# Doug Barrowman

> Doug Barrowman is a funding round investor at Aston Ventures backing Marketing. See 1 investment, round sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Aston Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/aston-ventures)
- Total investments: 1
- Last investment: Mar 2017
- Lead investor: 100%
- Last updated: Aug 2026

Doug Barrowman is a funding round investor at Aston Ventures focused on Marketing and E-Commerce. Doug Barrowman is the founder of Aston Ventures and the co-founder of EQUI. He is also the founder and chairman of the Knox Group of Companies. Doug graduated in business studies from Glasgow University in 1985.

## Contacts

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## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| E-Commerce | 1 | 100% |
| Advertising | 1 | 100% |
| Digital Marketing | 1 | 100% |
| Information Technology | 1 | 100% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Round size | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ve Global | Founded in 2009, Ve Global is a global technology company that provides eCommerce businesses with a managed-service of proprietary marketing software and digital advertising solutions. Ve's flagship product, Digital Assistant - "the personal shopping assistant for your website," helps sell products and support customers. It enablesbrands to recreate their in-store experience online - by providing a customer-friendly revenue optimisation toolkit that enables marketing teams to better support, guide, and inspire their customers at every step of the buying journey. | $3.8M |  | Mar 11, 2017 |  |

1 of 1 investments shown.

## About Aston Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Aston Ventures is a capital market company that provides early-stage growth capital to European technology companies. It seeks to invest in a variety of sectors including plant hire, industrial business, nuclear, labor supply, and cable manufacturing. The company adopts a proactive approach, assisting the companies in which they invest to transformtheir vision into reality.Aston Ventures is part of a group of businesses with over £1.5 billion of assets under management and administration. It has a long track record in investing and working with management teams to maximize returns building fruitful international corporate companies and ventures.Aston Ventures was founded in 1998 and is based in London, England, UK.

2 contacts available at Aston Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Doug Barrowman | Founder | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/doug-barrowman |
| Timothy Eve | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/timothy-eve |

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## FAQ

### What does Doug Barrowman invest in?

Doug Barrowman invests primarily in Marketing, E-Commerce and Advertising startups, most often at Funding Round stage. Most of the 1 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

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### When did Doug Barrowman last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Doug Barrowman closed in Mar 2017. Shizune tracks 1 investment in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

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