Daniel Sawko

the free investor search engine | shipshape.vc

United States

About

building the free to use investment search engine at shipshape.vc

Experience

  • CEO and Co-Founder at shipshape.vc
    Apr 2020 - Present · 6 yrs 3 mos

    shipshape.vc is a free investor search engine, enabling you to search investors and investments by topics.

  • Guest Speaker at Cambridge Judge Business School
    Jan 2022 - Feb 2022 · 2 mos

    Guest speaker for MBA and MFin lectures on the importance of Investor Fit in the Venture Capital industry and how technologies currently being developed will make this easier.

  • Commercial and Communications Lead at TAINA Technology Limited
    Dec 2018 - Jan 2020 · 1 yr 2 mos

    - Produced financial model, collateral and managed prospective VC and institutional investor communications that ensured valuations between 8-10X end of year ARR, leading to term sheets - Delivered 60% of new revenues in 2019 - Won key first clients in the crypto and stock-trading segments - Negotiated key customer contracts, ensuring the business could price higher than competitors through a superior offering - Established a presence in the USA as part of international expansion (pre-US incorporation) - Co-designed and produced a retail customer-facing web and mobile web application to early adopter clients, from a business (non-technical) perspective (B2B2C distribution model) - Managed the successful go-live of said app, ensuring customer and compliance needs from application were met by the Technology and Compliance teams - Created training manuals and processes for client customer service teams to manage exception handling - Solicited and fed customer feedback into roadmap, produced business cases and championed customer needs with high value generating potential - Managed, maintained and upsold key client relationships - Designed and produced marketing and sales collateral, managed website re-design - Responsible for prospect demonstrations in key growth segments - Trained new users on the platform, requiring a detailed knowledge of the system and architecture - Invited on the Oracle podcast to discuss TAINA, Data & Analytics - Represented TAINA at events and in publications, including a DIT event in Frankfurt and in L39 publications. - Managed market communications specific to B2B and B2B2C distribution model of the business, ensuring regular feeds of market news. - Co-ordinated office move - Trained team members in production of collateral, account management and demonstrations - Key decision maker for non-technical business hires - Successfully applied to the Morgan Stanley Multi-Cultural Innovation Lab as part of a team

  • Axis Corporate (London Area, United Kingdom)
    • Senior Consultant
      Jul 2018 - Dec 2018 · 6 mos

      Leading European Fintech: - Building a business on DLT for international remittances and lending platform. Activities include economic modelling, business analysis, competitor analysis, vendor negotiations, pricing strategy, customer journey mapping and client relationship management. - Creating Funding applications; Strategy, Product road map, commercialisation of core technology, financial sector partnership and distribution model strategy. Leading European Fintech: - Producing a report on market entry strategy and product alignment. Including TAM, SAM, SOM analysis, assessing likely demand for a groundbreaking financial product. Other: - Advising Fintechs and FIs on application to the Alternative Remedies Capability and Innovation Fund

    • Consultant
      Jan 2017 - Jun 2018 · 1 yr 6 mos

      Leading UK Bank: - Assisted Branch rationalisation and Bank digitisation Programme - Digital tool selection, business case writing, Fintech partnership co-ordination UK Challenger Banks and Fintechs: - RBS Alternative Remedies package Capability and Innovation fund strategic advisory Head of Fintech partnerships: - Ecosystem integration and evolution (technical and process) - Regulated DLT e-money payments and micro-payments projects - Durable Media Proof of Concept - Business Case and senior stakeholder buy-in

  • Co Founder at UKIMUN
    Dec 2014 - Dec 2017 · 3 yrs 1 mo

    Games and events company specialising in competitive game-ification around elections and other political scenarios. Basic data model creation for US and UK election scenarios.