There's plenty of exciting Bio talent out there right now, and Octopus Ventures Investor Oliver Sims has been speaking to Sifted about a few of the startups in the space that have caught his eye recently. 🗞️ Read more about the companies he has chosen here https://bit.ly/3ACtO0C
Octopus Ventures
Venture Capital and Private Equity Principals
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For the people and ideas that will change the world.
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For the people and ideas that will change the world, because we believe you can build a better tomorrow by investing in it. We can back you at every stage of your journey, from ideas on a page through to IPO. Each year we deploy more than £200 million across five areas where we see maximum potential for impact: health, fintech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. With many years of experience and expertise investing in each of these areas, our team can help our portfolio companies scale at speed. For us, investment is about more than money. Being truly invested is about giving time, energy and focus; working with founders to give them the best chance of success. It means a shared commitment to solving the big problems that matter. We’ve backed the likes of BoughtByMany, Cazoo, Depop, Elvie and WaveOptics, while others have gone on to join forces with the world’s largest businesses. We are based in London with a network of partners across the U.S and Asia. Octopus Ventures is part of Octopus Investments.
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BIG NEWS 🚨 We're excited to announce that we've closed a new round of funding 🎉 Trumpet has raised $6.35 Million led by AlbionVC alongside Lightbird, Anamcara , Triple Point and CoBuild Ventures. “We’re helping companies collaborate and centralise their buyer journey, increasing their sales efficiency and velocity. Our proprietary revenue intelligence signals are also helping revenue leaders forecast and understand their deal pipeline like never before” – 🎺 Rory Sadler, CEO and Co-Founder. 77% of B2B buyers report that purchases have become way too complex. From the get-go, our mission has always been – Make it easier for your buyers to buy and you’ll sell more. How? ⚬ Giving sellers the tools to deliver centralised buyer journeys cutting sales cycle time by 28% ⚬ Building collaborative ‘buyer-centric’ experiences that help sellers and buyers get the deal done asynchronously ⚬ Creating hyper-personalised digital spaces and content that boost closed won opportunities by 13% This is a big milestone for team trumpet 🚀 This round will help us expand into the U.S. and showcase some never seen before revenue intelligence signals powered by AI and machine learning, all thanks to the millions of unique data points we’ve collected throughout sales cycles. A massive shout out to our incredible team for creating a product loved by 10,000+ users, our fantastic customers who provide daily feedback, to our advisory board whose words of wisdom have always pushed us to reach new heights, and to our investors existing and new, for believing in our vision. Onwards we go 🎺 Check out the article from City AM in the comments for more on this 👇
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Fantastic to see our investment into DRIFT Energy Ltd covered by Sky News. We're really excited about the DRIFT team, and their potential to develop and drive forward a truly innovative source of renewable energy. Read more here https://bit.ly/3X2z0Un
Green energy start-up Drifts into Octopus Ventures' grip
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Great to see Octopus Ventures Investor Edward Keelan speak to LinkedIn News, as part of their ‘VC Wednesdays’ series. Some great personal insights into why he prefers working with smaller companies, the value of an MBA, and how dyslexia both helps and hinders his work as an investor. Have a read, below 👇
🚨 Edward Keelan started his career at Rolls-Royce before moving into startups and eventually venture. He talks to Sam Shead for VC Wednesdays, a weekly series featuring a Q&A interview with a venture capitalist. 🖊️ Why did you decide big companies aren’t for you? Ultimately, it came down to impatience and wanting more influence. Every day I used to hear “that’s just how things are done around here”. I believe a company is just a collection of people, and what you are really saying there is “that’s what we as a group of people have accepted is okay.” I wanted to work somewhere where I felt my actions would influence things from the off. Another example: I remember getting an email saying the managing director of our division would be doing an office walk that week, and we should all ensure we were wearing ties. My immediate reaction was “if I was the MD I certainly wouldn’t want to see a glossed up version of what was happening.” I’d walk the floor most days too. 🖊️ What did you learn on your MBA that’s useful in your job today? I was already working in VC when I did my executive MBA. A large part of the rationale for completing it was imposter syndrome. At Octopus Ventures I was amongst all these amazingly bright colleagues, and I wanted to feel I deserved to be here. The MBA certainly helped with that. It was a fantastic experience, and there was so much I could practically apply to my day job. Whether that be thinking through business strategy, negotiation training or entrepreneurial finance. However, the most useful learning was understanding how to work with others, and my role within complex teams. An MBA is an intense environment full of highly successful, self-starting and determined individuals from across the world – all with their own motivations for being there. To get the most out of the experience you must get along with your classmates. Often that means adjusting your style to how you might behave at work. I’m very proud of getting through my executive MBA while holding down a demanding job, and ultimately achieving a Master's from Oxford. It helped with the imposter syndrome! 🖊️ How does being dyslexic help and hinder you as a VC? That’s a huge question, and one I’m still trying to answer myself. The obvious element is that there is a vast amount of written communication in our jobs: emailing founders, writing long investment papers or reviewing hundreds of pages of legal documents. I’ve found ways that work for me, but often I’ll take a lot longer than most. In terms of the benefits, I can often quickly grasp what a company is trying to achieve, and can see the business opportunities away from just the metrics. I’m not sure there is enough evidence to say whether this has made me a better investor yet. #VCWednesdays #vc #venturecapital #startups #TechonLinkedIn
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There’s plenty of literature available on finding product-market fit, but what happens when you find it – then lose it? In his new, three-part series, Octopus Ventures’ Edward Keelan unpacks the risks that threaten PMF in a growing business, the warning signs to look out for, and what a founder who’s lost PMF can do to get in back. In the first instalment, he offers a definition of what makes PMF especially distinct in venture-backed businesses. Catch up with it here 👉 https://bit.ly/4dFb7aZ Watch this space for the next instalment in our PMF series 👀 #octopusventures #venturecapital
Losing product-market fit part one | Octopus Ventures
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👀 Are you looking for your next challenge? Octopus Ventures is looking for an Investment Associate to support the B2B Software Team as they work towards their next phase of growth ↗️ 🌎 If you are excited about backing the people, ideas and industries that will change the world, then check it out 👉 https://bit.ly/3WB9gwN
Investment Associate, Octopus Ventures, B2B Software Team
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We’re delighted to see Ufonia’s excellent work recognised by BBC News. Ufonia uses #AI to help the NHS provide a cheaper, faster and more efficient service for cataract patients, easing pressure on staff. A fantastic example of a business making a difference and revitalising healthcare for patients across the country🎈 https://bbc.in/3SHyqsC
AI assistant Dora eases NHS pressure in cataract care
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💡 Time to get Switch(ee)d* on! We’re welcoming Switchee to the Octopus Ventures portfolio👋 🏠 Their revolutionary approach to driving energy efficiency in social housing promises to dramatically improve quality of life for tenants, reduce carbon impact and deliver landlords with actionable insights into property management. We were bowled over by the clarity of Switchee’s mission, and the impact they stand to make on not one, but two of the UK’s greatest challenges: helping push residential real estate towards a greener future and reducing energy costs for those who need it most🍃 A huge congratulations to Adam Fudakowski, Tom Robins and the entire Switchee team. Read more from Rich Bolton on why we invested in Switchee here 👉 https://lnkd.in/dd_M5NkV *We'll show ourselves out.
Our investment in Switchee | Octopus Ventures
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🎉 Congratulations to Intron Health on their pre-seed round🎉 We’re excited to be part of it! As speech-to-text technology becomes an increasingly important solution for clinicians and healthcare professionals to help manage caseload and productivity, it’s vital that this technology can capture all accents. Intron’s Health clinical speech database is Africa’s largest, representing 29 countries and 288 accents. We’re looking forward to seeing it increasingly deployed to help improve outcomes across the continent🌍 https://lnkd.in/d5_Wf4cN
Intron Health gets backing for its speech-recognition tool that recognizes African accents | TechCrunch
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Octopus Ventures investor Hope Johnson provides a VC’s perspective to Sifted, on what the Government’s new GB Energy launch may mean for climate technology. Lots of detail to come, but a likely boost for the software technologies that accompany hardware and enable them to scale. You can read more here: https://bit.ly/4cXtO9V
What does GB Energy mean for climate tech?
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