Octopus Ventures

Summary

Octopus Ventures is the famous VC, which was founded in 2000. The fund was located in Europe if to be more exact in United Kingdom. The main department of described VC is located in the London.

We also calculated 12 valuable employees in our database.

The usual cause for the fund is to invest in rounds with 2-3 partakers. Despite the Octopus Ventures, startups are often financed by Playfair Capital, GoBeyond, Octopus Investments. The meaningful sponsors for the fund in investment in the same round are Playfair Capital, Notion, Seedcamp. In the next rounds fund is usually obtained by LocalGlobe, GoBeyond, Business Growth Fund.

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. We can highlight the next thriving fund investment areas, such as Internet, Artificial Intelligence. Besides, a startup needs to be aged 4-5 years to get the investment from the fund. Among the various public portfolio startups of the fund, we may underline Zoopla, CHRONEXT, Origami Energy For fund there is a match between the country of its foundation and the country of its the most frequent investments - United Kingdom.

The fund is generally included in 13-24 deals every year. The high activity for fund was in 2019. Deals in the range of 5 - 10 millions dollars are the general things for fund. Opposing the other organizations, this Octopus Ventures works on 15 percentage points less the average amount of lead investments. The increased amount of exits for fund were in 2016. The real fund results show that this VC is 27 percentage points more often commits exit comparing to other companies. When the investment is from Octopus Ventures the average startup value is 10-50 millions dollars.