Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Australia in December 2024

Damian George

Adam Schwab, 36, studied Law/Commerce at Monash University before becoming a corporate lawyer specialising in mergers & acquisitions at Freehills (now HerbertSmithFreehills). At 25, Adam co-founded corporate accommodation and services group, Living Corporate Apartments. In 2010, Adam co-founded what would soon become the Lux Group. In2011, Adam co-founded of MyTable, which eventually formed part of Menulog (which was sold to JustEat in 2015). Adam is currently an investor and non-executive director of online art marketplace, BlueThumb.com.au.In 2015, Adam was named the Australian Young Executive of the Year by CEO Magazine, and Adam has been a director of the Myeloma Foundation of Australia since 2010.

Antonio has previously co-founded successful e-commerce and supply chain companies both here and in Asia with China Direct Partners. He is also an experienced commercial executive having held senior management roles in IBM, Sun, and Optus communications. He holds a bachelors degree in Economics and a degree in Psychology and is a member of ESA, APS& GKHS.

Jeremy Same co-founded AussieCommerce in 2010. Jeremy Same began his career as a credit trader at ANZ Investment Bank in 2002, then departed in late 2003. He co-founded Living Corporate Apartments and serves as its Director. He also serves as a Non-Executive Director of BigThanks.com.au and Sames.com.au. He was Founder and Managing Director ofMyTable, an online takeaway ordering platform, before exiting the business in 2012 in a sale to EatNow, to create Australia’s fastest growing food ordering website. He is also a dedicated amateur guitarist - much to the delight of his neighbours. He serves as Executive Director of AussieCommerce.

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.

Serial entrepreneur and investor Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.

Board Member at YourGrocer.

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

Tony is the founder of Gandel Invest and has over 25 years' experience in the Australian property industry.At Gandel Invest, Tony and the team are focussed on innovation and growth and believe strong relationships with our business partners are integral to successful investments.Before founding Gandel Invest, Tony held the position ofJoint Managing Director of Gandel Retail Management (GRM), a specialist property management group. GRM was established in 2002 when the retail assets of Colonial First State Property Trust were merged with the retail assets of Gandel Retail Trust.As Joint Managing Director of the Gandel Group’s retail assets, Tony was instrumental in this transaction, which consolidated Gandel Retail Trust’s position as the second largest retail trust on the Australian Stock Exchange.At Gandel Retail Management, Tony was responsible for acquisitions, leasing, centre management and operations, marketing and investor relations.During his time as Joint Managing Director, funds under management increased from approximately $2bn to $8bn through organic growth and conservatively financed acquisitions.Tony commenced his career in the Marketing Department at Cadbury, where he held the position of Marketing Product Manager. Tony left Cadbury to join the Gandel Group, where he held several roles across the Gandel Group before being appointed to Joint Managing Director in 1998.Tony’s experience in property has also seen him successfully partner with a number of property developers in residential and commercial developments.Tony holds a Bachelor of Business from Monash University and an MBA from Pepperdine University.

Lars Rasmussen is a co-founder and 'Chief Espresso Officer' at Weav Music, Inc in Brooklyn, New York. Formerly, he was a director of engineer at Facebook London where he headed up the Facebook Workplace team. Formerly, he was a member of Google's technical staff, based in the Sydney office, and with his brother the

Nathan is an investment consultant & fund manager. Nathan is a director at Bora Bora Resources Ltd & Ability Living

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Ray Stata is cofounder of Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 company recognized for leadership in the design and manufacturing of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing semiconductors. ADI was established to fulfill Mr. Stata’s vision of the future role for high-performance signal processing technology.Operational amplifiers and linear ICs were soon joined by data converters, and later by digital signal processors (DSPs), forging the integration of analog and digital circuitry in semiconductors for signal processing.Ray Stata served as President of the company from 1971 to 1991 and CEO from 1973 to 1996. He has been Chairman of the Board since 1973 and continues to serve in this capacity.Prior to the formation of Analog Devices, he was a founder of Solid State Instruments and became VP, Marketing at Kollmorgen Corporation’s Inland Controls Division when that company acquired Solid State Instruments.Ray Stata co-founded and served as the first President of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors.At the federal level, he served on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness from 1987 to 2005.Ray Stata has also served on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Overseers, and was also a founder of the Center for Quality of Management in 1989.A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mr. Stata holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, is now Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.In 1984 he was elected to MIT’s Corporation and today is a member of its Executive Committee. In 1987-1988 he served as President of the MIT Alumni Association.

Campbell Taylor is an investment advisor at Taylor Collison Ltd. Sharebrokers and has over 17 years experience in financial markets.

Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.

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.

Tony Faure is the Chair at oOh! Media. He attended University of Sussex.

Tim is a director and a founding member of the Tank Stream Ventures Investment Committee.Tim is a technology investor and entrepreneur with extensive experience in web start-ups, business development, marketing and finance. He is a co-founder and CEO of Airtasker, an online and mobile services marketplace that has raised over $1.5m in venturecapital.Tim is a co-founder at Tank Stream Labs and before this, was a founding team member and investor in amaysim – a mobile virtual network startup, where he played a key role in raising significant venture capital from a range of HNW individuals and institutional investors.Prior to this, Tim spent five years as a corporate advisor and investment banking executive at Macquarie Bank. He is also an investor and advisor at several web startups, including online custom clothing business Joe Button, and motorsport event management group, Circuit Club.

Paul Reining - Director & Advisor @ My Pet Warehouse

Lucas London is the Chief Executive Officer & co-founder at Lick Home. Lucas London attended Reforge.

Les Szekely B.A. LL.M. FAICD, is an active business angel, mentor, and M&A consultant. He started GPC in 2010 after a career of almost 30 years as a tax consulting partner and director with Horwaths Chartered Accountants and then Deloitte. He is the author of over a dozen books on taxation law, has been an active angel investor since 1999 andis currently a director of several early stage and maturing companies.

Michael Rosenbaum - CEO & Founder @ Spacer

Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. He was previously CEO at Earn.com, which was recently sold to Coinbase. Prior to taking the CEO role at Earn.com, Dr. Srinivasan was a General Partner at Andreessen Horowitz. Prior to joininga16z, he was the co-founder and CTO of Founders Fund-backed Counsyl, where he won the Wall Street Journal Innovation Award for Medicine and was named to the MIT TR35. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including an online MOOC in 2013 which reached 250,000+ students worldwide.

Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended

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.

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 “The 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.

Michael Doubinski - Founder @ HotelsCombined

Chris Hadley - Managing Director @ Quadrant Private Equity

Experienced CEO and Chairman with a demonstrated history of working in the leisure, travel & tourism industry. Skilled in Digital Strategy, Marketing Management, Negotiation, Business Planning, and Hospitality Industry. Strong entrepreneurial professional who has successfully run large teams to achieve common purpose.

Michael Gonski

Chris Anderson is a head of conference organisation TED.

Key lead of international businesses for 18+ years (eBay, PayPal, Mastercard and Blizzard) in eCommerce, Sustainability, Fintech and Gaming by innovating and driving change through Business Strategy, Product Management and UX, Business Operations, Data Management, Retention and Acquisition Marketing management, following five years studying withtop business schools.12+ years of start-up mentoring and investing with a handful of successful exits. Current portfolio value is 3X or 26% IRR.Also built and managed my own start-ups from scratch and/or in a Corporate environment (Joint Venture constructs).​Based in Singapore and worked all over the world (France, UK, US, Korea) but focusing on South-East Asia right now.

Mark Bouris is the founder , Executive Chairman at Yellow Brick Road. He studied Honorary Doctor of Business (Hon.D.Bus) from UNSW.

Laura Faulconer has built a career in entrepreneurship support, architecting and delivering major initiatives aimed at accelerating commercialisation of IP-anchored advanced technologies. Trained as a biomedical engineer, she has worked at the intersection of research translation, commercial development and fundraising with deep experience inmedical devices and health technologies.Before joining WNT, she was CTO for The Actuator/STC Australia where she designed and launched a seed-to-Series A accelerator for regulated medical devices, forming the basis for a dedicated $75M (AUD) seed investment fund. While there, she designed and launched Australia's largest and longest-running medical device startup competition, with ongoing support from major corporates, governments and publicly funded research organisations. She scaled this program from state-based to national and laid the groundwork for international expansion. She has also held roles including Associate Professor of Science at Monash University, in Global Challenges: science + entrepreneurship = impact; Marketing & Business Development Officer at MiniFAB, a contract point of care diagnostics manufacturer; Director of Innovation Projects at COIN, a not-for-profit entrepreneurship support initiative cultivating an emerging nanobiotechnology cluster.She is an experienced entrepreneur, and is passionate about mentoring and enabling fellow entrepreneurs.

John Poynton is an individual investor.

Matthew Browne is a Co-Founder and CIO at Upflowy.

Danny Hanna is a chief executive officer at Hannas Group.

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.

Brook has already had several successful careers and brings with him a vast array of knowledge and experience. He graduated from The Australian Defence Force Academy in 1986, was a RAAF Pilot until 1996, a Qantas Pilot until 2008, founded Pandora Jewellery Australia in 2004, and his own successful Private Investment Company in 2009. His leadership,knowledge of technology, forward thinking, and administrative skills have positioned him at the vanguard of the current technology wave in Australia.

Canva now has, after only two years more than 10 million users across 179 countries, and is used daily by many social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses to create things like posters, business cards and presentations. More than 100 million designs have now been created using the platform.The company is also made famous for theappointed Apple’s Chief Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki as it’s ambassador.

Mark Steinert

David Shuman

Robert "Bob" McLean

Joshua Payne is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Battery Future Acquisition Corp.

Max Cunningham - Executive General Manager @ ASX Limited

Bill Conn

CEO and President of Paradox Interactive. Since 2003 we have built Paradox from a 7 man studio to an international Publisher with over 175 employees and another 10 partner companies (200 people) making games for us. Driver of organizational improvements and implementation of best practices across departments over the past 10 years.Capable ofresolving multiple and complex (sales, legal, financial, operational) issues as well as leading teams of highly skilled professionals.

Graeme Horne - Interim Marketing Director @ OfficeServe

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.

David Gyngell was the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from November 2010 until November 2015, having previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nine Network from September 2007. David Gyngell became a Non-Executive Director of the company in November 2015. He has almost 20 years’ of experience at Nine and over 25 years’ overallmedia sector experience.Previously, David Gyngell was Chief Executive Officer of Granada Television and also Director of International Management Group and Transworld Media International. He has also worked as Executive Director, Group Marketing and Communications for Publishing & Broadcasting Limited.