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Simon Murdoch

Managing Partner at Episode 1 Ventures

London, England

Invests in

Stages:

Locations:

  • Min Investment:

    $100,000.00
  • Max Investment:

    $5,000,000.00
  • Target Investment:

    $1,500,000.00

Work Experience

  • Managing Partner

    2012

    Episode 1, the backer of successful companies like Carwow, Triptease & CloudNC, is an early stage venture capital firm based in London, with over £100m funds under management to invest in UK software driven startups. Episode 1 leads rounds of £500k to £3m into fantastic teams with real insight into markets that are emerging or evolving. As an early stage fund, we invest in the best opportunities, but are particularly interested in how emerging “deep tech” technologies are disrupting industry, and how technology is reinventing markets.

  • Non Executive Director

    2019

2018

  • Non Executive Director

    2018

  • Non Executive Director

    2014

2014

  • Non Executive Director

    2014

  • Trustee

    2014

2010 - 2016

  • Non Executive Director

    2010 - 2016

    UK's leading contact lenses online retailer with over £30m pa sales. Based in UK with operations in Netherlands, Spain and Italy. I was Chairman until end 2013.

2010 - 2014

  • Non executive director

    2010 - 2014

2008 - 2013

  • Non executive director

    2008 - 2013

    Highly profitable gadgets retailer ready for rapid expansion.

2009 - 2013

  • Chairman

    2009 - 2013

    Awesome same day delivery service for multichannel retailers, purchased by eBay Nov 2013