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.
4 supported 0 partly supported 0 contradicted 2 not checkable as stated how the 6 claims stand · each chip opens the sources
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
What the tape says about how Matthew argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.
Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →
redirected or did not address 1 of 12 assessed questions (8%). Watch them ▸
This is a score against a rubric. It is not a rank. Every host question → answer exchange is scored with names hidden on directness, coherence, precision and compression, 1–5 each, on meaning alone: disfluencies are ignored, and only raw unedited episodes count. This is the score that measures thought. Every scored exchange, scores shown → · The rubric and its checks →
How they sound: speaking style how? →
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 →
How the interview went all their pushback → series average →
Across 1 rated episode:
Everything Matthew Bradley said on 20VC that made the record, most notable first. Filter by type, assessment or year in the ledger →
Appearances (1)
| Episode | Date | Speaking time |
|---|---|---|
| 20 VC 097: Betting Big on Consumer Fintech with Matthew Bradley, Investor @ Forward Partne | Dec 16, 2015 | 16m |