Episode 1: Investment Portfolio & Startup News
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Investment Portfolio
Veridue raises a £3m pre-seed round led by Episode 1 Ventures to run AI due diligence on energy infra and data centre deals
Veridue is an AI-native due diligence and M&A platform purpose-built for energy infrastructure and data centres. Investors, IPPs, lenders and insurers use it to screen deals and produce full due diligence in hours, while developers and sellers use it to get projects investment-ready and bankable.
Ossprey lands a £2m pre-seed round led by Episode 1 to protect software from malicious open source code
Ossprey is a software supply chain security platform that continuously scans open source packages for malicious code. Engineering teams use the platform to identify threats in packages before those packages reach developers and production environments.
Record OS raises £1.8m in a pre-seed round led by Episode 1 to launch Self-Assessment and Making Tax Digital platform
Record OS is a United Kingdom startup building a modern Self-Assessment and Making Tax Digital platform for individuals, sole traders, freelancers and professionals with complex finances. The platform combines software automation with human review by a qualified tax professional before every filing is submitted.
Poindexter Labs lands a £2m seed round led by Episode 1 to supply frontier AI labs with expert STEM training data
Poindexter Labs builds high-fidelity STEM training data for frontier AI models using a collaborative, academic peer-review workflow rather than conventional factory-style annotation platforms. Its network of Olympiad medalists, PhDs and professors produces expert reasoning datasets covering advanced mathematics, scientific reasoning, legal analysis and domain expertise across medicine, finance and engineering.
Sable Bio secures a £2.7m seed round led by MMC Ventures to improve drug safety assessment for pharma firms
Sable Bio builds AI tools to assess drug target safety in pharmaceutical research. Its platform analyses scientific data to identify potential toxicity risks earlier in development.
Refute lands a £5m seed round led by Amadeus Capital Partners to counter disinformation and hybrid warfare threats
Refute builds technology to identify and respond to online disinformation campaigns. It provides organisations with intelligence and response guidance to manage reputational and security risks.
Jack & Jill lands £15m seed round led by Creandum to take its AI recruiter and candidate matching system global
Jack & Jill uses agentic AI recruiters to match candidates and roles through natural conversations, delivering faster hiring, reduced bias and lower costs for employers and jobseekers.
Dragonfly launches with £2.6m pre-seed led by Episode 1 for its tech companion to help firms build the right tech stack
Dragonfly builds a conversational AI platform that helps companies choose and manage their software stack, using a large catalogue of tools to recommend secure, compatible technology combinations.
Mantic launches from stealth with £3m pre-seed led by Episode 1 to develop judgmental forecasting systems with AI
Mantic builds AI forecasting systems that predict geopolitical, economic and business events, combining reasoning and large-scale simulation to deliver probabilistic insights for decision-makers in uncertain environments.
StackOne raises £15m Series A led by GV to build the universal integration layer for enterprise software
StackOne builds an AI-driven integration platform that connects enterprise software and AI agents, enabling secure, scalable integrations without lengthy custom engineering work.
Zelt raises £5m led by Nauta to build an all-in-one people operations platform
Zelt provides an all-in-one people operations platform that brings HR, payroll, expenses, device management and employee data into a single system, helping mid-sized businesses replace fragmented tools and automate workflows across the employee lifecycle.
Refute raises £2.3m pre-seed led by Playfair and Episode 1 to tackle the growing threat of disinformation campaigns
Refute develops software that detects and responds to coordinated disinformation campaigns against organisations, tracking narratives across channels to enable earlier identification and faster in-context response.
GV and TQ Ventures lead £30m Series A for Lawhive to bring AI-powered legal tech to law firms in the US
Lawhive provides AI-powered software for small and mid-sized law firms, automating routine legal work and connecting lawyers with clients through an integrated legal services platform.
Viable secures £2.4m seed funding to improve financial solutions for online and multi-channel merchants
Viable builds finance tools for online and multi-channel merchants, using payments and open banking data to improve forecasting, cashflow management and access to embedded finance.
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