Danny Matthews
Founder at Short Story Ventures
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After running a Financial Services business for a decade my career took an interesting turn when I created a proof of concept that secured £3.5bn funding.
Since then I have invested in 4 companies, I advise 2 startups and mentor nearly 100 founders to start and build their companies each year.
Short Story Ventures is a venture studio where change-making entrepreneurs become game-changing brands. We help early-stage startups gain traction and f
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After running a Financial Services business for a decade my career took an interesting turn when I created a proof of concept that secured £3.5bn funding.
Since then I have invested in 4 companies, I advise 2 startups and mentor nearly 100 founders to start and build their companies each year.
Short Story Ventures is a venture studio where change-making entrepreneurs become game-changing brands. We help early-stage startups gain traction and funding 3x faster using brand strategy, messaging, marketing and design.
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Top Achievements
Solo60 Secured Funding at £1m Valuation Before Their First Customer
Solo60 transform unloved spaces into world-class gym environments that you can book and workout solo, with friends or train clients for 60 minutes through our mobile app. 10 Million active gym members and only 50% of them using their membership. The UK’s largest decline in retail stores with 16 closures a day. Individually they are huge problems but combined they present an opportunity that Ben Alderton, a Personal Trainer from Reading was primed to take on. By giving Ben the strategy, identity and working app prototype he was able to secure investment at a £1million valuation before even getting his first customer.
3x Revenue By Repositioning a Product To The Right Market
I spent 3 months working with Karen, Founder of Professionals in Partnership to unpack her expertise, repackage it as a highly valuable product and launch it into the market. We worked on market research, branding, positioning and messaging to target a new market and attract more customers. PiP generated more revenue in the 3 months working together than the previous 9 months combined.
Built a Proof Of Concept in Mortgage Tech That Won £3.5bn Contract
Mortgy Digital Mortgages was a proof of concept I built as a mortgage broker to solve the problems of too much travel and paperwork to be productive. I created the proof of concept with a logic string mind map and off-the-shelf software and was quicky hired to build it for a company that used it to win a £3.5billion contract with UK government.
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