Top 10 Social Network Angel Investors in Oceania (August 2026)

Google Maps Co-Founder / Defiance Capital Co-Founder / Angel Investor / Panathēnea Co-Founder / Kite Surfing Coffee Enthusiast

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Apps, Video
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
Geography: United States, Australia, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 29
Round size: Seed $326k–$6.6M; Angel $250k–$2.3M; Pre-Seed $1.4M–$3M
Lead/follow: 7% lead, 93% follow

Portfolio highlights

Protio — Protio is proptech startup reinventing the process of buying & selling real estate.
FlexThis — FlexThis is an online marketplace that rents bikes for any duration to minimize transportation pollution.
Terraton — Terraton is a biochar platform that provides equipment, design, and financing to agribusiness operators.

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Jonty Kelt is based out of New York, New York, and is the Chair of the Board of Directors of Starboard Maritime Intelligence. and also the Founder of Fantail Ventures. Jonty previously worked at Valocity as a Board Advisor. Jonty Kelt attended the University of Otago. Jonty Kelt has been certified in Company Direction.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Analytics, Information Services
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, New Zealand, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 25
Round size: Seed $1.6M–$4M; Pre-Seed $2M–$2M; Series A $1.4M–$14M
Lead/follow: 4% lead, 96% follow

Portfolio highlights

Fero Labs — Fero is a machine learning solution powering the next wave of industrial process improvement.
QuickFrame — QuickFrame is a simpler, smarter way to create more video. Immediately unlock high-performing, high-quality video assets for all of your campaigns and marketing goals.
Conversion Logic — The givezooks peer to peer technology has been integrated with Salsa Labs. The NEW Salsa now offers a peer to peer module for our Engage customers.

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Nathan brings a unique entrepreneurial business and organizational development background developed during years of hands-on, active leadership and operational experience. As one of the Northwest’s leading organizers of entrepreneurial and investor relations-focused media and funding events, he has facilitated scores of engagements and successfullypromoted hundreds of privately financed high-growth companies.In June 2014, Nathan became CEO of Keiretsu Capital with the mission of fostering closer ties between Keiretsu Forum angels, the institutional investor community and Keiretsu Forum portfolio companies. Keiretsu Capital provides access to proprietary deal flow by investing alongside the angels, providing additional capital to complete rounds and acting to source follow on capital where appropriate.Nathan co-founded and currently serves as Chairman of the Northwest Region of the Keiretsu Forum global angel investment group. He wrote the business plan and designed the organizational structure, which led to the initial license agreement with global Keiretsu Forum. He recruited the team, implemented policies and procedures, designed, and coordinated multi-faceted events. As part of his overall regional growth strategy, he created and implemented controlled expansion activities in Seattle, Bellevue, Boise, Portland, Spokane, Victoria and Vancouver, B.C. Nathan’s leadership and personal networking skills combined to quickly build the region into the fastest growing angel investment group in the nation, adding over 650 investor members and facilitating over $164 million in funding for over 240 companies.In 2004, Nathan became Managing Director of Venture Velocity, a business growth consulting organization. He recruited a talent pool of executive-level consultants from among the most successful and fastest growing companies in the region. Nathan has been a moving force in building and shaping investor networks for two emerging fund managers including The University Funds and Pacific West Land.Nathan has dedicated much of his career to stimulating growth-stage capital investment including as lead organizer for the Northwest’s most successful venture funding conference, raising over $30 million for 15 growth companies. As Co-founder and Managing Director of the Investment Forum, he produced the highest quality educational programs, social events, and investment forums in the region in collaboration with more than thirty-five industry groups and hundreds of different sponsors. Nathan co-founded an industry leading showcase event and media piece, which attracted over 500 of the region’s most influential investors and CEO’s to recognize and celebrate their accomplishments.Nathan is a graduate of University of Washington Michael G. Foster Business School with a Bachelor of Arts degree in Business Administration & Finance with an emphasis in entrepreneurial leadership and venture finance. He has been a consistent supporter and volunteer for his alma mater, serving as a sponsor and judge for the UW Center for Innovation and Entrepreneurship Business Plan Competition for many years. Nathan and his wife Brianna live in the Wedgwood neighborhood in Seattle with their three young children Evan and Wyatt and Ana Leigh.

Investment focus

Industry: Health Care, Biotechnology, Medical
Stage:Series A, Seed
Geography: United States, Canada, Turkey

Investor stats

Total investments: 84
Round size: Seed $400k–$2.2M; Series A $778k–$3.5M
Lead/follow: 5% lead, 95% follow

Portfolio highlights

Alyte — Alyte Social Fitness App is a new way to hang out online. Think yoga and pilates, on demand, on your schedule with your mates. Get launch notification.
LumiThera — LumiThera is a medical device company focused on LED and laser treatments for acute and chronic ocular disease. The company is developing solutions to prevent vision loss and blindness, improve visual function, and stop or slow the progression of blinding diseases of the eye. They delivering photobiomodulation (PBM) treatment for ocular disordersand diseases.LumiThera also focused on treating patients affected by dry age-related macular degeneration. The company’s expertise is in the application of photobiomodulation (PBM), using non-invasive light-emitting diodes (LED) for acute and chronic ocular diseases and disorders.The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Poulsbo, Washington, United States.
We Are Social — We Are Social delivers businesses and brands with marketing campaigns and strategies that are based on social insights. The company has provided its services for brands such as Adidas, Audi, Google, and Netflix.We Are Social has offices in London, New York, San Francisco, Paris, Milan, Munich, Berlin, Singapore, Shanghai, Sydney, and Sao Paulo.It was founded in 2008.

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David Shuman is Founder and owner of Lateralus Holdings. He is Chairman of the Board of Ōura and Chairman of the Board of webAI.David was previously a director of Czinger Vehicles and Divergent Technologies. Lateralus Holdings remains one of the largest shareholders in Divergent Technologies.David graduated from Williams College and HarvardBusiness School. He's been a member of the Council on Foreign Relations since 2004, initially as a term member (2004) and then as a life member (2009). He previously served as a trustee of the Solomon R. Guggenheim Foundation.

Investment focus

Industry: Wellness, Health Care, Fitness
Stage:Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Geography: United States, Finland, Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 8
Round size: Seed $12M–$17M; Series A $2M–$22M
Lead/follow: 25% lead, 75% follow

Portfolio highlights

Alyte — Alyte Social Fitness App is a new way to hang out online. Think yoga and pilates, on demand, on your schedule with your mates. Get launch notification.
Oura — Oura Ring: the most accurate sleep and activity tracker is all about you: it measures the physiological signals of your body, understands your lifestyle, and guides you to make your own optimal daily choices. The ring features scientifically validated sleep tracking and personalized guidance.
Highwater AI — Revolutionizes ETFs and hedge funds with cutting-edge AI and synthetic data. Explore our FundFlow AI platform and Nano AI models

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Elevation Capital was formed by a group of successful entrepreneurs who have co-invested in order to pool together their capital and experience. We consider ourselves to be “venture accelerators” rather than venture capitalists. After starting my first fledgling business at the age of 17, I truly understand the unique challenges faced byentrepreneurs and I am aware that it takes more than just capital for a company to succeed.Recently, Blueprint Management and the various business's we developed (up to 10 companies over 13 years) has given me exposure to the difficult challenges that every entrepreneur will face. My experience has involved the creation of a company with only $10K start-up capital, which grew to over 950 staff. This business was then sold to a private equity group. The success of this venture has given me invaluable knowledge that I can now share with others to guide them in the future.Specialties:If there is one simple thing I have learnt in recent times about investing into growth companies, it is: "to not waste anyones time".Elevation Capital is a professional and committed organisation and is able to invest quickly when a good business opportunity presents itself. We appreciate the challenge that entrepreneurs face when trying to raise capital while also dealing with the daily time constraints of running their businesses.

Investment focus

Industry: Software, Marketplace, Apps
Stage:Seed, Angel
Geography: Australia, United States, Singapore

Investor stats

Total investments: 37
Round size: Seed $65k–$4M; Angel $248k–$252k
Lead/follow: 32% lead, 68% follow

Portfolio highlights

LiveHeats — Liveheats powers better action sports events for surf, skate, snow and surf life saving. Used by local clubs, regional, state, and national federations around the world for live scoring, heat draws, registrations, rankings and more.
Car Next Door — Hire a car, van or ute from our community of local car owners, or rent out your car and make extra money. Peer-to-peer car share in Sydney, Melbourne, Newcastle.
Juggle Street — Juggle Street helps you find local babysitters, nannies, au pairs, tutors and before and after school care providers. We are a local neighbourhood network connecting people around Australia.

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Phil Gunter is based out of Brisbane, Queensland, and is the Chairman and Co-Founder of Loyalty Status. Phil previously worked at Travello as a Board Member, Advisor, and Investor. Phil Gunter attended Swansea University.

Investment focus

Industry: Travel, Social Network, Information Technology
Stage:Series A
Geography: Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

Portfolio highlights

Travello app — Travello is a social network for travellers used in over 180 countries. It's a global community of travellers and is fast becoming the largest and most trusted travel community in the world. It's available for free on iOS and Android. However, Travello is more than just a social network. We have developed a suite of Travel-Tech solutionsunder the brand BlueTee. www.bluetee.io These platforms allow travel companies to connect with their customers 'in-destination', using self serve geo-fence technology, customer segmentation and location based push messaging. For the first time, travel companies can partner with Travello and get the right message, to the right traveller, in the right place at exactly the right time - all with NO technical integration.

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Chris Hadley - Managing Director @ Quadrant Private Equity

Investment focus

Industry: B2B, SaaS, Fitness
Stage:Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
Geography: Australia, New Zealand, United Kingdom

Investor stats

Total investments: 3
Lead/follow: 67% lead, 33% follow

Portfolio highlights

Alyte — Alyte Social Fitness App is a new way to hang out online. Think yoga and pilates, on demand, on your schedule with your mates. Get launch notification.
Howamigoing — OUR WHY We want people to live their best lives. We believe people grow more when in teams. We believe great teams are built on constructive feedback. At work. At home.OUR HOW We’re using technology + design + psychology to break down crucial communication barriers between people: We want to create a safe-space where people can feelcomfortable asking uncomfortable questions and giving uncomfortable answers.OUR WHAT We’ve developed a beautifully designed, UX-led platform that helps employees and employers manage goal setting, 360-degree feedback, manager check-ins, pulse surveys and personal note keeping all year round.This saves time, money and anxiety while providing a safe, confidential portal for employees to proactively gather year-round advice from their colleagues.
Sunfed Meats — Sunfed meats are made from pea protein, they cook, feel and taste just like animal meat but are healthier, both for you and the planet. Simply sub with Chicken Free Chicken, Bull Free Beef or Boar Free Bacon (aka Chickenless Chicken, Vegan Chicken, Chicken NOT Chicken, Vegan Bacon, Vegan Beef, No Bull Beef).

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Founder at OCR Aviation

Investment focus

Industry: Dating, Social Media, Social Network
Stage:Seed
Geography: Australia

Investor stats

Total investments: 1
Lead/follow: 0% lead, 100% follow

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.

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