Oliver Mitchell

Venture Partner at ff Venture Capital

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Biography

Oliver Mitchell is listed on the ff Venture Capital team page as a Venture Partner; the firm's own September 2023 GENIUS NY announcement quotes him with the title Partner at ffVC. His biography says he provides domain expertise on investments in robotics, artificial intelligence, drones, industrial automation and climate tech and builds relationships with limited partners and corporate venture groups. His firm biography states that he currently serves on the boards of CivRobotics, Cambrian Robotics and Paraspot. Two of those three were tested against first-party filings and confirmed: he is named as a Director of CivRobotics Technologies, Inc. in that company's Form D of 15 August 2022 and of Cambrian Inc., the London-registered company whose chief executive is Miika Petteri Satori, in its Form D/A of 22 September 2023. The Paraspot claim could not be tested because paraspot.ai is a JavaScript-only application that returns no readable text, so it is not recorded. His biography also lists exits including IPOs of Novocure and Ekso Bionics, a private equity sale of TripleLift, the acquisition of Scite.ai by Research Solutions and a growth equity round for CardFlight; the page does not say which of these were ffVC investments and which were personal, so no exit count is recorded. He previously built and exited Holmes Protection, AmeriCash and RobotGalaxy. He is an Adjunct Professor at Sy Syms School of Business and the author of A Startup Field Guide in the Age of Robots and AI.

Previous Experience

Notable Investments

CivRoboticsCambrian

Board Seats

Career Timeline

2022
Named as a Director of CivRobotics Technologies, Inc. in that company's Form D filed 15 August 2022.
2023
Named as a Director of Cambrian Inc. in that company's Form D/A filed 22 September 2023.
2023
Quoted as Partner at ffVC in the firm's 12 September 2023 announcement of its residency at The Tech Garden in Syracuse alongside the GENIUS NY accelerator, which names CivRobotics as one of two GENIUS NY companies ffVC had already backed.

Sources & References

ff Venture Capital - The Team (title and biography) ↗SEC Form D - CivRobotics Technologies, Inc. (15 August 2022), listing Oliver Mitchell as Director ↗SEC Form D/A - Cambrian Inc. (22 September 2023), listing Oliver Mitchell as Director ↗ffVC partners with GENIUS NY accelerator as in-resident investor (12 September 2023), quoting Oliver Mitchell ↗EDGAR full-text search for "Oliver Mitchell" in Form D filings ↗