DS

Dan Smith

Co-Founder & General Partner at Jigsaw VC

United Kingdom

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $1,000,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $3,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $2,000,000.00

Education

Work Experience

  • Co-Founder & General Partner

    2019

    Jigsaw is an early-stage venture fund using data, systems & networks to identify and support gifted entrepreneurial talent. We invest as early as angel / pre-seed across Europe and are sector agnostic.

  • Investor & Board Member

    2024

    AI Infrastructure & Federated ML for the energy sector. Co-lead with Stride VC.

  • Investor & Board Member

    2022

    Abingdon is a global, diversified software company and acquirer of verticalised SaaS businesses. Lead investor with angels from Tier 1 VC and Software PE firms.

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    'Stripe for donations' which will become the operating system for managing a corporates' Purpose / CSR-driven activities. Co-invest with General Catalyst.

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    Brain-optimised, casual learning, designed around how humans actually learn. Co-invest with Spark Capital.

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    Technology empowering micro merchants across Africa.

  • Investor

    2022

    Creating the home of sustainable innovations, making better choices in consumer goods affordable, inclusive and simple. Co-invest with Passion Capital.

2022

  • Investor

    2022

    Kaizan is an AI assistant for Client Success teams. Jigsaw led pre-seed.

  • Investor

    2021

    Investment alongside Kleiner Perkins and notable angels such as Ray Dalio and Marc Benioff

2020

  • Investor

    2020

    Slerp is the leading eCommerce solution for the hospitality sector. Jigsaw led seed investment with participation from notable angels including the founders of Tessian, GoCardless and early employees at Deliveroo.