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Elevating Founders

Amelia Armour
Principal at Amadeus Capital
Speaker

Profile

Amelia joined Amadeus Capital Partners in 2009 and is a Principal in the Early Stage Fund. Her current investment focus is on autonomous systems, AI and machine learning, cloud computing, digital health and medical technology.


She is a Director on the boards of Cambridge Touch Technologies, a company developing the next generation of ‘force touch’ for mobile phones and tablets; Paragraf who are manufacturing graphene and other two-dimensional materials for real-world applications; Immense Simulations an intelligent mobility enabling software company; Riverlane a developer of quantum software and SLAMcore, a spin-out from Imperial College, developing spatial intelligence for autonomous robotics and drones.


Amelia is also an active board observer at other companies including AI decision-making company prowler.io and Graphcore, the developer of the Intelligence Processing Unit for next-generation machine intelligence.


Prior to Amadeus, she worked at Barclays Investment Bank as a manager in the structured capital markets team with responsibility for running a portfolio of multi-jurisdiction transactions. Amelia has also worked in structured finance at the Commonwealth Bank of Australia. She qualified as a chartered accountant with Deloitte in the corporate tax department.


Amelia holds a BSc in Chemistry and Biology from Durham University and is a mentor on the Judge Business School’s Accelerate Programme.