# Duncan Jennings

> Duncan Jennings is a seed investor at Motorway (London) backing Software and Marketplace. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Motorway](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/motorway)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 11%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://uk.linkedin.com/in/duncanjennings
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/duncanjennings

Duncan Jennings is a seed investor at Motorway in London focused on Software and Marketplace. Duncan Jennings is the Investor and Board Member at Motorway.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $520k–$3.8M |
| Angel | $242k–$637k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 3 | 33% |
| Marketplace | 3 | 33% |
| Internet | 2 | 22% |
| B2B | 1 | 11% |
| B2C | 1 | 11% |

29 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 56% |
| Angel | 2 | 22% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 22% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 89% |
| United States | 1 | 11% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Console | The best tools for developers. |  | Pre-Seed | Dec 01, 2020 |  |
| Otta | Our mission is to become the world's career champion. This means putting candidates first — not companies. Today we're focused on building the better way to find a fulfilling job in tech. In the future, we'll help people find jobs at all of the best companies.Looking for a job is a frustrating experience. It's incredibly hardto find a good match. Job adverts lack useful information like salary and diversity data. Companies sometimes never respond. There’s a lack of friendly-support in those tough moments of rejection … the list goes on.When starting Otta, we saw that candidates are often treated as second-class citizens. So we set out to build a candidate-first job search: one that is laser-focused on providing the best experience for candidates.There’s a big market to go after in recruitment, with LinkedIn selling over $10bn/year of recruitment products. But it’s impossible to battle a giant like LinkedIn if you try and compete on all jobs from Day 1. So we chose tech companies as our first move. As we grow, we’ll expand into other industries to help more people find fulfillment.Since launching in Jan 2020, we’ve grown from 1,000 applications sent per month to multiple thousands sent every day, across the UK & US. Otta is becoming a must-have for companies, and this puts us in a strong position to demand a better experience for candidates. For example, what if we said to companies that jobs without a salary range will be shown last? | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Dec 04, 2019 |  |
| Motorway | Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.We help everyone to quickly and easily sell their car for the best price from the comfort of home, using only a phone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart tech matches ourcustomers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers. This enables those dealers to buy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.With over 1m car owners using our site and apps every month, we've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun. | $637K | Angel | May 01, 2017 |  |
| Lexoo | Lexoo is a marketplace where businesses and in-house legal teams can easily compare and hire talented and forward-thinking lawyers around the wolrd, all pre-screened and vetted by Lexoo. The lawyers are incentivised to compete for work and people can see hundreds of reviews from other businesses. The team of ex-lawyers does the vetting so userswill only receive quotes from lawyers that are right for the job. The lawyers are typically former big firm lawyers who now work on a lower overhead basis. The Lexoo solution is easier, more cost-effective, and transparent.Lexoo was founded on 2014 by Daniel van Binsbergen and Chris O’Sullivan. It is headquartered in London. | $1.1M | Seed | Nov 02, 2015 |  |
| DICE | DICE was founded in London in 2014, DICE helps fans discover and buy tickets to live shows and streams all over the world. Available in the UK, US, France, Italy, Spain, India, and Australia, and accessible to fans globally through its live stream offering, DICE is on a mission to get people out more. | $3.8M | Seed | Sep 01, 2014 |  |
| Picfair | A new standard for online images. Upload your pics, name your price - an open-to-all image licensing marketplace. Picfair has thousands of images uploaded by photographers in 44 countries around the world, all available to license within a few clicks. | $520K | Seed | Jun 08, 2014 |  |
| Ignite Accelerator | Ignite provides accelerator, incubator, and education programs for technology startups.Ignite is funded primarily through commercial activity, and has also raised investment from Northstar Ventures through the FBNE Accelerator Fund, managed by North East Finance as part of the £125m FBNE program.Founded in 2011 by Colin Willis, JonBradford, and Paul Smith, Ignite was expected to be a one-off, three month program. Instead, Ignite grew into an independent co-working space and venue that span off as Newcastle's tech centre Campus North.In 2016, Ignite expanded operations to London and Manchester, running accelerator programmes in both cities.In May 2016, Ignite MD Tristan Watson took over as CEO. | $892K | Seed | Feb 25, 2014 |  |
| Skift | Skift is a travel intelligence media company which will deliver news, data and services to its readers. | $1.1M | Seed | May 15, 2013 |  |
| Server Density | Server Density is a SaaS-based product that helps users manage and monitor their infrastructure. The tool syncs with major cloud providers and allows users to monitor their websites and servers from a single console, API, and mobile app; enabling them to diagnose problems, maintain uptime, and maximize performance. Server Density is available onLinux, Windows, OS X, and FreeBSD servers.Server Density offers automatic agent installation for Puppet, Chef, and Ansible as well as alternative installer for scripts and packages that works in any environment.Users can receive server monitoring alerts in the form of emails, SMS, push notifications, PagerDuty, and web hooks. They can stack, collect, and compare alerts with graph dashboards across servers and clusters. Metrics can be automatically pulled in from Amazon Web Services, Google Cloud, and Rackspace.Server Density was launched in 2009 by David Mytton and is operated from London, United Kingdom. | $242K | Angel | Nov 01, 2011 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Angels Den](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angels-den) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forward Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Hotspur Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hotspur-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [London Co-Investment Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/london-co-investment-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Mesa Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mesa-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Miroma Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/miroma-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Motorway

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Motorway started in 2017 with a vision to build a better car market for everyone, harnessing the power of technology to deliver an amazing experience.We help everyone to quickly and easily sell their car for the best price from the comfort of home, using only a phone.Transparent and straightforward in all that we do, our smart tech matches ourcustomers’ cars with a nationwide network of verified dealers. This enables those dealers to buy vehicles direct from private sellers using our fully-online sales platform, with hundreds of cars successfully sold every day.Reducing time and effort on all sides, we help everyone get the right deal quickly. It all, just, works.With over 1m car owners using our site and apps every month, we've grown by over 100% year-on-year and the journey's just begun.

5 contacts available at Motorway.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alexander Buttle | Co-Founder & Non-Exec Advisor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alex-buttle |
| Bala Subbaiah | UX Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bala-subbaiah |
| Duncan Jennings | Investor & Board Member | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/duncan-jennings |
| Harry Jones | Co-Founder and CPO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/harry-jones |
| James Bush | Commercial Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/james-bush-3212 |

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## FAQ

### What does Duncan Jennings invest in?

Duncan Jennings invests primarily in Software, Marketplace and Internet startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 9 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 Duncan Jennings's check size?

Duncan Jennings typically joins rounds of $520k–$3.8M at Seed and $242k–$637k at Angel. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Duncan Jennings participates in.

### When did Duncan Jennings last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Duncan Jennings closed in Dec 2020. Shizune tracks 9 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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