Investment Associate, Octopus Investments
Octopus Ventures, B2B Software Team
+ Bonus + Share incentive plan
3-5 days a week in office
Ethical Investments
Be an early applicant
Ethical Investments
501-1000 employees
Be an early applicant
+ Bonus + Share incentive plan
3-5 days a week in office
501-1000 employees
Company mission
Octopus Group is a B Corp whose mission is to invest in the people, ideas and industries that will help change the world.
Role
Who you are
- ✅Investing role (VC, growth capital, venture debt or private equity)
- ✅Transaction experience (banking, or corporate finance)
- ✅Experience in financial analysis/modelling, and commercial skills for assessing and analysing investment opportunities is essential
What the job involves
- Octopus Ventures, part of the Octopus Group, is one of the most active early-stage investors in the UK and Europe, with more than £1.5bn in AUM and significant capital to deploy into new and follow-on investments
- Today we have a portfolio of over 100 companies and have ambitions to grow this number considerably in the coming years
- Our B2B software team provides Pre Series A to Series B funding to software and AI companies that are going through rapid growth
- The team has recently seen a strong period of performance and has raised significant fresh capital
- We're now looking to expand our team as part of an exciting long-term growth plan
- We'll be looking to execute over ten new B2B software and AI investments per year
- Examples of recent investments include: Lodgify, a vacation rental software platform; Definely, an AI-enabled legal contract creation and drafting tool, and Vaultspeed, a data warehouse and modelling automation provider
- Individual investments are typically between £3m to £10m into UK and International fast-growth software and AI businesses
- Building and maintaining a deal origination network in the adviser/ VC / B2B software and AI sectors
- Working collaboratively to assist in the execution of all aspects of a deal, including evaluation/filtering of deal opportunities, financial analysis, deal structuring and due diligence
- Helping to prepare investment papers and presenting them to Investment Committee
- Direct access to the boards of growing B2B tech companies through observer seats on our portfolio companies
- Other ad-hoc analysis, portfolio monitoring, fundraising and supporting team initiatives
Application process
- Closing date: Monday 15th December
Salary benchmarks
Our take
Octopus is a group of companies investing in innovative ideas from various industries. The Octopus Group incorporates Octopus Energy, Octopus Real Estate, Octopus Investments, Octopus Ventures and Octopus Labs.
Across its financial services business, the company cares as much about the impact its investments have as it does about the returns it generates for its investors.
Since its inception, the company has grown significantly and has more than 3 million domestic customers and now actively operates in 18 countries.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Meet the team
10 people
Jessica Bourdon-Pierre, Portfolio Manager
Insights
Company
Company benefits
- Critical Illness Cover & Death In Service
- Health Insurance
- Pension Plan
- Performance Bonus
- Share Incentive Plan
- Hybrid Working (3 days in the office, 2 days remote)
- Childcare Vouchers
- Sick pay
- 'Take what you need' Annual leave
- £3000 Bike to Work Scheme
- Employee Discount Portal
- Professional Development & Training
- Monthly 'Drink Up'
- The Greatest Christmas Party Ever
Company values
- Be Helpful: We like people who behave like it’s always day one and who remember that without our customers there is no business.
- Be Straightforward: We like people who have opinions and who express them in a way that’s respectful and easy to understand
- Be Bold: We like people who make decisions quickly and who are OK changing their mind if it turns out there’s a better way of doing things
Company HQ
Holborn, London, UK
Articles
Leadership
Simon Rogerson
(Co-Founder & CEO)Previously worked at Octopus Investments for 20 years, first as Chief Executive and co-founder for 19 years and then as Executive Chairman for 1 year.
Chris Hulatt
(Co-Founder)Previously Investment Manager at Mercury Asset Management for 2 years and Non Executive Director at ClearlySo for 4 years.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Octopus Investments
Daniel Chapman-Harris (Head of Learning & Development, Head of D&I Steering Group)
- 50/50 gender split across all senior leadership roles (currently 47% female / 53% male)
- 15% of managerial roles and above will be held by people from an ethnic background (Currently 8%)
- We partner with Black Young Professionals network, Investment 2020, Work180, Women in Finance, 10,000 Black Interns and more to promote D&I at Octopus and in the Investments industry
- We host events aimed at women in the financial services industry and how we can attract & support people in this space
- We host internal D&I events on how to support ethnic backgrounds in the workplace, Neurodiversity and more!
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