Top 15 Music Angel Investors in Oceania (July 2026)
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| Investor | Relevant Deals | Geography | Stage | Focus | Round Size |
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Michael Sharkey
Angel
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2 | Australia, United States | Seed, Debt Financing | Music, Events, Hospitality | $2M–$2M |
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Alex Rigopulos
Angel
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2 | United States, New Zealand | Seed, Series A, Angel | Mobile, Communities, Mobile Apps | $550k–$49M |
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Karl von Randow
Angel
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1 | Australia, New Zealand | Seed | Mobile Apps, B2C, Music | $1M–$1.2M |
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Nick Menere
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Music, Music Label, Digital Media | |
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Peter Strain
Angel
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1 | Australia | Seed | Music, Music Label, Digital Media | |
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Craig Barratt
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A | Music, Computer, Database | |
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Rowan Simpson
Angel
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1 | New Zealand, Australia | Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed | SaaS, Music, Retail | $360k–$1.2M |
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Sandy Kory
Angel
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1 | United States, Australia, Canada | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence | $1.2M–$14M |
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Chadd Ciccarelli
Angel
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1 | Australia, United States | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology | $605k–$1.5M |
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Michael Stoppelman
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, India | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, SaaS, Internet | $770k–$19M |
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Sean Parker
Angel
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1 | United States, United Kingdom, Australia | Seed, Series A, Series B | Software, Music, Internet | $1.2M–$70M |
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Didier Elzinga
Angel
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1 | Australia | Series A, Seed | Software, SaaS, Music | $2.7M–$63M |
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Josh Hannah
Angel
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1 | United States, Singapore, Norway | Series A, Seed, Series B | Software, Internet, Blockchain | $1.9M–$50M |
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Eric Ries
Angel
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1 | United States, Serbia, Australia | Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed | Software, Internet, SaaS | $40k–$14M |
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Rich Chetwynd
Angel
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1 | New Zealand | Seed, Angel | SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps | $360k–$1.2M |
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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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- Industry: Music, Events, Hospitality
- Stage:Seed, Debt Financing
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $2M–$2M
- Lead/follow: 33% lead, 67% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Logic PD — Beacon EmbeddedWorks is a System-On-Module Manufacturer that delivers unwavering performance. Our custom System-On-Modules (SoMs) are compact, secure, 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.
- Surreal — Increase collaboration and ROI by booking, promoting and paying for all your live entertainment in one place. Trusted by over 900 venues across AUS, UK & NZ.
Alex Rigopulos is a Studio Director of Harmonix at Epic Games.
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- Industry: Mobile, Communities, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Angel
- Geography: United States, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $550k–$2.5M; Series A $3.2M–$49M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Syng — Syng is an audio company transforming the human relationship with sound. their hardware and software platform gives creators and listeners the power to engage with, explore, and share sound in transformative new ways.
- 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
Karl von Randow is a Co-Founder at Letterboxd. He attended The University of Auckland.
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- Industry: Mobile Apps, B2C, Music
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia, New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Round size: Seed $1M–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- ReciMe — ReciMe is the #1 app to save recipes from Instagram, TikTok, Facebook, YouTube, Pinterest & more. Its free to use and easy to try.
- Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
Nick Menere, Atlassian employee and Code Barrel founder.
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- Industry: Music, Music Label, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Melodie Music — Melodie provides unlimited access to high-quality stock music for storytellers. With an exclusive catalogue featuring 15,000+ tracks & stems from award-winning composers (updated weekly), simple licensing & intuitive search functions featuring AI-powered 'reverse-audio' search tools. Melodie also offers an API providing unlimited,copyright safe music for creative platforms.
Peter Strain, the co-owner of The Drop Festival.
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- Industry: Music, Music Label, Digital Media
- Stage:Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 1
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Melodie Music — Melodie provides unlimited access to high-quality stock music for storytellers. With an exclusive catalogue featuring 15,000+ tracks & stems from award-winning composers (updated weekly), simple licensing & intuitive search functions featuring AI-powered 'reverse-audio' search tools. Melodie also offers an API providing unlimited,copyright safe music for creative platforms.
20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications.
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- Industry: Music, Computer, Database
- Stage:Seed, Series A
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 2
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- nura — Nura designs wireless headphones that tune themselves to you. Experience music the way the artist intended with personalised sound.
- Tiger Data (creators of TimescaleDB) — TimescaleDB is an open-source time-series database optimized for fast ingest and complex queries. TimescaleDB is engineered up from PostgreSQL (packaged as an extension) and yet scales to 100+ billion rows even on a single server. It natively supports standard SQL and the features you expect from a relational database. The company isheadquartered in New York City with a globally distributed team.
Rowan Simpson - Chairman & Trustee @ Hoku Group
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- Industry: SaaS, Music, Retail
- Stage:Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Geography: New Zealand, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 9
- Round size: Seed $360k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 22% lead, 78% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Parkable — Parkable is award winning software for managing employee and tenant parking, finding short-term or monthly public parking and sharing space to earn money.
- Stickybeak —
- Huckleberry — Build your professional reputation with AI-powered 360 feedback from colleagues. Huckleberry helps people develop their career and businesses to develop their teams.
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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- Industry: Software, Analytics, Artificial Intelligence
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Australia, Canada
Investor stats
- Total investments: 19
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$7M; Series A $8.6M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 11% lead, 89% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Arkham Technologies — Unify your data and transform your operations with our Data & AI Platform
Chadd Ciccarelli
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- Industry: Software, Food and Beverage, Information Technology
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: Australia, United States
Investor stats
- Total investments: 12
- Round size: Seed $605k–$1.5M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Triggr — Own Triggr.ai today. Secure checkout and guided transfer support. No hidden fees.
- Adatree — Adatree helps organisations unleash the potential of Open Banking and the CDR through turnkey Data Recipient and Data Holder solutions.
- GGWP Academy — AI and social listening driven marketplace, backed by education to create #SmarterInfluence and drive ROI for brands in esports and gaming.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, India
Investor stats
- Total investments: 54
- Round size: Seed $1.6M–$7M; Pre-Seed $770k–$5M; Series A $5M–$19M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Tensor9 — Tensor9 is a data security company. Tensor9 helps software and AI vendors run their products inside their customer's cloud — so sensitive customer data stays private. For vendors, this unlocks customers that can't share sensitive data.
- Siro — Siro is a sales coaching platform that specializes in sales managers. Siro assists sales managers in providing precise feedback to field sales staff on live client conversations while also saving time in reporting.
- Hostie — Hostie is an AI-first customer experience platform designed for restaurants, automating guest inquiries, reservations, and takeout orders. We proudly partner with some of the world’s top restaurants, including Flour + Water, Nisei, Slanted Door, ILIS, and more. Co-founded by a product designer-turned-restaurateur and an AI engineer, Hostie blendshospitality expertise with cutting-edge technology to enhance restaurant operations.
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Browse database — It's Free!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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- Industry: Software, Music, Internet
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Series B
- Geography: United States, United Kingdom, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 25
- Round size: Seed $1.2M–$12M; Series A $5M–$70M; Series B $23M–$40M
- Lead/follow: 12% lead, 88% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Periscan — Periscan validates exposure, controls, attack paths, AI applications, and fixes — then turns the results into proof.
- Stability AI — AI for Humanity. Stability AI is a solution studio dedicated to innovating ideas. By using collective intelligence principles and augmented technology we design and implement feasible solutions to seemingly intractable problems.
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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- Industry: Software, SaaS, Music
- Stage:Series A, Seed
- Geography: Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 11
- Round size: Seed $2.7M–$5M; Series A $4M–$63M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- 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.
- Reejigs — Reejigs aggregates all skills, experience and knowledge to augment our collective intelligence about people, skills mapping and career pathing so that we can all learn faster and be insanely good at what we do. Skills are the currency of today’s world of work. Reejig continuously identifies, analyses and manages all the skills within your talentecosystem into one, super intelligent platform.
- Dovetail — Make sense of all kinds of customer research in one intuitive, collaborative, and searchable research repository.
Josh Hannah
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- Industry: Software, Internet, Blockchain
- Stage:Series A, Seed, Series B
- Geography: United States, Singapore, Norway
Investor stats
- Total investments: 61
- Round size: Seed $1.9M–$5.2M; Series A $3.2M–$30M; Series B $7.3M–$50M
- Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Formus — Formus Labs develops software technologies for orthopedic planning and analysis. Our mission is to improve outcomes and efficiencies through seamless and highly scalable integration of AI and computational modelling in the orthopedic clinical workflow. Based in Auckland, New Zealand, Formus Labs draws on over 10 years of research andcommercialisation experience, with operations in New Zealand, Australia, and soon in the USA.
- Monkey Tilt — Join your new crypto casino at Monkey Tilt. Play with crypto, earn points & win prizes. Tilt Club VIP program includes bonuses, merch drops & more.
- Ondo Finance — Institutional Grade Finance. On-Chain. For Everyone.
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.
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- Industry: Software, Internet, SaaS
- Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Geography: United States, Serbia, Australia
Investor stats
- Total investments: 67
- Round size: Seed $500k–$6.1M; Pre-Seed $40k–$3.2M; Series A $1M–$14M
- Lead/follow: 3% lead, 97% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Augie Studio — 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.
- Harmony Intelligence — AI cybersecurity products that solve your AppSec, SecOps, and corporate security challenges.
Founder/CEO of ThisData, a login intelligence and contextual authentication platform. Founder/CEO of Litmos.com, a leading SaaS Learning Management System that was acquired by CallidusCloud (NASDAQ: CALD) in 2011.
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- Industry: SaaS, Music, Mobile Apps
- Stage:Seed, Angel
- Geography: New Zealand
Investor stats
- Total investments: 3
- Round size: Seed $360k–$1.2M
- Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow
Portfolio highlights
- Melodics — Melodics is an educational service for learning how to finger drum, using adaptive learning and other data-driven approaches.
- ThisData — ThisData provides supercharged login security for your app by automatically sending a “Was this you?” notification to your users when unusual login activity is detected. Your ops team gets real-time notifications of unusual logins and can integrate with webhooks to build custom security workflows.
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