Dan Jones
Investor & Technology Investor
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Founder & Managing Partner
2020 - Current
We believe a small number of repeat founder led businesses define each generation. Our sole mission is to partner with these intensely focused founders as early as possible in their journeys. - Committed to a making a very limited number of new investments each year, 2 max - Investing globally from Pre-Seed to Series A. $0.5m - $7.5m. - Move quicky and are easy to approach but difficult to get capital from. - A generalist fund with strong focuses on B2B software, fintech, and AI-native companies
Investor
2014
Democratising graphic design software. Early Seed+ investor, company has gone on to raise $240m of follow on capital from investors including Sequoia, Kleiner Perkins, Bond, General Catalyst.
Investor
2021
Rippling is the workforce management platform that unifies HR, IT, finance, and more.
Raised $1,987,000,000.00 from Dragoneer Investment Group, Coatue, Greenoaks, Founders Fund and Bossa Invest.
Investor
2018
Super app for financial services. Company has gone onto raise $837m - follow on investors include DST, Bond, TCV, Index
Investor
2020
Core software nucleus enables the digitalisation of shareholder registers and becomes the source of truth and node of communication for private company share ownership and ultimately the private company exchange, a vision with monopolistic market dynamics. Jigsaw co-investment from Opportunities Fund alongside a16z & Lightspeed
Carta is a global ownership management platform that helps companies, investors, and employees manage equity and ownership.
Raised $1,157,600,000.00 from 8090 Partners, Unanimous Capital, Sand Hill Angels, Vetamer, GS Growth, Step Ahead Capital, Massive, Silver Lake, Moonshots Capital and Launchbay Capital.
Board Member + Investor
2020
Lead seed investor alongside some of the best people in fintech globally including Nigel Morris co-founder of Capital One via his QED investment vehicle, DST Global, RTP, XYZ Capital etc.
Investor
2022
Investor
2014
Sold Bridestory where i was early investor to Tokepedia in return for cash + stock. Company has raised over $2.4bn investors include Alibaba / Softbank and Sequoia plus others.
Investor
2016
GrubMarket is an AI-powered prominent B2B eCommerce business operating in the American food supply chain industry.
Raised $499,100,000.00 from Liberty Street Funds, The K Fund, ROC VENTURE GROUP, Grosvenor Food & AgTech, Celtic House Asia Partners, Apeira Capital, Squarepoint Capital, Tiger Global Management, Disruptive Ventures and Walleye Capital.
Investor
2015
Marketplace for famous food in America, on a mission to make local food available to anyone, anywhere in the US, now a top 50 website in the US. Seed investor alongside a16z and then led Series A, Danny Meyer, founder of Shake Shak led the Series B via his holding business and Spectrum led Series C.
Goldbelly is an online delivery platform for specialty food makers and artisans.
Raised $133,120,000.00 from Spectrum Equity and Intel Capital.