Octopus Capital Limited, trading as Octopus Group, is a privately held United Kingdom based holding company founded in 2000 by Simon Rogerson, Christopher Hulatt, Zahid Ali, and Guy Myles as a fund management company. Through its subsidiaries, it operates in the investment management, venture capital, energy, and real estate industries.As of December 2019, Octopus Group has more than 1.5 million customers and manages more than '12bn on behalf of its investors.