
Michelle Robson
Co-founder of Odyssey Ventures, formerly of AP Ventures; runs the fund from London and San Francisco.
Michelle Robson, co-founder of Odyssey Ventures, saw the British Business Bank commit £10m to her fund's $50m Odyssey Discovery I on 23 July 2026.
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Michelle Robson co-founded Odyssey Ventures with Ali Mitchell, a transatlantic venture firm run from London and San Francisco targeting AI and deep-tech founders.
Public reporting on Odyssey Ventures' launch describes Robson as a former leader at AP Ventures with a chemical engineering background, backing clean-power and deep-tech companies ahead of the Odyssey launch. Lowdown treats this career history as sourced to that reporting only, with no independent verification of the detail.
Her industrial investing background gives Odyssey technical depth for hard-tech founders that generalist seed funds often lack, relevant to a fund explicitly targeting deep-tech founders rather than software alone, and distinguishes her role within the partnership from Mitchell's software and founder-focused background.