Octopus Ventures investor Saranyah Douse offers founders her essential guide to navigating the first, all-important 100-or-so days after successfully raising a funding round

Octopus Ventures investor Chloe Extremera-Allan offers founders an indispensable guide to making contact with investors – and what to expect – in an early-stage funding round.

Vicky Booth, People and Talent Lead, shares her tips for early-stage founders building teams for the first time.

We share the burning questions every early-stage founder should be asking themselves about their pitch deck.

Fundraising 101: A founder’s guide to pre-seed fundraising

Pre-seed founders, pushed for time, may be tempted to make hiring short-cuts – but they shouldn’t. In this blog, pre-seed People + Talent expert, Vicky Booth, makes the case for structured recruitment.

US expansion isn’t a pre-requisite for start-up success, but for founders with the states in their sights Laura Wilming offers this indispensable guide.

Getting headcount right is critical, but understanding whether you’re spending too much on it has long been a struggle – until now.

Richard Bolton addresses the unique challenges of the current fundraising landscape – and shares his tips on how founders can navigate them.

In the concluding part of his series on product-market fit, Edward Keelan explains how to tell when PMF is slipping – and what founders can do about it.

In the second instalment of his three-part series, Edward Keelan explores the pressures that cause venture-backed businesses to lose PMF.

In the first of a three-part series, Edward Keelan defines product-market fit for venture-backed businesses.

Go-to-market strategy has almost displaced funnel metrics. Edward Keelan explains why this is a mistake.

It’s always more expensive to acquire new customers than keep existing ones, which is why customer success is more important than ever. Chloe Allan and Rich Bolton offer their guide to doing it right.

Constanza Diaz and Jonathan Durnford-Smith offer their guide to measuring a dev team’s output.

Experts Lisa Nelson and Abby Kearns join Octopus Ventures’ Will Gibbs to discuss what makes a good board for an early-stage start up

At Octopus Ventures, we put people at the heart of everything we do. Our People + Talent team is dedicated to supporting the founders we back,...

Saranyah and Constanza unpack the metrics we look for in B2B SaaS businesses raising their series A.

In this video guide, Octopus Ventures Legal Counsel, Mary Sullivan and Andy Fahrenheim, break down the process of negotiating and executing a capital raise from a legal perspective, and offer some guidance on the things to bear in mind.

In this video, Octopus Ventures Legal Counsel, Mary Sullivan and Andy Fahrenheim, explain what founders should be looking for in external counsel when thinking about a raise – and what to keep in mind before the fundraising process begins.

Watch the video to hear Octopus Ventures investor, Edward Keelan, unpack the knotty subject of Total Addressable Market (TAM). It’s important – but founders and investors often get it wrong.

Listen to Octopus Ventures investor, Edward Keelan, talk about financial modelling as a tool for planning and building your business.

Watch all the latest video guides from the Octopus Ventures team, who share their advice, tools and insight for the founder community.

Saranyah Douse explores the opportunities for software in building resilience, and boosting sustainability credentials, in the world’s supply chains

How responsible tech safeguards against unintended ethical consequences.

How founders should think about securely delegating the sales function

Building better boards Part Two: Board management  In my last blog, I drew on some of my experience and research to explore the basics of...

Building better boards Part One: What is a board — and how do you make a great one As a new starter at Octopus Ventures last summer, I was...