Daniel Cardenas-Clark

SME Acquisitions | Buy & Build

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 17 investments📅 9 years investing🗓 Last invested Mar 2021
VC🌍 United Kingdom
17
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Mar 2021
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Oct 2020
Beam is an award-winning social impact tech company that supports homeless people and refugees into stable jobs and homes. Funded by the Mayor of London and the worlds top tech entrepreneurs, and partnered with over 50 government bodies, Beam’s service is transforming how the world supports those left behind. A breakthrough innovation in social mobility, Beam has been covered widely in the media, including by the BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, Evening Standard, Sky, Time Out and others. Also named one of London’s Top 10 Startups by WIRED magazine and Top 15 UK Startups by LinkedIn.
Investor, Board Member
Jun 2020
Localz takes the communication complexity out of the day of service, providing businesses with mobile workforce solutions to deliver a frictionless last mile customer experience. ‘Uberised’ consumers expect real-time transparency and control. The Localz platform enables real-time tracking of the service technician, accurate ETAs, and two-way communication. Localz On My Way messaging increases customer satisfaction and first-time access rates. Localz is used by RAC, DPD, HSS Hire, OVO Energy, Autoglass, Rentokil, and British Gas. Partners include Castleton, FieldAware, Masternaut, Salesforce and ServiceMax. For more information: www.localz.com
Investor
Mar 2020
Credit Kudos is an Open Banking credit reference agency. We help credit providers make better decisions using better data. Built on top of Open Banking data, our suite of innovative products enable commercial and consumer lenders to automate decisioning, responsibly increase acceptances, and reduce risk. Credit Kudos is authorised by the Financial Conduct Authority and integrated with leading lenders and brokers, including Curve, Admiral, Atom bank, LendInvest, and CarFinance 247.
Investor, Board Obs
Feb 2020
Driving Profitable Growth in Real Estate – The world's leading marketing automation platform for the property industry. Connecting real estate agents with transaction-ready sellers and buyers. Thousands of estate agents throughout the Nordics, UK, US, Australia and New Zealand are today using Adfenix. Find out more about us at: www.adfenix.com www.facebook.com/adfenixab And yes - we are hiring! www.adfenix.com/careers
Investor
Feb 2020
Pelago is the world’s leading virtual clinic for substance use management. We are transforming substance use support—from prevention to treatment—delivering education, management skills, and opportunities for positive change to members struggling with substance use, most commonly tobacco, alcohol, opioids, and cannabis. Our solution gives employers the means to offer on-demand, personalized support to workers seeking to live healthier lives. Pelago’s cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT) and medication-assisted treatment (MAT) programs deliver convenient, accessible, and effective support that seamlessly integrates with health plans, pharmacy benefit managers, and wellness platforms. Visit www.pelagohealth.com for more information.
Investor, Board Observer
Feb 2020
Driving Profitable Growth in Real Estate – The world's leading marketing automation platform for the property industry. Connecting real estate agents with transaction-ready sellers and buyers. Thousands of estate agents throughout the Nordics, UK, US, Australia and New Zealand are today using Adfenix. Find out more about us at: www.adfenix.com www.facebook.com/adfenixab And yes - we are hiring! www.adfenix.com/careers
Investor, Board Member
Nov 2019
Run your private healthcare business on one platform. Semble is a clinically robust EHR and practice management system for private healthcare providers of all sizes. Simplify daily operations across scheduling, billing and reporting. Give clinicians one place to record, treat and prescribe. Connect your tools and build automated workflows that scale as you scale. From individual consultants and GPs to large clinics and corporate healthcare providers, over 1400 companies rely on Semble every day.
Investor, Board Member
Nov 2019
Today, getting paid online is expensive, slow and a huge point of friction. Vyne solves these problems with instant account-to-account bank payments, eliminating middle-men while improving the consumer experience. Faster, safer, seamless payments. Founded by payment industry experts, Vyne is an end-to-end solution built to meet merchant needs: faster, fairer payments for everyone. Boost conversion, reduce cost and drive revenue with Open Banking powered account-to-account payments.
Investor, Board Observer
Oct 2019
Ably provides a suite of APIs to build, extend, and deliver powerful digital experiences in realtime for more than 250 million devices across 80 countries each month. Organizations like HubSpot and Verizon, depend on Ably’s platform to offload the growing complexity of business-critical realtime data synchronization at global scale. Our everyday digital experiences are in the midst of a realtime revolution. Whether attending an event in a virtual venue, receiving realtime financial information, or monitoring live car performance data – consumers simply expect realtime digital experiences as standard. As a result, synchronized data in realtime is business critical for many organizations. But building homegrown realtime synchronization capabilities is complex and costly. Ably simplifies this. In the same way that content delivery networks simplify and underpin large parts of the internet, Ably is the invisible platform and infrastructure layer powering the realtime revolution on a global scale. As the de facto platform for developers at organizations of all sizes, Ably is on track to reach one billion devices per month by 2023.
Investor
Jul 2019
Create slick, interactive data visualisations that make your work stand out. Graphy lets you create good-looking, interactive charts that are engaging and easy to understand—for free! Easily embed your chart into Notion, Slack, Outverse, and more, and make your work stand out.
Investor
Jun 2019
We are on a mission to make it easier to run a small business. Countingup is the business current account and accounting app in one that’s helping thousands of business owners save time and money.
Investor, Board Member
Apr 2019
Augnet is a UK-based technology innovator, delivering the world’s first SMS quality assurance platform Founded in April 2018, Augnet is the brainchild of CEO, ex-Skype and Microsoft senior manager and angel investor Daniel Gill, who developed a unique disruptive technology to address the global problem of lack of governability and traceability in SMS messaging. Augnet’s transformative solution provides market with a strong alternative to the current outdated provision. This is targeted at the $80 billion A2P (Application to Person) messaging industry that can exceed a 5% failure rate and slow metrics.
Investor, Board Member
Nov 2018
deskfair provides a deposit-free solution for leasing flexible office and co-working space.
Non Executive Board Member
Sep 2018
The Retail Summit brings together 1,000 international heritage players and disruptors from every segment of the retail sector to explore how retail convergences with technology, experience and hospitality. Digital disruption and a change in consumer expectations are driving a profound transformation in retail. A new generation of retailers are delivering a winning combination of outstanding service and ground-breaking use of technology to deliver the memorable shopping experiences that consumers crave. The Retail Summit facilitates discussion across the ecosystem including how to innovate, embrace digital and build an agile organisation, enabling you to thrive in this environment.
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2022
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Mar 2022
Notion Capital is a Venture Capital investing firm focused on European SaaS and Cloud, with more than 100 investments to date. We support our exceptional founders on their extraordinary journeys, with life time capital and a value-add platform.
2021
Investor
Mar 2021
Launch & run your venture firm online.
2020
Board Member
Oct 2020
Beam is an award-winning social impact tech company that supports homeless people and refugees into stable jobs and homes. Funded by the Mayor of London and the worlds top tech entrepreneurs, and partnered with over 50 government bodies, Beam’s service is transforming how the world supports those left behind. A breakthrough innovation in social mobility, Beam has been covered widely in the media, including by the BBC, The Times, The FT, The Independent, Evening Standard, Sky, Time Out and others. Also named one of London’s Top 10 Startups by WIRED magazine and Top 15 UK Startups by LinkedIn.
Investor, Board Member
Jun 2020
Localz takes the communication complexity out of the day of service, providing businesses with mobile workforce solutions to deliver a frictionless last mile customer experience. ‘Uberised’ consumers expect real-time transparency and control. The Localz platform enables real-time tracking of the service technician, accurate ETAs, and two-way communication. Localz On My Way messaging increases customer satisfaction and first-time access rates. Localz is used by RAC, DPD, HSS Hire, OVO Energy, Autoglass, Rentokil, and British Gas. Partners include Castleton, FieldAware, Masternaut, Salesforce and ServiceMax. For more information: www.localz.com
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