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Episode 1 Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
Helping entrepreneurs create the future - early investors in Carwow, CloudNC, Huboo, Robin AI, Raft, Omnipresent, Zoopla
About us
Episode 1, the backer of successful companies like Carwow, CloudNC, Raft, Robin AI, TouchSurgery, Zoopla, Omnipresent and Attest, is a VC firm investing in B2B software startups at Pre-Seed and Seed. Episode 1 invests £500k to £3m into extraordinary teams with real insight into markets that are emerging or evolving. As an early stage fund, we invest in the best opportunities, but are particularly interested in how emerging “deep tech” technologies are disrupting industry, and how technology is reinventing markets. We are the company builders focussed on helping you raise a successful Series A.
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http://www.episode1.com
External link for Episode 1 Ventures
- Industry
- Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
- Company size
- 2-10 employees
- Headquarters
- London
- Type
- Privately Held
- Founded
- 2013
- Specialties
- venture capital, software, Internet, and mobile
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112-116 New Oxford Street
4th Floor
London, WC1A 1HH, GB
Employees at Episode 1 Ventures
Updates
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Episode 1 Ventures is thrilled to be sponsoring AI Demo Days. These events bring together the brightest AI and engineering talent and are a fantastic place for startups to meet potential hires and see what other people are building. Attendees include founders, engineers, big tech, LLM providers, and angels. 📅 September 4th, from 6:30pm 📍 AWS office in London 🎟️ link below Hope to see lots of you there.
AI Demo Days #3 · Luma
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I'm excited to let you all know about an upcoming webinar we are hosting with top UK VCs on the topic of giving yourself the best chance of raising a Series A 🙌 Off the back of the benchmarking report our EiR Paul Fifield published for Episode 1 Ventures "The Definitive Guide to Raising a Series A in the UK in 2024", he will be joined by the following to discuss some key trends and topics: Simon Murdoch - Managing Partner at Episode 1 Laura McGinnis - Principle at Balderton Capital Nelly Markova - Partner at Molten Ventures Sasha Vidiborskiy - Partner at Atomico Here's a link to the report: https://lnkd.in/em_Dp_5E Among other things, come find out: - What are the critical metrics you need to hit? - How fast should you be growing? - How should you think about retention? - How do funds think about product-market-fit? - How should you think about competition? - And how mature does your GTM function need to be? Raising your Series A is tough, only 1 in 5 Seed-backed companies make it (although the figure for Episode 1 is 70%). Join us on Monday 13th at 5pm UK time to help give yourself the best chance of a successful raise. https://lnkd.in/ecSXDZ9n Link to sign up in the comments below along with a link to the report... Thanks to OrbitalX for managing the webinar!
The Definitive Guide to Raising a Series A in 2024
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We are delighted to announce that Megha Prakash has joined us as Partner. Megha’s an extraordinary talent with 7yrs experience at Goldman Sachs and 7yrs as a B2B founder prior to spending the last couple of years as a VC. We know Megha is going to be a fantastic addition to Episode 1 - she’s highly ambitious and has a valuable mix of commercial and analytical skills as well as recent entrepreneurial experience (which we love at E1). Welcome, Megha.
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We're excited to announce our £76m third fund, our biggest yet 🚀. We’re looking forward to backing a new generation of B2B innovators at Pre-Seed and Seed, where we’ll be investing between £250k and £3m — and allocating plenty for follow-ons. A big thank you goes to our portfolio founders, our LPs (21 of which are Episode 1 portfolio founders), and finally our fantastic and growing team. Read the full post below 👇 https://lnkd.in/erNyNr7E
Early-stage UK VC Episode 1 closes $95M third fund | TechCrunch
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