# Adrian Lloyd

> Adrian Lloyd is a seed investor at Episode 1 (London) backing Information Technology and Retail. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Episode 1](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/episode)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Mar 2023
- Lead investor: 21%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: http://uk.linkedin.com/in/adrianelloyd
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/AdsLloyd
- Website: https://x.com/AdsLloyd

Adrian Lloyd is a Partner at Episode 1, an early stage Venture Capital fund focusing on software enabled businesses with the beginnings of customer traction.Adrian has had a career as a management consultant and entrepreneur, with a gap at Stanford Business School in 2008-10 where he earned his MBA.He focuses on customer-centric product andbusiness design as an investor and you can read more of his thoughts at http://www.episode1.com/news-and-blog/blogAdrian has been investing in software businesses since 2008.

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $856k–$3.3M |
| Pre-Seed | $660k–$675k |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Information Technology | 4 | 29% |
| Retail | 2 | 14% |
| Software | 2 | 14% |
| Analytics | 2 | 14% |
| E-Commerce | 2 | 14% |

27 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 21% |
| Angel | 2 | 14% |
| Series A | 2 | 14% |
| Funding Round | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Presentient Technologies | Presentient Technologies provides pharmaceutical and drug research businesses with real-time and predictive information on the status of clinical trials through the meristem platform. |  | Pre-Seed | Mar 03, 2023 |  |
| Robin | Robin is the pioneering Legal Intelligence company, transforming how businesses understand and leverage their legal agreements. Founded in 2019, Robin serves Fortune 500 companies and growing enterprises with AI-powered contract analysis and legal workflow automation. The company is backed by leading investors including Paypal Ventures, Temasek andPlural.Through proprietary AI models, and partnerships with Anthropic and AWS, in-house legal teams can extract, synthesize and analyze data across contracts and legal documents at scale, integrating with CLMs, SharePoint, Box, Google Drive, and Dropbox. | $10.5M | Series A | Feb 27, 2023 |  |
| Robin | Robin is the pioneering Legal Intelligence company, transforming how businesses understand and leverage their legal agreements. Founded in 2019, Robin serves Fortune 500 companies and growing enterprises with AI-powered contract analysis and legal workflow automation. The company is backed by leading investors including Paypal Ventures, Temasek andPlural.Through proprietary AI models, and partnerships with Anthropic and AWS, in-house legal teams can extract, synthesize and analyze data across contracts and legal documents at scale, integrating with CLMs, SharePoint, Box, Google Drive, and Dropbox. | $3.3M | Seed | Dec 09, 2021 |  |
| Narchie | Buy. Sell. Discover homeware. The social marketplace app for decor enthusiasts to connect. | $660.5K | Pre-Seed | Jul 31, 2021 |  |
| SupplyCompass | SupplyCompass is a product development and production management platform that enables fashion brands and manufacturers to produce better, together. Our cloud-based software is transforming the fashion industry by digitalising global supply chains and making sustainable sourcing easy and cost-effective for brands and every player in the supplychain. Our platform enables brands to manage the entire product development, sourcing and production process from design right through to delivery, all in one place. | $1.9M | Seed | Jul 12, 2019 |  |
| ThirdEye | ThirdEye is building the world’s first real-time CCTV powered AI assistant to put in the hands of public space workers. Our context aware alert systems detect relevant events in CCTV streams and deliver notifications to staff members in real-time while our analytics tools make data-driven decision making available to brick-and-mortar retailers. Wekeep our clients productive and competitive in an ever evolving market. | $2.5M | Series A | Mar 18, 2019 |  |
| Jump | Launched in late 2018 after 2 years of R&D supported by competitive grant funding from the UK & NL Government, Jump is a people analytics platform that gives everyone a chance to succeed. By understanding what makes people unique and linking this to business outcomes, Jump gives more personalised job recommendations to professionals, inturn attracting much better job applications to businesses. Win:win for both!Jump is backed by outstanding investors whose successes include Revolut, CarWow, GoodLord, Magic Pony and many others. Jump collaborates with Imperial College and other top UK Universities in the development of the data science and algorithms behind Jump.Looking for new career options or just a change of scenery? Sign up and receive personalised job matches - absolutely and always for free - at https://app.jump.work/jobsLooking to transform your talent attraction using people analytics? Drop me a note and we can chat! |  | Seed | Feb 01, 2019 |  |
| SimplyCook | SimplyCook offers home recipe kits with easy step-by-step guides to cook restaurant-quality food in less than 20 minutes.SimplyCook boxes contain 4 easy to follow recipes and 4 ingredient kits. Each kit is designed to provide perfect taste-containing ingredient blends devised by professional chefs. | $2.5M |  | Jul 31, 2017 |  |
| Wevat | Wevat makes it easy for tourists to get tax back on shopping in Europe. | $318K | Angel | Jan 17, 2017 |  |
| ThirdEye | ThirdEye is building the world’s first real-time CCTV powered AI assistant to put in the hands of public space workers. Our context aware alert systems detect relevant events in CCTV streams and deliver notifications to staff members in real-time while our analytics tools make data-driven decision making available to brick-and-mortar retailers. Wekeep our clients productive and competitive in an ever evolving market. | $856K | Seed | Jul 05, 2016 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [True.](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/trueglobal) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [500 Global](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/500-startups) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Cambridge Angels group](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambridge-angels-group) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Forward Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/forward-partners) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Maxfield Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/maxfield-capital) — VC Fund, 1 deal together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 1 deal together

## About Episode 1

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Episode1 Ventures is a London based venture capital fund set up to invest in early-stage technology companies based in the UK.It was created with a mixture of public and private money, including backing from a number of entrepreneurs including Alex Chesterman of Zoopla Property Group. It is one of the UK Government's Enterprise Capital Funds– set up to support fund managers who invest in small, high-growth businesses. The £12.5 million of private investment was matched with £25 million of public money.Episode 1 Ventures invests in seed and Series A rounds of up to £2m in software-driven businesses with the potential to transform industries. They’ve been entrepreneurs theirselves so provide a frank and fast approach to investing and they like to play a very hands-on supportive role in growing the businesses they back. They look for entrepreneurs with relevant experience ambitious to change their sector. They like to see that they can hire world-class talent and delegate to them effectively, and that they really know the customers and understand the problem. They also like entrepreneurs that are data-driven. But above all they like people with passion and ambition, that can execute at speed and overcome significant hurdles along the way.They are building a portfolio of companies that are using software technology to disrupt their chosen marketplaces. It is a diverse group across a range of industries, but with two common themes – a great founder and a big market. They also like to invest once a company has launched their product and has some clients they can reference. Revenues are usually from zero to £50k per month when they first invest.They like to play an active role in helping the companies that they invest in, at least until their companies have secured one or more later financing rounds. They want to help entrepreneurs turn their early stage ventures into fast growing companies built to grow into significant and valuable entities. They see every investment as a partnership. Indeed, they share their office with a number of portfolio companies so they work very closely with them.

5 contacts available at Episode 1.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Simon Murdoch | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/simon-murdoch |
| Adrian Lloyd | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/adrian-lloyd |
| Damien Lane | Co-Founder & Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/damien-lane |
| Hector Mason | Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hector-mason-4696 |
| Leah Martin | Marketing, Communications & Events Manager | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/leah-martin |

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## FAQ

### What does Adrian Lloyd invest in?

Adrian Lloyd invests primarily in Information Technology, Retail and Software startups, most often at Seed and Pre-Seed stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Adrian Lloyd's check size?

Adrian Lloyd typically joins rounds of $856k–$3.3M at Seed and $660k–$675k at Pre-Seed. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Adrian Lloyd participates in.

### When did Adrian Lloyd last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Adrian Lloyd closed in Mar 2023. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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