# Top 30 Manufacturing Angel Investors in Australia in June 2026 ## Mike Zimmerman - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel - Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence Michael brings over 20 years experience in strategy, business development and general management of technology startups and other high growth companies. Michael founded BuildingIQ in 2009 and served as its CEO until 2013. Prior to founding the company, Michael was a General Partner at Technology Venture Partners (TVP), a leading Australian venturecapital firm. Prior to TVP, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Altos Ventures, and a senior executive at iOwn Holdings, a leading Internet mortgage company (sold to Citigroup in 2001). Previously, Michael worked with Bain & Company and Goldman Sachs. He holds a BA with Honors from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford Business School. ## Craig Barratt - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Music, Computer, Database 20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications. ## Michael Gonski - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Legal, Drones, Software Michael Gonski ## John Wood - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed - Focus: Battery, Industrial, Sustainability John Wood - Director @ NOAB Ventures ## Reza Behnam - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Battery, Industrial, Sustainability From Silicon Valley to asia,Reza's vision has focused on the future of advertising- as Managing Director of Yahoo.southest asia of venture partner with venture technology fund idg ventures and now as fouder & ceo of Adzcentral.core values such as trust, openness, creativity,innovation & Quality underscore his approach. ## William Tunstall-Pedoe - Type: Angel - Location: Cambridge, Cambridgeshire, United Kingdom - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Software, Machine Learning William Tunstall-Pedoe FREng is a British entrepreneur focused on world-changing products powered with Artificial Intelligence and other deep technology. He is based in Cambridge and London UK. He founded the British company Evi (formerly True Knowledge), the AI platform acquired by Amazon and where William, the team and the technology developed byEvi was used to create Alexa. He left in 2016. William is an active angel investor with investments in more than 100 startups. He is a fellow of the Creative Destruction Lab and a full member of Cambridge Angels. ## Duncan Alexander - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology Duncan Alexander ## Greg Ruddock - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology Greg Ruddock is a Chairman at Calyx Private Equity. ## Terry Hartan - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: E-Learning, Industrial, Information Technology Terry Hartan is a Managing Director at Assetsecure. He Attended University of Sydney. ## Steven Vassiloudis - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Battery, Industrial, Sustainability Steven Vassiloudis is a CEO & Founder at Novalith Technologies. He attended University of Sydney. ## Darren Patterson - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Sports, Travel, Banking 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. ## Josh Hannah - Type: Angel - Location: Oakland, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B - Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology Josh Hannah ## Mark Livings - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Education, Communities Founder of a diverse group of businesses including globally-distributed consumer brands (Lyre's Spirits Co) as well as growth-award winning companies specialising in the supply of marketing services and products to the FMCG\ CPG industry. These businesses include an integrated creative agency, a digital printing and personalisation platform,a branded merchandise and speciality packaging supplier as well as a specialty promotional logistics and fulfilment provider.Mark has worked closely with over 50 major FMCG organisations in the grocery, pharma, liquor and health and beauty space and has grown a portfolio of businesses servicing their go to market requirements over the last seven years.Passionate about technology, Mark has invested across all business units ensuring a competitive edge is maintained with best in class platforms to delivery quality creative, product production and fulfilment services to some of the world's most recognisable businesses and brands. ## Matt Fayle - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Retail, 3D Printing, Sporting Goods Matt Fayle - CEO & Founder @ TheLoop ## Leigh Oliver - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Beauty, Manufacturing Leigh Oliver (Sydney) joined KKR in 2013 and is focused on investment opportunities in Australia and New Zealand. He is actively involved in KKR's investments in Bis Industries and Sundrop Farms and currently serves on the board of directors of both companies. Prior to joining KKR, Mr. Oliver spent six years in the private equity team at TheCarlyle Group in Sydney. Prior to Carlyle, he worked in the investment banking division of J.P.Morgan in Sydney, and prior to that at Ernst & Young. Mr. Oliver is a CFA Charterholder, a Chartered Accountant and holds a B.A. of Commerce from the University of Queensland. ## Bosco Tan - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments Bosco Tan ## Todd Forest - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Angel - Focus: Apps, Real Estate, FinTech Todd Forest - Managing Director @ NAB Ventures ## Didier Elzinga - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Music Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!). ## Alice Wells - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A - Focus: Beauty, Manufacturing Alice has extensive experience in private equity and corporate advisory services including business sales, acquisitions, capital raising, and recapitalisations with exposure to Asia, North American, and European corporate finance markets. She has a strong track record in identifying, assessing, and executing a range of transactions across fashion,healthcare, FMCG agriculture, and technology / software sectors. Alice has expertise in business valuation, due diligence, negotiation, deal structuring, and deal execution. ## Allan Moss - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Medical Device, Biotechnology Allan Moss acts an adviser to Anchorage’s Investment Committee. Currently Principal of Allan Moss Investments, a private investment company, Allan retired from the role of Managing Director and Chief Executive Officer of Macquarie Group in May 2008. He was with Macquarie Group for 31 years and served as CEO from 1993 to his retirement in2008. He was also a non- executive director of CSR Ltd from 1996 to 2001.Allan graduated from Sydney University in Arts with a major in Economics and in Laws with Honours. He is also a graduate of Harvard University with a Masters Degree in Business Administration with High Distinction. Allan has received numerous industry awards and recognitions. He was twice named by Barron’s Magazine as one of the 30 most respected CEOs in the world (2006, 2007). He was appointed an Officer of the Order of Australia in 2005. ## Eric Ries - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS Eric Ries is the Founder and Executive Chairman of Long-Term Stock Exchange. He previously worked at Kleiner Perkins Caufield and Byers as a Venture Advisor. Eric Ries attended Yale University. ## Bill Tai - Type: Angel - Location: Palo Alto, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Information Technology, E-Commerce Bill Tai is based out of Palo Alto, California and is the Co-Founder of OneOf. Bill previously worked at Maxthon International Limited as a Chairman of the Board. Bill Tai attended Harvard Business School. ## Sandy Kory - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Analytics, FinTech Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University. ## Julian Sarokin - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Pre-Seed - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Futurist • Crypto • Founder @ The Automation Fund ## Andrew Coppin - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel - Focus: Retail, Logistics, 3D Printing Andrew Coppin - Advisor @ DisruptSports.com ## Alan Jones - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Mobile Alan Jones is a mentor and entrepreneur-in-residence with many of Australia's tech startup accelerators, specialising in strategy for product development and marketing.Alan draws on hands-on experience founding and co-founding web and mobile startups, as well as senior management experience in larger companies including Yahoo!, News DigitalMedia and Microsoft. At Yahoo! he was Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo! Inc.Alan advises and invests in early-stage startups directly and through Startmate and Pollenizer Ventures. His investments include ChromaSun, BugHerd, Grabble (acquired by WalMart in 2011), ScriptRock, Flightfox, Spreets (acquired by Yahoo7 in 2011), OtherLevels and NinjaBlocks. Alan is a co-founder of digital agency The New Agency, Editor-in-Chief of FromLittleThings.co, is a mentor for Startmate, and is the Social Media and Web Director for TEDxSydney. ## Sean Parker - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B - Focus: Software, Music, Internet Sean Parker is the Founder and Chairman of Parker Institute for Cancer Immunotherapy. He previously worked at Spotify as a Board Member and Investor. Sean Parker attended Oakton High School. ## Michael Stoppelman - Type: Angel - Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003. ## Trevor Folsom - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Marketplace, E-Commerce Elevation Capital was formed by a group of successful entrepreneurs who have co-invested in order to pool together their capital and experience. We consider ourselves to be “venture accelerators” rather than venture capitalists. After starting my first fledgling business at the age of 17, I truly understand the unique challenges faced byentrepreneurs and I am aware that it takes more than just capital for a company to succeed.Recently, Blueprint Management and the various business's we developed (up to 10 companies over 13 years) has given me exposure to the difficult challenges that every entrepreneur will face. My experience has involved the creation of a company with only $10K start-up capital, which grew to over 950 staff. This business was then sold to a private equity group. The success of this venture has given me invaluable knowledge that I can now share with others to guide them in the future.Specialties:If there is one simple thing I have learnt in recent times about investing into growth companies, it is: "to not waste anyones time".Elevation Capital is a professional and committed organisation and is able to invest quickly when a good business opportunity presents itself. We appreciate the challenge that entrepreneurs face when trying to raise capital while also dealing with the daily time constraints of running their businesses. ## Saar Gillai - Type: Angel - Location: Los Altos, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Convertible Note - Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing Saar Gillai is an Independent board director at Xilinx, Semtech, and Liquid Instruments as well as a CEO advisor to multiple companies. Saar is also an executive mentor at Merryck. Previously, Saar was the CEO of Teridion, a SaaS startup focused on cloud networking, where he grew recurring revenue 50% YoY, and expanded the product line to go afterthe SD-WAN market.Before Teridion, Saar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE’s Communications Solutions Business (CSB), a global billion-dollar division with over 4000 employees. In this role, Saar integrated multiple units and acquisitions into one cohesive division focused on the Telco space. He established HPE as a key player in the software-defined next-generation service provider market and grew network virtualization revenue by over 10x within two years.Before running CSB, Saar spent two years as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP Cloud where he played a vital role in aggressively driving and consolidating HP's disparate cloud efforts into a full business unit with the number one market position in private cloud while working closely with F50 enterprises on their cloud adoption and digital transformation journey.Prior to HPE, Saar was SVP of Products and Solutions at 3com, where he played a key role in rebuilding 3coms enterprise offerings, driving the collaboration with H3C, a Chinese subsidiary, and ultimate sale to HP for ~$3B, achieving a 350% valuation increase in 18 months. In addition, Saar has held C level positions at Tropos Networks and Enfora; two startups focused on Wireless Mesh and M2M / IoT, and spent seven years at Cisco Systems in a variety of leadership positions, including VP of Engineering for the Wireless Networking business undevelopment and operations with Enfora, Inc., a wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) company. In addition, Mr. Gillai served for seven years in a variety of leadership positions with Cisco Systems, Inc., including as Vice President of Engineering for Cisco’s Wireless Networking business unit.