Top 15 Social Media Angel Investors in Australia in November 2024

Investor	Social Media Australia investments
Zach Kitschke	1
Craig Roah	1
Darren Patterson	1
Jason Calacanis	1
Stephen Garden	1
Amir Suissa	1
Ron Gross	1
Julien Codorniou	1
Su-Ming Wong	1
Sam Yam	1
Harry Stebbings	1
Brand Hoff	1
Chris Sang	1
David Greatorex	1
rob kawalsky	1

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.

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Social Media
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.

Founder at OCR Aviation

Investment focus

Dating, Social Media, Social Network
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Spring.me — Spring.me is the best way to meet people, express yourself and expand your life. Millions of people visit Spring.me every month.Meet PeopleThe world is full of people you don’t know yet. Meet people by starting a conversation with anyone, find people who are online now and follow people you find interesting.Express YourselfBeYourself, Be Anonymous, Be Anyone. Ask the questions that matter to you. Get honest answers and find out what people actually think. Make memes, post photos or animated GIFs and share them with everyone.Expand Your LifeMake a connection; watch what everyone else around the world is posting, real-time. See something amazing? Post a link or share a video from anywhere. Spring.me lets everyone share openly.

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.

Investment focus

Sports, 3D Technology, Commercial Real Estate
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Clearmatch — Alternative funding, fixed income marketplace
Persollo — Analyse any Instagram, TikTok, YouTube account, sell on social media in just 1 click and discover influencers with the audiences you need. AI powered. Designed for mobile. The results are magical.
LocalAgentFinder — LocalAgentFinder provides homeowners with the ability to compare and connect with the most suitable real estate agents. Their unique service changed the game and set the standard in one. Choice. LocalAgentFinder allows anyone to compare a wide range of local agents to learn how they’re different, without the ring-around or upfront appraisals. MostAustralian agencies have provided them their information, including their fees.The company was founded in 2007 and is headquartered in Victoria, Australia.

Jason Calacanis is the Founder and CEO of Inside.com and Launch. He previously worked at Weblogs as a Co-Founder and CEO. Jason Calacanis attended Fordham University.

Investment focus

Software, Internet, E-Commerce
Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, Canada

Portfolio highlights

TaxGPT — Looking for instant tax help? Meet TaxGPT, your AI-powered tax assistant. We simplify tax processes and maximize deductions. Try TaxGPT today!
Melengo — The easiest way to create new fashion. We use AI to automate the custom manufacturing supply chain.
Created by Humans — Created by Humans enables creators to sell licensing rights for AI training and be reimbursed by AI firms.

Stephen Garden (born 30 August 1984 - London, United Kingdom) is a British entrepreneur, Tech Investor and Executive Chairman of Caylent Inc which is a full spectrum AWS Cloud Native and DevOps consulting partner. Stephen Garden was the founder and CEO of Onica, one of Amazon Web Services largest consulting partners. Onica was acquired by Rackspacein November 2019. Prior to being acquired, Onica grew to 350 employees across 12 offices in just 6 years, generating almost $200 million in revenue.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Information Technology
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kibsi — Kibsi is an end-to-end, fully integrated environment designed for building computer vision applications. Our cloud native, low-code platform democratizes computer vision, allowing customers to focus on their business needs, not the complexity.
Caylent — Caylent is a cloud native services company that helps organizations bring the best out of their people and technology using AWS. To thrive in a software-defined world where technology is at the core of every business, organizations need to empower their people and processes through technology. Caylent is uniquely positioned to fuel that engine ofinnovation by bringing ambitious ideas to life for our clients.Caylent is obsessed with accelerating time-to-value and our track record is backed by years of experience working with clients to solve their most complex challenges. Caylent’s team provides both insight and guidance where it matters most. Through a combination of expert advice and implementation, we see around corners and anticipate needs before they become challenges. We are forward thinking, exploratory in our approach, and pride ourselves on true partnership with our clients. Being a partner means engaging together in a focused effort to drive our clients’ vision and achieve both technical and business results.Caylent was born in the cloud as a cloud native organization with roots in building developer tools. Our mission from day one has been to help companies accelerate their cloud native journey. We recognize that there is a shift in the way software is built, deployed, and managed and that running applications in the cloud can be challenging. Since our formation, we’ve been an active member of the open source community focused on helping companies at all stages of their cloud journey maximize the value of their technology investment through open source.Our commitment to the open source community includes membership in the Cloud Native Computing Foundation (CNCF) and status as a Kubernetes Certified Service Provider (KCSP). This dedication to community extends to our philosophy, mindset, and investment in our people and practices. Our commitment to learning and career development includes providing time for engineers and architects to study, train, and get certified on the cutting edge technologies that our clients value. This dedication to continuous learning enables us to have opinions grounded in experience and best practices, which is a strong value-add to our clients who look to our team to solve the most complex technical challenges.Caylent’s core practice areas include Cloud DevOps, Cloud Migration & Modernization, Cloud Data Engineering, Cloud Native Applications, Cloud Security and Compliance, and Cloud Platform Monitoring. We also provide innovative services through our Extended Reality and Machine Learning practices. We deliver via an Agile, iterative approach through scoped projects or as an elastic capacity-based subscription model depending on the best fit for our client's needs.
Archera — Archera saves customers millions through no-cost cloud commitment and savings optimization and unique commitment insurance, financing, and financial services. Unlock commitment flexibility and take control of cloud purchasing.

Amir Suissa - President of the Board @ wefox

Investment focus

Credit, Dating, Banking
Seed, Pre-Seed
Australia, Switzerland, United States

Portfolio highlights

LEND — LEND provides peer to peer lending in Switzerland. It connects investors with borrowers. Moreover, investors earn substantial returns and borrowers benefit from low interest rates. The company is based in Switzerland and it was founded in 2015.
Lua — Lua is a swipe-free dating app focused on depth and intimacy. With our smart & unique matching model, users receive hand-picked matches that consider their interests, personal sharings, and engagement holistically.Once matched, users are guided through a series of intimacy-building questions during a mystery meeting, before being given theoption to reveal their personal profile, and continue the journey with that special someone in the light.
Black Label — Jasper, formerly CreditStacks, is a financial service company that offers a credit card designed for professionals. Jasper uses technology to assess applicants holistically, so applicants may qualify for a premium Jasper Mastercard, issued by WebBank, even if they are just starting their credit journey.The company was founded in 2015 and isheadquartered in New York City, New York.

Ron Gross

Investment focus

Sales, Dating, Internet
Seed, Pre-Seed
Israel, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Kirobo — Making Blockchain As Simple As Online Banking Solution Kirobo adds a logic layer into the blockchain that protects users from human error
Lua — Lua is a swipe-free dating app focused on depth and intimacy. With our smart & unique matching model, users receive hand-picked matches that consider their interests, personal sharings, and engagement holistically.Once matched, users are guided through a series of intimacy-building questions during a mystery meeting, before being given theoption to reveal their personal profile, and continue the journey with that special someone in the light.
Substrata — Substrata.me | #1 AI Real-Time Sales Coach | Designed by data scientists, psychologists and linguists to help you book more meetings and close more deals

Julien is an investor at Felix Capital where he focuses on SaaS (Worktech in particular) and gaming investments.Before joining Felix, Julien Codorniou spent 11 years at Facebook where he led the global platform partnerships team, helping Facebook partners to build, grow and monetize their mobile apps and games. From 2016 to 2021, he has beenserving as Vice President of Workplace. Under his leadership, Workplace went from 0 to 9 million paid subscribers at companies like Walmart, Grab, GSK, Nestlé, Chevron, MercadoLibre, ServiceNow, Astrazeneca, Lixil, Spotify, Save the Children and many more globally. Julien started his career in finance and before Facebook he was Director of Business Development at Microsoft Corp.Since 2012, Julien has served on the board of the French media group Le Monde. He is the co-author of the book: "The Kelkoo.com success story"published by Pearson in 2005.His former investments, as business angel include companies like TripleDot Studios, Bloom & Wild, Pigment, Xentral, Homesome, Olio, Peanut, Nabla, Curio, Linktree, Airlift Technologies and Sunday.He grew up in France and now lives in London with his wife and their two boys.

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Apps
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
France, United Kingdom, United States

Portfolio highlights

5Mins — 5Mins is the new microlearning platform that helps your employees build in-demand skills fast with AI-powered personalisation and advanced gamification.
Sharpist — We offer personalized learning that will help people-centric organizations and teams grow throughout the challenges of today and tomorrow. Learn more!
Dust — Dust is a platform for creating sophisticated processes based on large language models and semantic search.

Su-Ming Wong is an investment professional with over 30 years’ direct investment, international corporate advisory and merchant banking experience.He is a director of several portfolio companies including Lorna Jane and Scentia. Prior portfolio directorships include SG Fleet, H-E Parts, TSmarine, Retail Apparel Group, Dexion, Amdel, Mulford andIntercast & Forge.Su-Ming Wong was a member of the Council of University of Technology, Sydney (2010 – 2014). He was a founding director of National ICT Australia (a centre of excellence in ICT research & development), a member of the Industry Research and Development Board and a director of Unisearch. He was a council member of the Australian Venture Capital Association and was a member of the South Australian Government’s Venture Capital Board.He holds a Master of Engineering from the University of Canterbury, New Zealand and a Master of Business Administration from the Australian Graduate School of Management.

Investment focus

Sales, EBooks, Marketing
Seed, Series A
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Booktopia — Booktopia - buy online books, DVDs and Magazine Subscriptions from Australia's leading online bookstore with over 4 million titles. Booktopia offers thousands of eBooks, daily discounted books and flat rate shipping of $9.99 per online book order.
Tapestry — Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform that has education expertise at its heart. All the tools you need at an affordable price.

Sam Yam is the Co-Founder, President and CTO of Patreon. He attended Stanford University.

Investment focus

FinTech, Finance, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Backer — Backer is a smart way to save for your kid's education with help from family and friends. Save 4x more with backers. Invest your savings tax-free with a gold-rated 529 savings plan.
Jubilee Media — Media company for positive, purpose-driven millennials.
Collective — Collective offers financial solutions designed for self-employed business owners - company formation, tax, accounting & bookkeeping.

Harry is the Founder of The Twenty Minute VC, the world's largest independent venture capital podcast with over 100,000 listeners, partnerships with Mattermark and ProductHunt and guests from over 200VCs including the likes of Accel, Kleiner, Y Combinator, Benchmark and Index. He is also a contributor for TechCrunch covering all thingsstartups and VC funding and has recently joined Jason Lemkin at Saastr to build out the platform and expand into new verticals.

Investment focus

Software, Information Technology, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, France, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Toku — Seamless employment, built for Web3. WorkDAO is the only Web3-native employment service that provides legal employment, token payroll, and employee benefits that make a difference, globally. We're building the infrastructure to scale DAOs and Web3 organizations so you can focus on building.
Context.ai — Context.ai is product analytics for LLM applications. Understand your users and improve their experiences in your LLM powered products.
Contextual AI — Our contextual language models are built to be highly accurate while minimizing hallucinations, are fully auditable, and keep your data safe.

Brand has had a long and successful career in ICT both in Government and Private Industry. Brand is a successful entrepreneur, company director and investor. He founded TOWER Software which was acquired by HP in May of 2008. Brand has a degree in Computer Studies from the University of Canberra, has served as a Councillor of the University ofCanberra and is now an Adjunct Professor at the University of Canberra. Brand has served as a Director of NICTA, the Australian ICT Centre of Excellence, Taggle Systems, SNAPeWallet and MyTaggles Pty Ltds. Brand also served as Chairman of Canberra Business Council and a Councilor of the NSW Business Chamber. He has served as Chairman Australian Institute of Company Directors (AICD) Canberra Division and as a Director on the National Board of AICD. He was awarded the 2011 National Pearcey Medal, for a lifetime contribution to Australian ICT and in 2012 he was inducted as a Member into the Order of Australia.

Investment focus

Social Media, Private Social Networking
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tapestry — Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform that has education expertise at its heart. All the tools you need at an affordable price.

Venture Capitalist, Managing Partner, Chief Technology Officer

Investment focus

Software, E-Commerce, Information Technology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, Australia, India

Portfolio highlights

REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
Anility — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
Cloobot Inc — Cloobot X: Your Premier Software Implementation transforms your vision into reality with our state-of-the-art software implementation studio. Leveraging cutting-edge AI technology, our expert team delivers rapid, efficient, and innovative solutions tailored to your unique business needs.

David Greatorex - Founding Investor @ ResMed

Investment focus

Social Media, Private Social Networking
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tapestry — Tapestry is the original and leading childhood education platform that has education expertise at its heart. All the tools you need at an affordable price.

rob kawalsky

Investment focus

News, Publishing, Health Care
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Human — Human aims to assist medical professionals and patients to make more statistics selections.
The Daily Aus — We offer young Australians a digestible and engaging way to access the news. Our objective is to provide the context to a news story making the rounds.