How Early-Stage Startups Win Funding: Insights from VC Matt Gittleman

09/12/2025 37 min
How Early-Stage Startups Win Funding: Insights from VC Matt Gittleman

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Send us a textIn this episode of Secure Insights, we sit down with Matt Gittleman Investment Director of JHH VC  an early-stage, family-run venture capital firm that has been backing founders for more than 30 years. Investing from £25k to £250k across pre-seed, seed, and Series A, JHH VC now supports over 145 active portfolio companies.Matt shares what truly differentiates their approach, including the power of both novel and aggregated data sets, and how defensible data can create an advantage that simply doesn’t exist elsewhere. He dives into the stories of standout organisations they’ve invested in and unpacks the importance of “getting the right people in the right room having the right conversations.”We explore the candid conversations Matt has with founders, what he can learn in just 15 minutes, and what VCs are really looking for from early-stage teams. For founders armed with cutting-edge technology and ready to take their product to market, Matt offers practical insight on how to get in front of the right investors — and make it count.

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