Episode 1 is a venture capital fund formed by experienced entrepreneurs and operators that invests in early stage business to business software companies.
Mercia Ventures led the Series A round to support product development and industry partnerships.
"Risk Ledger provides us with a more holistic, real time view of our complex supply chain, helping to identify and remediate potential vulnerabilities and issues early."
Neotribe Ventures led the seed financing round to support product development and US expansion.
"Auquan’s product surfaces valuable ‘unknown unknowns’ for our emerging market portfolios without requiring us to search,"
The London human resources platform raised the capital from backers including Episode 1 Ventures and Village Global.
"Until now, companies needed to piece together a number of different tools in order to run even basic people operations, due to the limited scope of the existing tools available. This made it difficult for companies to take a holistic approach, not to mention facilitate automation and self-service options,"
Eight Roads led the Series B financing round with backing from Bessemer Venture Partners, Episode 1, Dynamo Ventures, and Moguntia Capital.
"We founded Raft as an AI-first company because we saw an opportunity to empower freight forwarders and customs brokers with technology, and take pressure off their operational teams so that they could focus on their customers instead of their keyboards,"
The Dublin based artificial intelligence startup secured backing from Smedvig Capital, Episode 1, and Act Venture Capital.
"Companies will simply not be able to compete without AI and machine learning augmenting their ability to understand and support their customers at scale. We want to help more contact centres and customer experience professionals recover the missed insights in their conversations, react faster to changes, and have the data they need at their fingertips to make decisions. Over the fundraise, we’ve been really impressed with the Smedvig team; Joe and Maeve are already bringing great value to the business and I’m really excited to partner with them now on the journey ahead."
