# Matthew Bradley

> Matthew Bradley is a seed investor at Forward Partners (London) backing Software and CAD. See 8 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Forward Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-partners)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 8
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 75%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/matthew-bradley-4059145a
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/mattyjam
- Website: https://x.com/mattyjam
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/matt.bradley.77582

Matthew Bradley is a seed investor at Forward Partners in London focused on Software and CAD. Matthew used to work on trading floors at Lloyds and BarCap before seeing the light. Following an MBA at SDA Bocconi and before joining us he became an entrepreneur and investor in his own right. Matt splits his time between investments and working across the portfolio.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 2 | 25% |
| CAD | 1 | 13% |
| SaaS | 1 | 13% |
| FinTech | 1 | 13% |
| Finance | 1 | 13% |

19 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 3 | 38% |
| Pre-Seed | 2 | 25% |
| Series A | 2 | 25% |
| Series B | 1 | 13% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| APEXX | APEXX acts as a Payments-as-a-Service platform combining all the worlds acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, and Alternative Payment Methods into a single integration. APEXX consults its enterprise level customers to consolidate their global Payment Service Provider relationships, and display all their reporting and transactional data in a singleinterface. They build the most holistic and economic solutions around their customers for face-to-face transactions as well as ecommerce globally, so they don't have to settle for less.APEXX integrates to additional services that merchants require to streamline their services. Some of these include: EPOS systems, VAT calculation tools, AML management services, banking services, Foreign Exchange platforms, and Fraud & Chargeback management softwares. | $25M | Series B | Mar 13, 2023 |  |
| Gravity Sketch | Gravity Sketch is powering design teams that need to think, collaborate, and create in three dimensions. They build intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products.Their energy is focussed entirely on their customers - removing friction from their archaic workflows, helping enhance andexpedite their creative intent, and ultimately, making collaboration in cross-functional teams faster and more cost-effective.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, England. | $32.5M | Series A | Apr 19, 2022 |  |
| Gravity Sketch | Gravity Sketch is powering design teams that need to think, collaborate, and create in three dimensions. They build intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products.Their energy is focussed entirely on their customers - removing friction from their archaic workflows, helping enhance andexpedite their creative intent, and ultimately, making collaboration in cross-functional teams faster and more cost-effective.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, England. | $3.7M | Seed | Sep 16, 2020 |  |
| APEXX | APEXX acts as a Payments-as-a-Service platform combining all the worlds acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, and Alternative Payment Methods into a single integration. APEXX consults its enterprise level customers to consolidate their global Payment Service Provider relationships, and display all their reporting and transactional data in a singleinterface. They build the most holistic and economic solutions around their customers for face-to-face transactions as well as ecommerce globally, so they don't have to settle for less.APEXX integrates to additional services that merchants require to streamline their services. Some of these include: EPOS systems, VAT calculation tools, AML management services, banking services, Foreign Exchange platforms, and Fraud & Chargeback management softwares. | $8M | Series A | Jun 11, 2020 |  |
| Plyable | Plyable is a first-of-its-kind solution. They have used the latesting in AI and machine learning technology to create a proprietary software that automates the design and manufacture of composite tooling. | $655K | Seed | Apr 30, 2019 |  |
| Gravity Sketch | Gravity Sketch is powering design teams that need to think, collaborate, and create in three dimensions. They build intuitive multi-platform tools to radically improve the efficacy and efficiency of developing 3D products.Their energy is focussed entirely on their customers - removing friction from their archaic workflows, helping enhance andexpedite their creative intent, and ultimately, making collaboration in cross-functional teams faster and more cost-effective.It was founded in 2014 and is headquartered in London, England. | $1.7M | Pre-Seed | Feb 16, 2018 |  |
| APEXX | APEXX acts as a Payments-as-a-Service platform combining all the worlds acquirers, gateways, shopping carts, and Alternative Payment Methods into a single integration. APEXX consults its enterprise level customers to consolidate their global Payment Service Provider relationships, and display all their reporting and transactional data in a singleinterface. They build the most holistic and economic solutions around their customers for face-to-face transactions as well as ecommerce globally, so they don't have to settle for less.APEXX integrates to additional services that merchants require to streamline their services. Some of these include: EPOS systems, VAT calculation tools, AML management services, banking services, Foreign Exchange platforms, and Fraud & Chargeback management softwares. | $4M | Seed | Nov 29, 2017 |  |
| Plyable | Plyable is a first-of-its-kind solution. They have used the latesting in AI and machine learning technology to create a proprietary software that automates the design and manufacture of composite tooling. |  | Pre-Seed |  |  |

8 of 8 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Alliance VC](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliance-venture) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Google Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/google-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Kindred Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kindredcapital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Point Nine](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/point-nine-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Accel](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/accel) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Forward Partners

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Forward Partners is a venture capital investment firm that seeks to invest in startups through venture funding, focusing on pre-seed and seed-stage investments in eCommerce, marketplace, Web3, and applied AI sectors.

5 contacts available at Forward Partners.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Louise Rix | Investor | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/louise-rix |
| Matthew Bradley | Partner, Investment | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-bradley-2 |
| Jasel Mehta | Partner & COO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jasel-mehta |
| Leonidas Tsementzis | CTO | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leonidas-tsementzis |
| Lloyd Smith | Chief Financial Officer | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lloyd-smith-137b |

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## FAQ

### What does Matthew Bradley invest in?

Matthew Bradley invests primarily in Software, CAD and SaaS startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 8 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Matthew Bradley last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Matthew Bradley closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 8 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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