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Ocado
Robotics · Hatfield, United Kingdom · Founded 2000 · IPO 2010
Investors
2 investors on Ocado's cap table
Sourced from Dealroom's funding history.
Ocado mafia
Startups founded by Ocado alumni
Former Ocado employees who went on to start their own companies. Sorted by Dealroom signal score.
Andrew BrookesUnited Kingdom
Marco PaladiniUnited Kingdom
Greg IlsenUnited Kingdom
Sam HussainUnited Kingdom
David SharpUnited Kingdom
Alex WrightUnited Kingdom
Simon BelshamUnited States
Lucy JackUnited Kingdom
Jerzy Jurek KozyraUnited Kingdom
Angela EdwardsAustraliaGlobal footprint
Where Ocado has talent and traffic
team presence
across markets
Talent graph
The shape of Ocado's talent
Dealroom maps Ocado's team person by person — pinpointing the standout operators and scoring them across the six dimensions investors underwrite. The counts and shape below are a public preview; the named individuals and exact scores live in the platform.
Source: Dealroom Talent Intelligence. Public profiles show counts and the team's shape only — request a demo for the named individuals, per-person seniority and tenure, and team benchmarks vs peers.
Patent intelligence
$666M patent portfolio · 517 active families
Where Ocado concentrates vs peers
Each axis is a top-10 topic across Ocado and its closest peers. #1 = 100, #10 = 10, absent = 0.
Source: Dealroom Patent Intelligence · Patsnap. Request a demo for the full per-sub-category breakdown, individual records, and quality-score history.
Capital deployed
Ocado's 14 investments and acquisitions.
Every disclosed deal where Ocado appeared as a backer or acquirer, 1999–2024. Toggle between venture rounds, M&A, or both. The map below is grouped by the target company's sector — the colored pill on each chip is the round type.
14 deals across Ocado's capital deployment.
Where the deals concentrate by sector, stage, and decade.
01 · Deployment strategy vs peers
Where Ocado deploys vs peers
Each axis is a Dealroom topic tag — picked from the cluster's most-tagged themes. Values are normalized per axis: the peer with the highest tag-coverage on that axis sits at the edge, others scale relative to them. Toggle between M&A, venture, or both.
02 · Portfolio market map
Ocado's portfolio, mapped.
Each chip is one company. Pill colour shows round type — green for Seed, blue for Series A, purple for B/C+, pink for late-stage, amber for M&A. Bigger sectors keep their full list behind “+ N more”.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Ocado
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Ocado on X over the past 7 days. We rank by likes & retweets, ignore corporate channels, and surface the themes that broke out from real people.
Reading the room on X — pulling top posts and synthesizing themes…
Source: X recent search ranked by engagement (likes + retweets) · Synthesis by Claude · Cached for 1 hour
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Live deal flow, founder pedigree, hiring signals, revenue trajectory, and the full cap table.