FinovateEurope 2024 / Darksquare
Presenter Profile:
How they describe themselves: Darksquare is an investment platform for individuals that focuses on alternative, private market investment opportunities. Darksquare’s platform allows its customers to better diversify their portfolios, whilst offering them the opportunity to generate strong risk-adjusted returns.
How they describe their product/innovation: Darksquare’s investment platform allows customers to access investment products which would previously have been out of reach due to high minimum investment minimums.
Via the platform, users are able to browse investments, filter by asset class, geography, target return, etc. They can also read Darksquare’s proprietary research on every asset listed, and invest directly over the site.
Product distribution strategy: Direct to Consumer (B2C), Through financial institutions
Contacts:
Bus. Dev. & Press: Daniel Harman (Co-Founder, CEO), daniel.harman@darksquarecapital.com, 07593654585
Website: darksquarecapital.com
LinkedIn: linkedin.com/company/dark-square-capital
HQ: London, UK
Founded: June 2021
Product Demoed: Investment platform
Metrics: Funding Raised: £400K, Headcount: 3, Revenue generating, 1,000 waitlist members
Raising Funding: Seed
Presenter: Daniel Harman, Co-Founder
- Key Executives
Daniel Harman (CEO & Co-Founder), Alex Whitney (CTO & Co-Founder), Renata Labude (CMO)
Key Stats
- Key Board Members
Informal advisory board in place with some of our angel investors.
- Key Investors
Partner at $8B AUM credit hedge fund, head of distressed trading at large UK/international bank, ex-head of tech strategy at large global US investment bank, Founder of the FCA’s Innovation Hub, various angels with financial services backgrounds
- Key Partners
Plend, Factored, URECO, Wind and solar developers based in the UK and US