Anthony Rose (entrepreneur)

Anthony Rose
Born (1964-09-24) 24 September 1964 (age 60)
Cape Town, South Africa
NationalityBritish
EducationUniversity of Cape Town
OrganizationSeedLegals

Anthony Rose (born 24 September 1964) is a serial tech entrepreneur whose career has spanned across many sectors including the advent of 3D graphics, P2P music, video streaming, social TV, social platforms, and most recently, legal technology.

Rose is best known for his work managing the launch of BBC iPlayer, for which Wired UK named him "the man who saved the BBC".[1] Anthony lead the team as CTO from 2007 until 2010, taking the BBC iPlayer from pre-launch to success, eventually ending up leading most of the BBC’s online proposition and managing a team of 250 people.[2]

Since leaving the BBC Anthony has founded 5 companies. He sold Beamly to COTY in 2015,[3] and 6Tribes to the TopGear team in 2016,[4] both for an undisclosed amount. He is the co-founder and investor in QJAM, which is due to launch soon and he is co-founder of Hey Blab which is still in development. Anthony is currently working as co-founder and CEO of SeedLegals, the world’s first legal automation platform for startup funding that closed their own $4 million Series A funding round in May 2019 led by Index Ventures. SeedLegals is now the largest closer of funding rounds in the UK, and is forecast to process 20% of all UK funding rounds by the end of 2019.[5]

  1. ^ Chibber, Kabir (2009-04-15). "The man who saved the BBC". Wired UK. Retrieved 2020-05-11.
  2. ^ "The Man Who Saved the BBC". Wired. Retrieved 2009-04-15.
  3. ^ "COTY Announces Acquisition of Leading Global Digital Marketing Platform Beamly". Coty. Archived from the original on 2016-12-26. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
  4. ^ Butcher, Mike (25 April 2016). "Clarkson, Hammond and May to launch DriveTribe motoring content platform". TechCrunch. Retrieved 2017-02-08.
  5. ^ "SeedLegals, UK's largest legal platform for startups, raises Series A round led by Index". Index Ventures. Retrieved 2019-04-30.