Investor profile

Octopus Ventures

Venture Capital · Founded 2008 · London, United Kingdom

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Multi-stage European venture capital investor backing pioneers in the areas of health, money and industry

317 portfolio companies Venture Capital · $6.1B invested · 487 investments · Investor rank #467 · Last investment 7/2026

Portfolio companies ↑ 60% 5y

317

Decacorns

Thoroughbreds ↑ 14% 5y

Exits

Octopus Ventures’s biggest exits.

Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Octopus Ventures’s transaction record.

Zoopla

$1.2B IPO · 2014

Entered Series ANow $2.9BReal Estate

nCino

$2.8B IPO · 2020

Entered Series B+Now $2.2BFintech

Depop

$1.6B acquisition · 2021

Entered Series B+Fashion

Portfolio analysis

Where Octopus Ventures's portfolio is concentrated.

Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 317 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.

By countryCount

UK234
USA26
Germany9
Spain6
Netherlands5
Sweden5
Belgium3
France3
Ireland3
Israel3
New Zealand3
Switzerland3

By sectorCount

Enterprise Software80
Fintech53
Health53
Marketing29
Food19
Media18
Security17
Energy15
Transportation12
Real Estate11
Semiconductors11
Wellness Beauty10

By stage enteredCount

Series A145
Seed124
Series B+45

By growth stageCount

Early Growth143
Breakout Stage139
Late Growth30
Mature5

Portfolio market map

Inside Octopus Ventures's portfolio.

The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 317 tracked.

Ibex Medical Analytics

Reactive Technologies

Portfolio founders

Where Octopus Ventures's portfolio founders come from.

177 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.

LocationCount

United Kingdom106
United States14
Germany8
Israel8
France6
Spain6
Czechia4
New Zealand4
Australia3
Netherlands3

UniversityCount

University of Cambridge16
Imperial College London12
University of Oxford10
University College London8
Tel Aviv University6
University of Bristol5
University of Canterbury4
Harvard Business School3
London Business School3
London School of Economics and Political Science3

Previous companyCount

UBS6
Barclays5
Boston Consulting Group5
Morgan Stanley4
Barclays Investment Bank3
JP Morgan3
McKinsey & Company3
PwC3
Accenture2
AEC2

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Key people

Key people at Octopus Ventures.

Milly-Louisa Cleal (Assoc. CIPD)

Source: Dealroom next-gen API — investor team endpoint.

Every figure on this page is sourced live from the Dealroom next-gen API. Sections v1 shows that the API does not yet expose — shareholding-based holdings, Power-Law rankings & vintage time-series, entity-filtered news, and market sentiment — are omitted here rather than sourced elsewhere.