Michael Clarke
Investor @ Business Growth Fund
Leeds, United Kingdom
Michael Clarke is a Series A investor at Business Growth Fund in Leeds focused on Software and Information Technology. Mike joined YFM as an Investment Director in 2019 before being promoted to Partner in 2020. Before YFM he spent two years on the investment team at BGF. He qualified as a Chartered Accountant with BDO in Leeds and went on to spend eight years there as a corporate finance advisor. Mike has a degree in Accounting and Financial Management from theUniversity of Sheffield.
- Total investments:
- 6
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 67%
Last updated:
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Industries Michael Clarke invests in
Stages Michael Clarke invests in
Countries Michael Clarke invests in
Investment Focus
Industry
- Software 2 (33%)
- Information Technology 2 (33%)
- SaaS 1 (17%)
- Sports 1 (17%)
- Analytics 1 (17%)
Stage
- Series A 3 (50%)
- Series B 1 (17%)
- Funding Round 1 (17%)
- Private Equity 1 (17%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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Summize
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Summize is a contract lifecycle management platform that provides tools to create, review, store and analyze contracts using embedded workflows and AI assistance. It offers features that generate draft contracts from templates, support AI-assisted review and redlining inside familiar tools like Word and integrations with communications and CRMplatforms to align contract work with business processes. Summize includes a centralized repository for contract storage and search, along with analytics that surface insights and potential risks from contract data. Its AI agents can produce summaries, suggest edits, and help teams accelerate negotiations and administrative work across legal, sales and other business groups. | $54.7M / Series B / Jan 27, 2026 | |
TeamFeePay
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TeamFeePay is a software company for football club management. | $12M / Jan 19, 2026 | |
S4labour
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S4labour is the intuitive labor management software designed to help the hospitality industry reduce costs, save time and grow sales through better labor management. Its tools enable providers to grow their sales, through empowered labor deployment, maximizing revenue opportunities, and planning more productive shifts, while saving time throughmore concise processes and intuitive interfaces. | $6.2M / Private Equity / May 08, 2025 | |
StormHarvester
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StormHarvester links civil infrastructure to a weather forecasting platform. This allows civil infrastructure to take action prior to heavy rainfall. StormHarvester was designed and developed through collaboration between specialist drainage engineers, leading engineering academics from Queens University, Belfast, and specialist software andelectronics engineers. Our ‘smart’ drainage solutions are set to fundamentally disrupt traditional drainage design by reducing capital costs, water demand and pollution events. | $10.4M / Series A / Jan 23, 2025 | |
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Summize
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Summize is a contract lifecycle management platform that provides tools to create, review, store and analyze contracts using embedded workflows and AI assistance. It offers features that generate draft contracts from templates, support AI-assisted review and redlining inside familiar tools like Word and integrations with communications and CRMplatforms to align contract work with business processes. Summize includes a centralized repository for contract storage and search, along with analytics that surface insights and potential risks from contract data. Its AI agents can produce summaries, suggest edits, and help teams accelerate negotiations and administrative work across legal, sales and other business groups. | $5.7M / Series A / Oct 25, 2022 | |
Force24
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Force24 is proud to be the only UK-grown marketing automation company, built on a solid foundation of core values which run deep within the business.They give their clients access to marketing techniques and technology proven to deliver results. They provide the highest quality creative output along side a completely account managed service,delivering results through best practice.Their values allow each and every individual to shape their business, move forward with purpose, remain lean and agile, and above all, continue to deliver excellent work to their clients. | $6.3M / Series A / Nov 23, 2020 |
Co-Investors
About Business Growth Fund
Business Growth Fund is an influential investor in small and mid-sized businesses. It was set up in 2011 to offer growing companies and ambitious entrepreneurs patient capital and strategic support.With 14 offices, they are close and relevant to the businesses they invest in. They have grown to a team of 150+ and a network that’s made up of oneof the largest pools of board-level executives. Collectively, the companies in their portfolio employ close to 50,000 people. They want to see more entrepreneurs using their capital not only to scale-up their own business but also, collectively, to drive economic activity and with it increase employment, exports, and growth.
Business Growth Fund Contacts
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Aoife McAdam
Investor
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James Austin
Investor
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Michael Clarke
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Alice Avis
Non-Executive Director
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Bethany Shiers
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FAQ
What does Michael Clarke invest in?
Michael Clarke invests primarily in Software, Information Technology and SaaS startups, most often at Series A and Series B stage. Most of the 6 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
When did Michael Clarke last invest?
The most recent investment recorded for Michael Clarke closed in Jan 2026. Shizune tracks 6 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.
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Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.
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