Paul Davidson
Partner @ West Coast Capital
Mclean, United States
Paul Davidson is a seed investor at West Coast Capital in Mclean focused on SaaS and FinTech. Paul Davidson joined private equity group, West Coast Capital in 2005 following a successful career in corporate law in the UK, the US and Commonwealth of Independent States. As an active partner in West Coast Capital as well as providing legal counsel, Paul focusses on deal sourcing and transacting.Since joining the group, Paul has successfulyled the acquisition and delisting from the LSE of the UK's largest garden centre business, Wyevale as well as a series of acquisitions and disposals.Prior to joining West Coast Capital headed the corporate team of UK lawyers, McGrigors.In late 1994 Paul was seconded to an oil and gas company called JKX whose focus was on the former Soviet Union, primarily in Ukraine, Georgia and the Russian Federation. JKX listed on the London Stock Exchange in mid 1995 and at that time Paul joined the company as its Legal Director on a full time basis. During his time as Legal Director, Paul gained wide commercial experience as the company concluded a number of transactions throughout the former Soviet Union.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
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Industries Paul Davidson invests in
Stages Paul Davidson invests in
Countries Paul Davidson invests in
Round sizes
Contacts
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Round size
- Seed
- $934k–$2.9M
Investment Focus
Industry
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- FinTech 1 (17%)
- Privacy 1 (17%)
- Software 1 (17%)
- Marketing 1 (17%)
Stage
- Seed 2 (33%)
- Series A 2 (33%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Series C 1 (17%)
Country
- Finland 1 (17%)
- New Zealand 1 (17%)
- United Kingdom 1 (17%)
Investments
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| Daisy Lab, based in New Zealand, is developing novel methods to produce high-quality, dairy-identical proteins without the use of cows. The technology produces these proteins using microbes, which has the potential to significantly reduce greenhouse gas emissions as well as land and water use in an animal-friendly manner. Daisy Lab's missionis to assist in addressing some of the most pressing issues confronting our planet, such as climate change and food insecurity. | $933.6K / Seed / Mar 03, 2023 | ||
| TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution, bringing scale, speed, control and accuracy to advertisers in more than 70 countries. Powered by viewership and response data from millions of households and billions of ad impressions, the ADvantage analytics platform empowers brands, agencies, networks and publishers to quantify TV’s impact,measure outcomes and optimize performance across TV content everywhere. | $5.5M / Series C / May 01, 2019 | ||
| Ubisecure is a Europe-based Identity & Access Management (IAM) specialist and offers a comprehensive identity management platform deployed as IDaaS (Identity-as-a-Service) or on-premises software. The company is also GLEIF-accredited to issue Legal Entity Identifiers (LEI) via its RapidLEI service and has quickly become the global #1 LEI Issuerboth in terms of volume and data quality.As well as managing risk against data breaches, using Ubisecure enables Zero Trust to greatly improve the security and experience of how users authenticate, register, access, engage and use the organisation’s application, whether it’s a web, mobile or a legacy service.Enterprises use the Identity Platform to quickly implement use cases like single sign-on (SSO), multi-factor authentication (MFA), access management, authorisation and consent policies, advanced identity relationship management, login-as-a-service, and KYC/onboarding.The platform has native support for a wide range of digital identities to enable real time identity verification and proofing, including Bank IDs, EU eIDs, mobile IDs, enterprise and social identities. Additionally, the RapidLEI service helps banks and FIs to manage and issue large volumes of LEIs to improve organisation-based authentication, meet compliance regulations, and provide better KYC/onboarding experiences for clients. | Series A / May 17, 2018 | ||
| TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution, bringing scale, speed, control and accuracy to advertisers in more than 70 countries. Powered by viewership and response data from millions of households and billions of ad impressions, the ADvantage analytics platform empowers brands, agencies, networks and publishers to quantify TV’s impact,measure outcomes and optimize performance across TV content everywhere. | $8.4M / Series B / Apr 09, 2018 | ||
| TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution, bringing scale, speed, control and accuracy to advertisers in more than 70 countries. Powered by viewership and response data from millions of households and billions of ad impressions, the ADvantage analytics platform empowers brands, agencies, networks and publishers to quantify TV’s impact,measure outcomes and optimize performance across TV content everywhere. | $6.5M / Series A / Feb 20, 2017 | ||
| TVSquared is the global leader in TV attribution, bringing scale, speed, control and accuracy to advertisers in more than 70 countries. Powered by viewership and response data from millions of households and billions of ad impressions, the ADvantage analytics platform empowers brands, agencies, networks and publishers to quantify TV’s impact,measure outcomes and optimize performance across TV content everywhere. | $2.9M / Seed / Aug 08, 2016 |
Co-Investors
About West Coast Capital
West Coast Capital is a Private Equity Partnership that backs strong management teams in the retail, brands and property arenas. They are to take significant equity positions in order to accelerate growth by funding both expansion and consolidation in these principal markets.
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FAQ
What does Paul Davidson invest in?
Paul Davidson invests primarily in SaaS, FinTech and Privacy startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in Finland. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
What round sizes does Paul Davidson invest in?
Paul Davidson typically joins rounds of $934k–$2.9M at Seed. These are whole funding-round sizes, not Paul Davidson's own check, which is rarely disclosed: the 10th–90th percentile of the confirmed public funding rounds Paul Davidson took part in.
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When did Paul Davidson last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Paul Davidson closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 6 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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