Amelia Armour

Partner

Amelia joined Amadeus Capital Partners in 2009 and is a Partner in the Early Stage Fund. Her current investment focus is on AI & Cybersecurity, Photonics & Quantum, Digital Health & MedTech and Novel Materials.

She is a Director on several boards including Xampla, who have developed a plant-based material to replace single-use plastics; iPronics who are building the world’s first programmable photonic processor; Riverlane a developer of the operating system for error corrected quantum computers 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 enterprise voice assistant company PolyAI and Graphcore, the developer of the Intelligence Processing Unit for next generation machine intelligence and Paragraf, the first company to mass produce graphene-based electronic devices.

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 London in the corporate tax department.

Amelia joined the UK Government’s Semiconductor Advisory Panel in August 2023, established to deliver the National Semiconductor Strategy. She is a mentor on the Judge Business School’s Accelerate Programme and holds a BSc in Chemistry and Biology from Durham University.