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Dan Jones

Investor & Technology Investor

United Kingdom

Overview 

Dan Jones is an Angel & Technology Investor based in the United Kingdom, with a strong track record of investments in various stages and sectors, including E-commerce, Marketplaces, Consumer Internet, and SaaS. He founded Jigsaw VC and has made significant investments in companies like Canva, Revolut, Tokopedia, and Dynamic Yield, showcasing a successful career in identifying and supporting innovative startups.

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

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