Top 10 Hospitality Angel Investors in Australia in May 2025
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Hospitality startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Hospitality companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Hospitality Angel Investors in Australia in May 2025
Investor | Hospitality Australia investments |
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Michael Sharkey | 1 |
Chadd Ciccarelli | 1 |
Howard Fyffe | 1 |
Nick Shelton | 1 |
Dominic Pym | 1 |
Marat Kichikov | 1 |
Matthew Kelly | 1 |
Scott Farquhar | 1 |
Patty Mills | 1 |
Ruslan Kogan | 1 |
Michael D. Sharkey, President, MB Business Capital, is responsible for the bank's asset based lending group. With nearly 40 years of experience in financial services, he oversees a nationwide market with regional offices in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Hartford, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City,San Francisco, and Scottsdale.From July 2008 until the merger with MB in 2014, Sharkey was president of Cole Taylor Business Capital and executive vice president, asset based lending.Prior to that, he was president and CEO of LaSalle Business Credit, where he helped build the group into the fifth largest asset based lending company in the United States. During his tenure at LaSalle, he also served as executive vice president for LaSalle Bank and ABN Amro. Sharkey began his career in financial services with GE Capital as a field examiner and loan officer, and moved on to Manufacturers Hanover Commercial Corporation where he served as senior loan officer. From there, he joined and within four years became president of StanChart Business Credit, which was ultimately acquired by LaSalle Bank.Sharkey is a permanent member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Finance Association, as well as past president and chairman of that organization. He is also past president of the American Brain Tumor Association.Sharkey is a graduate of Rutgers University and J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Investment focus
- Music, Events, Hospitality
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Logic PD — Beacon EmbeddedWorks is a System-On-Module Manufacturer that delivers unwavering performance. Our custom System-On-Modules (SoMs) are compact, secure, and built to last.
- Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
- Surreal — Increase collaboration and ROI by booking, promoting and paying for all your live entertainment in one place. Trusted by over 900 venues across AUS, UK & NZ.
Chadd Ciccarelli
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Triggr — Triggr is a SaaS platform helping sales teams predict buyer intent and close more deals.
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.
Howard Fyffe is a Managing Director at VAST Data. He Attended NYU Stern School of Business.
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Logistics, Hospitality
- Angel
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Drive Yello — Looking for fast & express courier & logistics delivery services? Drive Yello is your last mile delivery partner serving Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.
Nick Shelton is a Director & Publisher at Broadsheet Media. He attended Melbourne Business School.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
Dominic Pym is Co-Founder at Pin Payments.
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Investment focus
- Cooking, Hospitality, Marketplace
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
- WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.
- 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.
Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor.
He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund.
He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group.
In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders.
Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law.
In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!
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Investment focus
- Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Apps
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- United States, Canada, Latvia
Portfolio highlights
- Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
- SODA — SODA enables the next generation of consumer crypto and meme coins and allows meme coin developers to leverage Telegram.
- Metatable.ai — Metatable.ai simplifies software development with AI. It removes unnecessary complexity from coding to create high-quality software faster and more efficiently than traditional methods. Metatable.ai lets you direct AI to write functions for your project. After stating your request LLM writes code for your function and checks it with the compilerfor errors. You can adjust code by asking AI or editing it by yourself. Once error-free, the funciton is built, deployed, and ready for production performance, all without worrying about DevOps. Metatable.ai allows you to develop your SQL database by stating the required tables and columns in plain English. AI will then create SQL requests and deploy them to the platform. You can work with your database using the Text-to-SQL feature, creating requests, new tables, or even plotting charts with simple commands. Your project is presented on a Figma-like canvas, where you can manage your functions, database tables, and make data entries to the database. Metatable.ai streamlines development processes, reducing the time and resources required to bring ideas to life.
Matthew Kelly
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Investment focus
- Delivery, Logistics, Hospitality
- Angel
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Drive Yello — Looking for fast & express courier & logistics delivery services? Drive Yello is your last mile delivery partner serving Brisbane, Sydney & Melbourne.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Apps, Internet of Things
- Series A, Seed, Series B
- Australia, Canada, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Arinex — Arinex specializes in event and exhibition management, conference, marketing and social programs.
- Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
- 1Password — More than a password manager and leader in Extended Access Management. Discover why 1Password is the exclusive Cybersecurity Partner of Oracle Red Bull Racing.
Patty Mills
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Investment focus
- Apps, Hospitality, Food and Beverage
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
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