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Octopus

Venture Capital

Octopus Ventures is a European venture capital firm that backs growing businesses.


Recent investments

Series B
£30.7M

The Series B round was led by Lakestar with participation from LocalGlobe, Atomico, GMG Ventures, and Octopus, and will fund platform development and headcount growth.

"Human reality is incredibly complex, and while technology has made progress in healthcare and pharmaceuticals, we’re still no closer to truly understanding the decisions that we make. Our behaviour is captured online and in the artificial reality of social media, but the near 80 percent of our lives that happens in the offline world, remains untapped,"
— Tugce Bulut, CEO and co-founder
Series A
£23.2M

The Series A round was led by Northpond Ventures and Octopus Ventures to help bring the company manufacturing platform to market.

"Closing a significant Series A round, during these uncertain times, further validates Ori’s disruptive approach to fully automating cell and gene therapy manufacturing to increase throughput, improve quality, and decrease costs,"
— Jason Foster, CEO
Seed
£5.0M

The seed round was led by Octopus Ventures alongside Mangrove Capital Partners and a strategic semiconductor investor.

"Edgify allows companies, from any industry, to train complete deep learning and machine learning models, directly on their own edge devices. This mitigates the need for any data transfer to the Cloud and also grants them close to perfect accuracy every time, and without the need to retrain centrally."
— Ofri Ben-Porat, CEO
Series A
£7.5M

The Cambridge-founded legal tech company has secured £7.5m from Octopus Ventures and existing backers to scale its US presence and sales operations.

"To receive this investment in the current climate is testament to the relevance of ThoughtRiver’s technology, when across the globe, businesses are looking to do more with less."
— Tim Pullan, CEO
Series A
£5.0M

The Series A round was led by Octopus Ventures with participation from Clocktower Technology Ventures, Speedinvest, Seedcamp and Finch Capital.

"We see a huge amount of potential in launching TaxScouts into Spain. Naturally, the weather and the wine were considered when picking the market, but having successfully built a solution for one of the trickiest tax systems in Europe, we are confident that we can deliver another great product for Spain’s complex tax structure. The market is double that of the UK, and this is the first step to us building a Pan-European tax service. We will build the go-to solution for anyone across Europe to easily file their tax return regardless of its complexity. This investment will enable us to quickly scale up a team to support our new Country Manager in Madrid, and launch other new products in the UK."
— Mart Abramov, Co-founder and CEO