Venture Capital Trusts portfolio companies
Back businesses with growth potential.
The UK has a rich ecosystem of early-stage businesses with growth potential. But without funding and specialist support, many might never get off the ground.
A Venture Capital Trust (VCT) is a company that buys small stakes in a large number of early-stage companies. The VCT can hold these companies for many years and support their growth, adding new investments over time.
Learn more about the exciting companies our VCTs invest in.
Key investment risks
Capital at risk
VCTs are a high-risk investment. The value of an investment, and income from it can fall as well as rise. You could end up getting back less than you put in.
Tax treatment
Tax treatment depends on individual circumstances and tax rules could change in the future.
Volatility and liquidity
VCT shares could fall or rise in value more than other shares listed on the main market of the London Stock Exchange. They may also be harder to sell.
VCT qualification status
Tax reliefs depend on the VCT maintaining its qualifying status.
Octopus Apollo VCT
Octopus Apollo VCT invests in higher risk smaller businesses that have already brought their product or service to market successfully. Investors get access to a diversified portfolio of around 45 companies (focusing on business-to-business (B2B) software) with high growth potential, as well as the expertise of Octopus Ventures.
Apollo portfolio companies
Fiscal Technologies
Fiscal Technologies provides AI-powered Procure-to-Pay solutions that protect finance teams from fraud, errors, and duplicate payments.
Switchee
Created a smart thermostat designed specifically for landlords to offer real-time data and actionable insights.
Sova
Helps companies improve transparency and diversity in their hiring processes.
Tendable
A digital quality inspection platform designed to support the health and social sectors.
Definely
UK LegalTech company created to make legal documents easier to read, edit and understand.
Turtl
Helps businesses produce high quality, personalised marketing materials at scale.
Octopus AIM VCTs
The Octopus AIM VCTs feature around 80 established, maturing businesses from a diverse range of sectors, from building materials and pharmaceuticals to software development and battery technology.
The team focuses on companies where there’s a strong business idea and plenty of room to grow.
AIM portfolio companies
Netcall
Provides software and automation solutions that are easy to use and help organisations streamline processes and enhance customer engagement.
Craneware
Helps healthcare providers achieve optimal financial and operational performance.
Idox
Delivers digital solutions that transform public services and improve operational efficiency.
Diaceutics
Provides data, data analytics and implementation services that enables the advancement of genetic analysis.
Octopus Future Generations VCT
Octopus Future Generations VCT invests in businesses that are helping to build a sustainable planet, empower people, or revitalise healthcare.
We think these businesses have the potential to transform the world for the better as well as delivering the best returns for investors over the coming decades. Why?
- Tackling society’s biggest challenges means there is a huge market opportunity for those who can tackle them.
- The demand for solutions to the planet’s challenges is urgent and growing.
- People increasingly want to buy from and work for businesses that make a positive difference in the world
The team focuses on companies where there’s a strong business idea and plenty of room to grow.
Future Generations portfolio companies
Manual
Manual is transforming the healthcare industry by making high-quality care more accessible and stigma-free. The business provides innovative treatments for range of conditions, from hair loss and low testosterone to weight management and diagnostics. With over 800,000 patients served across the UK and Brazil, Manual continues to expand its impact.
Drift
Drift aims to drive the clean energy transition worldwide with high-performance sailing vessels that harness deep ocean wind to produce green hydrogen at sea and deliver it globally. It does this using a unique, AI-enabled vessel routing that enables the vessels to find and stay in optimum weather conditions. Empowering people to create a fairer and more equitable society.
Living Optics
Living Optics develops hyperspectral cameras that capture information invisible to the human eye or standard imaging. Their technology makes advanced hyperspectral imaging faster, smaller and more accessible, enabling applications such as plastics sorting, environmental monitoring and medical analysis.
Octopus Titan VCT
Octopus Titan VCT invests in tech-enabled businesses with high growth potential. Managed by Octopus Ventures, it currently has a portfolio of 145 early stage companies operating in a diverse range of sectors.
We’ve backed some of the UK’s most successful entrepreneurs, including the founders of Graze, Depop and Zoopla Property Group.
Titan portfolio companies
Skin+me
Skin+Me combine medical expertise and technology to offer personalised treatment plans on a subscription basis.
Pelago
A digital clinic partnering with employers, health plans, pharmacy benefit managers and individuals to help conquer substance addiction.
Minimum
Minimum is a carbon accounting system that allows businesses to calculate their carbon footprint.
Unlikely AI
Unlikely AI aims to make AI more accurate, trustworthy, explainable and safe.
Vitesse
Vitesse provides a single connection to a global network of domestic clearing systems.
Permutive
Helps publishers and advertisers make more effective use of their valuable data for targeting, all while keeping it privacy-safe.
Please read: We do not offer investment or tax advice, and we always recommend investors talk to a financial adviser before making investment decisions. This advertisement is not a prospectus. Investors should only subscribe for shares on the basis of information contained in prospectus, supplementary prospectus, AIFMD supplement and the Key Information Document (KID), which are available on the VCT product pages.