Our Mission
Contingent is a UK-based venture capital-backed technology company. With a background in Supply Chain, our focus has always been on helping businesses collaborate and grow responsibly. We are working with our forward-thinking customers to drive tangible action on sustainability throughout the value chain.
Octopus Ventures
Lead investor
For the people and ideas that will change the world, because we believe you can build a better tomorrow by investing in it.
We can back you at every stage of your journey, from ideas on a page through to IPO. Each year we deploy more than £200 million across five areas where we see maximum potential for impact: health, fintech, deep tech, consumer and B2B software. With many years of experience and expertise investing in each of these areas, our team can help our portfolio companies scale at speed.
For us, investment is about more than money. Being truly invested is about giving time, energy and focus; working with founders to give them the best chance of success. It means a shared commitment to solving the big problems that matter.
We’ve backed the likes of BoughtByMany, Cazoo, Depop, Elvie and WaveOptics, while others have gone on to join forces with the world’s largest businesses.
Connect Ventures
Where product founders fit
Connect is a thesis-led, seed stage venture capital firm that finds and invests in the best product-led founders and companies in Europe, building opinionated products, crafted with love and loved by many.
Concentric
The activist venture fund
Concentric invests into sector-defining businesses solving problems in critical sectors of the economy, like financial services, mobility and real estate. Through its activist venture approach, the Concentric team provides significant value-add to portfolio companies through their diverse experience and network across European technology.
Seedcamp
Europe's seed fund
Seedcamp is Europe's seed fund, identifying and investing early in world-class founders attacking large, global markets and solving real problems using technology. Seedcamp fast-tracks a founder's vision and creates value through immediate access to smart capital, a lifelong community of support, and a global network built upon more than a decade's experience backing exceptional talent.
Ascension
The UK seed fund
Ascension is one of the most active Seed investors in the UK. Since 2015, we have backed 125+ tech and impact startups through our (S)EIS & Institutional Funds. Beyond our capital, we devote our proven operational expertise, platform resources, and extensive network to support founders on their journey to Series A and beyond.
Working Capital Innovation Fund
Supply chain innovation
Working Capital is an early-stage venture fund that invests in scalable innovations to meet the growing corporate demand for more transparent and ethical supply chains—addressing the urgent need to protect vulnerable workers and source responsibly.
