Founder, Dust Road Ventures; seed-stage angel investor - Dust Road Ventures
Errol Damelin was born in South Africa in 1969, grew up in Klerksdorp, graduated from the University of Cape Town in 1995 and later took an MBA at Boston University. After working as a corporate finance banker in Israel he co-founded Barzelan, a speciality steel wire producer, in 1997, then founded the London-based supply chain software company Supply Chain Connect in 2000 and sold it to ChemConnect in 2005. In 2007 he co-founded Wonga.com with Jonty Hurwitz and served as its CEO until stepping down in November 2013; he co-founded Tide in 2015. He has invested in early-stage companies since 2011 and his own site states 75+ seed-stage investments, formalised as Dust Road Ventures, a seed-stage investment firm he describes as deploying permanent private capital with no LP base. Sifted reports that he does not invest other people's money in a formal fund.
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