Anthony Rose

Anthony Rose (born 24 September 1964) is a technology entrepreneur whose career has spanned across; 3D graphics, P2P music, internet video, social TV and online communities.

Rose is known for his work managing the launch of the BBC's iPlayer, for which Wired UK named him "the man who saved the BBC". He has founded/co-founded multiple companies including; Beamly, 6Tribes, Hey Blab, and QJAM.. Anthony is current CEO for his most recently co-founded company, SeedLegals, the world’s first legal automation platform for startup funding. 

Rose currently holds 14 patents and has won numerous awards for his contributions to the digital product industry.

Anthony Rose was born on 24 September 1964 in Cape Town, South Africa. At the age of 14 Rose began developing his own 6800-based home computer and within a year he was developing various computer products, including a RAM character generator add-on board and a RAM-based hard drive emulator for the Apple II. He then set up a company, A. R. Technology, through which to sell these products.

Rose was CTO of the BBC's iPlayer from 2007 until 2010, during which time it received a Bafta Award for Innovation. In 2011 he co-founded Beamly (formerly known as Zeebox), a social content network for television, which was acquired by Coty in 2015. Rose then went on to found the social network 6Tribes in 2015 which was acquired in 2016 and developed into DriveTribe. DriveTribe went on to receive $6.5.M investment from 21st Century Fox shortly after.

In September 2016 Anthony Rose co-founded SeedLegals, alongside co-founders Laurent Laffy (Managing Partner of VC firm Arts Alliance) and Anthony Drogon (former Head of Development at Arkena). SeedLegals the first legal automation platform that dynamically creates all the legals companies and their investors need to close an equity investment.

Other ventures that Anthony has been involved in include; voice messaging app Hey Blab (founded by Rose in August 2016), leading broadcast graphics provider Vizrt (board Director since March 2015), pre-launch music startup QJAM (investor), and student social network Papped (investor).

Rose's holds 14 patents including patents for distributed online rewards, content discovery and interactive television.

In 2008 the BBC's iPlayer won a Bafta in the category of 'Interactive Innovation - Service / Platform' against strong competition from KateModern, Bebo Open Media Platform, and Channel 4's Big Art Mob. In 2009 Rose won Broadcast Magazine's Individual Achievement Award, in June 2012 he won the ITVT All-star awardfor Leadership, and in March 2013 he received the Digital Innovation award from the Digital TV Euro50 Awards for his role as co-founder and CTO at Zeebox.