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.
Co-invests most often with
Derived from portfolio pages both investors publish themselves: each pair below lists at least one company in common. 62 co-investors found.
- 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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