Paul Davidson

Paul is the Lead Fund Manager of Octopus Apollo VCT and a Partner at Octopus Ventures. He joined Octopus Ventures in 2017 and has more than 12 years’ broad investment experience working with companies operating in multiple different B2B end-markets and geographies under a SaaS value proposition, including cybersecurity, AI and data, infrastructure, human capital, e-commerce and MarTech. Paul is also a member of the Investment Committee.

He previously spent seven years at Royal Bank of Scotland, primarily in the leveraged finance team, where he originated and structured debt for management buyouts.

Paul has a first-class degree in economics and finance from the University of Manchester. He also holds an MSc in banking and international finance with distinction from Cass Business School (now Bayes Business School) and is a CFA Charterholder.