Octopus Ventures has 28 portfolio companies on record at Recent Funding, with 3 investments in the last 12 months.

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It is a venture capital firm based in London, GB, founded in 2008. It led 11 of the 27 rounds it joined. Its most recent investment on record is Resolutiion's $10.4M Seed round in September 2026, alongside Cherry Ventures, LocalGlobe, European Union and 2 others. By category, its portfolio leans toward Health and bio (11) and Fintech (5). It has co-invested with Notion Capital, Kaiser Permanente Ventures and LocalGlobe, most often Notion Capital (3 rounds).

About Octopus Ventures

Funds raised

What Octopus Ventures invests in

• Health and bio · 11 · 39%
• Fintech · 5 · 18%
• Education · 4 · 14%
• HR and recruiting · 3 · 11%
• Robotics and hardware · 3 · 11%
• Consumer and social · 3 · 11%
• Data and analytics · 2 · 7%
• Logistics and mobility · 2 · 7%

Octopus Ventures recent investments

Company	Round	Date	Alongside
RResolutiion	Seed · $10.4M	Sep 14, 2026	Cherry Ventures, LocalGlobe, European Union +2
GGreenpixie	Seed · $6.29M	May 18, 2026	Verbund X Ventures (lead), Green Angel Ventures, Armajaro
AAutomata	Series B+ · $45M	Jan 29, 2026	Danaher Ventures (lead), Entrepreneurs First, Tru Arrow Partners +1
Ddeskbird	Series B+ · $23M · lead	Sep 24, 2025	AVP (lead), Neva SGR (lead), Portfolion +2
GGradient Labs	Series A · $13M · lead	Jul 10, 2025	CommerzVentures (lead), Exceptional Capital, Redpoint Ventures
CCogna	Series A · $15M	Nov 11, 2024	Hoxton Ventures, Notion Capital (lead), Chalfen Ventures
LLabGenius	Series B+ · $44M	May 21, 2024	Kindred Capital, Atomico, Lux Capital +4
PPelago	Series B+ · $58M	Mar 28, 2024	Kinnevik, Atomico (lead), Y Combinator +2

How Octopus Ventures invests

Octopus Ventures portfolio companies

• RResolutiion$10.4MSeed · Sep 2026
• GGreenpixie$6.29MSeed · May 2026
• AAutomata$45MSeries B+ · Jan 2026
• Ddeskbird$23MSeries B+ · Sep 2025
• GGradient Labs$13MSeries A · Jul 2025
• CCogna$15MSeries A · Nov 2024
• LLabGenius$44MSeries B+ · May 2024
• PPelago$58MSeries B+ · Mar 2024
• RRemoFirst$25MSeries A · Mar 2024
• QQuantum Motion$50.5MSeries B+ · Feb 2023
• CCobee$41MSeries B+ · Nov 2022
• AApheris$8.69MSeed · Nov 2022
• WWazoku$9MSeries B+ · Sep 2022
• RRaylo$8MSeries A · Jul 2022
• IIntigriti$22MSeries B+ · Apr 2022
• BBig Health$75MSeries B+ · Jan 2022
• OOri Biotech$100MSeries B+ · Jan 2022
• EElliptic$60MSeries B+ · Oct 2021
• PPartlybacker
• LLyrebird Healthbacker
• MMetris Energybacker
• SSwiipr Technologiesbacker
• BBridgeUbacker
• BBaselimebacker
• CCoMindbacker
• DDoublewordbacker
• PPerci Healthbacker
• DDostbacker

Most frequent co-investors

• NNotion Capital3 shared rounds · last Nov 11, 2024
• KKaiser Permanente Ventures3 shared rounds · last Jan 19, 2022
• LLocalGlobe2 shared rounds · last Sep 14, 2026
• HHoxton Ventures2 shared rounds · last Nov 11, 2024
• AAtomico2 shared rounds · last May 21, 2024
• IInkef2 shared rounds · last Feb 21, 2023
• PParkwalk Advisors2 shared rounds · last Feb 21, 2023
• OOxford Science Enterprises2 shared rounds · last Feb 21, 2023
• IIP Group2 shared rounds · last Feb 21, 2023
• SSoftBank Vision Fund2 shared rounds · last Jan 19, 2022
• MMorningside2 shared rounds · last Jan 19, 2022
• GGilde Healthcare2 shared rounds · last Jan 19, 2022

Similar investors

• HHTGF29 companies · 8 deals in 12 mo
• AARCH Venture Partners29 companies · 5 deals in 12 mo
• EEurazeo29 companies · 4 deals in 12 mo
• SS3227 companies · 6 deals in 12 mo
• MMubadala Capital Ventures30 companies · 5 deals in 12 mo
• BBritish Business Bank26 companies · 12 deals in 12 mo

Investors whose portfolios on Recent Funding center on the same category (Health and bio).

How this is counted

Firm profile: Fundraising Fox Open Dataset v2026-11, CC BY 4.0. Track-record counts are theirs, not Recent Funding's.

Venture funds Octopus Ventures raised, from the list of new VC funds compiled by Shai Goldman (Brex). Each size links to the article that states it, or to that list where no article was found. All new funds: new VC funds.

Share is of the 27 rounds on Recent Funding that name Octopus Ventures. Rounds with no announced date are left out of the year split, and "round" is a round whose stage is not on file.

Portfolio companies are the companies on Recent Funding with a round that lists Octopus Ventures, which is a subset of its real portfolio. API: /api/v1/investors/octopus-ventures (get a free API key). More: the most active VC firms and new venture capital funds.