Invests in
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Lists including Ruth Foxe
Investments
Diagon
Total Funding: $5.8M
Mesh
Total Funding: $68M
Flock
Total Funding: $100M
Ejara
Total Funding: $10M
Denim
Total Funding: $39M
Raincoat
Total Funding: $12M
Hokodo
Total Funding: $54M
Branch
Total Funding: $920M
AcreTrader
Total Funding: $72M
Demex
Total Funding: $13M
Work Experience
2024
General Partner
2024
Backing Pre-Seed and Seed stage founders building at the intersection of technological and societal change.
2011
Investor
2011
Non-Exec Director, Board Observer, Advisor and Investor in 50+ fintech startups, including Lemonade, Moneyfarm, Branch, Loconav, AcreTrader, Elevate, Stable, Flock, Hokodo, Denim, Kettle, Kaiko, Hometree, Amplify, Raincoat, Inclined, Poppy, Ejara, Ember, Mesh, District Cover, Arkham, Reserv & more...
2022
Co-Founder
2022
Promoting inclusion, empowerment and integration in VC internationally.
2017 - 2023
Partner
2017 - 2023
Anthemis is a global platform that cultivates change in the financial system by investing in, growing, and sustaining businesses committed to resiliency, transparency, access and equity.
2012 - 2017
Lead Investor, Fintech, AllianzX
2012 - 2017
Allianz Ventures' mission is to strengthen Allianz by investing in innovation, and to strengthen its investment portfolio by facilitating strategic business development opportunities with Allianz. Headquartered in Munich, Germany, Allianz Digital Corporate Ventures performs venture investments for Allianz, a global financial services provider with 85 million retail and corporate clients in more than 70 countries. I am a proud champion of our portfolio companies: QuanTemplate, Urgent.ly, Argus Cyber Security, MoneyFarm, Nauto...and more to come!
2014 - 2016
Co Founder
2014 - 2016
Crop-agnostic and more informative than traditional analyses, FarmArc's proprietary model produces the aggregate variability metric to track total land health over time. We turn terabytes of remote sensing data into value for farmers and financial services. -Multi-temporal aerial photos -High-resolution topographical data -Multi-temporal climatic data -Satellite data
2010 - 2012
Director, Global Digital
2010 - 2012
I ran PepsiCo's global digital and social media strategy.
2001 - 2010
SVP, Director of Interactive Europe
2001 - 2010
All aspects of web, new media, and online integration strategy development and project management, including implementation and measurement. Interactive division of global communications agency specializing in healthcare, technology, consumer, media, arts and culture, and environmental programming. • Performing and supporting interactive business development activities in Europe • Integrating interactive strategy and initiatives with traditional communications in Paris, Basel, and London offices • Producing new media projects, including: corporate and not-for-profit Web sites, online communities, intranets, content management systems, and emerging interactive media and technologies • Developing strategic research & analysis initiatives based on online space, online conversation analysis, competitive practices and marketing • Conducting quantitative and qualitative user research to determine overall project strategy