Matthew Bradley

Founder, Tikto Capital · 1 appearance on the record.

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After nearly eight years at London early-stage firm Forward Partners, Bradley founded Tikto Capital in 2022 to acquire majority stakes in profitable European tech companies. He has backed over 20 early-stage technology companies and sits on the board of climate-tech platform Furthr.

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1 prediction · 5 assertions · 1 opinion · 5 insights · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The prediction and assertions are the 6 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 4 are resolved, and 2 name no date, number or outcome precise enough to check. Everything else (opinions, insights, what ifs, disclosures) can never be settled by the record, so it carries no assessment.

The record, in short

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Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
Bradley: London VC Capital Is Proliferating From Seed To Series B
“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.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 6:03 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners

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4.3 / 5 directness 4.5 · coherence 4.5 · precision 4.2 · compression 4

redirected or did not address 1 of 12 assessed questions (8%). Watch them ▸

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227 words/min while actually speaking · 80.7 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,135 words across 1 episode of raw-level tape, transcribed verbatim with every um and uh kept, each one attributed only where the alignment onto our timed stream is unambiguous. These are measurements of speaking style. We do not rank them: across this corpus, fluency and argument quality are nearly uncorrelated (ρ≈0.2), and smooth talking does not signal clear thinking. How it's measured →

Everything Matthew Bradley said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →

Prediction Not checkable as stated
Bradley: Crowdfunding Will Not Replace Venture Capital But Will Endure
“I don't think it's got the potential to replace VC, but as a part of the funding landscape I think it will be around.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 22:06 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Assertion Supported
Bradley: London VC Capital Is Proliferating From Seed To Series B
“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.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 6:03 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Disclosure
Forward Partners Invests £250,000 Checks At The Idea Stage
“We're offering much, much larger checks, so around 250,000.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 8:30 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Insight
Bradley: E-Commerce Startups Should Favor Cheap Testing Over Big Product Launches
“One of the great things about e-commerce is that you can test relatively cheaply and get immediate feedback from customers. So I would always encourage that approach rather than building and doing big launches.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 11:04 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Assertion Supported
Bradley: 2015 Late-Seed Rounds Match Series A Capital From 2011
“Late seeds, certainly in terms of value raised looking a little bit like Series A did maybe three, four years ago.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 12:11 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Assertion Supported
Bradley: The UK Market Is Large Enough For Venture-Scale Exits
“And we have big enough markets here in the UK to generate venture scale exits.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 16:17 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Assertion Supported
Bradley: UK And Europe Offer More Government Grants Than The US
“There'd be a huge much more venture money available in America, but conversely here in the UK, we have there's more government money and tax breaks here as well as in Europe.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 17:29 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Insight
Bradley: Underrepresented Sectors In Unicorn Reports Signal Leading VC Opportunities
“Being underweight in, in that kind of report is probably a leading indicator for opportunities”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 19:35 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Insight
Bradley: Small Business Experience Provides Key Operational Baseline For VC Careers
“Definitely I think some kind of expertise and working with for or starting your own small businesses is really helpful to understand the sort of The mechanics, the challenges the important variables going on challenging small businesses and small teams and sol…”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 4:48 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Disclosure
Forward Partners Provides In-House Developers And Marketers To Idea-Stage Startups
“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…”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 6:30 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Insight
Bradley: Ask Founders At The End Of Pitches What You Missed
“I, I'm a big fan of asking open-ended questions to see how people to see how people react. And one of my favorites is, is asking people at the end of meetings is there anything which I should have asked, which I haven't asked.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 14:42 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Disclosure
Bradley: Forward Partners Is Bullish On Consumer Fintech And Healthcare
“We, and certainly I, are pretty hot on consumer-facing financial services opportunities at the moment and we're also big believers in healthcare.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 19:04 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Insight
Bradley Advises Against Investing All Personal Savings Into Early-Stage Startups
“I also invested the last bit of saved money I had in a couple of other startups, which isn't an investment strategy that I would advise anyone follow.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 3:40 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Assertion Not checkable as stated
Forward Partners Meets Entrepreneurs Three To Four Times Before Investing
“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”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 14:12 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners
Opinion
Bradley: First Round Review And The Equity Kicker Are Top Reads
“Okay, so for early stage startups, I'd have to say that the first round review as a weekly is probably the best one, and yeah, Nick's, Nick's blog, The Equity Kicker, is is, is, is probably the best daily, but again, don't tell him.”
Matthew Bradley Dec 16, 2015 ▶ 21:12 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partners

Appearances (1)

EpisodeDateSpeaking time
20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partne Dec 16, 2015 16m
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