Overview

Gender

male

Investor Type

Investment Partner

Andrew Carruthers is the Co-Founder and Managing Partner of Novastar Ventures. He is a former Chief Executive Office of Spark Ventures. He attended the London School of Economics and Political Science.

He sits on the Board of Aspex Semiconductor, DEM, iSporty, and DX3, leading SPARK’s active participation in the development of these companies. Over recent years he has led the sale of Footfall to Experian for £36m and the sale of Pricerunner to Valueclick for $36m having been on the board of that company since 2002.

He was previously a Director of NewMedia Investors responsible for capital raising and corporate finance for a range of technology businesses including Lastminute.com.

Prior to that he was involved in the operational management of technology and finance as a Director or Founder of online information, TV and digital distribution companies in the US and UK. Andrew qualified as an accountant with KPMG.

He was appointed to the Board of SPARK Ventures on 27 September 1999.