Top 15 Legal Angel Investors in Australia in January 2026
A list of 15 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 15 Legal Angel Investors in Australia in January 2026
| Investor | Legal Australia investments |
|---|---|
| Grant Rule | 2 |
| Sam Nickless | 1 |
| Tony Faure | 1 |
| Nick Abrahams | 1 |
| Michael Gonski | 1 |
| David Gonski | 1 |
| Robert Phillpot | 1 |
| Leigh Jasper | 1 |
| Louis Beryl | 1 |
| Martin Lam | 1 |
| Mark Kalajzich | 1 |
| Matt Allen | 1 |
| Brook Adcock | 1 |
| Ben Armstrong | 1 |
| Alex Waislitz | 1 |
Grant Rule currently works as the Director & Co-Founder for Redbridge Capital. He previously worked at MessageMedia as Director & Co-Founder. Grant Rule attended Swinburne University of Technology.
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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.
Sam Nickless
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Investment focus
- Legal, Finance, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Twine AI — Twine automatically analyzes every customer conversation, surfaces what matters to your product and pipeline, and delivers insights to the right teams. No tagging, dashboards, or delay.
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Tony Faure is the Chair at oOh! Media. He attended University of Sussex.
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Investment focus
- Apps, Mobile, Social Media
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Datafree — Connecting enterprises to their mobile audiences #datafree.
- LawPath — Create legal documents, manage compliance and connect with lawyers on demand. Less stress, more time and better business. Sign up for free.
- Stackla — Stackla is a social content marketing platform that puts user-generated content at the heart of brand marketing. With an AI-powered user-generated content (UGC) platform and asset manager, Stackla sits at the core of the marketing stack, actively discovering and recommending the best visual content from across the social web, as well as internaland external resources, to fuel personalized content experiences at scale.More than 500 global brands, agencies, media companies, and nonprofits use Stackla to curate and publish the best content from across the social web. Founded in 2012, Stackla has offices in San Francisco, New York, Sydney, and London.
Nick Abrahams is a co-founder and investor at LawPath.
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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.
Michael Gonski
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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.
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.
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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.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- Australia, India, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Mastt — Better Capital Works Portfolio Management - Make better, quicker business decisions with real time transparency over your capital works program.
- AmazingCo — Experiences you'll love.
- VERSATILE — VERSATILE uses machine learning and AI to optimize construction processes. It captures and analyzes data points to deliver real-time insights on job site performance and streamline decision-making. Mounted under the hook of any crane, this first-of-its-kind technology offers unparalleled production data on any job site including information onmaterials, redundancies, construction progress, and crane utilization.It was founded in 2016 and headquartered in Los Altos, California.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- Tint Paint — Tint Paint manufactures decorative paints for a wide range of colors for commercial and residential uses.
- Varicon — Varicon was co-developed with the civil construction industry to overcome the major cost management issues for construction site. Request a demo software!
3X Founder of Earnest, SolidEnergy, and now working on the next one. Formerly a16z and YC. Active angel investor and board member.
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Investment focus
- Software, FinTech, Financial Services
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- United States, United Kingdom, Canada
Portfolio highlights
- AnchorUSD — Unlike competing stablecoins, AnchorUSD holds all deposits in US-domiciled bank accounts. Because USDX can always be created for $1 or redeemed for $1, investors can trade with confidence and avoid the volatility of unbacked cryptocurrencies. We undergo regular audits to ensure that the number of USDX in circulation is exactly equal to the numberof dollars in our bank account.
- Tenant Turner — Tenant Turner helps property managers eliminate vacancy.
- Rescue Forensics — Customer service is our #1 priority. Get a premium domain for your website today. Financing available.
Martin Lam - Co-Founder @ Lendi
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Investment focus
- Legal, Finance, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Mark Kalajzich is the Chief Product Officer and Co-Founder of Lendi. He attended Australian Institute of Company Directors.
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Investment focus
- Legal, Finance, Health Care
- Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Mary Technology — Generate detailed chronologies from documents in minutes with Mary Technology. Achieve 90%+ time reduction and ensure 99%+ accuracy. Try for free.
Matt Allen - CEO @ Tractor Ventures
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Investment focus
- Legal, Finance, Financial Services
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- JustFund — JustFund is a finance firm that connects clients and lawyers in family law matters and offers flexible ways to manage legal fees.
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.
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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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Legal
- 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.
- Restoke — Your restaurant, Your rules. Automate your process and let your team deliver
- 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.
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.
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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.
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