Errol Damelin

Angel

Overview

Gender
male
Investor Type
Angel
Investor Stage
Early stage Venture,Secondary Market,Seed

Errol Damelin is the Founder, CEO, chairman, or original investor and backer of over 75 digital and tech companies around the world, including in the US, the UK, most of Europe, Israel, Indonesia, Brazil, Turkey, South Africa, and Nigeria. He concentrates his efforts on SaaS, fintech, crypto, marketplaces and data analytics as well as on health and wellness. He is also a technologist and has three granted patents to his name with another four pending.

Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal.
Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.

Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.

Personal Investments

Number of Investments
10
Errol Damelin has made 10 investments. Their most recent investment was on Sep 13, 2012, when Citymapper raised 0.
Date Company Name Round Money Raised Industry
Nov 15, 2018 MODIFI Seed €3M Financial Services Detail
Dec 23, 2017 Elliptic Funding Round $5M Bitcoin Detail
Jul 25, 2016 Tide Seed $2M Banking Detail
Jun 6, 2016 HiBob Seed $7.50M Human Resources Detail
Oct 6, 2015 Sure Seed Financial Services Detail
Jul 8, 2015 Lendingkart Series A $10M Finance Detail
Jul 23, 2014 Earnin Seed $4.09M Employee Benefits Detail
Jan 7, 2013 BitPay Seed $510K Bitcoin Detail
Sep 13, 2012 Citymapper Seed Big Data Detail
Apr 17, 2012 Wise Seed $1.30M Finance Detail