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 / Indonesia. While tech opportunities abound […]
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 think these two worlds are […]
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 look Constant lighting irrespective of external light conditions […]
Tomorrow’s office? 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. This has changed with Covid-19 […]
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 last decade at Anthemis, we […]
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, we are, in a way, […]
Jamey Stillings for TIME 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 the future […]
As many others that are spending time in the crypto space, I think a majority of the opportunity space is still at the infrastructure level as much needs to happen there to be able to scale rich decentralized applications. However a few projects in the application layer space are giving insights into what our decentralized […]
Going through the various documents of the Filecoin SAFT funding, an absolute must-read for anyone interested in crypto, one answer in their Q&A touched upon how these companies will be defined and run in the future: Normally, startup companies have many rounds, at different prices, stretched out over time. In token sales, it is usual […]
There was recently a great post by Steve Evans over at Artemis on Swiss Re latest results and what they mean for the insurance industry. I encourage you to go and read it: http://www.artemis.bm/blog/2016/03/16/swiss-re-ready-to-disrupt-the-risk-to-reinsurance-capital-value-chain/ Among the many interesting points in this article, a few stood up: There is a growing recognition, both within insurance or […]