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Octopus

Venture Capital

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


Recent investments

Pre-Seed
£2.3M

Octopus Ventures led the pre-seed round to help launch Titan Takeoff.

"We see so many businesses investing heavily in AI, but most struggle to return value from their investments. Machine learning teams are facing a whole host of problems in model deployment – from GPU shortages, to concerns over privacy when deploying through third parties like OpenAI. We’re transforming what was once the most challenging part of the development cycle into the easiest and most efficient, and it’s here where our flagship product, Takeoff, comes into its own"
— Meryem Arik, CEO & Co-Founder
£33.1M

Dimension led the funding round, with participation from A.P. Moller Holding and several returning investors.

"The last two years have been hugely exciting at Automata as we’ve seen LINQ increase the scale of customer workflows as well as meaningfully increasing their ability to generate high quality data – accelerating their pace of discovery and experimentation."
— Mostafa ElSayed, CEO
Seed
£2.5M

The funding round was led by Octopus Ventures with backing from JamJar and Forward Partners.

"This latest injection of funding – from experienced investors with a proven track record of backing successful fertility and femtech businesses – will enable us to get our pioneering treatment in the hands of the people who need it most. We can’t wait for people to try it."
— Tess Cosad, CEO and co-founder
Seed
£2.8M

Octopus Ventures led the seed financing, which will support team expansion and product development.

"Across my career, there’s been one theme – building technology that brings people together. From apps that helped promote events to ones that found you a date, the calendar has always been central but disconnected. Calendars live outside the conversations that drive them and weren’t designed for the social lives we live today. Onin is solving this problem. Our vision is to build a social world without fragmentation."
— Ryan Brodie, Founder and CEO