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Top 20 Web3 Angel Investors in Australia

Last updated: Apr 2024 A list of 20 angel investors that invest in Web3 startups based in Australia. We rank investors based on the number of investments they made in Web3 companies from Australia. We update this investor list every month.

Top 20 Web3 Angel Investors in Australia

Investor	Web3 Australia investments
Sandeep Nailwal	1
Chris Hitchen	1
Evan Cheng	1
Guy King	1
Jordan Elpern-Waxman	1
Mark D’Alessandro	1
Santiago Roel Santos	1
George Burke	1
Radek Ostrowski	1
Matt Rockman	1
Kain Warwick	1
Ashwin Ramachandran	1
Zhen Cao	1
Alireza TayebNama	1
Darren Harrison	1
Marat Kichikov	1
Jason Lenga	1
Mark Carnegie	1
Bevan Clark	1
Stani Kulechov	1

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Sandeep Nailwal is the Co-Founder of Polygon. He is a former Co-Founder and CEO of Scopeweaver. He attended the National Institute of Industrial Engineering.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, India, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Succinct — The easiest way to discover, develop, and deploy ZK.
Mystiko.Network — Mystiko.Network enables users to trade on private DEX just like on Uniswap while users' financial privacy is protected. Users could transfer assets to a brand new secret and ultra-safe address with full privacy. Any wallet could provide its user's such features by implementing Mystiko Wallet SDK.
Ooga Booga — Ooga Booga is a liquidity aggregator designed to support the goal of becoming the most capital efficient blockchain.

Chris is an Australian entrepreneur and investor based in Munich, Germany. He co-founded Australia's largest comparison shopping site Getprice.com.au in 2005 and sold it to News Corp in 2010. He became News Corp's Executive Director of Commerce before leading a management buyout of Getprice in 2012, then repositioned the business asNext Commerce, including acquiring south east Asian price comparison Pricepanda and securing investment from Rocket Internet, Tengelmann Ventures, PLDT and Kinnevik, before selling the group to UK-listed Future plc in 2016.Chris also co-founded programmatic video business Audience TV, native ecommerce advertising company Hynt.com and the autonomous vehicle software company Unleash Aerial.Chris is also the founding investor and chairman of Munich-based vacation rentals business Holidu and an industrial advisor to Swedish private equity group EQT.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Internet
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
Germany, Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

Holidu — Holidu is a search engine for vacation rentals. Search and compare more than 15 million vacation homes and save up to 55% on identical accommodations.
Classcamp — Classcamp is building the next generation of online learning. Our unique group-learning format is 10x more engaging than conventional online courses, by leveraging community and human-to-human interaction. We're building the tooling required to run a next-gen online teaching business, as well a consumer-facing marketplace for discoveringnext-gen programs.
Knowunity — Knowunity is the digital learning platform with summaries, study notes, presentations, answers, and more in one app.

Evan Cheng Co-founder & CEO at Mysten Labs. He attended Syracuse University.

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Funding Round, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

PARSIQ — Explore the future of blockchain with PARSIQ - Your gateway to advanced blockchain monitoring, smart triggers, and real-time intelligence. Empower your crypto journey with cutting-edge technology and unparalleled insights. Join us in revolutionizing the way you interact with the blockchain ecosystem
Verida — The Verida Wallet is a mobile application that allows you to manage your decentralized identity and personal data. It provides a user-friendly interface for interacting with applications built on the Verida network.
Kernal Biologics — Kernal biologics is an onco-selective mRNA therapeutics company located in Cambridge, MA

Guy King is the Co-Founder of Stateless Systems Pty Ltd. Guy King wrote BugMeNot as a "slapped-together" weekend project in 2003 that went on to become a worldwide hit. After time working a Realestate.com.au, Guy King founded Stateless Systems in 2007 and launched RetailMeNot, a consumer coupon sites.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
YourGrocer — YourGrocer provides online grocery delivery from local independent shops in Melbourne

Jordan Elpern-Waxman is the founder of Olive Branch Ventures, where he invests in and advises early stage technology startups, typically before they have raised any institutional financing, including ClassPass, ConvertMedia (acquired by Taboola), Fitocracy (acquired, stealth), OneSpot, WiredScore, and CTY. Jordan is an advisor for WiredScore,the owner and operator of the international Wired Certification standard for rating the internet connectivity of commercial office buildings, as well as a mentor for MetaProp NYC, the first real estate technology accelerator, and URBANX, a joint venture between BMW/Mini and HAX to accelerate startups focused on making cities better. He previously helped WiredScore launch the WiredConcierge business to help bring broadband to SMBs in the city. Prior to WiredScore, Jordan was the Founder and CEO of Beer Dreamer, a startup that elevated drinkers' craft beer experience through curated commerce and content. Prior to Beer Dreamer Jordan was a Senior Associate at Genacast Ventures, where he represented the firm in New York City and was responsible for sourcing and evaluating investment opportunities across a wide range of information technology sectors. His prior experience in tech companies includes software engineering, business development and partnerships, corporate development. Jordan holds a BA in Computer Science and International Relations from Brown University and an MBA from the Wharton School of the University of Pennsylvania, where he was on the Dean’s List. He is the cofounder and coorganizer of alumni groups in the tech and digital media industries for both of his alma maters, Digital Brown and Penn Digital, respectively.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Online Games, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Behaviol — Behaviol is a tech company building a new virtual sporting world on the metaverse, where sports people are virtual characters, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Mark D’Alessandro

Investment focus

Blockchain, Online Games, Artificial Intelligence
Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Behaviol — Behaviol is a tech company building a new virtual sporting world on the metaverse, where sports people are virtual characters, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).

Santiago Roel Santos was a Partner at ParaFi Capital.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Gaming
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Singapore, Australia

Portfolio highlights

Tower Pop — Tower Pop is a mobile gaming industry that focuses on tower defense. Tower Pop was founded in 2020 and was headquartered in Finland.
Clique — Clique is building identity oracles that connect web2 user behavior data with web3 applications.
Eclipse — The first customizable, modular rollups, using the Solana VM. Sign up to access our testnet.

Passionate problem solver specializing in blockchain, cryptocurrency, health & wellness tech, biohacking.Product manager, marketer, & executive with a proven ability to recognize and capitalize on commercial opportunities. Conceived, launched and successfully exited three companies. 13+ years of experience in consumer product development& growth marketing.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software
Initial Coin Offering, Seed, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, Switzerland

Portfolio highlights

KILT Protocol — KILT Protocol is an open-source blockchain protocol for creating Web 3.0 credentials that are verifiable, revocable, and anonymous.KILT provides Internet Data Sovereignty and puts users in control of their data, allowing them to choose which data to share, when, with whom, and why. It's a blockchain protocol that creates a distributed onlinetrust market to help people manage their online trust connections.It was founded in 2018 and is based in Berlin, Berlin.
Sentinel — Browse your favorite websites safely from anywhere in the world by using the Sentinel dVPN app or any of the other dVPN apps built using Sentinel
Field Complete — Free software for any field service company looking to improve operations and become more profitable! Get access to free home services management software.

A talented developer and an architect able to hit the ground running. With his broad skill set, he has contributed to the success of many small local and big international projects. Effective in taking applications from inception to completion and in improving the existing solutions. Motivated by challenges and driven by ambition agileproblem-solver.

Investment focus

FinTech, Blockchain, Cryptocurrency
Funding Round, Seed
Australia, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

prePO — The decentralized Pre-IPO & Pre-Token trading platform
Tracer DAO — Trace Digital and Real World Markets. Build and trade with Tracer Perpetuals and gain leveraged exposure to any market in the world.
Mycelium — Read up on information about Mycelium DAO.

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.

Investment focus

Mobile, Apps, B2B
Series A, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, New Zealand, United States

Portfolio highlights

Vend — Vend is web-based point-of-sale and retail management software. Vend allows real-world retail store owners or managers to have full visibility and centralized control of one to many retail stores.Vend runs in the browser and supports full online and offline modes. Even though Vend is web-based it works offline, so users can keep making salesif the internet drops out.Vend integrates seamlessly with other web applications used to run retail stores, like accounting, eCommerce, appointment scheduling, and others.The Vend platform is subscription-based, never requires backups or upgrades and lets retailers get on with running their retail enterprise instead of worrying about their IT infrastructure.
Magnet Capital — Launched in 2017, Magnet Capital is an Australian investment fund focused solely on crypto and digital assets
Ordermentum Pty Ltd — Ordermentum is a wholesale online order management system for the food and beverage industry. Book a free demo to learn how mobile ordering and payments can help you.

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

Investment focus

Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services
Seed, Series A, Funding Round
United States, Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
Firewall — Firewall is the evolution of consensus that fully eliminates smart contract exploits.
Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.

Ashwin Ramachandran is a General Partner at Dragonfly Capital. He was a Research Engineer at ThunderCore. He attended Duke University.

Investment focus

Blockchain, FinTech, Software
Seed, Funding Round, Initial Coin Offering
United States, United Kingdom, India

Portfolio highlights

ZKX — ZKX is a permissionless protocol for derivatives built on StarkNet.
Veera — Veera is an internet browser that gives you rewards every time you browse.
INIT Capital — Lend, Borrow, and Access Yield Strategies with Liquidity Hook

Zhen is a partner at Republic.co, an Angelist spin-off, with 1M users globally, the mission is democratizing private market investing. Republic is one of the most trusted online startup ecosystems in the world, along with AngelList, Product Hunt and CoinList family. Our funding portal and broker-dealer are SEC-registered and members of FINRA. Shewas the partner of JLAB, the crypto fund of JD Capital. It is the only public PE fund in China with a $9B AUM. Her portco included The Graph, Flow, Star Atlas, StepN, Oasis, Thunder, MobileCoin, Ontology, Ankr, etc. Zhen was on the content strategy team in HTC Vive, Where she was working on Skyrim, Doom, Star War, Star Trek, Ready Player One, Fallout, etc.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Gaming, Apps
Seed, Funding Round
United States, Australia

Portfolio highlights

STEPN — STEPN ioffers a blockchain-based fitness app. It works by letting users buy NFTs that last for a certain amount of time.
Ancient8 — Ancient8 is building an ETH gaming Layer 2 with OP Stack. Ancient8 offers a suite of Web3 gaming infrastructure tools that serve as the distribution and marketing channel for games globally.
Karmaverse — Karmaverse is a gamefi multiverse,it is created by the team behind two of the top 10 SLG games in the mobile gaming history.

Entrepreneur with unique background across tech and ag/food. Worked as BDM lead for large corporations building complex tech solutions across multiple industries and also worked in the ag/food sectors from on-farms to developing industry transformation roadmaps.

Investment focus

AgTech, FinTech, Blockchain
Pre-Seed
Australia

Portfolio highlights

Marli Technology Solutions — Marli uses decentralised finance and crypto technologies to enable the cross-border exchange of standardized carbon units. Every Marli token either absorbs or saves 1 tonne of CO2. Using blockchain and smart contracts we ensure that no credit is spent twice and prices are predictable. The annual market for carbon credit is expected to reach $50B by2030.Existing solutions to offset emissions are fragmented marketplaces. Low liquidity, transparency and the lack of automation are major barriers preventing wide-spread adoption. Marli is addressing these challenges.We’re a team of dedicated experts with background ranging across environmental sciences, technology, agriculture, sales, marketing and economics.After securing pre-seed funding from Borderless Capital and the Algorand Foundation for building our MVP, we’re currently raising funds for our seed round to build dedicated sales and development teams.

Darren Harrison

Investment focus

FinTech, SaaS, Gaming
Pre-Seed, Series A
Australia, Singapore

Portfolio highlights

Rush Gold — Digital Gold and Silver Money Platform - Buying gold and silver is now simple and accessible. Rush is the easiest way to buy, sell, exchange and offer.
InsureVite — InsureVite is a Singapore based, Enterprise B2B InsurTech startup on a mission to help insurers transform their customer experience through social messaging apps. Our digital assistant combined with robotic process automation can be embedded into any mobile apps or websites, enabling customers to connect and transact easily, quickly and seamlesslywith their insurers in a single interface (no re-direct or pushed out)

Marat is a serial entrepreneur with more than 20 years of experience in the financial industry and early stage investor. He is the founder of several successful companies, including a consumer finance bank, few e-commerce companies and investment fund. He serves on the board of his several portfolio companies (Bioloka, Wow Cube, F3 and RelesticaHolding), utilizing his knowledge and expertise in Blockchain industry which he joined to in 2013 as a partner in Bitfury Group. In both as a fund and as an angel investor, Marat have invested in 30+ fin tech, e-commerce, blockchain technology, educational, healthcare and gaming companies, providing business expertise and financial & advisory support to founders. Marat has a master's degree in finance & business management and a bachelor's degree in law. In his free time, Marat likes surfing and skiing!

Investment focus

Software, Education, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, Canada, Latvia

Portfolio highlights

Intropia — Find Web3 jobs and other opportunities, capitalize your network, and hire the best talent.
Starly.io — Launchpad and marketplace for your gamified NFT collections
EWA Learn — Start learning English, French and Spanish with EWA: conversational vocabulary, interactive exercises, modern examples and fun tasks are waiting for you!

Jason has overall stewardship of SEEK’s international investments and international corporate strategy including new investment opportunities. Jason also leads the Strategy and Business Development team for SEEK's Australian and New Zealand online employment businesses.Jason has been with SEEK since 1999 in a variety of senior roles andhas been instrumental in developing SEEK's strategic direction as well as establishing and driving key parts of the business, including the development of the Group’s significant international assets.

Investment focus

Software, SaaS, Blockchain
Series B, Seed, Funding Round
Australia, South Africa

Portfolio highlights

Shippit — Shippit is the multi-carrier shipping software helping you become the store every customer loves. Powering delivery for thousands of Australian sellers, stop dreading fulfilment and knock it out in minutes. Try it free today.
Behaviol — Behaviol is a tech company building a new virtual sporting world on the metaverse, where sports people are virtual characters, powered by artificial intelligence (AI).
InDebted — InDebted is changing the world of consumer debt recovery for good by creating a better way for businesses to support their customers to get back on track.

Mark has more than 30 years of experience as an entrepreneur, investor and corporate advisor in New York, London and Sydney. From 1990 to 2000 Mark was the Australian and Asian representative of Hellman & Friedman following his training on Wall Street with James D. Wolfensohn and in London at Hudson Conway with Lloyd Williams.In 2000 Mark co-founded leading Australian boutique corporate advisory and private equity firm Carnegie, Wylie & Co Pty Limited with John Wylie. Carnegie Wylie was acquired by leading Wall Street bank, Lazard Inc in 2007, and following the sale, Mark was appointed the CEO of Lazard Australia Private Equity. Throughout his career, Mark has been involved in a range of diverse Australian and Asian investments and has participated in groups that have acquired major stakes in the Courage Pub Estate, John Fairfax Holdings, Hoyts Cinemas, Formula One Holdings, SCTV, Macquarie Radio Network, Lonely Planet Publications and London Sumatra Plantations. As a corporate advisor, Mark has advised Qantas and Coles Myer on general strategic matters, Westfield on its $22 billion merger and Qantas on its JetStarAsia start-up in Singapore. Mark holds a BA from Oxford University and a BSc (Hons) from Melbourne University. He is a former Treasurer of the Oxford Union.

Investment focus

Bitcoin, FinTech, Ethereum
Series A, Funding Round
Australia

Portfolio highlights

ChronoBank — Chrono.tech is the fastest-growing Australian blockchain company. We believe that blockchain technology is the key to revolutionising global recruitment and payment processes.
Chrono.tech — Chrono.tech is the fastest-growing Australian blockchain company. We believe that blockchain technology is the key to revolutionising global recruitment and payment processes.

Board Member at YourGrocer.

Investment focus

Internet, E-Commerce, B2B
Seed, Angel, Series A
Australia, United States

Portfolio highlights

Flippa — Buy & Sell Online Businesses on the Flippa marketplace.
Influx — Hire 24/7 teams to clear the inbox as you need it. We match your brand voice exactly with all management, training included.
Chuffed.org — Chuffed is a crowdfunding platform for socially-conscious projects. We support individuals, not-for-profits, social enterprises and community groups to run awesome crowdfunding campaigns, all 100% free.

Stani Kulechov is the founder and CEO of Aave and ETHLend. He is a seasoned entrepreneur with extensive experience developing technology in the crypto, blockchain, and fintech space. Stani is also a mentor to many founders and advisors of ICOs and blockchain projects and has spoken at numerous FinTech, Blockchain and cryptocurrency events,particularly on topics related to Ethereum Smart Contracts.

Investment focus

Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

ether.fi — Delegated Staking Protocol
Orb — built for artists, creators, degens, and you!
Llama — Llama is a fullstack platform for onchain access control and governance. Llama enables protocols to securely take action using onchain policies and custom execution strategies.

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