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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 Cars are a wonderful product but they were wrapped up in a outdated buying experience.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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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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Aimbrain

Aimbrain was founded by ML graduates Alessis Novak and Andrius Sutas. Using a Biometric Authentication platform consisting of Facial, Voice and Behavioural Modules, Aimbrain helps financial institutions easily, securely, and accurately authenticate their mobile banking users.

"It’s extremely easy to talk about Episode 1 because they are that good"

Andrius Sutas

Co-Founder and CEO

Why we invested

Understanding the identity of the other party in a transaction is a fundamental problem in the digital world, and AimBrains multi-modality biometric deep learning identity platform is unique.

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Past investments

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.

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.

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.

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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