# Dan Westgarth

> Dan Westgarth is a seed investor at Deel (Richmond) backing Artificial Intelligence and Employment. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Deel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/deel)
- Location: Richmond, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Feb 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danwestgarth
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/danwestgarth
- Website: https://x.com/danwestgarth

Dan Westgarth is a seed investor at Deel in Richmond focused on Artificial Intelligence and Employment. Dan Westgarth is based out of Richmond and is the Global Chief Compliance Officer of Investcorp. Dan previously worked at Revolut as a General Manager. Dan Westgarth attended the Northumbria University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $3.3M–$30M |
| Pre-Seed | $2.5M–$6.7M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Artificial Intelligence | 3 | 38% |
| Employment | 2 | 25% |
| Human Resources | 2 | 25% |
| Wealth Management | 2 | 25% |
| Apps | 1 | 13% |

22 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 63% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 38% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 5 | 63% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 13% |
| United Arab Emirates | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| FirstWork | Empower your team with the Next-Gen of workforce management software | $5M | Seed | Feb 27, 2025 |  |
| FINNY | FINNY is an AI prospecting tool that provides technology solutions for financial advisors. | $4.3M | Seed | Dec 11, 2024 |  |
| Sauna by Wordware | Wordware allows users to create and host their entire LLM stack for AI application development. It offers tools for building, training, and deploying language models. The platform simplifies the integration of various components necessary for AI solutions. Users can manage their applications and data within a unified environment. | $30M | Seed | Nov 21, 2024 |  |
| The Network | The Network aims to engineer serendipity, ensuring the right people meet. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | Sep 01, 2024 |  |
| micro1 | Micro1 offers a platform that converts human expertise into structured datasets and recruitment processes for companies using AI. It provides a Data Engine that handles the recruitment of experts and manages human-in-the-loop operations to generate data used in post-training of AI models. It also provides Zara, an AI recruiter agent, whichdiscovers, vets, and qualifies talent globally for enterprises and large-volume recruitment firms. The company maintains a Research Lab that publishes studies related to evaluating AI-assisted recruitment, speech-to-text systems, proctoring models, and other aspects of human-data integration into AI systems. It delivers APIs to access its human-data services and recruiter tools. | $3.3M | Seed | Jun 20, 2024 |  |
| Neverless | Your new favourite investment platform. Brought to you by former Revolut executives. | $6.7M | Pre-Seed | Sep 30, 2022 |  |
| TILT | TILT app allow users to discover small brands, buy through videos, livestreams, and eard rewards. | $3M | Pre-Seed | Sep 22, 2022 |  |
| Ziina | Ziina is a financial technology platform that offers digital payment and money transfer services for consumers, freelancers, and businesses in the UAE. Its services include peer-to-peer transfers, payment links, QR code payments, Tap to Pay functionality, digital wallets, and payment gateway tools for online businesses. | $7.5M | Seed | Jun 07, 2021 |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Y Combinator](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/y-combinator) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [SV Angel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/sv-angel) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Theory Forge Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/theory-forge-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Zinal Growth](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zinal-growth) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Script Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/122-west-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [20SALES](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/20sales) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Deel

VC Fund · San Francisco, United States

Deel is a developer of a payroll platform used to re-imagine payouts for businesses working with remote contractors. The platform is used by remote teams that connect localized compliance and automates payments in one system of record, as well as provides contracts and templates to be used for tax forms and localized contracts, automated payment,invoicing and receipts, and customer support. It aims to offer to every company that hires remote talents a one-stop-shop that makes onboarding, global compliance, and payments easier.The company was founded by Alex Bouaziz, Ofer Simon, and Shuo Wang in 2018 and is headquartered in San Francisco, California.

5 contacts available at Deel.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alex Bouaziz | Co-founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-bouaziz |
| Dan Westgarth | COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dan-westgarth |
| Shuo Wang | Co-Founder & CRO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shuo-wang-2 |
| Anton Karpenko | Software Engineer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/karpolan |
| Christopher Lee | Head of Sales - North America | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/christopher-lee-10 |

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## FAQ

### What does Dan Westgarth invest in?

Dan Westgarth invests primarily in Artificial Intelligence, Employment and Human Resources startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 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 Dan Westgarth's check size?

Dan Westgarth typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$30M at Seed and $2.5M–$6.7M at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Dan Westgarth participates in.

### When did Dan Westgarth last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Dan Westgarth closed in Feb 2025. Shizune tracks 8 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?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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