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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.”
Forward Partners Invests £250,000 Checks At The Idea Stage
“We're offering much, much larger checks, so around 250,000.”
Forward Partners rejects founders lacking deep understanding of the problem
“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…”
Early-stage VC funds benefit from having dedicated product specialists
“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.”
Forward Partners spends the first month of its program on customer research
“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.”
Forward Partners primarily backs solo, non-technical founders
“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.”
Startups missing core value depth will never build amazing companies
“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.”
Van Binsbergen: Lexoo had only 5 to 10 inquiries when pitching Forward
“I think I had only had between five and 10 clients submit an inquiry through the system.”
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.”
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…”
Lexoo launched by manually matching clients before building automated software
“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…”
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”
Forward Partners sets macro investment themes rather than brainstorming specific ideas
“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…”