Top 10 Music Angel Investors in Oceania
A list of 10 angel investors that invest in Music startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Music companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.Top 10 Music Angel Investors in Oceania
Investor | Music Oceania investments |
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Alex Rigopulos | 2 |
Craig Barratt | 1 |
Chadd Ciccarelli | 1 |
Michael Stoppelman | 1 |
Sean Parker | 1 |
Sandy Kory | 1 |
Eric Ries | 1 |
Michael Sharkey | 1 |
Josh Hannah | 1 |
Didier Elzinga | 1 |
Alex Rigopulos Co-Founded Harmonix in 1995 with the mission of inventing new ways for non-musicians to experience the joy of making music. He was CEO until 2014. Now, as CCO, Alex is responsible for ensuring the creative excellence of all Harmonix products. Prior to co-founding Harmonix, Alex studied computer music at the MIT Media Laboratory andmusic composition at MIT.
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Investment focus
- Mobile, Mobile Apps, Communities
- Seed, Series A, Angel
- United States, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. Shop Cell Alpha, the world's first Triphonic speaker.
- GameClub — GameClub offers a large and growing catalog of the best games on mobile. Games can be played offline, with new games being released every week.
- Hearo.Live - Multiplayer TV — Laugh, talk, and cheer with friends while watching YouTube, Netflix, ESPN, and more in full-screen HD, like you're on a big cozy couch together. #MultiplayerTV #TheFutureOfTogether
20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications.
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Investment focus
- Music, Computer, Database
- Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- nura — Nura designs wireless headphones that tune themselves to you. Experience music the way the artist intended with personalised sound.
- Timescale — Engineered to handle demanding workloads, like time series, vector, events, and analytics data. Built on PostgreSQL, with expert support at no extra charge.
Chadd Ciccarelli
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Investment focus
- Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- Australia, United States
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- Triggr — SaaS Platform, Real-Time Sales Notifications and Top Quality Contact Data to Help Your Sales Team Close More Deals.
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- GGWP Academy — The best creators of tomorrow have to be well versed in analytics, skilled at branding and entertaining.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, United Kingdom, India
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- T2 — T2 is in early alpha. 280 character text, replies, and likes - that's it for now. Browse content now and sign up for the waitlist.
- Morty — Morty is an app for discovering, booking, and tracking escape rooms. Find legendary escape games, coordinate with friends, and record your wins.
- ParadeDB — ParadeDB is a modern Elasticsearch alternative built on Postgres.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Health Care, Music
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Australia, United Kingdom
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- IgGenix — IgGenix is a biotechnology company, directly address food and other severe allergies by re-engineering key antibodies involved in the allergic cascade. IgGenix isolates and transforms allergen-specific IgE antibodies into IgG antibodies that are designed to alleviate and possibly prevent the allergic cascade.
- ByHeart — ByHeart operates as a fully integrated infant nutrition company. It is dedicated to translating leading nutrition science and breastmilk research into evolved foods and formulas to support babies’ health and parents’ peace of mind. Its products strive to be next to nature made from hand-picked ingredients using small-batch blending and sit at theforefront of immune, microbiome, cognitive, and digestive health.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in New York.
- RevUp Software — RevUp Software is bringing leading-edge, easy to use analytics to Non-Profits, Academic Institutions and Political Organizations. We help fundraisers, while working with existing software, create new ways to identify, target, and engage their networks.
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.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- United States, Australia, Canada
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- Float — Float helps you manage cashflow and gives you the credit your business needs to cover operational costs like payroll, inventory, or even marketing expenses.
- Mindset Health — Mindset Health is a digital therapeutics company that helps people manage chronic health issues like irritable bowel syndrome and anxiety with app-based hypnotherapy.
- Enable Us — Buyer & seller enablement with one single link. Enable's digital salesroom has everything B2B buyers and sellers need to close deals quickly
Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, SaaS
- Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- United States, Serbia, Canada
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- Autio — HearHere is a travel audio app that shares the depth and diversity of stories - cultural, geographical, historical, and mythological.
- Aug X Labs — Helping people make more compelling videos, at a fraction of the time and effort
- Sinatra — Sinatra is a technology company that, with its all-in-one app, aims to revolutionize the hospitality industry. It provides Sinatra Training, which enables continuous digital training for employees by allowing employers to upload content and employees to access it via the app.
Michael D. Sharkey, President, MB Business Capital, is responsible for the bank's asset based lending group. With nearly 40 years of experience in financial services, he oversees a nationwide market with regional offices in Atlanta, Baltimore, Chicago, Dallas, Hartford, Kansas City, Los Angeles, Memphis, Milwaukee, Minneapolis, Oklahoma City,San Francisco, and Scottsdale.From July 2008 until the merger with MB in 2014, Sharkey was president of Cole Taylor Business Capital and executive vice president, asset based lending.Prior to that, he was president and CEO of LaSalle Business Credit, where he helped build the group into the fifth largest asset based lending company in the United States. During his tenure at LaSalle, he also served as executive vice president for LaSalle Bank and ABN Amro. Sharkey began his career in financial services with GE Capital as a field examiner and loan officer, and moved on to Manufacturers Hanover Commercial Corporation where he served as senior loan officer. From there, he joined and within four years became president of StanChart Business Credit, which was ultimately acquired by LaSalle Bank.Sharkey is a permanent member of the Executive Committee of the Commercial Finance Association, as well as past president and chairman of that organization. He is also past president of the American Brain Tumor Association.Sharkey is a graduate of Rutgers University and J. L. Kellogg Graduate School of Management at Northwestern University.
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Investment focus
- Music, Events, Hospitality
- Seed, Debt Financing
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Logic PD — Beacon EmbeddedWorks System On Modules (SOMs) deliver unwavering performance. Our SOMs are compact, secure, fully customizable and built to last.
- Muso — Muso is a live-entertainment start-up born in Melbourne and now operating Australia-wide. We help venues create better live entertainment experiences and help artists find more gigs to create more revenue opportunities. We leverage technology to make things more efficient, fair and transparent to ultimately make live music more accessible to morepeople. Eventually we hope that every venue will be a live music venue but until then we’ll work on changing one at a time.
Josh Hannah is a general partner with Matrix Partners. His entrepreneurial career began in 1999 when he cofounded Flutter.com in London and later led a merger with his biggest competitor, Betfair.com. The combined entity revolutionized the gaming industry by building the world’s first online marketplace for sports betting. Josh returned to theStates in 2004. Soon after, he and a partner purchased eHow, an ailing, Web 1.0, how-to directory. Josh and his partner outsourced content creation to the community and employed then-new advertising and search engine optimization techniques. They increased revenue and traffic 30-fold before selling the company to Demand Media in 2006 for a 400-X return. As a partner at Matrix, Josh has invested in Huddle, Inflection and Taulia. Prior to joining Matrix, Josh invested in successful startups such as Aardvark (acquired by Google), Blingo (acquired by Publishers Clearing House), Designer Apparel (acquired by Sugar Media), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Minted, uShip and Wetpaint.
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Investment focus
- Software, Internet, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Singapore, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- ClayStack — Multichain liquid staking platform that allows users to stake their assets, mint staking derivatives, and participate in DeFi.
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
- Meson Network — meson network provides fast,stable,cheap content delivery globally
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!).
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Music
- Series A, Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Bardee — Transforming food waste into insect protein and fertiliser
- Reejig — At Reejig, we believe in zero wasted potential in people and in business – and that starts with harnessing the skills you have within your organisation. Our workforce intelligence platform provides 100% visibility of your people’s skills, potential, passions and experiences, creating a powerful central nervous system for all talent decisions.Powered by the world’s first independently audited Ethical Talent AI engine, Reejig generates the intelligence to instantly fill roles, track retention risks, mobilise talent to opportunities, pivot talent for reskilling and much more. Plus, we give you the power to ‘nudge’ people to new career opportunities, taking your engagement with internal and external talent to the next level. Put simply, we make workforce agility a reality.Reejig is trusted and used by some of the largest and most complex organisations including Woolworths, KPMG, NSW Government, John Holland, MYOB and UTS, and together we are creating a world where everyone can reach their full potential at work. It’s what we call zero-wasted potential in people and in business.
- Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.
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