| Website | linkedin.com/in/c... |
| Birthplace | Canada |
| London School of Economics, Msc | 1987 |
| Economics | |
| Harvard Business School, MBA | 1993 |
| General Business | |
| University of British Columbia, BA | 1986 |
| Honours Political Science |
Sherry Coutu is an angel investor and serves on the boards of companies, charities and universities.
As an entrepreneur, Sherry established and successfully sold two businesses in the financial services industry. The first (acquired by Euromoney plc) has operations in more than 70 countries. The second was floated in 2000 on London and Nasdaq and the company was valued at more than $1 billion before being acquired (by AMP plc). Sherry is active in early stage investing and has raised several rounds of venture capital and public equity totaling more than $200 million.
Sherry has decades of experience serving companies which range from fast growth private early stage to public and boards with turnover of more than £ 1 bn.
She is a frequent public speaker, a national judge of the Ernst & Young Entrepreneur of the Year awards, and presents regularly at the top business schools. She specialises in consumer, internet, information services and clean energy.
Current university affiliations include Cambridge University and Harvard Business School. Charitable / Government affiliations include the Prince’s Trust, Cancer Research UK and NESTA.
| Company | Date | Round | Size | Participants |
| Duedil | 8/12 | Angel | 4 | |
| YPlan | 7/12 | Seed | $1.7M | 9 |
| MOVE Guides | 7/12 | Angel | £400k | 7 |
| PeerIndex | 3/12 | Series A | $3M | 5 |
| LOOKK | 8/11 | Venture Round | 6 | |
| Huddlebuy | 4/11 | Angel | £350k | 7 |
| Brainient | 8/10 | Venture Round | $800k | 5 |
| Recurly | 7/10 | Seed | $1.6M | 7 |
| Timetric | 3/10 | Seed | 7 | |
| PeerIndex | 7/09 | Series A | 10 |
