Roberta Lucca
Venture Partner at Octopus Ventures
Roberta Lucca
Venture Partner at Octopus Ventures
United Kingdom
Overview
Work Experience
Co-Founder, NED - Non Executive Director | Board Director
2021 - Current
Co-Founder, CMO - Chief Marketing / Brand Officer | Board Director
2010 - 2020
Co-founded and grew the Bossa brand and our games into a BAFTA-winning multimillion-dollar business with an amazing team. Creating the future of games, we are widely regarded for our category-defining brand, 'creativity at scale' approach and for reaching millions of Millennials and Gen Z gamers and influencers worldwide. Our investors include Atomico, London Venture Partners, Makers Studios and NetEase, and the most successful games are Surgeon Simulator, I Am Bread, Hogwash, and Monstermind. They are available on PC, mobile, Playstation, Xbox, Nintendo Switch and VR.
TV Shows Mentor, Judge, Presenter, Creator
2021
📺 Working as a judge, investor, mentor or presenter on a few TV series, including The Apprentice 2022 (BBC) and Ready Set StartUP (Amazon Prime UK / US). Others are in development.
Keynote Speaker helping your teams develop an Entrepreneurial Mindset
2017
Check my showreel and keynote topics here ⚡️ https://betalucca.com/speaker ⚡️ Previous clients include Ocado, Forbes, NatWest, Disney, Unilever, Women in Tech Festival, Festival of Marketing, Creative Informatics and Financial Times.
Content Creator: 20k followers across platforms
2018
⚡️ Helping people, teams, and executives in large companies BE BOLD - in their lives and careers! Feel bold, make bold decisions, take risks, throw yourself into the unknown, be hyper curious, challenge the norms, and become more entrepreneurial, artistic and free from conventions. Have higher energy, and joy in life, enjoy the moment. Change what's not working. Discover what lights YOU up. Discover YOUR "unfair advantage". Discover YOUR path - inside organisations or personal life/career.
Venture Partner
2022
Thrilled to have helped Octopus Ventures kickstart their Games investment arm - from strategy, thesis building, knowledge sharing to deal flow, DD and investments. From Sep 2022 to July 2024.
Angel Investor
2021
Founding member of Ventures Together (VT), an angel investment community of 150+ of Europe’s leading Tech entrepreneurs and operators who invest and help companies together. My portfolio investments include: Gama Space (France), Quench (UK), Xip (US), The Joy Club (UK), Dent Reality (UK), COCOLI (Germany), Life Supplies (UK), katch (US), Fair HQ (UK), Rosecut (Sep 21), Gwella (Canada), Customuse (UK/US)
Founder, Creative Director and Host
2020
For everyone who passionately follow their curiosity to achieve great things in life! Listen here: https://betalucca.com/podcast Our debut series reached Top 50 Business Podcasts on Apple iTunes, and got featured on New & Newsworthy. Its first two seasons included guests like Mo Gawdat (ex-Google Exec), Arlan Hamilton (Backstage Capital), Amy Landino (YouTuber), Maria Sayans (UsTwo) and many more.
Angel Investor
2021
Angel Investor
2021
Cosmos is creating a virtual world to constantly connect people by combining game mechanics with video chat, and bring back serendipitous interactions when people can’t be together physically. The super impressive founding team is onto something huge!
Angel Investor
2019
Healthtech venture. Smart supplements and clever content for the brain. Taking it every day and it works! Plus, Heights is led by the mega connector and lovely human being Dan Murray. What's not to like.
Angel Investor
2018
Founder
2016 - 2019
AI-powered gamified chatbot coach. Our vision was to help people find their purpose and discover who they truly are, so they're better, bolder and happier every day.