Anthony Clarke (businessman)

Anthony Richard Clarke (born 1953)[1] is a British chartered accountant, chartered secretary, and businessman. Clarke is the chief executive officer of Angel Capital Group and the managing director of London Business Angels.[2][3][4]

Clarke qualified as a chartered accountant and chartered secretary with Deloitte Haskins & Sells (now PricewaterhouseCoopers) in 1980. He then had a variety of jobs, including chief executive of Carroll Industries Corporation in the early 1990s.[5] Clarke has been involved with the venture capital/business angel sector since 1995. Between 2002 and 2009 he was managing director of GLE Growth Capital.

Clarke is the co-founder of the Enterprise Capital Fund, Seraphim Capital, and was chairman of the UK Business Angels Association from 2004 to July 2012.

In April 2017, Anthony Clarke and Jenny Tooth sold Angel Capital Group, which owns early-stage technology backer London Business Angels, to state-owned start-up advisory and loans provider Newable.

References
  1. "Anthony Clarke". Companiesintheuk.co.uk. Archived from the original on 4 March 2016. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  2. "Our Team | Angel Capital Group". Angelcapital.co.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  3. "£300K London Business Angels syndicate investment cornerstones Ownfone's £750k round". UKbusinessangelsassociation.org.uk. 20 November 2014. Archived from the original on 19 April 2015. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  4. "Raising start-up capital a discussion with London's leading angel investors". Imperial.ac.uk. Retrieved 23 April 2015.
  5. "Carroll shrugs off rumours", The Observer, 1 July 1990, The Observer, p. 26.


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