The Octopus Ventures Team

We are entrepreneurs who love to invest in entrepreneurs who are building great businesses. Our experience and success in venture investing is vast, but what truly sets us apart is that we have started and grown our own businesses, have done it for other entrepreneurs and are doing it today with people like you.

Our experience has given us a privileged insight into why people leave industry, commerce or the City and choose to start their own companies. Its hard and we know the many and varied pitfalls. Its not just about having a great idea and team – experience – real world experience counts for as much, if not more. We can show you how to respond to the challenges and the rewards of getting it right. And if we do not know how to help you, we certainly know someone in our Investor Group who can. This group includes hundreds of business people and entrepreneurs who have joined us over the past 10 years to invest in outstanding business people.

Prior to starting Octopus Ventures our investment team has accummulated significant experience in starting companies, growing them from a few employees to many hundreds, taken companies public, as well as bought, sold and merged companies. We have experienced what it is like to build businesses in good times as well as bad. We will be able to show you how to accurately focus resources to gain the maximum market advantage. Having that experience helps us to understand and know what support entrepreneurs need when growing great businesses as much as providing financial resources to ensure that our companies succeed.

Alex Macpherson

Alliott Cole

Anthony Collinson

Luke Hakes

Samantha Ling

Jo Oliver

Alan Wallace

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