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Anthemis

Venture Capital

Anthemis cultivates change in the financial system by investing in and growing businesses committed to improving financial services. The firm is built on principles of collaboration, diversity, and deep market understanding.

Portfolio

13

companies


Portfolio companies

Burbank

Burbank

Burbank provides card present payment technology for online channels.

TAINA Technology

TAINA Technology

TAINA Technology builds automated regulatory compliance software for financial institutions.

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Hokodo

Hokodo provides digital trade credit and payment solutions for business commerce.

Weavr

Weavr

Weavr enables businesses to integrate financial services into their digital applications.

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Proportunity

Proportunity offers equity loans to help home buyers bridge affordability gaps.

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Flock

Flock provides digital, real-time insurance for connected and autonomous vehicle fleets.

YuLife

YuLife

YuLife transforms traditional life insurance into a suite of wellbeing and rewards products.

Tide

Tide

Tide operates a digital business financial platform for small enterprises.

Ember

Ember

Ember provides an integrated financial management and tax platform for small businesses.

Cledara

Cledara

Cledara offers a software management platform designed for growing companies.

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Hometree

Hometree operates a digital home services and insurance platform for residential properties.

TrueLayer

TrueLayer

TrueLayer operates a global open banking network that powers payments and financial data access.

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Insurdata

Insurdata supplies granular risk data and exposure analytics to the insurance industry.


Team

Ruth Foxe-Blader

Ruth Foxe-Blader

Managing Director

Ruth brings investment and corporate experience from roles at Anthemis, Allianz Group, and PepsiCo. She previously co-founded FarmArc.

Ruth Foxe Blader

Ruth Foxe Blader

Partner

Ruth serves as managing director at Anthemis, following earlier investment and digital roles at Allianz Group, PepsiCo, and Ruder Finn.

Yann Ranchere

Yann Ranchere

Partner

Yann is co-founder and CEO at Motley, following experience as a partner at Anthemis and venture partner at Anthemis Group. He also brings startup operating and angel investing experience from roles at Ondorse and Embed VC.

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Farhan Lalji

Farhan Lalji

Principal

Farhan brings investment and board experience from roles at LTV Capital, Anthemis Group, and Primary Group. He also teaches at London Business School and supports King's College London.

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Marin Cauvas

Principal


Recent investments

Seed
£5.0M

The seed round was led by Mouro Capital with backing from Anthemis, Foxe Capital, and Portfolio Ventures.

"We are extremely excited to bring this evolution in payments to the world. The payments experience should be the same for everyone, regardless of channel. In-store we pay by tap and PIN, which is globally trusted and familiar, and now, for the first time ever, we’re enabling the same process in online channels. Simple, secure, and scalable. The way it should be."
— Justin Pike, founder and CEO
Series A
£10.4M

The investment includes participation from HSBC Asset Management, Deutsche Bank CVC, SIX FinTech Ventures, and Anthemis.

"With this new injection of very supportive capital,TAINA is looking forward to achieving a number of objectives on its mission to grow as the Bestin-Class Platform for the industry, for an expanding range of Regulations, Geographies and Market Segments"
— Maria Scott, CEO and Founder
Series B
£32.7M

Notion Capital led the Series B round for Hokodo, with participation from continental European and existing investors.

"We’ve been following Hokodo since the beginning and made an initial investment as part of their Series A. We’re delighted to lead their Series B and double down on our support of Hokodo,"
— Patrick Norris, General Partner
Series A
$40.0M

Tiger Global has led a $40m Series A funding round in Weavr to support its expansion into the United States and other international markets.

"We believe an increasingly digital world works better when financial services are provided seamlessly within digital applications. Plug-and-Play Finance is the fastest, easiest and most efficient way for businesses to accomplish this,"
— Alex Mifsud, co-founder and CEO
Series A
£108M

The financing round was led by VentureFriends and Kibo Ventures to help expand the team and increase maximum loan sizes.

"We’ve been investing in proptech startups that improve the real estate journey since 2016. In Proportunity we saw a product that can positively impact the lives of thousands of FHBs. Proportunity founders, Vadim and Stefan, have experienced the pain of trying to get on the housing ladder themselves and we were impressed with their resilience, drive and progress so far. Proportunity directly addresses the pain of FHBs, it makes housing more affordable and more attainable while also sharing the house price risk, instead of putting the risk solely on the FHB and/or their family."
— George Dimopoulos, Founder
Series A
£12.2M

The Series A round was led by Social Capital with participation from Anthemis and Dig Ventures.

"Flock is bridging the gap between today’s insurance industry and tomorrow’s transportation realities. By using real-time data to truly understand vehicle risk, Flock is meeting the demands of our rapidly evolving, hyper-connected world. Flock has the potential to help unlock and enable a truly autonomous world, and even save lives. We’re excited to be a part of their journey."
— Chamath Palihapitiya, CEO
Series B
£50.0M

Target Global led the £50m Series B round to support product development and global expansion.

"The life insurance industry is ripe for transformation. For too many years, life insurance has focused solely on paying out a lump sum upon death. It is now time to reimagine the very nature of life insurance by putting ‘life’ first, and inspiring members to live their best lives every single day, using insurance as a tool to enhance their physical, mental and financial wellbeing,"
— Sammy Rubin
Seed
£1.6M

Anthemis led the seed round to support product development and customer acquisition at Ember.

"Ember is at a crucial point in our growth as a software and a company. Having achieved proof of concept and organic customer growth since our pre-seed round, we’re now ready to bring on customers at scale and expand the progressive functionalities of the platform."
— Aaron Shaw, Co-founder
Seed
£2.5M

The funding round was led by Nauta Capital with participation from Anthemis.

"Companies waste $20billion on duplicate, forgotten or unused SaaS purchases yearly. Our mission at Cledara is to help our companies cut through the chaos and start managing their software subscriptions in a scalable way. This round comes at a point in time when a successful transition to the cloud is critical for businesses and economies everywhere"
— Cristina Vila, Founder and CEO
Seed
$4.0M

Anthemis led the seed round with backing from QED Investors and Seedcamp.

"Weavr’s solution provided us with the platform to accelerate our route to market. We were faced with developing multiple integrations across many third-party stakeholders. Working with Weavr removed the need to carry out a long and complex build and meant we could take advantage of favourable market forces that we may have otherwise missed."
— Chris Reed
Series A
£7.0M

Anthemis led the financing round with participation from DN Capital, Literacy Capital, and Silicon Valley Bank.

"Our objective in the next 2-3 years is to become the leading challenger brand in the Home Cover market. This new funding will help us accelerate our plans at a time when homeowners across the UK need peace of mind more than ever. We are incredibly excited to be able to help homeowners have one less worry at this incredibly stressful time in all of our lives."
— Simon Phelan, Founder & CEO
Series C
£19.6M

The financing round was led by Anthemis with participation from Connect Ventures, Northzone, and Temasek.

"Our vision when we founded TrueLayer, where Open Banking is the default pipe to move money, instantly and safely, is becoming reality. This raise will help us on that journey to open up financial infrastructure, and enable access in new geographies and across new industries."
— Francesco Simoneschi, Co-founder & CEO
Series A
$10.4M

The funding round was led by Anthemis, Six FinTech Ventures, Tribeca ESP, and Reciprocal Ventures to support international expansion.

"Our world as we know it has changed forever. We continuously hear from senior leaders of financial institutions that automation, instant global connectivity of teams, strengthened resilience of processes and the ability to onboard customers seamlessly online have all become essential must-haves. We will deploy this fresh injection of smart funding to create even more value for our existing clients and reach even more customers in our growing target markets across North America and Europe."
— Maria Scott, CEO and Founder
Seed
£2.0M

Anthemis and Axel Springer Digital Ventures backed the round, which will help scale the firm consumer base and partner network.

"Home ownership has become a major social divide between those who have benefited from capital growth and those who have not."
— Vadim Toader, CEO and co-founder
Pre-Seed
£746K

Anthemis led the pre-seed round with backing from Chris Adelsbach.

"We are delighted to welcome Anthemis, BBVA and Chris to Cledara. Anthemis has been a fintech pioneer from the very beginning, and their experience, combined with BBVA’s expertise, resources and reach will massively accelerate Cledara’s growth."
— Cristina Vila, Founder and CEO
Seed
£2.3M

Anthemis and Menlo Ventures led the financing round alongside five new venture capital firms and angel investors.

"We are delighted to have secured the backing of a fantastic range of investors who fully understand the criticality of the service that Insurdata provides to the re/insurance market. Our work to date has exposed material deficiencies in the quality and scope of information which underwriters are reliant upon, which in turn have a detrimental effect on their ability to accurately price risk and manage portfolios effectively."
— Jason Futers, CEO