Cyber Risks have been on the rise globally throughout the last couple of years, with Covid19 accelerating this trend drastically. For example, the BitDefender 2020 Consumer Threat Landscape Report highlighted a 485% increase in ransomware between 2019 and 2020! …

As usual with each new year, I am thinking about which area of the fintech space I want to focus on for this year mainly. Infrastructure has been a powerful space the last couple of years, there is still a lot to do in Insurance, and capital markets have barely…

A recurring challenge of companies we have invested in is finding tech talent, especially when hitting a certain growth rate. While this is true for most tech companies, the reality is, this is felt differently if you are a company in Western Europe / in the US or Singapore /…

As we have seen in the previous post, it is now easier and becoming cheaper to produce high quality image ie being your own camera crew. This trends extends to the world of producing and editing, this is where software enters the picture in a very interesting way. While I…

Having looked at multiple set ups for Gamers and Youtubers, I wanted to build a simplified version that would work in a home office. This is what I ended up with: The result? The main goals for this build where: HD image with depth of field — that cinematic…

Paradoxically, for someone working mostly remote since 2011, I haven’t paid a lot of attention to the production quality of my online communications until recently. Mostly because most of calls were with people in offices, I was anyway a small vignette vs the real life interactions happening there. …

Anthemis has made a conscious choice to invest in a new generation of entrepreneurs building startups that are pioneering change at the infrastructural layer of finance; whether that’s within the Open Banking space (Truelayer, Flux), insurance (Qover, Matic, Hokodo), asset management (Goji) or payments (Currencycloud, Hover). More broadly, over the…

As a teenager, if you were like me and knew how much personal money you had by the size and weight of your wallet, then it can be hard to understand today’s teenagers’ attitude toward money as most of your discretionary spending was funded in cash. Due to that experience…

The energy industry is changing: a U.S. Energy Information Administration (EIA) report found that solar and wind accounted for nearly 95 percent of all new electricity capacity added in 2017 (15.8GW out of 16.7GW). With declining costs and increasing demand, the solar and wind industries are quickly establishing themselves as…