The Company and Our Investment
Founded in 2001 and one of the UK's first web monitoring companies, Site Confidence is now the UK's leading website performance monitoring company. The Company provides independent web performance monitoring and load testing services to over 400 blue chip clients, protecting over £4 billion of online revenues and monitoring five million web pages every week.
Site Confidence's services which are specifically tailored to each company's requirements, present clients with fast, useful, cost-effective information about their websites, emulating customers' experiences. This real-time information allows them to detect performance problems and respond quickly to prevent future slowdowns or outages. Its client list includes many of the UK's largest companies such as Norwich Union, Auto Trader, Marks & Spencer, John Lewis, First Choice and Experian.
"What was impressive was that when the co-founder came back to Octopus Ventures and explained why he thought the team at Site Confidence was still on to something but needed further funding to develop the business, Octopus Ventures continued to support the business financially which in turn gave management a greater sense of confidence. Six years on, the business was sold, so became a success story for both the company and Octopus Ventures investors."
Bob Dowson, Site Confidence
