Dust Road Ventures
VC Fund
Dust Road Ventures is a VC fund focused on FinTech and Artificial Intelligence. Dust Road Ventures is the personal investment firm of Errol Damelin, founder and angel investor. The firm invests at the seed stage in fintech, AI, health-tech, and enterprise software - writing first or second cheques into companies where the founder has deep domain expertise and is building technology the market doesn't yet know it needs.The portfolio includes 20+ companies - from co-founding Tide (now one of the UK's largest digital banking platforms) to early investments in Wise (pre-revenue), Purplebricks (40x+ return as first investor), HiBob, K Health, Cleo, Earnin, and Elliptic. In the majority of these companies, leading venture firms - including Andreessen Horowitz, Sequoia, Index Ventures, Benchmark, Greylock, and Bessemer - invested alongside or after Dust Road Ventures. Institutional investors including BlackRock, Fidelity, JP Morgan, and HSBC followed at later stages.Errol also holds LP positions in a select group of venture funds, creating a deal-flow flywheel between fund relationships and direct investments.
- Total investments:
- 11
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Dust Road Ventures invests in
Stages Dust Road Ventures invests in
Countries Dust Road Ventures invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 4 (36%)
- Artificial Intelligence 3 (27%)
- Finance 2 (18%)
- Software 2 (18%)
- Wellness 2 (18%)
Stage
- Seed 6 (55%)
- Pre-Seed 2 (18%)
- Series A 2 (18%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 1 (9%)
Country
- United Kingdom 5 (45%)
- United States 3 (27%)
- Israel 2 (18%)
- Germany 1 (9%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
|---|---|---|---|
| Seat Unique is an online marketplace to buy official hospitality packages and VIP tickets to live sports, music, and cultural events. | Series A / Jul 03, 2025 | ||
| GlossAI bridges the gap between the content created by organisations and how people consume it .Today's audiences do not have the attention span to listen to anything for an extended period of time. Even those attending events, podcasts, training sessions, and zoom calls can't keep up. At GlossAI we get smart AI video generator that canturn any single piece of content into many short videos, blog posts and more various channels and use cases. | Pre-Seed / Aug 11, 2021 | ||
| Cazoo is pioneering the shift to online car buying and selling in the UK and mainland Europe and has already sold over 35,000 cars since its launch less than two years ago to consumers across the UK who have embraced the selection, transparency and convenience of buying quality used cars entirely online. Cazoo is also Europe’s leading consumer carsubscription player with thousands of subscribers across the UK, France and Germany.Cazoo has developed a market leading brand and fully integrated platform, where it owns and reconditions all its cars before offering them for either delivery or collection in as little as 72 hours. Over the past three years, Cazoo has grown its team to over 2,500 customer-obsessed staff, focussed on delivering the best car buying and selling experience to consumers across the UK & Europe. Already the leading online car retailer in the UK, Cazoo is expanding into mainland Europe as it seeks to disrupt the largely offline $700 billion used car market. | Venture - Series Unknown / Dec 17, 2020 | ||
| Canopy Connect is the fastest way to collect verified insurance information. Consumers despise filling out long forms and don't readily have the answers to their current insurance situation. As a result, your business receives incomplete or inaccurate information—conversion suffers and retention suffers.More than 3,500 companies use CanopyConnect—including insurance agencies, insurance marketplaces, insurance carriers, lenders, and embedded insurance players—to verify insurance information in seconds.Consumers simply sign in via Canopy Connect with their current insurance carrier credentials to securely share policy details, declarations pages, driver information, enriched property details, claims history, and commercial loss runs. Your business can access all of this verified insurance information through the Canopy Connect dashboard or via API. Then connect the data directly to your comparative rater, CRM, AMS, POS with our direct integrations to the insurance and lending ecosystem. | Seed / Jun 04, 2020 | ||
| Modifi empower Small and Medium-Sized Businesses to trade internationally with digital trade financing. They believe that international trade is a key driver for development around the globe. But many small and medium-sized enterprises simply cannot afford to do business internationally without reliable access to finance. MODIFI strives to changethat through technology and a global ecosystem for trade partners. They make Trade Finance available, easy, flexible and transparent. They help their partners to grow their business. And they give them peace of mind. | $3.4M / Seed / Nov 15, 2018 | ||
| Elliptic provides blockchain analytics and crypto compliance tools that help organizations detect, assess, and manage financial crime risk in digital assets. It offers solutions for transaction monitoring, wallet and entity screening, cross-chain investigations, and real-time risk scoring. Its analytics platform allows users to visualize exposuretrends, investigate suspicious flows, and perform due diligence on tokens and counterparties. The company also delivers APIs and integration frameworks that embed blockchain intelligence into existing compliance workflows. Furthermore, Elliptic supports continuous monitoring of crypto activity and offers training and insight to teams managing digital asset risk. Their team pushes the limits, digging beneath the surface and peeling back the layers to expose the truth. They aim to prevent illicit cryptocurrency activity from casting a shadow on the technology and the future it represents for all of them. | Series A / Jan 25, 2018 | ||
| ZOE is a personalized nutrition company that operates the world's largest nutrition-science study, as well as the ZOE Health Study (formerly ZOE COVID Study). It improves the health of millions by utilizing data on a previously unimagined scale and unraveling the complex relationship between food, lifestyle, and health. The ZOE program beginswith an at-home test and provides members with personalized advice on how to eat for their bodies and long-term health.Its science is based on the realization that everyone reacts differently to food and that gut bacteria play an important role in health. ZOE research has been published in peer-reviewed journals such as Nature Medicine, Nature Metabolism, The Lancet, Gut, and others. | Seed / Oct 26, 2017 | ||
| YuLife is a tech-driven insurance company on a mission to inspire life and turn financial products into a force for good. By harnessing the power of gamification and the latest behavioral science, YuLife insurance rewards healthy living and puts everyday wellness within reach of everyone. Founded in 2016, YuLife is headquartered in London andbacked by serial investors and VCs including Creandum, MMC Ventures, Notion Capital, LocalGlobe, and Anthemis Exponential Ventures. | Seed / Aug 15, 2017 | ||
| K Health is a data-driven digital primary care app that uses AI to deliver personalized primary care.The AI-powered health platform integrates data and creates a predictive model to enable its user to learn more about their personal wellbeing as well as help them better manage their health by comparing themselves to people with similarcharacteristics–gender, age, symptoms, medical history –through a free symptom tracker. K Health is backed by Mangrove, 14W, Comcast Ventures, Lerer Hippeau, Primary Ventures, Max Ventures, The Box Group, GGV Capital, Valor Equity Partners, Kaiser Permanente, LTS Ventures, Atreides Ventures, PICO Partners, Marcy Venture Partners, and other New York and Israeli seed investors.It was founded in 2016 by Adam Singolda, Allon Bloch, Israel Roth, and Ran Shaul and is based in New York, New York. | $3.3M / Seed / Nov 04, 2016 | ||
| Cleo is the world's first AI assistant that’s changing your relationship with money. She turns the complexity of your financial life into a conversation, the same kind you’d have with a friend. With a simple chat, Cleo can automate your money life and remove the stress of decision making with data-driven and deeply personal insights based onyour specific needs and financial history to help you in ways your bank never could. | Pre-Seed / Jun 15, 2016 | ||
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FAQ
What does Dust Road Ventures invest in?
Dust Road Ventures invests primarily in FinTech, Artificial Intelligence and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 11 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 Dust Road Ventures last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Dust Road Ventures closed in Jul 2025. Shizune tracks 11 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 Sep 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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