# Top 25 Publishing Angel Investors in Oceania in June 2026 ## Chloe Steinberg - Type: Angel - Location: Westport, Connecticut, United States - Relevant deals: 2 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Health Care, Fitness, Wellness Chloe Steinberg is a partner at Sapphire Sport, where she focuses on investing in early-stage companies shaping the future of consumption. Chloe has deep industry expertise in the health & wellness sector, stemming from her 5+ years as an operator and investor with the Equinox Group of Brands. During that time, Chloe launched and led EquinoxVentures, the group’s investment arm focused on high performance living. She also supported Business Development & new business incubation, including the launch of Equinox Media in 2020. Earlier in her career, Chloe cofounded Vayner Capital in partnership with Gary Vaynerchuk and was a member of the investment team at Insight Venture Partners, where she focused on consumer tech and enterprise software investments. Chloe is deeply passionate about people doing work they love so in her free time, she founded and runs ExclusiveJobs, a not-for-profit, bespoke talent placement network in the consumer sector.Chloe graduated magna cum laude from The Wharton School at the University of Pennsylvania, where she played varsity lacrosse. She was named to the Forbes 30 under 30 list for Venture Capital in 2020. A Baltimore native, Chloe now resides in Westport, CT with her husband and son. ## Balaji Srinivasan - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco Bay Area, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software Balaji S. Srinivasan is the Co-Founder and Board Member of Coin Center. He was the CTO of Coinbase and cofounder of Counsyl, Earn, Teleport, and Coin Center. Dr. Srinivasan holds a BS, MS, and PhD in Electrical Engineering and an MS in Chemical Engineering from Stanford University. He also teaches the occasional class at Stanford, including anonline MOOC. ## Shan Mehta - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Angel, Debt Financing - Focus: Mobile, Software, Apps Shan Mehta is an angel investor and entrepreneur. ## Kevin Hale - Type: Angel - Location: Chicago, Illinois, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, SaaS, E-Commerce Kevin Hale was a partner at Y Combinator. He worked with their portfolio companies on user experience design, product development and customer support. In 2006, he co-founded Wufoo, which was one of the earliest Y Combinator funded startups. The online form builder was later acquired by SurveyMonkey. He attended ## Lars Rasmussen - Type: Angel - Location: Brooklyn, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel - Focus: Software, Apps, Video Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast ## Fredrik Wester - Type: Angel - Location: Stockholm, Stockholms Lan, Sweden - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Angel, Pre-Seed - Focus: Publishing, CRM, Travel CEO and President of Paradox Interactive. Since 2003 we have built Paradox from a 7 man studio to an international Publisher with over 175 employees and another 10 partner companies (200 people) making games for us. Driver of organizational improvements and implementation of best practices across departments over the past 10 years.Capable ofresolving multiple and complex (sales, legal, financial, operational) issues as well as leading teams of highly skilled professionals. ## Zach Kitschke - Type: Angel - Location: Surry Hills, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: News, Publishing, Social Media Canva now has, after only two years more than 10 million users across 179 countries, and is used daily by many social media marketers, bloggers and small businesses to create things like posters, business cards and presentations. More than 100 million designs have now been created using the platform.The company is also made famous for theappointed Apple’s Chief Evangelist, Guy Kawasaki as it’s ambassador. ## Nikki Warburton - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: Retail, Automotive, Publishing Nikki Warburton, Non Executive Board Director. ## Matt Rockman - Type: Angel - Location: Los Angeles, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Mobile, Apps, B2B Matt is an investor in venture businesses and will soon be basing himself in the United States working with Square Peg Capital. He invests across a wide sector of industries and geographies. Matt and his wife have a foundation where they focus on community projects, which have the ability to enhance the social sector.Prior to working as aninvestor in his own right, Matt was one of the three original founders of SEEK LTD. Along With Paul and Andrew Bassat, Matt took SEEK from business plan to become one of Australia’s most successful online businesses. SEEK is now an ASX Top 100 Listed company with a market capitalisation of $4 Billion, and with businesses in the UK, China, Brazil, Australia, New Zealand and Malaysia.Matt also is an accomplished speaker and helps many organisations realise their full potential through his business insights. Matt holds a Bachelor of Business (Banking and Finance) from Monash University. ## Aayush Phumbhra - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Debt Financing - Focus: Mobile, Software, Education Aayush Phumbhra is the Co-Founder and Chief Executive Officer at Nectar. ## Jean Sini - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Series B, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning Jean Sini (born July 20, 1973) is a New York- and San Francisco-based investor. Jean is General Partner at Partech Partners. Previously, Jean was Chief Technology Officer at real estate startup Cadre. Before that, he was cofounder and Chief Technology Officer of Fountain, started in 2013 with Mint.com founder Aaron Patzer, and sold to Porch.com in2015. He is also an investor in and advisor to early stage startups, including Boxbee, Canva, Treasure Data, FieldWire, People.ai, ProdPerfect. He was previously CTO at One Kings Lane, and earlier Vice President of Data Aggregation Engineering at Mint.com, acquired by Intuit for $170m in November 2009. In 2005 he co-founded and was CTO at Activeweave, sold to TwelveFold Media in April 2008. ## Woody Harrelson - Type: Angel - Location: San Clemente, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Software, Publishing, Web Design Woody Harrelson - Advisory Board @ Surfrider Foundation ## Tony Faure - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Apps, Mobile, Social Media Tony Faure is the Chair at oOh! Media. He attended University of Sussex. ## Owen Wilson - Type: Angel - Location: Dallas, Texas, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Pre-Seed - Focus: Software, Publishing, Web Design Owen Cunningham Wilson is an American actor, voice-over artist, writer, producer and screenwriter. ## Ash Fontana - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Machine Learning, SaaS Ash advises and invests in AI-First companies. He helps companies from inception onwards by advising on their data + ML, pricing and fundraising strategy. He invests anything from $20K to $20MM in a company. He also currently acts as a Special Advisor to Zetta Venture Partners, where he was a Managing Director from 2015 to 2021. Before Zetta, Ashlaunched AngelList’s fundraising platform that now manages over $7B. Prior to AngelList, he co-founded Topguest (acquired), a loyalty software platform that counted United Airlines, Hilton Worldwide, and Virgin America as clients. He started his career in growth investing at Macquarie Capital in New York after studying law at the University of Sydney. Penguin Random House has published his book, “The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence”. ## David Gyngell - Type: Angel - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: News, Publishing, Social Media David Gyngell was the Company’s Chief Executive Officer from November 2010 until November 2015, having previously served as the Chief Executive Officer of Nine Network from September 2007. David Gyngell became a Non-Executive Director of the company in November 2015. He has almost 20 years’ of experience at Nine and over 25 years’ overallmedia sector experience.Previously, David Gyngell was Chief Executive Officer of Granada Television and also Director of International Management Group and Transworld Media International. He has also worked as Executive Director, Group Marketing and Communications for Publishing & Broadcasting Limited. ## Adrian MacKenzie - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Seed - Focus: Advertising, TV, Apps Adrian MacKenzie is a Director on the Board of Ascender, and founder of 5V Capital, where he has made several successful investments in both established and venture capital businesses. His recent success includes the acquisition of Ascender, becoming the major shareholder in Madman Film & Entertainment, and the successful exit of his investmentin Mysale, where he remains a director. His venture capital investments include Canva, Standard Media Index, ImageBrief and Parcelpoint.Prior to 5VC, Adrian was Managing Partner and board member at private equity firm CVC Capital Partners (London), where he worked on numerous transactions before moving to Hong Kong to help establish the Asia Pacific business, and then to Sydney to open the Australian office. During this time, he completed many significant transactions including Pacific Brands, Tech Pacific, Affinity Healthcare and Nine Entertainment. Having become a Managing Partner and board member, Adrian left CVC after 17 years in 2012. Adrian’s career began in corporate finance with J. Henry Schroder Wagg & Co Ltd, in the London and New York offices.Adrian holds a Bachelor of Science (Hons) in engineering and economics. ## 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. ## David Kowalski - Type: Angel - Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed David co-founded CountryCars.com.au with his best mate, Alex Sparkes, and following a capital raising in 2006 sold the business to Fairfax Media in 2007. In 2008 he co-founded Green Lane and currently spends his time working closely with several of the start-ups he has investments in and looking at a variety of start-ups in Australia and the UnitedStates.David loves working directly with Founders to empower them to be the best entrepreneurs they can be. David has a passion for building Products and Brands and focuses on investing in consumer facing businesses. Currently David is working closely with Duck.Space, BuySomewhere, GeoSnapShot, mPort and Zova.Prior to CountryCars David put together and sold options in real estate developments. David loves to support entrepreneurs on www.kiva.org and is a keen tennis player. ## Marc Andreessen - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed - Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet Marc Andreessen was the Co-founder of LoudCloud Systems. ## rob kawalsky - Type: Angel - Location: San Francisco, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: News, Publishing, Health Care rob kawalsky ## Kenneth Goldman - Type: Angel - Location: Sunnyvale, California, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A - Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, B2B Ken Goldman is the President at Hillspire, LLC. Ken Goldman attended Harvard Business School and Cornell University. ## Chris Anderson - Type: Angel - Location: New York, New York, United States - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Pre-Seed - Focus: Apps, Content, Journalism Chris Anderson is a head of conference organisation TED. ## Paul Reining - Type: Angel - Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed - Focus: EBooks, Internet, E-Commerce Paul Reining - Director & Advisor @ My Pet Warehouse ## Laurence Escalante - Type: Angel - Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia - Relevant deals: 1 - Stages: Seed, Convertible Note - Focus: Dairy, Retail, CleanTech Laurence Escalante is the Founder & CEO at VGW # About Shizune Shizune.co is an investor database. 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