Early-stage VC
is broken
We’ve built Athena to fix it
Over the last 3 years we’ve leveraged our in-house AI expertise to develop a unique data-driven platform granting us unparalleled access and insight into the very best early-stage founders
Our proprietary AI models ingest the entire digital footprint of a start-up in order to flag high-potential opportunities, and already perform beyond the capabilities of a top-quartile VC investor.
Athena lets us:
Discover new founders before anyone else in the market
Analyse unique founder personality traits to uncover hidden gems missed by other investors
Reduce bias and reliance on gut instinct
Optimise our portfolio size and follow-on strategy
We have the proof points to back it up:
Recent Athena-sourced deals include outlier founders from unicorns such as GoCardless, BenevolentAI and Google
Our training data now encompasses granular information on over 15,000 early stage companies across Europe
Our work has been featured on Sky News, TechCrunch and Sifted amongst others
We are not replacing humans with tech
We believe in a human-machine hybrid approach where our AI models supercharge Episode 1’s existing world-class network and access
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