Our portfolio company Carwow has just hit 10 MILLION YouTube subscribers! Massive congratulations to Matthew Watson and the entire content team for their exceptional work to bring car enthusiasts around the world the most in-depth car reviews and show-stopping drag races out there. What can you do with 10 million YouTube subscribers? Fill Wembley stadium 111 times ⚽ Roughly equal the population of Sweden 🇸🇪 Create a traffic jam 27,000 miles long 🚘 Coincidentally, 10 million is also the number of people they’ve helped to buy or sell a car. See you all at 20 million! Special thanks also to James Hind, John Veichmanis, Jack Scotton and William Davis.
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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Great to see two of our portfolio companies Lawhive and Sano Genetics featured on the Scale-Up 50 list published Capsule Insurance. At Lawhive, Pierre Proner, Jaime V. and Flinn Dolman are disrupting the legal space by augmenting the work of human lawyers with their AI-powered platform, addressing a critical need in the US market and unlocking new opportunities for millions of US attorneys. Over at Sano, Patrick Short, Will Jones and Charlotte Guzzo are helping to connect patients with pharmaceutical companies and biotech companies conducting clinical trials in precision medicine. Congrats to both sets of founders!
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Our portfolio company Sable Bio has just published a piece about their journey tackling one of healthcare's most critical challenges: making drug development safer and more efficient through augmented intelligence. 30% of clinical trials fail due to unforeseen toxicity, and Alex de Giorgio and Josh Almond-Thynne are making great progress transforming drug safety assessment. 2025 is going to be a huge year!
Sable: Our Journey So Far - Sable – Navigate Drug Safety with Augmented Intelligence
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Our portfolio company Zelt has just raised a $6m seed funding round led by Nauta, with participation from Venrex, to expand to new geographies and broaden its existing product set. Zelt allows companies to efficiently manage their workforce across the lifecycle by bringing together HR, Finance and IT into a single system where administrators and line managers can get a holistic view of their teams. Through its core offering, Zelt’s customers can manage diverse areas of people-ops including payroll, expenses, device security, goal tracking and holiday bookings. Congratulations to Chris Priebe and the rest of the team!
HR management platform Zelt raises $6m
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We are excited to co-lead the $3.1m seed raise for Intryc (YC S24) alongside e2vc, with participation from General Catalyst and Activant Capital! Support quality tooling has long been an overlooked, under-serviced area in a mission critical function of every customer-facing organisation. Powered by AI, Intryc's vision is to transform support QA departments into the intelligence hub of customer operations. What was once a costly, manual, and unscalable process—often costing millions of dollars to operate and sustain for consumer apps or enterprises—can now be a growth engine. Alex Marantelos, Dimitrios Ilias and George Pastakas continue to blow our socks off every time we meet them, and their unique, complementary blend of product, sales and engineering expertise makes them uniquely placed to solve this hard problem. Onwards and upwards!
Intryc raises $3.1M for customer service monitoring software
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Well done to Robin AI for achieving top spot on this list. We've been proud supporters since Seed!
The Hottest Startups in London in 2024
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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.