Octopus Investments
Venture Capital
Active
London, United Kingdom
38
3M
30
1.65
20
0.21
7
- Areas of investment
Summary
In 2000 was created Octopus Investments, which is appeared as VC. The venture was found in Europe in Spain. The main department of described VC is located in the Andorra.
We also calculated 15 valuable employees in our database.
The standard case for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Octopus Investments, startups are often financed by Octopus Ventures, GoBeyond, Playfair Capital. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Octopus Ventures, Robin Klein, Playfair Capital. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by GoBeyond, Downing Ventures, Business Growth Fund.
The fund is constantly included in 2-6 deals per year. The top activity for fund was in 2019. Opposing the other organizations, this Octopus Investments works on 10 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. The real fund results show that this VC is 42 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. The higher amount of exits for fund were in 2017.
Among the most popular portfolio startups of the fund, we may highlight Origami Energy, WaveOptics, One Team Logic. For fund there is no match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom. The fund has no specific favorite in a number of founders of portfolio startups. If startup sums 5+ of the founder, the chance for it to be financed is low. Among the most popular fund investment industries, there are Manufacturing, Biotechnology. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund.
Investor highlights
- Industry focus
- Stage focus
- Geo focus
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Investments analytics
Last fund
- Fund size
- GBP 40000000
- Fund raised date
- 2022-08-01
Analytics
- Total investments
- 38
- Lead investments
- 20
- Exits
- 7
- Rounds per year
- 1.65
- Follow on index
- 0.21
- Investments by industry
- Software (10)
- E-Commerce (8)
- Artificial Intelligence (5)
- Manufacturing (5)
- Information Technology (5) Show 83 more
- Investments by region
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- United Kingdom (31)
- Germany (1)
- Lithuania (2)
- United States (2)
- Switzerland (1) Show 1 more
- Peak activity year
- 2019
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- Avg. startup age at the time of investment
- 12
- Avg. valuation at time of investment
- 21M
- Group Appearance index
- 0.49
- Avg. company exit year
- 8
- Avg. multiplicator
- 6.93
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Latest deals
| Company name | Deal date | Industry | Deal stage | Deal size | Location |
|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Popsa | 25 Nov 2021 | E-Commerce, Retail Technology, Artificial Intelligence, Machine Learning, Printing | Early Stage Venture | 12M | England, London, United Kingdom |
| Trouva | 12 Nov 2017 | E-Commerce, Marketplace, Fashion, Mobile Devices, Home Decor, Interior Design | Early Stage Venture | 10M | United Kingdom, London, England |
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