# Daniel Szekely

> Daniel Szekely is a Series A investor at EVP (Sydney) backing Software and Marketplace. See 19 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equityventure-partners)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 19
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 84%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/danielszekely/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/dan_szekely
- Website: https://www.evp.com.au/

Daniel Szekely is a Series A investor at EVP in Sydney focused on Software and Marketplace. Daniel started his career as a commercial lawyer specialising in transactional matters and startups. He is experienced in advising on capital raising, acquisitions and disposals, joint ventures, corporate reconstructions, financing transactions, corporate governance, disputes arising under the Corporations Act and related taxation matters.Danieljoined Equity Venture Partners in 2016, a Sydney based venture capital firm partnering with Australia's leading startups, as well as remaining an active angel investor.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 7 | 37% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 16% |
| Information Technology | 3 | 16% |
| SaaS | 2 | 11% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 11% |

43 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 10 | 53% |
| Seed | 4 | 21% |
| Funding Round | 4 | 21% |
| Series B | 1 | 5% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Australia | 13 | 68% |
| New Zealand | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EatClub | EatClub operates a digital platform that connects consumers with restaurants offering time-based promotions to manage excess food inventory and demand fluctuations. The platform enables restaurants to create dynamic offers that are visible to users through a mobile application, allowing customers to purchase discounted meals for dine-in, takeaway,or delivery. EatClub provides participating venues with tools to control pricing, manage offer timing, and track redemption data. The service supports restaurants in adjusting demand during slower trading periods while giving users access to reduced-price dining options. Its model focuses on optimizing food sales through real-time offer distribution and in-app payment processing. | $27M | Series B | Feb 22, 2026 |  |
| Nexl | Nexl believes that CRM systems should be easy-to-use, affordable, and fully automated. They made it their mission to enable law firm's around the world to take back control over their business development efforts and enable them to grow at their full potential. | $4.4M | Series A | Nov 30, 2023 |  |
| Clipboard | Clipboard is a provider of software for managing extracurricular school activities. Clipboard is an Extracurricular Management System (EMS). An EMS is a purpose-built platform designed to help schools manage the administration of their extracurricular activities. | $2M |  | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Clipboard | Clipboard is a provider of software for managing extracurricular school activities. Clipboard is an Extracurricular Management System (EMS). An EMS is a purpose-built platform designed to help schools manage the administration of their extracurricular activities. | $1.9M | Series A | Oct 19, 2022 |  |
| Veridooh | Veridooh is an ad tech startup that provides a platform that tracks, measures, and verifies the performance of digital out-of-home campaigns. Their dashboard gives key performance indicators, insightful graphs, and actionable intelligence. It offers a place for creatives, agencies, and media owners to collaborate. Their product provides panel playcount, exposure time, and creative execution. | $3.6M | Series A | Jun 06, 2022 |  |
| canibuild | Canibuild is a cloud based easy to use application used by builders that compresses the many steps involved in selling a build i.e. surveyors, town planners, architects etc into a single click allowing anyone to easily answer canibuild a shed, pool, house etc on a specific property. | $5.8M | Series A | Mar 08, 2022 |  |
| Particular Audience | 100% Anonymous PersonalizationPA provides eCommerce brands with market-defining search, merch and recommendation technologies automating a different website for every customer.Retail Media enables suppliers to promote items to in-market consumers on retailer properties, a lucrative channel for brands and a new high margin revenue stream forretailers.All on first-party data.PA’s consumer product ‘Similar’ aggregates every single item on the consumer web, with the ability to make any website shoppable. Laying the groundwork for Web3 Commerce at www.similarinc.comOne of Australia’s fastest growing startups, PA has launched from headquarters in Sydney and expanded to Europe with a London office in 2019 and America with a Vancouver office in 2021. Amsterdam and New York offices coming soon in early 2022. | $7.2M | Series A | Nov 30, 2021 |  |
| Programa | Programa is an all-in-one platform for professional designers, brands, renovators, and homeowners.Programa’s project management software seeks to solve workflow problems for the A&D industry to help them run projects more efficiently, and to seamlessly integrate with brands to make quoting and procurement far easier. | $1.5M | Seed | Aug 02, 2021 |  |
| Mooven | Mooven is the construction tech platform built to help deliver world-changing infrastructure without the city-stopping disruption.Mooven provides government authorities and construction companies with increased flexibility and agility, enabling them to accelerate the delivery of infrastructure, while taking into consideration the impacts oneveryday citizens and communities. With Mooven, authorities and construction teams have real-time insight into the effects of infrastructure projects across the city — impacts such as increased traffic delays, noise and dust are minimised. | $3.6M | Series A | Jun 15, 2021 |  |
| Mooven | Mooven is the construction tech platform built to help deliver world-changing infrastructure without the city-stopping disruption.Mooven provides government authorities and construction companies with increased flexibility and agility, enabling them to accelerate the delivery of infrastructure, while taking into consideration the impacts oneveryday citizens and communities. With Mooven, authorities and construction teams have real-time insight into the effects of infrastructure projects across the city — impacts such as increased traffic delays, noise and dust are minimised. |  | Seed | Jun 15, 2021 |  |

10 of 19 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Five V Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/five-v-capital) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Jelix Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jelix-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Carthona Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/carthona-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Giant Leap Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/giant-leap-fund) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Grand Prix Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grand-prix-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Investible](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/investible) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About EVP

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.

5 contacts available at EVP.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Szekely | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-szekely |
| Howard Leibman | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-liebman |
| Justin Lipman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-lipman |
| Les Szekely | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/les-szekely |
| Misha Saul | Head of Opportunities Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/misha-saul |

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## FAQ

### What does Daniel Szekely invest in?

Daniel Szekely invests primarily in Software, Marketplace and Information Technology startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Daniel Szekely last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Daniel Szekely closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 19 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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