Simon Draper

Venture Partner & Investor | Building companies at the intersection of AI, fintech, and emerging tech | Board Advisor | 25+ years founding & scaling businesses

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 5 investments📅 7 years investing🗓 Last invested Aug 2021𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
VC🌍 United Kingdom
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Board Member
Aug 2021
Red Dot Foundation aims to make cities safer by encouraging equal access to public and private spaces for everyone especially women and girls, through the use of crowdsourced data, community engagement and institutional accountability. Our flagship program is Safecity, a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public and private spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behaviour that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions. Our main objective is to: - Create awareness on sexual harassment and abuse and get women and other disadvantaged communities to break their silence and report their personal experiences. - Collate this information to showcase location based trends and make this information available and useful for individuals, communities and local administration to solve the problem at the hyper-local level. - Create safe spaces for innovative projects for violence prevention and community resilience. We are creating a new data set which currently does not exist. By representing the information thus collected on a map as hotspots, we are moving the focus away from the "victim" to the location and people can view the issue with a different lens. Our anonymous dataset has been used by police, researchers and communities to understand the nuances of sexual violence better, improve situational awareness and implement better policies. Get in touch for workshops on DEIA, gender sensitivity, POSH Act, POCSO Act, Domestic Violence Act, bystander intervention and programs on youth and women empowerment. We work actively with several Diplomatic Missions, City Governments, Police Forces and Corporations to implement public diplomacy programs, safety interventions and CSR projects.
Board Member
Mar 2020
Hammock is a technology platform that provides current account and data analysis services for the property sector. Hammock brings FinTech and PropTech together, helping landlords and property managers save time and money in the management of their finances.
Advisor & Investor
May 2019
Established in 2014, Parsyfal® provides a data protection management platform and framework for organisations of all sizes and geographies. Parsyfal® is the next generation of data security, is scalable and can be used by global enterprises. With a focus on keeping your data safe, our software is scientifically designed and addresses the following challenges that all organisations face: • Technical vulnerability • Business process weakness • Legal non-compliance • Data protection skills shortage Parsyfal® provides a robust data protection framework that finds and analyses the risks to your organisation using revolutionary technology. It avoids the significant expense that would usually be charged by consultancy and addresses the complex requirements of: • Data Governance • Cyber Security • Third-Party Relationships • Physical Security • Human Resources • Corporate Governance We are ranked as the #1 Software Champion in the Top 100 IP Award Intellectual property league table, run by Silicon Valley-based Metis Partners. We are also committed to ensuring your company has the best data protection available. Dedicated to helping businesses with data security strategy needs, our solution can find and address where all vulnerabilities reside. Our solution supports company growth, efficiency and competitiveness to achieve remarkable commercial outcomes. Call us today for a no-obligation conversation about how Parsyfal® can help your business. Specialties: data protection, security, data, software, solution, IT, technology, governance.
Board Advisor & investor
Jan 2019
HR DataHub is an intelligence platform that helps HR professionals access data-led insights to better understand how the HR world is moving around them. We collect HR data straight from organisations in all sectors and use that to provide reliable market analysis so that organisations can benchmark themselves against others, safely and confidentially. We cover all the HR topics under one roof: Reward, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Engagement, Talent, Learning & Development, HR Efficiency, Benefits and Pay Gaps.
Board Advisor & investor
Jan 2019
HR DataHub is an intelligence platform that helps HR professionals access data-led insights to better understand how the HR world is moving around them. We collect HR data straight from organisations in all sectors and use that to provide reliable market analysis so that organisations can benchmark themselves against others, safely and confidentially. We cover all the HR topics under one roof: Reward, Diversity and Inclusion, Employee Relations, Recruitment, Engagement, Talent, Learning & Development, HR Efficiency, Benefits and Pay Gaps.
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2024
Venture Partner
Nov 2024
Lighthouse Ventures is an early-stage and acceleration venture capital, focused on technology projects with predilection to the Czech market. Our mission in Lighthouse Ventures is to nurture inspiring ideas throughout their critical early stage, financially as well as professionally, with an international team of highly experienced tech veterans, bringing together expertise in entrepreneurship, startup mentoring, mergers and acquisitions and media and marketing as well as a strong business network in the Czech Republic and abroad. Lighthouse Ventures benefits from synergies and co-operation with leading Czech startup incubators, tech-partners, universities and governmental institutions for smart cities projects. It also maintains a network of highly skilled and experienced mentors, in benefit of its portfolio companies. Lighthouse Seed Fund benefits from the support and financing of the Czech ESIF Fund of Funds (CZFoF). The Czech ESIF Fund of Funds is an initiative created by cooperation between the Ministry of Industry and Trade of the Czech Republic and EIF and financed under the European Regional Development Fund within the programme Venture Capital OP EIC (program Rizikový kapitál OP PIK).
2021
Board Member
Aug 2021
Red Dot Foundation aims to make cities safer by encouraging equal access to public and private spaces for everyone especially women and girls, through the use of crowdsourced data, community engagement and institutional accountability. Our flagship program is Safecity, a platform that crowdsources personal stories of sexual harassment and abuse in public and private spaces. This data which maybe anonymous, gets aggregated as hot spots on a map indicating trends at a local level. The idea is to make this data useful for individuals, local communities and local administration to identify factors that causes behaviour that leads to violence and work on strategies for solutions. Our main objective is to: - Create awareness on sexual harassment and abuse and get women and other disadvantaged communities to break their silence and report their personal experiences. - Collate this information to showcase location based trends and make this information available and useful for individuals, communities and local administration to solve the problem at the hyper-local level. - Create safe spaces for innovative projects for violence prevention and community resilience. We are creating a new data set which currently does not exist. By representing the information thus collected on a map as hotspots, we are moving the focus away from the "victim" to the location and people can view the issue with a different lens. Our anonymous dataset has been used by police, researchers and communities to understand the nuances of sexual violence better, improve situational awareness and implement better policies. Get in touch for workshops on DEIA, gender sensitivity, POSH Act, POCSO Act, Domestic Violence Act, bystander intervention and programs on youth and women empowerment. We work actively with several Diplomatic Missions, City Governments, Police Forces and Corporations to implement public diplomacy programs, safety interventions and CSR projects.
2020
Founder
Jun 2020
Plan for uncertainty. Minimise surprises. Grow your business with confidence. That’s money, inspired.
Board Member
Mar 2020
Hammock is a technology platform that provides current account and data analysis services for the property sector. Hammock brings FinTech and PropTech together, helping landlords and property managers save time and money in the management of their finances.
2019
Advisor & Investor
May 2019
Established in 2014, Parsyfal® provides a data protection management platform and framework for organisations of all sizes and geographies. Parsyfal® is the next generation of data security, is scalable and can be used by global enterprises. With a focus on keeping your data safe, our software is scientifically designed and addresses the following challenges that all organisations face: • Technical vulnerability • Business process weakness • Legal non-compliance • Data protection skills shortage Parsyfal® provides a robust data protection framework that finds and analyses the risks to your organisation using revolutionary technology. It avoids the significant expense that would usually be charged by consultancy and addresses the complex requirements of: • Data Governance • Cyber Security • Third-Party Relationships • Physical Security • Human Resources • Corporate Governance We are ranked as the #1 Software Champion in the Top 100 IP Award Intellectual property league table, run by Silicon Valley-based Metis Partners. We are also committed to ensuring your company has the best data protection available. Dedicated to helping businesses with data security strategy needs, our solution can find and address where all vulnerabilities reside. Our solution supports company growth, efficiency and competitiveness to achieve remarkable commercial outcomes. Call us today for a no-obligation conversation about how Parsyfal® can help your business. Specialties: data protection, security, data, software, solution, IT, technology, governance.
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