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Vica Manos
Non Executive Director at Novoic
United Kingdom
Overview
Vica Manos is a Venture Capitalist at Anthemis Group SA and a Kauffman Fellow based in the United Kingdom, with a focus on investing in digital innovation and business innovation across various sectors including Retail, Payments, and FinTech. Noteworthy career highlights include serving as a Non-Executive Director or Board Observer for multiple companies such as Novoic, Apollo Agriculture, and Currencycloud, and having invested in successful ventures like Novoic and Chronomics.
Work Experience
VC
2010 - Current
Anthemis is an investment and advisory firm focused on reinventing financial services for the 21st century. We work with a diverse group of customers and partners – from startups and venture capital firms to financial institutions – to catalyse and accelerate positive and disruptive change across the financial industry.
Non Executive Director
2020
Novoic predicts brain disease from speech
Non Executive Director
2020
Numan provide medicine for men and knowledge for everyone. Numan are building a platform that gives direct access to medical professionals, pharmaceutical products and the knowledge to make informed decisions about one's health. But they don’t stop there: it’s a mission as much as it is a business. One to help men — and all that know them — live healthier, happier lives.
Non Executive Director
2019
Apollo help farmers in emerging markets increase their profits. They use agronomic machine learning, remote sensing, and mobile technology to help farmers access credit, high-quality farm inputs, and customized advice. Their first product is a customized package of farm inputs, farming advice, and credit delivered to farmers in Kenya
Non Executive Director
2019
NOW Money give accounts to people banks don't! A free payroll solution for any company, and free accounts for all staff.
Board Observer
2019
Yulife is the world’s first lifestyle insurance company. Yulife bring together life insurance, wellbeing & rewards in one simple app
Non Executive Director
2018
Hover enables developers to integrate any USSD action from any operator into their Android app.
Non Executive Director
2018
Chronomics has built an online digital platform that uses epigenetics to give people the knowledge of how their environment and lifestyle is imprinting itself on their DNA and affecting their health. From a simple saliva test, users have access to the knowledge of how their environment and lifestyle is affecting them. Combined with the power to enact change through user recommendations to enable them to live healthier and happier for longer.
Non Executive Director
2017
Sentio Solutions develops technology solutions that Feel. Sentio's focus is on developing proprietary algorithms and solutions that recognize human emotions and use data science to design personalized intervention strategies based on advanced psychological techniques.
Feel Therapeutics is a digital precision medicine company delivering objective data and passive measurement for mental health.
Raised $13,830,000.00 from Satori Capital, Metavallon VC, Anthemis Exponential Ventures, SOSV, SeedToB Capital, SOSV and HAX.
Board Observer
2019 - 2021
Currencycloud is a global payments platform built on smart technology that takes the complexity out of moving money. Developers use the Currencycloud API building blocks to build customized payment solutions.
Education
BA
2002 - 2005
Investments
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