Corporate Venture Capital
– Profit and the Innovation Advantage

At Anthemis we see a new wave of innovation reshaping the way we live and work and how many corporations are seeking to invest and provide resources to those companies accelerating innovation. Within this white paper, we provide insights into how the objectives and structure of a corporate venture capital (CVC) effort can vary greatly. Some corporates take the approach of investing opportunistically when an attractive deal comes around, while others have created dedicated vehicles and robust in-house teams to manage the complexities of deal flow, diligence and portfolio support.

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Empowering Female Founders –
Moving from a Vicious Cycle to a Virtuous Cycle

Anthemis places diversity, equity and inclusion at the heart of everything we do. As we lean more fully into our own efforts, we are inspired to share what we have learned. In the first white paper, within Anthemis’ series on diversity, equity and inclusion in financial services, we unpack the challenges as we see them and offer practical solutions on collective ways to empower female founders and move from a vicious cycle to a virtuous cycle.

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The Future of Mobility

Anthemis identifies transformational shifts within mobility by considering the movement of both people and goods, and by looking at the three principal components of the mobility ecosystem: vehicles, fuel and infrastructure.

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Embedded Finance:
The Future of the Economy

At Anthemis we see this future state of financial services as embedded, augmented and ubiquitous. Rather than finance being discrete, we see it becoming an intimate part of the products and services that drive our economies — an often invisible but critical societal infrastructure, similar to today’s communications or energy infrastructures. We imagine a world where finance is embedded deep inside the workings of our businesses and economies, powering the lives and progress of citizens and businesses rather than being a service consumed independently. Learn more abut how embedded finance is and will continue to effect the economy.

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Equity in Entrepreneurship Report –
A New Target for Gender Parity in VC Portfolios

Recent data reveals that in 2022, startups with at least one woman founder secured just 17.2% of venture capital funds, with all-women founding teams receiving only 1.9%*. Despite stagnant figures, there’s a growing push for gender parity within the VC community, accentuated by the pandemic’s spotlight on systemic issues. Some VC firms aim for 50% of portfolio companies to have a woman founder, but true gender parity requires consideration of mixed-gender founder teams. In our latest report, Anthemis emphasizes the use of data and precise metrics to achieve equity and gender parity among founding teams, illustrating that reaching gender parity within a portfolio demands more than a 50% investment in companies with a woman founder.

*Pitchbook (pitchbook.com/news/articles/the-vc-female-founders-dashboard)

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Sector Funds and Specialization

As a thesis-driven, sector-focused investor, specialization and expertise lie at the heart of Anthemis’ investment process. In the research paper, we examine sector-specific funds and outperformance, as well as specialist expertise in fintech and why it matters.

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