Forward Partners is the leading early stage VC Platform in the UK, supporting and nurturing the best startup talent, from idea phase to late seed. At Forward Partners our role is to support and invest in the UK’s most promising e-commerce & marketplace businesses (you may have come across some of them - Zopa (Benchmark), LostMyName (Google Ventures), Big Health (Index) and Appear Here (Balderton)), by providing the funding, talent and experience needed to foster growth and commercial success. Our Partners are at the heart of all we do – as entrepreneurs in the truest sense of the word, our Partners have their own inspirational stories to tell. They are building unique, game changing businesses that we believe will be the next generation of internet trailblazers.