Simon Murdoch
Non Executive Director at Circuit Mind
Simon Murdoch
Non Executive Director at Circuit Mind
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Managing Partner
2012 - Current
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
Non Executive Director
2018
Non Executive Director
2014
Non Executive Director
2014
Trustee
2014
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.
Non executive director
2010 - 2014
Non executive director
2008 - 2013
Highly profitable gadgets retailer ready for rapid expansion.
Chairman
2009 - 2013
Awesome same day delivery service for multichannel retailers, purchased by eBay Nov 2013
Investments
Latest Articles
2020 — what Brexit means and how to prepare for it
2019 — things are getting distributed, edgy and interesting. By Simon Murdoch
Talks about Blockchain, Brexit and technology ecosystem in the UK
eMoov learned the hard way what it costs to win
Talks about Real Estate, eMoov and online estate agency
Don’t invest in warring founders
Talks about Venture Capital, founder relationships and startup investment