Jo Oliver
Director @ Octopus Ventures
London, United Kingdom
Jo Oliver is a Series A investor at Octopus Ventures in London focused on FinTech and Software. Jo has been a Venture Partner since 2005 and joined the team in May 2009. Having run several businesses of his own, from publishing surf books to property development, and having made numerous angel investments, including many as an Octopus Venture Partner, Jo finally got the job that he had always wanted. He is a Director in the Ventures team andis involved in the Ventures team’s investment process, portfolio management and fundraising activity.Jo currently sits on a number of the Boards of our investee companies, including: TouchType (SwiftKey); Amplience; Iovox; and Vega-Chi. He is also is a Non-Executive Director on the Titan VCT 5 Board and a member of the Investment Committee of Octopus Investments’ £1bn Specialist Finance business.Jo qualified as a Chartered Accountant in 1995. He spent 7 years working as a research analyst at NatWest, Merrill Lynch and Lehman Brothers, where he was the No 1 rated equity research analyst in the European mobile telecoms sector.
- Total investments:
- 19
- Last investment:
- Lead investor:
- 63%
Last updated:
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Industries Jo Oliver invests in
Stages Jo Oliver invests in
Countries Jo Oliver invests in
Contacts
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Investment Focus
Industry
- FinTech 2 (11%)
- Software 2 (11%)
- Financial Services 2 (11%)
- iOS 1 (5%)
- Mobile 1 (5%)
Stage
- Series A 6 (32%)
- Seed 4 (21%)
- Series B 3 (16%)
- Series C 1 (5%)
- Series D 1 (5%)
Country
- United Kingdom 5 (26%)
- United States 1 (5%)
Investments
| Company | Description | Round | Links |
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| Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group,and Boohoo. | $99.8M / Series D / Mar 15, 2022 | ||
| We remove the barriers to fitness to help everyone reach their full potential. | $5.6M / Series A / Nov 07, 2019 | ||
| Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group,and Boohoo. | $37M / Series C / Apr 26, 2018 | ||
| We remove the barriers to fitness to help everyone reach their full potential. | $9M / Seed / Nov 13, 2017 | ||
| 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. | $9M / Series A / Feb 15, 2017 | ||
| Property Partner is a property crowdfunding platform that allows anyone to invest in residential property at the click of a button. It combines residential real estate crowdfunding with a secondary exchange upon which investors are able to trade their holdings. The platform also enables its users to monitor rental income and capital growth. Itsmission is to make property investments available to everyone. Property Partner was founded by Dan Gandesha in 2014. | $22.7M / Series B / Mar 07, 2016 | ||
| Amplience is an API-first, headless content management platform for enterprise retail. Our content and experience solutions for headless commerce, enable teams to do more, better, faster. Amplience serves more than 350 of the world’s leading brands including Crate & Barrel, Tumi, Traeger Grills,Tom Ford, Argos, OTTO Group, Primark, Very Group,and Boohoo. | $10.5M / Series B / Mar 26, 2015 | ||
| Property Partner is a property crowdfunding platform that allows anyone to invest in residential property at the click of a button. It combines residential real estate crowdfunding with a secondary exchange upon which investors are able to trade their holdings. The platform also enables its users to monitor rental income and capital growth. Itsmission is to make property investments available to everyone. Property Partner was founded by Dan Gandesha in 2014. | $7.8M / Series A / Mar 21, 2015 | ||
| Property Partner is a property crowdfunding platform that allows anyone to invest in residential property at the click of a button. It combines residential real estate crowdfunding with a secondary exchange upon which investors are able to trade their holdings. The platform also enables its users to monitor rental income and capital growth. Itsmission is to make property investments available to everyone. Property Partner was founded by Dan Gandesha in 2014. | Seed / Sep 08, 2014 | ||
| 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 wasfounded by Ben Medlock and Jon Reynolds in 2008 and is based in London, United Kingdom. | $17.5M / Series B / Sep 04, 2013 | ||
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Co-Investors
About Octopus Ventures
Octopus Ventures is a venture capital firm that offers support to companies at various stages of their journey, from idea conception to IPO. They allocate over £200 million annually to invest in sectors such as health, fintech, deep tech, consumer, and B2B software, with a focus on making a positive impact. Their experienced team assists portfolio companies in scaling rapidly. Octopus Ventures' investment philosophy extends beyond monetary support, involving time, energy, and focus to work closely with founders for success. Notable companies they have backed include ManyPets, Cazoo, Depop, Elvie, and WaveOptics. Their operations span London and New York, with a network of partners in the U.S. and Asia.
Octopus Ventures Contacts
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Alliott Cole
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Jo Oliver
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Luke Hakes
Partner
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Uthish Ranjan
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Zoe Chambers
Early Stage Investor
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What does Jo Oliver invest in?
Jo Oliver invests primarily in FinTech, Software and Financial Services startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 19 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.
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