# David Soskin

> David Soskin is a seed investor at Aldermore Bank (London) backing Travel and E-Commerce. See 2 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aldermore Bank](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aldermore-bank)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 2
- Last investment: Jan 2016
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidsoskin/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/davidsoskin
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/david.soskin.5

David Soskin is a seed investor at Aldermore Bank 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.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Travel | 1 | 50% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 50% |
| Reputation | 1 | 50% |
| Marketplace | 1 | 50% |
| Photography | 1 | 50% |

6 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 1 | 50% |
| Series A | 1 | 50% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Israel | 1 | 50% |
| United Kingdom | 1 | 50% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Silverback.ai | 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 | 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 |  |

2 of 2 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Ballpark Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ballpark-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HardGamma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hardgamma-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [HOWZAT Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howzat-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Aldermore Bank

VC Fund · Reading, United Kingdom

Aldermore Bank is a specialist lender and savings bank offering straightforward products to SMEs, homeowners, landlords and individuals.

5 contacts available at Aldermore Bank.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Andrew Percy | Business Analyst on IT transformation programme | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andrew-percy |
| Catherine Plumridge | Head of BA & CI Practice | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/catherine-plumridge |
| David Soskin | Non - Executive Director | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-soskin |
| Hany Choueiri | Chief Data Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hany-choueiri |
| Paul Walsh | Regional Sales Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-walsh-6 |

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## FAQ

### 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.

### When did David Soskin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Soskin closed in Jan 2016. Shizune tracks 2 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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