Anne Glover, co-founder and CEO of Amadeus Capital Partners, discusses the ways that the tech investment scene has changed since her firm launched in the late 1990s, how tech started as a niche sector but has since started to encompass everything, why AI hype is valid but there’s more to it than just generative AI and what the UK needs to do to shake its history of not scaling tech companies like the US can.
Glover co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 alongside Hermann Hauser. The firm generally backs deep tech firms, with major portfolio companies including Graphcore, Improbable and Oxford Nanopore Technologies. Glover discusses how the firm is particularly keen on areas including quantum computing, health tech and cybersecurity.
The experienced investor also draws parallels between today’s AI boom and the rapid growth of internet companies in the 1990s....