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Episode 1 Ventures

https://www.episode1.com
Last activity: 16.10.2025
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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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Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 1-10
Founded date: 2013
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Pre-Seed; Seed; Series A
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21.03.2023In the ‘Hot Seat’ with Adam ShuaibWhat’s your name and where are you from? Hi – I’m Adam. Half-Irish, half-Pakistani. Nomadic childhood living in the U.K., Ireland, Pakistan, Canada and Brunei Three words to describe yourself? Obsessive, relentless, unconventional Wha...
07.02.2023In the Hot Seat with Steph Orde, CFO at Episode 1What’s your name and where are you from? Steph. Born in Guildford. Decade in London. Now in Hampshire Three words to describe yourself? Curious, Hard working, Adventurous What has been your biggest success in your life so far? At work,...
07.02.2023Omnipresent raises $120M Series BYesterday, Omnipresent announced their $120M Series B led by Kinnevik and Tencent. We’ve had a front row seat since co-leading the Seed round alongside Playfair in early 2020. Back then, I had a strong belief that the structural advant...
08.12.2021In the ‘Hot Seat’ with David RajanCEO of Opteran This week we interviewed David to understand all things Opteran and where it all began. Opteran reverse-engineers biological systems onto silicon, enabling machines to see, sense, navigate and make decisions better than exis...
06.12.2021In the ‘Hot Seat’ with Paul BennettPaul Bennett , Co-Founder & CEO at Perchpeek Paul is one of our awesome Episode 1 CEO’s. He loves his sport, he’s super positive and he wears his Perchpeek merch with pride. Find out all about what makes this CEO tick… Paul Ben...
28.04.2021What I learnt at an Episode 1 CEO dinnerOne thing that stands out is the closeness of the relationship between the Episode 1 investment team and the portfolio companies. Beyond a deep and defining mutual respect, there is also the stuff at the core of all good relationships – act...
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16.10.2025Jack & Jill Raises $20M in Seed FundingJack&Jill, a London, UK-based AI recruitment company, raised $20m in seed funding. Backers included Creandum (lead), as well as VCs including Dig Ventures, Entrepreneur First, Ada Ventures, Firedrop, Repeat.vc, Episode1, Playfair and ov...
13.10.2025Dragonfly Takes Flight: AI Startup Secures €3M to Reshape Enterprise Software DecisionsLondon's Dragonfly secured €3M in pre-seed funding. The AI startup revolutionizes software decision-making for businesses. Its platform acts as an automated solutions architect. It offers instant, tailored recommendations from a vast databa...
08.10.2025London-based Dragonfly raises €3 million to simplify software decision-making with AILondon-based startup Dragonfly has raised €3 million in a pre-seed funding round to make software decision-making faster and smarter through AI. The round was led by Episode 1, with participation from Dreamcraft and Portfolio Ventures, as w...
08.10.2025Dragonfly Raises £2.6M in Pre-Seed FundingDragonfly, a London, UK-based provider of a software discovery platform, raised £2.6M in Pre-Seed funding. The round was led by Episode 1, joined by Dreamcraft and Portfolio Ventures, with angels including QuantumBlack founder and CTO Sam B...
27.08.2025Mantic which claims to forecast global events emerges from stealthA London-based startup, which claims to have developed AI-powered tech which can forecast world events, has come out of stealth, following a $4m pre-seed funding. Called Mantic, the startup’s pre-seed funding round was led by London-based e...
26.06.2025RevEng.ai Secures $4.15M Seed Round to Tackle Software Supply Chain SecurityReveng.AI RevEng.ai, a cutting-edge start-up building foundation AI models for identifying security threats and vulnerabilities in software, is thrilled to announce the successful completion of its $4.15 million seed funding round. This mil...
06.05.2025StackOne Raises $20 Million Series A led by GV (Google Ventures) to Reinvent SaaS and AI Agent IntegrationsStackOne is the AI-powered platform supercharging SaaS and AI developers to build real-time enterprise integrations with unrivalled speed, scale and 5x better accuracy Its AI integrations agent connects complex enterprise APIs in days inste...
06.05.2025StackOne raises $20M for easier API integration, led by Big Tech backersLondon-based StackOne has raised $20M in a Series A round led by GV (formerly Google Ventures), with participation from Workday Ventures, XTX Ventures, Episode 1, Playfair, and angel investors from OpenAI, DeepMind, Microsoft, and Mulesoft....
06.05.2025British AI startup StackOne raises €17.6 million to reinvent SaaS and AI agent integrationsLondon-based StackOne, an AI-powered platform fuelling enterprise AI agents and SaaS integrations – has raised €17.6 million in a Series A funding round in order to build StackOne’s tool-calling LLM, invest in R&D, and further expand th...
31.01.2025Zelt's $6M Funding: A Game Changer for Workforce ManagementIn the bustling world of HR technology, Zelt has emerged as a beacon of innovation. The London-based company recently secured $6 million in funding, led by Nauta, with support from Venrex and Episode 1. This financial boost is not just a nu...
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