Daniel Bailey

Founder & CEO, Nexcade. Building Intelligent Automation for Logistics

📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 9 investments📅 10 years investing🗓 Last invested Oct 2019
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Observer
Oct 2019
Cloudsmith is a fully managed solution for controlling, securing, and distributing everything that flows through your software supply chain, using the best of cloud-native artifact management. Operate at enterprise scale, reduce risk, and streamline builds. Cloudsmith just works, so your developers can, too.
Board Member
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.
Board Member
Apr 2019
Tyk is a leading API Management Platform. The internet started by connecting mainframes, by the end of the 20th century 600m desktop and laptop computers exchanged email and web-traffic. Today around 15 billion “things” are connected to the internet, growing at a rate of a billion per year. Tyk are committed to enabling interconnectivity between systems and devices Tyk is an open source API Gateway that is fast and scalable, an API management platform featuring an API gateway, analytics, developer portal and dashboard. Available to install on premises, as a cloud service, or hybrid.
Board Observer
May 2018
Run Kube-native stateful applications, anywhere, at scale! Now a part of Akamai Technologies.
Board Observer
May 2017
Peak’s AI platform optimizes inventories and pricing for global industry leaders including Nike, Molson Coors, Marshalls and Eurocell. With a core belief that businesses need their own AI – built for their business, with their data – Peak’s pre-built AI products can be configured to fit unique requirements. From a decade of successful AI deployments, Peak has a proven track record of delivering rapid performance gains for its customers helping to increase their revenues, profits and efficiency.
Board Observer
2017
LloydsDirect by LloydsPharmacy. Order, track and get reminders for your NHS prescriptions – all in one place. With free delivery or collection at LloydsPharmacy.
Board Observer
2017
PayAsUGym is the UK's leading fitness marketplace, offering discounted flexible access to more than 2,800 fitness venues across the UK. You can choose from a huge range of day passes, no contract memberships and fitness classes - flexible fitness to suit your lifestyle! PayAsUGym is a value-based company. Search for a fitness venue near you at www.payasugym.com
Board Observer
2017
APEXX acts as a Payments-as-a-Service platform combining all the worlds acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, and Alternative Payment Methods into a single integration. APEXX consults its enterprise level customers to consolidate their global Payment Service Provider relationships, and display all their reporting and transactional data in a single interface. "We worked with APEXX to reduce our costs of card acquiring and increase our international sales. APEXX populated and ran an RFP with multiple acquirers that required minimal involvement from our team, and successfully delivered new acquiring relationships that saves us several million Euros a year in costs. With APEXX’s impressive industry knowledge, we learned a huge amount about internal acquiring processes, which not only prepared us for the future of our business, but also negotiated down our costs far more aggressively than we could ourselves."​ iZettle We build the most holistic and economic solutions around our customers for face-to-face transactions as well as ecommerce globally, so they don't have to settle for less. APEXX integrates to additional services that merchants require to streamline their services. Some of these include: EPOS systems, VAT calculation tools, AML management services, banking services, Foreign Exchange platforms, and Fraud & Chargeback management softwares.
Board Observer
Jan 2016
StoryStream is the visual commerce platform for authentic online shopping experiences. Specialising in User-generated Content and Video Commerce solutions, StoryStream is used by leading brands including Sainsbury’s, John Lewis, Porsche and Homebase to increase audience engagement and grow revenues while creating a more trusted customer experience.
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2025
Founder
Jan 2025
Stealth AI Startup is a private community for founders, researchers, and engineers building next-generation AI companies before public launch. Founders tag themselves here to: 🔹 Gain credibility while working in stealth 🔹 Connect discreetly with other AI founders 🔹 Receive inbound interest from early-stage VCs 🔹 Join curated founder-only circles & discussions 🔹 Access hiring pipelines for early team building If youre building an AI startup in stealth, add your profile to the community and tag yourself to this page. Your stealth journey deserves visibility — without revealing your idea. Join the world’s largest AI stealth founder network.
Co-founder / CEO
Jan 2025
Our AI Agents enable Freight Forwarders to quote faster, procure better and reduce operational costs to build operational leverage and improve customer experience.
2024
Founder
Oct 2024
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
2019
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Cloudsmith is a fully managed solution for controlling, securing, and distributing everything that flows through your software supply chain, using the best of cloud-native artifact management. Operate at enterprise scale, reduce risk, and streamline builds. Cloudsmith just works, so your developers can, too.
Board Member
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.
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