Octopus Ventures
Venture Capital
Overview
We’re one of Europe’s largest venture capital teams, and the most entrepreneur-friendly.
Country: United Kingdom
Founded: 1999
Headquarters: London
Investment Strategy
Geography
- Europe
Sector Focus
- Marketplace Lending
- Institutional Investments and Trading
- Payments and Remittances
- Blockchain
Investment Stage
- Seed
- Early Stage Venture
- Series A
- Series B
Summary
Octopus Ventures is a a large venture capital firm based in London which invests in mainly European companies. Octopus Ventures has several FinTech investments, and is likely to fund the same company multiple times if they experience success.
Investments
Date
Name
Size
Round
Co-Investors
Sector
Country
CurrencyFair
Venture
Frontline Ventures, Proxy Ventures
MarketplaceLending
Ireland {Republic}
Elliptic
Series A
Paladin Capital Group, Digital Currency Group, KRW Schindler Private Ventures, Santander InnoVentures
Blockchain
United Kingdom
Property Partner
Series B
Dawn Capital, Index Ventures, Silicon Valley Bank
Real Estate
United Kingdom
Currency Fair
Series A
Frontline Ventures
Marketplace Lending
Ireland {Republic}
Property Partner
Series A
Index Ventures, Ed Wray, Seedcamp
Real Estate
United Kingdom
Property Partner
Seed
Andrew Griffith, Daniel Quai, Ed Wray, Jon Moulton, Seedcamp, Will Neale
Real Estate
United Kingdom
Elliptic
Seed
John Power
Blockchain
United Kingdom
Calastone
Series B
Accel Partners
Institutional Investments & Trading
United Kingdom
Mi-Pay
Venture
None
Payments & Remittances
United Kingdom
Calastrone
Venture
None
Institutional Investments & Trading
United Kingdom
Calastrone
Venture
None
Institutional Investment & Trading
United Kingdom
Funds Raised
Vintage
Fund Name
Amount
Eclipse
$53.66m
Titan VCT
$425m
Capital For Enterprise
$30m
Octopus Zenith LP
$38.19m
Octopus Zenith Opportunities II LP
$140m
Evergreen Early State Startup Investment Fund
$100m
Key Employees
Alan Wallace
Investment Director
Alex Macpherson
Head of Ventures
Alliot Cole
Investment Director
