21 words
Peter Cowley is a Cambridge based entrepreneur, personal and corporate angel investor,
charity chair/trustee, property developer, mentor and start-up non-executive director.
55 words
Peter has founded a dozen businesses, has angel-invested in 35 startups and is on the board
of 4 of them. He has a Cambridge technology degree, is a fellow of the Judge Management
School, runs the Martlet Corporate Angel fund, a board member of the Cambridge Angels
and is UK Angel Investor of the year.
87 words
Peter Cowley is a Cambridge-based technology entrepreneur, personal and corporate angel
investor, charity chair/trustee, mentor and non-executive director, and regularly speaks on
entrepreneurship at events and for TV and radio. He has founded a dozen businesses, has
angel-invested in 35 startups and is on the board of seven of them. He has a Cambridge
University technology degree, is a fellow of the Judge Management School, runs the Martlet
Corporate Angel fund, is a board member of the Cambridge Angels and is UK Angel Investor
of the Year
123 words
Peter Cowley is a Cambridge University Engineering/Computing graduate who has founded
and run a dozen technology and construction businesses and has angel invested in over 35
start-ups in Cambridge and London. He is or has been a non-exec director of nine of
those. For over a decade, Peter has been involved in charity and social enterprise
governance as chair and treasurer of various trustee boards. Peter is a board member of the
Cambridge Angels, and has mentored countless entrepreneurs. He setup and runs the
Martlet start-up investment fund of Marshall of Cambridge, a family office investing off a
£1.4bn revenue, corporate balance sheet. He is a Fellow in Entrepreneurship of the
Cambridge Judge Business School and, currently, UK Angel Investor of the Year
184 words:
Peter Cowley studied Engineering and Computer Science at Cambridge University, now lives
near Cambridge and owns/runs small businesses in technology and construction. Peter is
UK business angel of the year 2014/15. He is a Fellow in Entrepreneurship at the
Cambridge Judge Business School.
He has been an active angel investor for several years and is the Investment Director of the
Marshall of Cambridge, Martlet Corporate Angel division, and a board member of
Cambridge Angels. He has led many investment deals and is a non-executive director of
seven angel-backed technology start-ups.
Peter has spec-built several domestic houses and refurbished many others, including the
£1.7 million Cambridge Advice Centre. Peter has been voluntary chair, treasurer and trustee
of numerous charities for over a decade – the Citizens Advice service, a drug and alcohol
rehabilitation charity and a local private sixth form college.
Peter is a director of the Cambridge Computer Lab Ring and runs their mentoring service,
and is chair of the ideaSpace Accelerator’s supporters. He is a freeman of the City of London
and is on the advisory board of a Social Enterprise in criminal justice.