Octopus Energy Company Profile

Octopus Energy generates and supplies power, having grown into the United Kingdom's largest energy supplier with 14 million customer accounts across 8 million households. Founded in London in August 2015 with backing from Octopus Group, the British asset manager, it now operates in the UK, France, Germany, Italy, Spain, Australia, Japan, New Zealand and the United States, where it sells Texas electricity plans built around smart features like Intelligent Octopus for thermostats, EV charging and home batteries. Kraken Technologies, its software arm, licenses the same cloud platform to other energy suppliers.

Greg Jackson founded and still runs the company, which also operates Octopus Electric Vehicles, Octopus Energy Generation and Octopus Heating alongside the not-for-profit Centre for Net Zero think tank. Octopus Group's venture arm has separately backed UK consumer names such as Zoopla, Depop and Secret Escapes.

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No. Octopus Energy is a private company; its shares do not trade on a public exchange.

The last valuation is $8.7B (post-money, Dec 2025).

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