RF

Ruth Foxe Blader

Venture Capital Investor

New York, New York

Invests in

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Skills

Global Management
Website Development
Social Media
Strategy
Project Management
User Experience
Emerging Technologies
Market Research
Digital Strategy
Web Analytics
Social Media Marketing
Marketing Communications
Strategic Communications
Usability
E-commerce
Corporate Communications
Interactive Marketing
New Media
CRM
Marketing

Work Experience

  • General Partner

    2024

    Backing Pre-Seed and Seed stage founders building at the intersection of technological and societal change.

  • 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!

FarmArc

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