The notion of restricting access to information doesn't work anymore. - Eric Schmidt
Anthemis is more than just another investment firm. Rather, our goal is to catalyze and animate a vibrant and innovative ecosystem of entrepreneurs, investors and businesses in our chosen domain. Structured as a strategic holding company, financed with permanent equity capital, our goal is to build a vibrant group of "digitally native" companies delivering financial services and products using innovative and disruptive business models ideally adapted to the fast-changing, technology driven world of the 21st century.
By harnessing the opportunities afforded by the tremendous and increasing power of modern information and communications technologies and applying Coase's Theory of the Firm, it becomes clear that the winning economic model of the 21st century lies in a more loosely-coupled, "distributed" network of interconnected ecosystems within industries and sectors. While the provision of some products and services clearly (and increasingly) benefit from economies of scale, business organizations suffer from growing diseconomies of complexity with increasing scale.
To be successful in this new world, building strong relationships across the spectrum of actors is crucial and is something we see as an important and ongoing priority.