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Octopus Labs

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Total investments 5
Average round size
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The average size of a deal this fund participated in
$414K
Portfolio companies 5
Rounds per year 1.00
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Key employees Soon
Stages of investment
Seed

Areas of investment

  • FinTech
  • Financial Services
  • Personal Finance
  • Wealth Management
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Summary

In 2016 was created Octopus Labs, which is appeared as Corporate Investor. The leading representative office of defined Corporate Investor is situated in the London. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom.

The high activity for fund was in 2016. The real fund results show that this Corporate Investor is 40 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. Comparing to the other companies, this Octopus Labs performs on 9 percentage points less the average number of lead investments. Deals in the range of 100 thousands - 1 million dollars are the general things for fund. When the investment is from Octopus Labs the average startup value is 1-5 millions dollars. The fund is constantly included in less than 2 investment rounds annually.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 1 partaker. Despite the Octopus Labs, startups are often financed by Wayra, Kima Ventures, SparkLabs Global Ventures. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by Crowdcube, SyndicateRoom, Run Capital Investment Fund.

Among the most successful fund investment fields, there are Personal Finance, B2B. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 2-3 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Freetrade, Squirrel, CityFalcon For fund there is a match between the location of its establishment and the land of its numerous investments - United Kingdom.

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Notable deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Squirrel

Apps
Banking
FinTech
Personal Finance
01 Sep 2016 England

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Total investments 5
Average round size 414K
Rounds per year 1.00
Peak activity year 2016
Lead investments 1
Exits 1
Group Appearance index 0.20

Latest deals

CompanyIndustryRound SizeDateInvestorsLocation

Squirrel

Apps
Banking
FinTech
Personal Finance
01 Sep 2016 England
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