Dan Schonfeld

CFO & COO @ ApprovalMax

📍 London, England Metropolitan Area, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 7 investments📅 12 years investing🗓 Last invested Jan 2024𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
7
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12y
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Board Member
Jan 2024
Maji is the complete financial wellbeing and money management platform, improving financial outcomes through education and behaviour change. Our mission is to build a financially secure future for everyone. All of us worry about money, regardless of personal circumstances. Maji’s powerful diagnostics identify users’ financial challenges, goals and opportunities, matching them with personalised education, coaching and advice. Our engaging tools empower users to actively reduce money worries and build a better financial future. For employers, Maji allows them to track, benchmark and improve the financial wellbeing of their employees, alongside providing powerful data insights to shape their employee benefit and wellbeing strategy. Maji uses the latest behavioural science to drive uptake of existing employee benefits and links each employee to the most relevant options, alongside providing specific coaching to help employees engage with their pension and take advantage of salary sacrifice. For pension providers, Maji increases member engagement. Using market leading, multi-format education and coaching, Maji encourages members to save at recommended rates and empowers them to consolidate their pensions. Maji delivers more informed members, richer data, and more money in pension pots.
Board Member
Apr 2022
Communications intelligence platform allowing financial institutions to extract critical insights from audio and video interactions.
Board Member
Feb 2020
Lirica is changing the way people learn languages. Songs make language memorable, as they are naturally engaging and form a window into the cultures they represent. Our mission is to place this powerful classroom learning interaction directly into the hands of people to learn anywhere, whenever they want. From reggaeton icons such as Nicky Jam or golden voices such as Julieta Venegas, to fresh faced newcomers CNCO, we have a repertoire of songs, styles and levels to suit your taste and level. The app has been tested with students of Spanish at Birkbeck, LSE, King’s and Instituto Cervantes with amazing results. Join the language learning revolution!
Board Member
Jan 2015
Focal Energy invests in, owns and manages a portfolio of income-generating renewable energy projects. Our target sectors include biomass, hydro electric, and solar. Our current primary geographical focus is in India. Focal Energy’s vision is to be a Leading Global Renewable Energy Enterprise, renowned as a world class owner and manager of projects and recognized for its positive impact on people and the environment. Focal Energy was incorporated in 2008 to develop, manage and own renewable energy assets. Since then we have developed, independently or along with local partners, projects in small hydro, biomass and Solar totaling close to 140MW, of which presently about 100MW is operational and the rest is under development. In addition, we have a large and diverse pipeline of projects which we are pursuing. Our management team brings diversified and deep experience in project management, business development, deal structuring and project finance. We have the capabilities and resources to assume all roles required to culminate any project into a success. With world class management standards in reporting and corporate governance, high ethical standards, and a proven track record of reliable and high quality implementation. Focal has become a preferred operations and investment partner for many Indian developers.
Board Member
Jan 2014
Luanda Medical Center, um centro médico de referência, foi idealizado para prestar cuidados de saúde de excelência à população de Luanda e Angola, formado por profissionais de saúde oriundos de várias partes do mundo, para lhe proporcionar um diagnóstico de elevada confiança, no mais curto espaço de tempo. Espera-se que o Luanda Medical Center tenha um impacto significativo, através da melhoria dos padrões de cuidados de saúde disponíveis e através de instalações internacionalmente acreditadas, operadas e supervisionadas. O Luanda Medical Center oferecerá uma vasta gama de meios complementares de diagnóstico em Angola, desde RMI, TAC, Raio-X digital, Ecografia, Câmara de Cintilação Gama, Densitometria óssea, entre outros. O objetivo desta unidade é servir não só a população de Luanda e a área de influência, mas também todas as partes de Angola, prestando, a mais de 24 milhões de habitantes, excelentes serviços de saúde personalizados, globais e abrangentes dentro de uma cadeia de saúde, desde a prevenção, diagnóstico e tratamento. O Luanda Medical Center estabelecerá um novo padrão de prestação de cuidados de saúde em Angola, desenvolvendo fortes colaborações com outros sistemas de prestação de cuidados de saúde acreditados internacionalmente. A localização e acessibilidades do novo Luanda Medial Center possibilitam rapidez, conforto e atendimento de qualidade, com infraestruturas amplas e funcionais, dotadas de meios tecnológicos sofisticados para uma resposta com credibilidade. As instalações dispõem de salas de operação modernas, vários consultórios médicos para as diferentes consultas de especialidade, uma unidade especializada de gastrenterologia, uma unidade de cardiologia, um centro de diagnóstico completo e um laboratório de análises que servirá tanto o Luanda Medical Center como outras clínicas na área.
Experience · 12 entries
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2024
Board Member
Jan 2024
Maji is the complete financial wellbeing and money management platform, improving financial outcomes through education and behaviour change. Our mission is to build a financially secure future for everyone. All of us worry about money, regardless of personal circumstances. Maji’s powerful diagnostics identify users’ financial challenges, goals and opportunities, matching them with personalised education, coaching and advice. Our engaging tools empower users to actively reduce money worries and build a better financial future. For employers, Maji allows them to track, benchmark and improve the financial wellbeing of their employees, alongside providing powerful data insights to shape their employee benefit and wellbeing strategy. Maji uses the latest behavioural science to drive uptake of existing employee benefits and links each employee to the most relevant options, alongside providing specific coaching to help employees engage with their pension and take advantage of salary sacrifice. For pension providers, Maji increases member engagement. Using market leading, multi-format education and coaching, Maji encourages members to save at recommended rates and empowers them to consolidate their pensions. Maji delivers more informed members, richer data, and more money in pension pots.
2022
Board Member
Apr 2022
Communications intelligence platform allowing financial institutions to extract critical insights from audio and video interactions.
2020
Board Member
Feb 2020
Lirica is changing the way people learn languages. Songs make language memorable, as they are naturally engaging and form a window into the cultures they represent. Our mission is to place this powerful classroom learning interaction directly into the hands of people to learn anywhere, whenever they want. From reggaeton icons such as Nicky Jam or golden voices such as Julieta Venegas, to fresh faced newcomers CNCO, we have a repertoire of songs, styles and levels to suit your taste and level. The app has been tested with students of Spanish at Birkbeck, LSE, King’s and Instituto Cervantes with amazing results. Join the language learning revolution!
2018
Veridian Ventures LLP
Founding Partner
Jan 2018
Founding Partner
Jan 2018
Veridian Ventures is an angel syndicate offering carefully curated investment opportunities to our network of Investor Members. Veridian’s partners invest in each opportunity introduced to Veridian’s Members. At Veridian we focus on innovative early-stage companies in the UK with strong growth and profit potential. Our steady flow of quality deals, combined with a methodical and thorough diligence process, enable us to identify superior investment opportunities. One of the core values of the Veridian partners is to challenge and support ambitious and talented entrepreneurs, helping them to turn their potential into results. Our partners draw from a wealth of expertise, connections and investment experience to help start-ups raise capital, develop growth strategies and navigate the challenges of a rapidly growing business.
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