# Nilan Peiris

> Nilan Peiris is a Series A investor backing Software. See 5 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 5
- Last investment: May 2025
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/nilanpeiris/
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/nilanp
- Website: https://x.com/nilanp

Nilan Peiris is a Series A investor in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Nilan Peiris is VP Growth at TransferWise, the international money transfer platform. TransferWise is the low cost and fair way of transferring money internationally. Using peer-to-peer technology and without any hidden fees, it makes sending money abroad up to ten times cheaper compared to using a bank.TransferWise customers send £500mevery month using the platform, and it’s attracted $91m from investors such as world’s largest VC firm Andreessen Horowitz, Sir Richard Branson, Peter Thiel and Max Levchin, the co-founders of PayPal. Prior to TransferWise Nilan was VP Growth at HouseTrip, in charge of scaling the company’s growth in the European market. He’s also worked as Chief Marketing Technology Officer at Holiday Extras, where he was responsible for all areas of technology, marketing and customer acquisition. Nilan also advises a number of early stage startups on growth and getting to traction.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 40% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 2 | 40% |
| Energy | 1 | 20% |
| Banking | 1 | 20% |
| FinTech | 1 | 20% |

14 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 40% |
| Pre-Seed | 1 | 20% |
| Series B | 1 | 20% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 1 | 20% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Granola | AI note-taking solution | $43M | Series B | May 14, 2025 | https://www.granola.so |
| Dex | Dex is a SaaS company that offers an AI assistant to act as user's personal talent agent and scan the tech market for next opportunity. | $3.1M | Pre-Seed | Apr 29, 2025 | https://meetdex.ai/ |
| Tem-Energy | Until now, businesses have had to buy power via Big Energy putting up with overpricing, sapping levels of service and glacial innovation. Now with tem. any company can buy Renewable Energy Direct. This allows businesses to save on energy costs whilst renewable generators are rewarded. | $13.7M | Series A | Sep 11, 2024 | https://www.tem.energy/ |
| Griffin | Griffin is making a bank you can build on. They provide banking-as-a-service solutions for companies that want to offer financial services products. The company is currently seeking regulatory approval from the PRA and FCA to become the UK's first platform bank. It was founded in 2017 and based in London, England. | $15M | Venture - Series Unknown | Jul 07, 2022 | https://griffin.sh |
| Chattermill | Chattermill applies cutting edge deep learning to help organizations make sense of their customer experience. The company uses cutting edge artificial intelligence to analyze customer feedback across customer touchpoints for organizations to harness customer insights at scale, boost customer loyalty and brand advocacy. Their approach is differentin its surgical focus on aspects of the Customer Experience relevant to each client.Chattermill enables our teams to take customer insights deeper than ever before and focus on the key factors that make a difference to our users and drive our growth. They combine machine learning with a deep understanding of a company and its customers, seamlessly integrating with any system used to collect feedback.They started Chattermill in 2015 at Entrepreneur First and have worked with amazing founding members including Nutmeg, HelloFresh, and Moo to build a pioneering platform for delivering amazing customer experience at scale. | $8M | Series A | Feb 24, 2020 | https://chattermill.com/ |

5 of 5 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [NFDG Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/nfdg-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [2be.lu](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/2be-lu) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [AlbionVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albion-vc) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Andreessen Horowitz](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/andreessen-horowitz) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Atomico](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/atomico) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

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## FAQ

### What does Nilan Peiris invest in?

Nilan Peiris invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Energy startups, most often at Series A and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 5 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Nilan Peiris last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Nilan Peiris closed in May 2025. Shizune tracks 5 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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