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auquan

"With Episode 1, the value-add is more than just the monetary investment - they are very hands on with helping us figure out some of our most pressing business, sales and people challenges."

Chandini Jain and Shub Jain

Co-founders

Why we invested

Auquan translates complex financial problems from the fund management industry into mathematical challenges that its network of 10,000 independent data scientists can solve. London-based Auquan provides access to more data science talent than any single fund could ever hope to hire - and has already significantly improved the performance of some of the world’s biggest investment funds.

Co-founders Chandini and Shub Jain, are life-long math puzzle enthusiasts. They are also veterans of both finance and tech, having worked for the likes of Microsoft, Optiver and Gusto. Auquan is proving that the future of investment success is gamified and crowdsourced.

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Ori

"There are good investors, and there are skin-in-the-game investors. Episode 1 are the latter."

Mahdi Yahya and Melissa Doré

Co-founders

Why we invested

Ori Industries are building the next generation of cloud computing infrastructure. Their platform, Ori DNA, allows application developers to seamlessly access thousands of edge computing resources that are highly available and geographically distributed over wide area networks, powering a future that is autonomous, immersive and smart.

Ori are headquartered in London and led by a team of telecom entrepreneurs with 20 years combined experience in the sector, led by Mahdi Yahya CEO, and co-founders Simon Dowling CTO and Melissa Dore COO.

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Pickr

"There’s often a fine line between excellence and mediocrity, Episode 1 truly help us stay on the right side."

Kane Halsey

Founder

Why we invested

Pickr, Founded in 2017 by CEO Kane Halsey, the Norwich-based company helps service providers in the £28bn energy and utilities sectors reduce the cost and time of building and managing a flexible workforce. Using machine learning and intelligent automation, customers can fill their temporary, on-demand, and short-term hiring requirements within hours, saving thousands in recruitment agency fees.

Their goal is to be the connector that everyone in the sector turns to, providing the best opportunities for the unsung heroes who work in all conditions to keep our economy moving and removing the pain and cost of resourcing for businesses in the supply chain.

Kane is joined by Hayley Johnson COO - passionate about driving performance through building teams who relentlessly focus on the customer.

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Klydo

Klydo are building a search engine for open ended questions. They are starting by targeting product innovation in the fast-moving consumer goods (FMCG) space. Their software analyses tens of thousands of product details using machine learning, and plugs the results into their visualisation engine which is highly intuitive and visually navigable. Nick and Wai-chuen studied at Cambridge together, and the company is a combination their different artistic and technical abilities.

"You can be completely open about your business with Episode 1, you really are in it together."

Nick Schweitzer and Wai- Chuen Cheung

Co-founders

Why we invested

Innovation is a core corporate capability - new products and technologies are constantly being created, and the speed of change is too great to rely only on internal resources to innovate. Whether it is to buy, to build or to partner, corporates are investing more resources in the innovation agenda - and currently their only alternative to the kind of service Klydo offers is to pay a lot of money to external consultants. We love the vision and the team - and the clear use case.

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carwow

James Hind (CEO) founded carwow in 2010 as a car review aggregator with the purpose of making choosing a new car effortless. Cars are a wonderful product but they were wrapped up in a outdated buying experience.

"If you can get money from Episode 1, there is not better money to get."

James Hind

Founder

Why we invested

We saw a team of fantastic, responsive and clean thinking co-founders with the drive to break into a huge market.

Since 2010 over £2B+ worth of cars have been bought via carwow. Securing a total of £48M so far, from ourselves and other leading VCs, carwow have gone on to grown to over 200 employees

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ThirdEye

Raz (CEO) founded ThirdEye in 2016 to apply his and his co-founder’s CCTV machine vision expertise to the operations of retailers, specifically in loss-prevention, ops and customer service.

"Very few early stage investors can give the amount and quality of 1-1 support that we've got from Episode 1"

Raz Ghafoor

CEO and Founder

Why we invested

Traditional retailers are under pressure from eCommerce. ThirdEye delivers both cost savings and improves customer service to increase sales using existing CCTV infrastructure made infinitely smarter through the use of ThirdEye’s AI in the form of machine vision. Raz and CTO Peter have impeccable AI and engineering credentials which have persuaded the UK’s leading retailers to work with them.

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FATMAP

Misha is CEO of FATMAP, a gound-breaking 3D terrain mapping platform, considered by many to be the world’s most advanced. With most people still using old methods such as contour maps and guide books, FATMAP displays real-world terrain data and provides integrated ‘guidebook’ content straight to your mobile device.

"A great business needs great investors.
I have a lot of time for these guys."

Misha Gopaul

Co-Founder and CEO

Why we invested

Mapping is a fundamental technology of the digital age, and all the energy and R&D dollars were chasing urban and transportation mapping.

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CloudNC

Theo and Chris co-founded ClouldNC in 2015 to research and apply breakthrough AI methods to control computerised manufacturing, driving a vision of the factory of the future, and revolutionising how the things around us are made.

"I feel a debt of gratitude. Episode 1 believed in us."

Theo Saville

Co-Founder and CEO

Why we invested

What Chris and Theo are doing abstracts the physical world of manufacturing into a software layer, allowing product designers and brands to move forward to the dream of making any product in any volume anywhere in the world - and at an affordable price.

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Attest

Attest is the complete platform for high-quality, high-volume market research & insights. They make it easy for anyone to create, manage & analyse detailed research, any time, anywhere. Built around respondents, they can continuously reach & engage the most valuable customers and markets.

"The Episode 1 team have a rare combination of deep stage-specific experience, genuine care for the portfolio, with an authentic and pragmatic approach."

Jeremy King

Founder and CEO

Why we invested

Jeremy is product obsessed and passionate about helping client making data driven decisions and bringing real-time enterprise level insight to all companies. Great companies put consumers and data at the heart of every decision. Jeremy's mission is to make that possible for everyone, in every business, all of the time.

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Past investments

Aimbrain helps financial institutions easily, securely, and accurately authenticate their mobile banking users.

The world's largest Internet and mobile betting exchange. IPO on London Stock Exchange Oct 2010.

A software business building and running comparison services for large and small comparison sites.

They are a research-led software company developing new information retrieval and machine learning based approaches for web search and automated professional assistance.

Insight analysis - translates data into action with a privacy-first data Human Data platform.

The world's leading fantasy sports platform with millions of users.

The food tech startup that delivers personalised meals to office workers as an alternative. Acquired by Compass Group in May 2020

Was Europe's leading provider of DVD-by-mail and streaming video on demand. Sold to Amazon in 2011.

Leading game technology business. Sold to Zynga for over $500 million in 2014.

Sales teams can target the top leads, Sold to Dun & Bradstreet 2015.

Motivate your team or drive customer loyalty with unique perks, discounts and engagement tools.

High volume ecommerce analytics for brands and retailers to benefit from price and availability information.

Ecommerce basket abandonment service to improve conversion and increase sales. Sold to SAP 2015.

Music & TV audio recognition on your mobile device, leading the 2nd screen movement.

Logistics platform and service for retailers, express courrier delivery. Sold to eBay 2013.

SwiftShift enables organisations with multiple locations to manage their workforce more effectively.

An interactive mobile surgical simulator that guides you step-by-step through every part of an operation. Acquired by Medtronic in Feb 2020

The world's largest online ticket marketplace for buying and selling live event tickets.

Leading online optical retailer. Sold to Essilor 2016.

Smarter property search for the UK. IPO on London Stock Exchange June 2014.

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