Emerging healthtech: Octopus Ventures to launch £100M fund for early-stage startups in UK

Octopus Ventures, one of the largest and most active VCs in Europe, is looking to launch a new £100 million institutional global fund to take advantage of the health tech market opportunity, in particular the opportunity to transform public healthcare systems across Europe and the emerging markets.

With this Joe Stringer, Dr Pooja Sikka and Shamik Parekh from TenX Health have joined Octopus Ventures bringing their diverse experience in the digital healthcare space. Joe and Pooja were former founding members of EY Ventures, which leads the health and social care portfolio.

The news follows swiftly on the heels of Emma Davies joining Octopus Ventures as Co-CEO this month, bringing over 20 years of institutional fund management expertise, and Octopus’ announcement in October that it had scaled its portfolio team by 45% with nine new hires, as well as launching a new specialist consumer team.

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