# Jambu Palaniappan

> Jambu Palaniappan is a Series A investor in London backing SaaS and FinTech. See 9 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 9
- Last investment: Jul 2022
- Lead investor: 33%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/jambu-palaniappan-7358211a/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/jpalaniappan
- Website: https://x.com/jpalaniappan

Jambu Palaniappan is a Series A investor in London focused on SaaS and FinTech. Jambu Palaniappan is Managing Partner of OMERS Ventures in Europe. He previously had several executive roles at Uber, where he was among the first 100 employees of the company globally. From 2012 to 2014, he led Uber’s international expansion in EMEA and India. From 2014 to 2016, he served as Regional General Manager for Uber in Eastern Europe,Russia, the Middle East and Africa leading a team of 300 as Uber built and scaled its business in that region. From 2016 to 2018, he was Head of Uber Eats in EMEA. He is also currently a Non-Executive Director of JustEat PLC.Jambu studied Public Policy and Economics at Vanderbilt University.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $14M–$21M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 4 | 44% |
| FinTech | 2 | 22% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 22% |
| Banking | 1 | 11% |
| Chatbot | 1 | 11% |

28 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 3 | 33% |
| Series B | 2 | 22% |
| Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 11% |
| Series C | 1 | 11% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Egypt | 1 | 11% |
| France | 1 | 11% |
| Belgium | 1 | 11% |
| Germany | 1 | 11% |
| Ireland | 1 | 11% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Fonoa | Fonoa is a tax technology company that develops a global tax automation platform for digital businesses, marketplaces, SaaS providers, and multinational enterprises. The company helps organizations manage indirect tax compliance by automating processes such as tax calculation, tax ID validation, invoicing, e-invoicing, reporting, and tax returnpreparation across multiple jurisdictions. Its platform is designed to reduce the complexity of complying with constantly changing VAT, GST, sales tax, and other indirect tax regulations worldwide. The company provides a modular, API-first platform that integrates with existing finance, ERP, payment, and operational systems. Its solutions enable businesses to automatically determine the correct tax treatment for transactions, validate customer and supplier tax IDs, generate locally compliant invoices, and meet country-specific e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements. Fonoa supports tax operations across more than 190 jurisdictions and processes hundreds of millions of transactions annually. | $60M | Series B | Jul 21, 2022 |  |
| Deliverect | Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manuallyre-enter orders into their existing system. | $150M | Series D | Jan 24, 2022 |  |
| Fonoa | Fonoa is a tax technology company that develops a global tax automation platform for digital businesses, marketplaces, SaaS providers, and multinational enterprises. The company helps organizations manage indirect tax compliance by automating processes such as tax calculation, tax ID validation, invoicing, e-invoicing, reporting, and tax returnpreparation across multiple jurisdictions. Its platform is designed to reduce the complexity of complying with constantly changing VAT, GST, sales tax, and other indirect tax regulations worldwide. The company provides a modular, API-first platform that integrates with existing finance, ERP, payment, and operational systems. Its solutions enable businesses to automatically determine the correct tax treatment for transactions, validate customer and supplier tax IDs, generate locally compliant invoices, and meet country-specific e-invoicing and digital reporting requirements. Fonoa supports tax operations across more than 190 jurisdictions and processes hundreds of millions of transactions annually. | $20.5M | Series A | Nov 22, 2021 |  |
| Clarisights | Clarisights was founded to empower performance marketing and growth teams by creating a platform that gives them insights and superhero powers they have always wanted. Rather than wrestling with outdated spreadsheets and BI platforms that can't keep pace with their growing volume of marketing channels and data, marketers can use Clarisights toindependently explore and analyze all their data in a single and intuitive interface. Marketing teams around the world use Clarisights for every aspect of their performance marketing workflow - from integrating with data channels, creating and optimizing dashboards, and collaborating with teammates - all in real time.Clarisights is a data ingestion and analytics platform that enables marketers to make sense of and gain unique insights from data coming in from all the sources. Our platform is a seamless in-browser experience - the users just add the sources (analytics, ads data) they want to track, our backend then ingests the data from those sources, performs the necessary transformations and stores it in our own database. All of this, without the user needing to configure any data pipelines. Users can begin answering questions on their marketing data by building interactive visualizations, minutes after signing up. With Clarisights, marketers can build visualizations to answer questions like “What are my largest sources of traffic and what are the major cost sinkholes?” and then also quickly drill down into granular details like “What kind of ad copy has the least customer acquisition cost” or “Which ad creatives are driving the maximum RoI?” | $14M | Series A | Oct 04, 2021 |  |
| Deliverect | Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manuallyre-enter orders into their existing system. | $65M | Series C | Apr 21, 2021 |  |
| Ultimate | Ultimate develops a virtual agent platform. They provide customer experiences through automation. Their deep-learning artificial intelligence technology works with agents to learn from historical chat data and reply to suggestions. | $20M | Series A | Dec 03, 2020 |  |
| Deliverect | Deliverect is a subscription-based service that integrates third-party online ordering platforms like Uber Eats, Deliveroo, Glovo, and Doordash into restaurants’ point-of-sale systems, automating the inbound online order flow through a single point and eliminating the requirement for restaurant staff to monitor multiple devices and manuallyre-enter orders into their existing system. | $17.7M | Series B | Apr 29, 2020 |  |
| Trella | Trella is a platform that connects shippers to carriers. Trella offers services and technology to empower drivers, improve their efficiency, boost their earnings and utilization as well as creating job opportunities. Trella aims to reduce costs for shippers, introduce a transparent pricing structure and provide them with a more reliable source ofcarriers. All the while allowing them to track their shipments in real-time as well as report key insights on their transportation trends and performance. |  | Pre-Seed | Feb 24, 2019 |  |
| Kard | Kard believes young people deserve a banking experience that is adapted to their needs and gives them control. It offers an intuitive mobile app adapted to the codes of teenagers and a Mastercard card allowing them to pay online or in-store. | $3.2M | Seed | Jan 01, 2019 |  |

9 of 9 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Jambu Palaniappan invest in?

Jambu Palaniappan invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Artificial Intelligence startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 9 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Egypt. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Jambu Palaniappan's check size?

Jambu Palaniappan typically joins rounds of $14M–$21M 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 Jambu Palaniappan participates in.

### When did Jambu Palaniappan last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Jambu Palaniappan closed in Jul 2022. 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?

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