Claudine Owens

Claudine Owens is a Senior Investment Manager at Clarendon Fund Managers in Belfast. Clarendon describes itself as an FCA-authorised venture capital fund manager based in Belfast, managing regional venture capital and co-investment funds in Northern Ireland.

Owens graduated with a BSc (Hons) in Accounting from Queen’s University Belfast and trained with PwC in Manchester. Her LinkedIn profile lists Queen’s University Belfast education from 1992 to 1995.

Before joining Clarendon, Owens spent 12 years in corporate and business banking, managing a diversified portfolio of business clients with lending requirements ranging from £100,000 to £20 million. Clarendon’s team page says she joined the firm as a Portfolio Manager in November 2018 after working in the accounts department of Kane Group Building Services.

Owens has also been publicly identified as HBAN Ulster / Northern Ireland coordinator and later as a key organiser for the Clarendon Private Investor Network. In that role she works at the interface between angel investors, founder pitch events, and Clarendon-managed co-investment capital.

• Owens’ work is focused on getting Northern Ireland companies in front of active angel investors and matching those rounds with Clarendon-managed capital where appropriate.
• She has emphasized early-stage angel investing, saying: “Business Angels want to invest in fast growing companies at an early stage.”
• Through CPIN, she sources and vets companies before presenting them to active private investors; CPIN has held quarterly pitch events and had around 50 members as of June 2025.
• Clarendon’s Co-Fund NI invests alongside private investors rather than replacing them; the fund expects private investors to lead rounds, pricing, and diligence.
• Clarendon’s current fund focus includes Northern Ireland companies across start-up, early, growth, and expansion phases, with IFNI equity investments from £250,000 to £3 million.
• Owens has shown a particular interest in increasing access to capital for women-led businesses, stating in 2022 that only around 20% of HBAN Ulster pitches came from female founders and that more action was needed to improve that figure.