Conor Scanlan
Investor at Octopus Ventures
London, England
Overview
Work Experience
Investor
2020 - Current
Octopus Ventures invests £1-10m in Seed / Series A start-ups. At Octopus, I work with: Altitude Angel, Apheris, BKWAI, FoodSteps, FullCircl, Go Autonomous, Kleene, Ometria, Pivotal.earth, StreetBees, ThoughtRiver, Unmade, and Velaris
Board Member
2023
AI-powered platform that revolutionizes B2B commerce by turning unstructured transactional data into actionable information that enterprise systems can understand.
Board Member
2022
BKwai’s software platform provides visualisations and data analytics for instrumentation and monitoring data in the construction sector.
Board Member
2021
kleene fully automates the ingestion, transform, dependencies, modelling and version control processes; meaning analysts can access data and provide insight at the speed of thought.
Board Member
2021
Ometria is an ecommerce marketing platform enabling retailers to more data-driven decisions.
Board Member
2021 - 2024
A sportswear and apparel SaaS platform that connects demand directly to production allowing large fashion, apparel and sportswear businesses to create agile demand-driven supply chains. Acquired by Hi-Tech Apparel in 2024.
Board Member
2022 - 2023
ThoughtRiver is an AI-driven contract acceleration, assisted contact review and analytics tool used and trusted by legal professionals around the globe
Board Observer
2019 - 2020
Evotix’s software platform reduces risk for organisations by simplifying health and safety management and now boasts more than half a million users around the world. Acquired by SAI360 (Jun-23)
Board Observer
2017 - 2020
Vulog offers a comprehensive and customizable SaaS solution that enables mobility operators to launch and operate shared mobility services.
Principal
2016 - 2020
Frog invests in software enabled scale-up stage tech companies in Europe.
Education
Bsc
2009 - 2012