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At Octopus Ventures we invest in the people, the ideas and the industries that will help change the world. Our investment team is built to specialise in the five areas where we see the most potential for growth and innovation: health, fintech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. Since 2008 we have backed over 130 teams, including Zoopla Property Group, Secret Escapes, Depop and Cazoo.
With £1.7 billion under management and investing over £200 million a year, Octopus Ventures is one of the largest and most active venture investors in Europe. We tend to invest from £1 million for Seed to £10 million for Series B with the ability to fund the companies backed right through to IPO.
With £1.7 billion under management and investing over £200 million a year, Octopus Ventures is one of the largest and most active venture investors in Europe. We tend to invest from £1 million for Seed to £10 million for Series B with the ability to fund the companies backed right through to IPO.
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Location: United Kingdom, England, London
Employees: 11-50
Founded date: 2007
Investment Type: Venture Capital
Investment Stage: Seed; Series A; Series B; Series C
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| Date | Name | Website | Total Raised | Location |
| 28.05.2024 | Swiipr Tec... | swiipr.com | $7.66M | - |
| 27.04.2023 | Tympa Heal... | tympahealth.com | $31.08M | United Kin... |
| 27.04.2023 | Onin | onin.co | $3.45M | - |
| 17.04.2023 | Perci Heal... | percihealth.com | $6.32M | United Kin... |
| 15.03.2023 | HelloSelf | helloself.com | $28.21M | United Kin... |
| 22.02.2023 | Kita | kita.earth | $5.27M | - |
| 25.01.2023 | Elo Health | elo.health | $15M | United Sta... |
| 23.11.2022 | Visible | makevisible.com | $1M | United Kin... |
| 12.10.2022 | Ribbon | ribbonapp.com | $2.98M | United Kin... |
| 29.07.2022 | Baselime | baselime.io | $1.81M | United Kin... |
| 30.06.2022 | Mindstep | letsmindstep.com | - | United Kin... |
| 10.06.2022 | Papercup | papercup.ai | $20M | Anguilla |
| 30.05.2022 | Merge | mergedup.com | $9.5M | United Kin... |
| 29.03.2022 | HURR | hurrcollective.com | $5.4M | United Kin... |
| 29.03.2022 | automata | automata.tech | $97.41M | United Kin... |
| 29.03.2022 | Biofidelit... | biofidelity.com | $59M | United Kin... |
| 29.03.2022 | Mango Scie... | mangosciences.com | - | United Sta... |
| 29.03.2022 | LVNDR Heal... | lvndr.com | $2.05M | United Kin... |
| 16.03.2022 | Vira Healt... | vira.health | $14.1M | United Kin... |
| 02.02.2022 | Vinter | vinter.co | $3.4M | Sweden, St... |
| 18.01.2022 | ValueBlue | valueblue.com | $11M | Netherland... |
| 15.10.2021 | Peak | peak.ai | $112.01M | United Sta... |
| 14.10.2021 | Sova Asses... | sovaassessment.com | $9M | United Kin... |
| 14.10.2021 | Ryte | ryte.com | $13.98M | Germany, B... |
| 14.10.2021 | Ubisecure | ubisecure.com | - | United Kin... |
| 14.10.2021 | MyConcern | myconcern.co.uk | - | United Sta... |
| 14.10.2021 | Perfect Wa... | perfectward.com | - | - |
| 14.10.2021 | FISCAL Tec... | fiscaltec.com | $4.86M | United Kin... |
| 14.10.2021 | TRI - The ... | tritrials.com | - | - |
| 11.10.2021 | Tuune | tuune.com | $4.6M | United Kin... |
| 27.09.2021 | We Are Moj... | mojo.so | $4.48M | United Kin... |
| 22.09.2021 | Turtl | turtl.co | $17M | United Kin... |
| 23.07.2021 | Collectiv ... | collectivfood.com | $16.48M | United Kin... |
| 23.07.2021 | nanoSyrinx | nanosyrinx.com | $29.81M | - |
| 09.07.2021 | Raylo | raylo.com | $181.69M | United Kin... |
| 17.06.2021 | XYZ Realit... | xyzreality.com | $34.67M | United Kin... |
| 09.06.2021 | Zapnito | zapnito.com | $5.24M | United Kin... |
| 26.05.2021 | Overture L... | overture.life | $15M | United Sta... |
| 12.05.2021 | Veeqo | veeqo.com | $4.32M | United Kin... |
| 12.05.2021 | Fuse | fuseuniversal.com | - | United Kin... |
| 12.05.2021 | Natterbox | natterbox.com | $9.37M | United Kin... |
| 05.05.2021 | Taster | taster.com | $45.77M | United Kin... |
| 05.05.2021 | Sprout.ai | sprout.ai | $20.2M | United Kin... |
| 12.03.2021 | Legl | legl.com | $25M | United Kin... |
| 09.03.2021 | Wefarm | wefarm.com | $11M | - |
| 09.03.2021 | Ibex Medic... | ibex-ai.com | $114M | Israel, Te... |
| 31.12.2020 | Team Altit... | altitudeangel.com | $5.47M | United Kin... |
| 21.12.2020 | Orbex Spac... | orbex.space | $185.05M | United Kin... |
| 14.12.2020 | Whirli | whirli.com | $5.4M | United Kin... |
| 09.11.2020 | Oribiotech | oribiotech.com | $139.4M | United Sta... |
| 09.11.2020 | KatKin | katkin.club | $5.87M | - |
| 28.10.2020 | KatKin | katkin.com | $27.01M | United Kin... |
| 07.09.2020 | ThoughtRiv... | thoughtriver.com | $10M | United Kin... |
| 14.07.2020 | Permutive | permutive.com | $93.59M | United Kin... |
| 28.05.2020 | Stackin' | stackin.com | $12.6M | - |
| 23.09.2019 | Ometria | ometria.com | $81.42M | United Kin... |
| 09.07.2019 | Unmade | unmade.com | $9.94M | United Kin... |
| 11.07.2018 | Seatfrog | seatfrog.com | $15.46M | United Kin... |
| 11.07.2018 | OLIO | olioex.com | $53.12M | United Kin... |
| 16.05.2017 | Appear Her... | appearhere.co.uk | $24.76M | United Kin... |
| 24.04.2017 | Token | token.io | $87.25M | United Kin... |
| 22.03.2017 | Elvie | elvie.com | $129.44M | United Kin... |
| 10.01.2017 | myTomorrow... | mytomorrows.com | $18.39M | Netherland... |
| 15.08.2016 | Outfittery | outfittery.com | $60.18M | - |
| 14.06.2016 | CHRONEXT: ... | chronext.co.uk | $12.33M | - |
| 05.04.2016 | Origami | origamienergy.com | $104.93M | United Kin... |
| 17.02.2011 | Vega-Chi L... | vega-chi.com | $2.58M | - |
| 22.10.2010 | Ultrasoc | ultrasoc.com | $16.43M | - |
| - | Medisafe | medisafe.com | $50.5M | United Sta... |
| - | Rest Less | restless.co.uk | $12.38M | United Kin... |
| - | BehavioSec | behaviosec.com | $18.94M | United Sta... |
| - | Multiply | multiply.ai | $2.35M | United Kin... |
| - | AudioTelli... | audiotelligence.com | $12.54M | United Kin... |
| - | ecrebo | ecrebo.com | $15.07M | - |
| - | Zynstra, a... | zynstra.com | $12.2M | United Sta... |
| - | VivoSight | vivosight.com | - | - |
| - | Evi | evi.com | - | - |
| - | vHive | vhive.ai | $34.5M | Israel, Te... |
| - | Property P... | propertypartner.co | $51.39M | - |
| - | Surrey Nan... | surreynanosystems.com | - | United Kin... |
| - | md | md-ltd.co.uk | - | - |
| - | Dogtooth | dogtooth.tech | - | - |
| - | By Miles | bymiles.co.uk | $29.2M | United Kin... |
| - | Artesian | artesian.co | - | United Kin... |
| - | Rangespan | rangespan.com | $5M | United Kin... |
| - | BridgeU | bridge-u.com | $7.8M | United Kin... |
| - | Streetbees | streetbees.com | $74M | United Kin... |
| - | katalyst-fitness.com | - | - | |
| - | CSL Group | csldual.com | - | United Kin... |
| - | Magic Pony | magicpony.technology | - | - |
| - | Memrise | memrise.com | $16.55M | United Kin... |
| - | About | vitessepsp.com | $34.61M | Canada, On... |
| - | Gymbox | gymbox.com | $67.31M | - |
| - | Hanwha Pha... | phasorsolutions.com | - | United Sta... |
| - | Hybrid The... | affectv.co.uk | - | - |
| - | Luther Pen... | luther.co.uk | - | United Kin... |
| - | Reclaimed ... | depop.com | $119.63M | - |
| - | Aire | aire.io | $18M | United Sta... |
| - | Katalyst | katalyst.fit | $31.6M | - |
| - | Patch Gard... | patch.garden | - | - |
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| Date | Title | Description |
| 31.01.2023 | Inflation and compensation FAQ | Against a backdrop of rising inflation, Laura WiIming, Head of Portfolio Talent at Octopus Ventures, answers the pressing compensation questions. No. While this is a consideration, it is not the only factor that goes into determining an em... |
| 24.01.2023 | ‘Why you don’t want me on your board’ | Working in VC isn’t just a privilege – it’s my dream job. Over the last decade I’ve spent as an investor, Board meetings have become a key part of my monthly cadence. Participation in more than 200 Board meetings over the years has given me... |
| 12.01.2023 | Our investment in Inflow | Co-founders Seb Issacs and Levi Epstein met whilst completing their Masters in Computer Science at Imperial University. With shared, direct and indirect experience of ADHD, they were inspired to solve for the challenges sufferers face on a ... |
| 12.01.2023 | Trend spotter: Natasha’s fintech predictions for 2023 | New Year, new predictions. The ripples of the macroeconomic climate are being felt across the board, from a deepening cost-of-living crisis in the UK, to redundancies at some of the world’s biggest tech companies. But this represents an opp... |
| 19.12.2022 | It’s time to rethink growth investing | The period between 2019 and 2021 saw an impressive broadening in investor enthusiasm towards exciting, tech-enabled businesses as Covid accelerated the utilization of remote technologies, much to the benefit of companies already harnessing ... |
| 14.12.2022 | Should founders beware of venture debt? | As one of the most active VCs in Europe, our main business at Octopus Ventures is making equity investments and backing founders through their growth journey – so it might be surprising to read a blog about taking on debt. But after coming ... |
| 12.12.2022 | Managing growth, redundancies and planning for the uncertainty of 2022/23 | This time last year we were in the swirl of the ‘war for talent’ at the tail end of ‘the great resignation’. Today, Elon Musk owns Twitter and we’ve seen an unprecedented number of companies conduct large rounds of layoffs. Some of the worl... |
| 07.12.2022 | Our investment in Phlux | Co-founders Ben White, Jo Shien Ng and Chee Hing Tan bring outstanding levels of expertise to the company, with a shared academic background at the University of Sheffield. Ben White, Phlux’s CEO, completed his PhD in 2016, researching nov... |
| 28.11.2022 | Unlocking deep tech’s revolutionary potential | Over the last two years, it has become ever clearer that what we call deep tech will have an outsized role to play in overcoming some of the global challenges we face. But if the world-changing potential of deep tech is going to be unlocked... |
| 22.11.2022 | Our investment in Cobee | Co-founders Borja Aranguren and Ignacio Travesi bring years of collective experience in scaling businesses to bear on Cobee. A former consultant at McKinsey & Company, Cobee CEO Borja worked as Head of Sales and Head of Strategy at Ontr... |
| 18.11.2022 | The Employee Headcount Calculator – and responsible hiring for start ups | By Edward Keelan (B2B Software Investor) and Ben Newsome (B2B Software Portfolio Talent) Until recently, the mantra for a newly venture capital (VC) -funded company was growth above all else. So it should come as no surprise that when the ... |
| 08.11.2022 | Our investment in Apheris | Co-founder and CEO Robin Roehm is passionate about making data more accessible for impactful industries. As a founder of a health tech start-up, he has direct experience of the challenge presented by regulatory constraints on data – and the... |
| 03.11.2022 | Our investment in Lodgify | Dennis Klett and Marco de Gregorio co-founded Lodgify in 2012 with a simple mission: to help hosts and small property managers leverage technology effectively in order to grow their businesses and boost their independence. With a combinatio... |
| 01.11.2022 | The lifecycle of a cotton shirt: How software is turning supply chains green | Price fluctuations, port congestion, trucker strikes, pandemics, war, and the relentless quest for next day delivery; over the last few years all of these factors have shone a light on the fragility of global supply chains like never before... |
| 20.10.2022 | What should your fundraising tech stack look like | In this series of blogs we’ve been taking a close look at pre-seed fundraising. We’ve explored some of the things to consider before your pre-seed round, and we’ve taken a look at the top ten things to include in your data room. Organisatio... |
| 17.10.2022 | Sticks and stones and male pronouns | The old ‘sticks and stones’ chant that we are taught as kids is wrong. Words matter. That chant is dismissive of the inherent power that words have and is, when you think about it, bad advice to be giving kids. As a lawyer, I spend a lot o... |
| 04.10.2022 | Our fintech experts’ top tips on weathering uncertainty | Youssef: One of the most useful things I’ve heard over the past few months, which has really stuck with me, is you don’t want to be selling sunglasses when it’s raining. It’s important to take note of what’s on the market, and what everyone... |
| 23.09.2022 | How responsible tech safeguards against unintended ethical consequences | Application of technologies such as artificial intelligence and machine learning are fundamental to a wide range of start up business models such as recruitment, healthcare diagnostics and credit risk assessment. Whilst there is significant... |
| 21.09.2022 | Raising a pre-seed round – 10 things to include in your data room | Approaching prospective investors for funding during your pre-seed round can be daunting, but the more organised you are, the more straightforward the process will be. We’ve already explored some of the things to consider before fundraising... |
| 24.08.2022 | Work experience – what’s the point, and why should you bother? | What’s the first thing that comes to mind when you think of work experience in the city? You’d be forgiven if your first reaction was an image of the Chairman’s best friend’s son, photocopying and making tea. For the young person, or their... |
| 11.08.2022 | Adam’s top 10 tips for Australian and New Zealand founders looking to grow in the UK | Earlier this summer at London Tech Week entrepreneurs from around the world descended on the UK’s capital. Amongst them was a large contingent from home: countless Australian and New Zealand-based founders visiting as part of a Global Tech ... |
| 19.07.2022 | Dismount the sales team merry-go-round: how to step away from founder-led sales | It’s easy to imagine: a new company, offering a solution perfectly calibrated to the needs of its early customers. A charismatic founder with a network full of useful contacts generating leads. Early days, sales look good. Everyone gets exc... |
| 11.07.2022 | Timing is everything: tailoring your board to the needs of your growth cycle | In my last blog, I drew on some of my experience and research to explore the basics of board composition and its purpose. While common wisdom might hold that boards are just a compliance box to be ticked, I argued that a well-composed board... |
| 06.07.2022 | What to consider when choosing your board members | As a new starter at Octopus Ventures last summer, I was faced with a host of exciting new challenges. Not least among them was my newfound role as a board observer – supporting our seasoned investment directors helping our portfolio compani... |
| 28.06.2022 | Backing the best; changing the way we listen | Foreword from Alliott, our Co-CEO: Founders are astonishing people. They bring together huge ideas with drive, leadership and passion that you will seldom find in any other part of life, and we need to encourage more of them. While venture... |
| 23.06.2022 | Raising a Pre-Seed Round | The story of every great technology startup often starts with an idea, most times a crazy and ambitious idea that becomes a solution to address a large market gap using innovative technology. For a startup founder looking to bring their wo... |
| 07.06.2022 | How we think about our decision making process | Decision-making is one of the core challenges in any business, but it can be critically important in a start-up where decisions can often be existential. As a founder, this might mean settling on a go-to-market strategy, or deciding between... |
| 24.05.2022 | Our investment in Foodsteps | Anya Doherty brings unrivalled expertise to bear on her role as CEO and founder at Foodsteps. Over three years research at the University of Cambridge, she established herself one of a few global experts in the field of food emission calcul... |
| 12.05.2022 | Dear Founders and CEOs: don’t forget to secure your own oxygen mask first | You don’t have to spend much time with the founder or CEO of a company to find yourself blown-away by their juggling skills. Not only must they deftly manage an unenviable host of responsibilities — they have to balance them against a full ... |
| 09.05.2022 | Why we’re excited about European VC Secondaries | From cars to trainers, wherever there’s a primary market, chances are a secondary one underlies it. In the consumer space, limited edition trainers boast incredible resale value, while motorists are more likely to opt for a used car than a ... |
| 05.05.2022 | Tripling down on bio | Our mission is to back the people and ideas that are changing the world, and there are few better sectors in which to do that than biotech. We need look no further than the front pages to see the profound positive impact that biotech can ha... |
| 12.04.2022 | Mind & Machine: What’s next for neural interfaces? Matt Vallin takes a deep-dive into the future of wearable therapies and brain-controlled computing | We have so much to learn about the brain. Identifying which neurons or groups of neurons correspond to a specific action, thought, process or disease pathway is incredibly difficult. Every week we come across fascinating developments. Just ... |
| 06.04.2022 | Consumer happiness and business families | As a founder launching a startup in the consumer space, it’s easy to get fixated on product. After all, your new service or solution promises to change the lives of millions of new customers for the better. Runaway success can happen, but ... |
| 28.03.2022 | Holding onto hope: how innovation can solve the climate crisis | The Climate Crisis is one of the world’s biggest collective problems to date. Fixing it requires a simple, clear, and decisive strategy. The team at Octopus Ventures are focused on backing innovation and embracing collaboration because we b... |
| 22.03.2022 | Soundtracking the future: how deep tech is pushing the limits of creativity | Picture this. A soundtracked drive down a flowing California highway, through desert, rolling hills and out onto the coast. Through different weather systems, environments, and finally into the city. The right soundtrack would, of course, b... |
| 21.03.2022 | Building a business around a mission: Taryn’s tips for startups | I’ve long been fascinated by the way organizations are built – not just around an idea, but around a person. From my academic grounding in social and organizational psychology, to my experiences as a talent consultant in health, to my recen... |
| 15.03.2022 | Our investment in LifeScore | CEO and co-founder, Philip Sheppard, is a cellist, composer, producer and inventor. He’s composed the score for over 65 films, video games, ballets and plays, produced the music at the 2008 Olympic Games closing ceremony, and the national a... |
| 09.03.2022 | Our investment in Delio | Gareth Lewis, Delio’s co-founder and Chief Executive, worked in corporate finance before moving home to south Wales to build the company from scratch. He recognised a growing interest in private markets during his time at institutions inclu... |
| 08.03.2022 | Our investment in Nosso | Co-founder and CEO Youssef Darwich is passionate about bringing wealth management services into the lives of ordinary families. As the former Head of Product at Octopus Wealth, and Head of Operations (and second employee) at Tide, he brings... |
| 07.03.2022 | Veeqo acquired by Amazon | When we first encountered Veeqo, we were immediately impressed by the dynamic combination of a mission-driven team, led by founder Matt Warren, and a brilliant product. In March of 2019, we led a £3.3 million growth investment in the compan... |
| 01.03.2022 | Our investment in Automata | Co-founder and CEO Mostafa elSayed comes from a background in architecture and design. While working at award-winning architecture practice, Zaha Hadid, he spotted the need for an automated solution to assist with bespoke manufacturing jobs... |
| 01.03.2022 | Our investment in Biofidelity | Biofidelity’s CEO, Barnaby Balmforth, brings over a decade’s experience in genomic technology development to the company. With an academic record taking in a Masters from Oxford and a PhD from Cambridge, he’s previously served as COO at Bas... |
| 24.02.2022 | Our investment in HURR | Victoria Prew is the visionary behind HURR. Over the years she’s become an expert in sustainability and circulation in fashion. We first met Victoria in the summer of 2020 and she has executed beyond expectations – shifting to a hybrid busi... |
| 17.02.2022 | Mention me | Mention Me was founded by Andy Cockburn and Tim Boughton, who met at VC-backed consumer startup HomeAway.com, before its $3bn IPO on the NASDAQ. Andy is a seasoned operator of high growth companies, previously holding the role of UK MD at H... |
| 14.02.2022 | Endemic or not – Changing attitudes are taking us into a new age for healthtech | The coronavirus pandemic has laid-bare the shortcomings of healthcare systems around the world. While 83% of the UK’s population over the age of 12 has received two doses of the vaccine, with over 36 million also receiving an additional boo... |
| 01.02.2022 | Why voice messaging should have everybody talking | You might call me a productivity tool junky. From second brain apps like Roam and Memex, to collaboration software like Cord and Decipad, I can’t resist tinkering with new tools and iterating on my work stack. But even as an enthusiast I’m... |
| 01.02.2022 | Why voice messaging should have everybody talking | You might call me a productivity tool junky. From second brain apps like Roam and Memex, to collaboration software like Cord and Decipad, I can’t resist tinkering with new tools and iterating on my work stack. But even as an enthusiast I’m... |
| 19.01.2022 | Demystifying deep tech | Deep tech is different. None of my colleagues across our fintech, consumer, health or B2B software teams would say their job is easy, but deep tech presents a unique set of challenges. While other areas of investment come with long-held no... |
| 19.01.2022 | We need to talk about TAM | Opening my third pitch of the day, I click through to the market opportunity slide. The business promises to combat the scourge of food waste, and boasts a total addressable market (TAM) of more than a trillion dollars. It sounds great, but... |
| 13.01.2022 | Trend spotter: Natasha’s fintech predictions for 2022 | As 2022 gets underway, it’s time to look ahead to some of the trends I see shaping fintech in the year to come. From a greater openness around debt management to the continued (meteoric) rise of NFTs, here are the five areas I’ll be keeping... |
| 08.12.2021 | Meet the startups redefining the future of social media | On a weekly basis, I see a tweet with someone complaining about Instagram. In Jean de La Rochebrochard’s case, he calls it a soulless product. That its initial value proposition, to build community and inspire creativity has given way. “It’... |
| 25.11.2021 | LimeWire or Spotify? How to build the crypto winners of the future | In 2000, a new website revolutionised consumers’ relationship with music. It was called LimeWire, and it was great. Like Napster before it, its P2P file-sharing software offered users the opportunity to access a huge database of music – for... |
| 19.11.2021 | How to hire top talent in a shifting jobs market | The coronavirus pandemic has caused global disruption, but it’s also been the catalyst for some positive changes in recruitment. While the so-called ‘Great Resignation’ of this year has seen an unprecedented surge in people leaving their jo... |
| 18.11.2021 | Our investment in APLYiD | In recent times, Australia and New Zealand have put innovation and entrepreneurship high up on the agenda, leading to a booming technology ecosystem. Many of the region’s fastest growing technology companies are now looking to international... |
| 17.11.2021 | Are we on the cusp of a software revolution in farming? | Farming and software might sound like unlikely bedfellows, but a change is on the horizon. Slow moving and deep-rooted value chains in the sector have proven resistant to the adoption of new software, but significant investment in emerging ... |
| 12.11.2021 | Why workplaces could unlock huge growth for fertility startups in Europe | The fertility market is changing rapidly. Driven by a crop of exciting new startups, pioneering researchers, and forward-thinking clinics and employers, there’s been a dramatic rise in the number of services available for the millions who n... |
| 02.11.2021 | Calling all climate tech entrepreneurs | The world’s eyes are on Glasgow as leaders from across the globe meet for COP26. Widely viewed as a critical moment in our planet’s future, there is huge pressure on politicians to agree a way forward, as we attempt to limit warming to 1.5 ... |
| 01.11.2021 | Our investment in Tuune | When I first met the CEO and founder of Tuune, Shardi Nahavandi, over three years ago, it was clear that she was a femtech pioneer who meant business. Today, her company has developed the world’s first personalised contraception service wit... |
| 27.10.2021 | Lessons in Deep Tech recruiting | This quarter I joined the Portfolio Talent team at Octopus Ventures after spending the past three years as a Recruitment Manager at DeepMind, one of the world’s foremost AI companies. Variety, as they say, is the spice of life, and it’s wha... |
| 26.10.2021 | Institutional crypto adoption – will it happen? | A new economy is emerging online. Its thesis is decentralisation and its method is blockchain. As the incentive structure and means of transferring value, cryptocurrencies represent an important piece of the Web3 journey. As a former equity... |
| 20.10.2021 | Our Investment in Imophoron | Professor Imre Berger brings decades of technical expertise, alongside a successful track record as founder of three companies, with one exit to Pfizer under his belt. His co-founder, Frederic Garzoni, is also a highly experienced researche... |
| 19.10.2021 | Our investment in Turtl | Nick Mason, Founder and CEO, comes from a design thinking background, seeing first-hand the problems that companies faced in making high quality content accessible to their employees. He has been a product visionary for the business and att... |
| 06.10.2021 | Filling the Vacuum: can brands replace a lost sense of belonging? | Spending time with a bunch of 16-18 year old students from inner-city London schools, as part of Octopus Ventures Work Experience week recently, a discussion on consumer behaviour trends took a surprising turn towards the concept of ‘belong... |
| 27.09.2021 | Our investment in Mojo | Xander Gilbert, Co-founder, is a former co-founder of Cuvva (D2C flexible car insurance provider) and previously worked across the financial industry for seven years. Angus Barge, Co-founder, holds a degree in left a career in broking, is ... |
| 27.08.2021 | The Marketplace Approach to Enterprise Supply Chains | The advent of the internet brought the world-changing advantages of distributed, scaled communication and digital experience (data-led personalisation, content management, and presentation orchestration) to commerce. The B2C marketplace gia... |
| 20.08.2021 | Our investment in Comma | Tom Beckenham is a second time founder having built a profitable tech business in the UK before Comma. He has also brought on some fantastic early investors such as Peter Briffet and Portman Wills from Wagestream and Village Global. Since ... |
| 11.08.2021 | An update from the Health team | It’s been an eventful 24 months since we formally set up a dedicated health team, so we wanted to share this update on our progress: |
| 26.07.2021 | One team, two approaches: the B2B Software opportunity | To best serve entrepreneurs, we organise ourselves into specialist teams. Our B2B Software team is the largest and this corresponds to the ocean of opportunity in the sector. To cover the full spectrum, the team takes two approaches: one ai... |
| 26.07.2021 | One team, two approaches: the B2B Software opportunity. | To best serve entrepreneurs, we organise ourselves into specialist teams. Our B2B Software team is the largest and this corresponds to the ocean of opportunity in the sector. To cover the full spectrum, the team takes two approaches: one ai... |
| 22.07.2021 | Our investment in Collectiv Food | Jeremy Hibbert-Garibaldi, Founder & CEO, has a deep understanding of supply chain malpractices having spent 7 years at Deloitte in the forensics team (as a management consultant) where he worked with Tesco and Booker, unearthing some of... |
| 20.07.2021 | Our investment in NanoSyrinx | NanoSyrinx is an early-stage biotech business spun out of the University of Warwick. Our close involvement with the university spinout ecosystem (2020’s Spinning out Success report here) makes us well placed to help the team evolve into the... |
| 19.07.2021 | Our investment in Raylo | The way we access our smartphones is broken. Customers are expected to spend upwards of £1,000 to purchase a new device where monthly installment options are limited to expensive bundled network contracts or unbundled device finance that on... |
| 29.06.2021 | Our investment in XYZ | David Mitchell, Founder and CEO comes from a construction background. Having grown up on construction sites, working his way up through the ranks and then becoming an architect, he saw first hand the problems with the 2D drawing and buildin... |
| 10.06.2021 | Our investment in Overture | Overture was co-founded by Martin Varsavsky (CEO) in 2017. Martin is a serial entrepreneur who has built and exited several companies over the past 30 years (including three unicorns), where he most recently founded Prelude Fertility, now t... |
| 08.06.2021 | Challenge & Opportunity: our Climate Tech Office Hours event | Over the next 30 years, every business, within every industry, will need to transition to Net Zero carbon emissions. Best estimates put the level of investment needed to achieve this at $5-7 trillion. This astonishing target will simply not... |
| 02.06.2021 | Depop, Gen Z fashion resale marketplace, acquired by Etsy for $1.6bn | How do you sell to a generation who don’t want to be sold to? This is the Gen Z riddle that Depop has resoundingly solved, as proven by the company’s stellar acquisition by Etsy. When we first met the team back in 2016 the seeds of success... |
| 21.05.2021 | Making waves: the biggest UK deep tech acquisition in years brings AR closer into view | To date, head-worn Augmented Reality (AR) has remained on the edge of our lives. It’s there in defence, industry and medicine but we’re not walking the streets wearing Google Glass or a chunky Microsoft HoloLens headset yet. But AR hasn’t b... |
| 19.05.2021 | Our investment in Sprout.ai | Niels Thoné, CEO, builds on eight years experience in sales within tech and finance and three years startup experience in founding Sprout.ai. Niels is supported by his co-founder and COO, Raphael Guth who previously worked with Niels on fou... |
| 17.05.2021 | Value chain teardown: Pensions | There is over £6 trillion of funds held in UK pensions, yet these assets are largely trapped in a set and forget model when it comes to customer engagement. The implications of poor stewardship are huge when considering people are living lo... |
| 12.05.2021 | Why we’re doubling down on B2B software | by Marieke Christmann & Richard Court Business to business software is the biggest opportunity set in the market today. European B2B software companies are riding a wave of capital, Covid-induced culture change and the curve of history... |
| 06.05.2021 | iSIZE: the Dolby of the video space | The calibre of angel investor a startup attracts reflects its potential. So the fact that Patrick Pichette, Chairman of Twitter and ex CFO of Google, and other highly respected deep tech angel investors have backed iSIZE so early speaks vol... |
| 30.04.2021 | Our investment in Taster | Anton Soulier, CEO, was #7 employee at Deliveroo where he built and ran the company’s growth throughout France. Anton’s vision and deep understanding of food and logistics is core to the business’ success. He has attracted top talent eviden... |
| 29.04.2021 | Back to Basics: new world, same rules? | The world has changed. But the basics still apply. This is the message from two multi-unicorn builders, Pete Daffern and Howard Bell who have been guiding CEOs throughout the pandemic. So what are these ‘basics’, and how is it that they sti... |
| 27.04.2021 | Deep Dive: Cannabis | The world of medicinal cannabis and the next 5-10 years of development in the UK is far from simple. A lot of the challenges in the UK are also relevant to other geographies where cannabis is not recreationally legal or where the medical co... |
| 27.04.2021 | Changes and Trends in the US Exec Health Tech Space | What traditionally is known as the sleepiest quarter for executive search (Q4) saw astronomically high activity in 2020. With hope and a vaccine on the horizon, new roles opened in sectors such as healthcare, life sciences, and technology a... |
| 30.03.2021 | Profile: Julia Salasky, Legl | A “job for life” is rare – to walk away from a job for life is rarer still. But that is what Julia Salasky did, when she left the United Nations to start her first company. “I didn’t do it to become a ‘founder’, but to solve a problem,” she... |
| 29.03.2021 | Alex Chesterman: the archetypal unicorn-builder | Not often do company’s leap into life with the spectacular pace of Cazoo. Now, within two years of its launch, the team that promised to create the ‘Amazon of the used car industry’ is to go public in a $7bn merger. Alex Chesterman, the dr... |
| 18.03.2021 | Our investment in Wefarm | We always want to back the boldest, most mission-driven companies, and they don’t come more pioneering than Wefarm. Since its founding in 2015, Wefarm has become the world’s largest platform for small-scale farmers. Operating in East Africa... |
| 16.03.2021 | Ibex Medical Analytics: clinical-grade AI solution for cancer diagnostics and analysis | Reputation in every sector is important, but none more so than health tech. The best technologies and the best teams get noticed. We found the Ibex team’s reputation to be running at unusually high levels, individually and collectively. Jos... |
| 05.03.2021 | Increased Antitrust Scrutiny – a win or a loss for the startup world? | We have become accustomed to a world in which there are a few enormous players that end up acquiring a number of the rising stars in their segment, increasing their hold on the market and worsening the resulting prices and end products fo... |
| 04.03.2021 | Everything you love is non-fungible, but let’s not tokenise it all just yet | Should we tokenise digital art? What’s the point of non-fungible tokens (NFTs)? Let’s start at the beginning – what makes something truly non-fungible? Fungibility relates to whether something can be one-for-one replaced without loss of va... |
| 25.02.2021 | This is what we mean when we talk about Talent | Ask any CEO to name their number one priority and many will say “talent”. It stands to reason: hire the right people and the value proposition you’ve envisioned will come into being. But ask those same CEOs how they plan to acquire and reta... |
| 25.02.2021 | 8 emerging trends on the health tech horizon | Even before Covid, health technology was one of the fastest growing investment sectors in the world. This pace has now more than doubled as a result of the pandemic. Along with Dr Pooja Sikka and Shamik Parekh , I’ve recently joined Octo... |
| 12.02.2021 | Climate FinTech: The startups helping banks to overcome the ESG resource gap | In order to finance a low carbon, equitable world, we need a more transparent financial system that accurately measures the impact of investments and creates brand new financial instruments. ESG investing has a huge role to play in driving ... |
| 04.02.2021 | 3 years on, how is the Open Banking revolution doing? | January saw the third birthday of the Open Banking revolution, so why is it only in the past year that such a pivotal area of fintech has started to receive the focus that it deserves? This anniversary has prompted my analysis of the key ar... |
| 27.01.2021 | Expanding to the US: has Covid changed the rules? | The recent pandemic has undoubtedly transformed how companies work, and distributed, remote working is here to stay. How does this new reality influence the crucial decision many venture-backed companies have to make: whether, when, and how... |
| 25.01.2021 | Announcing a major health boost for Octopus Ventures | Octopus Ventures is delighted to announce the addition of a new team from TenX Health – Joe Stringer, Dr Pooja Sikka and Shamik Parekh. Their arrival will build on our existing investment capability and accelerate our ability to fuel the he... |
| 20.01.2021 | Welcoming Emma Davies, our new Co-CEO | What does a fast-growing company actually look like? One definition is that it will be changing all the time. Drop by in six months time and it will be almost unrecognisable from your previous visit. We see this happening with our most dyna... |
| 19.01.2021 | Sustainable Finance: trends and predictions for 2021 | In 2020, ESG stocks displayed greater resilience to economic shocks, outperformance to conventional counterparties (Exhibit 1) and responded to investor concerns over climate change and social equity– all of which have been supercharged by ... |
| 11.01.2021 | Judge a VC by how they behave – everywhere | “We deduce founder characteristics from the smallest observations. Founders should take the same approach with us.” So says Millen Wolde-Selassie, a recent recruit to the Octopus team. Here Millen compares her experience of being hired by ... |
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| 04.04.2025 | The Great Venture Talent Flux | 5 Shares Email Facebook Twitter LinkedIn By Rohit Yadav When is the right moment to shift your company, your role, or even your entire industry? Ask a dozen people, and you’ll get a dozen different answers. But in venture capital, one thing... |
| 01.04.2025 | Phlux Technology: Igniting the Future of Infrared Sensing | In the heart of Sheffield, a technological revolution is brewing. Phlux Technology, an infrared sensor startup, has just secured €10.7 million in a Series A funding round. This infusion of capital is not just a financial boost; it’s a catal... |
| 31.03.2025 | Phlux Technology bags over €10 million for their infrared sensor technology | Phlux Technology, a Sheffield-based infrared sensor startup, has raised €10.7 million in a Series A funding round to enable the next generation of fibre broadband connectivity and expand into the optical communications and sensing markets. ... |
| 29.01.2025 | Scots Rocket Firm Orbex Gets £20M Funding From UK Government | Orbex, the Highlands-based orbital launch services company, has secured £20 million in funding from the UK Government as part of its ongoing Series D fundraising round. UK tech secretary Peter Kyle confirmed the investment today at Brussels... |
| 25.01.2025 | Amplience's £32M Boost: A Leap into the Future of E-Commerce Content Management | In the fast-paced world of e-commerce, content is king. Amplience, a London-based headless content management platform, has just secured a significant £32 million investment from AshGrove Capital. This funding is not just a financial boost;... |
| 24.01.2025 | Amplience secures £32M from AshGrove Capital to enhance e-commerce content management | UK headless content management platform Amplience has raised £32 million from AshGrove Capital, bringing its funding to over £210 million. Amplience enables e-commerce brands and retailers across EMEA and North America to create, manage, an... |
| 24.01.2025 | Amplience secures €37.9 million to enhance e-commerce content solutions | Amplience, a London-based provider of headless content management solutions, has raised €37.9 million in funding in order to enhance its platform capabilities, and invest further in its product roadmap to deliver greater value to its enterp... |
| 13.01.2025 | ThreatMark: $23 Million Raised To Fight Online Fraud | ThreatMark, a leading innovator in behavior-based fraud prevention, announced it has closed a $23 million funding round. The funding round includes $15 million from Octopus Ventures and Riverside Acceleration Capital (RAC), a US-based growt... |
| 05.01.2025 | Apheris: Unlocking the Future of Life Sciences with Federated Computing | In the world of healthcare, data is gold. Yet, much of it remains buried, locked away by privacy concerns and regulatory barriers. Apheris, a Berlin-based startup, is on a mission to change that. Founded in 2019, Apheris is pioneering feder... |
| 04.01.2025 | Apheris: федеративные вычисления для преобразования медицины и фармацевтики через AI | Искусственный интеллект критически зависит от данных, однако большая часть медицинской информации остается неиспользованной из-за таких факторов, как защита конфиденциальности пациентов, нормативные ограничения и охрана интеллектуальной соб... |
| 03.01.2025 | Apheris: Series A Funding Raised For Powering Life Sciences Data Networks | Apheris, a leading federated computing company powering data networks for the life sciences sector, announced the completion of a Series A funding round, bringing total funding to $20.8 million. The funding round was led by leading European... |
| 02.01.2025 | DeepTech Apheris secures €20.1 million to transform life sciences data collaboration | Berlin-based startup Apheris, a computing company powering data networks, has successfully closed a Series A funding round, bringing its total capital raised to €20.1 million in order to empower secure and collaborative data networks for th... |
| 18.12.2024 | Overcoming the odds: How we raised the largest ever European pre-seed round by two female founders In the competitive landscape of startup funding, Belong's achievement of securing the largest pre-see... | There is no denying that venture capital (VC) funding to female founders in the UK, and around the world, is significantly disproportionate to our presence in the ecosystem, and our ability to start and scale successful businesses. Data fro... |
| 13.12.2024 | The Rise of Chief AI Officers: Navigating the New Corporate Landscape | In the corporate world, change is the only constant. Today, artificial intelligence (AI) is not just a tool; it’s a game-changer. The emergence of Chief AI Officers (CAIOs) is a testament to this shift. A recent study by Altrata reveals tha... |
| 13.12.2024 | bsport lands €30 million to develop wellness studio platform | Barcelona-based bsport, a platform for boutique wellness studios, has closed a €30 million Series B funding round led by Base10 Partners and Octopus Ventures. The round also attracted participation from Stanford University and existing inve... |
| 13.12.2024 | bsport Raises €30M in Series B Funding | bsport, a Barcelona, Spain-based provider of a technology platform for the boutique wellness industry, raised €30M in Series B funding. Backers included Base10 Partners (US) and Octopus Ventures (UK), alongside Stanford University and exist... |
| 22.11.2024 | The Fork in the Road: Allplants and the UK’s Food Waste Crisis | In the ever-evolving landscape of food, two stories emerge: one of a struggling vegan meal brand and another of a united front against food waste. Allplants, a pioneer in plant-based ready meals, finds itself at a crossroads. Meanwhile, UK ... |
| 22.11.2024 | Vegan Ready Meal Leader Allplants Seeks Buyer to Rescue Business After Mounting Losses | 4 Mins Read British plant-based ready meal maker Allplants has moved to appoint administrators after recording continued losses, though one potential buyer is lined up. Allplant, the UK’s largest vegan ready meal brand, has filed a notice o... |
| 14.11.2024 | Workflow: The AI Revolutionizing Creative Collaboration | In a world where creativity is both an art and a science, Workflow emerges as a beacon of innovation. This London-based startup has recently secured €2.8 million (approximately $3 million) in pre-seed funding, a testament to its potential i... |
| 14.11.2024 | Automated design software Workflow secures $3M | Workflow, a provider of software for design, marketing, and product teams has raised $3M in pre-seed funding in a round led by early Revolut-investors. Investors also included 8VC, backers of Asana, and scout funds from Sequoia, Octopus, an... |
| 08.11.2024 | Infinitopes: Pioneering the Future of Cancer Vaccines | In the world of cancer treatment, hope often feels like a flickering candle in a storm. Yet, a new player is emerging, determined to turn that flicker into a blazing beacon. Infinitopes, a biotech company born from the halls of Oxford Unive... |
| 08.11.2024 | The Future of Vision and Immunotherapy: Innovations from AllFocal Optics and Infinitopes | In the world of technology and healthcare, two companies are pushing boundaries. AllFocal Optics and Infinitopes are not just making waves; they are creating tsunamis of innovation. Each is tackling a unique challenge: enhancing human visio... |
| 08.11.2024 | Infinitopes to Showcase Breakthroughs on Cancer Vaccine Development at SITC 2024: Insight into a double-blind, Phase I/IIa clinical trial | Infinitopes' lead vaccine candidate ITOP1 is a novel, precision targeted, immunologically durable, "off-the-shelf" cancer vaccine, designed to save lives by preventing disease recurrence in first-line patients with surgically rese... |
| 17.10.2024 | Stema Secures €1.6 Million to Revolutionize STEM Recruitment in Europe | In a world where technology evolves at lightning speed, the need for skilled professionals in science, technology, engineering, and mathematics (STEM) has never been more pressing. Enter Stema, an Italian startup that recently raised €1.6 m... |
| 17.10.2024 | Cambri Raises Another €8M in Funding | Cambri, a Helsinki, Finland-based provider of an AI consumer insights and innovation platform, raised another €8M in funding. The round was led by Octopus Ventures and S4S Ventures joined existing investors OpenOcean, Spintop Ventures and T... |
| 16.10.2024 | Stema raises €1.6M to automate STEM recruitment and foster innovation | Stema, the career copilot platform for engineers, today announced it has secured €1.6 million in funding. The Italian startup is developing a B2B solution to automate STEM recruitment. By focusing on career paths rather than individual job ... |
| 20.09.2024 | Dundee Uni Wins for Innovation & Entrepreneurship at European Awards | The University of Dundee has been named Innovative & Entrepreneurial University of the Year at an awards ceremony celebrating entrepreneurship and engagement in higher education. This year’s Triple E European Awards ceremony was held at... |
| 10.09.2024 | PhoreMost and Puraffinity: Two Biotech Innovators Making Waves in Healthcare | In the world of biotechnology, innovation is the lifeblood that fuels progress. Two companies, PhoreMost and Puraffinity, are leading the charge with groundbreaking advancements in drug development and environmental remediation. Both have r... |
| 10.09.2024 | NanoSyrinx: A New Dawn in Biotech with £10 Million Funding | In the world of biotechnology, innovation is the lifeblood. Today, a new player is making waves. NanoSyrinx, a synthetic biology company based in Coventry, UK, has successfully raised approximately £10 million (around $13 million) in a rece... |
| 10.09.2024 | Biotech firm NanoSyrinx raises £10M for nano syringe delivery platform | Synthetic biotech company NanoSyrinx, developers of nano syringes as a novel platform for targeted intracellular delivery of biologic therapeutics, today announced that it has closed a £10 million financing round. NanoSyrinx’s platform is b... |
| 10.09.2024 | Puraffinity Raises £6.73M in Funding | Piranha Photography Puraffinity, a London, UK-based startup developing precision technologies which remove toxic perfluoroalkyl and polyfluoroalkyl substances (PFAS) from water, raised £6.73m in funding. The investment was made by BGF. This... |
| 23.08.2024 | Qubit Capital: Redefining Startup Funding with AI Precision | In the bustling world of startups, funding is the lifeblood. Yet, securing that funding often feels like navigating a labyrinth. Enter Qubit Capital, a game-changer in the venture capital landscape. This innovative platform is reshaping how... |
| 23.08.2024 | Qubit Capital Disrupts Global Funding with AI-driven Startup-investor Matchmaking | Dubai, United Arab Emirates Qubit Capital has made a significant impact by revolutionizing how startups connect with investors. Through its pioneering AI-driven matchmaking platform, Qubit has secured over $9 million for different startups ... |
| 20.08.2024 | Qubit Capital: $215 Million In Funding Facilitated Across 64+ Startups | Qubit Capital announced it has made a significant impact by transforming how startups connect with investors. And through its AI-driven matchmaking platform, Qubit secured over $9 million for different startups in recent funding rounds in t... |
| 07.08.2024 | Empowering Voices: The Rise of Women in Sports and Health Tech | In the world of sports and healthcare, two narratives are unfolding. One is about women athletes demanding their rightful place in the spotlight. The other is about innovative technology breaking barriers in healthcare. Both stories are abo... |
| 03.08.2024 | Nigeria’s Intron Health raised $1.6 M Pre-seed funding to advance its research | In a pre-seed funding round, Nigerian startup Intron Health, which offers clinical speech recognition for more than 200 accents spoken in developing nations, beginning in Africa, raised US $1.6 million to advance its research and broaden it... |
| 02.07.2024 | Taxfix Group Acquires TaxScouts | Taxfix Group, a Berlin, Germany-based provider of a financial platform for digital tax filing, acquired TaxScouts, a London, UK-based company which specializes in accountant-assisted digital tax filing. The amount of the deal was not disclo... |
| 30.05.2024 | Swiipr Disrupts Airline Compensation Landscape with £6M Series A Funding | Swiipr, a London-based travel paytech company, has recently secured £6 million in Series A funding to revolutionize the airline industry's compensation payments. Led by Octopus Ventures, with support from TX Ventures and Solano Partners, th... |
| 29.05.2024 | Swiipr raises £6M to disrupt airline compensation | Traveltech company Swiipr has raised £6 million in Series A funding to digitally transform airline disruption payments. Over 500 million global passengers are estimated to be affected by flight disruption annually, costing airlines billions... |
| 28.05.2024 | Travel Fintech Swiipr Raises £6 Million Series A Round | Swiipr, a “travel Paytech” firm, has announced raising £6 million in a Series A funding round led by Octopus Ventures. TX Ventures and Solano Partners also participated in the funding round. Swiipr aims to provide a service for airlines and... |
| 28.05.2024 | London-based Swiipr secures €7M from Octopus Ventures, others to transform the airline industry | Read this article in: London-based Swiipr, a travel paytech company, announced on Tuesday that it has secured £6M (approximately €7M) in Series A funding, led by Octopus Ventures, with participation from TX Ventures and Solano Partners. The... |
| 22.05.2024 | LabGenius secures £35M Series B funding for therapeutic antibody discovery | LabGenius, a drug discovery company pioneering the use of machine learning for the discovery of novel therapeutic antibodies has closed a £35 million Series B financing round. The investment brings LabGenius’ total funding to date to £58 mi... |
| 21.05.2024 | LabGenius Raises £35M in Series B Funding | LabGenius, a London, UK-based drug discovery company, raised £35M in Series B funding. The round was led by M Ventures (the strategic, corporate venture capital arm of science and technology company Merck), with participation from additiona... |
| 21.05.2024 | UK’s LabGenius secures €40.9M led by Amsterdam’s M Ventures to advance its drug discovery platform | Read this article in: London-based LabGenius, a drug discovery company, announced that it has secured £35M (approximately €40.96M) in a Series B round of funding. The company specialises in using machine learning to discover new therapeutic... |
| 10.05.2024 | Definely: Pioneering Accessibility in Legal Documents with Innovative Solutions | In a groundbreaking move, Definely, a legaltech startup founded by a blind lawyer, has recently secured a substantial €6.5M in funding to revolutionize the accessibility of legal documents. Spearheaded by CEO Nnamdi Emelifeonwu and CSO Fear... |
| 08.05.2024 | Founded by a registered blind lawyer and backed by Microsoft and Google, UK legaltech startup Definely raises €6.5M | Read this article in: London-based Definely, a legaltech company created to make legal documents easier to read, edit, and understand, announced on Wednesday that it has raised $7M (approximately €6.5M) in a Series A funding round. The fund... |
| 01.05.2024 | Infinitopes Revolutionizing Cancer Treatment with £12.8M Seed Financing | Infinitopes Precision Immunomics, a UK-based cancer biotech company, secures £12.8M in seed funding to accelerate the development of precision cancer vaccines targeting multiple solid tumor indications. Led by CEO Jonathan Kwok, Infinitopes... |
| 01.05.2024 | Integrated cancer biotech Infinitopes secures £12.8m seed financing to enhance its Precision Immunomics™ antigen discovery technologies to target five more cancers | Funding also supports the start of phase I/IIa study for lead vaccine, ITOP1 OXFORD, England, May 1, 2024 /PRNewswire/ -- Infinitopes Precision Immunomics, an integrated cancer biotech combining world leading platforms in precision antigen ... |
| 18.04.2024 | Orbex’s new funding may accelerate its Prime microlauncher into orbit | UK-based small launch developer Orbex got another boost from Scotland’s national bank and other investors as it gears up for its first orbital launch, though that mission still does not have a set date. Founded in 2015, Orbex is one of a ha... |
| 06.04.2024 | Biofidelity Secures €22M in Funding: A Game-Changer in Genomic Technology | Cambridge-based Biofidelity, a genomic technology company, has just locked in a hefty €22M in funding, propelling its total funding to a staggering €55.3M. This cash injection, led by key investors like Octopus Ventures and Agilent Technolo... |
| 04.04.2024 | Pelago: Revolutionizing Substance Use Management | Pelago, a digital clinic partner for U.S. businesses and health plans, secures $58 million in Series C funding to expand its innovative substance use management program. Led by CEO Yusuf Sherwani, Pelago offers personalized support for toba... |
| 04.04.2024 | UK’s Biofidelity secures €22M from Octopus Ventures, others: Know more | Read this article in: Cambridge-based Biofidelity, a commercial-stage genomic technology company, announced on Wednesday, April 3, that it has secured $24M (approximately €22M) in a fresh funding round, bringing the total funding raised to ... |
| 03.04.2024 | Biofidelity Raises $24M in Funding | Biofidelity, a Cambridge, UK- and Morrisville, NC-based genomic technology company, raised $24M in funding. Backers included Agilent Technologies, Octopus Ventures, BlueYard Capital, and Longwall Ventures. Led by Dr. Barnaby Balmforth, CEO,... |
| 29.03.2024 | Pelago: Substance Use Virtual Clinic Company Raises $58 Million | Pelago – a leading digital clinic partner to U.S. businesses and health plans for substance use management – announced $58 million in new funding on the strength of customer growth and validated ROI. This funding round brought the company’s... |
| 29.03.2024 | Pelago Secures $58M to Expand Substance Use Management as an Employee Benefit | What You Should Know: Pelago the leading digital clinic partner to U.S. businesses and health plans for substance use management, today announced $58 million in new funding on the strength of customer growth and validated ROI Existing inves... |
| 28.03.2024 | Substance use management platform Pelago raises $58M | The company works with employers to offer substance abuse management as a benefit The pandemic did a number on the mental health of a broad swath of the population, causing a spike in drug overdoses and addiction, including opioids and ciga... |
| 19.03.2024 | 11 новых стартапов в области ИИ из Европы | Рик Хао, партнер Speedinvest Speedinvest — австрийский венчурный фонд, который инвестирует в стартапы на ранних стадиях Extensity.ai (Австрия) Extensity.ai разработала систему «символического ИИ» на основе большой языковой модели (LLM). Ней... |
| 13.03.2024 | IVF uncertainty aside, startups rush to offer fertility care amid rising demand | AI tools, egg freezing, surrogacy, IUI, donorship, oncofertility, genetic analysis, loans, and more In the aftermath of the Roe v. Wade overturn, U.S. fertility clinics (and patients alongside them) are battling an unlikely complication in ... |
| 11.03.2024 | Cogna Revolutionizes Industry Problem-Solving with £3.76M Funding | London-based Cogna secures £3.76 million to reshape how traditional industries tackle complex challenges. Founded in 2023, Cogna leverages AI to develop tailored software applications, offering them as standard SaaS licenses to various comp... |
| 07.03.2024 | Cogna's AI-powered SaaS raises £3.76M to improve industry problem-solving | Today, London-based Cogna announced it has raised £3.76 million to transform how traditional industries solve unique, difficult problems. Founded in 2023, Cogna is a SaaS company using AI to create highly customised software applications, s... |
| 05.03.2024 | Competition in AI video generation heats up as DeepMind alums unveil Haiper | AI-powered video generation is a hot market on the back of OpenAI’s releasing the Sora model last month. Two DeepMind alums, Yishu Miao and Ziyu Wang, have publicly released their video-generation tool Haiper with its own AI model underneat... |
| 14.02.2024 | Enterprise AI Startup Go Autonomous raises over $10M in Series A | Go Autonomous is on a mission to accelerate adoption of Autonomous Commerce in Europe and lay the groundwork for expansion in the US. Go Autonomous is addressing a critical challenge in B2B digital commerce, and we believe their platform ha... |
| 24.01.2024 | Metris Energy's AI solar platform for commercial properties raises £2M Pre-Seed | Metris Energy, the first AI-powered solar energy platform for commercial property owners, today announced it has raised £2 million in a Pre-Seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures and Aenu VC to transform how property owners assess, inst... |
| 10.01.2024 | Зачем и как уезжают русскоязычные предприниматели в Великобританию | По каким причинам уезжают Рассмотрим основные причины, по которым русскоязычные предприниматели уезжают в Великобританию. Рекордные инвестиции В 2022 году Великобритания установила рекорд по уровню венчурных инвестиций с общим объемом финан... |
| 15.12.2023 | Venture Leaders Fintech 2023: Captain’s blog by Stephan Kolz, Founder and CEO of Yourasset | Venture Leaders Fintech 2023: Captain’s blog by Stephan Kolz, Founder and CEO of Yourasset 15.12.2023 10:00, Rita Longobardi linkedIn facebook twitter instagram youtube --> In early December, the ten Venture Leaders Fintech 2023 set off ... |
| 17.11.2023 | VaultSpeed secures $15,9 million in Series A funding to accelerate growth of its automated data transformation platform | As more and more enterprise companies move their data to the cloud for faster analytics and data-driven decision-making, data teams are faced with the problem that without automation, it becomes nearly impossible to transform and integrate ... |
| 12.10.2023 | London AI startup TitanML bags $2.8M launching AI-Powered LLM tool Titan Takeoff | London-based AI startup TitanML has raised $2.8 million in a Pre-Seed funding round and launched its solution Titan Takeoff, an AI-powered tool to make large language model (LLM) deployment take off. The funding round was led by Octopus Ven... |
| 28.09.2023 | Pencil Biosciences raises £5.6M to advance gene editing for rare diseases | UK-based gene editing and modulation tech startup Pencil Biosciences has raised £5.6 million in Seed funding. Designed to assist the transformation of the gene editing landscape in therapeutic solutions for those with rare diseases and canc... |
| 19.09.2023 | Awell secures $5M to automate clinician workflows and targets US market expansion | Brussels-based digital health platform Awell has raised a $5 million Seed round. The startup, which automates clinical workflows, will use the funding to grow its team, invest in R&D, and further product innovation. Targeting a statesid... |
| 06.09.2023 | Ibex Medical Analytics Raises $55M to Drive AI for Cancer Diagnosis Adoption Globally | What You Should Know: – Ibex Medical Analytics (Ibex), a provider of AI-powered cancer diagnostics raises $55M in Series C financing round led by 83North. – The round also included participation from Sienna Venture Capital and existing inve... |
| 06.09.2023 | Correcto cierra una ronda de €6,5M liderada por Octopus Ventures, Carya Venture Partners y River Park Ventures | 06/09/2023 Nota de prensa CORRECTO CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €6,5M LIDERADA POR OCTOPUS VENTURES, CARYA VENTURE PARTNERS Y RIVER PARK VENTURES Liderada por las entidaddes de capital riesgo (Venture Capital) Octopus Ventures, Carya Venture Part... |
| 31.07.2023 | Béa Fertility raises £2.5 million to launch its at-home fertility treatment in the UK | Béa Fertility is providing an alternative to In vitro fertilisation (IVF) and Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) procedures with its at-home fertility kit for those trying to start a family. This allows the user to perform Intracervical Insemi... |
| 26.06.2023 | German start-up Colonia Technologies raises €6 million for its commercial vehicle sharing platform | German logistics start-up Colonia Technologies has developed a sharing platform for commercial vehicles. The B2B sharing model, founded in 2021 by Jakob Sadoun and Kaspar Filipp, was created to give logistics providers a marketplace to shar... |
| 19.04.2023 | UK-based Pivotal secures €5.1M for its large-scale biodiversity measuring technology | Cambridge-based Pivotal, a biodiversity data company that offers consumers and businesses information about investments that will benefit nature, announced on Wednesday that it has raised £4.5M (approximately €5.11M) in a Seed round of fund... |
| 18.04.2023 | Pivotal raises £4.5 million for biodiversity measurement platform | UK-based Pivotal has raised a Seed round of £4.5 million to help it transform the economics of biodiversity tracking and build a platform to measure biodiversity at scale. The round was led by Octopus Ventures and includes AENU, The Clearin... |
| 17.04.2023 | Perci Health raises £3.4 million to expand its digital cancer support platform | UK-based digital cancer support clinic, Perci Health has raised £3.4 million seed funding to expand cancer support services. The Seed round was led by Octopus Ventures. Chantel Cox, an investor with the Health team of Octopus ventures will ... |
| 16.04.2023 | В помощь бизнесу: краткий обзор венчурных фондов Великобритании | Великобритания — одна из самых привлекательных стран для бизнеса в мире. Давайте разберемся, почему: 0 Обсудить 789 просмотров • В 2021 году Лондон был признан лучшим европейским городом для стартапов и занял второе место в мировом рейтинге... |
| 14.03.2023 | UK-based digital therapy and coaching platform HelloSelf raises €18.69M Series B led by Octopus Ventures | HelloSelf, a London-based digital platform, announced on Tuesday, March 14, that it has raised $20M (approximately €18.69M) in Series B funding. The UK-based digital therapeutics platform had last raised an undisclosed sum from Google for S... |
| 27.02.2023 | UK-based Flock raises €35.9M to offer insurance to fleets based on miles driven, safe driving | London-based Flock, a fully digital insurance company that enables and incentivises safer driving, announced on Thursday, February 23, that it has raised $38M (approximately €35.96M) in a Series B round of funding led by Octopus Ventures. C... |
| 15.02.2023 | Octopus Ventures helps Skin & Me dial it down with £10 million cash infusion | Skin + Me, a UK-based teledermatology service that lets customers tend to skin disorders virtually, has raised £10 million of series B funds. Octopus Ventures led the transaction after previously backing Skin +Me's series A round; its total... |
| 11.01.2023 | Employing digital CBT to help manage ADHD symptoms, Inflow raises $11 million | Inflow, a London/US-HQed digital health startup employing app-based cognitive behavioural therapy to address the neurodivergent condition ADHD, has announced an $11 million series A raise. The Europe-wide VC Octopus Ventures leads this rais... |
| 14.12.2022 | B2B receivables credit platform Bondaval raises $15 million | London-based B2B receivables and mini-bonds fintech Bondaval has raised $15 million of series A funds led by Talis Capital, bringing its total raised to more than $25 million. The round also features a slate of Bondaval's existing investors... |
| 07.12.2022 | Aiming to eclipse silicon-based LIDAR chips, Phlux Technology raises £4 million in seed funds | Phlux Technology, a LIDAR sensor technology startup spun off from Sheffield University's research, today raised £4 million in seed funds led by London VC Octupus Ventures. Phlux's concept aims to pioneer the use of a semi-metal element call... |
| 22.11.2022 | Cobee capta €40M en una ronda serie B liderada por Octopus Ventures y Notion Capital. Participan Balderton, Speedinvest y Dila | 22/11/2022 Nota de prensa COBEE CAPTA 40 MILLONES EN UNA RONDA SERIE B PARA LLEVAR LA REVOLUCIÓN DE LOS BENEFICIOS DE EMPLEADOS A NUEVOS MERCADOS. Según se informa el equipo de Cobee en su página web En Cobee acabamos de cerrar una nuev... |
| 21.11.2022 | London's Visible raises $1 million pre-seed to tackle Long Covid | CEO and co-founder Harry Leeming started London-based Visible to tackle a problem he knows only too well. In 2020, while aged 29 years old, Leeming fell ill with COVID-19, and didn't feel right once the initial sickness had left. In the pan... |
| 17.11.2022 | Adway raises €10 million to help HR tap talent through digital ads and social media | Sweden's Adway has secured €10 million in series A funds from Octupus Ventures and its existing investors. Headquartered in Gothenburg, Adway has built talent acquisition software with embedded tools for employers looking to make an impress... |
| 02.11.2022 | Lodgify cierra una ronda de €30M liderada por Octopus. Participan Bonsai, Aldea, ICF, I. Vermögensverwaltungs y Nauta | 03/11/2022 Nota de prensa LODGIFY CIERRA UNA RONDA DE €30M LIDERADA POR OCTOPUS. PARTICIPAN BONSAI, ALDEA, ICF, INTERMEDIA VERMÖGENSVERWALTUNGS Y NAUTA. Lodgify ha anunciado el cierre de una ronda de financiación serie B por valor de€30 ... |
| 27.10.2022 | Neither shaken nor stirred, €10 million pours into insurtech Neat | Parisian embedded insurance solution provider Neat has raised €10 million in a seed funding round, one that appears to be the largest of its kind in this particular vertical. The €10 million is aimed at aiding the company in its internation... |
| 18.10.2022 | Orbex lands £40.4 million, all systems go for Europe's first full orbital micro-launcher | Scottish spaceflight company Orbex has secured £40.4 million in a Series C round that aims to fuel all remaining pre-flight checks as the company gears up for the first vertical launch from UK soil. The new resources will help the company s... |
| 12.10.2022 | Tatum raises $41.5 million for blockchain development platform | London-founded blockchain development platform Tatum has raised $41.5 million in a round led by Evolution Equity Partners. Tatum’s platform enables easier Web 3.0 development helping companies with little to no blockchain experience build a... |
| 11.10.2022 | A product launch and a £2.63 million raise ties up Tuesday for Ribbon | London-based start-up Ribbon is having a busy Tuesday with the announcement of £2.63 million in seed stage funding and a product launch with In-Product Surveys. Founded by Axel Thomson two years ago to help businesses to better understand t... |
| 30.09.2022 | London-based future of work startup Wazoku grabs £8.5 million from Octopus Ventures, acquires Mindpool | London-based future of work startup Wazoku has raised £8.5 million in funding to support the research and development of its work management platform. The Series B round was backed by Octopus Ventures along with participation from Calculus ... |
| 08.09.2022 | Velaris takes off with €4.7 million to roll out AI-driven customer success platform | According to Allied Market Research, by 2030, global SaaS is expected to grow at a CAGR of 18.8% and be worth ~$700B, up from the estimated $121B in 2020. Not by coincidence, customer success demand has also skyrocketed as increasing emphas... |
| 23.08.2022 | PeakData secures CHF 12 million | |
| 22.08.2022 | Mapping healthcare professionals for pharma companies lands €12.1 million for PeakData | As the COVID-19 pandemic has shown, it is critical for pharmaceutical companies to find and engage digital activators to reach more healthcare professionals, earlier and quicker. This can steepen the product adoption curve. Using data scien... |
| 08.08.2022 | London pet tech KatKin paws in €21.6 million to bring healthier food for our cats | Right meow, there are ruffly 200 million cats and dogs in European households, and in 2021 the pet population blossomed to a figure that's now twice as large as the EU population of children under 15. In so much, the pet care sector is a €3... |
| 03.08.2022 | Without even breaking a sweat, Dublin’s Glofox to be acquired by ABC Fitness Solutions | Glofox has announced that it’s been acquired by US-based ABC Fitness Solutions. While the two both focus on providing an end-to-end digitised fitness management platform, the merger will see ABC add to its roster a key component that had ai... |
| 04.07.2022 | Telefónica backs Raylo with £6.5 million to scale subscription payment platform | The refurbished goods market has been booming for a while now. The pandemic made us sit at home and log in those hours from indoors. This also led to an increase in the number of remote devices. And why buy them when we could subscribe and ... |
| 23.06.2022 | Octopus Ventures unveils £10 million-fund for early-stage startups | Despite growing European VC investment and the creation of 72 European unicorns in 2021, investment at the earliest stages has fallen, with pre-seed funding declining nearly 50% since 2016. According to the recent Atomico report of 2021, ju... |
| 09.06.2022 | British deep tech ORCA Computing rakes in $15 million to roll out light-based quantum computer | Holding the potential to transform trillion-dollar industries, from drug discovery to autonomous vehicles, quantum computing is the way forward. Yet, scaling a system to the qubits needed to execute significant quantum algorithms is an imme... |
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