Octopus Ventures is a venture capital firm that focuses on backing founders and ideas that aim to change the world for the better. They invest in businesses that prioritize people, community, and the environment, and have a strong focus on sectors such as B2B Software, Bio, Climate, Consumer, Deep Tech, Fintech, and Health.

Octopus Ventures

For the people and ideas that will change the world, because we believe you can build a better tomorrow by investing in it. 

We can back you at every stage of your journey, from ideas on a page through to IPO. Each year we deploy more than £200 million across five areas where we see maximum potential for impact: health, fintech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. With many years of experience and expertise investing in each of these areas, our team can help our portfolio companies scale at speed.

For us, investment is about more than money. Being truly invested is about giving time, energy and focus; working with founders to give them the best chance of success. It means a shared commitment to solving the big problems that matter. 

We’ve backed the likes of BoughtByMany, Cazoo, Depop, Elvie and WaveOptics, while others have gone on to join forces with the world’s largest businesses.

We are based in London with a network of partners across the U.S and Asia. Octopus Ventures is part of Octopus Investments. 

Semafone

Calastone

WaveOptics

YPlan

Cazoo

Opensignal

ITM Power

Phasor Solutions

Skew

SmartKem

SwiftKey

UltraSoC Technologies

Conversocial

Depop

eTherapeutics

eve Sleep

Fluidly

Massive congratulations to the Lapse Team, who have announced their Series A funding today 🎈  

We're proud to be supporting this innovative company, as they help millions of users each month to capture and share authentic, unedited photos with their friends 📸 
 
Looking forward to seeing where their exciting journey goes next 🚀 

https://lnkd.in/g8rNAfBv

Fantastic to see Kelly McCabe and Morgan Fitzsimons talk to City AM about their journey building Perci Health. 

Seeing a gap in post treatment care, Perci stepped in to fill it. Digitally connecting patients with human practitioners to ensure that once the treatment of the disease ends, the treatment of the person continues ❤️ 

We're proud to work with Kelly, Morgan and the entire team at Perci Health.

https://lnkd.in/ed_7FNaf

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In recent years ‘go-to-market strategy’ (GTM) has become so ubiquitous it’s almost a buzzword. The GTM is useful and important, there’s no doubt, but as Octopus Ventures’ Edward Keelan explains, it displaces funnel metrics at a business’s peril. 

The latest in our series on growing your SaaS business from Series A and beyond, asks why funnel metrics are so often overlooked – and how founders can leverage them for growth. 

Here are a few of his insights: 

👀 A focus on GTM isn’t wrong – it just shouldn’t replace the most powerful tool in sales leadership: The funnel. 

☀️ The funnel is often ignored out of fear, but leveraged correctly it offers a clear look at where businesses need to invest effort and capital. 

📍 It’s often the sales function that gets blamed when deals dry up, but using funnel metrics highlights other sticking points - from marketing down. 

💼 The funnel can even inform hiring, demonstrating when and where new hires should be made.  

Check out Edward’s full blog to learn more about how the funnel can help your B2B SaaS business grow.  https://lnkd.in/eNxkfspd

#octopusventures #b2b


Go Autonomous has raised €10 million in series A funding 💥 

The AI-powered platform is revolutionising B2B commerce, by turning unstructured transactional data into actionable information that business systems can understand.

At Octopus Ventures, we are committed to supporting businesses that will change the world 🌏 

That is why we are excited to be supporting Go Autonomous as they accelerate their presence in the UK and address a critical challenge in B2B digital commerce, which we believe will have the potential to transform how businesses operate!

Find out more here: https://bit.ly/3I5YZC4

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