# Top 50 Hardware Angel Investors in Australia in May 2026

## Thomas Rice
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 3
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Apps, Internet of Things

Portfolio of the Global Innovation Share Fund at Perpetual (post-IPO).
Angel investor in Australia.
Mentor at Startmate, an Australian startup accelerator.

## Campbell Taylor
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce

Campbell Taylor is an investment advisor at Taylor Collison Ltd. Sharebrokers and has over 17 years experience in financial markets.

## Andrew Larsen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Apps, Construction

Andrew is a Venture Partner with Tempus Partners, and an experienced founder and investor. He is a Director of HealthEngine a leading Australian healthtech company, a Director of UK EdTech stand-out Wonde, and an active investor in software and internet companies. Andrew is a Board Member of StartupAUS an industry body committed to developing theAustralian startup ecosystem and Founded Perth’s first tech co-working space.

## Artesian Investment
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Seed, Series A
- Focus: Artificial Intelligence, Agriculture, Information Technology

Artesian Investment

## Ray Stata
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Series C
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Semiconductor

Ray Stata is cofounder of Analog Devices, Inc. (ADI), a Fortune 1000 and S&P 500 company recognized for leadership in the design and manufacturing of analog, mixed-signal and digital signal processing semiconductors. ADI was established to fulfill Mr. Stata’s vision of the future role for high-performance signal processing technology.Operational amplifiers and linear ICs were soon joined by data converters, and later by digital signal processors (DSPs), forging the integration of analog and digital circuitry in semiconductors for signal processing.Ray Stata served as President of the company from 1971 to 1991 and CEO from 1973 to 1996. He has been Chairman of the Board since 1973 and continues to serve in this capacity.Prior to the formation of Analog Devices, he was a founder of Solid State Instruments and became VP, Marketing at Kollmorgen Corporation’s Inland Controls Division when that company acquired Solid State Instruments.Ray Stata co-founded and served as the first President of the Massachusetts High Technology Council, and currently serves as a member of the Board of Directors.At the federal level, he served on the Executive Committee of the Council on Competitiveness from 1987 to 2005.Ray Stata has also served on the Malcolm Baldrige National Quality Award Board of Overseers, and was also a founder of the Center for Quality of Management in 1989.A graduate of the Massachusetts Institute of Technology (MIT), Mr. Stata holds a BSEE and MSEE from MIT, is now Chairman of the Visiting Committee of the Department of Electrical Engineering and Computer Science.In 1984 he was elected to MIT’s Corporation and today is a member of its Executive Committee. In 1987-1988 he served as President of the MIT Alumni Association.

## Julian Tobias
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Electronics, Information Technology

Julian Tobias

## Mike Zimmerman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Angel
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Artificial Intelligence

Michael brings over 20 years experience in strategy, business development and general management of technology startups and other high growth companies. Michael founded BuildingIQ in 2009 and served as its CEO until 2013. Prior to founding the company, Michael was a General Partner at Technology Venture Partners (TVP), a leading Australian venturecapital firm. Prior to TVP, he was an Entrepreneur-in-Residence at Altos Ventures, and a senior executive at iOwn Holdings, a leading Internet mortgage company (sold to Citigroup in 2001). Previously, Michael worked with Bain & Company and Goldman Sachs. He holds a BA with Honors from Amherst College and an MBA from Stanford Business School.

## 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.

## Nathan Young
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 2
- Stages: Seed, Angel, Convertible Note
- Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce

Nathan is an investment consultant & fund manager. Nathan is a director at Bora Bora Resources Ltd & Ability Living

## Tim Haggett
- Type: Angel
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators

Tim Haggett is a Non Executive Director at Centric Health.

## Matt Williams
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Communication Hardware, Artificial Intelligence

Matt Williams is a individual investor.

## Luke Brooks
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1

Luke Brooks is an NRL player.

## Adrian Di Marco
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Wayne Baskin
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Retail Technology

Wayne Baskin is Chief Technology Officer at Booktopia.

## Tim Mannah
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Retail Technology

Tim Mannah is an Individual investor.

## Paul Greenberg
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Retail Technology

Paul Greenberg is an individual investor.

## Nick Molnar
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Gaming, Retail, PC Games

Nick Molnar is Co-Founder and CEO of Afterpay, an innovative digital platform that offers interest-free installment plans for online purchases.Named one of Australia’s fastest-growing fintech companies by IDC, Afterpay offers a “buy-now, pay-later” service that does not require shoppers to enter into a traditional loan or pay any upfront fees orinterest. Earlier in his career, Molnar worked as an investment analyst at venture capital fund M.H. Carnegie & Co., where he was primarily responsible for growth-stage investments. He holds a bachelor’s of commerce degree from the University of Sydney.

## Maurice Ben-Mayor
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Retail, Retail Technology

Maurice Ben-Mayor is the president of Stryker South Pacific.

## Graeme Horne
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Email

Graeme Horne - Interim Marketing Director @ OfficeServe

## Grant Grosser
- Type: Angel
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators

Grant Grosser - CEO/Founder @ SEQTA

## Steve Baxter
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A
- Focus: Robotics, Aerospace

Steve Baxter is an individual investor.

## Michael Gonski
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Legal, Drones, Software

Michael Gonski

## Eric Ries
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Eric is the author of New York Times bestseller The Lean Startup, The Startup Way, and The Leaders Guide (funded by one of the top Kickstarter book campaigns of all time). He's also the creator of the Lean Startup methodology, practiced by individuals and companies around the world and the inspiration behind the LTSE. He has founded a numberof startups, including IMVU, where he served as CTO, and has advised on business and product strategy for startups, venture capital firms, and large companies across many industries.

## Didier Elzinga
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, Music

Didier previously co-founded technical academy award winning Rising Sun Research and is non-executive director at Tourism Australia, the Atlassian Foundation and Slingsby Theatre. If you want a short meeting, don't ask about philosophy (you were warned!).

## George Burke
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Initial Coin Offering, Seed
- Focus: Blockchain, Cryptocurrency, Software

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.

## David Shein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series C
- Focus: Construction, Software, SaaS

David has been involved in investing in and managing a number of start-up and early stage technology companies, many of which have been successfully exited. David was the founder and Managing Director of Dimension Data Australia Pty Ltd. and established Dimension Data Australia (formerly Com Tech Communications) in July 1987 as a SpecialistSupplier of networking and communications products. At the time of sale, Dimension data employed over 1400 people, had revenues of $700mil with no external debt. The company was sold for an enterprise value of over $1bil on 2000. David actively mentors management teams. David recently served as the Chairman of Centric Wealth Advisers Ltd. and was Chairman of Holly Connects, Inc. David was also Executive Chairman and Founding Investor of Macromatix . David is currently Non-Executive Chairman of Montech Holdings Limited. David holds a B.Comm and B. Acc from the University of Witwatersrand.

## Bashar Hamood
- Type: Angel
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Pre-Seed, Angel
- Focus: Information Technology, Software, Mobile Apps

Bashar Hamood is a result oriented professional with versatile experience across diverse organizational domains. He is well versed in the development of marketing strategies, branding, direct marketing, new products/brands launches, analysis, reporting, and positioning.He is an entrepreneur and self-starter with expansive experience in brandawareness and development, community outreach.Bashar is a versatile business manager with proven competencies in optimizing team dynamics uniting diverse agenda to common goal and harnessing strategic and operational drivers to deliver results.He has a strong analytical mind with rigorous study for each case and the output of each variation for each parameter.Bashar loves to take risk and new challenges.

## Terry Garnett
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Analytics, SMS

Terry and partner David Helfrich formed Garnett & Helfrich Capital in 2003. He was also actively involved in forming and funding Crossworlds Software, whose founder and CEO was his wife Katrina Garnett. Crossworlds went public in 2000 and was acquired by IBM in 2001.Prior to founding his own company, Terry spent eight years with VenrockAssociates where he was an early investor in Siebel, Checkpoint Software, Niku, Neoforma, and Neon Software.Prior to Venrock, Terry reported to Larry Ellison at Oracle Corporation, where he was a member of the Executive Management Committee and served as Senior Vice President of Worldwide Marketing and Business Development.

## Jim Johnson
- Type: Angel
- Location: Adelaide, South Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Mobile, Software, E-Commerce

Jim is a serial entrepreneur and founder of the Lateral Concepts Group. Jim is Chairman of Booodl, Director of Carbon Planet Ltd, Chairman of Mirador Investments and Chairman of Grazer Pty Ltd.

## Craig Barratt
- Type: Angel
- Location: Palo Alto, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Music, Computer, Database

20 years in communications and networking: SVP Google, CEO Alphabet Access, President Qualcomm Atheros, CEO Atheros Communications.

## Howard Leibman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Software, SaaS, CRM

Howard is the founder of Equity Venture Partners, an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney 

## Roger Allen
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning

Roger Allen, director and co-founder of A&B, has practical credentials directly relevant to the Fund based upon over thirty years as a chief executive of a major Australian IT services company with worldwide operations, then 13 years as an active investor in private companies in the ICT industries.Roger grew shareholder value in ComputerPower from $250k in 1978 to $170m in 1995 (at the time of his retirement) and also grew the annual revenue to over $300m and staff to more than 3,000. Roger obtained private equity from News Corporation, through the direct involvement of Rupert Murdoch, prior to taking Computer Power public on the ASX in 1987. He has direct personal experience in selling Australian information technology products and services in the USA, Europe, Asia, as well as Australia.He served for six years until 1997 as deputy chairman of Austrade and is very well known throughout the information technology industry in Australia and internationally. He was the first chief executive from an Australian company to be elected chairman of the Australian Information Industries Association, has represented Australia at the World Computer Services Forum and was vice-president of the Asia-Pacific industry organisation. He has also served on two advisory councils to the Prime Minister and has chaired state advisory boards in both NSW and Victoria. He has been an adjunct professor in the School of Entrepreneur-ship of Swinburne University and regularly lectures at INSEAD in the School of Entrepreneurship. Roger was recently awarded the 2007 Pearcey Medal for Lifetime Achievement in recognition for his outstanding contribution to the ICT industry.

## Chadd Ciccarelli
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Information Technology, Food and Beverage

Chadd Ciccarelli

## Brendan Hill
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Apps, Retail, FinTech

I’m an entrepreneur, angel investor and growth marketer.I started angel investing after my ecommerce startup was acquired in 2016. I love investing because it’s one of the most intellectually stimulating things you can do. You’re constantly learning about new ideas, technologies and gaining a surface level education in many areas. I’ve investedin awesome startups from Fintech, Blockchain, Data, Sharing Economy, Renewable Energy, Health, Podcasting and Computer Vision.As an angel investor, I provide a combination of capital, time, network, and expertise to the startups I invest in.

## Craig Davis
- Type: Angel
- Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wireless, Internet of Things

Craig is CEO and co-founder of the GRIFFIN Accelerator. Craig is an entrepreneur and scientist. He has a PhD in physics and is currently a visiting fellow at the Research School of Physics and Engineering at the Australian National University. He held executive positions in the Australian Department of Defence for 7 years. In 2003 Craig co-foundedTakeABreak, an online accommodation business that was sold to Fairfax in 2011. He led the integration with Fairfax’s competing business Stayz and the group was later on-sold for $210M. He has been involved in startups as co-founder, CEO, director, investor or mentor for over 20 years. Craig has an ongoing interest in the commercialisation of Australian research and innovations. He is passionate about enabling entrepreneurs to succeed and make a difference.

## Josh Rowe
- Type: Angel
- Location: Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Pre-Seed, Series A
- Focus: Education, Marketing, Gaming

CEO at realAs

## Larry Lopez
- Type: Angel
- Location: Perth, Western Australia, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Virtual Reality, Content Creators

In 2006, Larry Lopez moved from Silicon Valley to Perth, bringing with him his wisdom of technology investment, global venture capital, entrepreneurship and financing for start-up companies.For eighteen years, Larry held senior and executive positions at Silicon Valley Bank (SVB), playing a key role in the growth of the SVB Financial Groupfrom a community bank to a global financial leader. In his role at SVB he sponsored the Bank’s investment in numerous European, Israeli and Australian venture capital funds. Over the years, Larry worked with hundreds of offshore companies launching products in Silicon Valley, and served on boards in Stockholm, London and Australia.

## Alan Jones
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Software, Cyber Security, Mobile

Alan Jones is a mentor and entrepreneur-in-residence with many of Australia's tech startup accelerators, specialising in strategy for product development and marketing.Alan draws on hands-on experience founding and co-founding web and mobile startups, as well as senior management experience in larger companies including Yahoo!, News DigitalMedia and Microsoft. At Yahoo! he was Product Director, South Asia for Yahoo! Inc.Alan advises and invests in early-stage startups directly and through Startmate and Pollenizer Ventures. His investments include ChromaSun, BugHerd, Grabble (acquired by WalMart in 2011), ScriptRock, Flightfox, Spreets (acquired by Yahoo7 in 2011), OtherLevels and NinjaBlocks.
Alan is a co-founder of digital agency The New Agency, Editor-in-Chief of FromLittleThings.co, is a mentor for Startmate, and is the Social Media and Web Director for TEDxSydney.

## Yaniv Bernstein
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: SaaS, Email, Software

Yaniv Bernstein os Co-Founder of Circular.

## Ash Fontana
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Machine Learning, Artificial Intelligence

Ash advises and invests in AI-First companies. He helps companies from inception onwards by advising on their data + ML, pricing and fundraising strategy. He invests anything from $20K to $20MM in a company.
He also currently acts as a Special Advisor to Zetta Venture Partners, where he was a Managing Director from 2015 to 2021. Before Zetta, Ashlaunched AngelList’s fundraising platform that now manages over $7B. Prior to AngelList, he co-founded Topguest (acquired), a loyalty software platform that counted United Airlines, Hilton Worldwide, and Virgin America as clients. He started his career in growth investing at Macquarie Capital in New York after studying law at the University of Sydney. Penguin Random House has published his book, “The AI-First Company: How to Compete and Win with Artificial Intelligence”.

## Sean Parker
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Series B
- Focus: Software, Health Care, Music

Sean Parker is the Founder and Chairman of Airtime. He previously worked at Brigade as a Co-Founder & Executive Chairman. Sean Parker attended Oakton High School.

## Andrew Barnes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Brisbane, Queensland, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Events, Software, Event Management

Andrew Barnes is co-founder and CEO at GO1 and a board of directors at Libromat.
Andrew has a Bachelor of Economics and a Bachelor of Business Management and completed an MSc in Education at Oxford University as a Rhodes Scholar.

## Michael Stoppelman
- Type: Angel
- Location: Greater Los Angeles Area, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Pre-Seed
- Focus: Software, Internet, SaaS

Michael Stoppelman is an active angel/seed investor in Los Angeles. He's the former Senior Vice President of Engineering at Yelp. He started at Yelp as a software engineer working on the search engine. He took over as head engineering in 2012 after serving as a manager and Director of Engineering in the proceeding years. He scaled theengineering team from 30 to over 500 engineers. Prior to Yelp he was a software engineer at Google for 3.5 years and served as the tech lead for the AdSense Traffic Quality team. He received his BS in Computer Science from Purdue in West Lafayette, Indiana in 2003.

## Saar Gillai
- Type: Angel
- Location: Los Altos, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Convertible Note
- Focus: Electronics, Manufacturing

Saar Gillai is an Independent board director at Xilinx, Semtech, and Liquid Instruments as well as a CEO advisor to multiple companies. Saar is also an executive mentor at Merryck. Previously, Saar was the CEO of Teridion, a SaaS startup focused on cloud networking, where he grew recurring revenue 50% YoY, and expanded the product line to go afterthe SD-WAN market.Before Teridion, Saar was the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HPE’s Communications Solutions Business (CSB), a global billion-dollar division with over 4000 employees. In this role, Saar integrated multiple units and acquisitions into one cohesive division focused on the Telco space. He established HPE as a key player in the software-defined next-generation service provider market and grew network virtualization revenue by over 10x within two years.Before running CSB, Saar spent two years as the Senior Vice President and General Manager of HP Cloud where he played a vital role in aggressively driving and consolidating HP's disparate cloud efforts into a full business unit with the number one market position in private cloud while working closely with F50 enterprises on their cloud adoption and digital transformation journey.Prior to HPE, Saar was SVP of Products and Solutions at 3com, where he played a key role in rebuilding 3coms enterprise offerings, driving the collaboration with H3C, a Chinese subsidiary, and ultimate sale to HP for ~$3B, achieving a 350% valuation increase in 18 months. In addition, Saar has held C level positions at Tropos Networks and Enfora; two startups focused on Wireless Mesh and M2M / IoT, and spent seven years at Cisco Systems in a variety of leadership positions, including VP of Engineering for the Wireless Networking business undevelopment and operations with Enfora, Inc., a wireless machine-to-machine (M2M) company. In addition, Mr. Gillai served for seven years in a variety of leadership positions with Cisco Systems, Inc., including as Vice President of Engineering for Cisco’s Wireless Networking business unit.

## Sandy Kory
- Type: Angel
- Location: San Francisco, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A, Convertible Note
- Focus: Software, Analytics, FinTech

Prior to MVP, he was Vice President at Arbor Advisors, leading their highly successful entry into the digital media and interactive marketing industries. He advised clients in a number of industry-leading transactions, such as the sale of WorldClass Strategy to EducationDynamics, the sale of ReliableRemodeler.com to Quinstreet, the sale ofInvestopedia.com to Forbes Media, and the sale of Interest.com to Bankrate.Sandy is a regular speaker at industry conferences, including Ad-Tech and LeadsCon. He received his B.A. in Psychology and M.S. in Management Science & Engineering from Stanford University.

## Mike Cannon-Brookes
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Series B, Seed
- Focus: Renewable Energy, Software, FinTech

Mike Cannon-Brookes is the Co-founder and Co-CEO of Atlassian, a collaboration software company that helps teams organize, discuss and complete shared work. More than 160,000 large and small organisations across the world, including companies like Spotify, NASA, Mercy Ships, Sotheby's and Visa use Atlassian’s collaboration products to helptheir teams work better together.Outside Atlassian, Mike is a technology investor in the areas of software, fintech, agriculture and energy and sits on the board of Zoox. He also cares deeply about giving back and is a board member of Room to Read. A passionate clean-energy evangelist, Mike was a driving force behind Australia getting the world's biggest lithium ion battery and the "Fair Dinkum Power" movement. He serves as an adjunct professor at the University of New South Wales' School of Computer Science and Engineering and holds a Bachelor of Science in Business Information Technology from the University of New South Wales, Australia.

## Nick McNaughton
- Type: Angel
- Location: Canberra, Australian Capital Territory, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed
- Focus: Wireless, Internet of Things

Nick has a long track record of helping to build and grow software and web companies, and has been a successful angel investor, business mentor, and through Blue Cove Ventures which he established and ran between 2007 and 2012, the CEO of a successful investment fund.Building on 16 years of experience in bringing US software companies into thePacific, Nick turned to personal and professional investment in domestic software companies in 1998, specialising in web / mobile / cloud / SaaS and Enterprise opportunities.

## Larry Diamond
- Type: Angel
- Location: Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
- Relevant deals: 1
- 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.

## Boon Hwee Koh
- Type: Angel
- Location: Singapore, Central Region, Singapore
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Seed, Series A
- Focus: Software, Financial Services, FinTech

Boon Hwee is the founding partner of Credence and Chairman of the investment committee. Concurrently, Boon Hwee is a member of Agilent Technologies Inc, Chairman of AAC Technologies, Yeo Hiap Seng Limited, and Sunningdale Tech Limited.Boon Hwee began his career in 1977 at Hewlett Packard ("HP") and rose to become its Managing Directorin Singapore, a position he held from 1985 to 1990. Boon Hwee's other previous positions include:Chairman of Singapore Telecom Group ("SingTel") and its predecessor organisations for 17 yearsChairman of Singapore Airlines Limited ("SIA") for 4 yearsChairman of Development Bank of Singapore ("DBS") for 4 yearsDirector on the Board of Temasek Holdings Private Limited for 15 years (Boon Hwee also served as a member of the Executive Committee from January 1997 to September 2010)Chairman of the Wuthelam Group for 10 yearsBoon Hwee was named the Outstanding Manager of the Year in 1991 by Business Times and DHL Worldwide. He was conferred The International Herald Tribune Visionary and Leader Honour in January 2003.Boon Hwee contributes actively to non-profit organisations, and is the current Chairman of the Board of Trustees of Nanyang Technological University and a Director of the Hewlett Foundation in the United States.Boon Hwee obtained his Bachelor's Degree (First Class Honours) in Mechanical Engineering from the Imperial College of Science and Technology, University of London in 1972 and his MBA (Distinction) from the Harvard Business School in 1976.

## Josh Hannah
- Type: Angel
- Location: Oakland, California, United States
- Relevant deals: 1
- Stages: Series A, Seed, Series B
- Focus: Software, Internet, Information Technology

Josh Hannah is a general partner with Matrix Partners. His entrepreneurial career began in 1999 when he cofounded Flutter.com in London and later led a merger with his biggest competitor, Betfair.com. The combined entity revolutionized the gaming industry by building the world’s first online marketplace for sports betting. Josh returned to theStates in 2004. Soon after, he and a partner purchased eHow, an ailing, Web 1.0, how-to directory. Josh and his partner outsourced content creation to the community and employed then-new advertising and search engine optimization techniques. They increased revenue and traffic 30-fold before selling the company to Demand Media in 2006 for a 400-X return. As a partner at Matrix, Josh has invested in Huddle, Inflection and Taulia. Prior to joining Matrix, Josh invested in successful startups such as Aardvark (acquired by Google), Blingo (acquired by Publishers Clearing House), Designer Apparel (acquired by Sugar Media), Friendster (acquired by MOL Global), Minted, uShip and Wetpaint.

# About Shizune
Shizune.co is an investor database. Core features:
- 48,091 startup investors (angels, VCs, accelerators, and others)
- Email, phone, LinkedIn (for intros), socials, and other contact data
- Updated daily from public funding news
- CSV and Excel export

The User can access the full database FOR FREE after signing up: shizune.co