Oliver Sims

Oliver sits in the Octopus Ventures bio team, where he’s excited to work with entrepreneurs changing people’s lives in healthcare and beyond.

He joins Octopus Ventures from a role in the family office of Jonathan Milner (Founder CEO of Abcam) one of the UK’s most successful biotech entrepreneurs, where he supported and backed early-stage companies working in the bioscience space.

Oliver’s professional experience is underpinned by a background in biomedical science and biochemistry, coupled with commercial execution of complex biotechnologies and business models. He’s worked in biologics drug discovery, gene editing tools, breath diagnostics, and digital prediction and mitigation tools for bipolar patients.