Octopus Ventures

Octopus Ventures is a London and New York based venture capital firm, focused on backing unusually talented entrepreneurs. We have been fortunate enough to work with the founding teams of over 60 companies, including Conversocial, graze.com, LoveFiLM, Property Partner, Secret Escapes, Sofar Sounds, SwiftKey, Swoon Editions, Uniplaces, tails.com, Zoopla Property Group and Zynstra. We can invest from £250,000 to £25 million in a first round of funding and will look to follow in subsequent rounds. We are proud to be known as one of the most entrepreneur friendly investors in Europe. A significant part of our portfolio consists of referrals from teams we have already invested in or serial entrepreneurs who we have previously backed. Octopus Ventures is part of the Octopus group, one of the UK’s fastest growing investment management companies with more than £6 billion of assets under management.

Kamran Adle

Health

Tosin Agbabiaka

Fintech

Priscila Bala

Associate

Howard Bell

Portfolio Support

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Richard Bolton

B2B Software

Matt Chandler

Consumer

Uzma Choudry

Health

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Lucy Clarke

B2B Software

Alliott Cole

Consumer

Anthony Collinson

Venture Partner

RC

Richard Court

B2B Software

Paul Davidson

B2B Software

Emma Davies

Co-CEO

Akriti Dokania

Deep Tech

SD

Saranyah Douse

B2B Software

Malcolm Ferguson

Fintech

Will Gibbs

Health

Luke Hakes

Health

Rebecca Hunt

Consumer

Natasha Jones

Fintech

Simon King

Deep Tech

Philip Lay

Venture Partner

Marvin Ma

Venture Partner

Karan Mehta

Consumer

Jo Oliver

B2B Software

Shamik Parekh

Health

Ian Perry

Portfolio Support

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Jebran Raashed

B2B Software

Uthishtan Ranjan

Principal

Adam Said

B2B Software

NS

Nicholas Sando

Fintech

Conor Scanlan

B2B Software

Dr. Pooja Sikka

Health

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Mason Sinclair

Deep Tech

Joe Stringer

Health

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Matthieu Vallin

Health

Alan Wallace

Investor

Millen Wolde-Selassie

Consumer

Zihao Xu

Fintech

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Elliptic Enterprises Limited operates a platform to acquire, use, and store bitcoin and other digital currencies. It provides Elliptic Vault, a storage service for bitcoins; and engages in digital currency lobbying, education, and advocacy for the benefit of various users and businesses. Elliptic Enterprises Limited was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.
UltraSoC Technologies is an independent provider of SoC infrastructure to enable rapid development of embedded systems based on advanced SoC devices. Its head office is in Cambridge and it has research and development labs in Colchester.

Automata

Series B in 2022
Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. The web-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks. Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England.

BlockClaim

Series A in 2021
AI powered Claims Automation & Fraud Filtering for Insurance Sprout.ai's Benefits: - Reduce settlement times with 50% - Increase fraud detection with 15% - Reduce operational costs with 70$ - Zero impact on IT roadmap - Industrial grade security Working with insurance players in USA, UK & Europe

Pngme

Series A in 2021
Pngme is an all-inclusive mobile finance platform with mobile payments, savings, and a digital-footprint-based credit score giving MSME's (Micro, Small, and Medium Enterprises) and un/underbanked consumers access to finance.

Michelson Diagnostics

Series A in 2014
Michelson Diagnostics is the developer and manufacturer of products based on Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), the uniquely powerful, innovative optical imaging technology that is capable of imaging living tissue microstructure at < 10 µm resolution,in real time, to depths of 1 mm or more.

SLAMcore Limited

Series A in 2022
SLAMcore Limited develops simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solutions for augmented/virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Its technology allows moving robots and any other device with outward-looking sensors to localize, navigate, and understand unfamiliar surroundings. The company provides Visual SLAM, sparse feature-based SLAM for robots and single cameras; sensor fusion where information from various sensors is fused together in a probabilistic model to provide an answer to the SLAM problem; Event Camera SLAM that helps develop algorithms which enable incremental reconstruction, tracking, and SLAM from event camera data. It develops ETAM 2D and ETAM 3D real-time methods demonstrating HDR and resolution intensity, panorama reconstruction, and motion estimation from an event-based camera. It also develops and licenses algorithms for smart technology, like drones and self-driving vehicles. SLAMcore Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Boughtbymany

Series D in 2021
Bought By Many is the multi-award-winning pet insurance provider that is disrupting insurance distribution. They do this by analysing anonymised internet search data and customer research to identify unmet consumer needs for insurance. Key company milestones are as follows: o 2012: Launched boughtbymany.com. Completed seed funding round. o 2013: Named Insurance Website of the Year. o 2014: Identified by Boston Consulting Group & Morgan Stanley as the global exemplar of innovation in insurance distribution. Awarded Best Use of Mobile Technology at the Digital Insurance Awards. o 2015: Surpassed 100,000 members. Launched SaaS platform in China in partnership with Ping An Insurance. Completed second funding round. Became directly regulated by the FCA. Acquired Brooks Braithwaite (Sussex) Ltd - the UK’s leading provider of insurance for exotic pets and pet businesses. Named Fintech Innovation of the Year & Insurance Start Up of the Year. o 2016: Innovation in Insurance Award at the Fintech Innovation Awards. Named in the FinTech 50. Signed long-term insurance agreement with Munich Re. Completed Series A funding round. o 2017: Launched Bought By Many-branded cat and dog insurance product range. o 2019: Named most trusted pet insurance provider at the 2019 Moneywise Customer Service Awards. Launched Bought By Many cat and dog insurance in Sweden. o 2020: Covers more than 200,000 pets in the UK. They have an exceptional team of 150, based across sites in Farringdon, Central London; Haywards Heath, Sussex; Birmingham; and Sweden. They're always interested to hear from people who'd like to learn about career opportunities at Bought By Many, and they're currently recruiting for web development, business analysis, & project management roles.

Shopa Ltd.

Seed Round in 2013
Shopa Ltd. provides a platform that enables online customers to discover relevant brands and products through other like-minded customers’ recommendation. Its platform lets users to discover what’s hot and what’s talked about through other like-minded consumers’ recommendation; share; and buy more of the things they love in one place. The company’s platform allows users to buy and share various products, including apparel, footwear, accessories, and various other products for men and women. Shopa Ltd. was incorporated in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Overture Life, Inc.

Series B in 2021
Overture Life, Inc. develops robots for in vitro fertilization applications. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in New York, New York.

Antidote.me

Venture Round in 2017
Antidote Technologies Ltd. operates as a digital health company. The company offers Antidote Match that helps patients to identify matching trials; Connect Network that streams the information to patients; and Antidote Bridge that allows adding details about studies to the available information. It serves medical researchers, pharmaceutical companies, and patient organizations. Antidote Technologies Ltd. was formerly known as TrialReach Ltd. and changed its name to Antidote Technologies Ltd. in September 2016. The company was founded in 2009 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Vega-Chi

Series A in 2011
Vega-Chi enables institutional investors to trade convertible and high-yield bonds directly with each other without having to go through intermediaries. It provides an alternative pool of liquidity where participants can achieve best price execution, transaction cost savings, improved liquidity and anonymity. Furthermore, the Vega-Chi trading system offers full pre-trade and post-trade transparency and access to full historical data, allowing investment managers to make better informed decisions. Vega-Chi has 65 participant firms and has received orders in excess of $20 billion since its launch in February 2010. The company was founded by its current CEO, Constantinos Antoniades, and its staff and board of directors include a number of industry experts and veterans.

Altitude Angel Limited

Venture Round in 2020
Altitude Angel Limited offers cloud-powered safety, analytics, and advanced capabilities for unmanned aerial vehicles and drones for commercial entities and consumers. The company's geospatial database covers more than 80 countries and is a key component of its autonomous drone navigation system. This allows any drone to tap into its situational awareness database, helping them go beyond the line of sight of the operator. Its flagship system, GuardianUTM, is a cloud platform capable of performing Unmanned Systems Traffic Management. Altitude Angel Limited was founded in 2014 and is based in Reading, United Kingdom.

Secret Escapes Limited

Series C in 2015
At Secret Escapes, they negotiate exclusive rates for luxury hand-picked hotels and holidays in the UK and abroad, at up to 60% off the price you'd pay by booking anywhere else. How have they done it? Well, even the most luxurious hotels out there don't like having empty rooms... For access to their members-only rates, all you have to do is sign up to Secret Escapes with your email address and nothing else. It doesn't cost a penny, and never will. In return, they will give you access to rates for hotels and holidays you'll struggle to find anywhere else, and if you do they will match their price - that's a guarantee.
UltraSoC Technologies is an independent provider of SoC infrastructure to enable rapid development of embedded systems based on advanced SoC devices. Its head office is in Cambridge and it has research and development labs in Colchester.
Intrinsic Semiconductor Technologies is established to developed silicon-oxide based RRAM technologies. Intrinsic's technology is fully air stable and inherently CMOS compatible. Intrinsic's core technology can be configured as non-volatile memory, multilevel memory, hardware acceleration for Machine Learning, and neuromorphic devices.
TympaHealth has developed the world's first ear and hearing health assessment system. The Tympa system empowers non-specialists to perform high definition digital otoscopy, microsuction wax removal and a hearing screening, all in a single 30 minute appointment. Users can also upload patient images and video to the secure cloud, where they can be reviewed by ENT specialists anywhere in the world.

Taster SAS

Series B in 2021
Taster is a progressive and entrepreneurial takeaway and delivery-only food brand. Taster takes takeaway food up a notch by engaging with local communities focusing on quality and taste. Taster brings together talented chefs and fresh ingredients to deliver uncompromising fast, wholesome, and delicious food to wherever you are.

Amplience

Series D in 2022
Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group, and Boohoo.

Katalyst Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Katalyst is a fitness company that takes the best of exercise science and coupled it with modern smart technology. It provides a personal training experience with the benefits of a traditional 90min gym workout. The company was founded in pairing proven science with the latest in technology to deliver an hyper-personalized training experience focused on creating a better, more evolved you.

Whirli

Seed Round in 2020
Whirli is a provider of toy sharing subscription service for kids. A Whirli subscription gives parents and their little ones access to a huge shareable toy box for a fixed monthly price. Parents pick the toys they want, the company delivers them, and they simply send them back when they are done in exchange for something else. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.

Quit Genius

Series B in 2021
Quit Genius is a digital behavior change platform for addictions with industry-leading quit rates. Founded in 2017 by medical doctors, the program for tobacco, e-cigarettes, alcohol and substance use disorder uses a disruptive model to deliver best practice care via digital cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), expert coaching, a connected breath sensor and easy access to proven medication.

HURR LIMITED

Seed Round in 2021
HURR is the smart way to rent your wardrobe, on-demand. The UK's leading wardrobe rental platform allows members to share clothes and accessories, securely and in seconds. HURR has been named the “Airbnb of Fashion”, disrupting fashion ownership and paving the way towards a more sustainable future. Discover and rent curated edits of contemporary and luxury brands, accessing trend led pieces and coveted one offs. Welcome to a new way to wardrobe.

Anansi

Seed Round in 2021
For e-commerce businesses that are struggling with missing deliveries, fraud and product liability issues; Anansi is building a platform to deliver automated insurance products for ecommerce businesses, so merchants can focus on growing their business rather than managing disparate insurance policies or remaining under-insured. Our platform uses data to facilitate insurance transactions from convenient placement, efficient onboarding, optimised pricing, frictionless policy admin and billing through to parametric claims settlement as far as possible.

Tails.com

Seed Round in 2014
Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs. As a bespoke pet food, online retailer they're providing dogs with their own unique, freshly-blended food. Founded from backgrounds at innocent drinks, graze.com, LoveFilm & Amazon - tails.com launched in July 2014 with the ambition to change the world of pet food for good. Their customers (or most importantly their dogs) love their products. See what they have to say on their Trustpilot site https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/tails.com The key to their success is their people and they have been widely recognised as an exciting high growth company, scooping several awards including 4th place in the 2017 Startup 100 awards

Integrated Finance

Seed Round in 2021
Fintech infrastructure

Katalyst Inc.

Seed Round in 2019
Katalyst is a fitness company that takes the best of exercise science and coupled it with modern smart technology. It provides a personal training experience with the benefits of a traditional 90min gym workout. The company was founded in pairing proven science with the latest in technology to deliver an hyper-personalized training experience focused on creating a better, more evolved you.

SLAMcore Limited

Venture Round in 2020
SLAMcore Limited develops simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solutions for augmented/virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Its technology allows moving robots and any other device with outward-looking sensors to localize, navigate, and understand unfamiliar surroundings. The company provides Visual SLAM, sparse feature-based SLAM for robots and single cameras; sensor fusion where information from various sensors is fused together in a probabilistic model to provide an answer to the SLAM problem; Event Camera SLAM that helps develop algorithms which enable incremental reconstruction, tracking, and SLAM from event camera data. It develops ETAM 2D and ETAM 3D real-time methods demonstrating HDR and resolution intensity, panorama reconstruction, and motion estimation from an event-based camera. It also develops and licenses algorithms for smart technology, like drones and self-driving vehicles. SLAMcore Limited was founded in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Elvie

Series C in 2021
Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. We are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life. Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, we took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups’, named as one of the 15 start-ups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. We recently launched our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Headquartered in London, UK with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52m in investment.

Pear Diagnostics

Series A in 2023
Pear Bio uses organ-on-a-chip and computer vision technology to recreate, visualize, and compute the human tumor microenvironment and its effects on cancer progression. The company was founded in 2017 and is headquartered in London.

Delio

Venture Round in 2022
Delio Limited operates as a platform that enables wealth management firms, private banks, and other financial institutions to deliver digital solutions within private investment markets. Its platform allows users to enhance their proposition within the direct private market and peer-to-peer investment arenas; and helps financial institutions navigate the challenges inherent within their industry. The company is based in Cardiff, United Kingdom.

Vinter Capital

Seed Round in 2022
Vinter is an EU-regulated index provider specialized in crypto indices. The company offers market indices, single asset indices, as well as custom, made indices to hedge funds, issuers, and stock exchanges worldwide. The indices are available through Vinter's own API as well as through the Refinitiv/Reuters platform.

Ometria

Series C in 2021
Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. We help them leverage data to build detailed customer profiles, and make sure that all messages they send are always relevant, leading to higher engagement and increased revenues. Ometria was founded by four serial entrepreneurs, with combined experience in ecommerce, computer science, mathematics and SaaS, has been invested in by London’s most prominent entrepreneurs and investors, and is used by top retailers in the UK, Europe and across the world.

ORCA Computing

Series A in 2022
ORCA Computing is building the first scalable and flexible quantum computer powered by photonics. They build a photonic Quantum computer, based on quantum memories. ORCA'a technology allows storage and synchronization of quantum operations, leading to improved performances.

Adbrain

Series A in 2014
Adbrain Ltd. operates a real-time, self-service, multi-screen demand-side advertising platform. Its platform maps customer relationships across various Internet connected devices, channels, and platforms; creates an actionable single customer view; targets customers as they switch between various Internet connected devices; and measures user behavior. The company’s platform also provides a transparent media buying model that champions self-service tools, allowing advertisers to run campaigns and own generated insights. Adbrain Ltd. was incorporated in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom with additional operations in New York. As of October 24, 2017, Adbrain Ltd. operates as a subsidiary of The Trade Desk, Inc.

Amplience

Seed Round in 2013
Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group, and Boohoo.

Amplience

Seed Round in 2011
Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group, and Boohoo.

Aframe

Venture Round in 2013
Collaborative video platform. Original broadcast footage is uploaded into the private cloud and made accessible to anyone

Rangespan

Venture Round in 2012
Rangespan provides an automated supply chain service that enables online retailers to massively expand product selection without risk. It operates non-core range (new categories and the long tails of existing categories) on behalf of retailers. It combines a number of technologies, including an order management system, supplier marketplace, customer protection system and product data catalogue, in one end-to-end service.

MaxHouse International Services

Venture Round in 2020
MaxHouse International specialized in services and activities of foreigner, MaxHouse has become the most popular Internaional Services platform across 3 cities and 2 countries by now. Customer can place an order or request such as Services, For Sale, Jobs, Housing, Community and Personals which will be completed by MaxHouse supplier.

Affectv

Series A in 2013
Affectv is an advertising technology company that runs media campaigns for global brands. It offers services to improve the relevancy of online advertisements for consumers and advertisers. The company provides a technology that analyses what users do and share them across social media sites from tailor advertisements to users based on their interests. It reaches over 500 million people and is extracting actionable data signals from billions of digital interactions. These signals are used to deliver the most advanced form of advertising, SignalAds. SignalAds are personal messages delivered to a relevant person, on a relevant device, at a relevant point in real time. It allows brands to engage more effectively with new and existing customers as well as optimize ROI. Affectv was founded on January 3, 2011 and is headquartered in London, United Kingdom.

Gymbox

Series A in 2010
Gymbox Limited owns and operates a chain of gyms/fitness centers in London. Its gyms offer classes in the areas of Thai boxing, yoga, fusion dance/martial arts aerobics, torso toning, indoor cycling, boxing, workouts, and kick boxing. The company was incorporated in 2005 and is based in London, the United Kingdom.

Turtl

Series A in 2021
Turtl provides an end-to-end software platform for serving the right content at the right time to the right people. Say goodbye to boring content, low-resolution insights and misdirected effort and start delivering a sustainable content marketing strategy.

Chronext AG

Series E in 2020
CHRONEXT is a full-service platform for luxury watch trading. At CHRONEXT, you can buy watches, sell watches, and service watches in their in-house certified watchmaking atelier. In addition to brand new models, they offer pre-owned and vintage timepieces, all of which have undergone inspection for quality and authenticity in their watchmaking atelier.

Tatum Limited

Seed Round in 2021
Tatum Limited develops block chain API that enables access to software developers for advanced block chain infrastructure and backend. The company was incorporated in 2019 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Cazoo

Venture Round in 2019
Cazoo is a developer of an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. The platform enables customers to purchase a used car online and have it delivered to their door and provides a free 90-day warranty and roadside assistance, enabling the customers to embrace the simplicity of the online convenience, free delivery, and 7-day money-back guarantee. Alexander Edward Chesterman founded the company in London, England in 2018.

Token

Series C in 2022
Token, Inc. provides hosted digital payment solutions for banks, payment service providers (PSPs), merchants, and developers. It offers Token Connect, a solution that allows banks and developers to focus on delivering customer-centric products and services; and Token PSD2, a SaaS solution that addresses the tasks of compliance while allowing banks to focus on new open banking opportunities. The company also provides Token BankPay, a solution for PSPs and merchants to take advantage of the new open banking payment rails that are opening in Europe. Token, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gardner, Kansas.

VisionDirect.co.uk

Series A in 2009
Vision Direct provides contact lenses, contact lens solutions, and eye care products online. It offers the quality of the first brands at reduced prices and with an excellent shipping service in 24 hours. It also has its own brand of lenses and optical solutions called everclear. The company was founded in 1998 and is headquartered in London, England.

BKwai

Seed Round in 2022
BKwai deliver insights to engineers using world-class research and applied technology to support a more resilient built environment. Data has the power to radically transform construction and asset management. But its full potential remains untapped and overlooked. BKwai mission is to help engineers get the most out of site data, making infrastructure work smarter, faster and safer.

CurrencyFair Ltd

Series A in 2015
CurrencyFair Ltd. provides online currency exchange and money remittance services. It receives the money online and exchange the money at available rates and transfer the amount to recipients. The company also provides rate alerts and currency fair wallet, a multi-currency wallet that offers bank level security for all currencies and funds. It serves international students, business owners, foreign property owners, and overseas workers. The company was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Dublin, Ireland with an additional office location in Milsons Point, Australia.

Tails.com

Seed Round in 2014
Tails.com is an online pet nutrition service that provides tailor-made food designed to deliver perfectly optimised nutrition for dogs. As a bespoke pet food, online retailer they're providing dogs with their own unique, freshly-blended food. Founded from backgrounds at innocent drinks, graze.com, LoveFilm & Amazon - tails.com launched in July 2014 with the ambition to change the world of pet food for good. Their customers (or most importantly their dogs) love their products. See what they have to say on their Trustpilot site https://uk.trustpilot.com/review/tails.com The key to their success is their people and they have been widely recognised as an exciting high growth company, scooping several awards including 4th place in the 2017 Startup 100 awards

Cred Investments

Seed Round in 2020
CRED enables fans to invest in their favorite talent (athletes, musicians and more). We are opening up the investment process to retail investors and offering access to newly secured assets class investments.

Biofidelity

Series A in 2022
Biofidelity developed a revolutionary molecular diagnostic assay that enables the rapid detection of target DNA sequences. Biofidelity’s mission is to improve and extend patients’ lives by enabling early detection of disease and better targeting of treatments with applications spanning oncology, prenatal testing, infectious disease, and organ transplant monitoring. Biofidelity was founded in 2019 and is headquartered of Cambridge, England.

eTherapeutics

Post in 2009
e-Therapeutics plc is a drug discovery and development company. It has developed proprietary computational systems to swiftly and accurately analyse and predict how medicines interact with cells in the body in hopes of optimizing the probability of identifying drug candidates with desirable efficacy and minimal side effects.

Raylo Group Limited

Venture Round in 2022
Raylo Group Limited offers Iphone on subscription basis. The company also provides subscription, which includes full insurance to its customers in order to cover them against loss, theft, and accidental damage. Raylo Group Limited has designed a process for repairs and replacements of mobile phones and accessories. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

PrismaStar

Series A in 2010
Multi-channel consumer guidance technology, such as the PrismaStar Selector, a product search solution to help eTailers increase conversion rates of up to 133%.

SmartKem

Series A in 2014
SmartKem Limited develops and markets organic semiconductors for the manufacture of liquid crystal and organic light-emitting diode displays. The company engages in design, development, industrialization, and technology transfer of low temp, solution-deposited organic semiconductors for transistor backplanes. It offers truFLEX organic semiconductors. The company was incorporated in 2008 and is based in Manchester, United Kingdom.

vHive

Series B in 2022
vHive develops a cloud-based AI that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives for the acquisition, management, and processing of field data. It enables enterprises in a variety of industries such as infrastructure, telecom, rail, and civil engineering to scale their drone operations by intelligently using off-the-shelf drones as part of a hive. The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mention Me Limited

Series B in 2022
Mention Me is a referral marketing and customer retention platform that fuels business growth. Our world-class programmes have delivered more than 2 million referrals and increased customer lifetime value for 400+ brands around the globe. Founded as a bootstrapped two-man company in 2013, we now employ more than 65 specialists and work with brands like Farfetch, Ocado Zoom and Nutmeg. Our work has been celebrated by awards including Showcase Startup at Retail Week’s Buzz conference, Best Tech Startup at Drapers Digital Festival, and a Bronze Stevie for Customer Service Team of the Year. In 2018, we raised $7 million in funding from Eight Roads Ventures to fuel our next phase of growth as a cutting-edge platform empowering brands to turn happy customers into engines for business growth.

Elvie

Series B in 2019
Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. We are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life. Our first product, Elvie Trainer, is an award-winning app-connected Kegel trainer that helps women strengthen the pelvic floor via fun, five-minute workouts. Launched in October 2015 to great acclaim, we took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, IDA Design Award and Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups’, named as one of the 15 start-ups “To Watch” by The Sunday Times and both products have been featured in the Oscar Nominee Gift Bags. We recently launched our second innovation: Elvie Pump, the world’s first silent wearable breast pump, which is making it possible for new mothers to pump anytime, anywhere. Elvie Pump received international praise following its unveiling on the catwalk at London Fashion Week and at the Consumer Electronics Show (CES) in Las Vegas. In April 2019, Elvie announced a $42 million Series B led by IPGL and supported by Octopus Ventures and Impact Ventures. This represented the largest ever fundraise in femtech. This new round of financing will accelerate Elvie’s research and development efforts, as well as help grow brand awareness and distribution for Elvie Pump and Elvie Trainer across the Americas, Europe and Asia. Headquartered in London, UK with offices also in New York City, the company has received numerous awards and raised more than $52m in investment.

Ori Biotech

Series B in 2022
Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform used to help patients get access to lifesaving treatments. Ori has developed a proprietary, flexible manufacturing platform that closes, automates, and standardizes manufacturing allowing therapeutics developers to further develop and bring their products from pre-clinical process development to commercial-scale manufacturing. The company aims to speed up the innovation of cell and gene therapies through the manufacturing platform it is bringing to market.

Token

Series B in 2021
Token, Inc. provides hosted digital payment solutions for banks, payment service providers (PSPs), merchants, and developers. It offers Token Connect, a solution that allows banks and developers to focus on delivering customer-centric products and services; and Token PSD2, a SaaS solution that addresses the tasks of compliance while allowing banks to focus on new open banking opportunities. The company also provides Token BankPay, a solution for PSPs and merchants to take advantage of the new open banking payment rails that are opening in Europe. Token, Inc. was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Gardner, Kansas.

kleene.ai

Series A in 2021
kleene.ai is SaaS data pipelining (ELT) for scale-ups. Taking businesses on their data journey and creating a single source of truth. Build your data warehouse with kleene.ai. Our solution is simple. One place, one application, one home for data processing. Connect all your data sources to your central lake with our simple UI. Implement your business logic quickly and simply. Schedule everything and let kleene handle the dependencies, version control, logging and alerting. Plug in your favourite BI app, reveal the insights and develop the analysis your business demands. No engineering, no fuss.

Michelson Diagnostics

Series B in 2015
Michelson Diagnostics is the developer and manufacturer of products based on Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), the uniquely powerful, innovative optical imaging technology that is capable of imaging living tissue microstructure at < 10 µm resolution,in real time, to depths of 1 mm or more.

Michelson Diagnostics

Series A in 2010
Michelson Diagnostics is the developer and manufacturer of products based on Multi-Beam Optical Coherence Tomography (OCT), the uniquely powerful, innovative optical imaging technology that is capable of imaging living tissue microstructure at < 10 µm resolution,in real time, to depths of 1 mm or more.

Contingent

Series A in 2022
Contingent is an enterprise supplier risk and resilience platform that provides users with tools and services to assess, screen, monitor, and analyze risks in their supply chains.

Glofox

Series A in 2020
Glofox is a management software that helps fitness entrepreneurs improve the health of people worldwide. Built to specifically address the intricacies that come with class-based fitness management, the platform enables studio and gym owners to seamlessly manage booking, payments, new leads, and memberships. The company allows boutique fitness studio owners to maintain authentic relationships with members and builds a community of customers at every phase of the life cycle. With Glofox, software fitness studios and gyms can finally make a unique member experiences that allow to build an engaged fitness community that lasts.

Appear Here Limited

Series B in 2017
Appear Here is an online marketplace for retail space. Since the company was founded in 2012, it has facilitated the opening of over 10,000 stores in the UK, US, and France. Appear Here has raised a total of $21.4 million in VC funding from the previous backers of Spotify, Pinterest, Hailo and Trivago.

Zapnito

Series A in 2021
Zapnito is the platform for creating expert networks, which promote thought leadership and foster collaboration, connecting brands and their communities to build engagement and trust.

Sova Assessment Ltd

Series A in 2022
Sova Assessment is a SaaS assessment provider that provides psychometric assessments for hiring or recruiting processes.

TaxScouts

Series A in 2020
TaxScouts is a tax preparation platform that makes tax planning easier. It allows drawing up of personal income tax online by certified accountants and its tax bot helps users to understand their personal income tax situation and suggests ways to reduce their tax bill. Founded by Mart Abramov, Kaupo Kõrv, and Daniel Karger in 2017, TaxScouts is headquartered in London, England.

Permutive, Inc.

Series C in 2021
Permutive, Inc. develops an ad-server for the sponsored content. The company develops custom ad-formats. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in New York.

Legl

Series B in 2022
Legl is a B2B SaaS platform enabling law firms to run their operations digitally – from streamlined onboarding, compliance, and payment tools to giving management critical business insights and their clients a service worthy of 2021.

Raylo Group Limited

Series A in 2021
Raylo Group Limited offers Iphone on subscription basis. The company also provides subscription, which includes full insurance to its customers in order to cover them against loss, theft, and accidental damage. Raylo Group Limited has designed a process for repairs and replacements of mobile phones and accessories. The company was founded in 2018 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Lapse

Seed Round in 2021
Lapse is a social disposable camera app. The app lets close groups recreate the magic of old-school disposable cameras by taking 36 snaps to ‘rolls’ in private group chats.

Semafone

Venture Round in 2010
Semafone Limited develops and provides solutions for secure voice transactions. The company provides a solution, which sends card data directly to banks from the customer’s telephone keypad avoiding the need for call center agents to hear or see card details; and Cardprotect, a cloud payment solution. Semafone Limited was founded in 2009 and is based in Chertsey, United Kingdom with regional headquarters in Boston.

Permutive, Inc.

Seed Round in 2015
Permutive, Inc. develops an ad-server for the sponsored content. The company develops custom ad-formats. The company was incorporated in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in New York.

Sofar Sounds Ltd

Series A in 2015
Sofar Sounds Ltd. is an international collective of fans, artists, and music professionals. The company through its tool and network discovers the best new music around the globe. Its solutions also provide insight and advice to the industry trends in licensing music for advertising in the United Kingdom and internationally. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Boughtbymany

Series A in 2017
Bought By Many is the multi-award-winning pet insurance provider that is disrupting insurance distribution. They do this by analysing anonymised internet search data and customer research to identify unmet consumer needs for insurance. Key company milestones are as follows: o 2012: Launched boughtbymany.com. Completed seed funding round. o 2013: Named Insurance Website of the Year. o 2014: Identified by Boston Consulting Group & Morgan Stanley as the global exemplar of innovation in insurance distribution. Awarded Best Use of Mobile Technology at the Digital Insurance Awards. o 2015: Surpassed 100,000 members. Launched SaaS platform in China in partnership with Ping An Insurance. Completed second funding round. Became directly regulated by the FCA. Acquired Brooks Braithwaite (Sussex) Ltd - the UK’s leading provider of insurance for exotic pets and pet businesses. Named Fintech Innovation of the Year & Insurance Start Up of the Year. o 2016: Innovation in Insurance Award at the Fintech Innovation Awards. Named in the FinTech 50. Signed long-term insurance agreement with Munich Re. Completed Series A funding round. o 2017: Launched Bought By Many-branded cat and dog insurance product range. o 2019: Named most trusted pet insurance provider at the 2019 Moneywise Customer Service Awards. Launched Bought By Many cat and dog insurance in Sweden. o 2020: Covers more than 200,000 pets in the UK. They have an exceptional team of 150, based across sites in Farringdon, Central London; Haywards Heath, Sussex; Birmingham; and Sweden. They're always interested to hear from people who'd like to learn about career opportunities at Bought By Many, and they're currently recruiting for web development, business analysis, & project management roles.

Metrasens

Series A in 2010
Metrasens Ltd. develops, markets, and installs medical devices that improve safety in hospitals. It provides a ferromagnetic detection system that alerts staff to the presence of ferromagnetic objects before they are inadvertently taken into the MRI suite; and a device to locate metallic objects within a patient. The company was founded in 2005 and is based in Malvern, the United Kingdom.

Vira Health

Series A in 2022
Vira is a digital health company focused on improving long-term health for women. We do this by addressing female-specific conditions and improving the collection and use of female data in healthcare.

DeadHappy

Venture Round in 2022
DeadHappy is an insurtech company that provides digital pay-as-you-go life insurance services. It specializes in offering flexible life insurance policies that are designed to be cheaper, easier, and better than existing traditional providers. Its offerings include pricing insurance based on current circumstances and the option to add further coverage on a rolling basis. The company was founded in 2013 and is headquartered in Leicester, England.

Fergus Software Limited

Series B in 2022
Fergus Software Limited develops cloud-based job management software. It serves plumbers, electricians, and other trade businesses. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in Auckland, New Zealand with additional offices in the United States, the United Kingdom, and Australia.

ValueBlue

Series B in 2022
ValueBlue is a Dutch business process mapping Startup

Intigriti

Series B in 2022
intigriti NV operares an ethical hacking and bug bounty platform that connects ethical hackers and companies to identify security vulnerabilities. The company’s platform enables businesses to implement continuous security testing for various assets with the help of a custom crowd of security researchers. It works with clients across various verticals, such as small tech start-ups, banks, and airlines in Belgium and internationally. The company was founded in 2016 and is based in Aalst, Belgium.

We Got POP

Venture Round in 2018
We Got POP Ltd. operates an online platform for casting supporting artists. Its platform allows casting agents to source, manage, and book suitable supporting artists for film, television (TV), and advertising projects; and facilitates artists to find opportunities to work in films, TV, and advertising directly through production companies or through a panel of agents. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Comma

Seed Round in 2021
Comma is a platform that makes it easy for businesses to pay salaries, taxes, and invoices by revolutionizing the payments system.

Troglo

Seed Round in 2021
LVNDR is a digital platform that improves sexual wellbeing for LGBTQ+ individuals and modernises sexual healthcare for clinics. We facilitate access to remote care and empower users to take control of their health with greater access to tailored services and features designed to fit their needs.

COLLECTIVfood

Series A in 2021
Our vision is to lead the transition to a fair, transparent and sustainable food supply chain, meeting the demands of the cities of tomorrow. The current food supply chain is broken, opaque and was designed in a pre-internet world. We are building a streamlined and automated food supply chain to support forward-looking food businesses. We provide an automated, sustainable and customer-centric food supply and delivery service.

GTN

Seed Round in 2018
Bringing a single new drug to the market costs $2.9bn, often delivering an intervention that barely differs from those already in the market. Projections into the future are not promising, with an expected 50% drop in R&D output every nine years. At GTN they are searching the astronomically large space of drug-like molecules with their unique patented technology, Generative Tensorial Networks. Their software combines and builds upon techniques from machine learning and quantum physics to simulate, filter and search for molecules, halving development costs and discovering molecules entirely hidden from view.

AllPlants

Series B in 2021
AllPlants operates as UK's vegan meal delivery service. All their packaging is 100% recyclable, partly compostable, and mostly reusable. They’re creating delicious dinners to inspire more plant-based living, so people + planet thrive together. To start that journey, They’re delivering their hand-prepared meals to doorsteps UK-wide.

Peak AI Ltd.

Series C in 2021
Peak is a full-stack enterprise AI System that combines the required infrastructure, data processing, AI workflow and applications in a single SaaS product. Using it, organizations can deploy AI solutions using data sets from across the enterprise, while integrating those solutions into all other business systems to automate action and optimization in real-time. Peak is used by brands across most industries including retail, CPG, direct-to-consumer, construction, and supply chain management.

OLIO Exchange Limited

Series A in 2018
OLIO is a free app connecting neighbors so surplus food and other items can be shared, not binned. Its location-based app and website allows people to list and post a photo of unwanted food items to be shared with other people in the same neighborhood. OLIO was founded in 2015 and is based in London.