Episode 1

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Investment-firm

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Venture - Series Unknown

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01.09.2013

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About Company
Episode1 Ventures is a venture capital fund that invests in early-stage technology companies based in the UK.

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Episode1

founded date

01.01.2013

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Last funding type

Venture - Series Unknown

IPO status

Private

Description

The company was created with a mix of public and private money and invests in seed and Series A rounds of up to £2m in software-driven businesses with the potential to transform industries. They prefer to invest in entrepreneurs with relevant experience and a passion for changing their sector. They like to play an active role in helping the companies they invest in and share their office with a number of portfolio companies. They are particularly interested in how emerging "deep tech" technologies are disrupting industry and how technology is reinventing markets. The company has a £60m fund to invest in UK software-driven startups and has backed successful companies like Carwow, Touch Surgery, Zoopla, and Attest.
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Their latest funding was raised on 01.09.2013. Their latest investor Encore Capital. Their latest round Venture - Series Unknown

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Damien Lane
Damien Lane

Damien Lane

Damien Lane has spent the last 20 years investing in private companies, both in Private Equity where he was a partner with Electra Partners, then at Octopus Ventures where he was a senior member of the investment team. Having made a number of angel investments, Damien co-founded Episode 1 with Simon and Adrian in 2012. While at Episode 1, Damien has led investments in Carwow, Scurri, Touch Surgery, Attest and Zipcube and loves working with early stage teams of entrepreneurs; helping them develop their early stage startup into a fast growth enterprises capable of raising more funding from later stage investors. When he is not trying to help businesses to implement an optimal approach to growth, Damien can mostly be found running around Hampstead Heath or the Coastal paths of Great Britain. Having trained obsessively to run a 2:52 Marathon in 2015, he is now trying to dip below 2:50, in the spirit of continuous improvement. Damien has an MBA from Cambridge University and a Masters degree in PE from Oxford University.

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Simon Murdoch
Simon Murdoch

Simon Murdoch

Simon set up online bookstore Bookpages in 1996 and sold it to Amazon in 1998. As VP Europe for Amazon, he managed huge growth from start-up through to multimillion turnover and hundreds of staff. As an Angel investor, he has invested in Shazam, been chairman of VideoIsland (now merged with and renamed LoveFilm, and purchased in Feb 2011 by Amazon.com), Zoopla! and Shutl (currently chairman). Simon founded and funded FriendsAbroad.com, a social network for developing language skills and contacts abroad which was successfully sold to Lesson Nine GmbH, operators of language learning site Babbel.com. Simon is currently CEO of StormForward, an e-commerce conversion consultancy which helpsonline retailers to increase their online sales and profits.

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Simon Murdoch

Adrian Lloyd
Adrian Lloyd

Adrian Lloyd

Adrian Lloyd is a Partner at Episode 1, an early stage Venture Capital fund focusing on software enabled businesses with the beginnings of customer traction. Adrian has had a career as a management consultant and entrepreneur, with a gap at Stanford Business School in 2008-10 where he earned his MBA. He focuses on customer-centric product and business design as an investor and you can read more of his thoughts at http://www.episode1.com/news-and-blog/blog Adrian has been investing in software businesses since 2008.

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Episode 1

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Employee Profiles
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Hector Mason

Hector Mason

Investor

Leah Martin

Leah Martin

Marketing, Communications & Events Manager

Carina Namih

Carina Namih

Partner

Siobhan Clarke

Siobhan Clarke

Partner

Paul McNabb

Paul McNabb

Venture Partner

Simon Murdoch

Simon Murdoch

Managing Partner

Adrian Lloyd

Adrian Lloyd

Partner

Damien Lane

Damien Lane

Co-Founder & Partner

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