# Top 50 Financial Services Angel Investors in Oceania in October 2023

## Craig Winkler
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 4
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, Apps

Craig Winkler Co-founded Australian small business accounting software provider MYOB in 1991. Craig built MYOB to be a popular business tool and brand which, in 2004, merged with Solution 6 to become Australia’s largest IT company. Craig joined Xero's board and became a substantial shareholder in 2009. He now spends the bulk of his timeworking in the philanthropic sector.

## Bosco Tan
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Financial Services, Payments

Bosco Tan

## Patrick Tuttle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Series A, Debt Financing
- Focus: FinTech, Software, Payments

Patrick Tuttle

## Larry Diamond
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

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.

## Mark Harbottle
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: E-Commerce, B2B, FinTech

Matt Harbottle co-founded Melbourne-based SitePoint.com 10 years ago with Matt Mickiewicz, and grew it into a profitable, multi-million dollar company without any venture capital or outside funding. The company has been profitable every single month since its inception and is actively involved in publishing & marketplaces for Web Professionals.In 2008, Mark spun off 99designs out of SitePoint as its own separate business. 99designs has become the market leader in crowdsourced graphic design and currently sees a new graphic uploaded to the site every 7 seconds and pays out over $1,000,000 to designers every month. In April 2011 99designs received $35m in a Round A led by Accel Partners.99designs has run crowdsourced design projects for tens of thousands of small business owners, as well as big brands like Adidas, TiVo, Dish Networks, and bestselling authors like Tim Ferriss and Rick Warren (author of “The Purpose Driven Lifeâ€).In June of 2009, Mark and Matt launched Flippa.com, a marketplace for buying and selling small websites via auction. Flippa currently sells over $2 million worth of website assets per month, with its biggest sale ever being ReTweet.com which sold for $250,000.In January of 2011, Learnable.com was launched, again as a spin off from SitePoint. Learnable is a peer to peer education platform where anyone can create an online course and sell access to it online.

## Kain Warwick
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Cryptocurrency, Blockchain, Financial Services

Kain Warwick is the Co-Founder and CEO at blueshyft

## Guy Pearson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Accounting, SaaS

Guy has more then a decade's experience in professional practice and is a Chartered Accountant.
Before Practice Ignition he founded and grew Interactive Accounting and Your Modern Practice.
Guy's extremely passionate about providing small business owners with better information and better advice.

## Kurt Alexander
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mining, Retail, Medical

Kurt Alexander

## Adrian Di Marco
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, SaaS

Mr Di Marco founded TechnologyOne in 1987, after extensive software industry experience in the area of large scale fixed time and fixed price software development projects to meet client-specific requirements. Mr Di Marco has more than 30 years' experience in the software industry. He is responsible for all operational aspects of TechnologyOneand its strategic direction.

## Chris Hitchen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Munich, Bayern, Germany
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Internet

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.

## Darren Patterson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Sports, 3D Technology, Commercial Real Estate

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.

## Hezi Leibovich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Internet, Apps, Marketplace

Serial entrepreneur and investor
Founded some of Australia’s most successful B2C companies. Over $500m in exits in the last 5 years.

## David Gordon
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: B2B, Mobile, FinTech

David Gordon - Chairman @ Ordermentum Pty Ltd

## Jon Soberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Software

Jon Soberg joined MS&AD Ventures as Managing Partner in 2018.

## Mark Hurley
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Software

Mark Jude Hurley is a New Zealand born entrepreneur, investor and advisor. He is the co-founder and CEO of Jasper, a startup which is democratising access to wealth generating opportunities, starting with commercial real estate. He was previously the Founder and CEO of Little Giant which was acquired by Dentsu Aegis Network in August 2017 for anundisclosed sum. Hurley is also an active angel investor in companies such as Sharesies and First AML.

## Bevan Clark
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Series A
- Focus: Internet, E-Commerce, B2B

Board Member at YourGrocer.

## Craig Donaldson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Auckland, Auckland, New Zealand
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services

Craig has more than 25 years of Financial Market experience in New Zealand and the United States, encompassing business building, restructuring and running a number of market-leading financial businesses, including Merrill Lynch, Deutsche Bank & RBS. Craig holds a numbers of NZ Board & Advisory Board positions & is the current CEO ofKea NZ. Craig owns an extensive commercial property portfolio.

## Leigh Jasper
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Construction

Leigh Jasper is the CEO of Aconex, the world’s most widely used cloud collaboration platform for construction, engineering and infrastructure projects. Together with company co-founder Rob Phillpot, he raised A$86 million in private equity investment before listing Aconex on the Australian Securities Exchange (ASX) in December 2014. Prior toAconex, Leigh was a business analyst at McKinsey & Company, where he consulted for clients in the financial services, media and information technology sectors. He is a director of the Burnet Institute, a not-for-profit organization which aims to improve health in poor and vulnerable communities in Australia and internationally through research, education and public health. Leigh holds a Bachelor of Engineering degree with First Class Honors, a Bachelor of Science degree in Mathematics and a Diploma of Modern Languages in French from the University of Melbourne.

## Stani Kulechov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Como, Lombardia, Italy
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Financial Services, Cryptocurrency

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.

## Gabby Leibovich
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Internet

Gabby Leibovich is the co-founder and managing director at Catch.com.au.

## Nick Beale
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: FinTech, Real Estate, Financial Services

Nick has more than 25 years commercial property experience. Nick is the Founder and MD of RCP, New Zealand's leading commercial property project management company. RCP have been responsible for managing some of New Zealand's most iconic commercial property developments including Auckland's Sky Tower, Queens Wharf and Vero centre aswell as Christchurch's AMI stadium. Nick owns an strong commercial property portfolio personally and is the Chairman of the Child Cancer Foundation.

## Andrew Hamilton
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Advice, Retirement, Financial Services

Andrew Hamilton is a managing Director of Hamilton & Associates.

## Paul Greenberg
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: E-Commerce, Men's, Fashion

Paul Greenberg

## John Szangolies
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: B2B, Wholesale, Trading Platform

Founder and CEO of Urban Purveyor Group, John Szangolies is one of the leading forces in Australian hospitality. With 18 restaurants and bars across NSW, Victoria and QLD, as well as a bespoke beverage import business and commissary kitchen, Urban Purveyor Group comprises some of the country’s most notable venues. Originating in 1976 with thelegendary Löwenbräu Keller, the group also includes The Argyle and Bavarian Bier Cafés across Sydney, Brisbane and the Gold Coast. Further, Urban Purveyor Group’s dining venues have proven to be formidable additions to the Australian restaurant scene. In 2013, Ananas Bar & Brasserie was named Best New Restaurant at Savour Australia Restaurant & Catering Awards, and received its first Chef’s Hat from the Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide. Saké Restaurant & Bar has also held a coveted Chef’s Hat each year since opening, while The Cut Bar & Grill brings a taste of New York’s famous steakhouses to The Rocks.Employing over 1500 people, Urban Purveyor Group continues to expand, helping to shape the future of hospitality in Australia.

## Morten Birk Belling
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Payments, Mobile Payments, Transaction Processing

Morten Birk Belling - Advisor @ Coinify

## Joshua Payne
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Finance, Internet, Automotive

Joshua Payne is a Co-founder and Chief Operating Officer at Battery Future Acquisition Corp.

## Luke Howes
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Luke Howes is a founder at Proviso.

## Darren Harrison
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: FinTech, SaaS, Gaming

Darren Harrison

## Justin Reizes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Belin, Brandenburg, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Credit, FinTech, Peer to Peer

Justin Reizes

## Anthony Warren
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

Anthony Warren, Dealer Principal at Peter warren Toyota.

## Rafael Niesten
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

Rafael Niesten is the CTO & Co-Founder at JRC Software

## Ben Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Ben Taylor is the Managing Director at Oxygen Home Loans. Ben attended AGSM @ UNSW Business School.

## Lachlan McKnight
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Lachlan is the CEO of LegalVision. He co-founded LegalVision in 2012 with the goal of providing high quality, cost effective legal services at scale to both SMEs and large corporates.

## Tom Richardson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed
- Focus: Banking, FinTech, Finance

Tom Richardson is a Head of Startups & SMB, APAC & Japan at Stripe. He attended the University of Cambridge.

## Daniel Johnson
- Type: Angel
- Location: London, England, United Kingdom
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Payments, Data Integration

Daniel Johnson is the Founding Partner at We Scale Startups. He attended New Entrepreneurs Foundation.

## Justus Hammer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Retail, Fashion, FinTech

Justus is a seasoned entrepreneur who has been working in the technology space for over a decade. First as a founder of Spreets and later as an investor and advisor to other startups such as Airtasker. His latest venture is Sellable with which he plans to revolutionise the real estate landscape in Australia.

## Hugh Robertson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: FinTech, Consumer, Loyalty Programs

Hugh Robertson - Principal @ Bell Potter

## Ken Cheung Cheung
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Internet

Mr Ken Cheung is a CEO of MCC International.

## Charles Osburn
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Software, IT Management

Charles Osburn

## Raf Uy
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

Raf Uy is the Global Chief Financial Officer at etika. He was a Non Executive Director at Challenger Pay Enterprises. Raf attended Macquarie University.

## Raffael Johnen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Düsseldorf, Nordrhein-Westfalen, Germany
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Financial Services, FinTech, Payments

Raffael Johnen is CEO and founding partner of auxmoney. Already during his business studies, Raffael Johnen founded his first startup company. He later worked for six years at Investmentbank Rothschild in Frankfurt in the Mergers & Acquisitions and Debt Advisory areas, most recently as Vice President. Raffael Johnen is also the founder ofExcellion Capital, a successful company in corporate finance consulting and investment, based in London. As a writer, he made a name for himself when he wrote the chapter on leveraged buyouts in the "Praxishandbuch Unternehmensbewertung".

## Ben Lamb
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

Ben Lamb - Chief Commercial Officer @ Prospa

## Evan Cheng
- Type: Angel
- Location: Burlingame, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Biotechnology

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

## Benjamin Harrison
- Type: Angel
- Location: South Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, FinTech, Payments

Benjamin Harrison - Director @ ChimpChange Mobile Banking

## Damien Waller
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Focus: Credit, FinTech, Finance

Damien Waller is a Chairman at Point Hacks. He attended Monash University.

## Rob Antulov
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, FinTech, Financial Services

•	Over 25 years advisory and executive experience
•	Participated in over 30 financing & M&A transactions, ranging from $300K to over $1bn
•	Developed Fairfax's strategic direction on growth, media convergence and digital expansion
•	Ex Hall Capital Strategies, Fairfax Media, The Coca Cola Company and Booz & Co.

## Patricia Priest
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: PaaS, InsurTech, Insurance

General Manager

## Sandeep Nailwal
- Type: Angel
- Location: Mumbai, Maharashtra, India
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Financial Services

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.

## Raymond Spencer
- Type: Angel
- Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Advice, Retirement, Financial Services

Raymond Spencer is a entrepreneur - boldly shaping the future of South Australia and organisations around the world.

## Fady Hannah-Shmouni, MD FRCPC
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Financial Services, Blockchain, FinTech

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).

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