At Forward Partners we help entrepreneurs find co-founders and build businesses in the eCommerce ecosystem. Please get in touch! About me: I'm a seasoned venture capitalist with a talent for spotting new markets early, distinguishing hype from reality and knowing which trends have legs and which will flame out. I love working with talented entrepreneurs to build products that people love and sustainable, high value, businesses. Since the summer of 2013 I have been Managing Partner of Forward Partners (FP), a high value add early stage investment business which is part of Forward Internet Group. For the thirteen years prior to that I worked in a number of venture capital roles, mostly in London, but with spells in Silicon Valley. My main areas of focus have been ecommerce, software and media and I have been personally responsible for over 25 investments including Buy.At (acquired by AOL for $125m), Zeus Technology (acquired by Riverbed for $140m), Unbound, Conversocial, StrikeAd and Lyst. I am also the author of Europe's most popular venture capital blog - www.theequitykicker.com (recent posts below).

Managing Partner, Forward Partners @ Forward Partners is an investor in early stage ecommerce companies. We're different for three reasons: - we are very hands on - we have a team of operational experts available to help our portfolio - we are sector experts - we invest in entrepreneurs building ecommerce brands that people will love, and the associated ecosystem - we are early stage specialists - we invest from idea stage to seed stage From June 2013 to Present (2 years 5 months) London, United KingdomDirector @ Lyst is a fashion site aggregating clothes from a wide variety of retailers to deliver a personalised shopping experience. From July 2012 to June 2013 (1 year) Director @ StrikeAd is a mobile advertising business. Their technology, known as a Demand Side Platform (DSP) allows advertisers programatically buy mobile media in real time, optimising their campaigns over 20+ parameters. From December 2011 to June 2013 (1 year 7 months) Director @ Conversocial provides software to retailers, banks, airlines and travel companies so they can conduct customer service over social media. From May 2011 to June 2013 (2 years 2 months) Partner @ DFJ Esprit is a leading European venture capital firm with over $1bn assets under management. They are part of the DFJ global network of funds. From June 2006 to June 2013 (7 years 1 month) Director @ Tribold provides product management and product catalogue software to telcos, television companies and mobile operators. From 2006 to June 2013 (7 years) Director @ WAYN is the world's largest social network for travellers. From July 2008 to May 2012 (3 years 11 months) Director @ Voice Recognition Holdings was initially a developer of voice recognition software and it later morphed into a reseller of digital dictation software. From June 2005 to October 2011 (6 years 5 months) Director @ Zeus developed the world's leading software application traffic manager and was acquired by Riverbed for $140m in 2011. From February 2004 to July 2011 (7 years 6 months) Director @ In March 2006 I led a £7.2m investment into buy.at on behalf of DFJ Esprit. The company was acquired by AOL in February 2008 for $125m generating a significant profit for the fund. From March 2006 to February 2008 (2 years) Investment Executive @ From January 2004 to June 2006 (2 years 6 months) Director @ Spiritsoft developed middleware based on the JMS standard. From December 2000 to December 2004 (4 years 1 month) Director @ Macalla was a mobile middleware company. From July 2000 to December 2003 (3 years 6 months) Director @ Wordmap developed natural language search technology. From April 2000 to September 2003 (3 years 6 months) Associate @ Reuters venture capital was the corporate venturing division of Reuters plc. Marquee investments included Yahoo and Verisign. From January 2000 to September 2003 (3 years 9 months) Managing Consultant @ Operis is a software and services business providing financial modelling solutions to the financial services industry. From March 1998 to December 1999 (1 year 10 months) London, United KingdomConsultant @ When I joined Gemini Consulting it was a top 6 global strategy consulting business. From March 1996 to March 1998 (2 years 1 month) London, United Kingdom

First Class Honours, Social and Political Science @ University of Cambridge From 1992 to 1995 Dr Challoner's Grammar School From 1985 to 1991 Nic Brisbourne is skilled in: Venture Capital, Start-ups, Entrepreneurship, Business Strategy, Angel Investing, Mergers, Private Equity, Mobile Devices, Business Development, Product Management, Corporate Development, New Business Development, E-commerce, Strategic Planning, Product Development, Financial Modeling, Marketing Strategy, Due Diligence, Online Advertising, Business Planning, Digital Marketing, M&A experience, Investments, SaaS, Valuation, Online Marketing, Team Leadership, Business Analysis, Digital Media, Strategic Partnerships, Strategy, Corporate Finance, Management Consulting, Social Media, Mergers & Acquisitions, Finance, CRM, Competitive Analysis, Growth Capital, Emerging Markets, Capital Raising, Management, Investment Banking, Capital, IPO, Social Networking, Business Modeling, Product Marketing, Funding, Start-up Ventures