Megha Prakash

A new way to reward

OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software solution that delivers up to 30% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption. It reduces costs, emissions, and water usage—helping data centres improve PUE, meet sustainability goals, and comply with global standards like ISO 50001, EED and CSRD. With pricing calibrated to energy savings, typical payback is under 3 months. For a 5MW site, OctaiPipe can cut over €600,000 in annual costs, reduce PUE from 1.42 to 1.30, and avoid more than 800 tonnes of CO₂.

Combining groundbreaking technology and expert financial engineering, Ctrl Alt is the B2B infrastructure solution provider that makes structuring and investing in tokenised asset classes efficient, cost-effective, and accessible. By empowering businesses to be at the forefront of the growing tokenised asset sector from Fund Managers to FinTechs, Ctrl Alt is leading the way for opening up structuring and investing in a diverse range of asset classes including private equity, green energy, and more. Headquartered in London with offices in Belfast, Dundalk and Dubai.

Run your entire hospitality business on a single, powerful platform.

Baselime helps engineering teams of all sizes build better products in the age of serverless. We want to make a world where all engineering teams know whats going on in their serverless systems at all times. A world where investigating bugs in serverless architectures in production stops being a murder investigation.

SPOKE is a vertically integrated online menswear brand. We use an e-commerce model to give men exactly what theyre looking for: properly made clothes that really fit, without the luxury markup. Our clothes are cut in more sizes, from the very best fabric and trim - then sold direct to the consumer, at a sane price. Find us at www.spoke-london.com.

Collaborate with your buyers in one centralised and trackable digital space, from first call to deal close and beyond. Imagine one link where you can consolidate sales content, video recordings, demo recordings, mutual action plans, proposals, forms/surveys, e-signature & more. Move your prospect along the buyer journey from outreach to post-demo, to proposal and then closed-won... All within one centralised space. 5000+ of the best revenue teams globally are seeing: - 28% Reduction in sales cycle time from first outreach to deal close - 13% Increase in closed won opps - 34% reduction in time to onboard new customers Get more revenue, quicker.

PocDoc is a digital health platform developed with the vision of allowing anyone with a smartphone or tablet to test themselves for a range of major diseases or conditions via a fingerprick of blood, receive a full health assessment that puts those results in context and then be offered solutions to address any health-related issues that arise. The PocDoc platform has been designed to work with our proprietary, quantitative blood tests, which have been developed in-house and are focused on preventative disease areas (Cardiovascular Disease, Metabolic Disease and Renal Disease ). The platform can also integrate other existing rapid tests, digitise the results, and provide the same health assessment and follow-on care pathways. PocDoc successfully rolled out the PocDoc Healthy Heart Check, which focuses on cardiovascular disease in homes, communities, healthcare organisations and pharmacies across the United Kingdom. PocDocs technology has been granted multiple patents worldwide and is set to be the first home testing diagnostic service to fully integrate with the NHS app. Featured in the BBC News, BBC Breakfast News, The Daily Mail, The Telegraph and The Guardian. PocDoc has won 3 Innovate UK awards and MedTech Breakthrough award for its technology. For more information and to book a screening, visit www.pocdoc.co or follow us on Twitter / Facebook / Instagram on @mypocdoc

HIGHR is a beauty company reimagining the lip category. Certified B Corp™.

At Forward, we partner with the most ambitious teams building world-changing businesses from the ground up. Every business is different, so we offer funding that’s flexible and fair. And we work together right from the start, so we can provide hands-on support with strategy and execution, helping teams reach their potential faster.

A new way to reward

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.

OctaiPipe is an AI-powered optimisation software solution that delivers up to 30% savings in cooling energy use with zero disruption. It reduces costs, emissions, and water usage—helping data centres improve PUE, meet sustainability goals, and comply with global standards like ISO 50001, EED and CSRD. With pricing calibrated to energy savings, typical payback is under 3 months. For a 5MW site, OctaiPipe can cut over €600,000 in annual costs, reduce PUE from 1.42 to 1.30, and avoid more than 800 tonnes of CO₂.

Combining groundbreaking technology and expert financial engineering, Ctrl Alt is the B2B infrastructure solution provider that makes structuring and investing in tokenised asset classes efficient, cost-effective, and accessible. By empowering businesses to be at the forefront of the growing tokenised asset sector from Fund Managers to FinTechs, Ctrl Alt is leading the way for opening up structuring and investing in a diverse range of asset classes including private equity, green energy, and more. Headquartered in London with offices in Belfast, Dundalk and Dubai.

Run your entire hospitality business on a single, powerful platform.