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Tom Britton

Co-Founder & CTO, Syndicate Room · 1 appearance on the record.

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Tom Britton is the Co-Founder and CTO of Syndicate Room, an equity crowdfunding platform that enables members to co-invest with professional investors. Prior to co-founding the platform, he was a professional football player in the US and UK.

12statements → 9claims → 9claims resolved → 78%fully supported → 3.67/5average certainty → 1.33/5average debate potential → 4.4/5argument clarity · the sources → 1said about them ↓

7 supported 2 partly supported 0 contradicted how the 9 claims stand · each chip opens the sources

9 assertions · 3 disclosures · every statement was checked. The predictions and assertions are the 9 claims: statements the public record can support or contradict. 9 are resolved. 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 Tom argues and how the claims held up. Everything they said, and everything said about them, is in the tabs below.

Their most notable supported claim

Assertion Supported
SyndicateRoom requires established lead investors before listing any crowdfunding campaigns
“We operate what we call an investor-led equity crowdfunding model, and what that means is that before any opportunity comes to us and is open to a wider network of investors, there has to be an established lead investor involved who's kicked the tires of the b…”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 3:40 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton

Expressed certainty vs assessment result

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67% certainty 3
92% certainty 4
100% certainty 5

weighted support: a fully supported claim counts one, a partly supported claim counts half. Each filled bar is clickable and opens exactly those claims; "none yet" means nothing said at that certainty level has resolved yet

Argument clarity: do they answer the question? how? →

4.4 / 5 directness 4.8 · coherence 4.7 · precision 4 · compression 3.9

answered every one of 13 assessed questions directly

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? →

254 words/min while actually speaking · 28.5 um and uh per 1k words

Measured by listening to the audio itself: 3,154 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:

host pushback ▾ 3/10
pushed back at the host ▾ 2/10
setup questions received 40%

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

Assertion Supported
SyndicateRoom requires established lead investors before listing any crowdfunding campaigns
“We operate what we call an investor-led equity crowdfunding model, and what that means is that before any opportunity comes to us and is open to a wider network of investors, there has to be an established lead investor involved who's kicked the tires of the b…”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 3:40 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Supported
SyndicateRoom requires lead investors to fund at least 25% of every deal
“So our minimum is 25% of the deal must be funded by the lead investors, but we've also had deals that have come to us where only 10% of it is still available.”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 5:27 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Partly supported
VCs no longer invest in funding rounds below £5 million
“What we're seeing is that VCs aren't coming in into a round until it reaches a certain size, and that size is getting larger and larger. So, so what A VC would have done a few years ago, five or 10 even, you know, playing in a two million round. Now they won't…”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 7:23 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Supported
NESTA recommends angel investors spend 20 hours on due diligence per deal
“They recommend that Angel should really look at something for about 20 hours before investing.”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 9:24 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Disclosure
SyndicateRoom accepts 2% or fewer of startup pitch applications
“Maybe one in one in 50 would be a best guess. We're able to actually list on the platform, if not more.”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 10:55 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Disclosure
Half of SyndicateRoom's raised capital comes from its network members
“Yeah it's about half”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 5:17 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Supported
SyndicateRoom's average crowdfunding campaign raise size exceeds £600,000
“And the total average raise is over 600,000 pounds now.”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 5:43 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Supported
£84 million was raised through UK equity crowdfunding in 2014
“Last year, there was eighty-four million done through, through equity crowdfunding, right?”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 14:22 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Supported
UK angel investment totals approximately £1 billion annually
“You know, you talk about angel investment being at about a billion pounds a year in the UK.”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 14:39 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Disclosure
SyndicateRoom raised an equity crowdfunding round for a Simon West Hollywood movie
“Well, we recently raised for a movie, right? It was a Hollywood movie. Simon West is the director”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 20:17 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Partly supported
Only a couple hundred UK startups received crowdfunding in 2014
“Over 500,000 new businesses were started last year, right? And how many of them are getting funding through crowdfunding? A couple hundred at most.”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 7:57 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton
Assertion Supported
SyndicateRoom enforces a £1,000 minimum investment threshold for its platform
“Well, with our model, we have minimum investment level of a thousand pounds, right?”
Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 ▶ 12:36 20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton

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Appearances (1)

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20 VC 023: The Recipe for a successful Crowdfunding campaign with Tom Britton Mar 30, 2015 15m
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