Octopus Ventures
Track Record
170 Deals
Total Volume
£2,298,121,487
Deal Activity Timeline
Recent Transactions
VC Funding
Oct 2026 Living Optics
£15,123,171
Lead: Applied Ventures
Lead: British Business Bank
Lead: BRV Capital Management
Lead: GK Goh
Lead: OTIF Ventures
Lead: Lockheed Martin Ventures
Lead: Lam Capital
Lead: Foresight Group
VC Funding
Sept 2026 Metris Energy
£3,780,000
VC Funding
Sept 2026 Metris Energy
£3,732,811
VC Funding
Jan 2026 Automata Technologies
£32,703,247
VC Funding
Jan 2026 AutoGrab
£40,000,000
VC Funding
Jan 2026 AgileRL
£5,561,452
VC Funding
Dec 2025 Hypercritical
£2,000,000
VC Funding
Nov 2025 Monq
£2,274,164
Lead: Endurance Ventures
Lead: Outward VC
Lead: Lakestar Halo
Lead: strategic angels
Lead: Portfolio Ventures
Lead: Cornerstone VC
VC Funding
Oct 2025 CoMind
£74,989,212
Lead: Crane
Lead: Angelini Ventures
Lead: Plural
Lead: LocalGlobe
Lead: Backed VC
Lead: Entrepreneurs First
VC Funding
Jun 2025 Perci Health
£3,000,000
VC Funding
Jun 2025 Definely
£22,148,992
Lead: Beacon Capital
Lead: Revaia
Lead: Alumni Ventures Group
Lead: The Raine Group
Lead: Cornerstone VC
Lead: Clio
VC Funding
Mar 2025 Phlux Technology
£8,938,352
VC Funding
Nov 2024 Forefront RF
£16,000,000
VC Funding
Oct 2024 Semble
£11,558,381
VC Funding
Sept 2024 Desia
£2,466,775
VC Funding
Sept 2024 NanoSyrinx
£10,000,000
VC Funding
Jun 2024 Sidekick
£8,500,000
Lead: MS&AD Ventures
Lead: BlackWood
Lead: Seedcamp
Lead: 1818 Ventures
Lead: Pact VC
Lead: TheVentureCity
Lead: Semantic Ventures
VC Funding
May 2024 ExpressionEdits
£10,193,332
Lead: Redalpine
Lead: Acequia Capital
Lead: BlueYard Capital
Lead: Amino Collective
Lead: Hawktail VC
Lead: Wilbe Capital
VC Funding
May 2024 LabGenius
£35,000,000
Lead: Obvious Ventures
Lead: Lux Capital
Lead: M Ventures
Lead: Atomico
Lead: LG Corporation
Lead: Kindred Capital
VC Funding
May 2024 Definely
£5,609,057
Lead: Comron Sattari
Lead: Claire Hughes Johnson
Lead: Ajay Patel
Lead: Cornerstone VC
Lead: Babatunde Soyoye
Lead: Zrosk Investment
VC Funding
Apr 2024 Orbex
£16,700,000
VC Funding
Apr 2024 Biofidelity
£19,077,363
VC Funding
Mar 2024 Belong
£2,950,000
Lead: Portage Ventures
Lead: John Kay
Lead: Gautham Radhakrishnan
Lead: January Ventures
Lead: Viola FinTech
Lead: Ricky Knox
Lead: Connect Ventures
Lead: William Todd
Lead: Edwina Johnson
VC Funding
Feb 2024 Lapse
£23,660,649
Lead: Greylock Partners
Lead: Speedinvest
Lead: DST Global Partners
Lead: GV (Google Ventures)
Lead: Nima Khajehnouri
Lead: Praveen Murugesan
VC Funding
Jan 2024 CellVoyant
£7,600,000
VC Funding
Oct 2023 Automata Technologies
£33,000,000
Lead: A.P. Moller Holding
Lead: Dimension Ventures
Lead: Aldea Ventures
Lead: Possible Ventures
Lead: Hummingbird
Lead: Isomer Capital
VC Funding
Sept 2023 Pencil Biosciences
£5,600,000
VC Funding
Jul 2023 Béa Fertility
£2,500,000
VC Funding
Apr 2023 TympaHealth
£18,419,163
VC Funding
Apr 2023 Pivotal
£4,500,000
VC Funding
Mar 2023 HelloSelf
£16,401,974
VC Funding
Mar 2023 Intrinsic
£7,000,000
VC Funding
Feb 2023 Flock
£31,710,953
Lead: CommerzVentures
Lead: Anthemis
Lead: Social Capital
Lead: Foresight Ventures
Lead: Dig Ventures
VC Funding
Feb 2023 Kita
£4,000,000
VC Funding
Feb 2023 Quantum Motion
£42,000,000
Lead: British Patient Capital
Lead: Inkef Capital
Lead: Parkwalk Advisors
Lead: Porsche SE
Lead: NSSIF
Lead: IP Group
VC Funding
Dec 2022 Rest Less
£6,000,000
Lead: Global Brain
Lead: Viola FinTech
Lead: MTech Capital
Lead: QED Investors
Lead: Exceptional Ventures
Lead: Sony Financial Ventures
Lead: Moneta Venture Capital
Lead: 1818 Venture Capital
VC Funding
Dec 2022 Bondaval
£12,130,435
Lead: FJ Labs
Lead: Talis Capital
Lead: TrueSight Ventures
Lead: Broadhaven Ventures
Lead: Expa
Lead: Talis Capital
Lead: Insurtech Gateway
VC Funding
Dec 2022 Phlux Technology
£4,000,000
VC Funding
Oct 2022 Orbex
£40,400,000
Lead: Phillip
Lead: James Chambers
Lead: BGF
Lead: Jacobs
Lead: Verve Ventures
Lead: Heartcore Capital
VC Funding
Oct 2022 Tatum
£37,557,799
VC Funding
Sept 2022 Unlikely AI
£17,400,721
VC Funding
Jul 2022 Baselime
£1,500,000
VC Funding
Jul 2022 Oto
£2,789,086
VC Funding
Jun 2022 ORCA Computing
£11,959,369
VC Funding
Jun 2022 Papercup
£15,945,825
Lead: Entrepreneur First
Lead: Sky
Lead: Guardian Media Ventures
Lead: Des Traynor
Lead: John Collison
Lead: BDMI
Lead: Sands Capital Ventures
Lead: Local Globe
VC Funding
May 2022 Merge
£7,515,096
VC Funding
May 2022 Foodsteps
£3,279,618
VC Funding
May 2022 Token.io
£32,779,784
Lead: MissionOG
Lead: TempoCap
Lead: Cota Capital
Lead: Element Ventures
Lead: Opera Tech Ventures
Lead: PostFinance
Lead: SBI Investments
VC Funding
May 2022 Lollipop
£5,000,000
Lead: Anterra Capital
Lead: JamJar Investments
Lead: Speedinvest
Lead: Maki VC
Lead: Plug
Lead: Play
VC Funding
Mar 2022 Contingent
£6,264,341
VC Funding
Mar 2022 Vira Health
£9,176,927
VC Funding
Mar 2022 Lifescore
£11,000,000
VC Funding
Mar 2022 DeadHappy
£11,000,000
VC Funding
Feb 2022 Nosso
£2,088,936
Lead: Tracy Doree
Lead: Anthemis
Lead: Ventures Together
Lead: Entrepreneur First
Lead: Errol Damelin
Lead: Peter Hetherington
VC Funding
Feb 2022 Automata Technologies
£36,891,642
Lead: Latitude Ventures
Lead: In-Q-Tel
Lead: Isomer Capital
Lead: Hummingbird
Lead: ABB Technology Ventures
VC Funding
Feb 2022 Vitesse PSP
£19,148,947
VC Funding
Jan 2022 Ori Biotech
£73,610,452
Lead: Novalis LifeSciences
Lead: Amadeus Capital Partners
Lead: Delin Ventures
Lead: Northpond Ventures
Lead: Puhua Capital
Lead: Chimera Capital
VC Funding
Nov 2021 Ometria
£29,856,195
Lead: Columbia Lake Partners
Lead: Summit Action
Lead: Infravia Growth Capital
Lead: Lance Batchelor
Lead: Sonae IM
Lead: Adjuvo Syndicate
VC Funding
Nov 2021 Jove
£600,000
VC Funding
Nov 2021 Permutive
£54,946,666
VC Funding
Oct 2021 Bondaval
£5,070,293
Lead: Expa
Lead: Insurtech Gateway
Lead: Matt Clifford
Lead: TrueSight Ventures
Lead: Charlie Delingpole
Lead: Tom Blomfield
VC Funding
Oct 2021 Allplants
£38,000,000
Lead: Felix Capital
Lead: Draper Esprit
Lead: TriplePoint Capital
Lead: Chris Smalling
Lead: Kieran Gibbs
Lead: Cassandra Stavrou
Lead: The Craftory
VC Funding
Oct 2021 Elliptic
£44,001,037
Lead: Digital Currency Group
Lead: SoftBank Vision Fund 2
Lead: Paladin Capital Group
Lead: SBI Group
Lead: SignalFire
Lead: AlbionVC
VC Funding
Sept 2021 Anansi Technology
£1,500,000
Lead: Anthony Stevens
Lead: Richard Turner
Lead: Evelyn Bourke
Lead: Andrew Rear
Lead: Chris Adelsbach
Lead: Bought by Many
VC Funding
Sept 2021 Mojo
£3,250,000
Lead: Errol Damelin
Lead: Tom Blomfield
Lead: Freddy Macnamara
Lead: Kindred Capital
Lead: Ian Hogarth
Lead: Alex Rose
Lead: Julien Callede
VC Funding
Sept 2021 Integrated Finance
£2,000,000
Lead: SuperSeed Ventures
Lead: Srin Madipalli
Lead: John Erdimansinga
Lead: Chris Adelsbach
Lead: 500 Startups
VC Funding
Sept 2021 Olio
£31,064,818
Lead: Accel
Lead: Lugard Road Capital
Lead: Rubio Impact Ventures
Lead: VNV Global
Lead: DX Ventures
VC Funding
Aug 2021 Comma
£4,340,000
VC Funding
Jul 2021 Walking on Earth
£3,000,000
VC Funding
Jul 2021 Quit Genius
£46,952,362
VC Funding
Jul 2021 Collectiv Food
£12,000,000
Lead: Mustard Seed
Lead: VisVires New Protein
Lead: Partech
Lead: Norrsken VC
Lead: Colle Capital
Lead: VNV Global
VC Funding
Jul 2021 NanoSyrinx
£6,200,000
Lead: M Ventures
Lead: BioCity
Lead: IQ Capital
Lead: UK Innovation
Lead: Science Seed Fund
Lead: Jonathan Milner.
VC Funding
Jul 2021 Rest Less
£6,100,000
VC Funding
Jun 2021 Minimum
£1,840,630
Lead: Plug
Lead: Play Ventures
Lead: AGO Partners
Lead: Clocktower Ventures
Lead: Dutch Founders Fund
VC Funding
Jun 2021 Origami Energy
£20,000,000
VC Funding
Jun 2021 Antidote Technologies
£16,406,767
VC Funding
May 2021 Sprout.ai
£7,809,973
VC Funding
Dec 2020 Orbex
£18,047,049
VC Funding
Feb 2018 Origami Energy
£18,600,000
VC Funding
Jan 2018 Streetbees
£8,877,479
VC Funding
Mar 2017 Elvie
£4,705,250
Lead: Nicole Junkermann
Lead: AllBright
Lead: Lars Rasmussen
Lead: Alexandra Chong
Lead: Michael Spencer
