Ashkan Mizani

Partner at ODDBIRD VC | Physical Industries & Enterprise AI | Former Division 1 Athlete

📍 United States🔄 Updated October 2026💼 15 investments📅 5 years investing🗓 Last invested Feb 2026
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Seed Investor
Feb 2026
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
Investor
Feb 2026
Atlas Motion designs and manufactures brushless DC (BLDC) motors and actuators for drones, robotics, and autonomous platforms. We work with customers from early architecture through volume production, developing motion systems around the requirements of each platform rather than adapting a generic catalog part. Atlas combines an in-house design platform, rapid prototyping, rigorous testing, and scalable manufacturing to move from specification to production hardware quickly and grow with customer programs. Our motors are NDAA-compliant. We’re building the sovereign motion systems supply chain for the autonomous era.
Preseed Investor
2025
Watoga is making software to automate decision-making and dynamically update predictions of the mine’s operating environment (lithology, geology, geotechnical features, etc.) based on historical and operational data.
early stageMining
Seed Investor
2025
The future of product development in the era of frontier AI. We’re helping product and growth teams simulate user behavior before shipping code. With Blok you can test ideas in hours, not weeks, and uncover issues before they become expensive mistakes. Build with us: https://joinblok.notion.site/Open-Roles-at-Blok-21c5df33b374800da3d2de6fb065eb96
Preseed Investor
2025
We are the first AI operating system built for home services. Solea answers calls, books jobs, and dispatches technicians—24/7—with human-level accuracy. Trained on millions of real calls, we handle the work so your team doesn’t have to.
Seed Investor
2025
Delivering Frontier Supply Chain AI.
Seed Investor
2025
A network for entrepreneurs building in stealth. Submit your information here so investors can find you: harmonic.ai/get-discovered
Investor
Dec 2024
"Odd, adj: differing markedly from the usual, ordinary, or accepted" — Mirriam Webster We back ODDBIRDS — Founders who have un(usual) ambition, extra(ordinary) life journeys and yet un(accepted) ideas!
Angel Investor (Inception)
2022
Protect your business from currency, commodity, and freight risk in one click.
Angel Investor (Inception, Acquired by Harvey)
2022
Custom LLMs to accelerate your productivity!
Angel Investor (Series B)
2022
Varda is building the infrastructure for a thriving orbital economy, from in-orbit pharmaceutical processing to reliable and economical reentry capsules. From new, life-saving pharmaceuticals to more powerful fiber optic cables, there is a world of products used to benefit life on Earth that can only be manufactured in space. Our mission is to expand the economic bounds of humankind.
Angel Investor
Oct 2021
This is a catchall company for the doers, the thinkers, and the innovators.
Investor
2021
Default is a revenue-grade workflow engine that unifies your fragmented tech stack into one, so you can see your entire go-to-market machine, understand how it all connects, and scale without breaking things.
Investor
2021
We are creating a global angel investor network, through which we can share deal-flow, expertise and contacts.
Experience · 19 entries
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Investments (15)
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2026
Seed Investor
Feb 2026
TimelyAI is building a Marketing Saas for Time-based Businesses. “The idea is to solve the most burning need of our customers- Growing their clientele at an affordable price and being able to build lasting relationships with them for repeat business and referrals.” "Coming soon with something extremely crazy!"
Investor
Feb 2026
Atlas Motion designs and manufactures brushless DC (BLDC) motors and actuators for drones, robotics, and autonomous platforms. We work with customers from early architecture through volume production, developing motion systems around the requirements of each platform rather than adapting a generic catalog part. Atlas combines an in-house design platform, rapid prototyping, rigorous testing, and scalable manufacturing to move from specification to production hardware quickly and grow with customer programs. Our motors are NDAA-compliant. We’re building the sovereign motion systems supply chain for the autonomous era.
2025
Preseed Investor
2025
Watoga is making software to automate decision-making and dynamically update predictions of the mine’s operating environment (lithology, geology, geotechnical features, etc.) based on historical and operational data.
early stageMining
Seed Investor
2025
The future of product development in the era of frontier AI. We’re helping product and growth teams simulate user behavior before shipping code. With Blok you can test ideas in hours, not weeks, and uncover issues before they become expensive mistakes. Build with us: https://joinblok.notion.site/Open-Roles-at-Blok-21c5df33b374800da3d2de6fb065eb96
Preseed Investor
2025
We are the first AI operating system built for home services. Solea answers calls, books jobs, and dispatches technicians—24/7—with human-level accuracy. Trained on millions of real calls, we handle the work so your team doesn’t have to.
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