Episode 1 Ventures
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Episode 1 Ventures is a venture capital firm based in London that invests in early-stage B2B software companies, typically at pre-seed and seed stages. The firm has been investing for over 20 years and focuses on helping founders reach a successful Series A round.
Episode 1 Ventures is a venture capital firm headquartered in London, United Kingdom. It invests directly in companies, from pre-seed to seed, in B2B software. 65 portfolio companies, as it reports.
“Our focus is getting Pre-Seed and Seed B2B software companies to a successful Series A.”
— Episode 1 Ventures, own website
- Layer
- Direct investor
- Type
- Venture capital
- Headquarters
- London, United Kingdom
- Sectors
- B2B software
- Portfolio
- 65 companies
Team, as Episode 1 Ventures publishes it
- Hector Mason General Partner
- Adam Shuaib, PhD General Partner
- Simon Murdoch, PhD General Partner
- Paul McNabb General Partner
- Adrian Lloyd General Partner
- Steph Orde Chief Financial Officer
- Millan Suri Principal
- Dom Lester Investment Ops Lead
- Carolina Monck, PhD Investor
- Matt Harrison General Counsel
- Nuan Zhang Investor
- Paul Fifield EIR
Names and roles exactly as listed on episode1.com. Nothing else about these people is recorded.
Most shared portfolio companies with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 62 investors with a shared portfolio company. A shared company is not proof they invested together in the same round.
- Seedcamp 7 shared companies: source.dev, sablebio.com, treecard.org, supercede.com…
- MMC Ventures 4 shared companies: sablebio.com, supercede.com, sanogenetics.com, superlinked.com
- Playfair Capital 4 shared companies: jackandjill.ai, omnipresent.com, refute.com, stackone.com
- Entrepreneurs First 2 shared companies: cloudnc.com, mimica.ai
- Balderton Capital 2 shared companies: adludio.com, carwow.co.uk
- Stage 2 Capital Advisors 2 shared companies: auquan.com, perchpeek.com
- ACT Venture Capital 2 shared companies: edgetier.com, scurri.com
- AlbionVC 2 shared companies: perchpeek.com, phasecraft.io
- Backed VC 1 shared company: cloudnc.com
- Lockheed Martin Ventures 1 shared company: cloudnc.com
and 52 more — the graph.
Where this comes from
Every fact above was read from a page Episode 1 Ventures publishes itself. Nothing is taken from third-party databases. Investment activity (deals, co-investors) is not yet recorded.
- https://www.episode1.com/name, is_investor, layer, type, hq_country, hq_city, stage_min, stage_max, sectors, thesis_quote, thesis_quote_page, description, portfolio_count, status
- https://www.episode1.com/teampeople
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Record 246 · added 2026-08-28 · link last verified 2026-10-21 · confidence high
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