Errol Damelin
Angel Investor
London, United Kingdom
Errol Damelin is a seed investor in London focused on FinTech and Financial Services. Errol Damelin is the founder of Dust Road Ventures, a seed-stage investment firm investing in fintech, AI, health-tech, and enterprise software. He has made over 75 investments since 2011, almost all as first or second cheques. Before investing full-time he built three companies — Supply Chain Connect, Wonga, and Tide. Portfolio includes Wise(invested pre-revenue), Purplebricks (first investor), HiBob, K Health, Cleo AI, Earnin, Elliptic, Cazoo, Citymapper, YuLife, and Zoe. TechCrunch Founder of the Year (2010). Based in London. Originally from Klerksdorp, South Africa.Among the companies co-founded by Damelin are groundbreaking fintech company Wonga, and SME banking startup Tide. His early investments include Wise, Cazoo, Purplebricks, K Health, YuLife, Sure, Demyst, Zoe, Farewill, CityMapper, Modifi, UnBabel, Thimble, HiBob, Modifi, Elliptic, Lendingkart, and VivaReal. Using his own personal equity, Damelin continues to invest early on in the next generation of entrepreneurs so that he can help them succeed. He is not an institutional VC fund and does not maximize the assets under his management. He best describes his approach as Riding Shotgun.Damelin's success as a founder has been recognized by The Guardian, which named him Digital Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011; by Ernst and Young, which named him the UK's Entrepreneur of the Year in 2011 as well; and by TechCrunch, which named him Founder of the Year in 2010.
- Total investments:
- 49
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 0%
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Industries Errol Damelin invests in
Stages Errol Damelin invests in
Countries Errol Damelin invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $535k–$7.5M
- Pre-Seed
- $698k–$3.8M
- Series A
- $3.7M–$47M
Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 17 (35%)
- Financial Services 15 (31%)
- Finance 8 (16%)
- Software 8 (16%)
- Health Care 7 (14%)
Stage
- Seed 31 (63%)
- Series A 8 (16%)
- Pre-Seed 5 (10%)
- Funding Round 2 (4%)
- Venture - Series Unknown 2 (4%)
Country
- United Kingdom 25 (51%)
- United States 12 (24%)
- Israel 2 (4%)
- India 1 (2%)
- Brazil 1 (2%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| The AI-Powered Premium Lifestyle Manager For Late-Stage & Post-Exit Founders | $2.5M / Pre-Seed / Apr 16, 2025 | ||
| Zelt provides the enterprise with all the functionality needed to manage its workforce across the whole employee lifecycle end-to-end with applications spanning HR, Finance and IT use cases. Zelt is easy to use, tasteful, and affordable, and it enables organizations to function in a simpler and more automated way. The platform automates variousaspects of employee management, such as onboarding and offboarding, significantly reducing the time and effort required to provision employee accounts. | $3.5M / Seed / Jul 20, 2023 | ||
| OurRitual is a digital platform that transforms the way people strengthen and grow their relationships. | $2M / Pre-Seed / Oct 24, 2022 | ||
| Claimer is a self-service application that gets credit claims done easily of money spent on research and development. Its platform empowers company owners and advisors to prepare their claims, without any specialist knowledge, no matter how big or small the claim. It also prepares and submits the amended tax return for free.Claimer was founded in2019 by Adam McCann and is headquartered in Croydon, United Kingdom. | $4.2M / Seed / Sep 14, 2022 | ||
| Zelt provides the enterprise with all the functionality needed to manage its workforce across the whole employee lifecycle end-to-end with applications spanning HR, Finance and IT use cases. Zelt is easy to use, tasteful, and affordable, and it enables organizations to function in a simpler and more automated way. The platform automates variousaspects of employee management, such as onboarding and offboarding, significantly reducing the time and effort required to provision employee accounts. | $3.8M / Pre-Seed / Mar 01, 2022 | ||
| Nosso is a mobile-based financial planning platform for the future of children. | $2.8M / Seed / Feb 28, 2022 | ||
| Oto builds digital therapeutics for tinnitus. There are 390 million people with intrusive tinnitus around the world. Our mission to help them, by providing science-based therapy, that is accessible to all. | $697.5K / Pre-Seed / Jan 14, 2022 | ||
| Mojo is a men's sexual well-being app specializing in psychological sexual issues. It has created a subscription service to support men's sexual well-being by providing on-demand access to dedicated therapies — collaborating with professional psychosexual therapists to provide online courses that are billed as providing a longer-termsolution to male sexual health problems rather than simply popping some blue pills. Individuals can use the Mojo app to get instant access to DIY exercises and techniques from world-class sexual wellness professionals.Mojo aims to encourage men to reclaim their erections and have their sexual problems resolved without resorting to medication first. | $4.4M / Seed / Sep 22, 2021 | ||
| Slick their mission to help hair and beauty salons to grow with an intuitive salon booking, management and payments platform. | $1.7M / Seed / Jun 08, 2021 | ||
| Trilo is the simplest way for people to pay people | $1.4M / Pre-Seed / Jun 01, 2021 | ||
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FAQ
What does Errol Damelin invest in?
Errol Damelin invests primarily in FinTech, Financial Services and Finance startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 49 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 Errol Damelin's check size?
Errol Damelin typically joins rounds of $535k–$7.5M at Seed, $698k–$3.8M at Pre-Seed and $3.7M–$47M at Series A. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Errol Damelin participates in.
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When did Errol Damelin last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Errol Damelin closed in Apr 2025. Shizune tracks 49 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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