Hector Mason

Delighted that Refute have raised a £5m seed round from Amadeus Capital Partners after we co-led their pre-seed with Playfair. Refute are fighting systematic disinformation, a rapidly growing iss...

Huge hats off to Pierre Proner, Jaime V. and Flinn Dolman on their $60m Series B less than a year after the $40m Series A. Lawhive is using AI to reimagine the general practice law firm. Episode ...

Jack & Jill's new career coach product solves a huge pain point for millions of people around the globe. I'm proud that Episode 1 invested in their pre-seed, because they'll make the working lives ...

Today is the last day to apply for Onstage Deploy - our LP/GP mixer. Raising VC funds is hard and data shows it's the worst market in a decade. At Deploy, we take the best 20 GPs raising and put ...

I was playing around with a lot of AI tools over Christmas and had the slightly counterintuitive realisation that AI will probably make creativity more economically valuable, not less. With AI, for...

GPs: Applications are open to pitch to 60+ LPs in one go at Onstage Deploy. According to PitchBook, European VC fundraising is at the lowest level in 10 years. This event accelerates the fundrais...

I asked two exceptional founders what’s really driven their success, and therefore what VCs should be looking for in founders. Those founders were Ron Levin, co-founder of Perk ($2.7bn valuation),...

Huge congrats to Joel Hambly for his promotion to Founding Partner at Onstage. Joel is a real talent and that's why just 1 year after joining Onstage, he has responsibility for the investment arm....

BREAKING: After four years of building Europe’s largest standalone demo day, Onstage has officially launched its first venture fund - a £10m fund to back the next wave of European founders at pre-s...

In a recent fireside chat I had with Harry Stebbings he talked about backing psychologically unhinged founders. It's not just Harry who talks about this founder thesis, and there is some logic to i...

1500 applicants whittled down to 2 hires… Hiring in a small team should be treated the same as picking investments as a seed VC. It's a talent game and we're looking for outliers. I'm so happy to ...

Had an awesome conversation on Riding Unicorns last week with Gauthier Van Malderen who spotted the opportunity to build 'Netflix for textbooks'. Perlego has re-written the rulebook for the textboo...

I'm super happy to announce that Mimica from the Episode 1 portfolio recently raised their $26m Series B to make AI agents **actually** work in the real world :) This round is led by Paladin Capi...

What happened to Babylon Health after reaching $1bn+ revenue? And how Ali Parsa is continuing his mission to fix healthcare for all with AI startup Quadrivia AI. Today's Riding Unicorns release is...

Onstage started as an office hours and a scrappy one at that. With no funding, and just £100 spent on marketing, we've built a team of 5 people and a product that genuinely makes a difference. In ...

Queue round the block. 21 AMAZING founders. Harry Stebbings in the hot seat. A full soho theatre. In-person is where it's at. Yesterday we hosted the first in-person demo day for Onstage and we'l...

Today is Onstage demo day. As co-founder, I'm super proud of what the team has pulled together - also loving the content that Luis Druschke is pulling together (eg the below video). Major hats off ...

I recently had an incredible conversation on Riding Unicorns with Manny Medina, founder of Paid.ai and former CEO of Outreach ($4bn valuation), about navigating the early stages of category creatio...

Super happy for the Jack & Jill team with their $20m Seed round led by Creandum. We invested in their pre-seed just a few months ago and the company has taken off. When Matthew Wilson told me abou...

Yesterday marked 5 years since the first episode of Riding Unicorns with Sir Martin Sorrell. Since then, we've recorded 215 episodes with some of the best founders and investors in the UK and beyon...