# David Szekely

> David Szekely is a seed investor in London backing Beauty, FinTech and Internet. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Apr 2024
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/davidszekely
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/DSZKLY
- Website: https://www.columbvs.com

David Szekely is a seed investor in London focused on Beauty and FinTech. Lawyer-turned-Entrepreneur-turned-Investor/Advisor

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.8M–$4.5M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Beauty | 1 | 25% |
| FinTech | 1 | 25% |
| Internet | 1 | 25% |
| Payments | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |

15 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 75% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 25% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 3 | 75% |
| France | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| JENA | JENA is building the "Shopify for service professionals", starting with personal care. The company is on a mission to empower Solopreneurs to thrive on their own terms with radically simple business tools. JENA provides Solopreneurs with an Operating System (OS) providing them a full tech-stack: website, AI-powered booking system,payments, CRM, marketing, and e-commerce in one app. | $1.5M | Pre-Seed | Apr 08, 2024 |  |
| Helio | Helio powers merchant payments for the Web3 economy. We offer a secure and convenient way for merchants, dApps & creators to accept DeFi payments across multiple chains for e-commerce, subscriptions, paywalling & more. Benefits include low fees & instant settlement for merchants, and increased privacy & friction-free checkouts forusers. | $3.3M | Seed | Apr 13, 2023 |  |
| Collectiv Food | At Collectiv Food we're leading the transition to a sustainable, fair and transparent food supply chain, to build a whole better food ecosystem.We've built the first digitised, automated and data-driven food supply chain solution, bringing sustainability, transparency, better unit economics and greener logistics solutions to foodbusinesses around the globe. | $4.5M | Seed | Oct 14, 2019 |  |
| ThrustMe | ThrustMe is a startup spinning of from the Laboratoire de Physique des Plasmas at the Ecole Polytechnique and the CNRS, founded by Ane Aanesland and Dmytro Rafalskyi. ThrustMe develops, produces and commercializes the next generation space propulsion systems based on our patented technology. | $1.8M | Seed | Jun 16, 2017 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Peak](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/peak-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [True.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trueglobal) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Colle Capital Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/colle-capital-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Faction](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/faction-0d34) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Frontline Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/frontline-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [G-FUND](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/generations-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does David Szekely invest in?

David Szekely invests primarily in Beauty, FinTech and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is David Szekely's check size?

David Szekely typically joins rounds of $1.8M–$4.5M at Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds David Szekely participates in.

### When did David Szekely last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Szekely closed in Apr 2024. Shizune tracks 4 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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