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Odyssey Ventures Fund I

Stage
Pre-Seed
Fund size
€70M
Focus
Deep Tech and Manufacturing
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N°01 / About

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.

N°02 / Thesis

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
human judgment at scale

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
Handshake Series C → growth fund follow-onwebsite
AI automating human work — $bn data spendwebsite
Vireya zero Dioxane — regulatory tailwind imminentwebsite
Founders, operators, investors — experienced GP teamwebsite
Vireya: world-first CO2 based surfactant technologywebsite
Handshake: $bn spend on AI data, trainingwebsite

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

Founder Don'ts

Don't pitch if staying local only
Don't expect passive investor
Avoid consumer with no global angle

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Facts

Fund Overview

Fund Size€70M
Saves0
People

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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