Odyssey Ventures Fund I

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

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

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, or hard science

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

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Fund Overview

Fund Size€70M

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Website

Key People

Ali Mitchell, Michelle Robson

Ali (last name unknown)Partner