# Dan Smith

> Dan Smith is a seed investor at Jigsaw VC (London) backing SaaS, FinTech and B2B. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Jigsaw VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jigsaw-vc)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/dan-smith-562343b/

Dan Smith is a seed investor at Jigsaw VC in London focused on SaaS and FinTech. Dan Smith is the Co-Founder & General Partner at Jigsaw VC. Dan Smith attended London Business School.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 2 | 40% |
| FinTech | 2 | 40% |
| B2B | 1 | 20% |
| Energy | 1 | 20% |
| Charity | 1 | 20% |

10 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Private Equity | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Applied Computing | Foundational model for refining operations | $12.1M | Seed | May 28, 2025 |  |
| Goodstack | Goodstack is a SaaS and fintech platform for managing charitable donations. | $28M | Series A | Nov 18, 2024 |  |
| Applied Computing | Foundational model for refining operations |  | Seed | Jun 27, 2024 |  |
| Swallow | Pricing Operations Platform for Insurance and Finance | $1M | Pre-Seed | Sep 05, 2023 |  |
| Specialist People Services Group | The Specialist People Services Group aims to bring together businesses that share a common commitment to delivering outstanding customer service and compliance standards, and they are recognised as market-leading specialists in their respective sectors. We help our customers to maximise the productivity of their workforce, by providing recruitmentservices, classroom-based and online training, and other people management services. These are currently delivered primarily in the road and rail transportation sectors. Businesses within the Specialist People Services Group include Driver Hire Nationwide, ISS Labour, Driver Hire Training, Driver Hire Australia and our eServices division, including dh Licence Check. |  | Private Equity | Apr 07, 2022 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Stride.VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stride-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Angel Capital Management](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angelab) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Astraecho Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/astraecho-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [firedrop](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/firedrop-fa34) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [General Catalyst](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/general-catalyst-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Jigsaw VC

VC Fund · St. Helier, Jersey

Jigsaw is an early-stage venture fund using data, systems, networks to identify, and support gifted entrepreneurial talent.

3 contacts available at Jigsaw VC.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Dan Jones | Co-founder & Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-jones-3 |
| Dan Smith | Co-founder & General Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-smith-18 |
| Michael Hirn | Principal and Tech | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michael-hirn |

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Smith invest in?

Dan Smith invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and B2B startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Dan Smith last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Smith closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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