Mr Hermann Hauser

Recent investment activity


KANDO id: 23197

Bio

Co-founded Amadeus Capital Partners in 1997 with Anne Glover and Peter Wynn. Long and successful history as an entrepreneur and venture capitalist, has founded or co-founded companies in a wide range of technology sectors. These include Acorn Computers, Active Book Company, Virata, Net Products, NetChannel, and Cambridge Network Limited. Was a founder director of IQ (Bio), IXI Limited, Vocalis, SynGenix, Advanced Displays Limited, Electronic Share Information Limited and E*Trade UK. In 2004, was made a member of the Government’s Council for Science & Technology. Austrian by birth, speaks German, English, Italian and French. At Amadeus has been a non-executive director of many investee companies including: CSR, which provides single chip wireless solutions supporting communications over short-range radio links and which achieved a successful IPO in 2005; Entropic Research Laboratory, a company that developed voice recognition software which became the voice recogniser in Microsoft Word when the company was sold to Microsoft in 1999; and Solexa, which developed ultra-high throughput DNA sequencing technology and was acquired by Illumina in 2007. Also a non-executive director: of Plastic Logic, which has developed a process for producing flexible plastic transistors for use in computer displays; Icera, which is developing wireless soft modem platforms for mobile phones and wireless terminals; and XMOS, a company that is revolutionising re-configurable silicon chips. MA in Physics from Vienna University and a PhD in Physics from the Cavendish Laboratory at King's College, Cambridge. A Fellow of the Institute of Physics and of the Royal Academy of Engineering and an Honorary Fellow of King's College, Cambridge. Holds honorary doctorates from the Universities of Bath, Loughborough and from Anglia Polytechnic, and was awarded an Honorary CBE for ‘innovative service to the UK enterprise sector’ in 2001.


Career


Amadeus Capital Partners Ltd

Private equity investor in growing technology enterprises
Email: [email protected]

Cambridge Innovation Capital PLC

CIC was established with the support of the University of Cambridge (UC) to invest in high growth early-stage technology spinouts from UC and the area
Advisor (past)

Acorn Computers

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Active Book Co

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Virata Corp

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NetChannel

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Cambridge Network Ltd

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Education


Vienna University of Technology

MA in Physics


Selected investments

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Profile Date Funding
DataSift (MediaSift Ltd) Series A