# Zoe Chambers

> Zoe Chambers is a seed investor at Octopus Ventures backing Software and Artificial Intelligence. See 14 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Octopus Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/octopus-ventures)
- Location: London, United Kingdom
- Total investments: 14
- Last investment: Feb 2026
- Lead investor: 71%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/zoe-chambers-52a85b20
- X (Twitter): https://twitter.com/zoeacastro
- Website: https://x.com/zoeacastro

Zoe Chambers is a seed investor at Octopus Ventures in London focused on Software and Artificial Intelligence. Zoe joined the team in 2017 and she spends her time screening early stage deal flow, carrying out due diligence and assessing investment opportunities. Prior to joining Octopus, she spent over 7 years as a corporate lawyer with the US law firm Jones Day, where she focused on venture capital, mergers and acquisitions and private equity transactions.She also worked with the Special Situations Group at Goldman Sachs for just over a year.Zoe holds a degree in Law with French Law from University College London.

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Software | 4 | 29% |
| Artificial Intelligence | 4 | 29% |
| Machine Learning | 3 | 21% |
| SaaS | 2 | 14% |
| Apps | 1 | 7% |

32 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 5 | 36% |
| Series A | 5 | 36% |
| Pre-Seed | 3 | 21% |

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 8 | 57% |
| Israel | 1 | 7% |
| Ireland | 1 | 7% |
| United States | 1 | 7% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Toyo | Toyo provides you with an AI agent team that can operate 24 hours a day, seven days a week on their own protected cloud computer. They have a browser, connect to apps, and can aid with the task you're not getting to by texting you when something needs your attention. | $4.1M | Seed | Feb 13, 2026 |  |
| Kota | Insurance and retirement benefits for every kind of team | $14.5M | Series A | May 22, 2025 |  |
| WiseBee Hive | WiseBee is building the future of autonomous cybersecurity. Powered by AI agents, WiseBee helps companies monitor their attack surface, assess third-party risk, and fix vulnerabilities - automatically. Designed for mid-market and fintech organizations, WiseBee replaces fragmented tools with a unified, intelligent security platform that saves teamstime, reduces costs, and improves security outcomes. | $2.5M | Pre-Seed | May 01, 2025 |  |
| Kota | Insurance and retirement benefits for every kind of team | $5.3M | Seed | Oct 25, 2023 |  |
| ClimateAligned | ClimateAligned is a fintech company developing innovative artificial intelligence for climate investing. It is creating the world's first AI platform that integrates end-to-end sustainability. | $1.9M | Pre-Seed | Sep 07, 2023 |  |
| Solvo.ai | Our mission is to make commercial decision-making in freight measurably better every day—by embedding an AI decision layer that converts signals into governed, actionable pricing and allocation decisions.Our Vision is to become the revenue management operating system for container logistics—standardising how carriers translate market signals,capacity constraints, and customer behaviour into price and allocation decisions at scale. Solvo will be the default layer between data and execution: always-on, audited, and continuously learning. | $4M | Seed | Nov 01, 2022 |  |
| Kota | Insurance and retirement benefits for every kind of team | $2.6M | Pre-Seed | Sep 27, 2022 |  |
| Legl | 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. | $7M | Series A | Mar 12, 2021 |  |
| vHive | vHive develops a cloud-based AI that enables enterprises to deploy autonomous drone hives for the acquisition, management, and processing of field data. It enables enterprises in a variety of industries such as infrastructure, telecom, rail, and civil engineering to scale their drone operations by intelligently using off-the-shelf drones as part ofa hive.The company was founded in 2016 and is headquartered in Herzliya, Tel Aviv, Israel. | $4M | Series A | Oct 14, 2020 |  |
| AudioTelligence | 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. | $8.5M | Series A | Mar 02, 2020 |  |

10 of 14 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [EQT Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/eqtventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Northzone](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/northzone-ventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Cambridge Innovation Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/cambridge-innovation-capital) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [MMC Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/mmc-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [StageOne Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/stageone-ventures) — VC Fund, 2 deals together
- [Tiny Supercomputer Investment Company](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/tiny-vc) — VC Fund, 2 deals together

## About Octopus Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

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.

5 contacts available at Octopus Ventures.

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

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## FAQ

### What does Zoe Chambers invest in?

Zoe Chambers invests primarily in Software, Artificial Intelligence and Machine Learning startups, most often at Seed and Series A stage. Most of the 14 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### When did Zoe Chambers last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Zoe Chambers closed in Feb 2026. Shizune tracks 14 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

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