Top 50 Internet Angel Investors in Oceania in January 2026

Damian George

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

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.

Phil McCaw - Managing Partner @ Movac

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.

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.

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

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.

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

Board Member at YourGrocer.

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.

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.

Yaniv Bernstein is the Co-Founder &COO of Circular.

Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.

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.

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

Peter McKie

Stephen Tindall is the founder of K1W1.

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.

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.

Akshay Kothari is the co-founder of Pulse, a mobile application that allows you to read all your favorite content in one place. Pulse began as a class project in the Launchpad class at Stanford University, and has grown to over 30 million users today. It won the coveted Apple Design Award in 2011 and was inducted into the App Store Hall of Fame.Pulse was recently acquired by Linkedin for $90 million.

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

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

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

Sam started his career at Deloitte Consulting and is best known for founding online auction website Trade Me which, in 2006, sold for $NZ750 million. Sam also built a successful online dating and friend reuniting businesses in New Zealand, Australia and Canada.Sam is an active investor and philanthropist. Sam's holdings include a number ofother successful web businesses including Visfleet and Sonar6.

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

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.

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

Johnny Kahlbetzer is the COO and CEO of Twynam Agricultural Group. Johnny Kahlbetzer attended the University of New England.

Michael Gonski

William Zeqiri Passionate technology entrepreneur, product creator and angel investor.

Chris Hadley - Managing Director @ Quadrant Private Equity

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.

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

Phil is a dynamic and clear thinking Senior Executive with an outstanding record of delivering transformational business success. Through understanding customers, the numbers, technology, the immediate and wider business needs and having an ability to 'join the dots', Phil has designed & implemented multiple strategies that havedelivered truely transformational results across multiple industries. Phil is a strong leader with a passion engaging & developing teams and for doing the right thing - by the business, customers and partners.

Paul Dwyer

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

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.

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.

Chris Adelsbach - Founding Partner @ Outrun Ventures

Connor Theilmann is the Chief Business Officer at ServiceTitan. Previously he was an investor at Accel in Palo Alto. He attended The Wharton School for Accounting and Finance & the Penn Engineering School for Computer Science.

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

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

Chad was the co-founder of 1Form.com, an online tenancy application platform, and grew it to have more than 90% market share in Australia before exiting to ASX listed REA Group in 2014. He then co-founded Fillr.com, integrating autofill tech into some of the largest FinTech and eCommerce apps globally, including Klarna, Afterpay and Zip, beforeexiting to Rakuten Inc. in 2020. Chad is now an active angel investor, advisor and mentor.

Jonathan is focused on building the world's most impactful software companies. He is CEO at PrivacyWall (www.privacywall.org), a privacy search-engine. He is a champion of diversity and equity in tech startups, and he coined the term "digital inclusion." Jonathan has appeared on Business Insider, been interviewed on Bloomberg andbeen featured in a wide variety of publications from Politico, Wall Street Journal, Reuters to Associated Press. His historical investments include Website Pros (IPO) and Exact Target (IPO) - the fund maker of Insight Venture Partners. Total exit value of his investments exceeds $4 billion. Prior to Insight Venture Partners, Jonathan was a founding software engineer at Yodlee in 1999, the first fintech and the leader in financial data aggregation, helping consumers live better financial lives.Jonathan received a BS in Electrical Engineering (President's Scholar), as well as a BS Economics and MS Management Science from Stanford.

John Poynton is an individual investor.

Robert "Bob" McLean

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.

Gonski is the Chairman of Investec Bank (Australia) Limited, Coca-Cola Amatil Limited, Guardians of the Future Fund of Australia, Ingeus Ltd and Swiss Re Life & Health Australia Ltd. He is also the Chancellor of The University of New South Wales. Gonski is a lawyer by training and has been involved in the financial services industry inAustralia for more than 20 years. He was appointed a Companion of the Order of Australia in 2007 and received the Centenary Medal in 2003.Gonski holds a Bachelor of Commerce and Bachelor of Laws from The University of New South Wales.He is a Life Fellow of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and a Fellow of the Certified Practicing Accountants in Australia.

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