares deeply about giving back and is a board member of Room to Read. A passionate clean-energy evangelist, Mike was a driving force behind Australia getting the world's biggest lithium ion battery and the "Fair Dinkum Power" movement. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology from the University of New South Wales, Australia. ## Craig Davis - Type: Angel - Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Wireless, Internet of Things Craig is CEO and co-founder of the GRIFFIN Accelerator. Craig is an entrepreneur and scientist. He has a PhD in physics and is currently a visiting fellow at the Research School of Physics and Engineering at the Australian National University. He held executive positions in the Australian Department of Defence for 7 years. In 2003 Craig co-foundedTakeABreak, an online accommodation business that was sold to Fairfax in 2011. He led the integration with Fairfax’s competing business Stayz and the group was later on-sold for $210M. He has been involved in startups as co-founder, CEO, director, investor or mentor for over 20 years. Craig has an ongoing interest in the commercialisation of Australian research and innovations. He is passionate about enabling entrepreneurs to succeed and make a difference. ## Peter McKie - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Wireless, Internet of Things Peter McKie ## Graeme Horne - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Email Graeme Horne - Interim Marketing Director @ OfficeServe ## Terry Garnett - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Analytics, SMS Terry and partner David Helfrich formed Garnett & Helfrich Capital in 2003. He was also actively involved in forming and funding Crossworlds Software, whose founder and CEO was his wife Katrina Garnett. Crossworlds went public in 2000 and was acquired by IBM in 2001.Prior to founding his own company, Terry spent eight years with VenrockAssociates where he was an early investor in Siebel, Checkpoint Software, Niku, Neoforma, and Neon Software.Prior to Venrock, Terry reported to Larry Ellison at Oracle Corporation, where he was a member of the Executive Management Committee and served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development. ## Yaniv Bernstein - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: SaaS, Email, Internet Yaniv Bernstein is the Co-Founder &COO of Circular. ## Grant Grosser - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators Grant Grosser - CEO/Founder @ SEQTA ## Matthew Dellavedova - Type: Angel - Location: Milwaukee, Wisconsin, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Wellness, Health Care Matthew is an Angel Investor and Australian professional basketball player for the Milwaukee Bucks. He played college basketball for Saint Mary's College of California and has played on the Australian national team. Dellavedova won an NBA championship with the Cleveland Cavaliers in 2016. ## Ian Gardiner - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Messaging Ian is a technology entrepreneur working to grow the technology startup ecosystem in Australia and New Zealand. He is a co-founder and investor at Jelix Ventures. Previously he was Head of Startups for ANZ at Amazon Web Services. He also co-founded and helps to run Innovation Bay, a networking and angel investment group for technology startups. Ianis a winner of the NSW Pearcey award for Technology Entrepreneur of the Year. Ian has an Engineering degree from the University of Oxford where he also won two rowing blues in the Oxford-Cambridge Boat Race. When he has time he is also a competitive cyclist, an avid computer gamer, husband and father of two boys (not in that order). ## 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. ## Paul Greenberg - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Retail Technology Paul Greenberg is an individual investor. ## Adrian Di Marco - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Apps, Restaurants 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. ## John Poynton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Payments, Software, Recruiting John Poynton is an individual investor. ## Tim Mannah - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Retail Technology Tim Mannah is an Individual investor. ## William Tunstall-Pedoe - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels. ## 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. ## Howard Leibman - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Howard is the founder of Equity Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney ## Mark Aubrey - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Computer, Online Games Mark Aubrey is the Co-Chief Executive Officer of Catheon Gaming. He previously worked at Aristocrat Technologies Asia Pacific as a Director, Sales and Business Development Asia Pacific. Mark Aubrey attended the University of Newcastle. ## Tim Haggett - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators Tim Haggett is a Non Executive Director at Centric Health. ## David Harding - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Robotics, Aerospace David Harding is an individual investor. ## Luke Brooks - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Retail Technology Luke Brooks is an NRL player. ## Maurice Ben-Mayor - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Retail Technology Maurice Ben-Mayor is the president of Stryker South Pacific. ## Johnny Kahlbetzer - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Farming, Agriculture, Big Data Johnny Kahlbetzer is the COO and CEO of Twynam Agricultural Group. Johnny Kahlbetzer attended the University of New England. ## Nick Molnar - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Gaming, Retail, PC Games Nick Molnar is Co-Founder and CEO of Afterpay, an innovative digital platform that offers interest-free installment plans for online purchases.Named one of Australia’s fastest-growing fintech companies by IDC, Afterpay offers a “buy-now, pay-later” service that does not require shoppers to enter into a traditional loan or pay any upfront fees orinterest. Earlier in his career, Molnar worked as an investment analyst at venture capital fund M.H. Carnegie & Co., where he was primarily responsible for growth-stage investments. He holds a bachelor’s of commerce degree from the University of Sydney. ## Wayne Baskin - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Retail Technology Wayne Baskin is Chief Technology Officer at Booktopia. ## Scott Farquhar - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Apps, Internet of Things Scott Farquhar is the Co-Founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organise, discuss and complete shared work. More than 150,000 large and small organisations, NFPs, and government agencies across the world, including companies like ANZ bank, Spotify, Twilio, Mercy Ships and Visa use Atlassian’scollaboration products to help their teams work better together.In 2015, Scott helped spearhead Pledge 1%, a corporate philanthropy movement dedicated to making the community a key stakeholder in every business. Atlassian, and almost 4,000 companies around the world have joined the movement.Scott was the youngest person ever to be awarded the ‘Australian Entrepreneur of the Year’ in 2006 by Ernst & Young alongside Co-Founder and Co-CEO Mike Cannon-Brookes. In 2016 both Scott and Mike Cannon-Brookes were awarded Australian Financial Review's 'Australian Business Person of the Year' and in 2017 Forbes named them on their ‘Global Game Changers’ list.Outside of Atlassian, Scott co-founded a private investment fund, Skip Capital, which focuses on fast-growing technology companies, with a particular interest in the intersection of big data and health. Scott holds a BSc (Business Information Technology) from the University of New South Wales, Australia. ## 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. ## Matt Williams - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, Communication Hardware, Artificial Intelligence Matt Williams is a individual investor. ## Steve Baxter - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Robotics, Aerospace Steve Baxter is an individual investor. ## Nick McNaughton - Type: Angel - Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Wireless, Internet of Things Nick has a long track record of helping to build and grow software and web companies, and has been a successful angel investor, business mentor, and through Blue Cove Ventures which he established and ran between 2007 and 2012, the CEO of a successful investment fund.Building on 16 years of experience in bringing US software companies into thePacific, Nick turned to personal and professional investment in domestic software companies in 1998, specialising in web / mobile / cloud / SaaS and Enterprise opportunities. ## 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.