Business
In this season of Founders Clinic, Nana and Andy are talking to Venture Capital firms and Angel Investors, to demystify the funding landscape and draw parallels between the journey of founders and investors. For this episode we sat down with Luke Smith (https://www.linkedin.com/in/luke-smith-564a2438/) from Forward Partners (https://forwardpartners.com/) , that not only invest in early stage companies, but simultaneously are a start-up studio. We had a great conversation about: - How Luke moved from Corporate VC into Startup VC - How Forward Partners support early stage companies - The Forward Advances (https://forwardadvances.com/) initiative, a revenue based finance solution for start-ups, and how it came about. This podcast is sponsored by Balsamiq (https://balsamiq.com/) , the quick and easy wireframing tool. For anyone looking to create wireframes easily, check out the link below for a promo code to get a 90 day free trial, please visit https://balsamiq.com/go/founders-clinic/. Well worth it! Feel free to get in touch with Nana on Linkedin (https://www.linkedin.com/in/nana-parry/) or visit www.tectoniclondon.com (http://www.tectoniclondon.com/) for more info on how we help start-ups understand their customers in these unpredictable times. You can find out more about Andy's Angel Investing School on Twitter (https://twitter.com/AndysHVC?ref_src=twsrc%5Egoogle%7Ctwcamp%5Eserp%7Ctwgr%5Eauthor) or sign up for his weekly newsletter (https://www.getrevue.co/profile/Andy-Ayim%20) , to keep up to date with him.