Episode 1 Ventures
Episode 1 Ventures is a venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in London, UK. Its portfolio includes Carwow, eMoov, Simply Cook and Attest.
The three partners behind the fund – Simon Murdoch, Damien Lane and Adrian Lloyd – are experienced entrepreneurs and investors, and have been through every stage of the start-up process, from inception to initial public offering. The fund invests between £250,000 and £2 million in up to thirty early-stage companies.[1]
The team at Episode 1 Ventures previously made early investments in a number of technology businesses including Betfair (which is now listed on the London Stock Exchange and has a market cap of over £1.3 billion), LoveFilm (which was sold to Amazon.com in 2011), Natural Motion (which was sold to Zynga in 2014), ScanSafe (which was sold to Cisco Systems in 2009), Shazam and Zoopla (which is also listed on the London Stock Exchange).[2]
It was created with a mixture of public and private money, including backing from 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.[3] The government's Business Secretary Vince Cable endorsed the launch of the fund, saying it 'will target a serious gap in the equity market for high-growth small firms'.[4]
Two of the three partners – Simon Murdoch and Damien Lane – previously worked at Octopus Investments.[5]
Investments[edit]
Investments made by Episode 1 Ventures include the following software-driven businesses:
- eMoov[6] - the online estate agent
- Carwow[7] - the car buying platform
- User Replay[8] - the customer experience management (CEM) software provider.
- Triptease[9] - the travel SaaS business
- ClusterHQ (ceased trading)[10][11] - the container data company
- SimplyCook[12] - the food discovery service
- Scurri[13] - the delivery management platform for online merchants
- Attest[14] - the market research platform
References[edit]
- ↑ Baker, Dylan (8 October 2013). "Government-backed £37.5m Episode 1 Fund to be invested in UK startups". Tech City News. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ Coleman, Alison (22 October 2014). "London VC Seeks Intern To Find And Track 'The Next Zuckerberg'". Forbes.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ Moules, Jonathan (7 October 2013). "Entrepreneurs in mobile and web start-ups venture". http://FT.com. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ "Zoopla's Alex Chesterman and Shutl's Tom Allason contribute to early-stage tech venture fund". Growth Business. 8 October 2013. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ Rooney, Ben (10 October 2013). "New Venture-Capital Firm Opens in London, Funded by Public Money". Wall Street Journal. Retrieved 4 October 2014.
- ↑ White, Anna (20 January 2015). "Zoopla investor backs online estate agent eMoov". Daily Telegraph. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ O'Hear, Steve (14 December 2014). "Car Buying Platform Carwow Secures £4.6M Series A To Step On The Gas". TechCrunch. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ "Black-box recorder for e-commerce bags venture capital investment". growthbusiness.co.uk. 30 October 2014. Retrieved 21 January 2015.
- ↑ . TechCrunch. 20 January 2015 https://techcrunch.com/2015/02/19/triptease/. Retrieved 21 January 2015. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ "ClusterF***ed · ClusterHQ". clusterhq.com. Retrieved 2017-03-03.
- ↑ . CrunchBase https://www.crunchbase.com/organization/hybridcluster. Retrieved 21 January 2015. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ . TechCrunch https://techcrunch.com/2015/04/28/simplycook/. Retrieved 28 April 2015. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ . Silicon Republic http://www.siliconrepublic.com/start-ups/item/36101-e-commerce-player-scurri-ra. Retrieved 11 March 2014. Missing or empty
|title=(help) - ↑ . Attest https://www.askattest.com/people#investors-and-advisors. Retrieved 18 May 2016. Missing or empty
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