# Octopus Ventures

> Octopus Ventures is a VC fund backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 400 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 400
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 56%
- Fund size: $101M
- Last fund: Apr 2019
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/octopus-ventures?trk=biz-companies-cym
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/OctopusVentures
- Website: http://www.octopusventures.com

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 portfoliocompanies 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.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $2.1M–$12M |
| Series A | $3.3M–$22M |
| Series B | $8M–$44M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 74 | 19% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 49 | 12% |
| Health Care | 41 | 10% |
| Information Technology | 36 | 9% |
| SaaS | 34 | 9% |

289 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Series A | 105 | 26% |
| Seed | 91 | 23% |
| Series B | 63 | 16% |
| Pre-Seed | 31 | 8% |
| Funding Round | 26 | 7% |

12 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 194 | 49% |
| United States | 18 | 5% |
| Germany | 6 | 2% |
| The Netherlands | 6 | 2% |
| Spain | 4 | 1% |

23 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Alliott Cole | CEO | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alliott-cole |
| Jo Oliver | Director | 19 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/jo-oliver |
| Luke Hakes | Partner | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/luke-hakes |
| Uthish Ranjan | Partner | 9 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/uthish-ranjan |
| Zoe Chambers | Early Stage Investor | 14 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/zoe-chambers |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| geoSurge | geoSurge provides an AI platform that helps organizations understand and improve how they are represented in large language models and AI-powered search systems. The company measures how AI models recall, describe, and prioritize brands across different prompts, model versions, and engines, enabling users to monitor changes in AI visibility overtime. Its platform includes tools for tracking brand mentions, competitor comparisons, visibility trends, and AI-generated sources, while also supporting corpus engineering to strengthen how structured information is understood by AI models. geoSurge applies data science, engineering, and research to analyze model behavior, identify gaps in brand representation, and help organizations improve the accuracy and consistency of AI-generated responses. | $12M | Seed | Jul 03, 2026 |  |
| Wassist | Wassist is a platform for building AI-powered WhatsApp agents that help businesses automate sales, customer support, and marketing directly inside WhatsApp. | $1.1M | Pre-Seed | Jun 08, 2026 |  |
| Semble | Semble is a healthcare technology company that develops practice management and electronic health record software for private healthcare providers. The company offers an integrated platform that combines patient records, appointment scheduling, telehealth, billing, payments, clinical documentation, prescribing, and care coordination tools within asingle system. Its software is designed to support the delivery and administration of healthcare services across clinics, medical practices, and multi-site healthcare organizations. The platform enables healthcare professionals to manage patient journeys from initial booking through consultation, treatment, follow-up care, and payment processing. It includes electronic health record functionality, clinical note management, patient communication tools, online booking capabilities, and workflow automation features that help streamline administrative and clinical processes.In addition to clinical and administrative functions, the company offers analytics, reporting, patient engagement, and automation tools that help healthcare organizations manage operations and monitor performance. Its solutions are used by a range of healthcare providers, including physicians, specialists, mental health professionals, physiotherapists, pharmacies, and occupational health organizations. | $40.3M | Series C | Jun 04, 2026 |  |
| Poindexter Labs | Poindexter Labs designs Olympiad-grade STEM datasets, stepwise reasoning annotations, and secure evaluation architectures for advanced AI models. The company focuses on multi-step reasoning in mathematics, physics, and computer science, providing fully worked solutions, proofs, and counter-examples. Its contributor network of academic professionalsand Olympiad alumni generates tasks whose solutions are decomposed into verifiable steps with tagged dependencies and error types. Outputs are delivered in structured formats such as LaTeX, JSON, and Parquet to integrate into post-training workflows and reinforcement learning loops with verifiable rewards. Poindexter Labs also develops internal benchmarks, grading rubrics, and fine-tuning curricula for technology organizations, data annotation platforms, and online platforms that train and evaluate large language models. | $2.7M | Seed | Jun 02, 2026 |  |
| Gradient Labs | Gradient Labs is an AI firm developing an operating system for AI agents to automate manual, repetitive tasks. | $13M | Series A | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Handshake | Handshake Solutions provides an AI-powered retail agreement management platform for retailers and suppliers. The software centralizes joint business plans, trade plans, cost price increases, and retail media agreements in a single collaborative system instead of spreadsheets, emails, and slide decks. It supports retail trading, commercial, finance,and media teams with standardized proposal assessment, configurable approval workflows, and structured contract templates. Users can track agreement status, analyze contract performance, and manage supplier income and cost price changes through dashboards and reporting tools. The platform integrates with common enterprise resource planning systems to keep commercial terms aligned with downstream execution. It is designed to support end-to-end agreement creation, tracking, and execution for organizations managing many suppliers and product lines. | $3.2M | Seed | Jun 01, 2026 |  |
| Greenpixie | Greenpixie measures and understands cloud emissions and provides the tools to demystify the environmental impact of cloud computing. | $6.3M | Seed | May 18, 2026 |  |
| Connectome Health | Connectome Health is a startup developing non-invasive brain scanning technology using functional near-infrared spectroscopy (fNIRS) to monitor cognitive metrics like focus, memory, and resilience in real time. | $2M | Pre-Seed | Apr 01, 2026 |  |
| Flexzo Ai | Flexzo is an AI-powered workforce platform that connects healthcare organizations with healthcare professionals for shift-based and contract work. The platform enables organizations to post vacancies, access candidate profiles, and match roles with professionals based on skills, availability, and compliance data. It includes tools for credentialmanagement, document tracking, and automated reminders to support regulatory requirements and workforce readiness.Flexzo Ai also allows healthcare professionals to create profiles, upload qualifications, and receive shift opportunities aligned with their preferences and schedules. The system uses data inputs such as location, travel distance, and credentials to facilitate matching between roles and candidates. In addition, the platform maintains records of work history and supports communication between organizations and professionals.The company operates as a workforce matching platform that facilitates direct engagement between healthcare providers and workers without acting as an employer or recruitment agency. | $12M | Series A | Mar 20, 2026 |  |
| Automata | Automata is a deep-tech company that creates products that empower people to automate physical work. The company's product, Eva, is a lightweight and affordable robot arm built for professionals in a production line, in a lab, a home workshop or even in a classroom. People don't need to be technical experts to communicate with robots. Theweb-based software platform can be programmed by anyone, anywhere, any time, from any device, making it easy to reconfigure for a wide range of different tasks.Automata was founded on 2015 and is headquartered in London, England. | $45M | Series C | Jan 29, 2026 |  |

10 of 400 investments shown.

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## FAQ

### What does Octopus Ventures invest in?

Octopus Ventures invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Health Care startups, most often at Series A and Seed stage. Most of the 400 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Octopus Ventures's check size?

Octopus Ventures typically joins rounds of $2.1M–$12M at Seed, $3.3M–$22M at Series A and $8M–$44M at Series B. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Octopus Ventures participates in.

### How do I contact Octopus Ventures?

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### Who are the partners at Octopus Ventures?

The team at Octopus Ventures includes Alliott Cole (CEO), Jo Oliver (Director) and Luke Hakes (Partner), among 33 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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