Adrian Lloyd

Founding Partner

2012 - Current

Episode 1, the backer of successful companies like Carwow, Triptease & AimBrain, is an early stage venture capital firm based in London, with a £60m fund to invest in UK software driven startups. Episode 1 leads rounds of £500k to £2m 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. We believe that software has already and will continue to change the way we do everything. We as individuals and we as businesses. The obvious examples are around us everywhere. The Googles, Facebooks and eBays. But there are thousands of companies of all sizes making material differences to our lives. Amongst our past investments, Shazam has changed how people discover music and interact with TV shows, Zoopla has made searching for properties immeasurably easier, LoveFilm has brought better films more easily into our living rooms and BetFair has created a superior betting experience for both sides of a bet. We receive great business plans every week. Not all of them are ready for investment, but we help those that are there or nearly there get their first round of institutional support. We believe that if someone is buying your service, then we want to look at it, as long as your target market is big enough. Other: Adrian is a mentor at TechStars London

Director

2019

Director

2018

Director Board Of Directors

2019

Board Director

2016

ThirdEye labs is a leading the development of machine vision innovation for commercial use in security and retail and beyond. An Entrepreneur First graduate of 2016.

Board Director

2014

Board Director

2015

SimplyCook sends convenient pacakges of concentrated sauces, spices and herbs with easy to follow recipe cards to allow you to cook restaurant quality meals at home in 20 minutes. All you need to do is buy the fresh ingredients in your weekly shop and cook away!

Director

2019

Founder

2012

Consultant

2006 - 2008

•Proposed, researched and won support to establish Marakon in China •Broke even in first year of operations with sales of $300,000 •Responsible for business development strategy and execution, including founding and leading a global, 12 person China Strategy Team with representatives in every Marakon office •Selected as lead consultant in pitches for and consequent management of 4 multi-national projects in Tokyo, Shanghai and Singapore. Led teams of 4 – 6 Associates from 4 countries.

Associate Consultant

2004 - 2006

•Led analysis into emerging technologies and personalized healthcare for Roche ($128B mkt cap). Team’s analysis became a key component of Roche’s “View of the Future” and led to $3B of acquisitions over the following 12 months •Developed materials for and facilitated a strategy development workshop in Beijing for global top 30 managers at Prudential ($35B mkt cap life insurer) •Analyzed product and plant economic profitability of European operations for Alcan ($37B mkt cap global aluminum manufacturer). Work led to a change in strategic direction for EU operations