Nick Burton

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Principal at Saltwater Partners · Consumer

Saltwater Partners
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
5+ years experience
Durham University
English
Investing
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Overview

Principal at Saltwater Partners, backing consumer companies. Backed 53 founders at pre-seed and seed. Most at home with brands and venture capital.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in consumer
  • Working sessions on venture capital
Please don't message about
  • Generic networking requests
  • Offshore staffing offers

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Skills
venture capitalbrandsmarketplaces
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $250k cheques into seed consumer in MENA

Cheque size
$250k
Stages
Seed, Series A
Sectors
Consumer, B2B SaaS
Geographies
MENA
Lead or follow
Lead
Decision time
One meeting and a partner call
How I help
Hiring the first ten people

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

London, UK · remote OKventure capitalbrandsmarketplaces
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Experience

  1. Principal
    May 2025 - Present
    Saltwater Partners · 1 yr 5 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Sit on 7 boards.
    • Backed 51 founders at pre-seed and seed.
    • Led or co-led 29 investments, 5 of them now at Series B or later.
  2. Finance Manager
    Sep 2023 - May 2025
    Monzo · 1 yr 8 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 17.
    • Built the operating model the board used for a $90 million raise.
  3. Finance Manager
    Oct 2021 - Sep 2023
    Amazon · 1 yr 11 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Closed the books in 3 days, down from 14.

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Education

  1. Durham University
    BA, Economics
    2018 - 2021

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