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Octopus Ventures
Founded 2008 · London, United Kingdom
Octopus Ventures’ biggest current holdings.
The most valuable companies Octopus Ventures still holds, ordered by Dealroom’s latest valuation. Companies that have been acquired or gone public are in Exits instead. Dealroom has a disclosed stake for Octopus Ventures in only 4 companies, too few to estimate what the portfolio is worth, so stake sizes aren’t shown.
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Octopus Energy
$9.0B
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ManyPets
$2.4B
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Secret Escapes
$290M
Unicorns and thoroughbreds Octopus Ventures has backed and still holds, at Dealroom’s latest valuation. See the underlying shareholder registers on Dealroom →
Octopus Ventures’ biggest exits.
Portfolio companies that IPO’d or were acquired at $1B+, with the valuation recorded at exit and — for those still public — their value today. Exit events come from each company’s funding-round history; entry stage from Octopus Ventures’ transaction record.
Where Octopus Ventures’ portfolio is concentrated.
Distribution of portfolio companies by headquarters country, sector, entry stage and current growth stage. Across all 317 portfolio companies. "Stage entered" is the first priced round the investor joined, derived from the investor’s transaction history.
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UK256
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USA32
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Germany10
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Spain6
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Netherlands5
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Sweden5
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Belgium4
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Ireland4
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Australia3
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France3
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Israel3
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New Zealand3
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Enterprise Software84
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Fintech57
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Health57
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Marketing29
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Media21
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Food20
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Security20
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Energy19
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Transportation14
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Semiconductors12
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Real Estate11
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Wellness Beauty10
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Series A145
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Seed124
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Series B+46
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Early Growth166
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Breakout Stage144
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Late Growth33
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Mature7
Inside Octopus Ventures’ portfolio.
The 60 highest-funded portfolio companies, of 317 tracked.
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TrWhere Octopus Ventures’ portfolio founders come from.
176 founders across the 100 highest-funded portfolio companies — by current location, university attended, and the companies they worked at before founding. Sourced from the founder records the API links to each portfolio company.
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United Kingdom106
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United States16
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Israel8
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Germany6
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Spain6
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Australia5
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France5
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Czechia4
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New Zealand4
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Netherlands3
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University of Cambridge15
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University of Oxford10
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University College London8
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Tel Aviv University7
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University of Bristol4
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Harvard Business School3
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London Business School3
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London School of Economics and Political Science3
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Stanford University Graduate School of Business3
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University of Canterbury3
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Barclays4
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Boston Consulting Group4
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Morgan Stanley4
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UBS4
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JP Morgan3
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PwC3
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Accenture2
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AEC2
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Alphabet | Google2
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BAE Systems2
Similar investors.
Peers the API surfaces as most similar by portfolio shape, with Dealroom investor rank and portfolio scale.
Key people at Octopus Ventures.
