# David Williams

> David Williams is a pre-seed investor at Shotput Ventures backing FinTech and Gambling. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Shotput Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/shotput-ventures)
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: Jan 2026
- Lead investor: 60%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/davidjwilliams3

David Williams is a Partner at Discerning Capital.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |
| Gambling | 1 | 20% |
| Payments | 1 | 20% |
| Meeting Software | 1 | 20% |
| Financial Services | 1 | 20% |

7 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series A | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Midnite | Building the future of esports betting | $35M | Series C | Jan 15, 2026 |  |
| Yaspa | Yaspa is an award-winning fintech that delivers personal intelligence through instant payments. Founded in 2017 by a former Worldpay CTO, Yaspa blends open banking and AI to provide Intelligent Payments: real-time bank and stablecoin payments combined with verified customer insights, as well as a full suite of payment and account verificationservices. With offices in London, Leeds, Athens and Atlanta, Yaspa operates across the UK, Europe and US, is regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, and is backed by leading investors including Discerning Capital, Fin Capital, SGH Capital & Metavallon VC. | $12M | Series A | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Yaspa | Yaspa is an award-winning fintech that delivers personal intelligence through instant payments. Founded in 2017 by a former Worldpay CTO, Yaspa blends open banking and AI to provide Intelligent Payments: real-time bank and stablecoin payments combined with verified customer insights, as well as a full suite of payment and account verificationservices. With offices in London, Leeds, Athens and Atlanta, Yaspa operates across the UK, Europe and US, is regulated by the UK’s Financial Conduct Authority, and is backed by leading investors including Discerning Capital, Fin Capital, SGH Capital & Metavallon VC. | $12M | Series A | Jul 02, 2025 |  |
| Midnite | Building the future of esports betting | $10.1M | Series B | Apr 14, 2025 |  |
| Project Manda | Project Manda is a comprehensive organizational platform to help teams improve meeting productivity. It combines deep meeting analytics to identify opportunities for productivity gains, workflows to review recurring meetings systematically, and an AI assistant to gather feedback and coach employees towards better meetings. | $1.3M | Pre-Seed | Mar 27, 2025 |  |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [The Raine Group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/therainegroup) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [BigBets.vc](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bigbets-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Metavallon VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/metavallon-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Play Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/play-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/techstars) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Techstars](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/barclays-accelerator) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Shotput Ventures

VC Fund · Atlanta, United States

Shotput Ventures is a startup accelerator that offers seed-funding and conception-phase mentoring services to startups. Shotput Ventures was founded in 2009 by Sanjay Parekh and is based in Georgia.

4 contacts available at Shotput Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| David Williams | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/david-williams-3 |
| Jeff Hilimire | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-hillimire |
| Jeff Hilimire | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jeff-hilimire |
| Suleman Ali | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/suleman-ali |

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## FAQ

### What does David Williams invest in?

David Williams invests primarily in FinTech, Gambling and Payments startups, most often at Pre-Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did David Williams last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for David Williams closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 5 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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