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Octopus Ventures
Venture capital firm · Active in 2026
Octopus Ventures is a venture capital firm active globally. The page below shows 11 Power Law outcomes from Octopus Ventures's portfolio — 7 unicorns ($1B+ valuation) and 2 additional thoroughbreds (companies that crossed $100M+ in revenue without yet reaching $1B+ valuation).
Outcomes are concentrated in eCommerce & Marketplaces · Transportation · Fintech; top portfolio geographies are UK · USA · Germany. Octopus ranks #17 in UK in the 2026 Dealroom Power Law Investor Ranking by cross-stage outcomes.
Octopus’ biggest exits.
Octopus portfolio companies worth $1B+ that have IPO’d or been acquired. Each shows its valuation at exit and, in grey, its current value if still public.
Octopus’ selected top holdings.
An estimate of Octopus’ largest live positions — disclosed shareholding × Dealroom’s latest valuation — across 4 companies where Octopus is a named shareholder, worth about $25M in estimated equity value.
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1
Secret Escapes
3.33%
$436M
$15M
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2
The Plum Guide
5.68%
$138M
$8M
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3
Popsa
10.6%
$29M
$3M
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4
Arenaflowers.com
4.81%
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Estimated value = Octopus’s disclosed ownership % × Dealroom’s latest company valuation; direct named stakes only, exited positions excluded. Figures are indicative, not reported marks. Octopus also appears inside investor groups in Octopus Energy, where a standalone stake isn’t disclosed. See the underlying cap tables on Dealroom →
The 11 Octopus Power Law outcomes ($100M+ revenue or $1B+ valuation).
Snapshot of where the outcomes are concentrated by country, sector, and stage entered.
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UK8
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USA2
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Germany1
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eCommerce & Marketplaces4
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Transportation2
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Fintech2
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Health Tech & Medtech1
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Other B2B Software1
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Energy1
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Series B+4
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Series A4
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Seed1
Octopus's 11 Power Law outcomes.
How does Octopus stack up?
Octopus in orange, your selection in blue and other colours. Pick from the global roster of 35 peer investors — scope by startup location or hit "Find similar shapes" to auto-pick the three closest. The funnel matrix mirrors the spider chart on the ranking page; the line chart shows each firm's share of unicorns minted in the selected startup location — peaks reveal vintage years.
Share of new unicorns per year
% of global unicorns minted that year, year by year · hover the chart to see which unicornsStage focus
Companies by entry stage and outcome tierSector focus
Companies per investor across the 10 highest-volume sectorsWhere Octopus's portfolio founders come from — and where they studied.
16 founders across the 11 Power Law outcomes — split by country of origin, university attended, and the company they worked at before founding. University of Cambridge and Zalando are the deepest single pipelines.
Key people at Octopus.
Market sentiment
What the market is saying about Octopus Ventures
An AI-synthesized read of the highest-engagement posts about Octopus 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
In the news
Latest news about Octopus Ventures
Recent press, funding announcements, and portfolio moves mentioning Octopus — pulled live from Dealroom's news feed.
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