Jamie Swango

Consumer Operator | Board Director | Advisor | Investor

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 4 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2023
Angel investor🌍 United Kingdom
4
Total investments
1
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0
Mid stage
3
Late stage
6y
Years active

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Board Member
Sep 2023
Needed is the perinatal nutrition brand backed by 4,000+ practitioners, including nutritionists, dietitians, naturopathic doctors, midwives, and OB-GYNs. We champion radically better nutrition for women through our system of clinically-researched nutritional supplements for fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Needed was founded in 2017 by two nutritionally-trained mothers, Julie Sawaya and Ryan Woodbury, to close the critical gap in perinatal nutrition and set a new science-backed health standard for women, their families, and our earth. Needed is a Certified B-Corp, 1% for the Planet member, and Climate Neutral-Certified. Learn more at thisisneeded.com.
Angel Investor
Feb 2021
Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.
Board Member
Oct 2020
DYPER, a Certified B Corp, is the simply kind and responsible diaper company that cares for your baby and their planet. DYPER takes this pledge seriously and strives to be kind with each material selection, partner choice and customer interaction. ✅ Kind Business: Proudly B Corp Certified means the highest standards of independently verified performance, accountability, environmental stewardship, and transparency are met. ✅ Kind Materials: Products are designed to prioritize plant-based ingredients and are made without harmful chemicals. Diapers are OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified for safety and DermaTest® 5-star clinically tested for skin compatibility. ✅ Kind Sourcing: Wood pulp is sourced from responsibly managed forests and the supply chain is independently audited. Viscose from Bamboo is OEKO-TEX® STeP certified, verifying environmentally and socially responsible production. ✅ Kind Disposal: Customers can reduce the impact of diapering with their optional REDYPER™ program, in which used diapers and wipes are returned for centralized commercial composting. Learn more at DYPER.com. 
late stageManufacturing
Board Member
Oct 2020
Do you believe in doing the right thing? We started Edgard & Cooper because we’d had enough of feeding our dogs and cats over-processed pet food that they didn’t really like. We decided we could do better and started making our own. Today, we’re proud to offer a complete range of delicious, well-balanced recipes for dogs and cats, made using natural, nutritious ingredients. Good food makes your body, mind and spirit feel amazing. Nothing beats fresh meat and simple ingredients, cooked and packed with nature in mind. It’s the kind of food you, your pet and the planet can feel good about.
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2023
Board Member
Sep 2023
Needed is the perinatal nutrition brand backed by 4,000+ practitioners, including nutritionists, dietitians, naturopathic doctors, midwives, and OB-GYNs. We champion radically better nutrition for women through our system of clinically-researched nutritional supplements for fertility, pregnancy, postpartum, and beyond. Needed was founded in 2017 by two nutritionally-trained mothers, Julie Sawaya and Ryan Woodbury, to close the critical gap in perinatal nutrition and set a new science-backed health standard for women, their families, and our earth. Needed is a Certified B-Corp, 1% for the Planet member, and Climate Neutral-Certified. Learn more at thisisneeded.com.
2021
Angel Investor
Feb 2021
Alma Angels is a diverse and active community with a bold mission: Generate $1 trillion in women-led wealth by 2050. Since 2020, we have brought together and trained over 500 angel investors who have invested into 200+ women (co)founders building tech or IP-rich ventures with global ambitions. These companies have gone on to raise more than £300m to date. Alma Angels is committed to training 10,000 angels and backing 10,000 women founders by 2035.
2020
Board Member
Oct 2020
DYPER, a Certified B Corp, is the simply kind and responsible diaper company that cares for your baby and their planet. DYPER takes this pledge seriously and strives to be kind with each material selection, partner choice and customer interaction. ✅ Kind Business: Proudly B Corp Certified means the highest standards of independently verified performance, accountability, environmental stewardship, and transparency are met. ✅ Kind Materials: Products are designed to prioritize plant-based ingredients and are made without harmful chemicals. Diapers are OEKO-TEX® Standard 100 certified for safety and DermaTest® 5-star clinically tested for skin compatibility. ✅ Kind Sourcing: Wood pulp is sourced from responsibly managed forests and the supply chain is independently audited. Viscose from Bamboo is OEKO-TEX® STeP certified, verifying environmentally and socially responsible production. ✅ Kind Disposal: Customers can reduce the impact of diapering with their optional REDYPER™ program, in which used diapers and wipes are returned for centralized commercial composting. Learn more at DYPER.com. 
late stageManufacturing
Board Member
Oct 2020
Do you believe in doing the right thing? We started Edgard & Cooper because we’d had enough of feeding our dogs and cats over-processed pet food that they didn’t really like. We decided we could do better and started making our own. Today, we’re proud to offer a complete range of delicious, well-balanced recipes for dogs and cats, made using natural, nutritious ingredients. Good food makes your body, mind and spirit feel amazing. Nothing beats fresh meat and simple ingredients, cooked and packed with nature in mind. It’s the kind of food you, your pet and the planet can feel good about.
2019
Partner
Apr 2019
The Craftory is an $550M global investment house focused solely on amping Challenger Brands. We only invest in new, digitally-activated consumer goods brands that have powerful mission-driven purposes to improve the categories they serve, our society, or the planet. Our Mission Deliver Righteous Causes, brand by brand. When we say ‘Righteous Cause’ we’re not getting churchy, we’re talking about a brand purpose that aims to make the world a better place. Our New House of Brands Were building the house of brands for the 21st Century. There are a handful of big themes we really care about - these are the truly Righteous Causes that excite us, and stand to change our world: 1. Deliver Good Health 2. Democratise Access 3. Progress Society 4. Prosper Sustainably 5. Champion Self-Esteem If your brand addresses any - or multiple - of the themes listed here, wed love to talk. Think weve missed something important? Hit us up. Were all about visionary thinking, progress and collaboration.
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