David Soskin
Partner and co-Founder @ HOWZAT Partners
London, United Kingdom
David Soskin is a seed investor at HOWZAT Partners in London focused on Travel and E-Commerce. David Soskin is on the boards of mySupermarket.com and Cortexica Vision Systems where he is Chairman. He was a non-executive director of the Momondo Group (formerly Cheapflights) until October 2014 when Great Hill Partners acquired a majority stake in the business. Priceline Inc acquired Momondo in 2017 for $550 million.He served as ChiefExecutive Officer of Cheapflights - which he joined in March 2000 upon the management buy-in - until April 2008. Under his leadership, Cheapflights grew from an attic-based operation into an international leader in online travel search reaching 8.4 million users in January 2008. During this period, Cheapflights won many industry awards and was included in the Sunday Times Microsoft Tech Track of the UK's 100 fastest growing privately-owned technology companies for five years in a row. David was a Finalist for the Ernst and Young Entrepreneur of the Year Award in 2006.
- Total investments:
- 2
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- Lead investor:
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Industries David Soskin invests in
Stages David Soskin invests in
Countries David Soskin invests in
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Investment Focus
Industry
- Travel 1 (50%)
- E-Commerce 1 (50%)
- Reputation 1 (50%)
- Marketplace 1 (50%)
- Photography 1 (50%)
Stage
- Seed 1 (50%)
- Series A 1 (50%)
Country
- Israel 1 (50%)
- United Kingdom 1 (50%)
Investments
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Silverback.ai
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eRated (http://erated.co) creates a single identity for e-commerce sites, allowing online buyers and sellers to utilize their already existing reputation everywhere they go. By using a universal identity, sellers are able to operate in more marketplaces, reach more customers and increase their conversion rates and sales as they nolonger need to re-build their reputation (ratings, reviews and comments) in each site. eRated uses a widget displayed in partner sites that aggregates and summarizes the sellers ratings and feedback earned across various marketplace, increasing user trust.The founders are all veterans of elite Israeli army tech units and alumni of the Zell Entrepreneurship Program (Israel's most prominent student accelerator program). | $1.7M / Seed / Jan 19, 2016 | |
WAYN
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WAYN (Where Are You Now?) is a travel & lifestyle based social network with over 20.4 million members worldwide.WAYN aims to help its members fulfill their dreams by meeting like-minded people to do cool stuff with and by sharing their intentions and experiences with others. WAYN also allows users to keep tabs on the friends they'vemet around the world, and meet new ones as well based on things they have in common. The idea for the site was hatched after founders Jerome Touze and Peter Ward returned from a backpacking tour across the world and wanted an easy way to keep in touch with the friends they'd met across the globe. WAYN competes with other travel-focused social networks and services like The WAYN Founders have also launched a new dating site under the WAYN umbrella. WAYN Dating helps people find their match based on doing what they love. | $11M / Series A / Nov 01, 2006 |
Co-Investors
About HOWZAT Partners
Howzat Partners is a venture capital firm specializing in incubation, seed, start up, growth capital, early stage, and mid venture investments. The firm seeks to invest in digital businesses with a focus on internet, digital media, e-commerce companies. It invests globally. It acts as as sounding board. The firm also makes co-investments. HowzatPartners was founded in 2006 and is based in Luxembourg and London.
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Hugo Burge
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Sascha Hausmann
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What does David Soskin invest in?
David Soskin invests primarily in Travel, E-Commerce and Reputation startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 2 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Israel. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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