20 VC 011: London's Early Stage Funding Scene with Thomas Jones

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🗓️ 9 February 2015

⏱️ 26 minutes

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Summary

A very exciting day on the 11th episode of The Twenty Minute VC as we welcome our 1st London based guest on the show, Thomas Jones. Thomas is Founder and Partner at Charlotte Street Capital, who invest up to £200,000 in early stage UK technology companies. Their impressive portfolio includes the likes of Chilango, GoSquared and SeedCamp, just to name a few. Prior to Charlotte Street Capital, Thomas was Founder and Executive Director of SMARTS Group International, offering a real time market surveillance platform, now used in dozens of stock exchanges around the world.

Items Mentioned in todays show:

Crowdcube
Seedcamp
Kidslox

In today's session you will learn:

How Thomas made his entry into the world of Venture Capital?
When investing in a startup, do you have a mental timeline of the startup's journey in your head with a clear strategy of when a desired exit will occur?
When it comes to investing, what really gets Thomas excited about the potential of a company?
What Thomas believes the main differences to be between VCs in Europe compared to the USA?
With the evolution of funding methods, how does Thomas see the 'crowd' becoming more involved in the future of early stage funding?
What advice Thomas would give to a graduate looking to make their entry into the industry?

We finish today's episode with a quick fire round, where we hear Thomas' immediate thoughts on the future of disruption and the all time best business book!

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We would love to hear from you, so if you have a VC you would like to hear from, send us an email: [email protected] and we will see what we can do!

Transcript

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0:00.0	Hello and welcome to episode 11 of the 20 minute VC with Harry Stebbings.
0:04.9	I'm hugely excited to welcome today our first European-based VC, Thomas Jones.
0:10.9	Thomas is founder and partner at Charlotte Street Capital, a London-based VC firm who invest
0:17.1	up to £200,000 in early stage UK technology companies.
0:21.7	Their impressive portfolio includes the likes of Chilango, who recently raised funding on CrowdCube,
0:27.7	GoSquared and Seed Camp, just to name a few.
0:31.1	Prior to Charlotte Street, Thomas was founded and executive director of Smart's Group International,
0:36.2	who offered a real-time market surveillance
0:38.7	platform, which is now used in dozens of stock exchanges around the world. But before we jump
0:44.1	into the interview, if you are loving 20-minute VC, please do head on over to iTunes and
0:48.9	subscribe to the podcast, and we can't wait to hear what you think of this episode. Thank you so much,
0:53.4	and here's Thomas.
0:59.4	You have now arrived at your destination.
1:03.2	Now Thomas, can you tell us a little bit about yourself
1:06.1	and how you got into the venture capital industry?
1:09.9	Yes, hi, Harry.
1:10.9	Well, thanks.
1:11.5	First of all, thanks for inviting me on your show.
1:13.4	Absolute pleasure to have you.
1:15.3	And I think I qualify as the first non-American, but not quite the first English.
1:22.9	So my background is I, about 20 years ago, way back in the 1990s, when stock exchanges first
1:30.5	started trading on computers rather than on a floor with people yelling at each other, together
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