Top 10 Cryptocurrency Angel Investors in Oceania in October 2023

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, Funding Round
United States, United Kingdom, France

Portfolio highlights

Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
Huddle01 — Building the 1st decentralized real-time communication network. Leverage Huddle01's suite of developer-friendly SDKs to enable live audio & video experiences with just a quick plug-in.
RedStone — RedStone delivers frequently updated, reliable and diverse data for your dApp and smart contracts.

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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

Akash Network — Akash is a peer-to-peer and open market to trade compute resources. Purpose-built for public utility.
Sentinel — The Sentinel Network has the ability to host open-source distributed & decentralized applications that provide users with assurance that their session information is private, their communications are not being logged, and that not even the application creator has access to any of their data.
Sifchain Finance — Sifchain is the world's first omni-chain decentralized exchange (DEX) for digital assets, unlocking liquidity in various chains to free people from egregious fees and inefficient trades. To bring this intention to reality, we envision extensive cross-compatibility with DEXs and centralized exchanges (CEX). The future of Sifchain is aDecentralized Autonomous Organization (DAO) and, for DAOs to self-sustain, they need access to massive capital. We believe that building cross-chain liquidity will be fundamental to the future of the blockchain industry: an expectation, not a feature.Sifchain is built on the Cosmos Software Development Kit (SDK). Therefore, it is compatible with other Cosmos Network blockchains like Kava, Akash, and Terra via the Inter-Blockchain Communication (IBC) protocol. As such, it is 100 times more efficient than Ethereum-based DEXs like Uniswap in terms of both trading fees and transaction speed.As a decentralized exchange, Sifchain combines the best elements of liquidity pools and order books for optimal order execution.

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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.

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

Investment focus

Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology
Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
United States, United Kingdom, Australia

Portfolio highlights

PARSIQ — Comprehensive tools for analyzing, detecting, and preventing cryptocurrency fraud.
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

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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.

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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

AltLayer — AltLayer is a system of highly scalable application-dedicated execution layers that derive security from an underlying L1/L2.
Risc Zero. — RISC Zero is revolutionizing the internet by creating the infrastructure & tooling for Web3 developers around the globe to build zero-proof software.
Polynomial — Trade DeFi options with highly efficient liquidity.

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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.

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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

Rep3 — Rep3 is a Web3 community management application. Rep3 uses gamification methods to assist lps encryption projects in managing communities, members, and contributions.
Orb — A community-focused social app for people to connect, interact, and transact in their daily lives on web3 built with Lens Protocol.
Lens Protocol — Lens Protocol is a composable and decentralized social graph, ready for you to build on so you can focus on creating a great experience, not scaling your users.

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Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD ABIM FRCPC is an Iraqi-Canadian physician-entrepreneur who specializes in endocrinology, hypertension and genetics. He is a clinical professor of medicine at the University of British Columbia, and an early-stage investor and advisor with over 10 years of clinical and business experience. He has conducted extensive researchin the field of hormones and genetics at America’s research hospital, the National Institutes of Health, and co-founded and financed several startup companies in the fintech, blockchain and healthcare sectors. Business:Fady is the Managing Partner and Co-Founder of FHS Capital (fhscapital.io), a privately held early-stage investment fund focusing on real estate, express car wash services, wellness and digital assets. He serves as a strategic advisor and consultant on several healthTech and blockchain companies, focusing on strategic planning, operational skills, business support, and financing. He led several seed financing rounds, including; Ovenue Inc. (ovenue.com), a no-code AI and blockchain Platform-as-a-Service for real-world asset valuation and tokenization; Flyby (flyby.global), a technology platform connecting last mile delivery with digital out of home advertising; and Fluus (fluus.com), a web3 ramping solution. Medicine:Fady completed clinical training in internal medicine at Yale School of Medicine; adult endocrinology, diabetes and metabolism at the National Institutes of Health; and clinical biochemical genetics at the University of Toronto. He is board-certified in internal medicine and endocrinology by the American Board of Internal Medicine and Royal College of Physician and Surgeons of Canada; and in clinical hypertension by the American Society of Hypertension. He is an active staff physician and adjunct professor at Vancouver General Hospital (UBC), and Trillium Health Partners (UofT), and a fellow with the Royal College of Physicians and Surgeons of Canada. Research: Fady served the NIH (2015-2021) as a physician-scientist in endocrinology/genetics, Head of Graduate Medical Education and Associate Program Director of endocrinology fellowship program. His research interests remain on adrenal disorders including primary aldosteronism, a common cause of hypertension that is potentially reversible with early detection and treatment. He has authored over 100 original articles, book chapters and reviews on endocrine-genetic conditions (h-index 20, i10-index 42), and was the founding member and first Editor-in-Chief of the medical journal Endocrine and Metabolic Science (Elsevier).

Investment focus

Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech
Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
United States, United Arab Emirates, United Kingdom

Portfolio highlights

FLUUS — FLUUS is an aggregator of fiat to crypto gateways with a crypto ramping network covering emerging. FLUUS allows users to buy, sell, or swap cryptocurrencies and tokens. They aggregate cryptographic services into a single software development kit, connect ramping, exchanging, transactions, and payments, and create a money experience.
Fasset — Fasset is a global digital asset gateway that brings unparalleled accessibility to the digital asset space. Through our simple, safe and innovative digital assets, we provide people in emerging markets the opportunity to build a better future. We are pioneering web3 technologies and driving adoption of digital assets for the next billion.
Flyby — Flyby is an innovation in last mile delivery with a smart delivery box and technology platform offering tracking and advertising.

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