Bukie Adebo Umeano

Bukie holds an MBA from Harvard Business School where she served as Co-President of the African American Student Union and received the Dean's Award. She also earned a BBA from Emory University Goizueta School of Business. 

​

A native of Austin, Texas, she currently lives in Brooklyn, New York with her husband where she enjoys all things wellness, art, design, and travel. 

Bukie is an Investment Principal at Anthemis, where she leads deals across Fintech, embedded finance, and AI. Bukie invests primarily in Pre-Seed and Seed stage businesses and serves as a board director/observer for 6 Anthemis portfolio companies. 

​

Bukie began her career in consulting. She was a Strategy and Operations Consultant at Deloitte, helping organizations explore growth strategies like global expansion and digital transformation, and a Brand Strategy Director at Ogilvy Consulting, advising senior-level clients on brand positioning and go-to-market. She made her way into Fintech, by co-founding a credit-building business called Liza that was designed to help people build credit by formalizing loans between friends and family. Prior to joining Anthemis, Bukie was an investor at WomensVCFund where she invested in Series A and B businesses with women in senior leadership.