# Les Szekely

> Les Szekely is a seed investor at EVP (Sydney) backing Software and Customer Service. See 24 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [EVP](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/equityventure-partners)
- Location: Sydney, Australia
- Total investments: 24
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 58%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://in.linkedin.com/pub/les-szekely/7/5b6/363
- Website: http://grandprixcapital.com.au

Les Szekely is a seed investor at EVP in Sydney focused on Software and Customer Service. Les Szekely B.A. LL.M. FAICD, is an active business angel, mentor, and M&A consultant. He started GPC in 2010 after a career of almost 30 years as a tax consulting partner and director with Horwaths Chartered Accountants and then Deloitte. He is the author of over a dozen books on taxation law, has been an active angel investor since 1999 andis currently a director of several early stage and maturing companies.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $168k–$1M |
| Angel | $163k–$976k |
| Series A | $1M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 5 | 21% |
| Customer Service | 3 | 13% |
| Travel | 2 | 8% |
| Consumer | 2 | 8% |
| Hospitality | 2 | 8% |

36 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 8 | 33% |
| Angel | 4 | 17% |
| Series A | 4 | 17% |
| Funding Round | 2 | 8% |
| Series B | 1 | 4% |

6 stages tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| EatClub | EatClub operates a digital platform that connects consumers with restaurants offering time-based promotions to manage excess food inventory and demand fluctuations. The platform enables restaurants to create dynamic offers that are visible to users through a mobile application, allowing customers to purchase discounted meals for dine-in, takeaway,or delivery. EatClub provides participating venues with tools to control pricing, manage offer timing, and track redemption data. The service supports restaurants in adjusting demand during slower trading periods while giving users access to reduced-price dining options. Its model focuses on optimizing food sales through real-time offer distribution and in-app payment processing. | $11.7M | Series A | May 16, 2025 |  |
| SiteMinder | SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic. | $65.3M |  | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| SiteMinder | SiteMinder is the world’s leading open hotel commerce platform, ranked among technology pioneers for opening up every hotel’s access to online commerce. It’s this central role that has earned SiteMinder the trust of tens of thousands of hotels, across 150 countries, to sell, market, manage and grow their business. The global company, headquarteredin Sydney with offices in Bangkok, Berlin, Dallas, Galway, London and Manila, generated more than 100 million reservations worth over US$35 billion in revenue for hotels in the last year prior to the start of the pandemic. | $73.2M | Series D | Sep 14, 2021 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. | $19.6M | Series B | Dec 07, 2020 |  |
| Shippit | Shippit makes multi-carrier connectivity and carrier allocation simple, so you can offer more delivery options and sustainable, cost-effective shipments. | $5.4M | Series A | Dec 02, 2019 |  |
| Uptick | Uptick provides job management software to companies performing asset maintenance for life, health and safety equipment, specifically the Fire Protection and HVAC maintenance companies. The company has offices in Melbourne, London and Denver, and serves over 1000 customers in 7 countries. | $1.3M | Series A | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| Uptick | Uptick provides job management software to companies performing asset maintenance for life, health and safety equipment, specifically the Fire Protection and HVAC maintenance companies. The company has offices in Melbourne, London and Denver, and serves over 1000 customers in 7 countries. |  | Seed | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| Uptick | Uptick provides job management software to companies performing asset maintenance for life, health and safety equipment, specifically the Fire Protection and HVAC maintenance companies. The company has offices in Melbourne, London and Denver, and serves over 1000 customers in 7 countries. | $1.3M |  | Jan 31, 2019 |  |
| Bonjoro | Bonjoro is a personal video messaging app to welcome, thank, and connect with customers. The company builds a customer delight platform to help great teams build real relationships with their customers at scale. Bonjoro was founded on 2017 and is headquartered in Sydney, New South Wales. |  | Seed | Jun 14, 2018 |  |
| UrbanYou | Founded by ex-Yahoo execs, Noga Edelstein and Elke Keeley, UrbanYou (formerly UrbanOutsource) is Australia's leading platform for household services on-demand. In 60 seconds, customers can book a pre-approved cleaner or gardener for a time suitable to them. | $1M | Series A | Jul 04, 2017 |  |

10 of 24 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Folklore Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tempus-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [TCV](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/technology-crossover-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Tidal Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tidalvc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AustralianSuper](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/australiansuper) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BlackRock](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/blackrock) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Ellerston Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellerston-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About EVP

VC Fund · Sydney, Australia

EVP is an early stage venture capital firm based in Sydney Australia with c. $300M FUM across four fund vintages.Our most recent fund was launched in December 2022 and is a $100M fund. The fund targets early Series-A investments initially with cheque sizes in the range of $0.5 – $5.0 million. Our funds invest in software, are sector agnosticand have a focus on Australian based B2B SaaS companies.Over the years, we’ve backed brilliant founders building global software companies like SiteMinder, Deputy, Ignition and Shippit. We make high conviction investments, underpinned by ambition, pragmatism and a deep understanding of the software journey.

5 contacts available at EVP.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Daniel Szekely | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/daniel-szekely |
| Howard Leibman | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/howard-liebman |
| Justin Lipman | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/justin-lipman |
| Les Szekely | Chairman | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/les-szekely |
| Misha Saul | Head of Opportunities Fund | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/misha-saul |

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## FAQ

### What does Les Szekely invest in?

Les Szekely invests primarily in Software, Customer Service and Travel startups, most often at Seed and Angel stage. Most of the 24 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Australia. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Les Szekely's check size?

Les Szekely typically joins rounds of $168k–$1M at Seed, $163k–$976k at Angel and $1M–$12M 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 Les Szekely participates in.

### When did Les Szekely last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Les Szekely closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 24 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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