# Alastair (Ali) Mitchell

> Alastair (Ali) Mitchell is a seed investor at Odyssey Ventures backing SaaS and Software. See 21 investments, check sizes, portfolio. Updated Aug 2026.

- Type: Angel Investor
- Fund: [Odyssey Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/odyssey-ventures)
- Location: San Francisco, United States
- Total investments: 21
- Last investment: Oct 2025
- Lead investor: 38%
- Last updated: Aug 2026
- LinkedIn: https://www.linkedin.com/in/alimitchell/
- X (Twitter): http://twitter.com/alimitchell
- Website: https://eqtventures.com

Alastair (Ali) Mitchell is a seed investor at Odyssey Ventures in San Francisco focused on SaaS and Software. Alastair (Ali) Mitchell - Managing Partner @ Odyssey Ventures

## Round sizes

| Stage | Round size |
| --- | --- |
| Seed | $549k–$8.5M |
| Series B | $28M–$47M |
| Series C | $40M–$150M |

## Investment focus

### Industry

| Industry | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| SaaS | 6 | 29% |
| Software | 6 | 29% |
| Enterprise Software | 4 | 19% |
| Analytics | 3 | 14% |
| Manufacturing | 3 | 14% |

48 industries tracked in total.

### Stage

| Stage | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Seed | 6 | 29% |
| Series B | 5 | 24% |
| Series C | 4 | 19% |
| Series A | 3 | 14% |
| Series D | 1 | 5% |

7 stages tracked in total.

### Country

| Country | Investments | Share |
| --- | --- | --- |
| United Kingdom | 7 | 33% |
| United States | 5 | 24% |
| Canada | 1 | 5% |
| Denmark | 1 | 5% |

## Investments

| Company | Description | Amount | Stage | Date | Website |
| --- | --- | --- | --- | --- | --- |
| Flow Engineering | Flow is the first engineering data platform built for agile engineering teams. Flow helps teams stay integrated with the correct data, regardless of which tool they are working in. | $23M | Series A | Oct 14, 2025 |  |
| ViridiCO2 | ViridiCO2 has invented a radical solution with the creation of technology that converts waste carbon dioxide into high-value chemical products such as surfactants, polymer feedstocks, and small molecules. To achieve this, the company converts carbon dioxide (CO2) into a range of highly valuable chemical intermediates. By substituting waste CO2directly for petrochemicals, ViridiCO2's patented technology lowers the amount of energy needed to power the manufacturing process. | $3.5M | Seed | Mar 07, 2023 |  |
| Flow Engineering | Flow is the first engineering data platform built for agile engineering teams. Flow helps teams stay integrated with the correct data, regardless of which tool they are working in. | $8.5M | Seed | Dec 06, 2022 |  |
| Knoetic | Knoetic is an online platform built for chief people officers and unify a social network and a SaaS analytics tool in the same platform. Knoetic, a startup "built with Chief People Officers, for Chief People Officers," announced an $18M Series A round of funding led by Accel. Over 100 angel investors also participated in the round,including New York Times bestselling author Adam Grant, and executives from Box, Figma, Johnson & Johnson, LinkedIn, Scale, Pinterest, Calm, Front, and more. Knoetic is the first company to unify a social network and a SaaS analytics tool in the same platform. By embedding its exclusive social network of 1,000+ world-class Chief People Officers, CPOHQ, directly into its people analytics software, the resulting "Insight Engine" gives CPOs both quantitative and qualitative insights, enabling them to make smarter, holistic decisions about their workforce. Chief People Officers use Knoetic to build their board decks, present data to their CEOs, solve challenges with peers, and improve their employee retention, compensation, and hiring. The rapidly-growing startup's customer + community base includes many of the world's top technology companies, including Lyft, Squarespace, Amplitude, Snyk, Dollar Shave Club, and Zapier. Over 1,000 other Chief People Officers use Knoetic's exclusive, referral-only community (named CPOHQ) to discuss their most pressing challenges. These include navigating the COVID delta variant, transitioning to remote work, and scaling through hypergrowth. | $36M | Series B | Sep 21, 2022 |  |
| Permutive | Permutive is rebuilding data in programmatic advertising to protect privacy. As the only Audience Platform built on patented and privacy-preserving on-device technology, we enable premium advertisers and publishers to plan, build and activate cohorts — all while keeping everyone’s data safe. | $75M | Series C | Nov 02, 2021 |  |
| Beamery | Beamery is a talent acquisition, engagement, and retention platform that manages sourcing, hiring, and retaining of people. It helps companies attract, identify, and engage with candidates on one unified platform, to deliver better talent acquisition - at scale. Beamery provides the modern enterprise and its talent acquisition teams with all thetools they need to hire better, faster, and smarter than ever before by delivering exceptional candidate experiences and engaging with talent proactively across every part of the candidate journey. | $138M | Series C | Jun 17, 2021 |  |
| Handshake | Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.The company's network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increasestudent employmentHandshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England. | $80M | Series E | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Unmind | Unmind is a B2B mental health platform providing clinically-backed tools and training to create healthier, happier, more human organizations that offer a positive, proactive solution that anyone can use to bolster their mental health | $47M | Series B | May 12, 2021 |  |
| Standard Cognition | Standard Cognition is an artificial intelligence platform that allows buyers to grab what they want without having to go to a cashier. It empowers consumers to shop and pay without waiting in line, scanning or stopping to check out. Available to any retailer, the solution helps reduce labor costs, improve the customer experience, and improve profitmargins. It also helps small-size retailers to compete with larger chains and online offerings.Standard Cognition was founded in 2017 and is based in San Francisco, California. | $150M | Series C | Feb 17, 2021 |  |
| Handshake | Handshake is a college career network that helps students and recent graduates find their next opportunity.The company's network gives students access to more career opportunities and insights, provides employers with more comprehensive and efficient access to talent, and gives colleges more tools to drive student engagement and increasestudent employmentHandshake was launched in 2014 and is headquartered in San Francisco and has offices in Denver and London, England. | $80M | Series D | Oct 20, 2020 |  |

10 of 21 investments shown.

## Co-investors
- [Lightspeed Venture Partners](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/lightspeed-venture-partners) — VC Fund, 5 deals together
- [Index Ventures](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/index-ventures) — VC Fund, 4 deals together
- [Chan Zuckerberg Initiative](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/chan-zuckerberg-initiative) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Kleiner Perkins](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/kleiner-perkins-caufield-byers) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [M12 - Microsoft's Venture Fund](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/microsoftventures) — VC Fund, 3 deals together
- [Notable Capital](https://shizune.co/investors/profile/notable-capital-e2dd) — VC Fund, 3 deals together

## About Odyssey Ventures

VC Fund · London, United Kingdom

Odyssey is an early-stage VC whose mission is to help the most ambitious European founders to go global. We invest in B2B start-ups from Seed - B, focussing on 3 themes: Applied AI & Automation, Energy & Sustainability, Science & Deeptech. We are successful founders, operators & angel investors, turned VC's who have investedin some of the biggest companies of the last 10 years in the UK, Europe and the US; including more than 10 that have gone on to be worth over $400m (and growing) and 5 over $1bn. Our USP is our ability to help founders scale and raise money globally, especially the US where we have spent over a decade living and working. This includes a full 'land & expand' program and team on the ground in San Francisco dedicated to your success.

2 contacts available at Odyssey Ventures.

| Name | Title | Profile |
| --- | --- | --- |
| Alastair (Ali) Mitchell | Managing Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/alastair-mitchell |
| Michelle Robson | Founding Partner | https://shizune.co/investors/profile/michelle-robson-1ef8 |

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## FAQ

### What does Alastair (Ali) Mitchell invest in?

Alastair (Ali) Mitchell invests primarily in SaaS, Software and Enterprise Software startups, most often at Seed and Series B stage. Most of the 21 investments tracked by Shizune back companies in United Kingdom. The Investment Focus section breaks down every industry, stage and country in the portfolio.

### What is Alastair (Ali) Mitchell's check size?

Alastair (Ali) Mitchell typically joins rounds of $549k–$8.5M at Seed, $28M–$47M at Series B and $40M–$150M at Series C. These ranges are 10th–90th percentile round sizes calculated from confirmed public funding rounds, so they are a realistic guide to the rounds Alastair (Ali) Mitchell participates in.

### When did Alastair (Ali) Mitchell last invest?

The most recent investment recorded for Alastair (Ali) Mitchell closed in Oct 2025. Shizune tracks 21 investments in total for this profile, including round sizes, stages and portfolio companies, all sourced from confirmed public funding rounds and refreshed monthly.

### Is Shizune's investor data accurate?

Yes — every stat on this profile is calculated from confirmed public funding rounds monitored across hundreds of sources since 2020. This profile was last refreshed in Aug 2026 and is updated monthly. Spotted something off? Use the “Suggest an edit” link near the top of the page.

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