Top 15 Recruiting Angel Investors in Oceania in January 2026
A list of 15 angel investors that invest in Recruiting startups based in Oceania. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Recruiting companies from Oceania. We update this investor list every month.Top 15 Recruiting Angel Investors in Oceania in January 2026
| Investor | Recruiting Oceania investments |
|---|---|
| Matt Berriman | 2 |
| Gabby Leibovich | 2 |
| Hezi Leibovich | 2 |
| Leigh Jasper | 1 |
| David Shein | 1 |
| Ruslan Kogan | 1 |
| Jay Simons | 1 |
| Dave O' Mahony | 1 |
| Clifford Rosenberg | 1 |
| Sam Kroonenburg | 1 |
| Jim Craig | 1 |
| Paul Robson | 1 |
| Dave Shepherd | 1 |
| Sam Rahmanian | 1 |
| Robert Kawalsky | 1 |
Matt Berriman is the Chairman of Mental Health Australia.
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Investment focus
- Information Technology, Financial Services, Internet
- Seed, Funding Round, Series A
- Australia, United Kingdom, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Ratio — Asia focused investment firm
- Tailwind Acquisition — Tailwind Acquisition is a purpose-built investment company that seeks to partner with a world-class founding and executive team. The company was formed for the purpose of effecting a merger, capital stock exchange, asset acquisition, stock purchase, reorganization, or similar business combination with one or more businesses. It also seeks tocapitalize on the multiple decades of combined investment experience of the company’s management team, the board of directors, and Advisors who are both technology entrepreneurs as well as technology-oriented investors with a shared vision of identifying and investing in technology companies.Tailwind Acquisition was founded in 2020 and is based in Los Angeles, California.
- TRAVLR — TRAVLR is a revolutionary white label technology provider that consolidates the global travel industry into one seamless platform via its unique ‘Travel as a Service’ model.The company licences its full service travel platform to the world’s leading media companies, enabling their audiences to discover, plan and book curated, once-in-a-life-timetravel experiences.In turn, media companies are able to retain audiences within their ecosystem for longer, optimising for conversion by providing customers a seamless path from content through to real world experience.This unique ‘win-win-win model’ benefits all key stakeholders including consumers, media companies and the travel industry, who have traditionally experienced a fragmented travel booking journey across multiple platforms and providers.TRAVLR was founded in 2017 by Bali Bible founder Simon te Hennepe and has strategically located offices in Melbourne, Sydney, Auckland and Denpasar. Its partners include Network 10, MTV, Bali Bible and Stuff.co.nz.
Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.
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Investment focus
- Apps, FinTech, Internet
- Series A, Seed, Funding Round
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
Serial entrepreneur and investor
Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.
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Investment focus
- Internet, Apps, Marketplace
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- Slyp — Ping Data creates a smart receipt that links receipts to customers through their bank account and banking apps.
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
- Veyor — The leading live scheduling app for the built environment, helping dispersed teams and their suppliers plan, manage and track daily activity on an easy to use mobile and desktop platform.
- Zipline.io — Making compliance management simple for healthcare, aged care and skilled nursing facilities. Contact us today.
- Propeller Aero — Propeller is a global leader in drone-mapping and analytics solutions that give worksites the power to measure and manage themselves.Headquartered in Sydney, Australia, with a North American office in Denver, USA, Propeller’s innovative hardware and software products solve real problems for real people. With visual tools everyone can use,Propeller is helping teams on thousands of worksites track, inspect, and report on job progress and productivity safely and accurately. Founded in 2014 by Francis Vierboom and Rory San Miguel, Propeller serves construction, aggregates, mining, and waste management industries globally.
David has been involved in investing in and managing a number of start-up and early stage technology companies, many of which have been successfully exited. David was the founder and Managing Director of Dimension Data Australia Pty Ltd. and established Dimension Data Australia (formerly Com Tech Communications) in July 1987 as a SpecialistSupplier of networking and communications products. At the time of sale, Dimension data employed over 1400 people, had revenues of $700mil with no external debt. The company was sold for an enterprise value of over $1bil on 2000. David actively mentors management teams. David recently served as the Chairman of Centric Wealth Advisers Ltd. and was Chairman of Holly Connects, Inc. David was also Executive Chairman and Founding Investor of Macromatix . David is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Montech Holdings Limited. David holds a B.Comm and B. Acc from the University of Witwatersrand.
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Investment focus
- SaaS, Software, Construction
- Seed, Series A, Series C
- Australia, United States
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
- Human — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
- All G Foods — All G is on a mission to harmonize the perfection of nature with science to deliver ethical and sustainable cultured dairy and plant-based meat alternatives to the world.
Ruslan Kogan is a serial entrepreneur, having created and run many successful businesses. He is one of the pioneers of online retail in Australia, and his Internet ventures have expanded to include a global footprint. His companies have operations in Australia, the United Kingdom, Hong Kong, with much more international expansion planned. Histremendous success made him Australia's wealthiest self-made person under the age of 30. The technology manufacturer and online retailer he created, Kogan.com, has gone on to become the biggest online retailer in Australia, valued at over $400 million.Ruslan Kogan is a regular guest contributor to TechCrunch, Forbes, Gizmodo, and other outlets.
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Investment focus
- Apps, SaaS, FinTech
- Seed, Series A, Funding Round
- Australia, New Zealand
Portfolio highlights
- Mr Yum — Create a magical customer experience while growing your sales, data & efficiency.
- Flux — Flux helps you win at money. Save money and win cash prizes. Get exclusive content. Make your credit score healthier. All free.
- FiberSense — FiberSense is providing cities and critical infrastructure operators with game changing real-time detection of objects and events.
Jay Simons is the General Partner of Bond. Prior to that, he was the former president of Atlassian, an award-winning enterprise software company that helps teams collaborate, build software and serve their customers better. More than 43,000 large and small organizations – including some of the biggest names in media, manufacturing, and technologysuch as Citigroup, eBay, Coca-Cola, Gilt Group, Proctor & Gamble, BMW, and NASA – use Atlassian’s tracking, collaboration, communication, service management, and development products to work smarter and deliver quality results on time.Jay joined the company in 2008 as vice president of sales and marketing to lead Atlassian's pioneering efforts to develop a high-velocity, low-touch sales model. He's overseen the company's global expansion, introduction of its Starter License program (a disruptive approach to "freemium" where the company donates all proceeds to a charitable cause), and its growing worldwide customer community and programs. In 2011 Atlassian introduced its cloud-based offering Atlassian OnDemand, an evolution of its fast-growing SaaS platform.Jay has more than 15 years of experience in the software industry. He began his career at Plumtree Software where he held a variety of senior marketing and sales roles. Significantly, Jay oversaw the company's expansion throughout Europe and the Asia Pacific. When Plumtree was acquired by BEA Systems in 2005, Jay became vice president of marketing for BEA Systems, which was later acquired by Oracle in 2008. Jay holds a bachelor's degree in political and environmental science from the University of Washington.
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Investment focus
- Software, SaaS, Artificial Intelligence
- Seed, Series A, Series B
- United States, Canada, Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Runway — Explore more than 30+ AI powered creative tools to ideate, generate and edit content like never before.
- Alloy — Introducing Index - The next generation of Product Planning.
- Twelve Labs — Twelve Labs helps developers make programs that can see, listen, and understand the world as we do by giving them the most powerful video search API
Dave O' Mahony
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Communities
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
Clifford Rosenberg
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- myInterview — Hire the right candidates with myInterview with Video for Free. Create Your Account Today. The Video Tool Recruiters Love.
Sam Kroonenburg is the Co-CEO and Co-Founder of Cuttable. He previously worked at Pluralsight as an Executive Strategic Advisor.Sam Kroonenburg attended Curtin University.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Recruiting
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Askable — Askable offers a comprehensive research platform that facilitates access to certified researchers and verified participants globally. The platform streamlines the research process from recruitment to analysis, enabling teams to gather insights efficiently.
Jim Craig, Independent Director and Chairman - Investment Committee at AustralianSuper.
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Investment focus
- Software, Recruiting, Human Resources
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Sapia — PredictiveHire is a team of data scientists, artificial intelligence experts, IO psychologists and recruitment industry veterans who’ve joined together on a mission to change the way candidate assessment is done, by leveraging the power of smart technology. We believe all people decisions should be based on data and analytics – not gut feeling.With the help of technology, we want to level the candidate playing field and help reduce unconscious biases in the hiring process. Offices in the US, UK and Australia
Paul Robson believes the Asia Pacific region is the most exciting and dynamic place in the world to do business.As the leader of Adobe Asia Pacific, Paul advises brands on digital transformation, and how they can put customer experience at the centre of everything they do to drive business growth. Paul is passionate about the role technology canplay in delivering amazing experiences, especially in emerging markets where mobile is almost ubiquitous.Prior to joining Adobe, Paul was Vice President and General Manager for HP’s Networking Division across Asia Pacific and Japan. Paul was also the founding director of a successful online start up, Wedding Gifts Direct.Paul is a graduate of the Australian Institute of Company Directors and is on the boards of the Association for Data-Driven Marketing and Advertising (ADMA), Tresillian, the Royal Society for the Welfare of Mothers and Babies, and the Investment Advisory Board of Alchemy Ventures. He is also an active member of the Australian Surf Life Saving Association.Paul holds a Diploma in Market Research, a Bachelor of Commerce in Marketing, a Graduate Diploma in International Business and has attended a variety of general management and executive courses at institutions including the Haas School of Business at UC Berkley, INSEAD and the Australian Graduate School of Management.
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Investment focus
- Software, Recruiting, 3D Printing
- Seed, Series A
- Australia, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
- Gravity Sketch — Gravity Sketch is an intuitive 3D design platform for cross-disciplinary teams to create, collaborate, and review in an entirely new way.
Dave Shepherd founded Shepherd Insurance in 1977 to provide personal insurance and top-notch service to friends and neighbors. Almost four decades later, his agency has grown to include employee benefits and financial products.Dave still oversees company operations, but gives credit for the agency’s continued success to the amazing team that hasbeen built at Shepherd. Because of them, the company was recognized in 2013-2015 as Top 100 U.S. Agency by Insurance Journal, 2014 Agency of the Year by IIAI (Big "I"), 2014-2015 Top 5000 Fastest Growing Companies by Inc. Magazine, and 2014 Top Ten Independent Agencies in Indiana by Indianapolis Business Journal.Dave is a native Hoosier and a proud Carmel High School alumni. He graduated as an Academic All-American basketball player from the University of Mississippi. Together with his wife, Sally, he lives in Carmel. When they are not working or playing golf at Crooked Stick, they enjoy hanging out with their seven kids and ten grandkids.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Communities
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
Sam Rahmanian is a managing director at Monsido.
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Investment focus
- Recruiting, Communities
- Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Earlywork — The fastest, fairest pathway to begin a career in tech. Earlywork Academy is APAC's first tech sales bootcamp where you only pay if you land a job.
Rob Kawalsky is Head of Product at Canva.
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Investment focus
- Software, Analytics, Recruiting
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Askable — Askable offers a comprehensive research platform that facilitates access to certified researchers and verified participants globally. The platform streamlines the research process from recruitment to analysis, enabling teams to gather insights efficiently.
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