Amadeus Capital Partners co-founder Anne Glover awarded Damehood
Dame Anne is the Chief Executive and Co-Founder of Amadeus - a DeepTech venture capital firm established in 1997.
In a career spanning three decades, she has combined science and engineering expertise with strategic leadership in technology investment, campaigning hard to ensure that ambitious innovators can thrive and grow their businesses in the UK. In addition to her executive roles, she is a Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England and a member of the Yale Corporation Investment Committee.
Dame Anne says: "I am both surprised and delighted at receiving this wonderful honour. Throughout my career, I have been focused on two related objectives: advancing science and engineering-based startups in the UK and ensuring that these companies have the opportunity to scale globally with the support of robust domestically managed risk capital.
“Since the 1990s, science and engineering has received consistent backing from successive governments, enabling the innovation sector to develop and contribute meaningfully to the national economy. I am heartened to see that the other piece in the puzzle - pension fund investment into our nation’s startups – is now also beginning to be put into place, an outcome I have long championed.
“To see the support for science and engineering and the mobilisation of long-term capital converge with momentum is and will be profoundly gratifying. It signals a new era of opportunity for British-led innovation when it is most urgently needed.
“As we look to the future, I remain confident that the UK will continue to turn world-class research into successful companies, delivering not only economic growth, but also solutions to some of the most pressing challenges of our time.”
Dame Anne was Chair of the British Private Equity and Venture Capital Association, Invest Europe and the European Venture Capital Association VC Platform Council. She is a member of the Venture Investment Committee of British International Investment.
She influenced government policy during her 5-year term on the Prime Minister’s Council for Science and Technology. Anne chaired the Investment Committee of The Foundation for Social Entrepreneurs 2018-24. She was appointed as a Non-Executive Director of the Court of the Bank of England in 2018 and joined the Investment Committee of Yale Corporation in 2019. She was recently appointed to the Advisory Board of the Science and Technology Venture Capital Fellowship programme delivered by The Royal Academy of Engineering and Imperial College London on behalf of DSIT.
Dr Hauser, who over the years has helped broaden the Amadeus portfolio across the Uk and Europe, was thrilled by the honour. He told Business Weekly: “I think what we have achieved has been a fantastic achievement and I am absolutely delighted with the news of Anne’s well deserved Damehood.
“It has been a great pleasure to work with her for more than 25 years to build Amadeus Capital. On behalf of everybody at Amadeus I congratulate her on this great honour.”
