Top 10 Legal Angel Investors in Australia in January 2025

Last updated: Jan 2025 A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Legal startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Legal companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 10 Legal Angel Investors in Australia in January 2025

Investor	Legal Australia investments
Brook Adcock	1
Nick Abrahams	1
Tony Faure	1
Grant Rule	1
Khai Ha	1
Alex Waislitz	1
David Gonski	1
Ben Armstrong	1
Michael Gonski	1
Robert Phillpot	1

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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.

Investment focus

Legal, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.

Nick Abrahams is a co-founder and investor at LawPath.

Investment focus

Legal, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.

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

Investment focus

Apps, Mobile, Social Media
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Datafree — What could you achieve?
LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
Stackla — Manage, request rights, and publish user generated content (UGC) across various digital touch-points in your customer journey to create authentic and relevant content experiences that drive discovery, boost sales, and grow customer loyalty.

Grant Rule - CEO & Founder @ MessageMedia

Investment focus

Legal, Consulting, Information Technology
Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Plexus — Boost your productivity, automate your work, centralise your contracts or find a secondee lawyer and completely transform your legal operations with Plexus.

Khai Ha - Managing Partner @ GPI Capital

Investment focus

Legal, Big Data, Apps
Series G, Funding Round, Secondary Market
United States, Canada, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Hopper — Hopper analyzes billions of prices daily to predict how prices will change, and tells you whether to buy or wait. Save up to 40% on your next flight.
LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
Couchbase — Unlike other NoSQL databases, Couchbase provides a modern cloud database that offers the robust capabilities required for business-critical applications on a highly scalable and available platform. Couchbase is built on open standards, combining the best of NoSQL with the power and familiarity of SQL, to simplify the transition from mainframe and relational databases.

Alex Waislitz was appointed Chairman of the Company on 21 November 2013. Alex Waislitz is the founder and Chairman of the private Thorney Investment Group, one of Australia’s most successful private investment groups. He has extensive business and capital markets experience and has been a member of several public company boards.Alex Waislitzis the current Vice President of the Collingwood Football Club Limited where he has been a director since 1998.He served on the boards of Zoos Victoria Foundation Board and the Victorian State Government Zoological Parks and Gardens between 2010 and 2012. He joined the International Advisory Board of Maccabi World Union in 2012 and is a former member of the International Advisory Board for the MBA program at Ben Gurion University School of Management.Alex Waislitz has established registered charities; the Waislitz Foundation (2013) and more recently the Waislitz Family Foundation (2015). These charities focus on community projects, education, health, indigenous programs and the arts.Alex Waislitz is a graduate of Monash University in Law and Commerce and a Graduate of the Harvard Business School OPM Program.

Investment focus

Information Technology, Financial Services, FinTech
Series A, Funding Round, Seed
Australia, Israel, Nigeria

Portfolio highlights

HelpMum — HelpMum is a social enterprise with the mission to reduce maternal and infant mortality in Africa.
BabyQuip — Rent baby equipment for holidays and vacation. All the baby gear and furniture you need: cribs, strollers, car seats, toys, etc. We deliver, setup and pick-up.
Propic — People-first property intelligence that transforms daily life for real estate professionals.

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.

Investment focus

Legal, E-Commerce, Marketplace
Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.

Ben Armstrong is the Founder at Archangel Ventures. He attended Australian Institute of Company Directors.

Investment focus

Artificial Intelligence, Legal, Software
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Josef — Automate lawyer-client conversations, document drafting and providing legal services. Josef is a software platform with a chatbot interface.
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.

Michael Gonski

Investment focus

Legal, Drones, Software
Seed, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Calven — Make the future of work, work for everyone. Welcome to the workplace tech platform powering the future of work by fusing together employee experience and workplace operations.
LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
Human — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.

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.