Odyssey Ventures Fund I

United Kingdom

Pre Seed

About Odyssey Ventures Fund I

UK-based with SF presence, launched $75M fund to bridge Europe-US deep tech. Backs scientists in chemistry, AI, materials, and industry.

Investment Focus

Location / RegionUnited Kingdom

Funding StagePre Seed

Industry Focus

Deep Tech

Manufacturing

Investor Signals Profile

active

Sweet Spot

Bold deeptech/AI founder building global from seed

AI & deeptech

global-from-day-one

seed + growth

Europe-US transatlantic

hard science & climate

human acceleration

foundational companies

expert training & data

Bullish Signals

Handshake nears $1bn revenue — portfolio winexternal

Flow Engineering $23m Sequoia Series Aexternal

Offices London + SF, EU & US partnersexternal

Two funds: seed + transatlantic growthexternal

Board-active, founder-operator backgroundexternal

Viridi: world-first CO2 surfactant — climate winexternal

Co-invested Sequoia + Stripe/Unity foundersexternal

Handshake: 24m students, enterprise AI pivotexternal

HQ London, SF office — true transatlanticwebsite

GPs: founded, failed, scaled — real empathywebsite

Viridi targeting ARM model for $1T chemicalswebsite

Unprecedented human acceleration era — right thesiswebsite

Handshake enterprise AI encoding human judgmentwebsite

Vireya: palm-free, zero Dioxane, 70% less CO2website

Sequoia + Stripe/Unity founders backed Flowwebsite

Handshake leads expert training for AI labswebsite

180+ professional domains Handshake enterprise coveragewebsite

Vireya 10x milder, $1T chemical industry targetwebsite

Flow: generational impact manufacturing — Sequoia leadwebsite

Contrarian Signals

Heavy board involvement — low autonomyexternal

Europe-first focus limits pure US playsexternal

Small GP team visible publiclyexternal

Founder Do's

Build globally from day one

Be wildly ambitious, think generational impact

Show traction before Series A

Welcome active board involvement

Target AI, deeptech, hard science, climate

Move fast, know when to break rules

Capture human judgment at scale

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch if staying local only

Don't expect passive investor

Avoid consumer with no global angle

Key GPs & Partners

Ali (last name unknown)

Partner

operatorboard-activeglobal-builder

Pari (last name unknown)

Founder/Portfolio

imperial-gradhardware-visionarysequoia-backed

Dan (last name unknown)

Founder/Portfolio

climate-innovatorchemistry-leaderboard-partner

Garrett (last name unknown)

Founder/Portfolio

ai-data-expertenterprise-pivot24m-user-reach

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Fund Overview

Fund Size€70M

Saves0

Website

Key People

Ali Mitchell, Michelle Robson

Ali (last name unknown)Partner

Pari (last name unknown)Founder/Portfolio

Dan (last name unknown)Founder/Portfolio

Garrett (last name unknown)Founder/Portfolio

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