Episode 1, the backer of successful companies like Carwow, Touch Surgery, Zoopla and Attest, is an early stage venture capital firm based in London, with a £60m fund to invest in UK software driven startups.

Episode 1 leads rounds of £500k to £3m into fantastic 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 that take you on your entrepreneurial journey from Seed to Series A.

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Incredible achievement by the entire Phasecraft team on closing their recent £13m Series A! Co-founders Ashley Montanaro, Toby Cubitt, John Morton are driving forward their mission to revolutionise quantum computing through cutting-edge software algorithms, spanning applications from clean energy to healthcare. We are very excited about their journey ahead 🚀 After investing in their seed round, we’re excited to be following on in this round alongside Playground Global, AlbionVC, Parkwalk Advisors, LCIF LTD and UCL Technology Fund. 

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Discover the secrets of unicorn founders 🦄

After interviewing over 25 unicorn and 75 'soonicorn' founders on Riding Unicorns, our Partner, Hector Mason has gone through his notes and uncovered the traits that make them successful.

He pulled this all together in a 4-minute read which you can find here👉 https://lnkd.in/efNcJM76

Some big news today at Robin AI! We are incredibly proud to announce that we have raised $10.5m in Series A funding. The round, led by Plural Platform, will be used to accelerate and scale our unique ‘lawyer-in-the-loop’ AI model and has enabled us to acquire a cohort of customers from Lawgeex.

Additionally, we have partnered with Anthropic to integrate their LLM into our contract platform to make our software available to everyone, for the first time ever. Stay tuned for more updates this week and watch out for coverage by The Telegraph, Sifted, and Insider Business today. 

A big thank you to our investors, customers, and network for your role in getting us to this milestone! Read about our story and ambitious growth plans. https://lnkd.in/eqBe4A3F

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Tom Blomfield backs startup bringing generative AI to legal sector. ⚡️

Riding the wave of generative AI investments spurred by the excitement around tools like ChatGPT, Robin has secured backing from lead investor Plural.

It also attracted capital from fellow investors Episode 1 Ventures, and an angel cohort that included Monzo founder Tom Blomfield.

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FATMAP is an outdoor adventure platform for web & mobile.

Digital Surgery is a privately-held pioneer in surgical artificial intelligence (AI), data and analytics, and digital education and training

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Episode1 Ventures is a London based venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in the UK.

It was created with a mixture of public and private money, including backing from a number of entrepreneurs including Alex Chesterman of Zoopla Property Group. It is one of the UK Government's Enterprise Capital Funds – set up to support fund managers who invest in small, high-growth businesses. The £12.5 million of private investment was matched with £25 million of public money.

Episode 1 Ventures invests in seed and Series A rounds of up to £2m in software-driven businesses with the potential to transform industries. They’ve been entrepreneurs theirselves so provide a frank and fast approach to investing and they like to play a very hands-on supportive role in growing the businesses they back. They look for entrepreneurs with relevant experience ambitious to change their sector. They like to see that they can hire world-class talent and delegate to them effectively, and that they really know the customers and understand the problem. They also like entrepreneurs that are data-driven. But above all they like people with passion and ambition, that can execute at speed and overcome significant hurdles along the way.

They are building a portfolio of companies that are using software technology to disrupt their chosen marketplaces. It is a diverse group across a range of industries, but with two common themes – a great founder and a big market.  They also like to invest once a company has launched their product and has some clients they can reference. Revenues are usually from zero to £50k per month when they first invest.

They like to play an active role in helping the companies that they invest in, at least until their companies have secured one or more later financing rounds. They want to help entrepreneurs turn their early stage ventures into fast growing companies built to grow into significant and valuable entities.  They see every investment as a partnership. Indeed, they share their office with a number of portfolio companies so they work very closely with them.

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