Octopus Ventures
@OctopusVentures
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We are a multi stage European venture capital investor based in London and New York, seeking unusually talented entrepreneurs intent on building big businesses
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Joined May 2010
Congrats to KatKin who today announced their $22 million series A funding. We're excited to work with their awesome team as they provide our feline friends with fresh food, tailored to each pet, to make sure all of their nine lives are happy ones. š»
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Tinnitus affects 1 in 7 people globally. @Join_Oto has created an entirely digital approach to self-managing the condition. It could change lives, and we're leading the team's $3.3m seed round to help them do that:
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We donāt just want to help our portfolio companies. We also want to help the businesses we havenāt met yet through our newsletter. Take advantage of our multitude of brains, and #askusanything. āļø Questions: .. š° Newsletter:
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With current market dynamics, how should companies make themselves competitive to the best talent, with the salary constraints of being a startup? Read the answer in our latest newsletter here:
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Octopus Ventures backs the people and ideas changing the world. To do that our portfolio needs to be more representative and better reflect the world weāre looking to change. Today we're outlining the steps we're taking to better support diverse founders.
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Pre-seed funding in Europe has fallen by 50% since 2016, even as European venture capital has š„ and minted $1 billion more businesses than ever. To help fill that gap, weāre launching our first dedicated pre-seed team, backed by a Ā£10 million fund.
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What can we say about ORCA that hasn't already been said by the BBC? It's founded by world leaders in quantum computing and its quantum computer uniquely operates at room temperature. That and more are why we're leading ORCA's $15 million series A
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Weāre leading Papercupās $20 million funding round, as theymake dubbing accessible for any video and allow content to be watched by the 6.5 billion people across the globe who donāt speak English. Read more!
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Congrats to @merge_now on their $9.5 million seed round! The team are building modern financial infrastructure for the crypto space by putting trust and compliance first. We're excited to be backing them as they do that. #crypto #venturecapital
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We're leading @foodstepsCO2 $4.1 million seed round to help them decarbonise the food sector. Anya has built a brilliant platform that enables businesses to calculate and reduce their #carbonfootprint in days instead of months. #sustainability #investment
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RT @associated_pod: Post episode recording, @freddieevans_ told us he was itching to start something new; not long after he started @minimā¦
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RT @EnergyRA: We'd like to say a big thanks to @SimonpKing from @OctopusVentures who gave a great presentation earlier this week on 'Fundinā¦
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RT @TechTree_dev: 2 weeks to go until our next Dev Talks event! Join us to hear from the CTOs and developers at @octopusventures backed staā¦
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Take a look at the first images of the @orbexspace Prime orbital space rocket on its dedicated launch pad. It's the world's most environmentally friendly rocket and will be the first ever vertical take off from UK soil. #space #deeptech
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#Secondarymarkets are just as present in the investment world as they are in any market. Read Dany Bidarās blog on why #secondaries are good for the #ecosystem
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Uzma Choudry explains why weāre all in on backing #biotech, the areas we think will produce the next wave of breakout #bioscience businesses and the challenges of #biotechinvestment
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On Thursday, we're hosting biotech luminaries including former Ablynx CEO, Dr Edwin Moses, @annalisajenkins and our own Dr Uzma Choudry to talk about building globally successful businesses from Europeās budding biotech start-ups. Sign up to join us at
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Edward Keelan is joining the @RaisingPartners tech investor conference in Glasgow on May 10th. He'll watch pitches and share tips to help secure investment. You can get tickets to join him at: #tech #Glasgow #investment #venturecapital #startupfunding
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Congrats to the @ByMiles team on the launch of By Miles Connect - the next step in building car insurance that's fit for the future of our roads. #fintech #insuretech #tech
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RT @Octopus_UK: Today's Earth Day is all about investing in our future. Read our blog to find out why we need to take action now to avoid aā¦
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