# octopus investments

> octopus investments is a VC fund in Andorra backing Software and SaaS. See 40 investments, check sizes, portfolio and contact details. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: VC Fund
- Location: Andorra, Spain
- Total investments: 40
- Last investment: Jul 2026
- Lead investor: 55%
- Fund size: $144M
- Last fund: Sep 2018
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/company/octopus-investments
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/Octopus_UK
- Website: https://octopusinvestments.com
- Facebook: https://www.facebook.com/octopusinvestments

Octopus Investments is a London-based venture capital firm that offers investment solutions to U.K. investors based on its experience in smaller company investing, along with a wide range of funding options for various companies. The entrepreneur-friendly investment firm invests from 250,000 to 25 million British pounds in a first round of funding.Founded in 1999, Octopus Investments works with over 60 companies, including Conversocial, graze.com, LoveFiLM, Property Partner, Secret Escapes, Sofar Sounds, SwiftKey, Swoon Editions, Uniplaces, tails.com, Zoopla Property Group, and Zynstra.

## Contacts

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## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Series A | $3.3M–$10M |
| Series B | $4.3M–$16M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 8 | 20% |
| SaaS | 5 | 13% |
| E-Commerce | 5 | 13% |
| Medical | 4 | 10% |
| Health Care | 4 | 10% |

85 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Funding Round | 16 | 40% |
| Series A | 11 | 28% |
| Series B | 3 | 8% |
| Seed | 2 | 5% |
| Venture - Series Unknown | 2 | 5% |

8 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 26 | 65% |
| United States | 2 | 5% |
| Finland | 1 | 3% |
| Germany | 1 | 3% |
| Lithuania | 1 | 3% |

6 countries tracked in total.

## Team

| Name | Title | Investments | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Chris Hulatt | Co-Founder | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chris-hulatt |
| Grant Paul-Florence | Head of Intermediate Capital | 4 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/grant-paul-florence |
| Hiti Singh | Director of Institutional Relationship Management | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/hiti-singh |
| Matthew Sheppee | Investment Manager | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/matthew-sheppee |
| Thomas Remmert | Technical Due Diligence Adviser | 0 | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/thomas-remmert |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Ossprey Security | Ossprey Security is a British cybersecurity company that detects malicious open-source packages in npm and PyPI using AI-powered behavioural analysis. Unlike signature-based scanners, Ossprey analyses what packages do at runtime to catch novel threats before they reach production. A graduate of both the Cyber Runway Launch and Grow programmes,Ossprey is working with copmanies across UK and European fintech, crypto, and technology companies to establish the standard for open-source dependency security.Engineering teams depend on open-source software at scale, and the supply chain attacks targeting those ecosystems are accelerating faster than traditional defences can track. Ossprey's just-in-time AI scanning pipeline catches malicious packages in real time, without relying on databases of known threats.The platform is API-first, with integrations across the CLI, CI/CD pipeline, AI security coding apps, IDEs, SCA, and a security dashboard, giving teams visibility at the point of dependency resolution rather than after a compromise has occurred. Ossprey has detected confirmed real-world campaigns including Shai-Hulud, Bitwarden CLI breach, and the Telnyx PyPI compromise. | $2.7M | Pre-Seed | Jul 22, 2026 |  |
| Ixico | Ixico is a U.K.-based company that provides clinical trial services worldwide. The company offers end-to-end imaging services in various therapeutic areas, primarily in the fields of oncology and neurology to the pharmaceutical industry, biotech companies, academia, and medical charities.Ixico offers technology developing solutions for thetreatment of diseases, including predominantly dementia and other neuro degeneration diseases. It is based in London, England. | $5.2M | Post-IPO Equity | Oct 09, 2024 |  |
| Weev | Weev is an Electric vehicle (EV) charge point operator. | $62.1M | Venture - Series Unknown | May 30, 2023 |  |
| Popsa | Popsa sits at the intersection of AI, photos and B2C. According to Deloitte, it is one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech startups, and in both 2022 and 2023 the Financial Times ranked Popsa in the Top 20 fastest-growing software companies in the whole of Europe. Popsa is developing generative AI technology and AI agents that generate personalisedproducts for consumers based on the data contained in their own photos, therefore removing countless anxieties and manual tasks usually associated with personalisation, and empowering everyday people with professional storytelling techniques for the first time.Its award-winning app has made printing memories so easy and accessible that anyone can do it. As a result, the company receives 18,000 orders every week, increasing to 80,000 during Q4.Popsa's native iOS and Android apps are available in 12 languages – attracting more than 8 million users to date – and they ship to 50 countries around the world. Only 15% of Popsa’s revenue comes from the UK (France is their top market whilst the US is the fastest growing).People come to Popsa to create photobooks and other products, but what Popsa really does is help them process their lives and relationships through reflection on their photos. The company's longer term ambition is to become a global destination; a space to explore all of life’s moments and the emotions that come with them – not just the highlights. So holidays, but also lazy days and sad days too. Popsa believes the more you reflect, the better you understand yourself and your connections with others. | $12M | Series A | Nov 25, 2021 |  |
| Perfect Ward | Perfect Ward is the health and quality inspection solution that makes quality inspections quicker, easier and more effective. Healthcare staff can spend more time doing admin work than caring for patients. | $5.6M | Series A | Mar 02, 2021 |  |
| Ryte | Ryte is the market leader in Website Quality Management, helping businesses optimize their website quality and performance with its cloud-based software product. Ryte empowers more than 1 million digital marketers and agencies worldwide to improve their website’s technical health, increase organic traffic and conversions, and avoid legal risk. Itis best known for its state-of-the-art crawling technology and unrivaled search data. Some of the world’s most renowned companies, like BMW, Allianz, and Sixt, trust in Ryte to manage their website quality and stay competitive online. Ryte was founded by Marcus Tandler, Andy Bruckschoegl, and Niels Doerje, and is headquartered in Munich, Germany with an office in Ho Chi Minh City, Vietnam. | $10.3M | Series A | Jan 11, 2021 |  |
| Trafi | Founded in 2013, Trafi is a mobility tech startup with offices in Berlin, London, Paris and Vilnius. Trafi works hand-in-hand with cities and companies worldwide to create multimodal mobility-as-a-service systems and provide cutting-edge route planning and data management software. Trafi is proud to count companies like Google, Apple, Lyft andVolkswagen as their clients, along with cities like Berlin, Munich, Prague, Jakarta, Bogota and Rio de Janeiro. |  | Series B | Aug 15, 2020 |  |
| Natterbox | Natterbox cloud-based business telephony and voice services transform how your business communicates with your customers.Our scalable, agile Cloud PBX, Salesforce® voice integration and mobile voice recording solutions give you flexible and powerful control over your phone and CRM systems.Our customers have chosen Natterbox to drive salesand service excellence as well as increasing customer satisfaction. | $9.4M | Venture - Series Unknown | Apr 16, 2020 |  |
| FISCAL Technologies | FISCAL Technologies is the leading provider of forensic solutions that empower purchase-to-pay teams across the globe to protect organizational spend.Incorporating unique technology to reduce risk in the supply chain, FISCAL solutions are used on a continuous, preventative basis to protect supplier spend, defend against fraud, increaseprofitability and drive process improvement.Since 2003, FISCAL has safeguarded hundreds of millions of payments and is now relied on by over 250 leading organizations. |  |  | Dec 17, 2019 |  |
| Popsa | Popsa sits at the intersection of AI, photos and B2C. According to Deloitte, it is one of the UK’s fastest-growing tech startups, and in both 2022 and 2023 the Financial Times ranked Popsa in the Top 20 fastest-growing software companies in the whole of Europe. Popsa is developing generative AI technology and AI agents that generate personalisedproducts for consumers based on the data contained in their own photos, therefore removing countless anxieties and manual tasks usually associated with personalisation, and empowering everyday people with professional storytelling techniques for the first time.Its award-winning app has made printing memories so easy and accessible that anyone can do it. As a result, the company receives 18,000 orders every week, increasing to 80,000 during Q4.Popsa's native iOS and Android apps are available in 12 languages – attracting more than 8 million users to date – and they ship to 50 countries around the world. Only 15% of Popsa’s revenue comes from the UK (France is their top market whilst the US is the fastest growing).People come to Popsa to create photobooks and other products, but what Popsa really does is help them process their lives and relationships through reflection on their photos. The company's longer term ambition is to become a global destination; a space to explore all of life’s moments and the emotions that come with them – not just the highlights. So holidays, but also lazy days and sad days too. Popsa believes the more you reflect, the better you understand yourself and your connections with others. | $4.8M | Series A | Oct 23, 2019 |  |

10 of 40 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Pembroke VCT](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/pembroke-vct) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Guinness Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guinness-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [DN Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/dn-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [European Bank for Reconstruction and Development](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/european-bank-for-reconstruction-and-development-ebrd) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Guinness Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/guinness-asset-management) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

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## FAQ

### What does octopus investments invest in?

octopus investments invests primarily in Software, SaaS and E-Commerce startups, most often at Funding Round and Series A stage. Most of the 40 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 investments's check size?

octopus investments typically joins rounds of $3.3M–$10M at Series A and $4.3M–$16M 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 investments participates in.

### How do I contact octopus investments?

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### Who are the partners at octopus investments?

The team at octopus investments includes Chris Hulatt (Co-Founder), Grant Paul-Florence (Head of Intermediate Capital) and Hiti Singh (Director of Institutional Relationship Management), among 6 team members tracked by Shizune. The Team section lists each member with their title, investment count and links.

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