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Amadeus Capital Partners
Amadeus Capital Partners is a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies, founded by Anne Glover and Hermann Hauser in 1997. It is a member of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association and is approved as an Enterprise Capital Fund. It has invested in lastminute.com, Clearswift, Icera Icera Inc. is a British multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Nvidia Corporation. It has developed soft modem chipsets for the mobile devices market, including mo ... Seldon and Doctify. References {{reflist Venture capital Companies based in the London Borough of Camden ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Capital
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology. The typical venture capital investment occurs after an initial "seed funding" round. The first ro ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Anne Glover (venture Capitalist)
Anne Margaret Glover, (born 6 February 1954) is CEO and co-founder of Amadeus Capital Partners, a venture capital firm that invests in European high-technology companies. Prior to founding Amadeus in 1997, she was with Apax Partners & Company Ventures, where she was a member of the investment team. She has been a business angel, investing in UK-based information technology start-ups. Glover worked for Virtuality Group plc, where she was COO of the virtual reality peripherals company. Glover was a manager and consultant with Bain & Company in Boston for five years. Earlier in her career, she worked for Cummins Engine. She was chair of the British Venture Capital Association (BVCA), which represents approximately 165 UK-based private equity and venture capital firms. She is on the Technology Strategy Board of the UK's Department of Trade and Industry. Glover earned a master's degree in management from Yale School of Management and a master's degree in metallurgy and material ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Hermann Hauser
Hermann Maria Hauser, KBE, FRS, FREng, FInstP, CPhys (born 1948) is an Austrian-born entrepreneur, venture capitalist and inventor who is primarily associated with the Cambridge technology community in England. Education and early life When Hauser was 16 he went to the United Kingdom to learn English at a language school in Cambridge. After a master's degree in Physics from Vienna University, he returned to King's College, Cambridge to do a PhD in Physics at the Cavendish Laboratory. Career Hauser is probably best known for his part in setting up Acorn Computers with Chris Curry in 1978. When Olivetti took control of Acorn in 1985 he became vice-president for research at Olivetti, in charge of laboratories in the US and Europe. In 1986, Hauser co-founded the Olivetti Research Laboratory (ORL) in Cambridge with Andy Hopper, who became the laboratory's director. Hauser's role in Acorn was portrayed by Edward Baker-Duly in the BBC drama ''Micro Men''. In 1988, Hauser left ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Venture Capital Firm
Venture capital (often abbreviated as VC) is a form of private equity financing that is provided by venture capital firms or funds to startups, early-stage, and emerging companies that have been deemed to have high growth potential or which have demonstrated high growth (in terms of number of employees, annual revenue, scale of operations, etc). Venture capital firms or funds invest in these early-stage companies in exchange for equity, or an ownership stake. Venture capitalists take on the risk of financing risky start-ups in the hopes that some of the firms they support will become successful. Because startups face high uncertainty, VC investments have high rates of failure. The start-ups are usually based on an innovative technology or business model and they are usually from high technology industries, such as information technology (IT), clean technology or biotechnology. The typical venture capital investment occurs after an initial "seed funding" round. The first round ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
British Private Equity And Venture Capital Association
The British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, sometimes known simply as the British Venture Capital Association, or BVCA, is a trade organisation for the private equity and venture capital industry in the United Kingdom. It was founded in 1983 and has more than 500 member firms, including over 230 private equity and venture capital houses, as well as institutional investors An institutional investor is an entity which pools money to purchase securities, real property, and other investment assets or originate loans. Institutional investors include commercial banks, central banks, credit unions, government-link ..., professional advisers, service providers and international associations as members. Michael Moore is the director general. The Chair is elected annually by the members. The organization lobbies on regulatory, tax and governmental matters that relate to private equity owned businesses in the UK. It produces reports on, among other topics, the relat ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Enterprise Capital Fund
Enterprise Capital Funds are financial schemes established by the Department for Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) in the United Kingdom to address a market weakness in the provision of equity finance to UK small and medium enterprises (SMEs). Government funding is used alongside private sector funds to establish funds that operate within the "equity gap"; targeting investments of up to £5 million that have the potential to provide a good commercial return. The first five funds supported under the scheme were launched in 2006-7 following a pathfinder competition. A further three funds were awarded ECF status in 2007. As of November 2019, 29 ECFs have been launched. Fund management As of 1 April 2008, responsibility for the management of ECFs along with BIS's other equity funds and the Small Firms Loan Guarantee (SFLG) was transferred to a new body, Capital for Enterprise Limited (CfEL). This change did not change the nature of the funds or their policy objectives. CfEL ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Clearswift
Clearswift is an information security company based in the UK. It offers cyber-security services to protect business's data from internal and external threats. The company is owned by Eden Prairie, Minnesota-based HelpSystems. History Clearswift was founded as NET-TEL in 1982. One of the co-founders, John Horton, had previously worked at GEC and Acorn Computers. In 1988, NET-TEL launched ''Route400'', the world's first mail client for MS-DOS (using the X.400 protocol). It was later ported to other platforms. In 1998, NET-TEL switched its main business to content filtering, as the popularity of the Microsoft Exchange Client took away the mail client market. In 2001, NET-TEL was rebranded as Clearswift, after a round of venture capital fundraising. In 2002, Clearswift acquired Content Technologies from Baltimore Technologies, along with the MIMEsweeper brand. Clearswift extended the MIMEsweeper line to include web and instant messaging filtering. These were marketed as p ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Icera
Icera Inc. is a British Multinational corporation, multinational fabless semiconductor company headquartered in Bristol, United Kingdom, and a wholly owned subsidiary of Nvidia, Nvidia Corporation. It has developed soft modem chipsets for the mobile devices market, including mobile broadband datacards, Dongle, USB sticks, and embedded modems for smartphones, laptops, netbooks, tablet computer, tablets, e-books and other mobile broadband devices. Icera has research and development sites in China, France, the United Kingdom and the United States and customer engineering and sales offices in China, Japan, Korea, Taiwan, the United States and Europe. On 9 May 2011 it was announced that Nvidia Corporation had agreed to acquire Icera for US$367 million in cash from its venture capital owners, which included Accel Partners, Amadeus Capital Partners, Atlas Venture, Benchmark Capital#Balderton Capital, Balderton Capital and DFJ Esprit. On 5 May 2015 Nvidia Corporation announced that Icera ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
Seldon (company)
Seldon Technologies Limited (commonly referred to as Seldon) is a British technology company founded in 2014, and headquartered in London, England. It makes MLOps software for enterprise deployment of machine learning models, and is a primary maintainer and contributor to a number of popular open source repositories such as Seldon Core. History Seldon was founded in 2014, and joined the Barclays Techstars Incubator in 2015 to develop tooling for AI, and as of 2020 has deployed more than 1 million machine learning models. Seldon is a guest advisor to the UK's All-Party Parliamentary Group for Artificial Intelligence. The primary focus of the company is building cloud agnostic Machine Learning (ML) deployment tooling; and has worked in partnership Google, Red Hat, IBM and Amazon Web Services. In 2019 they raised a €3 million seed funding round led by Amadeus Capital Partners, along with Global Brain Corporation, Techstars, and other existing investors. Raised a £7.1 ... [...More Info...] [...Related Items...] OR: [Wikipedia] [Google] [Baidu] |
