Ant Barker

Director of Venture Capital at Aviva

📍 United Kingdom🔄 Updated September 2026💼 2 investments📅 6 years investing🗓 Last invested Apr 2021
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Investor Board Observer
Apr 2021
At Tembo, were on a mission to make home happen. Buying a home or remortgaging has never been harder. As the gap between earnings and house prices has grown to disproportionate levels, an entire generation of would-be buyers have been locked out of the property market, stuck renting or living in the family home. Those lucky enough to own are facing a volatile market and high interest rates, which threaten to increase their monthly outgoings by hundreds of pounds on average. Here’s the catch. There’s more innovation out there than ever before to help. It’s just too fragmented and confusing for both consumers and intermediaries. Tembo is an award-winning digital mortgage & savings platform, specialising in maximising affordability. Voted the UK’s Best Mortgage Broker by its customers at the British Bank Awards 2024, 2023 and 2022, Tembo combines technology and exceptional advice to help people discover and unlock their true borrowing potential. We instantly scan over 100 lenders and 25 specialist buying schemes - from family boost mortgages where a loved one can support a mortgage using income, property or savings to shared ownership and interest-only deals - to increase budgets by an average £82,000. In 2024 we launched into consumer savings products, now offering the market leading Lifetime ISA, to help our first-time buyers tackle one of the trickiest parts of the process: saving a deposit. Tembo is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the registration number 952652. YOUR HOME MAY BE REPOSSESSED IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP REPAYMENTS ON YOUR MORTGAGE.
Investor Board Observer
Nov 2020
Instead of purchasing costly new devices and paying even more to have them installed, Roost empowers easy and inexpensive do-it-yourself upgrades to existing smoke alarms. There are no new smoke/CO alarms to purchase. No unnecessary control panels. No bulky hubs to hide. Connect the Roost Smart Battery to your home Wi-Fi network, replace the existing 9V battery in your smoke alarm with Roost and immediately receive emergency alerts on your smart phone—no matter where you are. Now thats smart. Roost is a start-up technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. Roost has developed a unique, patent-pending connected platform that delivers the ultimate in installation simplicity and the most affordable way for consumers to enter the smart home space. Learn more at http://getroost.com/
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2024
Director of Venture Capital
Jan 2024
💛 Were a leading Insurance, Wealth & Retirement business. 📣 Follow for #LifeAtAviva. Aviva is nothing without our people. Living up to our purpose to be with you today for a better tomorrow applies to those we work with just as much as it does to our customers. We want Aviva to be a place where people can be themselves, and we want our workforce to reflect the customers and communities we serve. This means offering market-leading benefits and challenging ourselves to do more to build a workplace – and society – that works for all. It takes you. It takes Aviva.
2021
Investor Board Observer
Apr 2021
At Tembo, were on a mission to make home happen. Buying a home or remortgaging has never been harder. As the gap between earnings and house prices has grown to disproportionate levels, an entire generation of would-be buyers have been locked out of the property market, stuck renting or living in the family home. Those lucky enough to own are facing a volatile market and high interest rates, which threaten to increase their monthly outgoings by hundreds of pounds on average. Here’s the catch. There’s more innovation out there than ever before to help. It’s just too fragmented and confusing for both consumers and intermediaries. Tembo is an award-winning digital mortgage & savings platform, specialising in maximising affordability. Voted the UK’s Best Mortgage Broker by its customers at the British Bank Awards 2024, 2023 and 2022, Tembo combines technology and exceptional advice to help people discover and unlock their true borrowing potential. We instantly scan over 100 lenders and 25 specialist buying schemes - from family boost mortgages where a loved one can support a mortgage using income, property or savings to shared ownership and interest-only deals - to increase budgets by an average £82,000. In 2024 we launched into consumer savings products, now offering the market leading Lifetime ISA, to help our first-time buyers tackle one of the trickiest parts of the process: saving a deposit. Tembo is authorised and regulated by the Financial Conduct Authority under the registration number 952652. YOUR HOME MAY BE REPOSSESSED IF YOU DO NOT KEEP UP REPAYMENTS ON YOUR MORTGAGE.
2020
Investor Board Observer
Nov 2020
Instead of purchasing costly new devices and paying even more to have them installed, Roost empowers easy and inexpensive do-it-yourself upgrades to existing smoke alarms. There are no new smoke/CO alarms to purchase. No unnecessary control panels. No bulky hubs to hide. Connect the Roost Smart Battery to your home Wi-Fi network, replace the existing 9V battery in your smoke alarm with Roost and immediately receive emergency alerts on your smart phone—no matter where you are. Now thats smart. Roost is a start-up technology company headquartered in Sunnyvale, CA. Roost has developed a unique, patent-pending connected platform that delivers the ultimate in installation simplicity and the most affordable way for consumers to enter the smart home space. Learn more at http://getroost.com/