Tessa Clarke

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📍 United Kingdom, United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 13 years investing🗓 Last invested Sep 2015𝕏 @upgrade_to_unlock
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Sep 2015
Contentive is a global digital media company, specialising in B2B publishing and information. We provide an engaging mix of news, events, intelligence and training across Digital Marketing, FinTech and Business Media verticals. Founded in 2012, we now have a team of 70 employees across the UK and New York and are continuing to expand. Reinventing B2B Media & Events - Contentive runs premium B2B websites and events within four key professional communities: Finance, Fintech, HR and Digital Marketing. In each of those markets we aspire to be the primary source of trusted content to help our communities succeed in their work. We are a technology-led business, constantly innovating to improve the experience we offer our professional communities, as well as the marketers looking to understand and connect with them. Contentive provides B2B marketers with a cost-effective, reliable, scalable source of qualified leads from within the professional communities we serve: Finance, Fintech, HR and Digital Marketing. Our London team are located in the Scale Space community based in West London, White City, which brings together UK's leading venture builders and help innovate the business scale – all backed by the Blenheim Chalcot group, leading active investors with annual sales of over £300M. To find out more, or to explore our career opportunities, please visit: www.contentive.com
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2023
Ambassador
Dec 2023
The world needs business at its best - helping to fix urgent problems like climate change and inequality. The Better Business Act would transform the way Britain does business so that every single company takes ownership of its social and environmental impact. At a time when we face many urgent challenges, we want to change the law so that it is no longer an option for business to pursue profit at the expense of workers, communities and the environment. By amending Section 172 of the Companies Act, we will update the job description for company directors, making it their responsibility to protect people and the planet at the same time as pursuing profit. We know that a majority of directors want this too. The amendment would provide a firm legal basis for directors to advance the interests of society and the environment alongside those of shareholders. This would in turn provide a clear framework for business to engage with the many existing initiatives that seek to drive up standards. A small change in the law will make a big change in the world. It will allow businesses to make decisions in all of our long term interests, helping to create a fairer, greener future for all.
2021
Venture Partner
Aug 2021
We are an early-stage generalist impact fund 🌱. We invest in brave founders solving the world’s biggest social and environmental challenges.
2015
Board Member
Sep 2015
Contentive is a global digital media company, specialising in B2B publishing and information. We provide an engaging mix of news, events, intelligence and training across Digital Marketing, FinTech and Business Media verticals. Founded in 2012, we now have a team of 70 employees across the UK and New York and are continuing to expand. Reinventing B2B Media & Events - Contentive runs premium B2B websites and events within four key professional communities: Finance, Fintech, HR and Digital Marketing. In each of those markets we aspire to be the primary source of trusted content to help our communities succeed in their work. We are a technology-led business, constantly innovating to improve the experience we offer our professional communities, as well as the marketers looking to understand and connect with them. Contentive provides B2B marketers with a cost-effective, reliable, scalable source of qualified leads from within the professional communities we serve: Finance, Fintech, HR and Digital Marketing. Our London team are located in the Scale Space community based in West London, White City, which brings together UK's leading venture builders and help innovate the business scale – all backed by the Blenheim Chalcot group, leading active investors with annual sales of over £300M. To find out more, or to explore our career opportunities, please visit: www.contentive.com
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Co Founder & CEO
Feb 2015
Olio is a sharing app for local communities, on a mission to fight waste. ***For people*** Olio makes it easy to pass on the things you no longer need — from food to furniture, and clothes to books — to people who live nearby. You take a photo of your item, add it to the app, and wait for someone to request and collect it. ***For businesses*** Olio also works with businesses to redistribute their unsold or unserved food. We pair trained volunteers with local shops, cafes and offices, who pick up whatever food is left at the end of each day. They then add it to the app for people nearby to request and collect. That way, every last bit of edible food ends up benefitting local people, rather than it ending up in the bin.
2014
Managing Director, UK Consumer Loans
Jan 2014
We are a pioneering international FinTech company, which is disrupting the traditional consumer lending space by providing solutions for “underserved” customers. Headquartered in London and backed by leading global investors, we employ over 500 people in four different countries. We believe in treating our customers fairly and take the time to listen so that we understand their lives. We collaborate to solve problems and use Agile & Lean principles so that we can be responsive to the needs of our customers and the marketplace. Continuous improvement is baked into everything we do and we constantly look for ways we can innovate and develop our tools, products and our thinking. We are looking for those with the skills, experience and positive attitude to be a valued part of our growing team. To find out more about career opportunities at Wonga please email recruitment@Wonga.com
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