# Patty Dimond

> Patty Dimond is a Series A investor at GoBeyond (London) backing Fashion and Finance. See 4 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [GoBeyond](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/go-beyond)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 4
- Last investment: Jan 2019
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Patty Dimond is a Series A investor at GoBeyond in London focused on Fashion and Finance. Patty is a woman with an international background having worked and lived in London, Geneva, New York, Toronto and South Africa. Most recently she was the Chief Operating Officer of a 2 billion euro founder run company that builds, owns and manages luxury retail villages in Europe and China. Her current focus: investing in entrepreneurs,co-authoring a book on the role of corporate governance and culture in corporate failures and building a portfolio of NED (non-executive directors’) roles of PLCs (publicly listed companies).Patty first began working with entrepreneurs in New York when she was given the opportunity to oversee the turnaround of a company placed in Chapter 11 bankruptcy. After a very exciting and successful experience, she returned to Toronto and made her first angel investment; a cloth diaper service. Having no children, at the time, and little to no experience changing nappies, it is fair to say the investment was made based on her euphoric experience in NYC and the then current environmental movement. The business quickly went to $1 million in revenue and helped consolidate the industry by buying smaller players that had sprung up. When the media focus on the environment slowed, followed by the declining enthusiasm in the cloth diaper industry, the business died. It was a good, albeit expensive, learning experience,

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Fashion | 1 | 25% |
| Finance | 1 | 25% |
| Software | 1 | 25% |
| Analytics | 1 | 25% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 25% |

11 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 2 | 50% |
| Seed | 1 | 25% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Essentia Analytics | Essentia helps professional investors understand where their skills actually lie, so that they can focus on doing more of what they're good at and less of what they're not.Essentia takes the data that a fund management firm is already capturing about individual investment decisions (the "what") and combines it with otherdata that may have been relevant to those decisions (the "why"), presenting intelligible, actionable insights. It then helps the portfolio manager internalize those insights and change his or her behavior, where warranted, through a combination of coaching and decision support technology. | $3.3M | Series A | Jan 25, 2019 |  |
| Essentia Analytics | Essentia helps professional investors understand where their skills actually lie, so that they can focus on doing more of what they're good at and less of what they're not.Essentia takes the data that a fund management firm is already capturing about individual investment decisions (the "what") and combines it with otherdata that may have been relevant to those decisions (the "why"), presenting intelligible, actionable insights. It then helps the portfolio manager internalize those insights and change his or her behavior, where warranted, through a combination of coaching and decision support technology. |  | Series A | Apr 18, 2018 |  |
| Trouva | Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform.Trouva is one of the mostexciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe). | $10M | Series A | Nov 12, 2017 |  |
| Trouva | Trouva, launched in September 2015, is the marketplace for bricks and mortar independent shops, selling unique homeware and lifestyle products from hundreds of shops and boutiques. Trouva bridges online and offline in retail to offer click and collect, 1-hour delivery, and worldwide shipping in a single seamless platform.Trouva is one of the mostexciting e-commerce start-ups in Europe, backed by amazing VC and Angel Investors whose successes include Secret Escapes, Net-A-Porter, and Farfetch (BGF Ventures, Octopus Investments, C4 Ventures, Index Ventures & LocalGlobe). | $2.6M | Seed | Oct 19, 2015 |  |

4 of 4 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Avonmore Developments](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/avonmore-developments) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [LocalGlobe](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/localglobe) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Playfair Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/playfair-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [BGF Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bgf-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Business Growth Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/business-growth-fund) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About GoBeyond

VC Fund · Zürich, Switzerland

GoBeyond is a FinTech company transforming angel investing into a new scalable asset class for small and large, novice to experienced investors. It offers a unique deal platform, portfolio tools, syndication/pooling, due diligence, investment monitoring services, training and certified deal leaders.Its clients are individuals, familyoffices, professional groups and corporations. It is active in the EU, Switzerland and the US. GoBeyond also offers educational training modules for angel investors in 11 categories.

5 contacts available at GoBeyond.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Achim Diedenhofen | Business Angel Investor and Healthcare Group Co-Coach | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/achim-diedenhofen |
| Bethann Kassman | CEO, Go Beyond Network | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/bethann-kassman |
| Maria Victoria Hernandez Valcarcel | Deal Leader - Investment Committee | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maria-victoria-hernandez-valcarcel |
| Patty Dimond | Early Stage Investing Specialists | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/patty-dimond |
| Alexander Manolov | Business Angel/Startup mentor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alexander-manolov |

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## FAQ

### What does Patty Dimond invest in?

Patty Dimond invests primarily in Fashion, Finance and Software startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 4 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Patty Dimond last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Patty Dimond closed in Jan 2019. Shizune tracks 4 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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