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Anthemis Group (originally known as Nauiokas Park) was founded by Amy Nauiokas and Sean Park in 2010. The company has offices in New York, London, Luxembourg and Geneva.
Anthemis focuses on early stage investment of financial services companies. Its target sectors includes payments, wealth and asset management, and Insurance and Risk Management, amongst others.
Anthemis also works with partners to create new businesses in sub-sectors of financial services, such as insurance and banking. Companies that Anthemis have backed in such a way include Kindur, a financial wellness company for retirement.
In 2017, Anthemis partnered with Baloise Group to establish an investment partnership. Anthemis also with extended its investment partnership with MMI Holdings (initially established in 2016) into venture partnership.
In 2018 Anthemis partnered with BBVA to launch a venture creation partnership.
The following year, Anthemis partnered with Barclays PLC to launch the Female Innovators Lab, an innovation centre for female entrepreneurs to connect with their first round of VC funding.
Anthemis closed a $90m Insurtech growth fund, backed by Aflac Global Ventures, Nümberger and Sumitomo Life, in February 2020.
Map showing the location of Anthemis Group
London,
United Kingdom
Key people
Vica Epifantseva-Manos
Partner
Ruth Foxe Blader
Partner
Tom Ryan
Partner
Mei Lim
Chief Financial Officer
Pamela Thomas-Graham
Strategic Advisory Board
Sarah Friar
Strategic Advisory Board
Mark Dowds
Managing Director
Patrick Watson
Chief Financial Officer
David Galbraith
Partner
Helena Morrissey
Strategic Advisory Board
Iason Nikolakis
Managing Director, Investments
Kate Sampson
Managing Director
Johnita Walker Mizelle
Head Of Investor Relations & Ecosystem Development, The Americas
Yann Ranchere
Partner
Leslie Campisi
Chief Marketing Officer
Amy Nauiokas
Co-Founder & Chief Executive Officer
Sean Park
Founder & Chief Investment Officer
Naoshir Vachha
Partner, General Counsel & Chief Compliance Officer
Matthew Jones
Principal
Erica Young
Head of Community and Network
Bruce Aust
Strategic Advisor
Nkechi Iregbulem
Analyst
Katie Palencsar
Managing Director, Global Head of Venture Studio
Briana van Strijp
Partner and CEO
Gavin Holland
President