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Octopus Investments

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Total investments 38
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$3M
Portfolio companies 30
Rounds per year 1.65
Lead investments 20
Follow on index
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How often the fund supports its portfolio startups at next rounds
0.21
Exits 7
Key employees 15

Areas of investment

  • Software
  • E-Commerce
  • Artificial Intelligence
  • Manufacturing
  • Information Technology
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.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Popsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Printing
Retail Technology
$12M03 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Popsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Printing
Retail Technology
$12M25 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Perfect Ward

Health Care
Robotics
Software
$5M02 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Ryte

Internet
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
$10M11 Jan 2021 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Trafi

Apps
Car Sharing
Information Technology
Mobile
Public Transportation
Ride Sharing
Software
Transportation
Travel
15 Aug 2020 Vilnius County

Popsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Printing
Retail Technology
$5M23 Oct 2019 United Kingdom, London

Reactive Technologies

Energy
Renewable Energy
26 Mar 2019 England

Veeqo

E-Commerce
Retail
SaaS
$4M20 Mar 2019 Swansea, United Kingdom

SimplyCook

Cooking
E-Commerce
Food Processing
$6M18 Jan 2019 United Kingdom, England

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Total investments 38
Average round size 3M
Rounds per year 1.65
Peak activity year 2019
Lead investments 20
Follow on index 0.21
Exits 7
Group Appearance index 0.49

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Popsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Printing
Retail Technology
$12M03 Feb 2022 London, England, United Kingdom

Popsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Printing
Retail Technology
$12M25 Nov 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Perfect Ward

Health Care
Robotics
Software
$5M02 Mar 2021 London, England, United Kingdom

Ryte

Internet
SaaS
Search Engine
Software
$10M11 Jan 2021 Munich, Bavaria, Germany

Trafi

Apps
Car Sharing
Information Technology
Mobile
Public Transportation
Ride Sharing
Software
Transportation
Travel
15 Aug 2020 Vilnius County

Popsa

Artificial Intelligence
E-Commerce
Machine Learning
Printing
Retail Technology
$5M23 Oct 2019 United Kingdom, London

Reactive Technologies

Energy
Renewable Energy
26 Mar 2019 England

Veeqo

E-Commerce
Retail
SaaS
$4M20 Mar 2019 Swansea, United Kingdom

SimplyCook

Cooking
E-Commerce
Food Processing
$6M18 Jan 2019 United Kingdom, England
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