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Episode 1 Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Episode 1 Ventures invests in early‑stage B2B software companies, particularly those leveraging deep‑tech and AI to disrupt established markets. The firm provides £500k‑£3m (USD $625k‑$3.75m) to help founders scale from...
Portfolio
79+
Employees
25+
Founded
2013
AUM
≈ $95.0M
Investment focus
Stages
Pre-Seed → Seed
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial Intelligence
Geographic scope
Global
Fund details
Funds
Fund III
Vintage 2024 • $95.0
Check sizes
Min: $625.0K
Typical: $2.0M
Max: $3.8M
Sources
Episode 1 Ventures
Episode 1 Ventures invests in early‑stage B2B software companies, particularly those leveraging deep‑tech and AI to disrupt established markets. The firm provides £500k‑£3m (USD $625k‑$3.75m) to help founders scale from pre‑seed or seed to a successful Series A, offering hands‑on support and a strong founder network.
Portfolio
79+
Employees
25+
Founded
2013
AUM
≈ $95.0M
Funds
Fund III · Vintage 2024 • $95.0
Check Sizes
Min: $625.0K
Typical: $2.0M
Max: $3.8M
Stages
Pre-Seed → Seed
Industries
Software OnlyArtificial Intelligence
Geographic scope
Global
Sources
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Provides an AI-driven platform for creating interactive mobile advertisements that engage users through dynamic content and personalized experiences. This solution addresses the challenge of low user engagement in traditional mobile ads by leveraging machine learning to optimize ad performance and increase conversion rates.
Funding: $2.5M
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Funding: $2.5M
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This London-based fintech automates the processing of VAT refunds and tax credits for research and development and creative industries, enabling UK businesses to expedite their claims. By streamlining the refund process, the company enhances cash flow and facilitates access to financial incentives.
Funding: $5.0M
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Funding: $5.0M
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The startup offers a market research platform that enables users to create and distribute surveys via mobile and web applications, facilitating real-time analysis of consumer insights. This technology allows clients to build targeted, anonymous audiences and gather specific demographic data to make informed business decisions.
Uses knowledge graphs and natural language processing (NLP) to automate complex financial workflows, such as investment research, due diligence, and portfolio monitoring. By processing over 2 million data sources in 65+ languages, it reduces manual research time by up to 80%, enabling finance professionals to make faster, data-driven decisions.
Funding: $9.2M
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Funding: $9.2M
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BioCatch offers a behavioral‑biometrics platform that continuously captures over 3,000 behavioral and device signals to generate real‑time risk scores for account‑opening fraud, account takeover, mule activity, and social‑engineering scams. Its cloud‑hosted analytics engine and investigative dashboard integrate with banks’ and fintechs’ fraud‑management and authentication workflows, delivering sub‑second decisions while maintaining a frictionless user experience.
Funding: $70.0M
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Sapphire Ventures
Sapphire Ventures
Funding: $70.0M
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This AI platform delivers strategic retrofit plans for commercial real estate portfolios rapidly, replacing slow, manual energy assessments. It instantly integrates building data to identify compliance risks and prioritize high-value energy efficiency interventions across numerous assets. The solution enables owners to model decarbonization scenarios, optimize capital allocation, and accelerate portfolio sustainability goals.
Carwow is a digital marketplace that aggregates offers from over 5,500 vetted UK dealers for new, used and lease vehicles, enabling buyers and sellers to compare prices side‑by‑side. It includes an algorithmic valuation tool, compliance checkers (ULEZ, MOT, tax) and expert reviews to help users assess vehicle value and eligibility. The platform provides a secure web portal for end‑to‑end transactions without haggling or platform fees.
Funding: $52.0M
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Funding: $52.0M
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The startup offers an online logistics platform that connects shippers with logistics service providers, utilizing advanced algorithms for supply chain optimization. This technology enables customers to efficiently manage complex logistics operations, reducing transportation costs and minimizing vehicle usage.
Funding: $2.6M
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Haatch
Haatch
Funding: $2.6M
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Provides an AI-powered platform for electronic engineering teams to automatically generate and optimize circuit schematics and component selections based on user-defined architectural diagrams and requirements. This reduces design time from weeks or months to seconds, minimizes errors, and ensures cost, size, and performance optimization by evaluating trillions of design combinations.
Funding: $17.4M
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Intel Ignite
Intel Ignite
Funding: $17.4M
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The startup provides an automated CNC milling service that transforms traditional metal component production by enabling one-click programming of milling machines. This technology reduces the need for skilled labor, enhances production efficiency, and increases profit margins per machine while improving lead times and scalability for clients.
Funding: $77.8M
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Funding: $77.8M
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ContextScout is a searchable knowledge hub that consolidates expert analysis, step‑by‑step guides, checklists, and comparative reviews on startup acquisitions and talent acquisition. It offers up‑to‑date recommendations on acquisition workflows, virtual data‑room tools, AI‑driven due diligence, and recruitment platforms, enabling founders, investors, and HR teams to make data‑driven decisions faster and reduce operational costs.
Founded 2015200+
Funding: $521.8K
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Funding: $521.8K
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DeepTide provides a centralized threat‑intelligence platform that aggregates open‑source, vendor and proprietary feeds, normalizes them with AI‑enhanced pipelines, and classifies incidents by technique, sector and regulatory impact. The service delivers real‑time alert streams, searchable knowledge base, risk‑scoring dashboards and API/SIEM connectors, enabling analysts and SOC teams to prioritize mitigations and meet compliance requirements.
Dragonfly is an AI-powered platform that instantly identifies and recommends tailored software solutions for building a business's technology stack. It leverages a comprehensive, unbiased database of over 250,000 tools to provide objective comparisons on price, features, and integration capabilities. This service accelerates the tool selection process, enabling businesses to make fact-based technology architecture decisions quickly.
Funding: $3.4M
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Episode 1
Episode 1
Funding: $3.4M
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EdgeTier provides an AI‑powered conversation intelligence platform that captures 100 % of customer interactions across chat, email, voice and surveys, automatically tagging contact reasons, extracting sentiment and detecting anomalies in real time. The solution aggregates insights in a unified dashboard, offers AI‑assisted quality‑assurance scorecards for agent coaching, and integrates with major CX systems via pre‑built connectors or APIs, while meeting GDPR and ISO 27001 security standards.
Funding: $6.5M
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Smedvig Ventures
Smedvig Ventures
Funding: $6.5M
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Provides an automated billing platform for healthcare providers that integrates with existing practice management systems to streamline insurance claim submissions. By validating insurance details, applying correct pricing, and resolving errors automatically, it reduces manual workload, minimizes payment delays, and ensures providers receive accurate compensation for services rendered.
Emoov is a UK‑based online estate agency that lets homeowners and landlords list properties for sale or rent on major portals such as Rightmove, Zoopla and OnTheMarket for a fixed fee, eliminating traditional percentage‑based commissions. The platform provides essential services—including AML checks, market appraisals, professional photography, floor‑plans, video walkthroughs and a dedicated consultant—while owners retain full control over viewings and negotiations via an in‑app messaging system. Optional premium upgrades and completion‑management services are available on an à‑la‑carte basis for additional transparency and flexibility.
Funding: $2.4M
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Funding: $2.4M
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Feedr is a cloud-based catering platform that enables businesses to efficiently manage and book catering services across multiple locations in Europe and Australia. By centralizing catering options and streamlining the ordering process, Feedr addresses the challenge of coordinating diverse food services for corporate environments, enhancing employee satisfaction and operational efficiency.
Funding: $1.9M
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Episode 1
Episode 1
Funding: $1.9M
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Fig Finance operates a worldwide lending platform that connects global and local lenders with strong B2B businesses in underserved markets. The platform utilizes API integrations and data science to streamline analogue lending processes, significantly reducing deal cycles. This infrastructure allows lenders of all sizes to efficiently originate and operate B2B loans at scale, providing scalable credit access to SMEs.
Emurgo Africa
FluidStack provides on-demand access to thousands of NVIDIA A100 and H100 GPUs, enabling AI engineers to rapidly scale their training and inference workloads without long-term contracts. The platform offers fully managed GPU clusters with 24/7 support, significantly reducing operational overhead and accelerating model deployment.
Funding: $4.5M
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Funding: $4.5M
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Provides an AI-powered workspace that integrates over 100 business applications, enabling real-time cross-app data search, linking, and collaboration. By deploying customizable AI employees, teams can automate tasks, centralize knowledge, and improve productivity without switching between multiple tools.
Funding: $1.5M
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Episode 1
Episode 1
Funding: $1.5M
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Global App Testing provides on‑demand crowdtesting by connecting product teams with a vetted pool of over 145,000 professional testers in more than 190 countries. The platform lets clients create custom test scenarios for technical, payment, localization, accessibility, and AI evaluation needs, delivering real‑world results across any device, OS, network condition, or language through an integrated launchpad with detailed bug reports, analytics, and compliance insights.
FPE Capital
Huboo provides eCommerce fulfillment services through a combination of advanced logistics technology and a dedicated team, enabling businesses to efficiently manage inventory, order processing, and shipping. By offering over 35 integrations with various marketplaces and a 99.9% picking accuracy rate, Huboo helps businesses scale their operations and reach a global audience without the complexities of in-house fulfillment.
Funding: $241.8M
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Funding: $241.8M
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IAND provides a modular, cloud‑based ecosystem management platform for infrastructure and construction projects, centralizing supplier relationship management, sub‑consultant coordination, and alliance governance. Users can select from purpose‑built kits—Analytics, Connect, Optimise, Protect, Elevate, and Tailored—to gain real‑time insights, streamline delivery, ensure compliance, and benchmark performance, reducing manual effort and improving supply‑chain efficiency.
Funding: $913.8K
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Funding: $913.8K
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Intryc provides an AI-powered platform for quality assurance (QA) and training across both human and AI customer experience (CX) agents. The platform automates QA processes, generates personalized coaching content, and offers AI simulations to improve agent performance and efficiency. This solution integrates with existing helpdesks to deliver scalable evaluation insights and accelerate agent onboarding.
Funding: $5.1M
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Funding: $5.1M
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