Octopus Ventures

Octopus Ventures is a London and New York based venture capital firm that supports pioneering entrepreneurs with investments ranging from £1m for Seed to £25 million in subsequent rounds. With a focus on various sectors including technology, healthcare, and consumer lifestyle, Octopus Ventures aims to make a real impact on the world by providing not only financial support but also expertise and guidance. As part of the Octopus group managing over £8.3 billion in assets, they have worked with over 60 companies, creating a diverse and successful portfolio. Known for their entrepreneur-friendly approach, Octopus Ventures takes a hands-on role in their investments, often leading rounds and taking board seats in portfolio companies. Founded in 2007, Octopus Ventures has established itself as a key player in the European venture capital landscape, connecting globally to provide a unique depth of experience and support to the entrepreneurs they back.

Kamran Adle

Investor

Tosin Agbabiaka

Investor

Priscila Bala

Head of New York Office

Howard Bell

Venture Partner

Richard Bolton

Investor

Matthew Chandler

Investor

Uzma Choudry

Investor

Lucy Clarke

Associate

Anthony Collinson

Venture Partner

Richard Court

Partner

Paul Davidson

Principal

Emma Davies

Investor

Saranyah Douse

Investment Manager

Will Gibbs

Partner

LUKE HAKES (PHD)

Partner

John Hamm

Venture Partner

Rebecca Hunt

Partner

Natasha Jones

Investor

Simon King

Partner

Philip Lay

Venture Partner

Marvin Ma

Venture Partner

Karan Mehta

Investor

Shamik Parekh

Investor

Ian Perry

Venture Partner

Jebran Raashed

Associate

Uthishtan Ranjan

Principal

Adam Said

Investment Manager

Nicholas Sando

Principal

Conor Scanlan

Investor

Dr. Pooja Sikka

Partner

Mason Sinclair

Deep Tech

Joe Stringer

Partner

Matthieu Vallin

Investor

Alan Wallace

Investor

Millen Wolde-Selassie

Investor

Zihao Xu

Partner

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Elliptic

Series C in 2021
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.

Sprout.ai

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

Seatfrog

Private Placement in 2018
Seatfrog develops technology solutions for travel industry. The company is based in Sydney, Australia.

ManyPets

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.

Overture Life

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.

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.

Taster

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.

HURR

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

Pear Bio

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.

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.

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.

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.

CHRONEXT

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.

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.

CurrencyFair

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.

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.

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.

Sofar Sounds

Private Placement in 2019
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.

Mindstep

Seed Round in 2022
Inspired and founded by medical students, Mindset is an application which can sensitively evaluate neurological symptoms by conducting established diagnostic tests through the latest iPhone models. Whilst highly accessible and affordable, Mindset’s underlying technology surpasses current diagnostic methods; through integration of machine-learning, disease patterns are translated into predictive models for early detection.

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

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.

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

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.

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.

Plum Guide

Private Placement in 2018
The Plum Guide Limited operates as vacation rental company providing spaces and hosts to tourists. It offers homes, apartments, and lofts on rent. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

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.

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.

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.

OLIO

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.

Big Health

Series C in 2022
Big Health operates a digital healthcare portal used to offer fully-automated and highly personalized digital therapeutics and behavioral programs for mental health issues. Its portal offers an online personalized medicine-care and prepares a sleep improvement program in consultation with medical professionals that enable individuals to overcome their sleep-related disorders in an efficient manner.

Imophoron

Seed Round in 2021
Imophoron is the developer of a novel next-generation rapid-response vaccine platform, ADDomer(TM).

Lollipop

Seed Round in 2022
Lollipop is an online grocery shopping platform that includes personalized meal plans.

First Retail

Private Equity Round in 2013
First Retail takes on those technology challenges in ecommerce in the broader sense, but our heart lies at the intersection of process, technology and data for enterprise organizations. We help clear systems hurdles, ensure alignment of processes and customer propositions, and put in the infrastructure for tomorrow’s seamless omnichannel operations. First Retail offers three types of intervention for the ecommerce business – Digital Transformation, Omnichannel Implementation, Insights and Intelligence. Each of these practice areas covers strategy, execution and technology evaluation and implementation.

BehavioSec

Series B in 2018
BehavioSec is the first vendor to pioneer behavioral biometrics. The company’s Behavioral Biometrics as a Service (BBaaS) platform is widely deployed across Global 2000 companies for its proven ability to dramatically reduce account fraud and data theft. Founded in 2008 out of groundbreaking academic research, BehavioSec technology allows companies, to continuously verify digital identities with superior precision, in real-time. Strengthened with the leadership of serial entrepreneurs and experienced industry professionals, the BehavioSec team now spans the world, providing security while preserving a rich digital experience throughout web and mobile apps. BehavioSec is the only enterprise-grade vendor used in global deployments with some of the largest companies, reducing manual review whilst safeguarding millions of users and billions of transactions. BehavioSec investors include Forgepoint Capital, Cisco, ABN AMRO, Conor Ventures and Octopus Ventures. BehavioSec is headquartered in San Francisco, CA and has global operations throughout Europe and Asia Pac. For more information, visit www.behaviosec.com.

Vitesse

Series B in 2022
Vitesse PSP Ltd. operates a money transfer platform to deliver customized own-branded payment services to customers worldwide. Its platform offers treasury and remittance, inbound and outbound payment, due-diligence, transaction monitoring, and global foreign exchange solutions. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Origami

Series C in 2021
Origami Energy Ltd., a technology company, develops and commercializes a technology platform for distributed energy applications. It offers technology and solutions to connect, control, and manage a network of existing energy generating/energy using/energy storing assets connected to the electricity grid. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

KatKin

Series A in 2022
KatKin is a consumer goods company that offers an online-based platform that allows people to purchase and choose different kinds of cat food. The company is driven by its mission is to make it easy for everyone to feed cats properly. KatKin was founded in 2019 and headquartered in London, England.

XYZ Reality

Series A in 2021
XYZ Reality Limited develops HoloSite, an engineering grade augmented reality device and solution that allows construction workers to view building information models (BIM) on-site to millimeter accuracy eliminating the need for 2D drawings. Its HoloSite enables construction management to make real-time decisions in the field. The company was incorporated in 2017 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

iSIZE Limited

Series A in 2021
iSIZE Limited offers codec independent AI technology for video encoding and streaming, cloud transcoding, bitrate saving, and live upscaling solutions. The company was incorporated in 2016 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Sova (London)

Venture Round in 2020
Sova Assessment is a SaaS assessment provider that provides psychometric assessments for hiring or recruiting processes.

Bondaval

Seed Round in 2021
BondAval is a digital platform for B2B credit security to replace bank guarantees and traditional collateral-based instruments.

Antidote.me

Venture Round in 2021
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.

Patch

Series A in 2018
Patch Gardens Ltd. a gardening service firm, provides door-to-door plants, pots and accessories for indoor and outdoor areas. Its plants include MEDEA, TALIA, CHARLIE, BIG KEN, DANA, RAPUNZEL, BALI, FIDEL, CHAZ, GABY, RICK, SUSIE, ROBIN, PIPPA, JUNO, JETHRO, SILVY, BEN, HOWARD, FIDEL TREE and SHARON. The company offers pots such as WHITE HANDLE POT, WICKER BASKET, CRACKLE GLAZE CERAMIC POT, RUSTIC CONCRETE POT, CLAY POT, PLANT STAND, TAPERED MATT CERAMIC POT, BLUE RIDGE CERAMIC POT, WHITE WAVE, RAINDROP, WOVEN SEAGRASS BASKET, FERM LIVING BAU POT, FERM LIVING BALCONY BOX, DAPPED CERAMIC POT, COPENHAGEN TERRACOTTA POT, FLORENCE TERRACOTTA POT, POLYSTONE BUCKET POT, HANGING TROUGH AND WIDE STRAIGHT-EDGED POT. Additionally, it also provides garden maintenance services. The company was founded in 2015 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Slamcore

Funding 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.

Ecrebo

Series A in 2014
Ecrebo Limited develops a point of sale marketing platform that enables retailers to deliver targeted offers and communications to their customers. Its platform delivers relevant and purchase-based offers and messages directly to in-store customers; and helps customers to receive and store digital receipts. The company’s platform works on existing POS and printer equipment. It serves retailers in the United Kingdom and internationally. Ecrebo Limited was formerly known as Aperium Solutions Ltd. and changed its name to Ecrebo Limited in May 2010. Ecrebo Limited was incorporated in 2009 and is based in Reading, United Kingdom.

Ibex Medical Analytics

Series B in 2021
Ibex Medical Analytics Ltd develops AI-based pathology cancer diagnosis system. The company’s Ibex Second Read system analyzes cases in parallel with human pathologist review and identifies discrepancies between pathologist diagnoses and its analysis. The company is based in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Graze

Venture Round in 2009
Graze is a UK based company that delivers natural foods, particularly fruits and vegetables, to residential homes or workplaces daily.

Sofar Sounds

Seed Round in 2014
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.

NanoSyrinx

Seed Round in 2021
NanoSyrinx is an emerging biotechnology company developing a novel system for targeted delivery of therapeutic proteins and peptides direct to the cytosol. We are using synthetic biology approaches to develop a completely novel method for targeted drug delivery of therapeutic proteins and peptides, to the interiors of cells, to improve efficacy, safety, and economy.

Michelson Diagnostics

Venture Round in 2012
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.

Permutive

Series B in 2020
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.

Impact

Venture Round in 2006
Impact provides facilities management software solutions.

Ometria

Series B in 2019
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.

Secret Escapes

Series A in 2011
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.

Secret Escapes

Venture Round in 2013
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.

Streetbees

Series B in 2020
Streetbees.com Limited develops and operates an artificial intelligence (AI) based market research platform. The company offers Streetbees Dynamic Growth Engine dashboard, which provides consumer insights and generates plans; and Streetbees Brand Experience Monitor for consumer demand monitoring and brand management. It also offers Streetbees Dynamic Audience Solution for target audience segmentation and market campaigns; and Streetbees Dynamic Media Landscape for marketing content, entertainment engagements, and insights. The company was incorporated in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom. It has an additional office in Lisboa, Portugal. Streetbees.com Limited operates as a subsidiary of BeMyEye Holdings Ltd.

Cazoo

Private Placement 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.

Elliptic

Series A in 2016
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.

Mi-Pay

Post in 2010
Mi-Pay delivers outsourced payment solutions to digital e-commerce clients, primarily in the mobile sector. Its clientele is comprised of mobile operators, virtual operators, prepaid card providers, financial institutions, and media companies. The company also provides a portfolio of client branded, mobile payment services for mobile operators, financial service providers, utility companies, and media owners from their offices in the U.K., Romania, U.A.E., and India. Its infrastructure allows end customers to top-up using multiple payment methods such as credit or debit card, PaypalTM, bank transfer, and direct debit across all channels. Mi-Pay was founded in 2003.

Origami

Series A in 2016
Origami Energy Ltd., a technology company, develops and commercializes a technology platform for distributed energy applications. It offers technology and solutions to connect, control, and manage a network of existing energy generating/energy using/energy storing assets connected to the electricity grid. The company was incorporated in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Behaviometrics AB

Private Placement in 2018
Behaviometrics AB provides information security solutions for IT organizations worldwide. It offers BehavioSense, a solution that uses continuous authentication to prevent account takeover, stop fraud, and help users to provide a frictionless user experience for their customers. The company also offers SDKs for developers. Behaviometrics AB was founded in 2006 and is based in Stockholm, Sweden. It has additional offices in Luleå, Sweden; London, United Kingdom; Palo Alto, California; and WanChai, Hong Kong.

ManyPets

Series C in 2020
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.

Box It

Venture Round in 2010
After partnering for over 8 years, in February 2010 Box-it and Stortext came together under the Box-it brand to offer an Integrated Document Management solution in the fast growing marketplace for records management (paper and digital).

eve Sleep

Venture Round in 2016
Eve was created to challenge everything the sleepy mattress industry represents. As such, it is more than a mattress. It is a pioneer for change, an advocate for ease and a champion for fairness. They created eve to revolutionise every aspect of buying one of the most important items in your home.

Zoopla

Series B in 2010
Zoopla is the UK's most comprehensive property website, focused on empowering users with the resources they need to make better-informed property decisions. They help consumers both find their next home and research the market by combining hundreds of thousands of property listings with market data, local information and community tools. At Zoopla they are fans of transparency and everything they do is aimed at making the market more efficient for both property consumers and advertisers alike. Zoopla has rapidly become the UK’s leading online destination for property consumers to search for homes and do their market research and the favoured online marketing partner for UK estate agents, letting agents and property developers. Launched in 2008, Zoopla has since been one of the fastest growing websites in the UK, now attracting over 40 million visits per month and they are proud to have collected numerous awards and accolades along the way, including being named one of the Top 10 UK Tech Companies (Guardian) and one of the Top 10 Most Innovative UK Companies (Smarta).

Sweet Cred

Venture Round in 2007
Sweet Cred Limited engages in children’s novelty confectionery business. It sells various products, which combine sweets with toys that are based around cartoon characters. The company sells its products through distribution partners in Europe, the United States, and the Middle East. It establishes distribution through wholesalers, and retail distribution through multiple retailers, motorway service stations, and toyshop chains. The company is based in Sidcup, the United Kingdom.
Picsoneye Segmentation Innovations Limited, doing business as Pixoneye, develops a mobile data analytics and personalization solution. The company offers its solutions for gender and marital status distribution, and pet and hobbies distribution; and music instrumentation distribution, preferred cuisine distribution, vacation type distribution, and favorite distribution. Its technology analyzes consumers’ personal photo galleries on their devices anonymously and creates digital profiles filled with clever data that helps the client understand audience’s personal life story with unprecedented precision. It also designs and develops Edgify, a framework for deep learning and artificial intelligence training. Picsoneye Segmentation Innovations Limited caters to the industries, such as health, retail, automotive, IoT, and smart homes. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Hubbub

Series A in 2014
Hubbub is a home delivery service on a mission to save the high street! Hubbub makes it easy to do your weekly shop with your brilliant local independents.

Barrecore

Venture Round in 2016
Barrecore is intelligent exercise, integrating the fat-burning format of interval training with static stretches after each major muscle worked. The incredible changes clients see thorough barrecore are the results of working and exhausting all muscle groups and subsequently stretching the muscles for relief. Each 60-minute workout targets all major muscle groups and improves posture and alignment no matter what your fitness level. This is how they effectively, efficiently and safely reshape the entire body, creating the highly coveted barre body.

SwiftKey

Series A in 2011
SwiftKey is a technology company that aims to enhance interaction between keyboards and people. It upgrades smartphone keyboards to make typing faster, by utilizing artificial intelligence to learn from each user in order to autocorrect and predict their next word. The SwiftKey Keyboard for Android supports more than 80 languages. SwiftKey was founded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Slamcore

Private Placement in 2018
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.

eve Sleep

Series B in 2016
Eve was created to challenge everything the sleepy mattress industry represents. As such, it is more than a mattress. It is a pioneer for change, an advocate for ease and a champion for fairness. They created eve to revolutionise every aspect of buying one of the most important items in your home.

Digital Shadows

Series C in 2019
Digital Shadows identifies unwanted exposure, protect against external threats, and minimize digital risk. The company's product Digital Shadows SearchLight helps to minimize these risks by detecting data loss, securing the online brand, and reducing the attack surface. Digital Shadows has proven that their digital risk management service is incredibly valuable, providing my security teams with context, prioritization, recommended actions, and even remediation options to dramatically reduce risk to Sophos. The company was founded in 2011 and is based in San Francisco, California.

Bowman

Venture Round in 2010
Bowman Power Group Limited develops and markets electric turbo compounding (ETC) technology systems for engine and generator OEMs, power rental providers, and independent power producers worldwide. It offers ETC systems for new build and retrofit application for gas and diesel-fueled open generator sets to improve energy efficiency and power density; and integration with containerized generators to improve the efficiency of rental units. Bowman Power Group Limited was formerly known as Ocean Quay Power Systems Limited and changed its name to Bowman Power Group Limited in June 2004. The company was incorporated in 2003 and is based in Southampton, United Kingdom.

Unmade

Seed Round in 2019
Unmade Limited designs and delivers knitwear, scarves, and jumpers for men and women. Its products are available through its store in London, as well as online in the United Kingdom and internationally. Unmade Limited was formerly known as Knyttan Limited and changed its name to Unmade Limited in September 2015. The company was founded in 2013 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

Uniplaces

Seed Round in 2013
Uniplaces Limited provides an online marketplace for booking student accommodation. It offers booking services for users (who are seeking accommodation) and accommodation providers (who wish to offer their accommodation to users). It offers its services in Barcelona, Madrid, Munich, Milan, Rome, Lisbon, Porto, London, Berlin, Valencia, and internationally. The company was founded in 2012 and is based in London, United Kingdom.

vHive

Series A in 2019
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.

WaveOptics

Series C in 2019
WaveOptics, Ltd. manufactures augmented reality display technology. Its technology includes binocular display, high field-of-view, full RGB color, and lightweight features. WaveOptics, Ltd. has strategic partnerships with Compal and Wistron, and Plessey. The company was incorporated in 2012 and is headquartered in Abingdon-on-Thames, United Kingdom.

Segura Systems

Venture Round in 2016
Segura was founded in 2012 by entrepreneurs Ian Hepworth and Peter Needle, who wanted to combine their digital expertise and detailed knowledge of global supply chain management to create a simple-to-use businesses solution. Today the business operates from a central London office, with a technology and operations headquarters based on Loughborough University’s fast-growing Science and Enterprise Park. Segura works with some of the biggest names on the UK high-street, with more than 2,000 factories and over 18,000 individuals using the platform across the globe.

Zynstra

Series B in 2014
Zynstra is transforming edge computing at the retail edge. Its Intelligent Infrastructure is specifically designed and built for the retail edge, not the datacenter. It leverages intelligent automation to transform the way thousands of distributed sites are managed. By choosing Zynstra, the retail edge becomes the source of your competitive advantage in an era where superior customer experience is not only a great-to-have, but a must-have. You establish a lasting platform where new innovative apps and services are tested and launched to delight consumers at the retail edge, all while driving down operational costs and better managing risk. With its DNA deeply rooted in edge software products, Zynstra provides purpose-built edge infrastructure for the world’s largest, most distributed, innovation-driven enterprises. Zynstra is a strategic partner of HPE in delivering intelligence infrastructure – under the HPE Proliant Easy Connect brand – and is based in the United Kingdom.

iovox

Series A in 2016
Our mission at iovox is to make data from all phone calls as useful, valuable, and actionable. Trusted by leading brands and global customers in more than 30 countries, iovox delivers on its mission via call analytics, productivity and collaboration solutions.
Picsoneye Segmentation Innovations Limited, doing business as Pixoneye, develops a mobile data analytics and personalization solution. The company offers its solutions for gender and marital status distribution, and pet and hobbies distribution; and music instrumentation distribution, preferred cuisine distribution, vacation type distribution, and favorite distribution. Its technology analyzes consumers’ personal photo galleries on their devices anonymously and creates digital profiles filled with clever data that helps the client understand audience’s personal life story with unprecedented precision. It also designs and develops Edgify, a framework for deep learning and artificial intelligence training. Picsoneye Segmentation Innovations Limited caters to the industries, such as health, retail, automotive, IoT, and smart homes. The company was founded in 2014 and is based in London, United Kingdom with an additional office in Tel Aviv, Israel.

Mailcloud

Seed Round in 2014
Mailcloud organizes every attachment and file you've ever received from email, instantly findable and shareable on iPhone and Android. We're helping the world work easier and faster, on mobile. Connect any existing email account and Mailcloud instantly organizes your entire history of communication, emails, files, people and companies into folders and timelines for you - so all of your work is organized and easily in one place.

By Miles

Private Placement in 2020
By Miles Limited develops a smart phone application that provides pay-per-mile car insurance. It offers a fixed monthly subscription and then let's the customer pay on a flexible, per journey basis. By Miles Limited was incorporated in 2015 and is based in Bootle, United Kingdom with additional office in Hammersmith, London.

LifeBook

Venture Round in 2012
LifeBook Ltd. provides individual autobiography publishing services for families and friends. It provides hardback books with color photographs. The company was incorporated in 2007 and is based in Godalming, United Kingdom with an additional office in Florida.

The Faction Collective

Series A in 2015
The Faction Collective SA designs and builds skis, helmets, poles, clothing, and accessories for men and women. It sells products online in Europe, the United States, and Canada; and through dealers in Austria, Belgium, Czech Republic, Denmark, France, Norway, the Russia Federation, Slovakia, Sweden, Switzerland, and the United Kingdom. The company was founded in 2006 and is based in Verbier, Switzerland with locations in Breckenridge, Colorado; Whistler and Whitewater, Canada; and Snowpark, New Zealand.

vHive

Series A in 2020
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.

Depop

Private Placement in 2019
Depop is the fashion marketplace where the next generation buy, sell and get inspired. We are headquartered in London, UK with locations in Manchester, New York, Los Angeles and Australia. We have more than 21 million registered users in 147 countries. We are also the only European player to have recently entered the top 25 shopping apps by daily active users.

Shopa

Series A in 2015
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.