# Damien Tanner

> Damien Tanner is a seed investor at Pusher (London) backing Software, SaaS and Drones. See 6 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Pusher](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pusher-ltd)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 6
- Last investment: Feb 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/dctanner
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/dctanner
- Website: http://tanner.me
- Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/dctanner

Damien Tanner is a Founder at Konf and Rebase Ventures.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $25k–$1.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 33% |
| SaaS | 1 | 17% |
| Drones | 1 | 17% |
| mHealth | 1 | 17% |
| Big Data | 1 | 17% |

21 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 4 | 67% |
| Series A | 1 | 17% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Vayu | Vayu builds affordable unmanned aerial vehicles (UAVs) for healthcare supply chain management and post-disaster aid delivery.Currently, healthcare providers and disaster relief responders in Asia, Africa, and South America depend on unreliable ad-hoc availability of motorcycles, cars, and trucks to serve remote communities, where over onebillion people live all or part of the year without access to all-weather roads.Their vehicle will provide reliable, fast, and affordable delivery of vital goods to these isolated areas, both on a regular basis and in times of crisis. | $25K | Seed | Feb 01, 2016 |  |
| Mattermark | Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups.Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world's leading dealmakers - venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to dealsourcing and due diligence.The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups. | $6.5M | Series A | Dec 16, 2014 |  |
| Mattermark | Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups.Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world's leading dealmakers - venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to dealsourcing and due diligence.The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups. | $400K | Seed | Jul 01, 2013 |  |
| Strateos | Strateos automates chemistry, biology, and tissue analysis into closed-loop robotic labs that accelerate drug discovery programs. Through a combination of best-in-class robotics and control systems, advanced software for imaging and analytics, and remote cloud laboratories, they enable pharmaceutical partners to more rapidly and efficientlydiscover new drug candidates.Born of a merger between Transcriptic and 3Scan, Strateos combines the strengths of those companies to amplify their impact and accelerate drug discovery. Transcriptic developed the first robotic cloud laboratory platform for on-demand life science research, which is currently in use at several top pharmaceutical and biotechnology companies. 3Scan combined automation, machine learning and computer vision to extract spatial data from tissue samples and create detailed 3D representations as well as quantitative analysis of complex anatomical structures. Now these two portfolios will be combined to offer a suite of technologies for accelerating drug discovery and early development.By expressing life science methods as data, infrastructure virtualization will become possible. "Science-as-a-Service" will power the next generation of discovery, driven by huge efficiencies of both time and money.Transcriptic was founded in 2012 to create a better way to get lab work done. Tired of spending endless hours at the bench pretending to be slow, error-prone robots, they set out to build a modern solution to the day-to-day process of wet lab biology.Drawing on deep computer science and electrical engineering backgrounds in addition to life science, Strateos was born: a meticulously optimized, technology-enabled remote lab. Using state-of-the-art automation and control technology, and an emphasis on user experience and usability, they are working on building a stark contrast to the long, complicated sales process, high prices, and slow turnarounds of traditional CROs.They are working hard to build a great company that can be a true partner for your lab for a long time, progressively enabling ever greater levels of productivity and efficiency. They are scientists building for scientists. | $1.2M | Seed | Nov 28, 2012 |  |
| Referly | Referly is an Online Referral System for Your Social Network. Referly tracks the links you share, and rewards you for your friends’ actions. When you share your favorite products and services, you build a reputation as the “go-to guru” for the things you love, and get rewards for generating purchases. | $1M | Seed | Oct 15, 2012 |  |
| Mattermark | Mattermark is a data platform for venture capital companies to quantify signals of growing and potentially lucrative start-ups.Mattermark offers deal intelligence to the world's leading dealmakers - venture capital, private equity, corporate development, sales, and marketing professionals looking to take a data-driven approach to dealsourcing and due diligence.The company was launched in 2012 as a data platform for VCs with hopes of becoming the go-to software for firms to use when quantifying signals of growing and potentially lucrative startups. | $1M | Seed | Oct 15, 2012 |  |

6 of 6 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Techammer](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techammer) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Outlander Fund I Archimedes](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/arena-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [FG Angels](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fg-angels) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Founders Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/founders-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Marc Bell Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marc-bell-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Pusher

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Pusher Ltd. provides a hosted API service for adding real-time bi-directional functionality via WebSockets to Web and mobile apps, or other Internet connected devices.

3 contacts available at Pusher.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Damien Tanner | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damien-tanner |
| Prateek Gupta | Director of Developer Content | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/prateek-gupta |
| Max Williams | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/max-williams |

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## FAQ

### What does Damien Tanner invest in?

Damien Tanner invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Drones startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Damien Tanner's check size?

Damien Tanner typically joins rounds of $25k–$1.2M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Damien Tanner participates in.

### When did Damien Tanner last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Damien Tanner closed in Feb 2016. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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