Forward Partners

“Internally, we have our own investment themes where we will be researching different sectors. We'll be, you know, looking at, like, long-term trends in technology and you know, seeing where kind of consumer behavior is going. Internally, we're not actually bra…”

“So we've seen lots of like the similar ideas, but the founders don't have the kind of deep understanding of the problem. They found a problem and they're going to go, right, we're going to build a startup, but they don't have that kind of deep understanding of…”

“They launched with a homepage and a form, and after the month of interviews, at that point, Daniel, the founder, was doing everything by hand. So Inquiry would come in to find a lawyer, he would be speaking to that person, he would be going to find a lawyer, t…”

“I think for the early stage funds, you know, having someone that understands products can help massively because, you know depending on the company, there's a lot of challenges, either seed or series A, where they need to start scaling up.”

“We have a 12 month program that we try to get them to a valuable business. But we spend a month, you know, really thinking about that problem, which then feeds into the first product solution and the value proposition that they create.”

“So at Forward Partners, we tend to take people that are in, in the main solo founders who, you know, tend to be non-technical.”

“And for us, for the idea stage, it's even more important because, you know, our founders don't even have any they don't even have a product yet.”

“If they don't spend enough time really understanding what is that core value to a really deep level, then they can optimize it, and maybe they'll get to a two X better solution, but they'll never really make. An amazing company.”

“We meet entrepreneurs, you know, probably three or four times before, before we might make an investment, and so we, and it's not just me, it'll be other guys from the team as well”

“We, and certainly I, are pretty hot on consumer-facing financial services opportunities at the moment and we're also big believers in healthcare.”

“There is a kind of proliferation of money at seed and Series A, particularly here in London at the moment as well as Series B and beyond actually.”

“We're offering much, much larger checks, so around 250,000.”

“And the reason why we can go so early is that we have a team of full-stack multi-language developers, front-end developers, digital marketers, graphic designers, a recruiter, and product people to give to give the startups that we invest in the greatest chance…”

“I think I had only had between five and 10 clients submit an inquiry through the system.”