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Odin
Community & investment tools for founders, angels and VCs
- 1-20 employees
- Fintech
- B2B
- Marketplace
- Payments
- Legal
- Investing
- Community
- Product
- Islington, London, UK
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Company mission
To give more people the ability to vote with their money, and their time, on what the future looks like.
Many candidates hear
back within 2 weeks
20% female employees
Our take
Odin is at the apex of two major trends in finance: the democratisation of access to private markets through technology, and the increasingly social feel of finance and investing. The startup began as a social network with an investment layer built on top, though it is now a more focused financial service that simplifies startup investing.
The company's roots in social and community speak to a unique trajectory it is on. After gaining a lot of traction with its syndicate-formation service, the startup has been looking to develop further products that decentralise and simplify capital rails for the innovation ecosystem. It’s likely that that product roadmap will be developed in conjunction with its customer base, many of whom attend Odin’s salons.
Though the company has had to navigate an environment where capital going towards innovative companies is at a fraction of where it once was, it appears to have emerged unscathed, if not stronger. In 2023 it raised £2.4 million in a seed round that included contributions from 220 angels through its own platform. It plans to use these funds to roll out its marketplace for people raising money to find investors, as well as support scaleup plans across Europe and possibly into Asia.
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Company Specialist at Welcome to the Jungle
Benefits
- Free lunch on Wednesdays
- 25 days paid holiday, excluding public holidays
- Flexible hours (we care about the results, not when you work)
- Laptop assigned, Mac or Dell (Windows)
- Parental leave
- £1000 yearly learning & wellness budget
- Generous options package
Funding (2 rounds)
May 2023
$3m
SEED
Aug 2021
$1m
ANGEL
Total funding: $4m
Leadership
Mary Lin
(Co-CEO)Ex-Product Manager and Software Engineer at multiple venture-backed startups. On Entrepreneur First: 5th cohort.
Paddy Ryan
(Co-CEO)Previously worked at the Irish embassy in Moscow, before working at CrowdCube and building out Coca Cola's venture arm.
Diversity, Equity & Inclusion at Odin
Mary Lin (co-CEO)
- We are on a mission to drive systemic change and need people who understand how systemic issues affect different groups of people. Our team of have experienced very different levels of financial privilege; and include high school dropouts, home-schoolers and attendees of top tier universities; women and LGBTQ+ people
- We always have people who offer different perspectives as part of the hiring process. There are male and female interviewers involved in each process, from different cultures, backgrounds and teams
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