Top 5 Angel Investors in Australia in July 2025
A list of 5 angel investors that invest in Venture capital startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Venture capital companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.Top 5 Angel Investors in Australia in July 2025
Investor | Venture Capital Australia investments |
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Simon Hackett | 1 |
Larry Diamond | 1 |
John Bacon | 1 |
Dominic Pym | 1 |
Emlyn Scott | 1 |
After graduating from the University of Adelaide, Simon Hackett founded Internode in 1991. Internode grew to become the largest privately held national broadband services provider in Australia, and it was sold to iiNet Limited in 2012. Simon is now invested in a variety of Australian and US startups in fields he is passionate about.Simon is akeen supporter of electric vehicles. Meeting Elon Musk at FiRe in 2008 led to him being the first Australian customer of Tesla in 2009. His family now owns multiple Tesla vehicles (and no gas-powered ones).In the energy sustainability field, Simon has invested in startups in Australia and the US, most significantly in Redflow (ASX:RFX), where he is a significant shareholder and a member of the board. He considers this to be a case of putting his money where his beliefs are.Simon is also a board director of the National Broadband Network (www.nbn.com.au) in Australia.Simon is a serial delegate at the SNS FiRe conference, having participated in almost all FiRe events since their inception.Away from the office, when he isn't spending time with his family, Simon is usually off flying in something.
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Investment focus
- Advice, Venture Capital, Financial Services
- Series A, Series C
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Nano Nouvelle —
- BlueChilli — We help impactful startups scale, globally. Learn more about our award-winning accelerator programs & meet our portfolio companies.
Larry Diamond is the founder of ZipMoney, a company that provides shoppers with online credit facilities. He was previously a director at Diamond Capital Partners.
Diamond holds a bachelor’s degree from the University of Technology, Sydney and a master’s degree from UNSW Australia.
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Investment focus
- FinTech, Financial Services, Software
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, Czech Republic, United Kingdom
Portfolio highlights
- Stables — Save, spend and earn on the same balance
- Safewill — Safewill is Australia's leading online Will writing platform. With thousands of users, Safewill makes it easy and affordable to write your own legally binding will
- Instant — The world's best-performing online checkout that maximises revenue for your brand!
John Bacon
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Investment focus
- Crowdfunding, Venture Capital, Funding Platform
- Series A
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- VentureCrowd — VentureCrowd is an alternative investments crowdfunding platform providing investors unique access to fractional equity, property and credit investment opportunities.
Dominic Pym is Co-Founder at Pin Payments.
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Investment focus
- Cooking, Hospitality, Marketplace
- Seed, Pre-Seed
- Australia
Portfolio highlights
- Gathar — Book a dining experience in your own home. Browse menus and book online, and our Culinarians will bring the ingredients, cook, and clean up.
- WhyHive — WhyHive offers AI-driven text analysis tools for researchers to efficiently analyze survey data and open-ended text responses.
- Aussie Angels — A platform for investors to launch & lead syndicated investments into startups. Apply to join syndicates and invest on a deal-by-deal basis.
Emlyn is a successful founder and investor with personal investments in fast growing tech companies like Kami, A.Kin, MealMe, Segna, and EnsuredIt. Managing Partner at CP Ventures and the founder of OpenMarkets Group, Australia's second-largest retail broker. He was former CEO of the National Stock Exchange of Australia, Australia’s secondlargest listing stock exchange, for four and a half years. Prior to that he was Head of Business Development at LCH.Clearnet for equities and CFDs in London for nine years, the world’s largest independent clearing house. He has four finance related degrees: Chartered Financial Analyst (CFA), Masters Business Administration (MBA), Graduate Diploma in Applied Finance and Investment (GDAFI), and Bachelor of Economics (BEc).
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Investment focus
- Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning
- Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Australia, United States, India
Portfolio highlights
- REZA — Footwear & Apparel Brand
- Tpaga — Tpaga is a mobile wallet for unbanked consumers in Latin America. Currently in Colombia and Mexico.In Latin America, more than 50% do not have credit cards or bank accounts, but what they do have is a cellphone. Tpaga allows consumers to store money via cash kiosk ( 4,000 in our network) and then use it to pay utility bills, cell phone top-up,supermarket and even gas station merchants. We have become the first mobile wallet in Latin America to allow consumers to pay groceries without having a bank account, and allowing unbanked commerces to start receiving payment without have POS systems.
- Fiable — Embed financial health insights within your application using our world leading API service
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