Insights

Claire Macmillan knows how startups can better tell their story through their deck.

Remote pitching will become the new normal. Here’s a brief guide from our experiences so far.

If everyone needs a coach, how do you pick the right one?

All VC’s can help with hiring, but what needs to be added to make a Talent function help startups best? Laura explains.

Millen Wolde-Selassie relates her recent experience of entering the VC world.

Is it time to stop thinking of this as a problem and embrace the realities of workplace stress?

Two unicorn-builders ask if the basic rules of leadership still apply.

Long term relationships pay off, as proved by Alex Chesterman’s latest $7bn success with Cazoo

A new Co-CEO joins us to meet the opportunity in European tech, Emma Davies.

Crash and recession are nothing new to Howard Bell and Pete Daffern, 6 unicorns between them. But what new lessons have they been learning?

No less than six unicorns feature Pete Daffern or Howard Bell in their origin story. The two Octopus Venture Partners have lived through triumphs...

Been there: what can we learn from an ex-CEO (x3) who steered his company through dark times?

US expansion: before, during and after Covid.

Question the Questions is a report from Octopus Ventures that provides a stress-tested guide to international expansion, powered by insights...

First Ask Should you expand abroad? 15: Hello Fresh link: https://www.hellofresh.com Should you enter the US? Is the timing right? 18: Y-Plan...

Sarah Ruth Boyer hears Mariah Lang talk through the emerging recruitment changes on the US health tech horizon

Medicinal cannabis has clinical value but factors are holding it back in the UK

We always want to back the boldest, most mission-driven companies, and they don’t come more pioneering than Wefarm. Since its founding in 2015,...

We have become accustomed to a world in which there are a few enormous players that end up acquiring a number of the rising stars in their segment,...

If everything you love is non-fungible, can and should it be tokenised?

Can startups help banks overcome the ESG resource gap?

iSIZE is making video more cost-effective, quicker and less environmentally damaging. Here’s why we invested.

How did Julia Salasky move from the United Nations to digitising the legal profession? Here, in brief, is her story.

Our latest investment is a pioneer in the drone industry