Anthemis Reviews

- Closed the Advisory business despite growing the team hugely due to poor sales and delivery by senior management - Focus too much on non-core areas of the business bloating staff numbers with staff who aren't qualified enough to do the job (this shows with strained relationships with clients and current investors) - They are trying to do too much before they have become experts at any one of their key areas and this shows.

The founding partners have delusions beyond all recognition about their importance in the world and the VC bubble despite many staff raising issues. As such they either knowingly are burying their heads in the sand or worst of all are incompetent at running the company. The fact they appointed a new COO who has never worked in VC and has no financial, legal or operational experience having forced out their previous COO who had all of these skills because she did not go along with all their idiocies shows this is in bucket fulls. They employed people to try and be this cool and diverse business, however some of them have no idea how to do their jobs and were only employed because of the cronyism lead culture there is at Anthemis. Some of the partners are clueless beyond belief and I would not trust them to look after a stone let alone millions in financial investments. What is so so sad is that what Anthemis was set up to do was exciting and bold, and that is why lots of us joined the company as it was going places and ahead of its time. What the founders have managed to do is clutch defeat from an almost dead certain jaws of victory.