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, 2-3 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
2018
Super app for financial services. Company has gone onto raise $837m - follow on investors include DST, Bond, TCV, Index
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
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
Mission Critical Software Aggregator
Investor
2024
Advisor + Investor
2019
Payday loan killer - using salary smoothing as a wedge into building a financial wellness utility (bank on the employees side). Jigsaw co-investment alongside Balderton / Northzone / QED
Investor
2021