# Tony Jamous

> Tony Jamous is a seed investor at Oyster (London) backing Software, SaaS and Developer APIs. See 33 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Oyster](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/oyster-3150)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 33
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 0%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://www.linkedin.com/in/teljamou
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/jamingo
- Website: https://x.com/jamingo
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/jamingo

Tony Jamous is a seed investor at Oyster in London focused on Software and SaaS. Tony Jamous is the CEO and Co-Founder of Oyster. He previously worked at Nexmo as a President.Tony Jamous attended IMD.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $1.3M–$8M |
| Pre-Seed | $125k–$3M |
| Series A | $6.4M–$12M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 9 | 27% |
| SaaS | 7 | 21% |
| Developer APIs | 5 | 15% |
| Information Technology | 5 | 15% |
| Mobile | 4 | 12% |

74 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 21 | 64% |
| Series A | 4 | 12% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 9% |
| Funding Round | 3 | 9% |
| Series B | 1 | 3% |

6 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United States | 11 | 33% |
| United Kingdom | 9 | 27% |
| France | 4 | 12% |
| Germany | 2 | 6% |
| Italy | 1 | 3% |

9 countries tracked in total.

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Kinfolk | AI agents and ticketing system for People Operations | $7.2M | Seed | Feb 26, 2026 |  |
| Jet HR | Jet HR makes managing people incredibly simple: payroll, benefits, devices, compliance and much more. We re-thought the HR function, removing anything that is cumbersome and simplifying any action on employees. We are funded by the best Italian VCs (Exor Ventures, Italian Founders Fund and 6 more) and by the best Italian founders (founders ofCasavo, Satispay, Scalapay, Bending Spoons, Musixmatch, Talent Garden, Oyster HR, etc). | $13.4M | Seed | Sep 24, 2024 |  |
| Cercli | Cercli is a human resources, modern payroll and employee data platform for the Middle East and North Africa (MENA). | $4M | Seed | Sep 03, 2024 |  |
| Feather | Feather is an insurance advisory and management platform for clients to get the right insurance policies. The company partners with insurance companies, ensuring regulatory compliance while allowing Feather to manage all aspects of the insurance process online and in-house – from policy documentation to claims processing. | $6.4M | Series A | Jun 28, 2024 |  |
| Iteration X | Iteration X is an AI-native, context-aware project management app that helps your team ship beautiful, bug-free products faster. The ITX Copilot uses your team’s knowledge base, documents, URLs and project history to help create and resolve all types of tasks, from design to development to product management, all within a powerful issue-trackingand project management dashboard. | $4.7M | Seed | Mar 31, 2023 |  |
| 5Mins | 5Mins s a gamified learning platform designed to help employees improve their skills .It curates short-form video content from leading creators around the world and makes it available to teams and businesses via adaptive and gamified learning engine. | $5.7M | Seed | Nov 07, 2022 |  |
| Juno | Juno provides products, workplace health, and wellbeing programs to help employees to work more joyfully and productively, solve problems creatively and collaborate with a shared purpose. When people have the power to experience mindful wellbeing the way they want, with the tools they love, they can do their best work and change the future of theirbusiness. | $4M |  | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Juno | Juno provides products, workplace health, and wellbeing programs to help employees to work more joyfully and productively, solve problems creatively and collaborate with a shared purpose. When people have the power to experience mindful wellbeing the way they want, with the tools they love, they can do their best work and change the future of theirbusiness. | $4M | Seed | Apr 26, 2022 |  |
| Lune Climate | Lune Climate claims delivering climate impact initiatives is seen as a cost center and huge undertaking. However, Lune aims to provide API and software tools to simplify the ability for businesses to integrate climate impact into their customer experience, starting with carbon emissions calculations and carbon removal. | $4M | Seed | Mar 21, 2022 |  |
| Clearword | Meetings today are disjointed and frustrating, whether it's setting up a call with someone, trying to remember what was discussed, or catching up with meetings you've missed.Clearword unifies this experience and makes meetings more inclusive and collaborative leading to better meetings.Plan, schedule and prepare for meetings in atruly collaborative manner, and have those meetings automatically summarised into searchable and shareable meeting minutes. All your meetings in one easily accessible and searchable central meetings library.Clearword - meetings redesigned | $3.5M | Seed | Jan 13, 2022 |  |

10 of 33 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Kima Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kima-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Connect Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/connect-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Angel Invest](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/angel-invest-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Headline](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/headlinevc) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Portfolio Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/portfolio-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [AlbionVC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/albion-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Oyster

VC Fund · Charlotte, United States

Oyster is on a mission to create a more equal world by making it possible for companies everywhere to hire people anywhere. The company's HR platform for globally distributed companies enables growing organizations to give valued international team members the experience they deserve, without the usual headaches or expense. Oyster empowershiring anywhere in the world with reliable, compliant payroll and great local benefits and perks. Founded in January 2020 by Tony Jamous and Jack Mardack, Oyster is itself a fully remote company with a diverse, globally distributed team.

5 contacts available at Oyster.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Ellen Silver | President & HR Executive | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/ellen-silver |
| Fady N. | Senior Software Engineer Team Lead | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/fady-n |
| Jack Mardack | Co-Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jack-mardack |
| Kamran Ansari | Private Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kamran-ansari |
| Marina Farthouat | Vice President of People | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/marina-farthouat |

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## FAQ

### What does Tony Jamous invest in?

Tony Jamous invests primarily in Software, SaaS and Developer APIs startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 33 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United States. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Tony Jamous's check size?

Tony Jamous typically joins rounds of $1.3M–$8M at Seed, $125k–$3M at Pre-Seed and $6.4M–$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 Tony Jamous participates in.

### When did Tony Jamous last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Tony Jamous closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 33 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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