Octopus Ventures

Octopus Ventures Ltd. is a London-based venture capital firm founded in 2007, specializing in investments across a variety of sectors including health, fintech, deep tech, consumer, and B2B software. The firm supports companies at different stages, from seed funding to pre-IPO, with a strong emphasis on making a positive impact. It typically invests between £0.28 million and £25 million in businesses that demonstrate a minimum EBITDA of £0.5 million. Octopus Ventures prefers to lead investment rounds and often takes a board seat in its portfolio companies, which include notable names such as ManyPets, Cazoo, and Depop. The firm operates primarily in Europe, with a particular focus on the UK, and maintains a network of partners in the U.S. and Asia. In addition to financial backing, Octopus Ventures commits time and resources to help founders scale their businesses effectively.

Kamran Adle

Partner

Tosin Agbabiaka

Investor

Chloe Allan

Investment Manager

Georgiana Barbanta

Portfolio People and Talent Manager

Dany Bidar

Principal

Rich Bolton

Principal

Zoe Chambers

Early Stage Investor

Matt Chandler

Investment Manager

Maiuran Chandrakumaran

Investment Associate

Lucy Clarke

Investor

Milly-Louisa Cleal

Portfolio Partner

Emma Davies

Co-CEO

Saranyah Douse

Investment Principal

Jonathan Durnford-Smith

Portfolio Partner

Constanza Díaz

Investment Manager

Fred Ellis

Investment Manager

Tilly Fleming

Associate

Will Gibbs

Investment Manager

Renée Godyn

Early-Stage Fintech Investor

Henry Goodwin

Venture Partner

Hakes Ph.D., Luke

Partner

John Hamm

Venture Partner

Hope Johnson

Investment Manager

Natasha Jones

Early Stage Investor

Edward Keelan

Investment Principal

Tim Lebus

Venture Partner

Flavia Levi

Investor, Deep Tech

Alex Macpherson

Chairman

Jeevs Mahil

Portfolio People Partner

Bryony Marshall

Principal

Jessica McCreadie

Principal

Karan Mehta

Early Stage Investor

Brandon Mhangami

Investor

Ben Newsome

Portfolio Partner

Amy Nommeots-Nomm

Investor

Shamik Parekh

Early-stage Investor

Ian Perry

Venture Partner

Rosie Phillips

Investor, Consumer

Jebran Raashed

Investment Manager

Uthishtan Ranjan

Partner

Uthish Ranjan

Partner

Patricia Ruiz

Investment Manager

Adam Said

Principal

Pooja Sikka

Partner

Joe Stringer

Partner

Hugo Villanueva

Investor, Biotech

Tanya Yankova

Investor, Healthtech

Owen Metters Ph.D

Investment Manager, Deep Tech

Past deals in Europe

Pear Bio

Series A in 2023
Pear Bio is a Boston and London-based AI-enabled biotech company. We develop functional precision medicine-guided therapeutics for patients with hard-to-treat cancers. We take tumor biopsies and blood from cancer patients to find new targets with multi-omics. We then test the efficacy of generated drug candidates directly on patient tumor samples using a proprietary immune-microtumor system. We have best-in-class and first-in-class internal drug discovery programs, and we are using our 3D immune-microtumor platform to position our drug candidates in the right indications/populations and in smarter combination therapies.

TympaHealth

Series A in 2023
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.
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.

Wazoku

Series B in 2022
We are passionate about enabling organisations to engage and collaborate with their workforce, ecosystem, customers and the world to generate new ideas as part of a wider innovation strategy. Where innovation works! Wazoku is both a for-profit and a for-purpose business. We see innovation and sustainability as core pillar of our business. We believe every organisation can successfully innovate at scale and we're building the technology and processes to make it possible. We help global organisations to build and sustain an effective Culture of Innovation and successfully deliver innovation at scale. To help you meet your innovation challenges we created our Enterprise Innovation Platform comprising: Idea Management Software, Open Innovation Marketplace, Innovation Consulting, Portfolio Management

KatKin

Series A in 2022
KatKin is a producer of healthy and nutritious cat food that provides healthy digestion, shiny coats, and improved energy. It offers an online subscription service for cat food that contains real premium meat, which is steam-cooked for better digestion and to avoid destroying the nutritional value.

Oto Health

Seed Round in 2022
Oto builds digital therapeutics for tinnitus. There are 390 million people with intrusive tinnitus around the world. Our mission to help them, by providing science-based therapy, that is accessible to all.

Raylo

Venture Round in 2022
Raylo is a smartphone subscription startup that aims to make mobile simple, smart, and more sustainable. When customers are ready to upgrade, they return their old products, which are refurbished and re-sold in Raylo's circular process for maximum lifespan and sustainability. It enables consumers to gain access to the most recent products through a monthly subscription that is both cost-effective and environmentally friendly. Raylo's retailer pipeline spans several categories, including consumer electronics.

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.

Fergus

Series B in 2022
Fergus assists companies and establishments by providing field service management solutions. Through the company's software, its users are able to manage and create invoices, track job progression and costs, instant work schedule creation, time entries with notifications, view job profit margins, and much more with a financial overviewdashboard. Fergus was established in 2012 in Auckland, New Zealand by Dan Pollard

Merge

Seed Round in 2022
Merge is a fintech that is merging stablecoins and instant payment rails in one API. Backed by world-class investors, we aim to accelerate cross-border commerce through global banking and payment services for global businesses.

Foodsteps

Seed Round in 2022
Foodsteps is a london-based startup that has developed a platform to help the food sector reduce its carbon footprint.

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.

Token.io

Series C in 2022
Token.io’s A2A payment infrastructure is powered by open banking and built for the payments industry. With the simplest and fastest way to launch Pay by Bank as a core payment method globally, Token.io helps payment providers grow their market share in the face of the continued shift from cards to APMs. Token.io's complete payments infrastructure offers the deepest and highest performing connectivity, reaching over 567 million bank accounts (80%+ of accounts per market) in 21 countries. With fast and flexible deployment options, including the option to use Token.io's license and conversion boosting payment authentication flows, payment providers can quickly and easily launch and manage Pay By Bank capabilities. Token.io's solution is proven by a blue chip base of partners, which collectively process payments for millions of merchants worldwide, including HSBC, Mastercard, BNP Paribas, ACI Worldwide, Computop, Nuvei and Paysafe.

Lollipop

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

SLAMcore

Series A in 2022
Slamcore Limited specializes in developing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solutions for applications in augmented and virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2016 and based in London, the company focuses on making commercial-grade spatial intelligence accessible. Its advanced SLAM software enables robots and drones to effectively navigate and comprehend their environment, utilizing methods such as Visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and Event Camera SLAM. These technologies allow for real-time processing and integration of data from various sensors, enhancing capabilities in areas like motion estimation and panorama reconstruction. Slamcore collaborates with partners to optimize the interplay between software and hardware, ensuring a balanced approach to performance and cost-effectiveness. By providing robust SLAM algorithms, the company aims to transform spatial AI into practical solutions for various industries, ultimately facilitating the integration of robots into everyday life.

Intigriti

Series B in 2022
Intigriti is an award-winning cybersecurity company that specializes in incentivized security testing through bug bounty programs. Founded in 2016, Intigriti set out to conquer the limitations of traditional security testing, such as pentests. Its interactive platform enables clients to launch managed security testing at scale and better prioritize remediation by more accurately assessing risk. Clients continuously test their digital assets for vulnerabilities by leaning on Intigriti’s 50,000 security researchers. On average, companies receive 53 reports within one week of launching on the platform. Additionally, 71% receive a high to critical vulnerability report within 48 hours. As a global market leader in bug bounty programs, clients of all sizes and from a wide range of business sectors utilize Intigriti’s platform and services. The business works with over 300 clients, from small tech start-ups to large banks and airlines. Its focus lies on innovation and outstanding customer service. Intigriti offers all its customers (no matter the size, maturity level, or industry) full triaging services and a dedicated customer success manager. Intigriti’s triage team provides a layer of quality assurance before escalating vulnerabilities to businesses. Internal security teams therefore only receive reports that are valid, unique, and in scope. Customers are also supported by their success manager from preboarding and onboarding through to post-launch activities to ensure their bug bounty program reaches maximum potential. In 2021, Intigriti received Deloitte’s 2021 Fast 50 Award as recognition for the impact the platform has made. In 2020, the business won Deloitte’s Rising Star award.

Contingent

Series A in 2022
Contingent is on a mission to fundamentally change how procurement is done, helping companies reduce friction and increase resilience, while empowering procurement teams to make right choices and partner more closely with the wider business. Easy to use and simple to set up, Contingent’s lightweight and proactive real-time insights tool fits seamlessly into an organisation’s existing procurement workflow and technology ecosystem, and provides the answers the team needs to act.

Amplience

Series D in 2022
Amplience is the AI content company that brings together data, performance insights, and generative AI – helping merchants and developers deliver persuasive content for every shopping context, fueling truly personalized and connected experiences. The company is designed to help businesses create, manage, and deliver dynamic content effectively. It integrates data, performance insight, and generative AI technology for a streamlined user experience. Amplience offers a headless CMS, allowing for a highly visual and customizable content management approach, particularly beneficial for eCommerce applications.

Vira Health

Series A in 2022
Vira Health is a digital health company dedicated to enhancing long-term health outcomes for women by focusing on female-specific conditions. The company develops digital therapeutics that provide evidence-based interventions for managing menopause symptoms, including insomnia, anxiety, depression, hot flushes, weight gain, and incontinence. Vira's approach also aims to delay the onset of chronic health issues such as osteoporosis, cardiovascular disease, and dementia through personalized care and tailored treatment plans. By improving the collection and use of female health data, Vira Health seeks to address the unique challenges women face throughout their lives, particularly during menopause.

LifeScore

Series A in 2022
LifeScore marries the time-tested 400-year-old technology of musical notation with its proprietary Cellular Composition algorithms, creating a radically innovative, endlessly original platform for musical composition. At LifeScore’s core lie its audio assets – musical building blocks featuring world-class musicians, the finest instruments, historic and cutting edge recording technologies and production in the world’s greatest recording studio. Employing the techniques and processes of professional composers, including those of CEO and Founder Philip Sheppard, LifeScore’s technology rapidly assembles these musical components across multiple audio channels to generate original, unique, adaptive music that is either fully autonomous or responsive in real-time to user and environmental data inputs. LifeScore’s technology can operate across any musical genre – from ambient and classical to pop, EDM, funk and heavy rock – and can be integrated into a vast array of applications across many industry sectors, inextricably linking user-generated, bespoke music to all aspects of life.

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.

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.

Delio

Venture Round in 2022
Delio’s technology, expertise and network power the private market strategies of the world’s most respected financial institutions. We offer uniquely configurable solutions that create, scale and streamline how firms connect their clients with the most desirable alternative investments.

Nosso

Seed Round in 2022
Nosso is a mobile-based financial planning platform for the future of children.

Automata

Series B in 2022
Automata is an automation company helping life sciences rapidly innovate, diagnose and discover at scale. It provides robotic automation for labs in the life science space that want to scale up and get results quicker.

Vitesse

Series B in 2022
Vitesse is an innovative financial technology company that provides integrated treasury and payment services, specifically tailored for the insurance sector. The company offers market participants complete visibility and control over claims, facilitating real-time management and capital protection for stakeholders throughout the value chain. By eliminating time-consuming manual claims payments and reconciliations, their platform enhances efficiency. With an integrated global payments network, Vitesse empowers claims administrators and delegated authorities to provide an exceptional customer experience in claims payments.

Sova Assessment

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

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.

SmartKem

Post in 2022
SmartKem develops a semiconductor platform that enables a new generation of displays, sensors, and logic. Its patented TRUFLEX® inks are solution deposited at a low temperature, on low-cost substrates to make organic thin-film transistor (OTFT) circuits.

Mention Me

Series B in 2022
Mention Me empowers brands to harness the exponential power of fans through referral. Since 2013, our unique Referral Engineering® approach has delivered more than 4.5m referrals totalling USD $1.5bn in revenue for 450 brands, including Charlotte Tilbury, Farfetch, Nutmeg, Pret a Manger and Puma. We make brands think advocacy-first by turning referral into a strategic acquisition channel that enhances wider marketing activity and the customer experience. This vision is supported by our fast-growing partner network, which includes Emarsys, Ometria, Klaviyo and Trustpilot. Backed by Octopus Ventures and Eight Roads, we’ve raised $32 million in funding since 2018. To learn more, visit mention-me.com or find us on the SAP store.

Vinter

Seed Round in 2022
Vinter develops, monitors, and markets the Vinter Indexes, a family of financial benchmarks designed to underlie financial products. Vinter is a firm specializing in thematic indexes capturing the nascent digital asset industry. Vinter is the leading digital asset index provider in Europe, providing indexes to industry leaders in the emerging industry of exchange-traded digital asset products.

Big Health

Series C in 2022
Big Health is a digital therapeutics company that operates a digital healthcare portal 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.

ValueBlue

Series B in 2022
ValueBlue's collaboration platform speeds up Agile Business Transformation for CIOs and Enterprise Architects across the globe. In 2022, 170+ customers like AS Watson, Randstad, and Wyndham Hotel Group plan and manage transformation based on real data insights and business impact. With offices in EMEA, the USA, and APAC, the company has enjoyed 50%+ year-over-year growth over the past four years. For more information, please visit: http://www.valueblue.com/

Ori Biotech

Series B in 2022
Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform designed to enhance access to lifesaving treatments through cell and gene therapies. The company has created a proprietary and flexible manufacturing system that automates and standardizes the production process, facilitating the transition of therapeutics from pre-clinical development to commercial-scale manufacturing. By integrating advanced hardware, software, data, and analytics, Ori Biotech's platform aims to increase throughput, improve quality, and reduce costs for therapeutics developers. This innovative approach is intended to accelerate the commercialization of cell and gene therapies, ultimately providing patients with a new generation of personalized and effective treatments.

Mindstep

Seed Round in 2022
Our mission is to make 1 million brains healthier by lowering the nation’s dementia risk. Founded by medics, Mindstep embodies core NHS-values: accessibility, empathy, and scientific rigour, to deliver the best-in-class care. Proud to be nerdy, and coded with compassion.

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.

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.

Synchtank

Series A in 2021
Synchtank can organize and modernize your entire operations by bringing multiple repetitive offline processes online and streamlining your workflow - saving significant staff, time and monetary resources. Turnover rates and efficiency levels are increased by reducing frictions in search, communications, and delivery processes. Synchtank's key functionality includes: » Online assets and catalog management. » Fully automated, algorithm driven descriptive track analysis and search (never key in anything by hand). » Integrated pitching, marketing and delivery modules. » Online video synchronization suite. » Automated licensing and payment gateway. » Integrated customer relationship and sales management tools. » Detailed portal, user/campaign metrics and reports. We are powering a growing roster of interactive catalogs from many of the industry's most innovative companies, including: Primary Wave, Adult Swim, Disney Music Group, VICE, 20th Century Fox Music, Ghostly International, Reservoir Media, Spirit Music Group, Silva Screen, BT Sport, Sony Pictures, Red Bull Media House, Cutting Edge, and many more. Synchtank is a privately held firm located in London, NYC and Los Angeles.

Ometria

Series C in 2021
Ometria’s mission is to build the brain that powers all communication between retailers and their customers. Ometria helps clients 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 e-commerce, 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.

Kleene

Series A in 2021
Build your single source of truth. We combine all data sources in one place, translate them into one language and organize everything to make it easier for teams to work with. Ingest. Simply connect and ingest any data from any source within minutes Master. Model your data, by using our transformation and orchestration engine, so that it can be used for analysis. Insights. Make your data actionable through data analytics & insight

Permutive

Series C in 2021
Permutive is rebuilding data in programmatic advertising to protect privacy. As the only Audience Platform built on patented and privacy-preserving on-device technology, we enable premium advertisers and publishers to plan, build and activate cohorts — all while keeping everyone’s data safe.

Bondaval

Seed Round in 2021
Bondaval is a digital platform for B2B credit security to replace traditional collateral-based instruments and trade credit insurance. It offers a more secure, capital-efficient and cost-effective form of secured credit that can be issued, amended, renewed, and claimed-on in real-time. Bondaval was founded in 2020 and is based in London, England.

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.

Elliptic

Series C in 2021
Elliptic makes cryptocurrency transaction activity more transparent and accountable.They believe that illicit activity in cryptocurrencies must be disrupted to stop criminals from undermining the ideals on which cryptocurrencies are built. This is their focus, and they do this by solving the crucial problem of identity in cryptocurrencies, with the sole purpose of combating suspicious and criminal activity. Their team pushes the limits to dig beneath the surface, peeling back the layers to expose the truth. They aim to stop illicit cryptocurrency activity from leaving a smudge on the technology and the future it represents for all of them. The company is preventing, detecting, and pursuing criminal activity in cryptocurrencies. It identifies illicit activity in cryptocurrencies, providing actionable intelligence to cryptocurrency companies, financial institutions and government agencies.

Imophoron

Seed Round in 2021
Imophoron is engaged in developing a next-generation vaccine platform known as ADDomer(TM), which aims to provide rapid-response solutions against infectious diseases and potential outbreaks. The platform utilizes a self-assembling thermotolerant protein that allows for the efficient insertion of numerous peptide and protein epitopes into a single particle. This innovative approach is designed to enhance the effectiveness and accessibility of vaccines for major diseases, thereby benefiting both patients and healthcare professionals.

Tuune

Seed Round in 2021
Tuune is a femtech startup revolutionizing women’s health by offering individualized hormonal analysis and birth control.

Tatum

Seed Round in 2021
Tatum is a blockchain development platform designed to assist developers in building applications on the blockchain. The company is a platform for building blockchain infrastructure that offers developers an easy-to-use application programming interface (API), allowing them to incorporate blockchain into their products quickly and effortlessly. Tatum was established on June 4, 2018 by Jiri Kobelka and Samuel Šramko in London, England.

Anansi

Seed Round in 2021
Anansi is an embedded goods-in-transit insurance platform for distribution partners and e-commerce merchants. Access to the platform is via an embedded API, enabling 3PLs, e-commerce and shipping platforms, marketplaces and online retailers to offer insurance directly to their customers from within their own front-end environments. It is the only solution, in a $33 billion market, that is automated to offer one-click signup, zero admin and parametrically triggered claims and payouts when a parcel is lost or delayed. Founded by Megan Bingham-Walker and Ana Martins de Carvalho, who have experienced first hand the frustrations of cumbersome paper-based onboarding and claims processes, ambiguous pricing, and the inadequate cover offered by traditional providers. As an Appointed Representative of Resolution Underwriting Partnership Limited, Anansi has successfully secured £1.5 million in a pre-seed funding round led by Octopus Ventures and is on a mission to provide e-commerce businesses with fast, fair and flexible goods-in-transit insurance.

Mojo

Seed Round in 2021
Mojo is a men's sexual well-being app specializing in psychological sexual issues. It has created a subscription service to support men's sexual well-being by providing on-demand access to dedicated therapies — collaborating with professional psychosexual therapists to provide online courses that are billed as providing a longer-term solution to male sexual health problems rather than simply popping some blue pills. Individuals can use the Mojo app to get instant access to DIY exercises and techniques from world-class sexual wellness professionals. Mojo aims to encourage men to reclaim their erections and have their sexual problems resolved without resorting to medication first.

Turtl

Series A in 2021
Turtl is the only content automation platform that enables enterprises to personalize interactive content at scale. Its cloud-based platform makes business materials easier to create, read, and analyze, without having to compromise on scale, speed, or quality. Turtl is headquartered and founded in London, with offices in Boston. With a global customer base spanning the EU, North America, Africa, and Asia, including more than 75 globally recognized brands and hundreds of other businesses, Turtl is helping to transform business content across multiple industries worldwide.

OLIO

Series B in 2021
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, reducing food waste. OLIO was founded in 2015 and is based in London.

Peak

Series C in 2021
Peak is a decision intelligence company that provides a platform to offer data analysis services. The company helps commercial decision-making for the companies with its AI software. Peak’s pioneering Decision Intelligence software embeds AI across sales, marketing, planning, and supply chains to accelerate revenues and profits. Headquartered in Manchester (UK), Peak’s customer base includes PrettyLittleThing, AO, KFC, PepsiCo, Marshalls, and Speedy Hire. Peak’s customers have seen transformational results, including a 5% increase in total company revenues, a doubling of return on advertising spend, a 12% reduction in inventory holdings, and a 5% reduction in supply chain costs. Peak has been named a Gartner ‘Cool Vendor’ for AI in retail and was also named in The Sunday Times 100 Best Small Companies to Work For 2020 with the Best Companies 3-star accreditation, which recognizes extraordinary levels of employee engagement. Peak is an Amazon Web Services (AWS) Advanced Technology Partner and is ISO 27001 accredited.

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.

Elvie

Series C in 2021
Elvie is a health and lifestyle brand developing smarter technology for women. They are committed to building extraordinary products that improve the health and lives of women everywhere and at all stages of life. Their 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, they took the wellness industry by storm! Our street cred includes more than 12 awards for innovation and design, including the prestigious CES Innovation Award, the IDA Design Award, and the Red Dot Award. As a business, Elvie has been recognized as one of Wired’s ‘hottest start-ups" and named one of the 15 start-ups "to watch" by The Sunday Times, and both products have been featured in the Oscar nominee gift bags. They recently launched a 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 $52 million in investment.

Walking on Earth

Seed Round in 2021
Walking on Earth (WONE) is a precision health platform for workplace stress. The WONE Method blends the latest advances in AI technology and science to measure stress and provide targeted micro moments of recovery, when employees need it the most.

Collectiv Food

Series A in 2021
At Collectiv Food we're leading the transition to a sustainable, fair and transparent food supply chain, to build a whole better food ecosystem. We've built the first digitised, automated and data-driven food supply chain solution, bringing sustainability, transparency, better unit economics and greener logistics solutions to food businesses around the globe.

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.

Raylo

Series A in 2021
Raylo is a smartphone subscription startup that aims to make mobile simple, smart, and more sustainable. When customers are ready to upgrade, they return their old products, which are refurbished and re-sold in Raylo's circular process for maximum lifespan and sustainability. It enables consumers to gain access to the most recent products through a monthly subscription that is both cost-effective and environmentally friendly. Raylo's retailer pipeline spans several categories, including consumer electronics.

Rest Less

Series A in 2021
Rest Less is a social impact business helping a generation of over 50s get the most from life. Today’s over 50s are digitally savvy, highly engaged on social media, more active, and fundamentally healthier than previous generations. Yet they are still under-represented across so many dimensions. With more than 1 million registered members, Rest Less helps people to navigate through what is often a transitional stage in life - offering a range of resources covering health, wealth, work, learning, lifestyle, social connections and much more.

XYZ Reality

Series A in 2021
XYZ Reality is disrupting the construction industry with a unique Augmented Reality solution that is able to reduce construction costs by up to 20%. For the first time, users are able to walk on site and view their 3D BIM Model, in context, to mm accuracy, using Augmented Reality. No more disputes, no more out of tolerance errors and real time validation. Visit out website to find out more.

Minimum

Seed Round in 2021
Minimum provides a real-time platform that serves as a single source of truth for carbon accounting as well as a command and control hub for all carbon management activities. Its software complements a solid Carbon Accounting core with a comprehensive suite of capabilities, allowing an organization to easily meet its Carbon Management goals.

Origami

Series C in 2021
Origami is on a mission to build a green energy world, powered by smart technology. As renewables grow, energy markets are becoming more complex and volatile. Origami's intelligent trading and automation software enables energy companies to continuously harness the shifting commercial opportunities of the global energy transition and optimise increasingly complex physical, financial, and contractual positions. Origami's real-time data platform provides a modular suite of solutions incorporating state-of-the-art machine learning technology, all designed to deliver more efficient, resilient, and profitable trading operations across the entire power production, planning and energy trading workflow.

Zapnito

Series A in 2021
Zapnito helps your brand maximize customer lifetime value by connecting customers to trusted knowledge and people — at the right time. Build a custom branded community platform and host discussions, content, courses, events and more – under one domain. To ensure your community’s long-term success – engagement dashboards help drive ROI, and our team of UK-based experts provide essential strategic guidance. Since 2015, Zapnito has helped industry leading B2B brands to transform millions of customers into community participants – making us the perfect technology partner to power community-led growth. To help more brands create transform thier customer engagement, in 2021, Zapnito raised €3.8 million in Series A funding round with Octopus Ventures. In addition to providing a leading online community platform, Zapnito also offers expert strategic support and the Zapnito Community brings together 500+ community leaders to learn, share and connect.

Antidote.me

Venture Round in 2021
Antidote is a digital health company focused on accelerating and improving medical research. By combining proprietary technologies, data, and well-established business models, the company is transforming the way patients and researchers connect so that breakthroughs happen faster. Antidote was launched as TrialReach in 2010 and rebranded to Antidote in 2016. The company is based in the US and the UK.

ManyPets

Series D in 2021
ManyPets is a pet insurance provider. They offer pet insurance, dog insurance, cat insurance, a health plan, multi-pet insurance, and lifetime pet insurance. They offer pet insurance policies with generous pet health benefits that are designed to their needs.

iSIZE

Series A in 2021
iSIZE Technologies is a company to delivers deep neural networks for data-driven video preprocessing in order to provide significant bitrate savings over any standard encoder, or significant quality improvement at the same bitrate. This will also allow for other advanced ai services like automated tagging and recognition to run seamlessly in conjunction with live content delivery.

Sprout.ai

Series A in 2021
Sprout.ai, the advanced claims automation solution, harnesses the power of Contextual AI to revolutionise the insurance experience for global insurers and their consumers alike. The solution leverages proprietary Optical Character Recognition (OCR) and Natural Language Processing (NLP) technologies to deliver significantly reduced claim settlement times, increased fraud detection and industrial grade security to insurers. The solution is already deployed across three continents focusing on the property, motor and health insurance verticals. www.sprout.ai.

Taster

Series B in 2021
Taster is a food incubator redefining quick-service food for the 21st century. We partner with exceptional creators to curate and scale iconic food brands designed to be delivered or collected in minutes in one of our stores. We empower a community of passionate local entrepreneurs through our next-gen franchise network, creating economic opportunities everywhere we operate.

Legl

Series A in 2021
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.

Wefarm

Series A in 2021
Wefarm is a farmer-to-farmer digital network that enables farmers to share information via SMS. The company allows small-scale farmers to connect with one another to solve problems, share ideas, and spread innovation. Utilizing the latest machine learning technology, Wefarm’s service works both online and over SMS. Since its founding in 2015, Wefarm has been named one of Africa’s Most Innovative Companies by FastCompany and has won Google’s Impact Challenge Award, TechCrunch’s Europas-Tech for Good Award, and the European Union Commission’s Ideas from Europe prize, among others. The company is headquartered in London with a field presence in Nairobi, Kampala, and Dar-es-Salaam.

Token.io

Series B in 2021
Token.io’s A2A payment infrastructure is powered by open banking and built for the payments industry. With the simplest and fastest way to launch Pay by Bank as a core payment method globally, Token.io helps payment providers grow their market share in the face of the continued shift from cards to APMs. Token.io's complete payments infrastructure offers the deepest and highest performing connectivity, reaching over 567 million bank accounts (80%+ of accounts per market) in 21 countries. With fast and flexible deployment options, including the option to use Token.io's license and conversion boosting payment authentication flows, payment providers can quickly and easily launch and manage Pay By Bank capabilities. Token.io's solution is proven by a blue chip base of partners, which collectively process payments for millions of merchants worldwide, including HSBC, Mastercard, BNP Paribas, ACI Worldwide, Computop, Nuvei and Paysafe.

DeadHappy

Series B in 2021
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.

Whirli

Seed Round in 2020
Whirli is a UK-based company that offers a subscription service for children's toys, allowing parents and their children access to a diverse selection of toys for a fixed monthly fee. Founded in 2018 and headquartered in London, Whirli enables families to choose toys that suit their needs, which are delivered directly to their homes. Once the children have finished playing with the toys, parents can return them and exchange them for new ones. This model not only provides convenience and variety but also offers better value for money while helping to reduce the environmental impact associated with toy consumption.

Altitude Angel

Venture Round in 2020
Altitude Angel provides airspace management data & services for drone manufacturers, developers and airspace stakeholders. Their flagship services are built on top of the Altitude Angel cloud platform, which offers scalable solutions for drone automation, UTM ("Air traffic control for drones") and identity and registration. They are an aviation technology company who create global-scale solutions that enable the safe integration and use of fully autonomous drones into global airspace. Their purpose-built cloud platform supports both U-Space and UTM, and delivers market-leading services to drone operators, manufacturers and software developers. Their innovative solutions for ATM enable them to access a rich source of real-time airspace, environmental and regulatory data which is expertly customised to the specific operation.

Orbex Space

Venture Round in 2020
Founded in 2015, Orbex is a leading private launch services company in Europe, specializing in the small satellite industry. The company has developed a low carbon, high-performance micro-launch vehicle that supports the deployment of satellites into polar and sun-synchronous low Earth orbits from a modern launch site in central Europe. Orbex offers a flexible core launch service along with a range of supporting services aimed at simplifying the launch process for its customers. By operating from a European location, Orbex benefits from shorter supply lines, easier communication, and reduced operational costs. The company utilizes advanced materials and in-house technologies, including rocket engines and avionics, to ensure high reliability and flexible mission profiles, enabling timely launches for small, micro, and nano-satellites.

Trouva

Venture Round in 2020
Trouva is a SaaS-enabled online marketplace connecting customers with unique homeware, fashion, and lifestyle items from boutiques. The platform aims to help brick-and-mortar stores extend their reach by offering their products online. The platform offers a diverse range of items, from home décor to clothing, making it a go-to for customers seeking distinctive, high-quality products that aren't easily found in large online retailers.

Sova Assessment

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

CRED Player Fund

Seed Round in 2020
CRED uses machine learning to predict the future of sports, CRED works with athletes, agencies and teams to help them reach their career and commercial potential.

KatKin

Seed Round in 2020
KatKin is a producer of healthy and nutritious cat food that provides healthy digestion, shiny coats, and improved energy. It offers an online subscription service for cat food that contains real premium meat, which is steam-cooked for better digestion and to avoid destroying the nutritional value.

Streetbees

Series B in 2020
Streetbees develops a human intelligence platform that uses Artificial Intelligence and geolocation technology collects and analyzes offline consumer behavior. By analyzing real-life moments collected from its own global community, the chat-style app is used to share moments from their daily lives via videos, photos, and text. Through applying advanced natural language processing technology to the results, Streetbees uncovers not just what they do, but also why they do it, and what drives them – and predicts what they may do next. The company partners with brands across the consumer goods, media and entertainment, retail, and insurance sectors. In 2015, Oliver May and Tugce Bulut established the company in London, England.

Ori Biotech

Series A in 2020
Ori Biotech is a developer of a manufacturing platform designed to enhance access to lifesaving treatments through cell and gene therapies. The company has created a proprietary and flexible manufacturing system that automates and standardizes the production process, facilitating the transition of therapeutics from pre-clinical development to commercial-scale manufacturing. By integrating advanced hardware, software, data, and analytics, Ori Biotech's platform aims to increase throughput, improve quality, and reduce costs for therapeutics developers. This innovative approach is intended to accelerate the commercialization of cell and gene therapies, ultimately providing patients with a new generation of personalized and effective treatments.

Edgify

Seed Round in 2020
Scalable, Privacy-First, Edge AI. Edgify's MLOps platform currently empowers Grocery Retailers to leverage Machine Vision across a store's entry & exit points. By applying federated learning on existing, in-store, edge devices like Self Checkouts & Scales, Edgify removes the need for costly & risky cloud infrastructure, complex model training with manual data labeling, and new servers. We drive 10s of millions in profits through 1) Minimised shrink & losses, a $240bn problem, 2) Improved customer & staff experiences with 5X faster transactions, and 3) Operational & efficiency gains across inventory, supply chain, and waste management. Backed By: Mangrove Partners, Octopus Ventures, Sony Semiconductors, Harvard Business School Angels, RANK Ventures Sample Clients: Sainsbury's, Dollar General, Wholefoods, Shufersal, HEB, Bonus, REMA -Best-in-class with near 100% accuracy -Zero capex requirements -Captures 70% of Shrink - driving net sales by over 4% This is the future of AI - no extra compute requirements with inference & training on the edge.

ThoughtRiver

Series A in 2020
ThoughtRiver provides a Contract Acceleration Platform that enables lawyers to provide more business value while also increasing job satisfaction by freeing up time for higher-level strategic work. Its team takes pride in problem-solving, being creative, and making a genuine difference. Each team is responsible for a specific area of focus and the tools required to deliver.

Vitesse

Series A in 2020
Vitesse is an innovative financial technology company that provides integrated treasury and payment services, specifically tailored for the insurance sector. The company offers market participants complete visibility and control over claims, facilitating real-time management and capital protection for stakeholders throughout the value chain. By eliminating time-consuming manual claims payments and reconciliations, their platform enhances efficiency. With an integrated global payments network, Vitesse empowers claims administrators and delegated authorities to provide an exceptional customer experience in claims payments.

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 B in 2020
Permutive is rebuilding data in programmatic advertising to protect privacy. As the only Audience Platform built on patented and privacy-preserving on-device technology, we enable premium advertisers and publishers to plan, build and activate cohorts — all while keeping everyone’s data safe.

Big Health

Series B in 2020
Big Health is a digital therapeutics company that operates a digital healthcare portal 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.

SLAMcore

Funding Round in 2020
Slamcore Limited specializes in developing simultaneous localization and mapping (SLAM) solutions for applications in augmented and virtual reality, robotics, and autonomous vehicles. Founded in 2016 and based in London, the company focuses on making commercial-grade spatial intelligence accessible. Its advanced SLAM software enables robots and drones to effectively navigate and comprehend their environment, utilizing methods such as Visual SLAM, sensor fusion, and Event Camera SLAM. These technologies allow for real-time processing and integration of data from various sensors, enhancing capabilities in areas like motion estimation and panorama reconstruction. Slamcore collaborates with partners to optimize the interplay between software and hardware, ensuring a balanced approach to performance and cost-effectiveness. By providing robust SLAM algorithms, the company aims to transform spatial AI into practical solutions for various industries, ultimately facilitating the integration of robots into everyday life.

By Miles

Series B in 2020
By Miles offers fairer, more flexible car insurance for low mileage drivers. Aside from a fixed annual cost, each policy is paid by the mile so it's totally tailored to you. See every journey and use handy tools in their mobile app to make your driving life easier.

Quantum Motion

Series A in 2020
Quantum Motion Technologies is building a universal quantum computer in Silicon, using CMOS compatible processes.

ManyPets

Series C in 2020
ManyPets is a pet insurance provider. They offer pet insurance, dog insurance, cat insurance, a health plan, multi-pet insurance, and lifetime pet insurance. They offer pet insurance policies with generous pet health benefits that are designed to their needs.

Skew

Series A in 2020
Skew is a platform that builds cutting-edge financial infrastructure for the digital assets space. The company provides real-time analytics for cryptocurrency markets with features like market and custom data dashboards to give an overview of crypto markets.

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.

Cazoo

Venture Round in 2020
Cazoo is an online used car marketplace designed to transform the way people buy, finance, or rent used cars. Its platform lets users buy, finance, or rent a used car entirely online and have it delivered to their door within hours. The company was founded in 2018 and is headquartered in London, England.

Rest Less

Seed Round in 2020
Rest Less is a social impact business helping a generation of over 50s get the most from life. Today’s over 50s are digitally savvy, highly engaged on social media, more active, and fundamentally healthier than previous generations. Yet they are still under-represented across so many dimensions. With more than 1 million registered members, Rest Less helps people to navigate through what is often a transitional stage in life - offering a range of resources covering health, wealth, work, learning, lifestyle, social connections and much more.

AudioTelligence

Series A in 2020
Audiotelligence leads the world in blind audio signal separation from multi-microphone captured audio. Our AudioTelligence nD technologies greatly out-perform existing 'state-of-the art' commercially available technologies such as beam forming, spectral masking, deep neural nets, non-negative matrix factorisation and ICA.

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.

Trouva

Venture Round in 2019
Trouva is a SaaS-enabled online marketplace connecting customers with unique homeware, fashion, and lifestyle items from boutiques. The platform aims to help brick-and-mortar stores extend their reach by offering their products online. The platform offers a diverse range of items, from home décor to clothing, making it a go-to for customers seeking distinctive, high-quality products that aren't easily found in large online retailers.

CRED Player Fund

Seed Round in 2019
CRED uses machine learning to predict the future of sports, CRED works with athletes, agencies and teams to help them reach their career and commercial potential.

DeadHappy

Series A in 2019
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.
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