#12 Investor/VC - Chris Corbishley - Forward Partners

Forward Partners is an early stage VC based in London, investing in Applied AI, e-commerce and marketplace startups. Forward Partners recently raised a second £60million fund.

Chris Corbishley is currently an investor with Forward Partners, previously founded data science platform growthsquared.io, enabling e-commerce businesses to apply advanced analytics to their data. Before that, as Head of Analytics at Swoon Editions, he championed the "zero stock, zero lead time” model in online furniture retail. He has a PhD in organisational economics from Imperial College London, where he worked with the Grantham Institute to incentivise institutional investment into renewable energy infrastructure.

He also worked part-time on the London Stock Exchange ELITE programme, supporting UK scale-ups - including brands such as Skyscanner, graze.com, Vision Direct and MedicAnimal - with the exciting nightmare of rapid growth. He has coached early stage tech entrepreneurs and deep science spinouts from Imperial College, and produced a series of case studies on common startup challenges.

This is the first ever episode of the series that is off-campus, Chris was kind enough to invite us in at the Forward Partners office.

You can watch this video on YouTube here: https://youtu.be/r3P7W0DG6Cg

The main website of the podcast is here at http://BusinessPodcast.co