Dan Somers
Partner @ Boundary Capital Partners LLP
London, United Kingdom
Dan Somers is a seed investor at Boundary Capital Partners LLP in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Serial entrepreneur. Founder and CEO of several IT businesses, including the managed services provider VC-Net. He has also founded and held executive and non-executive position of other growing software and IT services businesses.Formerly a strategy consultant with LEK Consulting. More recently as one of the Principals of Boundary Capital, hehas been advising growing technology companies in corporate finance and strategy. He holds an MA from Cambridge University in Natural Sciences and a Diploma in Business Studies.
- Total investments:
- 3
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 33%
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Industries Dan Somers invests in
Stages Dan Somers invests in
Countries Dan Somers invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (67%)
- Artificial Intelligence 2 (67%)
- Genetics 1 (33%)
- Analytics 1 (33%)
- Biotechnology 1 (33%)
Investments
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| Torsion delivers Confident Data Access Control. It helps you get control of who has access to what, why and when – among massive collections of files, folders and sites. Access to files and folders sprawls much faster than it is controlled. Constant sharing with little visibility or control of who has access to what, leads to significant securityand compliance challenges.Torsion integrates with your existing collaboration systems, working with business users to monitor and control access as circumstances constantly evolve. Working across Microsoft Teams, SharePoint, Office 365 and File Share systems – to improve data security and simplify compliance. Unlike traditional data governance tools, Torsion focusses on the people in the business, to help them use information securely. Business users, not IT, are best positioned to understand who needs access to their information, and so we empower them without slowing them down.Torsion’s unique solution is cloud-first, smooth to deploy and affordable for businesses of all sizes. | $472.9K / Seed / Jan 01, 2018 | ||
| Desktop Genetics is an international biotechnology company established in 2012 to help researchers discover and treat the root genetic causes of human disease. Today, Desktop Genetics is a recognised leader in genome editing technology, staffed by dedicated team of genome editing experts, bioinformaticians and data scientists, driven by thereal-world impact of CRISPR technology.They have invested four years developing their core technology, DESKGEN AI, trained on the largest database of genome editing data in the world. DESKGEN AI powers their flagship DESKGEN CRISPR Library product range, which enables the work of their pharma, biotech and academic customers working in drug discovery and functional genomics. Desktop Genetics' tools and technologies are used by over 1800 organisations all over the world, and their projects contribute directly to several key partnerships to bring CRISPR into the clinic. The company has received awards from Fast Company, Kairos 50 and SxSW Interactive. | $582K / Seed / Aug 27, 2013 | ||
| Warwick Analytics offers advanced predictive analytics and process automation. Using Warwick Analytic's proprietary technology Optimised Learning, Its flagship product, PrediCX, automatically classifies data involving a lot of text by using machine learning to label concepts rather than rules/concepts, and requires minimum human effortfor maximum accuracy. PrediCX can be used for enhanced insight into verbatim text data, Robotic Process Automation, or sentiment analysis for consumer feedback. | $400K / Seed / Mar 01, 2013 |
Co-Investors
Boundary Capital Partners is a venture capital company focusing on early stage growth companies, primarily in the technology space.
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Ernie Richardson
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What does Dan Somers invest in?
Dan Somers invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Genetics startups, most often at Seed stage. Most of the 3 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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