Chloe Owen

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Partner at Tidewater Seed Fund | ex-Microsoft

Tidewater Seed Fund
London, UK · GMT (UTC+0)
12+ years experience
Trinity College Dublin
English
Investing
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Overview

Partner at Tidewater Seed Fund, backing fintech companies. Previously an operator for 10 years before investing. Before that: Microsoft and Boston Consulting Group. Most at home with due diligence and venture capital.

Good reasons to reach out
  • Founders building in embedded systems
  • Second opinions on board work decisions
  • Speaking or podcast invitations
  • Thoughtful intros to people in my field
Please don't message about
  • Crypto token projects
  • Generic networking requests

Replies on weekends

Skills
venture capitalboard workdue diligence
InvestingLooking to invest
closes in 3 months

Writing $2M cheques into Series A fintech in India and SEA

Cheque size
$2M
Stages
Seed
Sectors
Embedded systems
Geographies
Europe
Lead or follow
Follow
Decision time
10 business days
How I help
Intros to operators in our network

Usually the first cheque in. Former operator - I help with hiring and GTM.

London, UKboard workventure capitaldue diligence
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Experience

  1. Partner
    Aug 2025 - Present
    Tidewater Seed Fund · 1 yr 2 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Shipped a rewrite that took build times from 38 minutes to under 5.
    • Moved 88% of firmware traffic off a legacy monolith without a customer-facing incident.
    • Cut p99 latency on the firmware services from 594ms to 176ms.
  2. Financial Analyst
    Mar 2024 - Aug 2025
    Microsoft · 1 yr 5 mo · Contract · London, UK
    • Ran diligence on 9 acquisitions.
  3. Finance Manager
    Dec 2020 - Mar 2024
    Boston Consulting Group · 3 yr 3 mo · Full-time · London, UK
    • Closed the books in 6 days, down from 10.
  4. FP&A Manager
    Dec 2017 - Dec 2020
    Unilever · 3 yr · Full-time · London, UK
    • Ran diligence on 8 acquisitions.
  5. Financial Analyst
    Nov 2014 - Dec 2017
    Stripe · 3 yr 1 mo · Contract · London, UK
    • Closed the books in 4 days, down from 15.
    • Took forecast accuracy to within 4% for 10 straight quarters.

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Education

  1. Trinity College Dublin
    BA, Business Administration
    2001 - 2004

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