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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.

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