# Eric Nadalin

> Eric Nadalin is a seed investor at tru.ID (London) backing Software, SaaS and FinTech. See 13 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [tru.ID](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tru-id)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 13
- Last investment: Dec 2020
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/enadalin

Eric Nadalin is a seed investor at tru.ID in London focused on Software and SaaS. Eric Nadalin has entrepreneurship experiences in both the payments and telecoms spaces for over 20+ years. He cofounded Nexmo and worked as a CTO managing product and engineering teams. The company was acquired by Vonage in May 2016. During the dotcom era, he was based in San Francisco and cofounded iPIN, which was later on acquired by Valista andwas integrated with major mobile operators around the globe. Eric holds several patents in telecommunication, a Bachelors and Masters Degree in Computer Science from Université Paul Sabatier in Toulouse, France.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$4.2M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 62% |
| SaaS | 4 | 31% |
| FinTech | 4 | 31% |
| Financial Services | 4 | 31% |
| Banking | 3 | 23% |

34 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 12 | 92% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 8% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 69% |
| United States | 3 | 23% |
| Nigeria | 1 | 8% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Cledara | Cledara gives you a detailed overview of software your company uses and allows you to manage it all in a very simple way. Request and approve software, pay for it, put its accounting on autopilot and lean into usage and finance data to cancel apps with a click if needed.With Cledara, +1000 companies in the US, UK and Europe reduce softwarecosts by 30% and save +20h a month on software admin. | $3.4M | Seed | Dec 14, 2020 |  |
| Northflank | The comprehensive developer platform to build and scale microservices, jobs and managed databases with a powerful UI, API & CLI. | $2.6M | Seed | Jul 07, 2020 |  |
| Oyster | Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. The company's HR platform for globally distributed companies enables growing organizations to give valued international team members the experience they deserve, without the usual headaches or expense. Oyster empowershiring anywhere in the world with reliable, compliant payroll and great local benefits and perks. Founded in January 2020 by Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, Oyster is itself a fully remote company with a diverse, globally distributed team. | $4.2M | Seed | Apr 21, 2020 |  |
| Magic Sandbox | Magic Sandbox is an interactive training platform for software engineers to learn Kubernetes hands-on. |  | Pre-Seed | Apr 08, 2019 |  |
| WealthKernel | "WealthKernel is the Amazon Web Services of savings, investment and pension infrastructure, for business using the platform it is like plugging into the central power grid instead of producing their own power." |  | Seed | Mar 20, 2019 |  |
| Signol | Signol is a London-based workforce nudge tech software startup, that engages captains and crew with personalised performance feedback to motivate decision-making that reduces fuel consumption and CO2 emissions. By providing personalized feedback and insights, Signol helps these individuals make better decisions that reduce fuel consumption andemissions. The company primarily works within industries like aviation and shipping, where small changes in behavior can lead to significant environmental and operational efficiencies. |  | Seed | Oct 02, 2018 |  |
| action.ai | action ai’s technology enables companies to build conversational interfaces for their services, extending customer engagement opportunities via platforms like Alexa and Facebook Messenger.action ai’s platform empowers companies to launch intelligent conversational interfaces that transform the experience of using services via smart speakers andchatbots. action ai’s technology enables companies to build conversational interfaces for their services that transform customer engagement. The interfaces allow users to communicate in an entirely natural manner – just as they might communicate with a fellow human in a conversation. Competitors’ tools result in experiences that are highly restrictive and demand unnatural interaction. action.ai has the only platform globally that enables the quick launching of sophisticated conversational interfaces without clients needing deep AI expertise. The company focuses on key sectors (retail/financial services/smart homes), although its language classification technology is applicable broadly. |  | Seed | Jul 27, 2018 |  |
| Scape Technologies | Scape is a computer vision startup, building the localization engine for city-scale augmented reality.Its cloud-based ‘visual engine’ allows camera devices to understand their environment, using computer vision. Rather than relying on 3D maps built and stored locally, Scape’s vision engine builds and references 3D maps in the cloud, allowingdevices to tap into a ‘shared understanding’ of an environment.Scape Technologies was founded in 2016 and is based in London, England. |  | Seed | Jul 18, 2018 |  |
| Impala | Our vision is to make every trip perfect. By building a future in which travel is seamless. Impala connects room sellers and hotels, instantly. We empower you to build, innovate and sell. We are the infrastructure that enables sellers to build better products, faster. Unlike bed-banks or affiliate schemes, you can get started in 30 seconds. OurBooking API is a mega-channel that attracts more bookings for hotels without having to pay integration fees or police rate parity. | $1.8M | Seed | Apr 24, 2018 |  |
| Kudi | KUDI is a financial service provider focused on providing access to electronic banking and financial services by leveraging conversational interfaces, natural language processing and artificial intelligence to provider faster access, frictionless experience, and ultimately boost financial inclusion in emerging markets. KUDI is enabling securedfinancial transactions via Facebook, Telegram, Slack and Skype. KUDI's focus is the African market with a primary focus on the Nigerian Payment ecosystem and the company does this in partnership with e-payment regulators, a leading commercial bank, and an international payment processor. |  | Seed | Jul 10, 2017 |  |

10 of 13 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Amaranthine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/amaranthine-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Anthemis](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/anthemis-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Fly Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fly-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About tru.ID

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| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Eric Nadalin | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eric-nadalin |
| Paul McGuire | Co-Founder & CEO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/paul-mcguire |
| Phil Leggetter | Head of Developer Experience & Relations | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/phil-leggetter |

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## FAQ

### What does Eric Nadalin invest in?

Eric Nadalin invests primarily in Software, SaaS and FinTech startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 13 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 Eric Nadalin's check size?

Eric Nadalin typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$4.2M 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 Eric Nadalin participates in.

### When did Eric Nadalin last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Eric Nadalin closed in Dec 2020. Shizune tracks 13 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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