Hector Mason

General Partner at Episode 1, Host of Riding Unicorns, Forbes 30 Under 30

📍 London, England, United Kingdom🔄 Updated October 2026💼 9 investments📅 8 years investing🗓 Last invested Jun 2025
VC🌍 United Kingdom
9
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6
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0
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1
Late stage
8y
Years active

Portfolio

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Pre-seed investor
Jun 2025
Meet Jack and Jill. Two AI agents that introduce remarkable people to remarkable companies. Jack is an AI agent that finds your next job and helps you land it. Already helping over 230,000 people take the next step in their career. Jill is an AI agent for recruiting. Already helping thousands of companies make their next great hire. Heres where it gets interesting. Jack and Jill work together. Jack knows what professionals are looking for, long before theyre ready to move. Jill knows what thousands of companies need, far beyond whats written in the job description. When both sides match, they introduce the candidate and the decision maker directly. No cold outreach. No black hole. Just warm introductions that work.
Board Member
Jul 2024
A new way to reward
Pre-seed investor
Feb 2022
Lawhive is an AI-native consumer law firm transforming how legal services are delivered. We combine experienced lawyers with our proprietary AI operating system to reduce cost, complexity and delay in everyday legal matters - from family law and housing disputes to property, employment and consumer rights. Built to serve both consumers and lawyers, Lawhive helps people access high-quality legal support with greater ease and transparency and while enabling lawyers to scale their practices without being held back by manual processes or legacy systems. Our platform automates core workflows such as client intake, document drafting, research, case management and payments, supported by Lawrence - our AI paralegal working alongside legal teams. In 2026, Lawhive raised $60m in Series B funding, led by Mitch Rales, with participation from GV, Balderton Capital, TQ Ventures & more. The funding is accelerating our growth and the continued development of our AI operating system for consumer law. Founded in the UK and now operating across the US and UK, Lawhive supports tens of thousands of clients each year and powers a growing network of 750+ lawyers delivering modern, efficient consumer law at scale. Join us If you’re a lawyer, learn more and join Lawhive here: 👉 www.lawhive.co.uk/work-with-us For engineering, AI, product, operations and sales roles, apply here: 👉 www.lawhive.co.uk/careers
early stageLaw Practice
Angel investor
Jan 2022
Various board memberships
Board Observer
Jan 2020
At Circuit Mind, we believe that humanitys continued march of progress is dependent on the creation of extraordinary hardware inventions. From clean renewable energy to space travel, electronic devices are the backbone of our civilisations future. We have built a novel software that turns a hardware architecture into a circuit board schematic in seconds, allowing these inventions to be built over 100x faster and fully optimised. We are a close-knit, diverse team tackling hard problems that no one has ever solved before, pushing beyond what is currently thought to be possible. Join us as we continue to build on our success, and become part of the hardware revolution.
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Webiny Serverless CMS includes: 1️⃣ Page Builder - Drag&drop page editor. Pages are prerendered automatically and cached on CloudFront for lightning-fast delivery. 2️⃣ Headless CMS - Headless CMS with a GraphQL API. Build APIs and content models through a UI. It includes content revisions, localization, and fine-grain permission control. 3️⃣ File Manager - Upload files images. Search and organize your assets. It includes a built-in image editor for basic image manipulations. 4️⃣ Form Builder - Build forms with a drag&drop editor. Insert forms through Page Builder into your pages. It has webhook support and ReCaptcha integration. All Webiny apps can be customized easily to fully fit an enterprise publishing workflow and integrate with leading identity providers like OKTA and Cognito.
Board Observer
Oct 2019
Webiny Serverless CMS includes: 1️⃣ Page Builder - Drag&drop page editor. Pages are prerendered automatically and cached on CloudFront for lightning-fast delivery. 2️⃣ Headless CMS - Headless CMS with a GraphQL API. Build APIs and content models through a UI. It includes content revisions, localization, and fine-grain permission control. 3️⃣ File Manager - Upload files images. Search and organize your assets. It includes a built-in image editor for basic image manipulations. 4️⃣ Form Builder - Build forms with a drag&drop editor. Insert forms through Page Builder into your pages. It has webhook support and ReCaptcha integration. All Webiny apps can be customized easily to fully fit an enterprise publishing workflow and integrate with leading identity providers like OKTA and Cognito.
Investor
Apr 2019
Episode 1, the backer of successful companies like Carwow, CloudNC, Raft, Robin AI, TouchSurgery, Zoopla, Omnipresent and Attest, is a VC firm investing in B2B software startups at Pre-Seed and Seed. Episode 1 invests £500k to £3m into extraordinary 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 are the company builders focussed on helping you raise a successful Series A.
Pre-seed Investor
Sep 2018
Fluidstack accelerates the world’s most ambitious AI projects by removing the bottlenecks to compute. Partnering with leading AI labs, governments, and enterprises, we deploy scaled infrastructure at speed to unlock a future of abundant intelligence.
Experience · 14 entries
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Investments (9)
Founder (4)
Board (4)
2025
Pre-seed investor
Jun 2025
Meet Jack and Jill. Two AI agents that introduce remarkable people to remarkable companies. Jack is an AI agent that finds your next job and helps you land it. Already helping over 230,000 people take the next step in their career. Jill is an AI agent for recruiting. Already helping thousands of companies make their next great hire. Heres where it gets interesting. Jack and Jill work together. Jack knows what professionals are looking for, long before theyre ready to move. Jill knows what thousands of companies need, far beyond whats written in the job description. When both sides match, they introduce the candidate and the decision maker directly. No cold outreach. No black hole. Just warm introductions that work.
2024
Board Member
Jul 2024
A new way to reward
2022
Pre-seed investor
Feb 2022
Lawhive is an AI-native consumer law firm transforming how legal services are delivered. We combine experienced lawyers with our proprietary AI operating system to reduce cost, complexity and delay in everyday legal matters - from family law and housing disputes to property, employment and consumer rights. Built to serve both consumers and lawyers, Lawhive helps people access high-quality legal support with greater ease and transparency and while enabling lawyers to scale their practices without being held back by manual processes or legacy systems. Our platform automates core workflows such as client intake, document drafting, research, case management and payments, supported by Lawrence - our AI paralegal working alongside legal teams. In 2026, Lawhive raised $60m in Series B funding, led by Mitch Rales, with participation from GV, Balderton Capital, TQ Ventures & more. The funding is accelerating our growth and the continued development of our AI operating system for consumer law. Founded in the UK and now operating across the US and UK, Lawhive supports tens of thousands of clients each year and powers a growing network of 750+ lawyers delivering modern, efficient consumer law at scale. Join us If you’re a lawyer, learn more and join Lawhive here: 👉 www.lawhive.co.uk/work-with-us For engineering, AI, product, operations and sales roles, apply here: 👉 www.lawhive.co.uk/careers
early stageLaw Practice
Angel investor
Jan 2022
Various board memberships
2020
Co-Founder
Jul 2020
Onstage is a venture platform with reach across the ecosystem, designed to maximise distribution - connecting founders with the right investors, operators, customers, and partners to scale, while also linking GPs with LPs.
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