Episode 1

Summary

In 2013 was created Episode 1, which is appeared as VC. The main department of described VC is located in the London. The venture was found in Europe in United Kingdom.

Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom. The fund has exact preference in some founders of portfolio startups. In case when startup counts 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to get the investment is meager. Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight ThirdEye, TVbeat, SWIFT SHIFT. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as E-Commerce, Big Data.

The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Episode 1, startups are often financed by Simon Murdoch, Entrepreneur First, Balderton Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Act Venture Capital, Balderton Capital, Seedcamp. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Upscale, Balderton Capital, Entrepreneur First.

The current fund was established by Adrian Lloyd, Damien Lane, Simon Murdoch. Besides them, we counted 5 critical employees of this fund in our database.

The fund is constantly included in 7-12 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2014. Opposing the other organizations, this Episode 1 works on 27 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The average startup value when the investment from Episode 1 is 100 thousands - 1 million dollars. The top amount of exits for fund were in 2019. Considering the real fund results, this VC is 37 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other organizations. Deals in the range of 1 - 5 millions dollars are the general things for fund.