Companies we’re backing through Octopus Future Generations VCT
Hear from some of the founders.
Backing companies that are shaping a better future
Octopus Future Generations VCT backs businesses across three investment themes:
Building a sustainable planet
Businesses aiming to reduce carbon emissions, protect a range of ecosystems, or create a circular economy that removes waste.
Empowering people
Improving access to digital learning, aiming to make financial advice available to the masses or providing valuable cybersecurity solutions.
Revitalising healthcare
Creation of software that is making healthcare services more efficient or building platforms to address health concerns like insomnia or addiction.
Backing companies that are shaping a better future
Octopus Future Generations VCT backs businesses across three investment themes:
Building a sustainable planet
Businesses aiming to reduce carbon emissions, protect a range of ecosystems, or create a circular economy that removes waste.
Empowering people
Improving access to digital learning, aiming to make financial advice available to the masses or providing valuable cybersecurity solutions.
Revitalising healthcare
Creation of software that is making healthcare services more efficient or building platforms to address health concerns like insomnia or addiction.
Our recent investments
Inflow
Inflow is a digital therapeutics company that is addressing the needs of people who have neurological differences and, in particular, attention deficit hyperactivity disorder (ADHD). The app offers personalized, curated, behavioural therapy led programmes as well as the option of one-to-one coaching and a community support platform.
TitanML
TitanML is an AI company that makes it possible for businesses to significantly reduce the processing requirements ‘large language models’ (LLMs). This makes LLM deployment faster, cheaper, and easier for machine learning teams.
Apheris
Apheris has created a platform for creating collaborative data ecosystems. The platform enables organisations to extract value from each other’s decentralized data sets in a way that helps them overcome regulatory, technical, and commercial challenges because the data never moves from the owner’s secure environment.
Little Journey
Little Journey supports children and their families before, during, and after healthcare interactions, helping to reduce anxiety and improve outcomes.
Ufonia
Ufonia combines AI and clinical evidence to automate routine clinical conversations. Their technology aims to make care more convenient, reliable and consistent for patients; increase hospitals’ capacity; and allow clinical professionals to spend more time meeting patients’ needs.
Octopus Giving
Not only is your client’s investment helping to drive positive change in the world, but 10% of our annual management charge is donated to our charitable foundation, Octopus Giving1. We’ve donated more than £2.8 million and tens of thousands of hours of our time and expertise since we started Octopus Giving and are currently partnered with two amazing charities Refettorio Felix and Fields in Trust.
Key investment risks
Capital at risk
This is a high-risk investment. The value of an investment in Octopus Future Generations VCT, and any income from it, can fall as well as rise. Investors may not get back the full amount they invest.
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.
How to invest:
Minimum investment is £3,000.
Investors can choose to invest via bank transfer, cheque or banker’s draft.
Investors can only claim tax relief on VCT investments of up to £200,000 in any single tax year.
We will allot investors’ VCT shares at the next available allotment date.
You can submit an application online. Our online application form is quick and easy to use and will only take a few minutes to complete.
How to invest:
Minimum investment is £3,000.
Investors can choose to invest via bank transfer, cheque or banker’s draft.
Investors can only claim tax relief on VCT investments of up to £200,000 in any single tax year.
We will allot investors’ VCT shares at the next available allotment date.
You can submit an application online. Our online application form is quick and easy to use and will only take a few minutes to complete.
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 the prospectus and the Key Information Documents (KID), which are available in the document section of this page.
1 Octopus Giving is the working name of The Octopus Foundation. Registered Charity Number 1161273