London – Connectd, the leading community network that connects entrepreneurs and startups with investors and NEDs to secure growth opportunities, today announced that it has secured a $2.6 million seed round of funding led by SyndicateRoom, Mail Venture Partners, and LiFE Ventures. The company was founded by serial entrepreneur Roei Samuel and is based in London, United Kingdom. 

The funds raised will be used to further develop Connectd’s innovative technology which helps over 1,000 organizations and individuals find each other through a data-driven approach and cutting out the middlemen in the investment cycle. For investors and NEDs this means receiving relevant and strategic opportunities, whilst, for startups, this means being partnered with the best people that will help them achieve their growth aspirations. 

The Connectd platform provides curation tools to enable founders to create a deep set of progress reporting metrics to ensure investors are kept up-to-date, as well as allowing investors to accurately target opportunities for deals through the power of data.

Roei Samuel, founder of Connectd commented: “We’re delighted to have secured this significant seed funding which will help us further build out our ecosystem so that we can continue providing unrivaled networking opportunities as well as peer-to-peer learning between both startups and investors.