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What does Octopus Ventures invest in?
Octopus Ventures invests most often at Series A and Venture (56% of the rounds on record), in sectors such as Proteomics, Lending and Small And Medium Business.
Octopus Ventures highlights
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43 cheques in the last 12 months
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Mostly Series A and Venture: 56% of its rounds
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Sole investor in 75 rounds, median $3.1M
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8 exits from the portfolio
What they do
We provide venture capital investment for the people, ideas and industries that will change the world.From their own website
- Type
- VC firm (from a list, unverified)
- Cheque size
- $750K – $15M as they say
- Stages
- Pre-seedSeedSeries ASeries B
- Sectors
- ProteomicsLendingSmall And Medium Business
- Based in
- London, United Kingdom
- Cold pitches
- Not accepted
The record
Every round we can evidence, newest first355 appearances
- 2026
35 rounds
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- 2025
37 rounds
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An announcement gives the size of the round, not the size of this investor's cheque: the only rounds that imply a cheque are those where they were the sole named investor.
The team
We hold 60 people at this firm from the lists this database was built from: a weaker source than the filings, since a list does not say when a title ended. Login to see them.
What they claim to have backed
From their own portfolio page (on their website)
8 of 30 we have independently watched raise
Big HealthDepopIntigritiManyPetsOrbexPermutiveSovaassessmentZooplaCertified B CorporationGeosurge Helps businessesGradient Labs AI-poweredGreenpixie A sustainability-focusedHallTech A coatingHandshake Solutions HelpsHijack Bio OffersHurree Labs AIndices Can turnInflowInstitutional InvestorKraken The utilitiesLean Medical BehavioralMovable Voice AutomatesOssprey Cybersecurity platformPeacePivotalPoindexter Labs BuildsTalentViraWassist AI assistantZaro A platform
Weaker than a round we watched, stronger than a list somebody sold us. A firm is far less willing to put a company on its own site that it never funded.
Exits from the portfolio
Companies it backed that were later bought or listed8 in all
ECNLiveBought by Executive ChannelUndisclosedJul 2014
Vega-ChiBought by LiquidnetUndisclosedMar 2014
AQSBought by InsurityUndisclosedMar 2013
VYRE LimitedBought by North PlainsUndisclosedDec 2012
CSL DualComBought by Bowmark CapitalUndisclosedJan 2012
An exit counts when it came after the firm's first round in the company. From historical deal records.